“We are not as endlessly manipulable and predictable as you would think,” says Dan Pink in Drive. The results of an MIT study demonstrated that while there is a correspondence between effort expended and inventive expected for mechanical skills. However, when the task involved ev … | Continue reading
Google today announced a number of new services for game developers at its annual Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference. These range from new tools for managing virtual goods and currencies, to the launch of a video recording API so developers can make it easier for pla … | Continue reading
Today at the Game developers Conference (GDC), Google announced new features that will allow developers to make more money, learn more about users and stand out in the crowded Play Store marketplace. Independent developers have the spotlight A new Play Store section named ‘Indie … | Continue reading
Netflix uses a lot of data. That’s fine and dandy when you’re on your laptop using Wi-Fi, but with most mobile plans limited to specific alotment of gigabytes, it can be a problem. Thankfully, the company is working on a solution. Netflix now offers a beta channel on the Play Sto … | Continue reading
On the heels of the White House Computer Science For All initiative (#CSForAll) announcement and the celebration of National Engineers Week, we are excited about the work being done to make STEM opportunities accessible for all kids. The #CSForAll initiative is a plan to ensure … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — Remember when your teacher made you sit in the corner after you did something bad and you would spend all that time thinking up crazy ideas for video games? Well, Google is bringing that feature to its Android app market … sorta. Indie Corner is a new feature in t … | Continue reading
Google is announcing a slew of new features for Play Games today, and the coolest might actually be a new type of ad. It might not sound particularly exciting — Google has given the new ad format the drab title "search trial run ads" — but the feature now makes it possible to try … | Continue reading
Golden State Warriors General Manager Bob Myers shows off his workout routine: playing one-on-one basketball with other coaches from the NBA championship team. Photo: Lisa Wiseman for The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
On Feb. 14, one of the company’s several dozen test vehicles struck a bus, the first accident where the autonomous system was at fault. On March 8, a pair of Google researchers filed a patent entitled “Bus Detection for an Autonomous Vehicle.” The patent details specific image re … | Continue reading
A former Volkswagen employee says the company destroyed documents that were required to be preserved because of an EPA lawsuit, reports the Courthouse News Service.The allegation comes in a wrongful termination lawsuit against Volkswagen filed earlier this month by Daniel Donovan … | Continue reading
While it’s been possible for cross-platform play between Xbox One and Windows 10 gamers for a while now, there’s never been a way for you to play against, say, a buddy playing the same game on a PS4. That’s set to change in the future, however, with the introduction of cross-plat … | Continue reading
Microsoft is announcing a big new feature for Xbox owners today: cross-network play. It's something the software giant has hinted at for years, and now it seems the reality of PS4, Xbox One, and PC players playing the same game together might finally happen. Developers building g … | Continue reading
Ever wonder how that magic miracle machine in your pocket stays so in-contact with the world around you? Wonder no more! Here we unveil the secret of mobile networks. | Continue reading
All of you cord-cutters have a new way to get some of your favorite channels back. Sony announced today that its PlayStation Vue Internet-based TV service is expanding nationwide today. It starts at $30 a month for 55-plus channels and goes up to $45 for more than 100. It also en … | Continue reading
If you don’t already have a startup or #brand, chances are you’re thinking about creating one. A new app named Logo Foundry for iOS and Android can help by — you guessed it — creating a snappy logo for you. You’ll still have to do some work to get there, though. Logo Foundry is b … | Continue reading
Ever since motion controls became popular in video games with Nintendo’s Wii, people have been hoping for a game that puts you in control of a lightsaber-wielding Sith or Jedi. Nothing has really left its mark as a decent, motion-controlled Jedi simulator, but that could easily c … | Continue reading
This time the Berlin-based company builder (to use the preferred terminology) is investing and betting on the underlying regulatory and financial technology infrastructure — the picks ‘n’ shovels, if you will — in the form of solarisBank, a fully-licensed digital bank designed to … | Continue reading
So, today we're going to talk about some great tournaments and some...I'm kidding; today is all about the announcement for the upcoming Hearthstone [Free] expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods that has finally arrived. On Saturday night, Ben Brode and Young Woo gave us the announce … | Continue reading
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s second season comes to Netflix on April 15th, and it looks like things are about the same for the freed captive. She’s still in New York City, living bunker-free, and figuring out how the "real world" works. This season will apparently involve Kimmy wo … | Continue reading
Noch im Laufe des Jahres soll der Nachfolger des aktuellen Flaggschiffs Pro 5 von Meizu erscheinen. Das Meizu Pro 6 soll mit einem Exynos 8890-CPU kommen, das auch im Samsung Galaxy S7 gefunden werden kann, 128 GB internem Speicher, aber vor allem... | Continue reading
Xbox One and PlayStation 4 owners might get to play with or against each other in the future. Microsoft revealed today that it is enabling independent developers to open up cross-network game with its games. This not only means that users can play Xbox One and PC games together, … | Continue reading
Microsoft is still accepting and crediting bitcoin payments amid reports that the tech giant is moving away from the digital currency. | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Engineering and marketing roles are among the best jobs in America, according to trend data from Glassdoor, which scores careers based on the number of current job openings, average salary, and a career opportunities rating that’s calculated using anonymous reviews. The … | Continue reading
