- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from PCWorldLG is placing as much importance on streaming content from Netflix as it is to broadcast TV in its new 4K OLED and LED TVs, which were announced on Tuesday. Eight new 4K smart TVs, belonging to one OLED curved TV series and four LED seri...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from PCWorldThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt isn't even out yet, it already has a reputed length of 200 hours (provided you do everything ), and CD Projekt Red is like "That's not long enough. Let's add more." Today, the developer announced two paid expansi...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from GizmodoA helicopter pilot was goofing off on FaceTime shortly before a fatal crash, according to a lawsuit filed by a surviving passenger . Read more...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Top Tech NewsTech giant Google is releasing its cheapest Chromebook laptops yet, two versions priced at $149 aimed at undercutting Microsoft's Windows franchise and gaining ground in more classrooms.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Wired Top StoriesAs groundbreaking as it was for four seasons, the show's own influence has made constant evolution unnecessary. And that's actually better for the show. The post Louie ‘s Back, and It’s Almost a Regular Sitcom Now appeared fi...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Wired Top StoriesThe plan is impressive in both its scale and its scope, and there's plenty American cities can learn from it. The post US Cities Should Follow Paris’ $160M Plan to Boost Cycling appeared first on WIRED .
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Geek.comWhat fits in your pocket, has more connectivity options than Apple’s latest Macbook, and costs over $700 less? The Intel Compute Stick, an HDMI dongle that packs a full Windows 8.1 PC. Intel announced […]
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Silicon Alley InsiderApril 10 is going to be a big day in tech. The two most important Android phones of the year, Samsung's Galaxy S6 and HTC's One M9, officially launch in the US that day. It's also the first day you'll be able to preorder the Apple Watch ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Tech
Instagram is making it easier to keep tabs on posts from friends, celebrities or other users you want to follow more closely. The app's latest update adds the ability to subscribe to posts from specific users and introduces two new editi... - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from TechmemeLarry Dignan / ZDNet : Data integration company Informatica goes private after $5.3B acquisition by private equity firm Permira — Informatica goes private in $5.3 billion deal — Summary:The data integ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from PC Magazine: New Product ReviewsTidal brings music videos, exclusive content, and delicious CD-quality audio to (select) Android devices, but the streaming music app lacks features found in the competition's services.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Silicon Alley InsiderEdward Snowden's interview with HBO comedian John Oliver was a mistake that exposed him to critical questions for the first time, says U.S. Naval War College and Harvard Extension School professor Tom Nichols in The Federalist . "The m...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from VentureBeat
App testing firm Applause has rolled out an update to its mobile-analytics tool, bringing global benchmarking to the mix as well as a new interface and handful of fresh additional features. - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from TechCrunchReserve, the restaurant reservation company that launched this past fall out of Garrett Camp’s “startup studio” Expa, has acquired two fellow startups in the dining space. Reserve announced today it has bought Zur...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Digital TrendsWe saw LG's curve ball coming this time around, but it's still a significant improvement on the original. If you're looking to add style, grip, functions, or protection you need to check out the best LG G Flex 2 cases. The post Make your...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from TechmemeJim Edwards / Business Insider : Angela Ahrendts tells employees to encourage customers to order Watch and new MacBook through Apple Store app and online store as part of “change in mindset” — Angela Ahrend...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Forbes - TechAnother from the "democratizing Hadoop for business users" school. This time it is AtScale, a company with an impressive big data pedigree that is launching to meet this important organizational need. Altscale was founded by Dave Mariani...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Ars Technica
A Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet comes free with your new laptop! - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from VentureBeat
Another one bites the dust. - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Silicon Alley InsiderOnce upon a time, venture capitalists were tripping over themselves to invest in a hot new cloud computing technology called OpenStack . It began with Piston, which raised $4.5 million in 2011 — considered a "massive" round a...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Top Tech NewsRecently, IBM researchers took the lid off an active campaign using a variant of Dyre malware. So far, the malware has swiped over $1 million from its enterprise victims. But who's to blame?
