Media & Entertainment
Facebook joins WhatsApp in dropping BlackBerry support
1:55 pm PDT • March 22, 2016
Blackberry-loving device clutchers are facing a tricky choice if they wish to continue to interact with their friends: WhatsApp, Facebook and Facebook Messenger hit the “unfriend” button on the struggling…
Travel is fun and glamorous and all, but we all know what packing your backpack and heading for the amazon is really about: Making your friends and family a deep…
Apple creates Liam, a robot to rip apart used iPhones
10:28 am PDT • March 21, 2016
Apple kicked off today’s keynote by focusing on their dedication to reusing, reducing and recycling, and revealed that they built Liam, a robot especially designed to rip apart your iPhone…
Security
Prosecutors find that ‘Fappening’ celebrity nudes leak was not Apple’s fault
7:38 pm PDT • March 15, 2016
Hacker Ryan Collins pleaded guilty to stealing a number of nude photos — including images of Jennifer Lawrence — from Apple’s servers, after getting snared by the FBI. In the…
Media & Entertainment
Mobile portfolio app takes Moo beyond business cards
4:03 pm PDT • March 15, 2016
As a creative, you’re most likely to get hired for a job off the back of your portfolio of past clients and work. Aimed squarely at this market, Moo –…
You’ve seen The Wolf of Wall Street, you’re handy with some code, you know you can beat the market, but you don’t have the money to invest? What could possibly…
Hardware
Blooming measures your heart and brain to reduce stress at work
3:01 pm PDT • March 14, 2016
Finnish startup Blooming is aiming to help bouncing-off-the-walls-stressed office workers regain control of their lives by using wearable tech. The service includes monitoring and tracking stress levels, plus recommendation software…
After shelling out $2 million in rewards to security bounty hunters in 2015, Google today announced it’s doubling the reward for revealing top security flaws, from $50,000 to $100,000. Google…
SPLT is bringing ridesharing to the corporate world. Instead of pairing you up with strangers who happen to be heading the same way, SPLT is targeted at large organizations to…
In situations where you might not feel threatened enough to call the police, but where you do want to reach out to a friend and say ‘something’s not right here’,…
If you’ve ever looked at meditation and thought “that stuff just sends me to sleep,” you may just be onto something. Mindfulness Everywhere recently released Sleepfulness, an app to help…
Pouring gas on the bonfire of news tech, Google recently announced that it has distributed more than $30 million into projects spanning the European news tech scene. The fund’s goal…
Buffer is best known as a scheduling tool to help marketing teams schedule content on social media, but with the acquisition of Respondly they signaled a plan to expand its…
