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Nintendo’s first smartphone app, Miitomo, arrives in the U.S. and other markets this Thursday

Nintendo’s first smartphone application, “Miitomo,” now has a U.S. launch date: March 31st. In addition, the company says it will also be available in several…

Teardown of Oculus Rift finds good design that’s somehow relatively easy to repair

When a new category of gadget appears, it’s understandable…

CHKN, letting you build and raise creatures, is betaworks’ latest game

Razer takes aim at game streaming community with Ripsaw capture card

Mirantis scores huge OpenStack win with VW

Mirantis, one of the last pure play OpenStack startups left standing announced a major win today when VW chose them over Red Hat for an enormous…

AccorHotels acquires Onefinestay for $170 million

AccorHotels is acquiring Onefinestay for around $170 million (£117…

Reddit’s firing up a thread on the Panama Papers leak

A rant about why Snapchat 2.0 is no disappearing teen fad

Experience Here, the augmented audio device from Doppler Labs

Doppler Labs’s augmented audio device, Here, seems to be all the rage in music hardware these days. Doppler recently won a SXSW Innovation Award and will…

IoT and the development of a circular economy

Few topics receive greater hype in the media today…

What’s trending in the IoT space

Watch us unbox and poke around the Oculus Rift for the first time

Microsoft’s mobile problem may not be a problem at all

When Microsoft announced its Windows 10 strategy last year, the thinking was that the unified platform would drive Windows Mobile and finally bring the Windows…

NASA partners with Microsoft to launch “mixed reality” Mars exhibit

NASA has collaborated with Microsoft to create a new…

Seven things to watch for at Strata + Hadoop World 2016 in San Jose

Amazon brings same-day delivery to nearly a dozen more U.S. metros

Amazon’s same-day delivery service is today seeing a notable expansion here in the U.S. The online retailer announced this morning that same-day delivery, which is…

Amazon takes on PayPal and others with launch of Amazon Payments partner program

Amazon announced this morning a plan to spread adoption…

Bezos teases new Kindle hardware for reveal next week

Amazon expands Dash Button line-up, top sellers to date include Tide, Bounty, Cottonelle

Hands-On With The Modular LG G5

By admin on April 6, 2016.

It’s nice. That’s about the G5 in a nutshell. With rounded edges and premium build, the handset feels great…

Simplify your stock-picking process with these apps

Moovit expands accessibility features for blind users

Cyanogen’s New MOD Platform Will Allow Developers To Deeply Integrate Their Apps Into Its OS

Google launches the Android Experiments I/O Challenge for open-source app developers

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Despite the bugs, iOS 9.3 is more stable than Android 6.0

By admin on April 6, 2016.

I know that this isn’t going to be any comfort to those suffering from iOS 9.3 bugs, but according…

Sneak peek at Safari's future features: Apple unveils tech preview

Apple releases iOS 9.3.1, fixes hyperlink crash bug

The question is not 'Can the iPad Pro replace 600 million PCs?' but 'Are businesses ready to replace Windows with iOS?'

Top iOS news of the week: Office 365; iPad Pro and iPhone SE; bricked devices fixed

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NextVR Announces Multi-Year Partnership With Fox Sports

By admin on April 5, 2016.

No matter which type of sportsball they’ve been streaming, NextVR has managed to make their live sporting event VR broadcasts some of…

The new Samsung+ app will rescue you from your parents’ incessant tech questions

Samsung Pay just launched in China, but already faces fierce competition

Why every household is about to get a brand-new fridge

Global Smartphone Sales Growth Slows To 2008 Levels, Says Gartner

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The idea of using GPUs for more than just fun and games is nothing new. It started with niche high-performance computing applications such as seismic data processing for oil and gas, fluid dynamics simulations and…

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Why Facebook failed with Free Basics

By admin on April 6, 2016.

Land grab! Net neutrality! Imperialism! There was a lot of justified outrage (and perhaps delight) when Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of bringing the Internet to rural Indians came crashing…

Facebook’s tool to help the blind “see” images just launched for iOS

North Korea blocks access to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube

Instagram needs editing tools to make new 60-second videos tolerable

Review: The Oculus Rift

Google

Google Calendar’s Reminders feature is now on the web

Way back in December, Google added a to-do function called Reminders to the Google Calendar iOS and Android apps. Now,…

Nest demonstrates the risks of being an early adopter by shutting down Revolv

Remember the Revolv home automation hub? Probably not. The device was released in late 2013, and while fantastic, it largely…

Google reverses Gmail April 1 prank after users mistakenly put GIFs into important emails

Google has reversed one of its April Fools’ Day pranks after it caused a number Gmail users to unwittingly insert GIFs into…

Google Fiber’s latest innovation is a landline

Google Fiber may be the holy grail of Internet service for many, but many people still rely on landlines for…

June Oven cooks up $22.5 million in Series A, delays shipping until the holidays

June, a countertop “smart” oven designed by former Google, Apple and GoPro employees has closed a Series A round of financing for…

As FCC considers new broadband privacy rules, report urges wider user data safeguards

A new report from U.S. consumer rights and privacy advocacy group, the Center for Digital Democracy, has set out the case…

Google Photos gets smarter, automatically creates albums with your best photos

Google rolled out a small but useful update to its Google Photos service today, which will allow the creation of what…

Castle is a drag-and-drop account takeover protection solution

You probably have your credit card and other payment information keyed into at least 10 different services right now, all…

Google AI beats Go world champion again to complete historic 4-1 series victory

The battle between Google’s artificial intelligence and Go world champion Lee Sedol concluded today after the former (AlphaGo) triumphed to win the…

Google announces Analytics 360 Suite for enterprise marketers

Google is launching a new product for enterprise marketers today that will directly challenge Adobe’s Marketing Cloud and similar services.…

Google brings its nifty Smart Reply feature to Inbox on the web

Inbox by Gmail, Google’s next-gen email client for Gmail users, includes a number of features that aim to make handling…

Google Maps goes beyond Uber, adds Ola, Hailo and more car services to its app

Google reportedly is working on building its own Uber competitor, and while some believe this will come in the form…

Google puts presidential campaign finance information and more directly in search

Just in time for “Mega Tuesday,” Google has rolled out new features to Google Search that will allow you to…

Google launches HTTPS Transparency Report, says over 75% of requests to its servers are now encrypted

Google today added a new section to its Transparency Report that focuses on the use of encryption on Google’s own…

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Mirantis scores huge OpenStack win with VW

By admin on April 6, 2016.

Mirantis, one of the last pure play OpenStack startups left standing announced a major win today when VW chose them…

AccorHotels acquires Onefinestay for $170 million

By admin on April 5, 2016.

AccorHotels is acquiring Onefinestay for around $170 million (£117 million). The company is also committing to a $70 million investment…

Reddit’s firing up a thread on the Panama Papers leak

By admin on April 4, 2016.

The good folks at Reddit are already getting their Redditors fired up about the massive document dump we reported earlier…

A rant about why Snapchat 2.0 is no disappearing teen fad

By admin on March 30, 2016.

Snapchat 2.0 Is Not A Disappearing Teen Fad Ignore Snapchat at your own peril. It’s a lot more than sexts…

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