Today’s Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day sees deep discounts on various SanDisk storage products. | Continue reading
Tacoma, the next project from Gone Home developer Fullbright, will now launch in spring 2017.The story-based sci-fi game had previously been slated for a mid-to-late 2016 arrival on PC and Xbox One - a date which Fullbright has now decided was simply too soon for the amount of wo … | Continue reading
From a talk by @aysylu22 at QCon London on modern computer science applied to distributed syst... | Continue reading
The company behind San Diego Comic-Con is trying to expand its control of geekdom beyond a single weekend in July. It's teaming up with Lionsgate to launch a streaming service with classic sci-fi and fantasy titles, live streams of select SDCC panels, and original programming, in … | Continue reading
Protecting your phone from prying eyes with your fingerprint is great. Now you can keep your emails locked up and secure, too.A new update to Microsoft's Outlook app, arguably the best email app for iOS, now lets users protect their emails with their fingerprints using iOS device … | Continue reading
Facebook-owned WhatsApp already encrypts your messages sent via the service, but that additional security doesn’t apply to voice calls at present. However, according to The Guardian, that will change “within weeks,” thereby preventing the authorities from accessing any of the con … | Continue reading
It's all about timing, say the researchers from Stanford University responsible for creating the incredibly strong microrobots above. If you want to move large weights with tiny bots, they say, it's better to concentrate on precise movements executed in perfect harmony, than powe … | Continue reading
Sony's internet TV service, PlayStation Vue, has been a bit slow to roll out since launching a year ago. Before today, it was only available in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, and Miami. A big part of why Vue has been expanding so slowly is be … | Continue reading
When people hear the name, Samsung, they think of the most potent force in the world of technology. We agree, of course, but we also think of something simpler and slightly more meaningful: to us, the name is synonymous with a tireless pursuit of innovation and a keen eye for whe … | Continue reading
Kilka tygodni temu ogłosiłam na swoim profilu Instagramowym akcję picia świeżych soków. Chętnych poprosiłam o umieszczanie swoich zdjęć ze świeżo przygotowanymi sokami z oznaczeniem #makecookingeasier. Przedsięwzięcie zdecydowanie przerosło moje oczekiwania! Każdego dnia czekały … | Continue reading
Google doesn’t just offer its own web-based productivity apps, but it also offers a service for business users who want to use Google as an identity provider for accessing other online services using the widely used SAML standard. Today, Google is adding a few new options to this … | Continue reading
Square is acquiring the team behind Framed Data, a predictive analytics service, and will be deploying the team of data scientists to its Square Capital team. Square tracks merchants’ transaction history through its services in order to better determine their eligibility for loan … | Continue reading
Samsung's Gear VR headset provides a great experience for its $99 price point, but it can't match up to some of the incredible stuff you can do with a motion tracking system, like the one available with HTC's Vive Pre. So last night at the SXSW festival in Texas Samsung introduce … | Continue reading
SXSW is technically not over – but every year, it seems we know the clear darling way before the festival ends. 2016 hasn’t offered any obvious fan-favorites like Meerkat or Secret (RIP x2), so I’ll just go ahead and nominate Pied Piper for the win. Pied Piper is a fictional star … | Continue reading
The National Autistic Society (NAS) is launching a series of pop-up shops next month, to mark World Autism Awareness Week. | Continue reading
Jasná (Slovakia), 14-16 March 2016 For the 19th time, the beautiful surroundings of Low Tatras will create a scenery for the ILIDE 2016 Conference where as usually the digital preservation, digital collections access and digital processing experts from around the world will gathe … | Continue reading
With the release of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge on Friday, it took only a couple of days for the world to get an extensive look at just how much damage the smartphones can take beyond scratching and burningSquareTrade, a smartphone insurance company, took the brand-new Gala … | Continue reading
Eigentlich war es ein guter Move, als Microsoft Bitcoins als Währung für den hauseigenen Windows App Store eingeführt hatte. Das Experiment scheint aber nicht gelungen und so hat Microsoft angekündigt, für Windows 10 keine... | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced its support for Cross-Network Play, allowing Xbox owners to play games with anyone on PC or PlayStation.First, the caveats - this invitation has yet to be taken up. There's no suggestion you'll be teaming up with clans of Destiny or The Division anytime so … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. This week we saw a nice mix of updates from big names, indies, free-to-play, and paid games. A rare moment of balance. Of course, you can keep an eye … | Continue reading
In this morning’s bitcoin price watch piece, we outlined the range that we would be focusing on for the early morning session in the bitcoin price market, and noted that an element of indecision across the board (induced by the ongoing debate over the technical fundamentals of bi … | Continue reading
Skype for Web is getting more useful today as it adds a few features to bring it to parity with the desktop apps. First up, you can now call cellphones and landlines right from the Web app. As expected, you’ll have to pay, but it’s a good and fairly affordable option (prices star … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Go on. Take a moment for yourself. Why not sit on the beach, sip a piña colada, and just enjoy the view? That was, after all, the promise of running an ecommerce business — doing little to nothing while your website makes money for you in the background. In reality, we … | Continue reading