Tomorrow morning Disney will launch Marvel Battlegrounds, a new four-player superhero fighting game built on top of their Disney Infinity platform.Disney Infinity producer John Vignocchi stopped by TechCrunch HQ to give us an early peek… and things got intense. WHO WILL TAKE HOME … | Continue reading
Smart home lighting is getting a bit more practicalAccording to The Verge, Philips announced a new Philips Hue white ambiance lightbulb that can shift between an absurd number of different shades of white throughout the day, which Philips says can improve the quality of your slee … | Continue reading
In this article you'll discover 6 common prejudices that serve as roadblocks to blogging. | Continue reading
While many retired smartphones still work and have usable sensors like cameras, accelerometers, touch screens and bluetooth radios, large swaths of them remain unused or, worse yet, end up in landfills. The team at Phonvert created an open source software platform that can conver … | Continue reading
AUSTIN, Texas — Facebook isn't the only company thinking about how to make virtual reality more social. But while Oculus looks to create more ways to interact with friends in virtual reality, one new startup is tackling the issue from a different angle.Splash, a new iOS app launc … | Continue reading
The first phase of ExoMars, an uncrewed Mars mission from the European Space Agency (ESA), successfully launched today from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Lifting off on a Russian Proton-M rocket, the Mars-bound spacecraft has begun its 7 month, 300 million mile long journey and is schedu … | Continue reading
Amazon wants you to be able to authorize a transaction with a selfie, so now you’ll have to make sure you’re looking halfway decent when you’re doing some late-night, online shopping.Amazon’s patent application for this technology, first seen by Re/Code, was filed Thursday. The p … | Continue reading
The mobile-enabled food delivery service SpoonRocket might be facing competition from multiple companies, including Bento, Munchery and Sprig, but it’s not shutting down. The Berkeleyside Nosh blog made that assertion today, but it’s just not true, said cofounder and chief techno … | Continue reading
The first test of the Australian government's new site blocking law began in Sydney Tuesday, with two entertainment companies seeking to block access to multiple foreign torrent sites. The Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill, which became law in June 2015, allows copyr … | Continue reading
Adtech is in trouble because many firms have gotten the cold shoulder from venture capital. Supposedly. Another way to say that, of course, is that smart venture capitalists passed on startups that failed to demonstrate how they would add value to the space. So is that bad news o … | Continue reading
Twitch doesn't just want you watching games on its streaming service: it wants you interacting with them too. Building off of the success of internet sensations like "Twitch Plays Pokemon," today Twitch is announcing a new initiative called "stream first" that it hopes will encou … | Continue reading
Wizards guard Bradley Beal is in the starting lineup for Washington's game against the Detroit Pistons. | Continue reading
Hell hath no fury like a Tinder user scornedUsers of the dating platform were varying levels upset Monday when they discovered their matches had mysteriously vanished. No note was left. No dear john texts were sent. There wasn't even a post-it. They were just ... goneSee also: 10 … | Continue reading
Apple is adding sponsored posts to Apple News, allowing advertisers to place their own articles right alongside the editorial stories people open up the app to find. Sponsored stories will appear in the news feed like any other article, the only difference being a small label ben … | Continue reading
British Gas wants to text its customers the second it detects a problem with their heating system. To do that, it's starting a program called Boiler IQ. Customers who sign up will essentially have their boiler retrofitted with smart home tech that's capable of reporting many issu … | Continue reading
Twitch and YouTube rule livestreaming and gameplay video. But one company sees a market for people who want to share smaller clips, and it’s raised a good-sized seed round to take advantage of the opportunity it sees. Forge, Inc., has drummed up $4.5 million, it announced today. … | Continue reading
At DigitalOcean, we are making some changes to the recruitment process of back-end developers. We simplified the job description and the interview process, and added a step that asks the candidate to write us some code. This is an account of my experience on hiring processes and … | Continue reading
Advanced Micro Devices and virtual reality are getting hitched. The maker of processors and graphics chips hopes that demand for VR will generate demand for high-end hardware, and it said Monday at the Game Developers Conference it is doing what it can to keep it all moving forwa … | Continue reading
Anonymous declaring war on things is becoming rather blasé. In December it declared war on Donald Trump, before that ISIS, and if you want to go back even further we’ve seen operations aimed at combatting the KKK, Scientology, Syria, and The Westboro Baptist Church. “War” in this … | Continue reading
F.lux filters out the blue light on your phone screen to help your brain ease into a sleep-ready mode the natural way. | Continue reading
Warwick Davies contributed today's post. With 25 year's experience running conferences and trade shows, he owns and operates T he Event ... | Continue reading
Infinite State Games, who made the fun and stylish Fruitorious [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frutorious/id524952395?mt=8"], are bringing their Playstation Vita game Don't Die, Mr. Robot! to iOS next week on March 24th. This arena survival game, which has you tilt … | Continue reading
I’ve been wanting to learn Go for awhile now. I bought a book, read several blogs and tutorials, but I still didn’t feel like I was really getting anywhere with the language.A few weeks ago I went with my a few of my co-workers to the Triangle Golang meetup hosted by my friend Br … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-ECSEL-2016-1-RIA-two-stagePillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-ECSEL-2016-2-IA-two-stagePillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 24 May 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
