Following a claim that 13,000 bitcoins & 300,000 litecoins were stolen by a hacker, a class action lawsuit and its subsequent insolvency, Cryptsy has now revealed a “reward contract” with ‘Cryptcracker’ to retrieve the stolen coins in exchange for a ‘base’ reward of 1750 BTC, app … | Continue reading
Skype for Web, the browser-based version of Microsoft’s popular communications software introduced last year, is getting a slew of new features that brings it more in line with its desktop and mobile counterparts – most notably the added ability to dial mobile phones and landline … | Continue reading
Attention Instagrammers: You no longer have to do math!The single most annoying thing about Instagram is that it displays a photo or video's upload date as so many "weeks" ago as opposed to the date. Change is finally coming. Over the weekend, we noticed the Instagram app now sho … | Continue reading
Skype today updated Skype for Web with a slew of new features. The service now lets you call mobile phones and landlines, watch YouTube videos, add non-Skype users, and get notifications. Launched in June 2015, Skype for Web is the browser version of Skype — just fire up web.skyp … | Continue reading
The humble connector is by no means a source of much excitement. But when you stop and think about it, the connector can enable some amazing things. Lattice Semiconductor and MediaTek are today announcing advances in delivery of 4K videos over universal serial bus (USB Type-C) co … | Continue reading
The Game Developers Conference doesn’t have the marketing of flashy video game conferences like E3, Gamescom, or Tokyo Game Show, but it’s no less important. For 27 years, the event has been a place for people and the games industry and the press to meet, mingle, and learn from o … | Continue reading
Modern farming has a huge problem with food waste, stemming from the mismatch between specific food buyer requirements vs Mother Nature delivering an unsaleable overabundance and/or producing knobbly fruit and veg that gets devalued on aesthetic grounds. But what happens when you … | Continue reading
An der Stanford University werden zur Zeit klitzekleine, sogenannte uBots entwickelt. Kleine Roboter, die wie Insekten aussehen und gerade mal 15 Gramm wiegen. Nun schafften sechs dieser uBots ein fast zwei Tonnen schweres Auto zu ziehen. Wie geht... | Continue reading
It seems Microsoft is jumping off the Bitcoin bandwagon.The company's online store has quietly announced — via a FAQ update — that it's no longer accepting the cryptocurrency. SEE ALSO: The Bitcoin blockchain: Could it be the biggest invention since the Internet?"You can no longe … | Continue reading
The global game market is expected to reach $100 billion by 2019, according to a new estimate by the Open Gaming Alliance, a nonprofit trade group focused on gaming. The group released the data at an event at the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC). DFC Intelligence, a separate res … | Continue reading
Ranelagh House is an old Georgian townhouse recently renovated by Dublin-based design studio Kingston Lafferty Design. The Ranelagh House ... | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: News is an industry in which the smallest nugget of information can travel quickly from outlet to outlet, gathering steam and the illusion of credibility as it goes. Such was the case with a rumor that began on the Chinese microblogging service Weibo earlier this week. … | Continue reading
No show likes to troll its audience quite like The Walking Dead. Game of Thrones may kill off people you love, and Homeland may test your patience, but there’s something unique about The Walking Dead’s ability to get you invested, hold your hand through long stretches of dialogue … | Continue reading
There's a new Oddworld game, subtitled Soulstorm, due for launch in late 2017.Publisher Oddworld Inhabitants announced the title via oddworld.com/soulstorm, where a handful of story details are revealed.Soulstorm will be a follow-up to Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty, itself a reimaginin … | Continue reading
Decentralized blockchain prediction market project Augur has officially entered beta following its crowdfunding effort last year. | Continue reading
Next week the first piece of downloadable content for Fallout 4 launches, and today Bethesda has released a new trailer showing just what's in store for those jumping back into the wasteland. Called "Automatron," the debut DLC features a character known only as the Mechanist, who … | Continue reading
This weekend, Apple’s App Store head Phil Schiller responded to complaints that spam apps and rip-offs were appearing in the App Store’s “New” and “What’s Hot” sections for certain categories. Unfortunately, this has been a longtime issue for Apple’s third-party application marke … | Continue reading
Or do we even need one? At Disrupt New York in May, we’ll try to get to the bottom of that question. In a panel on the new frontier of digital dating, we’ll be bringing together some of the freshest minds in the space to discuss how niche dating services could be the next big thi … | Continue reading
As the battle between Apple and the FBI continues, The Guardian reports that other tech companies are close to announcing security improvements. Among them is Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp, which the publication says is set to expand encryption to voice calls "within … | Continue reading
Der Satiriker John Oliver ist mit seiner Show "Last Week Tonight" ein Garant für scharfe und zugleich humoristische Analysen. In seiner neusten Show nimmt er sich dem Fall Apple vs. FBI an und bringt die Gemengelage so auf den Punkt, dass man... | Continue reading
Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, George Ioannidis, A. Stan, Emile Bijk Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) – DEMO Session – 2011 | Continue reading
Telltale's The Walking Dead continues its Michonne mini-series later this month with the 29th March launch of Episode 2: Give No Shelter. A three episode spin-off from Telltale's main The Walking Dead games, Michonne follows its titular character during a timeframe as-yet unseen … | Continue reading
