UberEATS’ standalone food delivery app launches in its first U.S. cities

 UberEATS, the newer, standalone app for Uber's restaurant food-delivery business, is today launching in its first U.S. markets: Chicago...

Artificial Intelligence Learns the Ways of Minecraft

Microsoft on Monday unveiled AIX, a platform that its researchers have been using to turn Minecraft into an artificial intelligence learni...

Letterboxd launches its movie social network on the iPhone

 I've been using Letterboxd for more than a year now, and I've really enjoyed the movie pages. For instance, if you look at Mustang ...

Phonvert has a plan to convert old smartphones into IoT nodes

 While many retired smartphones still work and have usable sensors like cameras, accelerometers, touch screens and bluetooth radios, large s...

Blooming measures your heart and brain to reduce stress at work

 Finnish startup Blooming is aiming to help stressed office workers re-take control of their lives, by using wearable tech to monitor and tr...

USA Today to Experiment With Virtual Reality News Show

The USA Today Network last week announced VRtually There , a virtual reality news program that will evolve alongside the nascent VR sector....

Devs Get to Noodle With Android N

Google last week announced a developer preview of Android N, the forthcoming release of its mobile operating system. The release comes earl...

Philips Gets Biological With Home Lighting

Philips Lighting on Monday unveiled its Philips Hue white ambiance connected light bulbs. Designed to feature more natural light, the bulbs...

Google loses Android antitrust appeal in Russia

 Google has lost an appeal in a Russian court against an antitrust ruling pertaining to its Android mobile OS. The competition complaint was...

Netflix pulls its Android Beta Program, says it was not meant for consumers to join

 Netflix confirmed this morning the existence of what appeared to be a new Android beta testing program, but says it did not intend to make ...

Xbox Live now supports cross-platform multiplayer with PS4

 At this point, there's very little difference between the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4. But there was one key differentiating point. ...

Is Donald Trump Batman?

There's an old rather funny movie called The Mouse That Roared . Basically, it is about a little no-name country that decides to go to ...

Square brings on the team behind Framed Data, a predictive analytics startup

 Square is acquiring the team behind Framed Data, a predictive analytics service, and will be deploying the team of data scientists to its S...

Skype for Web upgraded, now supports dialing mobile phones, landlines and more

 Skype for Web, the browser-based version of Microsoft's popular communications software introduced last year, is getting a slew of new ...

Apple’s Phil Schiller promises to address the issue of spammy apps being featured in the App Store

 This weekend, Apple's App Store head Phil Schiller responded to complaints that spam apps and rip-offs were appearing in the App Store...

Philips Hue releases new connected light bulbs for different shades of white light

 Philips is arguably the largest connected light bulb manufacturer with its Philips Hue system, but its color light bulbs are quite expensiv...

Strap a parachute onto your drone with the ParaZero SafeAir

 Drones are expensive and crashes are inevitable. ParaZero has a solution: A parachute. With the ParaZero SafeAir product, a drone is fitted...

Ulysses for iPhone makes me consider writing articles on my phone

 Ulysses is a Markdown text editor for small and big projects. It works quite well for anything between a blog post and a novel. And Ulysses...

Why Apple is right to resist the FBI

 The FBI wants Apple to do something no private company has ever been forced to do: break its own technology. Specifically, the FBI wants Ap...

Oculus Opens Social Doors for Gear VR

Oculus VR this week launched Oculus Social for Samsung's Gear VR viewer. Gear VR users can create profiles on Oculus Social and search ...

Apple Lassos Attention With 'Loop You In' Tease

Apple on Thursday sent out media invitations to a March 21 event at its Cupertino, California, headquarters, with the cryptic teaser, ...

DoorDash says its new service fee isn’t really a new fee

 Consider this a public service announcement for DoorDash customers. In the coming weeks, you're going to start seeing something new on ...

Opera Desktop Browser Comes With Ad Blocking Baked In

Opera on Thursday announced that new version of its desktop browser will have ad blocking built in. Users can block ads in other browsers, ...

Kodak tries its hand at social with new “Kodak Moments” storytelling app

 The saying "Kodak Moment" is a holdover from another era where camera owners had to be thoughtful about which snapshots deserved ...

Home Alone? Now Nest Can Tell

Nest on Thursday announced two new features, Family Accounts and Home/Away Assist. Family Accounts would let up to 10 people access the Nes...

