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Lightning-induced fires are expected to escalate across the Mediterranean and regions in the Southern Hemisphere, thanks to global warming. A new study co-led by Portland State University found that climate change increases the […]
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Nintendo finally showed off the first Pokemon RPG for Nintendo Switch, the first core Pokemon game for a home console, in the form of Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee. […]
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A decades-old networking protocol used by global mobile providers may have put U.S. phone users at risk. Federal officials acknowledged the vulnerability in a previously undisclosed letter from the Department of Homeland Security […]
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Bartenders, beware: Researchers at the University of Melbourne are teaching machines to serve the perfect glass of beer. With a focus on the drink’s frothy top, the team assessed consumer perceptions of 15 […]
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After carving out a niche as the first dating app by and for queer women, Her is broadening its mission. Today, the app formerly known as Dattch is launching a Communities feature — kind of like a set of mini queer subreddits — to let people connect around interests and identity as a group.
“We spent the past three years bringing people together in one on one conversations and introductions — communities is about taking it beyond the one on one,” Her founder Robyn Exton told TechCrunch.
“We started paying attention to the number of queer spaces that are closing,” Exton said, noting that women’s centers, lesbian bars, queer bookshops and other queer IRL spaces are closing in record numbers in recent years. “We actually think they’re needed more than ever.”
Her’s new Communities feature aims to create a digital version of those collective queer spaces, letting users connect with interest and identity-based groups, with message boards custom built for Her’s unique user base. Users can post content in Communities or follow another person’s feed to stay up to date on what’s going in the Her universe.
A curated starter pack of Communities launches today, though Exton plans to add more over time with the potential for user-generated Communities and pop-ups around specific events. The first set includes a space for queer women of color, one centered around mindfulness and wellbeing and another for news and entertainment, among others.
The categories are pretty broad for now, but it sounds like Her plans to adapt Communities to whatever its users end up wanting. That flexibility coupled with Exton’s commitment to maintaining a space that’s “so ragingly queer” set Her apart from dating apps that generally fumble any dating experience that isn’t explicitly for straight people or gay men.
Her also plans to push toward internationalization in 2018 to grow its 3 million registered users. The app is already live in 55 countries and its largest non-English speaking markets are France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia and the Philippines. The app will host events tailored toward each of those locales in the coming year.
Just in time for Pride Month, Her is also launching a rebrand aimed at making the app more inclusive and reflective of what Exton calls “the future of fluidity that we believe in.”
“Our community and our audience has changed hugely, even in the last three years,” Exton said. “We needed to reflect that as a brand.”
According to Exton, there’s been a massive spike in Her users under the age of 29 describing their gender as non-binary or their sexuality as pansexual — a shift reflective of language and identity evolution in the queer community at large. The language of the rebrand describes a vision in which “sexuality and gender are found on a spectrum, where labels remain but are not set in stone.”
Exton hopes that Communities will create meaningful spaces in which Her users can gather and explore their own identities as they evolve and change. “So much queerness that happens inside of Her,” Exton said. “People describe it as feeling like you’re coming home.”
The cosmos never cease to amaze: This week, the European Southern Observatory released a stunning image of the Tarantula Nebula. Described by the ESO as “the most spectacular feature of the Large Magellanic […]
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Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee have been announced, and that has Pokemon fans reacting. On one hand, they aren’t core Pokemon JRPG games, so we have to wait until […]
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Pinterest is continuing its push into video as a potential avenue for advertisers by today saying that it will offer advertisers a promoted video tool that takes up the width of the entire screen.
While Pinterest normally offers users a grid that they can flip through — compressing a lot of content into a small space — taking up the full width of the screen with a promoted video would offer advertisers considerable real estate if they’re looking to get the attention of users. Pinterest pitches itself to advertisers as a strong alternative to Facebook or Google, giving marketers a way to reach an audience that behaves a little more differently than when on those other platforms and coming to Pinterest to discover new things.
The company also said it’s hired Tina Pukonen as an entertainment strategist and Mike Chuthakieo as an industry sales lead. Pinterest says more than 42 million people in the U.S. come to Pinterest for entertainment ideas, and that potential tool offers an interesting niche opportunity for advertisers to capture the attention of a user for a product — say, a movie — that needs a lot of awareness marketing. Getting a user’s attention for just a few seconds can be more than enough time to at least plant the seed of potentially buying a product down the line.