The Seattle-based e-commerce company recently filed a patent application for a process that would allow shoppers to make a purchase by taking a photo and/or video of themselves rather than keying in their account password. The application is related to a separate patent Amazon ho … | Continue reading
Philips is arguably the largest connected light bulb manufacturer with its Philips Hue system, but its color light bulbs are quite expensive. A color light bulb costs around $60. In case you just want simple connected lights, the company has added new white light bulbs to its lin … | Continue reading
Chainfire has just released an updated SuperSU test build for the Android N developer preview along with test versions of CF-Auto-Root for the entire Nexus family running Android N. | Continue reading
Automatron, the first add-on for Fallout 4, launches for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 22nd March.The DLC costs £7.99 or comes as part of the game's season pass.Automatron sees you hunting down evil robots unleashed by the mysterious Mechanist. You can then reassemble their p … | Continue reading
I really didn't know much about Stardew Valley before I started playing it. I'd never really played much Harvest Moon or the like either, as I'd never really seen the appeal of giving over your free time to cultivating the perfect crop of turnips. But Stardew Valley, at least, is … | Continue reading
Smartphones are connected computers that fit in our pockets — at this point, the "phone" part of them is virtually an afterthought. We use them for all kinds of communication that has nothing to do with a phone number: email, instant messaging, social networks, video calling, the … | Continue reading
AlphaGo’s victories against legendary Go player Lee Se-dol over the last few days mark a major milestone in AI research. The complex Chinese board game had long been considered impossible for computers to crack, but DeepMind used machine learning and neural networks to give its A … | Continue reading
Answers to 3 questions before using native advertising as part of your content marketing strategy. | Continue reading
Alooma, an Israeli startup that helps companies process and work with big data in real time delivered as a cloud service, announced an $11.2 million Series A round today led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. The product focuses on the people working with data li … | Continue reading
Content - Want to be seen as a trusted advertiser and transparent brand? Then follow the FTC's endorsement guidelines and avoid these big social content mistakes. | Continue reading
Marketing dashboards based solely on data visualization are not successful. Ask yourself these 3 key questions to create better, effective dashboards. | Continue reading
Instacoin, which operates Lamassu bitcoin ATMs in Quebec, Canada, has tweeted it is going to support Ethereum. With over 16 Lamassu ATMs in Canada (and more coming in 2016), we have plans to support #Ether / #Ethereum / #ETH https://t.co/ByvFbkwnxL — Instacoin (@Instacoin) March … | Continue reading
"If you don't know who Slenderman is, you're living under a rock," remarks one of the dozens of teens appearing in YouTube videos that are excerpted in Beware the Slenderman. It's the first hint that the documentary is going to try to do the impossible:€” explain the internet, an … | Continue reading
Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, Andrea Ferracani, Daniele Pezzatini, Proc. of International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) – 2011 | Continue reading
Everything about 10 Cloverfield Lane has been a complete surprise: its out-of-left-field announcement, its tightly-held plot secrets, and the fact that it’s the first time audiences have been able to see what director Dan Trachtenberg can do with a feature film. The filmmaker has … | Continue reading
When you need to make an anonymous phone call, there are numerous tricks to hide your number and apps to do the same for text messages. However, anonymous emails can be a little trickier. Sure, you could set up a separate account under a pseudonym, but if you only need to send on … | Continue reading
DICE has signalled the end of new content for first-person shooter Battlefield 4.DICE LA, which has supported Battlefield 4 for a couple of years now with new maps and features, will not release any new content to the game's test environment.Given DICE has tested new maps in the … | Continue reading
There has been a lot of talk about how central banks can beat Bitcoin by creating their own digital currency. While it may be typical consumers will be more eager to accept a digital currency issued and controlled by a central bank, there is no reason to think this concept will b … | Continue reading
For the small minority who are not aware, Lowercase is the the fund started by Chris Sacca with $8.4m and resulted in what is believed to be the best performing fund in history with investments in Uber, Twitter, Instagram, Docker, just to name a few. Sacca went on to build what m … | Continue reading
Global fitness brand Les Mills hosted its Les Mills Live event in partnership with Reebok at Excel London last Saturday (12 March), produced by agency Itch. | Continue reading
For what seems like a very simple option, it sure has taken a long time for the ability to pause and resume downloads to arrive for Android device owners, and even then, it’s only if you’re using Chrome. As noted by Android Police, the built-in download manager in Android doesn’t … | Continue reading
Ca. 25 Prozent aller Webseiten auf dem Planeten laufen über Wordpress. Die einstige Blog-Plattform hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren zu einem der Standards entwickelt und ist daher auch ein willkommenes Ziel für Hacker. Diese Infografi... | Continue reading
When the Go game tournament rules were unveiled last month, human Lee Sedol was confident he’d win 5-0 or perhaps 4-1. Given that the AlphaGo algorithm had less than one year’s experience and was only believed to be at a 3 dan level, compared with the 20 years it took Sedol to ge … | Continue reading
The LG Stylus 2 is the first smartphone to offer support for DAB+ radio in Europe and Australia. | Continue reading