Many people scoffed in January 2014 when Cisco CEO John Chambers pegged the “Internet of Everything” as a potential $17 trillion market, five to 10 times more impactful on society than the Internet itself. Two years later, it seems that Chambers’ prediction for the phenomenon mor … | Continue reading
For the last three years, YouTube has put on a series of increasingly extravagant parties meant to convince advertisers that the video platform is the best place to spend their marketing dollars. The fourth annual Brandcast took place last night at the Javits Center, and compared … | Continue reading
May the 4th may have ended up relatively quiet on the news front, but the world of Star Wars made up for it last night, when reports first surfaced that actor Alden Ehrenreich was in final negotiations to play young Han Solo for the standalone film due in 2018. The actor has been … | Continue reading
In this opinion piece, investor and Civic founder Vinny Lingham offers a bullish outlook for bitcoin, reversing his predictions from two years ago. | Continue reading
Amy Ogan, an educational technologist at Carnegie Mellon University, calls herself a “CMU lifer” and for good reason. She nabbed both her undergraduate degree and Ph.D from the school. For the last couple of years, she has also worked at the university as an assistant professor, … | Continue reading
Do you remember Pure Digital Technologies’ Flip Video camera? The singularly-focused maker of small dedicated video cameras was an industry darling back in March 2009 when Cisco acquired it for $590 million. Cisco shut it down just two years later. Its reasons were two-fold: 1) t … | Continue reading
A security researcher has said that hundreds of different models of Android devices are vulnerable to leaking data to seemingly innocuous apps. Announced by FireEye in a blog post, the vulnerability allows an attacker to potentially do things like view the SMS database and call h … | Continue reading
Killer 7 and No More Heroes director Suda 51's first game at the studio he founded, Grasshopper Manufacture, was a little known PlayStation One visual novel called The Silver Case. Never released outside of Japan, it's only now, 17 years later, getting a western release with an a … | Continue reading
Google and multinational manufacturer Honeywell have resolved their long-running patent dispute over the thermostats produced by Nest Labs, the two companies announced today. Honeywell first filed a patent infringement suit against Nest's Learning Thermostat in early 2012, two ye … | Continue reading
If you had asked me this morning whether we'd ever reach such technological advancement that we could put dough in a pod and create a tortilla from it, I would have said no way! Years off. But wow was I limited in my pod thinking because tortilla pods are apparently now a reality … | Continue reading
SAP announced a broad partnership with Apple today to bring iOS to SAP’s enterprise customer base. The announcement comes almost two years after Apple made a similar deal with IBM. As with IBM, SAP hopes to take Apple’s design sense and marry it to the enterprise capabilities of … | Continue reading
eBay announced today that it has acquired ExpertMaker in a bid to bring more artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analysis into its online marketplace platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. This isn’t a chance encounter between the two compan … | Continue reading
Windows 10 is making Windows 8 look even more like a disaster.Almost two years after Windows 8 launched in late 2012, Microsoft could only report 200 million installs (or licenses). Today, Microsoft announced that less than a year after shipping Windows 10 to consumers and OEMs, … | Continue reading
Amazon has reached an agreement with cargo airline Atlas Air Worldwide to lease 20 Boeing 767s to better help it ferry products around the US. The deal, announced today to coincide with Atlas's first-quarter earnings, also allows Amazon to purchase up to a 30 percent stake in the … | Continue reading
When bitcoin exchange Coinbase launched two and a half years ago, Heroku, a simple hosting platform, provided the right solution, said Brian Armstrong, Coinbase co-founder, writing in Medium. Heroku provided a more battle-tested solution than anything the founders could create on … | Continue reading
Google today announced that its Google App Engine platform as a service (PaaS) cloud now has a runtime for the Ruby programming language. It’s available in beta, with the tooling available under an open-source Apache license. Now people who have stuck with Ruby over the years hav … | Continue reading
One of the biggest challenges with smartwatches is trying to navigate through apps on a relatively tiny screen. While smartphones and tablets have gotten bigger over the years, the gadgets we wear on our wrists need to stay small to avoid looking terribly unfashionable. Today a t … | Continue reading
After Walt's review of the email app EasilyDo in this week's column, Nilay and Walt dissect the world of email today. The signal-to-noise ratio of email has shifted over the past few years and additional features are added while security problems persist. What is the future of em … | Continue reading
The team who brought you gifyoutube.com is back. Having been part of gifs.com for a while, their new tool still lets you convert many video formats into gifs but adds a host of functions to your gif-making needs like: blur, stickers, hue changes and more. We covered the first ver … | Continue reading
If there’s one thing readers love it’s extra reading apps on their iOS and Android devices. A few years ago there were about a dozen – apps for long-form writing, apps for books, apps that let publishers monetize (not really) by offering their own downloads. Now there’s Kindle. A … | Continue reading
3Doodler's 3D printing pen is fantastic concept. The pen heats and cools plastic filament like a glue gun, allowing users to literally draw in the air — as long as their structure can support its own weight. The first pen went up on Kickstarter in 2013, and three years later, cre … | Continue reading
SINGAPORE — It's been 14 years since Singapore saw a new mobile operator try to break into the three-ring circle of telecom companies here, but we now have a fourth choice for smartphone plans.On Thursday, a new operator called Circles.Life launched. Unlike the three telcos we ha … | Continue reading
“Okay.” He paused as turbulence sent the plane suddenly rising and falling like a rollercoaster. “How long have you had your refrigerator? 10 years, 20 years, God knows.” He answered his own rhetorical question. “Now imagine this. Imagine you had a computer for 10 years, 20 years … | Continue reading
