The BLU Life One X is a surprisingly powerful budget smartphone that currently has a third knocked off its already-low price tag. | Continue reading
Microsoft's HoloLens headset starts shipping to developers today with a price tag of $3,000, but early versions of the device are already being used by a handful of corporations around the globe. We've seen some neat uses of the augmented reality technology from these third parti … | Continue reading
Today at Build, Microsoft’s developer conference, Microsoft announced it will ship its $3,000 development kit for the HoloLens. It also secretly released a HoloLens emulator which allows developers to build augmented reality apps without actually owning a headset. The emulator us … | Continue reading
If you were to take a really serious, old-school iPhone launch day with big lines in front of Apple Stores, but substitute a $35,000-plus giant gadget in place of a phone, you'd get Tesla Model 3 pre-order day. It's getting real out there. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Prolific simulation developer Kairosoft, of Game Dev Story [$4.99] fame, has been releasing the Japanese versions of their latest iOS games in App Stores worldwide recently. The English versions of the games typically follow anywhere from two weeks to a few months later, but alwa … | Continue reading
“Nature’s ready-made robot platforms.” That’s how a new paper from researchers at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University describe insects — it’s excellent shorthand for the level of “playing god” we have attained, whether you find it fascinating or abhorrent. Read More | Continue reading
Want to know if you have the “athlete gene” or if you’re actually related to the weirdos who claim you as a family member? Get your collection tubes ready, citizen scientists, Bento Lab’s DIY DNA analysis kit is here and ready for the in-home lab.Normally you’d order a kit somewh … | Continue reading
San Francisco-based Branch International, or Branch.co, raised $9.2 million to bring digital financial services to mobile phone users in Sub-Saharan Africa. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A round.Branch’s free-to-download Android app is a kind of “branchless bank for the next … | Continue reading
The Justice Department has managed to unlock an iPhone 5c used by the gunman Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wife killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last December. The high-profile case has pitted federal law enforcement agencies against Apple, which fought a legal … | Continue reading
Apple today made the first release in the Safari Technology Preview, a program that gives developers early access to new builds of Safari that use “upcoming Web technologies.” The new software can run on Macs right alongside the regular version of Safari, Apple says in the releas … | Continue reading
Identifier: PP-1-2016Pillar: 3rd Health ProgrammeOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
In a span of two and a half hours, Microsoft packed a lot into the opening keynote of its Build 2016 conference. But it was the last video shown that seem to have the biggest impact on many of the viewers at home: the introduction of an AI that helps one of its blind developers “ … | Continue reading
Satya Nadella’s tenure as Microsoft’s CEO has been marked the knowledge that the company has to find a future beyond Windows. "Our industry does not respect tradition," Nadella said when he was appointed. "It only respects innovation." Since then, Nadella reorganized the company … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Without a unifying marketing cloud, you’ll be left in the land of silos by companies who are gaining share through omnichannel strength. Join our panel to find out how to choose the best marketing cloud solutions, and how to implement them for success. Register here f … | Continue reading
The one giant of the American tech industry that's transforming faster and more violently than all the others is Microsoft. Today's Build 2016 event was a marathon two-hour affair, but it was almost completely devoid of incremental or iterative improvements. Dead-end projects lik … | Continue reading
Porsche would like you to buy a new 911. In order to convince you of that, it has created "the world's first interactive hologram print ad."Now, it's not exactly a "hologram print ad." It's a print ad, included in 50,000 copies of Fast Company's April issue, that includes a prism … | Continue reading
It’s something I have experienced firsthand — the power of a team over the power of one. For many years I worked as a freelancer, running my own business. In many ways, it was great. For a start, I was the lead editor in my own little empire. But I was also the motion graphics... | Continue reading
Microsoft's HoloLens demo just transported us back to the '80s. Microsoft showed off its HoloLens to developers at its Build 2016 conference. But unlike previous HoloLens demos, which were impressive, today's demo was less awe-inspiring and more like a slice of bad '80s special e … | Continue reading
Hannah offers a peek into the world of a Brafton Video Producer. | Continue reading
MailTime is a popular app that makes your email as streamlined as instant messaging. After making a splash on iOS, it has arrived on Android. | Continue reading
The voice assistants in our phones have always sounded somewhat robotic, but Google is taking steps to do away with that. It's rolled out a new voice for the Google Now / Search app on iOS and Android, and it sounds a lot more natural than the old version. You'll definitely still … | Continue reading
Via Ted Karczewski, Content Standard, Excerpt What Is Experience, Really? According to speaker, author, analyst, anthropologist, etc., Brian Solis, “An experience is something that you feel and sense, but it only counts when it’s whole, when it’s one thing.” And as a business in … | Continue reading
This week on Bullish, I had the pleasure of sitting down with the queen of Imgur, a.k.a. Sarah Schaaf, head of community at Imgur. We talked about IRL communities versus digital communities, what it takes to build and sustain virtual communities, and the role these places have in … | Continue reading
This is some disheartening news for Apple TV gaming. Disney said recently in a customer support reply that "there are currently no plans for futher updates to the Apple TV version" of Disney Infinity 3.0. Now, this doesn't likely impact Toy Box 3.0 [Free], but the Apple TV versio … | Continue reading