It’s that argument that what gives Pinterest potential value for advertisers. The company offers an array of advertising products designed to target users at all phases of a potential buying cycle, whether that’s just clicking around on the platform looking for ideas down to actually saving an idea or buying it — through Pinterest or through a referral. Most of Pinterest’s content consists of images and other content from brands or businesses. That makes sense given that it’s a place where people tend to go to plan life events, whether that’s parties, or weddings, or home improvement — and those events center around products that they may in theory one day buy. All the while Pinterest is accumulating a lot of different plays at advertising products and an experienced level of senior hires, including hiring its first COO Françoise Brougher, who was the former VP of SMB global sales and operations at Google and business lead at Square.
Pinterest, interestingly, seems to have been a little more tolerant of making what might seem like small design changes but may have substantial user implications. The company added a tab for followers at the bottom of the app, shaking up what is often seen as a core navigation bar for any app. But the company continues to grow, crossing 200 million monthly active users in September last year.
Encrypted messaging app Telegram is feeling the squeeze out of Russia, where regulators are not letting up in their ongoing attempts to block the app because its publishers refuse to provide regulators with access to messages on the platform. Pavel Durov has announced that Telegram app for iOS is no longer updating after the iOS 11.4 update this week: updates are being “prevented” by Apple after the Russian regulator ordered Apple to remove Telegram from the App Store altogether. Durov said this has also meant that Telegram has not been able to issue its GDPR update to comply with the new European regulations that went into effect last week.
For now, Telegram is still in the App Store, albeit with an out-of-date, non-GDPR-compliant version of the app.
The news caps off what has been a troubling week for Telegram. Days ago, the Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN) announced that it had made a formal request to Apple to stop distributing the app, and also to stop enabling push notifications for those who already have the app downloaded in Russia.
Durov’s full statement, plus some more context below that:
“Unfortunately, some Telegram features, such as stickers, don’t work correctly under iOS 11.4 that was just released – even though we fixed this issue weeks ago,” Durov wrote minutes ago in his Telegram channel.
“Apple has been preventing Telegram from updating its iOS apps globally ever since the Russian authorities ordered Apple to remove Telegram from the App Store. Russia banned Telegram on its territory in April because we refused to provide decryption keys for all our users’ communications to Russia’s security agencies. We believe we did the only possible thing, preserving the right of our users to privacy in a troubled country.
“Unfortunately, Apple didn’t side with us. While Russia makes up only 7% of Telegram’s userbase, Apple is restricting updates for all Telegram users around the world since mid-April. As a result, we’ve also been unable to fully comply with GDPR for our EU-users by the deadline of May 25, 2018. We are continuing our efforts to resolve the situation and will keep you updated.
“Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.”
Notably, for now it seems that the app — an older version of it — is still available in the App Store. Apple, according to a report this week, has one month from May 28 to comply with a request to remove it completely. It’s not clear what the consequences would be if it failed to do so.
“We sent them [Apple] a legally binding letter and are awaiting their legally binding reply. Because Apple, like other transnational companies, is a company with a high degree of red tape, we expect the reply within a month,” RKN’s head Alexander Zharov said to Russian news agency Interfax.
RKN has been seeking to shut down use of Telegram in the country for months, but for most of that time Telegram has been working around the issue by appealing to people to use VPNs to access the service, and also by hopping around IPs at hosting companies sympathetic to its attempt to continue offering its service without sharing data with Russian authorities.
Its hopping had the unintended consequence of RKN knocking out entire swathes of IP addresses to stop Telegram, some 19 million at its peak, causing a number of other services to go down as well. But even so, the app has gone viral with the attention, which had also prompted a number of protests.
But despite the attention, it is unclear how this might have translated to usage and app installs. The most recent figures released by Telegram note that there are about 200 million monthly active users, with 14 million in Russia, although those figures predate the scuffle with Russian regulators. Downloads as tracked by AppAnnie, in fact, seem to point to a slight dip in downloads in Russia after the RKN blocks started in April, although those numbers only count App Store downloads.
Surprisingly, and maybe because of how popular the resistance was proving to be, it looked like several of the key cloud hosting companies, such as Google and Amazon’s AWS, where Telegram along with many other sites and apps host their data and operations, had decided to hold firm to see how things would develop, even when their own consumer-facing services were suffering.
