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Until today, you needed a Google+ account to use Google Play Games, Google’s online gaming service for bringing online multiplayer gaming, video recordings and social features like profiles and leaderboards to Android games. Today, Google is launching an update to Play Games, however, that removes this requirement. All you need to sign up now is a regular Google account and instead of… Read More... →

You no longer need a Google+ account to enjoy the benefits of connected gaming on Android. Google is introducing gamer IDs to its Google Play Games service for players and developers. This enables anyone to claim a unique handle that doesn’t have to link to an existing account, which means you can pick a random […]... →

Twitter today announced two tools that could help brands improve their customer service workflows on the social network. As of today, businesses that use Twitter can have deep links to direct messages show up underneath the tweets they send to customers. “Direct Messages are a great way for customers to have a private conversation with […]... →

To our surprise, the Tribeca Film Festival — the institution cofounded by Robert De Niro — has put out a call for “the best Snapchat Stories across the U.S.” “Best,” we’ll assume, is a relative term. The organization says it’s teamed up with Snapchat to encourage “creativity, humor, and imagination through Snapchat with the goal of spotlighting the […]... →

Вечером 18 февраля сотрудники «Билайна» запустили в российском сегменте Twitter флэшмоб с хэштэгом #люблюсебя, в рамках которого бренды и пользователи признаются в любви к самим себе. Акция получила распространение вскоре после того, как неизвестный сотрудник оператора отправил хвалебный твит от имени компании.... →

Сервис для вызова водителей Uber ежегодно теряет $1 млрд в Китае, пытаясь конкурировать с местным такси-гигантом Didi Kuaidi. Об этом глава компании Трэвис Каланик рассказал канадскому изданию Betakit, пишет Reuters.... →

The plan to turn unused NYC phonebooths into free digital hubs for local neighborhoods continues as Mayor Bill DeBlasio announced the second phase of the city’s LinkNYC program — with the unveiling of new, slightly generic tablets at the city’s newly installed hotspots. LinkNYC demonstrated the android-powered tablet for the press yesterday, taking advantage of a… Read More... →

If you’re the kind of person who likes to talk to businesses on Twitter, the company is rolling out some new options to improve those interactions. First, businesses can now can add a “send a private message” button to their tweets. So you might start a conversation with a business via public tweets, but at a certain point they can ask you to move to direct messaging… Read More... →

Google today announced that its Cloud Vision application programming interface (API), which can give applications new image recognition capabilities, is now available in beta for anyone to use. For the past two months it was only available in a limited preview. The API can carry out multiple functions, including optical character recognition (OCR), detection of […]... →

Facebook just launched a new site full of resources for non-profit organizations and non-governmental organizations looking to raise awareness about their causes and money for them. The site details things like how to set up a Facebook page, enhance that page and analyze engagement, create posts and create a campaign strategy. The site also features success stories of non-profits… Read More... →

In New York City, the payphone is out and, slowly but surely, the Link is in. Link is the city’s name for its new kiosks — tall, narrow structures with slick ads on either side, a small tablet in the center, and a beta warning slapped across the back corners. The LinkNYC program is the city’s spiritual successor to […]... →

After a short limited preview, Google today announced the public beta of its Cloud Vision API — a service that allows developers to easily build image recognition and classification features into their applications. Google’s technology do basic things like extracting text from images, but its real power is in actually recognizing the objects in an image. This is the same… Read More... →

If you’ve ever found peering over a friend’s shoulder as they browse their Instagram more interesting than swiping through your own, or you simply want to know what today’s greatest minds waste their time viewing on the Facebook-owned photo sharing service (e.g. hmm, Musk likes NASA and nudes?), then a new app called “Being” should be your next download. The idea… Read More... →

В 2015 году в наноцентрах «Роснано» был создан 161 стартап. в Выручка от деятельности наноцентров и проектных компаний составила 1,61 млрд рублей по сравнению с 1,37 млрд рублей в 2014 году. Об этом говорится в отчёте о реализации задач Фонда инфраструктурных и образовательных программ (ФИОП) за 2015 год. В прошедшем году ФИОП разработал и утвердил планы взаимодействия с компаниями ОАО «АК «Транснефть», ПАО «Газпром нефть», а также с ОАО «РЖД» и ГК «Автодор». В рамках сотрудничества с ПАО «Газпром» в 2015 г... →

A future without removable SIM cards took one small step closer to reality today with the news that Samsung is preparing to launch the Gear S2 classic 3G smartwatch — the first GSMA-compliant device to sport a non-removable, programmable eSIM. The type of technology has come to be known under various different names, including “embedded […]... →

Until recently, shares of some of the highest-flying unicorn companies have been so hard to come by that secondary buyers have battled each other, not to mention other investors, to acquire some of the startups’ common shares. As the fortunes of billion-dollar companies like Evernote have fizzled, however, so has their shareholders’ enthusiasm. Says the cofounder of one secondary… Read More... →

Mozilla today released Firefox 2.0 for iOS. Notable additions to the browser include an improved password manager, support for 3D Touch on iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. You can download the new version now directly from Apple’s App Store. Mozilla doesn’t break out the exact numbers for Firefox, though the company does say “half a […]... →

The data science team over at home-sharing platform Airbnb was able to increase the overall ratio of female employees on its team from 15% to 30% in 2015, with 47% of its new hires being women. That didn’t happen by accident. After scaling its team in terms of hyper-growth over five years, Airbnb’s data science team found that only 10% of the new hires were women. That’s… Read More... →

Yandex Data Factory нашла 2500 Центробанку подозрительных сайтов, причём она искала и по соцсетям, а такой поиск сейчас почти недоступен рядовым пользователям «Яндекса».... →

The lead poisoning of the entire city of Flint, Michigan was preventable and should never have happened. Numerous pundits and industry experts have said this. Most of them, however, explain that if government had functioned properly, the environmental agencies would have properly communicated to their higher-ups and the problem would have been spotted much sooner. Those with a more cynical… Read More... →