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Андрей Целибеев, менеджер команды локализации Riot Games, написал для рубрики «Рынок игр» колонку о том, как компания занимается локализацией League of Legends для разных рынков.... →

Венчурный инвестор Сергей Белоусов окажет финансовую и технологическую поддержку команде «Формулы-1» Toro Rosso. Бизнесмен также станет спонсором российского гонщика Даниила Квята, ранее работавшего в команде Red Bull. Об этом сообщает «Лента.ру». Сергей Белоусов планирует заключить соглашение с Toro Rosso при условии, что Квят и глава Toro Rosso Франц Тост останутся в составе команды. Белоусов обсуждал возможное партнерство с Toro Rosso еще до перехода Квята в Red Bull.  Он также отметил, что ему близка фи... →

Want to go party the night away but not sure where to go? Bar Roulette’s brand new iOS app has you covered. Press a button to summon an Uber, and it will take you to a bar picked from the highest-rated bars on Yelp and Foursquare. The twist? The app won’t tell you where you are going until you arrive. It aims to break you out of your routines and add a bit of adventure to your life. Read More... →

West Ham United has become the first football team in the UK to embrace e-sports after the club signed pro gamer and World Cup runner-up Sean Allen, aka Dragonn. Read More... →

“For our group it’s become an interesting case study in how quickly a group can mobilize in the face of an outbreak,” Dr. James Collins explains over the phone. The MIT biomedical engineering professor has been fielding press inquiries all day, in light of a newly published paper detailing the cheap, fast and effective tool his team developed to diagnose the growing threat of… Read More... →

Today’s mapping applications are focused on helping you navigate to one spot to the next, or discovering the businesses around you. But they tend to be utilitarian in nature, and not what anyone would describe as “fun” to use. A new mapping application called Relay changes that. This simple, expertly designed app lets you create custom maps for your upcoming trips, so you… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 1pmPT/4pmET. Our live chat stream during the show broadcast Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page HERE G3’s archive on ustream G3’s Facebook page HERE Read More... →

Many people scoffed in January 2014 when Cisco CEO John Chambers pegged the “Internet of Everything” as a potential $17 trillion market, five to 10 times more impactful on society than the Internet itself. Two years later, it seems that Chambers’ prediction for the phenomenon more commonly known as the Internet of Things (IoT) could be on the conservative side. Read More... →

Chinese tech giant Lenovo is investing $500 million in startups after it announced a new fund. Read More... →

In the list of things that we want science to solve I suspect the creation of a wireless 5.1 speaker system that is easy to use and set up ranks up there in between a cure for shingles and the colonization of Mars. Thankfully, there are people on the job. Enclave Audio has been working on a wireless 5.1 sound system since 2013 and they recently released their first product at CES, the CineHome HD. Read More... →

The first thing you do upon developing a flexible holographic smartphone display? Fire up a game of Angry Birds, naturally. All the rest of that smartphone functionality can wait until you’ve finished a few rounds of slingshotting avian missiles. Maybe not the first thing – but it was clearly high on the list of the Human Media Lab researchers who developed the HoloFlex. And… Read More... →

Musical.ly, the app that makes it easy to create music videos, is in the process of raising about $100 million in funding, at around a $500 million post-money valuation, TechCrunch has learned. The details are still being finalized, but the plan is for GGV Capital and Qiming Venture Partners to co-lead the round, with participation from Greylock Partners and DCM. Headquartered in… Read More... →

TechCrunch is gearing up for the Disrupt NY Hackathon and conference. This week, the battle between Brazilian authorities and WhatsApp continued, Tesla shared details about how effective its bioweapon mode is, and Uber got hit with another lawsuit. Here are the stories you don’t want to miss. Read More... →

These days, you can’t swing a bag of cats around without hitting some sort of social influencer. But how do these people make money from their content? RewardStyle, a Dallas-based startup, provides a platform for influencers and bloggers to get paid for all the sales they inspire out of consumers. Though the company has been operating under the radar, it has grown to generate more than… Read More... →

Taxi app Uber, which continues to battle regulatory clamp downs and legal confrontations in Europe, has appointed a former VP of the European Union’s executive arm, the European Commission, to its public policy advisory board as it looks to grease the gearbox of its regional fortunes. Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Simile Ventures, связанный с Оскаром Хартманном, стал лид-инвестором раунда на $400 млн испанского стартапа Thingthing, который разработал стороннюю клавиатуру для iOS. В сделке также приняли участие фонды Saatchinvest, Pioneers Ventures, Seedcamp и ряд частных инвесторов. Thingthing — это  сторонняя клавиатура для iOS. С её помощью можно вставить фотографию из Instagram, Flickr, файл из Dropbox, Google Drive или OneDrive, статью из Pocket или событие из календаря в любом приложении. Thingthi... →

Communities of color don’t have the luxury of such complacency. For too long, unwarranted and unconstitutional surveillance has targeted the most vulnerable Americans — people of color, immigrants, welfare recipients, and political activists who challenge the status quo. Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — приложение «Таксовик», в котором можно ввести начало и конец маршрута и узнать время поездки и ее стоимость в разных сервисах с учетом коэффициентов и пробок. Передаем микрофон.... →

4 мая сеть ресторанов быстрого питания KFC выпустила «съедобные» лаки для ногтей «Finger Lickin' Good». Издание Business Insider вспомнило, какие ещё компании создавали продукты для ухода за собой, чтобы привлечь внимание к основным товарам.... →