So it seemed only a matter of time before RKN would soon turn to app store operators to turn the screws further. Apple, it seems, has been the first to go down, specifically with regards to updating the app in the App Store. Logically, it seems that the Play Store and others might also feel the squeeze, too.
We are contacting Apple for further comment, and also Google to see if the Play Store is also being affected, and we will update this post as we learn more.
More to come.
Virgin Galactic this week conducted the second powered flight test of its VSS Unity spaceplane. The supersonic ship sailed over the Mojave Desert on Tuesday—54 days after igniting its engine for the first […]
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Producing fibers like cotton and wool for clothing can require a lot of land and water. Fortunately, there are scientists working to create more modern, eco-friendly sources. Specifically, there’s an Australian company that […]
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The Europas Unconference & Awards is back on 3 July in London and we’re excited to announce more speakers and panel sessions as the event takes shape. Crypto and Blockchain will be a major theme this year, and we’re bringing together many of the key players. TechCrunch is once again the key media partner, and if you attend The Europas you’ll be first in the queue to get offers for TC events and Disrupt Europe later in the year.
You can also potentially get your ticket for free just by sharing your own ticket link with friends and followers. See below for the details and instructions.
To recap, we’re jumping straight into our popular breakout sessions where you’ll get up close and personal with some of Europe’s leading investors, founders and thought leaders.
The Unconference is focused into zones including AI, Fintech, Mobility, Startups, Society, and Enterprise and Crypto / Blockchain.
Our Crypto HQ will feature two tracks of panels, one focused on investing and the other on how blockchain is disrupting everything from financial services, to gaming, to social impact to art.
We’ve lined up some of the leading blockchain VCs to talk about what trends and projects excite them most, including Outlier Ventures’ Jamie Burke, KR1’s George McDonaugh, blockchain angel Nancy Fenchay, Fabric Ventures’ Richard Muirhead and Michael Jackson of Mangrove Capital Partners.
Thinking of an ICO vs crowdfunding? Join Michael Jackson on how ICOs are disrupting venture capital and Ali Ganjavian, co-founder of Studio Banana, the creators of longtime Kickstarter darling OstrichPillow to understand the ins and outs of both.
We’ve also lined up a panel to discuss the process of an ICO – what do you need to consider, the highs, the lows, the timing and the importance of community. Linda Wang, founder and CEO of Lending Block, which recently raised $10 million in an April ICO, joins us.
We are thrilled to announce that Civil, the decentralised marketplace for sustainable journalism, will be joining to talk about the rise of fake news and Verisart’s Robert Norton will share his views on stamping out fraud in the art world with blockchain. Min Teo of ConsenSys will discuss blockchain and social impact and Jeremy Millar, head of Consensys UK, will speak on Smart Contracts.
Our Pathfounders Startup Zone is focused purely on startups. Our popular Meet the Press panel is back where some of tech’s finest reporters will tell you what makes a great tech story, and how to pitch (and NOT pitch them). For a start, TechCrunch’s Steve O’Hear and Quartz’s Joon Ian Wong are joining.
You’ll also hear from angels and investors including Seedcamp’s Carlos Eduardo Espinal; Eileen Burbidge of Passion Capital; Accel Partners’ Andrei Brasoveanu; Jeremy Yap; Candice Lo of Blossom Capital; Scott Sage of Crane Venture Partners; Tugce Ergul of Angel Labs; Stéphanie Hospital of OneRagtime; Connect Ventures’ Sitar Teli and Jason Ball of Qualcomm Ventures.
Sound great? You can grab your ticket here:
Early bird ticket sales end on Friday! Remember, you can end up getting your ticket for free.
All you need to do is share your personal ticket link. Your friends get 15% off, and you get 15% off again when they buy.
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SPEAKERS SO FAR:
Jamie Burke, Outlier Ventures
Jeremy Millar, ConsenSys
Linda Wang, Lending Block
Robert Norton, Verisart
George McDonaugh, KR1
Eileen Burbidge, Passion Capital
Carlos Eduardo Espinal, Seedcamp
Sitar Teli, Connect Ventures
Michael Jackson, Mangrove Capital Partners
Min Teo, ConsenSys
Steve O’Hear, TechCrunch
Joon Ian Wong, Quartz
Richard Muirhead, Fabric Ventures
Nancy Fechnay, Blockchain Technologist + Angel
Candice Lo, Blossom Capital
Scott Sage, Crane Venture Partners
Andrei Brasoveanu, Accel
Tina Baker, Jag Shaw Baker
Jeremy Yap
Candice Lo, Blossom Capital
Tugce Ergul, Angel Labs
Stéphanie Hospital, OneRagtime
Jason Ball, Qualcomm Ventures
The Europas Awards
The Europas Awards are based on voting by expert judges and the industry itself. But key to the daytime is all the speakers and invited guests. There’s no “off-limits speaker room” at The Europas, so attendees can mingle easily with VIPs and speakers.
