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FOVE, an eye-tracking VR headset company, announced today that it will be delaying the expected ship date of its Kickstarter-backed HMD to fall 2016. Likely to be more upsetting to many of the developer backers, the HMD is losing support for HTC’s Lighthouse system and instead will be utilizing its own positional tracking system. The team at FOVE detailed that this decision was made… Read More... →

This week the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched a new space observatory designed to study black holes, dying stars and the history of galaxy clusters. The X-ray Astronomy Satellite, known as ASTRO-H, will be able to detect X-rays more than 10 times fainter than its telescope predecessor, Suzaku. ASTRO-H was launched on the Japanese launch vehicle H-IIA from… Read More... →

GUEST: The last few years have been fantastic for European tech. We’ve seen more world-class entrepreneurs emerging from our vibrant tech communities than ever before. Not only are we seeing continued momentum in traditional tech hubs like London, Stockholm, Berlin, and Paris, we’re also seeing the tech ecosystems in places like Lisbon and Amsterdam really come […]... →

The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Zach Seward, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Wednesday, February 17, 2016. Zach Seward discusses the release of Quartz, a conversational IOS news bot service. Also discussed: Bot Fatigue and the state of Notifications six months after the Summit. @stevegillmor, @borthwick, @zseward Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor Read More... →

In this corner: A number of employers, particularly tech companies, who claim they have a large number of unfilled positions and can’t find enough skilled American workers to fill all their needs, and thus need to attract skilled foreign workers through an expanded H-1B visa program. In the opposite corner: Immigration skeptics, including probably every unemployed programmer in the… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: HTC and Valve are planning to disclose on Monday that the consumer edition of the HTC Vive virtual reality headset will be available for preorder on Feb. 29, GamesBeat has learned. The system will be available on April 1. The two companies — which will make the announcement at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona […]... →

TCL-owned Alcatel introduced the fourth-generation of its Android-powered Idol lineup today at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. Consisting of the 5.2-inch Idol 4 and 5.5-inch Idol 4S, this generation will be the first to sport the company’s new simplified branding, dropping the word OneTouch and being marketed simply as Alcatel. As we reported […]... →

GUEST: Over the last decade, drones have advanced from multimillion-dollar military machines to being small and affordable enough to be used recreationally and commercially. Now they are revolutionizing a wide range of industries and saving time, money, and potentially lives in the process. Until recently, drone technology relied heavily on human controllers and acted as carriers […]... →

Против «Яндекса», Rambler&Co и Google поданы первые иски по «праву на забвение», которое позволяет гражданам требовать удаления из выдачи поисковиков информации, которую они считают некорректной или недостоверной. Об этом сообщают «Ведомости».... →

OPINION: I’ve returned from another pilgrimage to the DICE Summit, the elite game industry event in Las Vegas. I’ve never missed one of these gatherings in 16 years, even during times when I paid for the trip out of my own pocket. I go because I love writing about the video game industry — and because […]... →

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GUEST: Over the past year, the fintech industry has transformed from a hypothetical hotspot to an actual one. Fintech’s obituary has been written many times, but it’s thriving. In 2012, the sector was simply called “financial innovation” or “financial online services” and only in 2013 did we first hear the word “fintech,” along with the hope […]... →

Пользователи Twitter обвинили Uber в заимствовании логотипа стартапа CircleCI, занимающегося созданием программных решений для разработчиков. Офис проекта находится в одном здании с одним из представительств Uber в Сан-Франциско, отмечает Fortune.... →

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EquiPay, a bill-splitting app that accounts for racial and gender income inequalities, is on its way to becoming a reality, after starting as a joke at Cultivated Wit’s Comedy Hack Day. With EquiPay, the idea is “reparations, one meal at a time,” so instead of splitting meals equally among friends, it’s about splitting them equitably. In March, the plan is to make… Read More... →

Google Analytics представил функционал автоматического отслеживания для analytics.js. Нововведение предоставляет следующие возможности: Отслеживание исходящих ссылок и форм. Раньше было сложно реализовать отслеживание исходящих ссылок и форм, поскольку большинство браузеров прекращали выполнение JavaScript на текущей странице, как только начинала загружаться новая страница. Внедрение автоотслеживания решило эту проблему. Отслеживание изменений URL-адресов для одностраничных приложений. Новый функционал авт... →

GUEST: 2015 marked the first time in history that more than half of the U.S. population were mobile phone gamers. Even as game investments and acquisitions fell sharply, 2015 was a great year for the mobile game market, with revenues up nearly 20 percent. And yet despite this growth, brand advertising spend has been slow to […]... →

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Sid Meier is the legendary designer behind many different computer games in a wide variety of genres, and he’s perhaps the only video game designer who can sell more copies by putting his name into the title of the game. Of all of his games, none has been as memorable and successful as Civilization. It […]... →

We hear it again and again: The U.S. K-12 education system is in crisis. In its 2015 report, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, otherwise known as “The Nation’s Report Card,” revealed that just one-third of eighth graders and one-quarter of twelfth graders performed at or above “proficient” in math. In reading comprehension, the performance was… Read More... →