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Office workers enjoy many amenities. They have clean bathrooms, water, and access to a microwave. But what they don’t have control over is their climate. In offices it is either blindingly cold or absolutely sweltering, with no middle ground. Therefore, office workers may enjoy the Evapolar to help even things out. The Evapolar is basically a little fan that runs air over a… Read More... →

Publishing platform Medium is rolling out new ways to better manage conversations while also protecting authors from trolling. Starting today, all Notes are now private, meaning that if you want to publicly respond to an article, you’ll have to use the recently launched Responses offering. Additionally, to keep discussions and the exchange of ideas “moving […]... →

Is it #GIFAGEDDON? One of my favorite ways to consume the best parts of sportsball is in animated GIFs and 6-second Vines. I only want to see that big block or that sweet catch, not the crap before and after it. The NFL seems to agree and probably wants to be the only place you can get those GIFs or Vines, because according to numerous reports, two prominent sports publication’s… Read More... →

Microsoft detailed a number of statistics relating to the performance of apps on its Windows 10 platform today, alongside a new build of the operating system for its testing community. Stats first. According to the company, more than half of visits to the Windows Store now come from Windows 10 users. Given the relative youth and market share scale of Windows 10 compared to Windows 8.x,… Read More... →

I just went to Fiji. No, not literally. I took a mini vacation in Google Street View. I was able to look 360 degrees around in a bunch of places, while using the OnePlus Cardboard virtual reality (VR) headset, based on the Google Cardboard VR system. Google announced full Cardboard support for the Google Street […]... →

SAN FRANCISCO — You can feel the gaming industry swelling with excitement for virtual and augmented reality, but one of the top technology companies isn’t expecting massive triple-A experiences for early head-mounted devices. Epic chief executive officer Tim Sweeney has a lot of thoughts about the future of games and beyond when it comes to […]... →

Mainstream entertainment, especially for kids, rarely reflects the diversity of the U.S., which is on its way to becoming a majority-minority nation among those under the age of 18. Last year, 52% of children in the U.S. were white, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. By 2060, only 35.6% of children in the U.S. are expected to be white. Despite the racial makeup of kids in the U.S., the… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: Today’s most popular game engines from Unity Technologies and Epic Games (Unreal Engine) were built a while ago. And that’s why Sinjin Bain, the chief executive of MaxPlay, believes his new game engine can win over the hearts and minds of game developers. San Francisco-based MaxPlay uses modern cloud technology and learnings from web-based enterprise […]... →

Marketers are agog over stories. For good reason ' A story lifts a person out of her ordinary world ' and stories take her on a journey that ultimately leads to a vision of herself as a better version of herself. This is marketing that educates your audience through the storytelling arc. And one way to think about this process is episodic education. We are taking a page out of the playbook of cable television, motion pictures, commercials, radio, and animation.... →

8 октября американская компания Apple Inc. подала заявку в Роспатент на регистрацию товарного знака «Яблоко». Об этом пишут «Ведомости» со ссылкой на материалы Роспатента.... →

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...... →

Fixed, a mobile app that fights parking tickets and other traffic citations on users’ behalf, has had its parking ticket operations blocked in three of its top cities, San Francisco, Oakland and L.A. after the cities increased the measures they were taking to block Fixed from accessing their parking ticket websites. The company confirms it has suspended parking ticket operations in all… Read More... →

This summer, two different events affected two different worlds. First, Milan-based Hacking Team — a small group of programmers who customize malware to gather intelligence — was itself hacked, and more than 400GB of its internal data was leaked. A few days later, a South Korean intelligence officer who had been implementing tracking software killed himself, and his suicide note… Read More... →

In this episode of Youpreneur.FM, host Chris Ducker shares five online income opportunities, as well as their advantages and challenges. One question Chris gets asked a lot is how to get started generating revenue online. So, today he's giving you his top five answers to that question. Chris will give you the details about these five online income opportunities " and what's good and what's challenging about each of them. He'll cover coaching and consulting,... →

A lot of us chuckled when we saw Google Cardboard for the first time, but it’s actually quite genius. Google shared today that its virtual reality experience Google Cardboard is now available in 39 languages and over 100 countries for both Android and iOS. The developer docs are now in 10 languages, to make the VR experience even more worldwide. The 15 million installs of Cardboard apps… Read More... →

The Sippy may be the answer to all life’s greatest caffeine-based problems. Launching on Kickstarter this week, the Sippy will make espresso any time, any place. The slim little cannister uses CO2 cartridges, water, and Nespresso/Hema/Coffee Duck-compatible coffee cups to brew up a shot of java whenever the craving strikes. The Sippy is made of anodized Aluminium, with a 35ml chamber… Read More... →

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Thursday, October 15 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free.  With consumers constantly searching to satisfy their technological hunger, the pace of the  tech boom is unrelenting. So it’s no surprise there’s an incredibly high demand for qualified programmers. However, despite the potential for meteoric tech career paths, not everyone knows […]... →

Оператор мобильной связи МТС предоставит своим абонентам возможность привязывать несколько банковских карт разных банков к одной SIM-карте для бесконтактной оплаты. Об этом пишет газета «Ведомости» со ссылкой на представителя МТС Дмитрия Солодовникова.... →

(Reuters) – PepsiCo said on Monday it is working with a licensing partner to market a line of mobile phones and accessories in China in the next few months. The food and beverage company however has no plans to get into the mobile phone manufacturing business, a PepsiCo spokeswoman said by email. “Available in China […]... →

Launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, PIF (Pay It Forward) is an app that is taking a literal approach to social networking. Essentially a Tinder for networking, the app is designed to introduce people from within a specific industry (starting with the start-up community) who may not have otherwise had a chance to meet. Each user has a profile with a photo and brief description of themselves. Read More... →