Public Voting is still humming along. Please remember to vote for your favourite startups!
Awards by category:
Hottest Media/Entertainment Startup
Hottest E-commerce/Retail Startup
Hottest Marketing/AdTech Startup
Hottest Enterprise, SaaS or B2B Startup
Hottest Platform Economy / Marketplace
Hottest Cyber Security Startup
Hottest Internet of Things Startup
Fastest Rising Startup Of The Year
Hottest GreenTech Startup of The Year
Best Angel/Seed Investor of the Year
Hottest VC Investor of the Year
Hottest Blockchain/Crypto Startup Founder(s)
Hottest Blockchain Protocol Project
Hottest Corporate Blockchain Project
Hottest Blockchain ICO (Europe)
Hottest Financial Crypto Project
Hottest Blockchain for Good Project
Hottest Blockchain Identity Project
Hall Of Fame Award – Awarded to a long-term player in Europe
The Europas Grand Prix Award (to be decided from winners)
The Awards celebrates the most forward thinking and innovative tech & blockchain startups across over some 30+ categories.
Startups can apply for an award or be nominated by anyone, including our judges. It is free to enter or be nominated.
Instead of thousands and thousands of people, think of a great summer event with 1,000 of the most interesting and useful people in the industry, including key investors and leading entrepreneurs.
• No secret VIP rooms, which means you get to interact with the Speakers
• Key Founders and investors speaking; featured attendees invited to just network
• Expert speeches, discussions, and Q&A directly from the main stage
• Intimate “breakout” sessions with key players on vertical topics
• The opportunity to meet almost everyone in those small groups, super-charging your networking
• Journalists from major tech titles, newspapers and business broadcasters
• A parallel Founders-only track geared towards fund-raising and hyper-networking
• A stunning awards dinner and party which honors both the hottest startups and the leading lights in the European startup scene
• All on one day to maximise your time in London. And it’s sunny (probably)!
That’s just the beginning. There’s more to come…
Want to understand all the most important tech stats and trends? Legendary venture capitalist Mary Meeker has just released the 2018 version of her famous Internet Trends report. It covers everything from mobile to commerce to the competition between tech giants. Check out the full report below, and we’ll add some highlights soon. Then come back for our slide-by-slide analysis of the most important parts of the 294 page report.
Mary Meeker, analyst with Morgan Stanley, speaks during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. This year’s conference, which runs through Nov. 17, is titled “Points of Control: The Battle for the Network Economy.” Photographer: Tony Avelar/Bloomberg via Getty Images
This week, Legion realized there are other characters on this show besides David and Syd. Better still, it noticed that they haven’t received nearly as much attention this season. The overall story didn’t move forward […]
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The PUBG Corporation (a subsidiary of Bluehole Entertainment) is suing Epic Games in Korea for copyright infringement. The company claims Epic’s Fortnite: Battle Royale violates the copyrighted material of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. According to […]
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“When four teenagers with haunted pasts enroll in Blackwood College–a school that trains students in the occult–their desire to enhance their supernatural abilities and bond with others is hampered by an undead dean’s […]
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Welp, it’s happening. Pokemon is coming to the Nintendo Switch. After weeks of feverish speculation (and in retrospect extremely accurate leaks), Nintendo, Game Freak, and The Pokemon Company revealed Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu […]
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Culturally, there is the idea that death is an immutable thing. When you’ve croaked, that’s it. But medical technology has blurred these lines quite a bit in recent years. It’s been suggested that […]
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The people of Hawaii could use a little humor right now: The island’s Kilauea Volcano has been spurting lava and gas since May 3, destroying homes and forcing thousands to evacuate. So it’s […]
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Update: The Atari VCS is available for pre-order now on Indiegogo For a few months now that we’ve known that historically important but currently beleaguered video game company Atari has been planning some […]
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Lots of people like to say that the only games worth playing on Nintendo consoles are the same handful of big first-party titles. And while it’s true Nintendo Switch owners owe it to themselves […]
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Humanoid robots are creepy enough clad (often scantily) in clothes and wigs. Just imagine what they look like on the factory assembly line. European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) photographer Aleksandar Plavevski took one for […]
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Japan continues to innovate with its wide selection of awesome exclusive drinks and snacks, usually things we can’t get in the United States. But there’s one particularly interesting new release that really sounds […]
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There’s a new DNA sequencing program in town, and it wants to index all known eukaryotic life. The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) aims to sequence and catalog the genomes of every animal, plant, […]
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Imgur is the internet’s best time sink, where 250 million monthly users silently consume an endless community-curated collection of absurd GIFs, inspiring tales, pop science explainers, and giant meme dumps. But what it’s never had is video. That was a differentiator that made it ideal for quiet browsing in class, on public transit, or in bed. Since none of the content required audio, you never had to worry about grabbing your headphones or disturbing those around you.