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from GizmodoIn the years since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone has morphed into an improbable nature reserve —untamed and untouched and, well, still radioactive. A new study warns that forest fires could spread radioactive material f...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from PCWorldBack in 2010 there was a round of widespread speculation that Oracle was about to snap up Informatica, but—like so many such rumors—it never came to pass. Now, Informatica is getting purchased by someone else. On Tuesday the data-integra...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from TechmemeBijan Sabet : Companies that need time and patience to mature may miss their chance in today's environment of huge growth rounds — Opportunities lost in a sea of growth rounds — These days in startup ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Wired Top StoriesAngry Nerd thinks the success or failure of Netflix's new Daredevil show depends on how well the series portrays its supporting characters. The post Angry Nerd : Will Netflix’s Daredevil Fly or Flop? appeared first on WIRED .
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Silicon Alley InsiderNintendo is widely known as a video game company, despite its origins as a playing card and toy company. The Japanese gaming giant is returning to its roots with the wildly popular amiibo action figures: plastic, real-life versions of it...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Ars Technica
Problem highlights short online support for many sports games.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from PCWorldAfter facing a DDoS attack, an activist group isn’t backing down in its attempts to end China’s Internet censorship. “I think that we are more confident than we were before that our successful execution of our strategy is going to lead u...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from TheNextWeb.comWith the 10th edition of TNW Conference Europe now just two weeks away, it’s almost time for you to decide which of our awesome early-stage startups you’d like to see pitching their products on stage. This year, 75 out of 150 startups st...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Silicon Alley InsiderIt should be comforting that no matter how much you hate your boss, they can't possibly be as bad as the Pointy-Haired Boss. The idiot middle manager is central to the popular Dilbert comic series, which was the first syndicated comic th...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from VentureBeat
ManaCloud is a HIPAA-compliant cloud platform that unifies electronic medical records with patient-generated data from apps and connected devices. - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from PC Magazine: New Product ReviewsFreshBooks is the site to beat when it comes to managing and tracking invoices, time, and expenses for the very small business that doesn't need full-blown double-entry accounting.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from TechCrunchAmazon Instant Video is a surprisingly solid Netflix-competitor — particularly if you’re already an Amazon Prime member, which makes much of the content free. Until today, though, the service had one glaring fault: if y...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Silicon Alley InsiderGoogle might want to help you book your next plumber, electrician, or house-cleaner. The company plans to announce a new product to help its users connect with home services providers, sources tell BuzzFeed's Caroline O'Donovan .&n...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Digital TrendsFerrari has released a video featuring the design process of its track-only hypercar, the FXX K. The LaFerrari-based vehicle has 50 more downforce and has been tuned to deliver more power and handling over the road version. The post Watc...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from TheNextWeb.comInstagram isn’t just about the Valencia filter anymore; ever since it added a set of editing tools last year it’s become a fairly rich image editor on it’s own right. Today it’s becoming even more powerful with two new features: ‘Fade’ a...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Tech News - Latest Technology and Gadget News | Sky NewsA new aluminium power cell developed by scientists in California can be bent and drilled and is safer than lithium batteries.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from PCWorldYou don't have to be a celebrity to get nailed by a nude photo. According to a report by Trend Micro , sextortion—the use of compromising photos or videos to extract money from victims—is on the rise. The concept isn’t entirely new. Ant...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from EngadgetYou may want to think twice about livestreaming that baseball game for the sake of your friends back home. Major League Baseball tells the Wall Street Journal that it's reminding teams not to allow services like Meerkat and Periscope in ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Top Tech NewsBetter late than never. Intel missed its March Compute Stick PC launch, but the chipmaker is now pushing out its micro-PC through pre-orders on sites like Newegg, Amazon. Will anybody buy it?