Google might have just signed a deal with Chrysler to build self-driving minivans, but it'll be a few years before you'll be able to actually buy one. Much research must be done to make them ready for the public. That's true in the satirist world of Grand Theft Auto V, too.Google … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — Tesla Motors said on Wednesday it was on track to deliver 80,000 to 90,000 electric vehicles this year and that it would produce 500,000 in 2018, two years faster than expected. Tesla’s Model 3 sedan, its first mass-market product, has generated massive interest since … | Continue reading
Tesla's earnings are out for the first quarter of 2016, which saw a loss of $282 million on $1.15 billion in revenue; that represents slightly less revenue than the previous quarter but a slightly lower loss as well, which Tesla credit in part to "a careful eye on spending." Nota … | Continue reading
Tesla says it is expecting to hit its goal of producing 500,000 cars annually — including the Model S, Model X and Model 3 — two years earlier than expected, meeting that expectation by 2018. All this is coming ahead of a critical next year for Tesla with the expansion of its lin … | Continue reading
Hypetex is the first company to make colored carbon fiber — also called Hypetex — which had been limited to a dark shade of grey for years, unless you decided to paint it (which can add weight, an issue for the F1 teams from which Hypetex's engineering team comes from). But seei … | Continue reading
BlackBerry updated BBM this week to allow for video calls. It's currently available in beta on Android and iOS for North American users. The rest of world will get the update in July.The company says on its blog that BBM users are "on-trend" in wanting video calling. Sounds about … | Continue reading
Imagine you’re a filmmaker. Cinema is your craft, an art honed by more than a hundred years of brilliant ideas and happy mistakes. With it, you can do something that probably once felt like magic: capture any moment, idea, or feeling so anyone can relive it. Now picture something … | Continue reading
Webinars… who needs ’em? Apparently lots of companies. That’s why Goldman Sachs’ Private Capital Investing Group is investing $25 million in the cash-positive business of the once-foundering marketing technology company, ON24. The round is a rebirth for the company, that had… | Continue reading
Vine is releasing a brand new app for Windows 10 today. While the Windows Phone Vine version launched more than two years ago, today's release is specifically for Windows 10 PCs and tablets. If you're a fan of Vine then you'll find many of the features you'd expect, and even the … | Continue reading
I've owned plenty of home Wi-Fi routers over the years, and I'm continually dumbfounded why manufacturers make it so hard to perform a simple reset. Whenever I have a connectivity problem, 98% of the time turning the thing off and on again does the trick, but many routers either … | Continue reading
His grandma gave him $1,000 when he was 13 years old, and he invested it in bitcoin. A year and a half later, he cashed out, netting $100,000. At 15, he turned that into Botangle, an online tutoring service.Now that he's 17, Erik Finman is jumping into the world of virtual realit … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with Braintree. Nine years ago, mobile payments didn’t exist. By the end of 2015, mobile commerce was a $50 billion industry, already 7 percent of the total ecommerce market and growing quickly. By 2018, mobile commerce wi … | Continue reading
Joe Atkins, chief executive officer of Bowers & Wilkins, has owned a majority stake in the half-century-old British speaker business for the last 30 years. On Tuesday, he told his 1,100 employees that he’s selling it to a tiny company that almost no one has heard of, run by a man … | Continue reading
Young people aged between 13 to 25 years old desire happiness over possessions, new research from Amplify has revealed. | Continue reading
If you’ve been on the internet anytime in the last five years, you’re no doubt aware of the Star Wars brand free-for-all that is today, May 4th. Dubbed Star Wars Day, it’s a time for fans to celebrate their love for the biggest movie series of all time — and for cartoon bears to … | Continue reading
It's difficult to understate Pandemic's impact upon board gaming. This game, in which players work together to save the world from an outbreak of deadly diseases, is the most successful cooperative board game of the last ten years, possibly of all time. Released in 2007, its blen … | Continue reading
Companies rebrand themselves for dozens of reasons: a merger or acquisition, a new technology or product that disrupts the company and the market, a new CEO at the helm, or a craving to update an image that has grown tired after years of use. Sometimes a company’s top brass reali … | Continue reading
The people of Portuguese capital Lisbon, haven’t had it easy. The global financial crisis that began at the tail end of the last decade and continued into the early years of the current one hit Portugal harder than most. Have they recovered? In this instalment we talk to Caixa Ca … | Continue reading
Microsoft faces increasing competition from rivals like Dropbox, Slack, and Box, but the company is responding with improvements to its own SharePoint software today. SharePoint has been used by businesses for 15 years to organize documents, build intranet sites, and manage conte … | Continue reading
Many games change significantly enough in their lifetimes that reading reviews written months or years ago can be misleading. You could be faced with a page… | Continue reading
Astronomers are getting closer to finding Earth’s twin in the universe. NASA announced that three planets with sizes and temperatures similar to Earth and Venus have been discovered orbiting around an ultra-cool dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. While astronomers believe ther … | Continue reading
Ford is showcasing 50 years of automotive innovation with one strange and distinct exhibit.SEE ALSO: Google adds 100 Chrysler hybrid minivans to self-driving fleetFord and the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum in Alexandria, Virginia will unveil Wednesday morning a permanent … | Continue reading
If you were a console gamer last generation, chances are good that you have a story about a broken Xbox 360. Years later, one of the people responsible for overseeing that mess is talking about what that crisis taught him. Microsoft’s customer satisfaction numbers never dropped d … | Continue reading
I've played so many runners in the past 10 years or so I've lost count. Much like my teenage years after I realized that I had played hundreds of platformers in my lifetime, over time, I started to notice that you can't really browse the App Store without seeing a runner front an … | Continue reading
It’s time to celebrate the Seven Years War. No, not that one. Plants vs. Zombies, a tower defense game where players use viscous flora to stop waves of the walking dead, turns 7 years old on May 5. It spawned a franchise that has expanded to multiple platforms, including PlayStat … | Continue reading