Microsoft Sees the Light and Joins Eclipse

Microsoft on Tuesday announced it was joining the Eclipse Foundation as a solutions member. Membership will enable the company to collabora...

Wikipedia’s new iOS app focuses on discovery, personalization

 Wikipedia today launched an upgraded version of its iOS application aimed at helping users better discover content matching their own inter...

Prosper Marketplace relaunches its BillGuard app under the Prosper brand

 Prosper Marketplace, the marketplace lender focused on refinancing and credit rehabilitation, has re-launched its BillGuard app (acquired l...

Now you can get on the standby list with concert subscription service Jukely

 Here's a simple-but-handy-sounding update to Jukely — a standby list. For those of you who haven't tried it, Jukely offers access t...

Cola launches its app for smarter, more interactive text messages

 Do you sometimes get the feeling that you're having a looooooong text conversation to accomplish some fairly simple planning? I've ...

3 pitfalls that can sink any crowdfunded hardware startup

 You might have noticed something puzzling if you've been keeping an eye on the crowdfunding space: A large number of seemingly promisin...

Zuckerberg Education Ventures backs learning assistant camera app Volley

 "This is so fast it feels like cheating" students tell Volley. The education startup's free app lets students point their pho...

Built.io wants to challenge Drupal and WordPress with its headless CMS

 Built.io offers a number of services for enterprises, including a mobile backend service and an integration platform. In addition, it also ...

Up All Night gets you into concerts and exclusive events for $25 a month

 Up All Night, a startup aiming to give your nightlife a boost, is announcing that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding. More exciting tha...

Guardian Circle crowdsources your safety

 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 'so...

Facebook Exec's Brazilian Misadventure Signals Bigger Problem

The jailing last week of Facebook Regional Vice President Diego Dzoda in Brazil may have been the tip of an iceberg. Frustrated police made...

YouTube Gaming expands to new markets, improves its browsing and viewing experience on mobile

 YouTube Gaming, the video network's dedicated application for streaming and recorded game videos, and competitor to Amazon-owned Twitch...

Messaging app Line now lets you host group video calls with up to 200 friends

 Ever wanted to video chat with more than one friend at a time? Well, today you might be in luck as mobile messaging service Line has added ...

Opera adds a built-in ad blocker to its desktop browser

 There has been a lot of talk about mobile ad blocking lately, but on the desktop, this is an old phenomenon. Until now, however, desktop ad...

FBI Sets Off Snowden's BS Detector

The buzz surrounding the FBI's lawsuit to compel Apple to help it unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists increas...

Square beats its fourth-quarter revenue expectations

 Square, which has been on a bit of a run lately, posted a quarter where it beat revenue estimates and saw its shares pop slightly after it ...

SQL Server on Linux Shows Microsoft's More Flexible Side

Microsoft on Tuesday announced plans to release a version of its enterprise database product SQL Server 2016 for Linux. "Bringing SQL ...

Toyota's Project Blaid Gives Visually Impaired More Freedom

Toyota on Monday introduced a concept for a piece of wearable tech that could help the visually impaired better navigate the world around t...

Twitter updates Moments for better mobile browsing by sending users to AMP-powered pages

 Twitter Moments, the feature that's meant to highlight the best of Twitter in a more magazine-like format, has so far failed to incite ...

Instagram kills newly launched ‘Being’ app, which saw 50K downloads its first week

 In case there was any doubt where Instagram was drawing the line when it came to its shutdown of third-party feed reading apps, it appears ...

Transforming how retail banking works

 Mobile is changing how people work, travel, read, communicate, shop and many other lifestyle behaviors. In the Internet Trends 2015 report ...

Fresco News teams with FOX to bring citizen journalism to local newsrooms around the U.S.

 Crowdsourced journalism startup Fresco News has just scored a notable partnership which will bring photo and video footage shot by ordinary...

iOS growth slowed in China in the three months ending January 2016, says Kantar

 The rate of growth of Apple's iOS in urban China slowed in the three months ending January 2016, according to the latest data from smar...

Facebook Lite, now Facebook’s fastest-growing app, reaches 100M monthly users

 Facebook Lite, Facebook stripped down version of its service for Android, just past the notable landmark of 100 million monthly active user...

Samsung Galaxy S7 Review Buzz: It's the Bee's Knees

Reviews of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge came out Tuesday, and they were overwhelmingly positive. "What the S7 line does, and does...