Live wallpapers might not be as trendy as they used to be when Apple initially introduced its Live Photos feature along with the iPhone 6s. But in case you wanted to turn your favorite movie into a moving background for your handset – there is an app for that. While Apple does support moving wallpapers on its...
You survived the weekend, congrats. Now here’s a newsletter. Top trending tech news: 📺 Netflix is now streaming JJ Abrams’ Cloverfield sequel (TNW)🍀 Stripe is headed to Dublin (TechCrunch) 🎵 Tesla is making a power grid in Aus with 50k homes (TNW) What we’re talking about: Don’t cry over your...
When iRobot designed the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, they made it round, so it wouldn’t get stuck in corners. They made it low, so it could scoot under beds and sofas. They did not think about making it cute. “It wasn’t designed with cuteness in mind,” says Charlie Vaida, a senior manager at the...
Chinese Google rival Baidu is the latest corporation to make its foray into blockchain tech – and its first undertaking is a doggy-centered copycat of smash-hit game CryptoKitties. But unlike its kitty counterpart, CryptoDogs will be based not on Ethereum, but a new blockchain alternative known as Achain....
That Visa or MasterCard credit card is now useless if you’re going to buy cryptocurrencies, reports Reuters. On Sunday the U.K.’s biggest lender, Lloyds Bank, said it would join U.S. banks, including JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup, in banning the purchase of bitcoins with credit cards. Concerns have been...
SpaceX’s new Falcon Heavy rocket will be launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, tomorrow, and part of its payload will be Musk’s Roadster with a dummy in the company’s space suit. Musk shared images of the Roadster on Instagram earlier this morning. As for...
A group of former Facebook and Google employees have come together to form the Center for Humane Technology, a nonprofit concerned about the intrusive and addictive aspects of social media and other technology including smartphones, reports the New York Times. Together with media watchdog Common Sense Media, the group...
Purchasing cryptocurrencies with a credit card is about to get significantly harder. Earlier today, the UK’s Lloyds Banking Group announced that it would prevent customers from purchasing cryptocurrencies with its credit cards. Lloyds Banking Group is easily of the largest retail banks in the UK, and dominates a...
Lauri Love, the British-Finnish computer expert accused of breaking into US government computers, has won his extradition challenge at the high court. Love faced deportation to the United States over allegations he broke into computers belonging to NASA, the Federal Reserve, and other government agencies. If...
Done with the Super Bowl but still can’t turn off your brain? Netflix has you covered with The Cloverfield Paradox, the third film in JJ Abrams’ monster thriller franchise. There’s not a lot you can tell from the two short TV spots for the Julius Onah-directed flick, but it promises to reveal the origins of the...
Done with the Super Bowl but still can’t turn off your brain? Netflix has you covered with The Cloverfield Paradox, the third film in JJ Abrams’ monster thriller franchise. There’s not a lot you can tell from the two short TV spots for the Julius Onah-directed flick, but it promises to reveal the origins of the...
Virtual Reality (VR) is coming to the masses. But how quickly? An industry segment that truly started no more than a year ago with the launch of headsets such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive is already a multi-billion dollar enterprise, with every major tech player — Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Intel, etc....
Should you watch a movie? Well, there are a lot of factors to consider, such as the director, the actors, and the movie’s budget. Most of us base our decision off of a review, a short trailer, or just by checking the movie’s rating. There are a few good reasons you would want to avoid reading reviews, or watching...
Whether you’ve been writing professionally for a long time or are an aspiring blogger or journalist, you probably know titles and headlines are some of the most important parts of a piece. Sure, they’re short — but they give readers an idea of what to expect from the content and help them decide whether it’s...
Perhaps I’m biased due to my passion and business, but to me, 2017 was the year drones became mainstream. Initially a military innovation used for covert missile strikes and aerial reconnaissance — drones have evolved to become a novelty toy, readily available in any main street store. And as with so many other...
Whether you are actively involved in sports or are one of the many people who simply enjoy observing any kind of sports and related activities, then you will know exactly how much technology can affect the industry. Video referees and goal line tech, for instance, have changed the face of certain sports forever....
The world GDP has been declining since 2010, when it was at one of its highest peaks ever. Although the present situation looks positive and hopeful, it’s going to take quite some time to catch up to the previous rate. If you look at the giant companies of today like Twitter, Facebook, Skype, and Airbnb, one of the...
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Cyber warfare is upon us, from interference in elections to a leak of cyber weapons from a national stockpile. And, as with most evolutions in warfare, the world is largely unprepared. Cyber peacekeeping presents significant challenges, which we explore in our research. Any theatre of war now includes cyberspace. It...
If you work with data or IT at some level, then you’ve probably heard people talking about the General Data Protection Regulation, better known as GDPR — usually with mild trepidation. It’s certainly something that’s worthy of our attention and regulators haven’t been slow to harness our interest with...
What does it take to be a really good web developer? If you’re working at your first programming job, you probably found out quickly that it’s not easy. It’s one thing to watch coding tutorials, read programming books, and make portfolio sites. It’s quite another to have to build websites from spec, to meet...
Talking, once seen as the less cool forerunner of text messages and Whatsapp, is having something of a comeback, much like (regrettably) three members of the 90s British boyband, Five. Look at the race to dominate in voice-activated devices which saw the likes of Google, Amazon, Apple, and Samsung going head-to-head...
Chris Lawhorn, a DJ and fitness blogger for Style and The Huffington Post recently dropped two sets of 8-bit goodness featuring 35 minutes of MIDI magic. After receiving a CD of 8-bi video game music, Lawhorn says he was instantly transported. I gave the CD a listen in the car, which was surreal, as it made me feel...
Bitcoin mining was once nothing more than a lucrative hobby for nerdy cryptocurrency enthusiasts. The only hardware required, in the beginning, was a simple computer. Things have changed a lot in less than 10 years. In 2009 the first bitcoin miners used standard multi-core CPUs to produce BTC at a rate of 50 per...
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