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from EngadgetIt's been just under two weeks since Bloodborne brutalized me on JXE Streams. After years of building up the gumption to actually tackle one of From Software's vicious action role-playing games, I finally braved its rank, monster-filled ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from VentureBeat
Apple has far wider aspirations for the Apple Watch that just consumer sales. As with the iPad, the company wants to sell the device into vertical enterprises like health care organizations. - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from CNET NewsA feat of cosplay engineering results in a full-size walking TARS robot costume that uses aluminum and a pair of iPads to get the right look.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from TheNextWeb.comCongratulations to social bookmarking service Uplike on being named the fastest-growing tech startup in France at the Tech5 final in Paris last week. Speaking about the company’s success, its founder Emmanuel Francoise said: Being the Fr...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from TechCrunchIf you’re an online writer or publisher and you want to include a picture from Imgur, it’s now easy to do so in a totally legit way — thanks to the image-sharing site’s new embedding capabilities. In other w...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Silicon Alley InsiderYou may have never heard of Oscar Salazar, but you might recognize him by the design of Ride , his new ride-sharing app for commuters. Salazar was Uber's founding CTO and third cofounder alongside Garrett Camp and Travis Kalan...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Digital TrendsDell has announced the Developer Edition of its popular XPS 13. It ships with Ubuntu and offers upgraded hardware over the base $799 Windows model, including a Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM. The post Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition now ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Wired Top StoriesWhile GIFs are typically a freewheeling, self-created (or at least self-discovered) form of expression online, Hulu’s GIF engine is the exact opposite. The post Hulu’s New Super-Lame GIFs Are Just Ads for Hulu appeared first on WIR...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Techradar - All the latest technology newsDell has updated its range of XPS 13 Developer Edition Ubuntu Linux-ready laptops with a speedy Broadwell chip that elevates it above the heavily praised consumer edition The new machines start off at $949 (around £639, or AU$1,240) and ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from PCWorldMailbox is joining the Material Design club, dropping in a few visual flourishes and extra utilities to an already clean-looking email app. The update adds in a floating action button for launching a new email and a revamped slide-out me...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
Keep up with the best gear and deals on the web by signing up for the 9to5Toys Newsletter. Also, be sure to check us out on: Twitter, RSS Feed, Facebook, Google+ and Safari push notifications. Today’s can’t miss deals: Apple iPad m... - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from eWeek - RSS FeedseWEEK looks at 10 important milestones in Microsoft's history that helped make it one of the most successful companies in the history of private enterprise.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Cult of MacConsidering how great its other products are, there’s little contesting the fact that Apple’s search functions have traditionally sucked. That remains true to this day, although improvements are slowly being made — and ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from MacNN | The Macintosh News NetworkMost mobile games are exercises in what some like to call "lonely fun." In our totally unscientific survey of mobile games, we found the majority of them to be single-player experiences. A sizable chunk of mobile games with multiplayer o...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Reuters: Technology NewsMUMBAI (Reuters) - Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc has decided to sell devices through a leading electronics retail chain in India, part of its effort to move away from online-only sales and boost growth in the world's third-largest ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from eWeek - RSS FeedsThe company also is enhancing its video conferencing solution with support for more devices and 40-way group calling capabilities.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from AppleInsider - Frontpage NewsSamsung on Tuesday provided investors with a new forecast for its March quarter sales, indicating that earnings declined yet again, likely falling 30 percent from the same period a year ago.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukThe Japanese musician behind the Final Fantasy themes has become a mainstay of Classic FM’s Hall of Fame, rubbing shoulders with the greats. So what does our critic make of his work? Continue reading...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from AppleInsider - Frontpage NewsConsumers looking for Thunderbolt-compatible external storage that can keep up with a rough-and-tumble lifestyle now have a new high capacity option, as Seagate's LaCie subsidiary unveiled an updated version of its Rugged Thunderbolt ran...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from AppleInsider - Frontpage NewsHBO's cable-free subscription service, HBO Now, launched with a free trial on the Tuesday with a new dedicated Apple TV channel and an app on the iOS App Store , ahead of this Sunday's hotly anticipated premiere of "Game of Thrones....