The biggest feature in Android N so far is native support for split-screen view, much like snapping programs to the sides in Windows 10. But what if Android could actually behave a lot more like Windows? This isn’t Android N (it’s Remix OS), but it’s an example of what Android co … | Continue reading
In September of last year, Deed - The Game [Free] officially launched in the App Store, but it wasn't until today at GDC that I'd even heard of it. There are a couple reasons for that, I think. For one, it's based on a physical board game named simply Sustainable Business that's … | Continue reading
Gameloft has just announced that it will bring its brand new Disney Magic Kingdoms game to Android on March 17th. | Continue reading
Night Dive Studios has revealed the first snippet of gameplay from its upcoming System Shock remake.Developed in Unity, this remake seeks to "keep the new game true to the classic experience, keeping all the things you loved, while updating the user interface and graphics to use … | Continue reading
Any Empire Records fans out there? No? Well whatever, I thought the title was clever. Halfbrick has a ton of games on deck, and the one they showed us today is based on the webisode series Dan the Man. The game shares the same title, and is a surprisingly great touchscreen platfo … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Imagine every piece of data about a customer, or a potential customer, at your fingertips. Find out why top marketers say that investing in a marketing cloud solution can help you unlock the full promise of data-driven marketing. Register here for free. Rachel Silva, … | Continue reading
In a wait-we-didn’t-already-have-that? move, Chrome is adding Pause and Cancel functionality to their downloads. | Continue reading
We're huge fans of Qwiboo stuff around here, as I can't even imagine how much time I've spent endlessly retrying in Bike Baron [$1.99] and shooting hoops in Ball King [Free], so when there's a new Qwiboo game on the horizon... Well, we're excited. For inspiration, they're learnin … | Continue reading
On the heels of closing one of its poorly received media efforts, Samsung is now trying to get into another hard-to-crack medium with a new social media app named Waffle. Using a familiar grid layout, Samsung hopes to connect its users via the same way they’re already connecting. … | Continue reading
A Russian court seconded a prior decision today when it determined that Google violated anti-trust laws by forcing Android phone manufacturers to include its apps on devices by default. The suit claimed that the company broke Russian law by requiring the country's manufacturers t … | Continue reading
Pixowl's The Sandbox [Free] has been a hit with our community, like most of the world-building crafting games out there, but it's been out for a while and due for a refresh. ...Which is exactly where the upcoming The Sandbox 2 comes in. The Pixowl guys are aiming to make "The Mar … | Continue reading
What do you get when you combine platforms to lunar lander style gameplay? A neat little indie game we saw this afternoon called Mars Mars. In the game, you play as an astronaut on Mars (Surprise!) and you blast off from platform to platform, the tap either side of the screen to … | Continue reading
Finnish startup Blooming is aiming to help stressed office workers re-take control of their lives, by using wearable tech to monitor and track stress levels, plus recommendation software and meditation to help give workers the space to stop and smell the roses. The service combin … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: There’s no limit to the range of emotions that arise from playing games. Yet if most stock photos are anything to go by, pure excitement is the most common expression when someone’s caught up in the latest pretend Xbox One or PlayStation 4 game. I asked some well-known … | Continue reading
Public transport involving taxi cabs are becoming more personal these days. Gone are the days when people were forced to go out on the street to hail a yellow or black taxi cab. Now, all one needs is a smartphone with the right application installed. The rise of companies like Ub … | Continue reading
The modern Web is often lauded for the way it has democratized communications and provided a platform through which individuals can influence and reach a mass audience, without gatekeepers like the traditional media. The reality, however, may be somewhat different, according to D … | Continue reading
In a day when the major bitcoin headline was that of Microsoft seemingly cutting ties with Bitcoin, the company has now been forced to apologize for what it deemed as “inaccurate information”. Bitcoin will continue to be supported. Technology giant Microsoft had suggested in a re … | Continue reading
If you're building a new social network likely to get battered in the marketplace, you may as well call it Waffle. The latest entry in the ever-expanding category of Weird Samsung Things allows you to post a photo that your friends can annotate by adding their own photos or drawi … | Continue reading
Bitcoin was almost dealt a major blow today when it seemed Microsoft would stop accepting the cryptocurrency for digital purchases through customer accounts. But the company now says an update to a support page was posted erroneously and contained "inaccurate" information. Bitcoi … | Continue reading
Last year at E3 Square Enix teased an all new console RPG codenamed "Project Setsuna", and now the publisher has finally confirmed a western release for the title now called I am Setsuna.The oldschool RPG will be coming to PS4 and Steam this summer, though sadly the Vita version … | Continue reading
Last year, Verizon began offering an annual upgrade option for customers who purchased an iPhone 6S or 6S Plus. Now it's expanding the offering to customers who pick up a Samsung Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 Edge. Every Verizon customer who utilizes its device installment option to pic … | Continue reading
The first episode of The Walking Dead: Michonne [$4.99] was an entertaining start to Telltale's new miniseries primarily because of the complexity of the lead character (spoilers ahead). The way Telltale tried to bring Michonne's pre-apocalypse life into play made for an intrigui … | Continue reading
The FBI has gone all-out in its latest filing against Apple -- and noted that it can compel the company to turn over the source code to iOS if it doesn't play ball. | Continue reading