But the lack of video was also holding Imgur back. Sometimes you need to hear a crazy cat meow, or a baby giggling, or a crappy robot explode. So users would have to hunt down the “sauce” aka the GIF’s source video on another site. Oh, and advertisers love video and will pay a boatload more for it than a silent GIF or static image.
And so, Imgur is evolving with the launch of video. You can check them out, including this ream of popular GIFs reunited with their soundtracks, on the Imgur Unmuted channel.
The shift comes at a pivotal moment for the company. Launched in 2009, founder Alan Schaaf bootstrapped the startup to 130 million monthly visitors over the course of five years before finally taking a $40 million Series A from Andreessen Horowitz in 2014. Two years later it augmented its flimsy banner ads with full-screen promoted posts while trying not to damage the irreverent nature of the app.
Imgur’s Chief Operating Officer Roy Seghal, its Sheryl Sandberg, tells me that as of recently “we were cash flow positive” before revealing “We expect to be profitable this year.”
Video could push Imgur to that milestone. The more organic video posts from users, the easier it will be for Imgur to slide in lucrative video ads. Facebook printed money with the same strategy, rolling out auto-play video in 2014 to pave the way for video ads that command high prices from businesses. Imgur recently began allowing video ads, but they stuck out, seeming to violate the app’s code of silence. Now Imgur is training its users to tolerate or even embrace audio and video.
Starting today, everyone can watch videos on Imgur, while iOS users can post video, with that opening to more people soon. Wisely, sound is off by default so you won’t get accidentally blasted, and technically you could just pretend they’re GIFs if you don’t click the audio button in the bottom right. They’re also limited to 30 seconds, so you won’t have lengthy YouTube reposts or as many copyright concerns, and they can be trimmed in the uploader.
“We’ve been making the transformation from an image community to a community-powered entertainment platform” says Seghal. Video could keep Imgur’s legion of users growing, and make sure they can experience today’s hottest content in whatever format it’s made for.
“We realized there was a vector of content we were not supporting that we thought our users would want” Seghal notes. The launch comes following the addition of much-requested Favorites folders and chat, and the Snapchat Stories-esque Snacks GIFs that no one asked for.
But video will bring a new sense of FOMO to those watching discretely. They’ll either have to swipe past the videos or miss the aural dimension. That could splinter Imgurians, who are otherwise united by a homescreen that shows identical top-rated content to everyone, unlike the fractured and personalized landing pages of most social networks. Some of Imgur’s funniest content relies on inside jokes powered by everyone having the right prerequisite knowledge from seeing the same things.
“They are definitely surprised” says Seghal, but he claims “the reaction has been very positive.” That’s not exactly clear from reading the Imgur Most Viral homepage, which just got a desktop redesign with bigger previews and easy access to popular tags you can explore. GIFs and still images still dominate and I’ve hardly seen any videos.
That could change as Imgur plans on equipping users with new editing tools to help them turn generic clips into weird and wacky stuff people love to upvote. Imgur’s existing Video-To-GIF creation tool has been a hit. Hopefully future editing tools will let people add custom subtitles, stickers, interjected titling screens, and more. Those will be crucial to keep video from making Imgur generic.
Alan Schaaf, founder of Imgur, and his sister/community director Sarah Schaaf, speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt
The pivot to video may be inevitable for all online content. Combined with every app from Instagram to Netflix to Airbnb adopting Snapchat’s Stories, there’s an unsettling convergence going on. Video may be the most vivid and emotive medium. Yet we’ll lose something if there’s a social network singularity where they all have the same features.