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)There are plenty of rules about what you can and can't do on kids' tv, but not a lot of those rules automatically carry over to the internet. That's why a posse of advocacy groups is asking the FTC to investigate if YouTube's kids-only s...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukA recent letter from a group of headteachers claimed that allowing children to play some types of video game effectively constitutes parental neglect. But what is the scientific evidence for such claims? Continue reading...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Instagram isn't slowing down in its bid to give you more control over your pictures. The square photo social network has updated its Android app (iOS is due in a few days) with two new tools that let you fine-tune the color of your shots...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All StoriesGrovemade today announced a new Laptop Stand, adding to its line of handmade wooden desk accessories. Available in Walnut and Maple like the company's other products, the Laptop Stand is made from sheets of wood veneer that have been mol...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from MacNN | The Macintosh News NetworkHello and welcome to Daily Deals, where we scour online retailers for offers, savings, and discounts for you, our discerning MacNN and Electronista reader. As well as a recap of still-active deals from yesterday, today's new items includ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from ABC News: TechnologyThe brontosaurus may finally be reinstated as a dinosaur more than a century after the name was stripped from the ranks of dinosaurs.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Cult of MacIf you want to skip out on posing for photos during the next family vacation, do what Hauke Scheer plans to do — use a 3-D-printed version of yourself as a stand-in. The Scheer family might let him get away … Read more ›
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from InfoWorld NewsNow that many enterprises are seeing value in big data analysis, it may be time for their database administrators and data warehouse managers to get involved. Oracle has released a new extension for its Oracle Data Integrator middleware ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)It's been just under two weeks since Bloodborne brutalized me on JXE Streams. After years of building up the gumption to actually tackle one of From Software's vicious action role-playing games, I finally braved its rank, monster-filled ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All StoriesJob site Freelancer.com recently hosted a contest that called on designers to imagine what the rumored Apple Car might look like. We don't have any details on the car that Apple is said to be developing, so the designs submitted to the c...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
Having left some pricing details ambiguous for its new 12″ MacBooks after last month’s Spring Forward event, Apple today disclosed the prices of its highest-end 1.3GHz models… According to Expercom, an authorized Apple ... - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from MacworldIt’s time for yet another major platform release for one of the world’s most beloved sci-fi sagas. Disney recently announced that all six Star Wars films will be available as high-definition downloads for the first (legal) time starting ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Reuters: Technology NewsZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss army knife maker Victorinox plans to unveil its version of a smartwatch by the start of next year, its chief executive said on Tuesday.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)HBO's cable-free streaming service, HBO Now, is available right this very second on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, HBO says in a press release. Interested cable-cutters can see sign-up instructions and access HBO Now on desktops ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence
Adobe announced its new Document Cloud service a few weeks ago including new iOS apps for handling documents on-the-go. Described as the digital document hub, Adobe’s Document Cloud includes integration with new apps for iPhone and... - Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from MacNN | The Macintosh News NetworkLaCie, the premium brand from Seagate Technology, announced today that its Rugged Thunderbolt storage solution will be available in a 1TB SSD capacity. With double the storage, the new LaCie Rugged is just as portable with no size or wei...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from AppleInsider - Frontpage NewsWith its troubled mobile chip unit hemorrhaging cash -- thanks in part to Apple's domination of the smartphone and tablet markets -- Intel this week announced that it would no longer report mobile earnings as a separate line item, instea...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukAllen criticises Jay Z’s music streaming service, but it’s clear that he wants to credit the creators more – if he wanted profit he could sell branded headphones Related: Rihanna and Beyoncé unveil new music via Tidal Over Easter,...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All StoriesA handful of prominent child advocacy groups plan to work together today in asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google's YouTube Kids app, with the groups claiming that the popular video streaming service is deceptively ta...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from MacNN | The Macintosh News NetworkMicrotrip by Arthur Guibert is the older sibling of ZoidTrip. The user plays a little single-celled organism traveling through the body of some kind of larger monster. As the organism glides down what we can only assume is the blood stre...