A fetus that was aborted weeks after the mother was infected with Zika provides striking evidence that the virus causes fetal brain abnormalities, researchers say. The report, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, isn't the first to document a case of a mother p … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever tried voice search on Google’s mobile app you’ve probably become quite familiar with the robotic voice answering your queries. While it gets the job done, the Google app’s old voice lacked a certain human element and, to me, sounded like it was equal parts human an … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s massive Surface Hub is just now reaching customers, and the company is making it really simple to develop apps for it. During a session today at Build, Microsoft’s Surface Hub team says the only real consideration developers should make when considering the larger scr … | Continue reading
A platform for developing enterprise blockchain applications has raised €600,000 in seed funding. | Continue reading
Microsoft kicked off its Build developer conference in San Francisco with a focus on Windows 10, bots, and developer tools, but there was something missing: Windows Phone. A single demo of Skype running on a Windows Phone was the only time a phone running Windows 10 Mobile appear … | Continue reading
If you just spent $599 on an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, you probably don’t want start ripping into it with a screwdriver. Thankfully, we can all let other people handle that. The Oculus Rift is moderately easy to repair, according to the crowdsourced repair-guide site i … | Continue reading
Foursaken Media's freight train of releases is just about to pick up in 2016. They've already released All is Lost [Free] and have the clicker-inspired War Tortoise coming out in late April. But no, they ain't stopping, as they've just announced Adventure Company, a class-based a … | Continue reading
Axel Willner has the power to change the way you think about music. An engineer can point out a tiny part or switch within a larger, more complicated device, revealing a more profound truth about the process as a whole. That’s what Willner does with samples, looping them and stit … | Continue reading
A Few Good Men, the Aaron Sorkin stage play that spawned the classic line "You can't handle the truth!" is set to be NBC's next live production in 2017. TheWrap reports that Sorkin has been tapped to adapt the play for the small screen.Sorkin, known for a work that includes The W … | Continue reading
"Someone called me irrelevant and I was like thank fucking god," reads one of Melissa Broder's most recent tweets. It's a tweet which, like all of Broder's work, contains about 10 different statements about life online in the space of very few words."Irrelevant" is a timeless sla … | Continue reading
Frozen Synapse developer Mode 7 has revealed its first game as a publisher with SMAC Games' isometric action affair Tokyo 42.Due in 2017, Tokyo 42 looks to combine the open-world mayhem of the first Grand Theft Auto with Hitman's stealth and the cutesy Japanese aesthetic of somet … | Continue reading
Windows 10 will receive a major "Anniversary Update" this year -- we detail some of the biggest changes and what to expect from Redmond this summer. | Continue reading
With no warning and little fanfare, Google has unleashed their Calculator app on the Google Play Store, and now there’s no going back. | Continue reading
In an article in The Information, Fadell said that he didn’t think Dropcom cofounder and CEO Greg Duffy had “earned” the right to report to him directly. Fadell also explained away an exodus of Dropcam staffers by suggesting they were subpar. “A lot of the employees were not as g … | Continue reading
Now that more brands and companies are writing blogs, creating YouTube channels, and becoming content publishers, there’s a higher demand for content and limited time to produce it. Finding highly-talented freelance writers, designers, or video producers can be a huge time-saver … | Continue reading
If you have room in your life for another square-hopping verby noun game, developer Taco Illuminati has announced that their game Looty Dungeon is set to hit the App Store next week on April 7th. We first got a taste of Looty Dungeon during PAX South in January, and then got to c … | Continue reading
Far Cry Primal is getting an all new super difficult Survival Mode upon its next update on 12th April.This new mode will make things much, much harder - though its ruleset can be applied to any difficulty should you wish. As detailed on the Ubisoft Blog, it will offer permadeath, … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, a CNBC columnist tried to drive home a point about the importance of strong passwords. In the piece, which has since been deleted but is available in cached form, CNBC included a rather lame excuse for a security tool that sought user’s passwords in order to te … | Continue reading
It’s easy to get caught up in the new, cool thing aspect of transportation tech and apps, but there’s some real social benefit and freedom to be found here. Take, for instance, Moovit’s latest upgrade. The public transportation app recently added features to make it easier for bl … | Continue reading
General Motors employees knowingly installed faulty ignition switches in cars between 1998 and 2014.However, a jury ruled Wednesday morning that the defective switch was not to blame for at least one crash in 2014.SEE ALSO: Upgrade your 'Insane' Tesla P90D to 'Ludicrous' for $10, … | Continue reading
Every year, Microsoft holds a developer event called "Build." And recently, those events have gone from snoozers to exciting showcases. Microsoft has a winner with Windows 10 (as long as you ignore the phones), a robust personal assistant in Cortana (that works just fine on a lap … | Continue reading
As promised, Microsoft today started shipping its $3,000 HoloLens development kits. In addition to sharing that bots are coming to the new platform, the company also released a HoloLens emulator, which lets developers test holographic apps on their PC without the need for a physi … | Continue reading
Brazilian soccer legend Pelé is taking Samsung to court for running a full-page ad in The New York Times that features a lookalike of him. | Continue reading
Times couldn't be better for Charlotte Hornets forward Marvin Williams. His Hornets are in the midst of a second-half playoff push and his North Carolina Tar Heels are back in the Final Four chasing another championship. It brings back great memories for Williams, who helped the … | Continue reading