Imgur is looking to become a business that’s palatable to a mass audience with video. But it must take care not to forfeit esoteric absurdity that’s made it a vacation from the overwhelming news and envy spiraling of other feeds.
With only a few days left before the turning of another calendar page, May’s full Flower Moon made a cameo this morning. East coasters may have spotted the shining satellite around 10:20 a.m. […]
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There is no end to the smart-shoe possibilities: from ordering dinner and displaying works of art to evading spills and biodegrading. But what does the future hold for this increasingly popular technology? A […]
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There’s little debate about the importance of Street Fighter. Without it, the fighting game genre wouldn’t be the phenomenon it is today. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the legendary franchise, Capcom is […]
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There are numerous airports around the world using facial recognition systems to identify and track travelers. In the future, however, they could turn to a rather unexpected alternative. Researchers from the University of […]
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It’s been a running mystery for decades — just what kinds of creatures and how many of them actually survived the asteroid impact that likely wiped out the dinos. Obviously, mammals and what […]
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Back in the days of geek prehistory, a T-shirt was a signal to the world around you that you cared about your nerdy pursuits enough to fly them like a flag. Companies like […]
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When accosted by a bumblebee, it’s best not to swat violently at it. But, failing that, try whipping out an iridescent object: the inside of a paua shell, a picture of an engine […]
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Why text friends from a phone when you can send messages directly via your shirt sleeve? Scientists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland developed super-elastic, multi-material, high-performance fibers for […]
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The US is in a bad way. And I’m not just talking the political climate…or actual climate. Life expectancy in the US has been on the decline for the previous two years, and it […]
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The real innovation in AI will come not when people are able to teach computers to be intelligent, but to bequeath to them the ability to learn as we do. In many ways, […]
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Cosplay reigned supreme once again this Memorial Day weekend in sunny Orlando, Florida for Megacon 2018. Each year I am absolutely blown away by how unique and inventive most of Megacon’s attendees are […]
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On April 27th CapitolOne launched their Financial Superhero program. The initiative aims to educate people about their financial stresses, goals, and problems through a fun, interactive exhibit featuring some killer superhero designs. No […]
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Jeff Bezos will colonize the Moon—with or without anyone’s help. The Amazon founder last week revealed plans for his Blue Origin space firm to create a lunar settlement. Ideally, Bezos would strike public-private […]
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If you’re patiently waiting for the next season of Attack on Titan to roll around, you might have something to help tide you over. There’s a new Attack on Titan mobile game coming […]
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Up until this point, starting an episode of Westworld with Blue Dress Dolores and Arnold/Bernard elicited an eye-roll. It was a sign that we’d have to sit through the most vague philosophy with nothing […]
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Solo: A Star Wars Story is out this weekend, and by most accounts, it’s a lot of fun. Sure, it’s no Rogue One or The Last Jedi, but it’s a well-made Star Wars flick with some […]
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You know Daleks and Davros and Missy the Master, Angels and Silence hell-bent on disaster. But do you recall the most underrated Doctor Who villains of all? Each week, I will dig into […]
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Planning on popping the question to that special someone in your life? Or maybe you just really love Sailor Moon? Either way, you’ll definitely want to feast your eyes on this beautiful ring, […]
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Some of the most exciting things in the arts today wouldn’t be happening without Kickstarter. It’s a platform that’s been the key crowdfunding tool that’s funded over 100,000 projects with the help of […]
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If you’re planning to watch a rocket launch this summer (and I highly suggest you do), remember to bring plenty of snacks, a book, and flame-resistant clothing. NASA photographer Bill Ingalls this week […]
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While people around the world continue to fight for basic human freedoms, a leading roboticist believes artificially intelligent machines will be given civil rights within 30 years. David Hanson, creator of the lifelike […]
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If you’re looking to start a blog or website of your very own, consider giving WordPress.com a go. Not only does it offer free ad-driven blogs on one of the most popular content […]
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VR game Archangel: Hellfire is set to launch for Steam and Oculus Rift on June 28. This update to the award-winning Archangel introduces the fan-requested multiplayer mode. Here, users can pit their mechs […]
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Over the past several weeks you’ve probably seen a whole whack of policy update emails popping up in your inbox. There’s a very good reason you received them. There was an important deadline […]
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