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from eWeek - RSS FeedsThe platform’s agentless architecture is used to analyze performance across development, testing, QA and production environments.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukNew research pushes aluminium batteries as the next generation technology to revolutionise mobile devices, but what else could finally make smartphones last more than a day New research by Standford University into aluminium batteries pr...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Cult of MacFrom pop-up kiosks in up-scale luxury department stores to focusing more on the fashion press than the tech pages, it’s been fascinating to watch the unorthodox way in which Apple is choosing to spread the word about its upcoming A...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Reuters: Technology News(Reuters) - Business software maker Informatica Corp said it would be bought for about $5.3 billion by private equity firms Permira Funds and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), in the biggest U.S. leveraged buyout so far this ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukLegions of fanboys queue for days outside of Apple stores ahead of new product releases, but it seems the company has had enough The days of long lines of Apple fans queuing outside stores for days ahead of new product releases could be ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)The robots are coming. And I don't mean to the factory floor, or your kid's toy box. I mean to your living room, your office and your everyday life. The question is no longer a matter of if, but when. Some might even wonder why we don't ...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All StoriesApple Watch reservations for in-store pickup will be limited to one per customer through Apple's Reserve and Pickup service, MacRumors has learned. Customers in the United States and other launch countries will be required to present a v...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from eWeek - RSS FeedsSamsung is using AMD's R-Series embedded APUs in its digital signage system, bolstering the chip maker's efforts to extend its reach beyond PCs.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Apple no longer wants you to wait in long lines during product launches -- in fact, it would sometimes prefer that you stay at home. An Angela Ahrendts memo leaked to Business Insider shows that the company is going to steer you toward u...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from eWeek - RSS FeedsA quarter of respondents said they would like to see more games apps in their native language and 23.6 percent responded similarly for news apps.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from MacNN | The Macintosh News NetworkWe put this on our To Do list three months ago: "Write combined Hands On about both OmniFocus and OmniOutliner's new iPhone versions". The company said they were coming, they were quite clear about what would be new about them, we were q...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Internet, gadgets, games & motoring news | guardian.co.ukFrom getting students to think about careers to rebuilding their school, teachers share inventive ways they use the building-block game Continue reading...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Madonna is still determined to hold on to the spotlight by premiering music videos in the internet services du jour. Her next stop? Meerkat. Swing by the livestreaming service at 1PM Eastern and you'll see the Material Girl's video for "...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Reuters: Technology NewsSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A coalition of consumer and children advocacy groups plans to urge federal regulators to investigate a YouTube video app aimed at children that the groups say disregards long-established safeguards limiting adve...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from MacworldIt's two-fer-Tuesday as ZDNet's Jason Perlow brings on a double dose of... what is this? Congealed Peeps? "Apple Watch should cost as much as a deluxe pizza" (tip o' the antlers to Rob Wensing ) A deluxe... gold pizza? Macalope: "I'll ha...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from MacworldThis is the icon for Keynote. (Yes, it’s the icon for the previous version, since it makes my point just a little better, but I could have picked anything.) Actually, we’ve had to scale that down to get it to fit, because actually it’s o...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from MacNN | The Macintosh News NetworkAs anticipation builds for the December release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first new film in the Star Wars Saga in a decade, The Walt Disney Studios, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Fox today announced the upcoming release of The S...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from Reuters: Technology NewsLONDON (Reuters) - U.S. scientists said they have invented a cheap, long-lasting and flexible battery made of aluminum for use in smartphones that can be charged in as little as one minute.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)While 3D Robotics makes some amazing drones, it's not exactly known for its design flair. It seems that's about to change, according to a tease of a rakish new model, however. The video (below) is light on details, but we can glean a few...
- Tuesday, April 7, 2015 from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)You're probably aware that you can't easily pry open the Galaxy S6, but what's it like if you do try? It's something of a nightmare, if you ask iFixit. The repair-it-yourself shop has torn down a Galaxy S6 Edge, and it's pretty clear tha...
