With a lower profile at this year’s E3, virtual reality may not be the game-changer some expected.
Source: CNET
This $99 bike kit turns your Samsung Gear VR into a fitness arcade, with tanks and a flying horse.
Source: CNET
Figure 1 isn’t for the squeamish, but investors apparently love it. The company, a kind of social network where more than a million healthcare professionals can view rare conditions, learn about novel treatments and even teach cases, has just raised $10 million in Series B funding.
Kensington Capital Partners led the round in Figure 1, which has also been called the Instagram for doctors. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Israel has been a key flash-point for tensions in the Middle East between Jewish and Muslim people, and while politicians continue to work on (and fight over) the route to a peaceful future, some of the most interesting developments for cooperation and progress are happening not in political halls but in the tech world. We’re very excited to welcome and talk with some of key people in… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The Nintendo Switch has invigorated the gaming community, so it goes without saying that the Nintendo Digital Showcase today is one of the more hotly anticipated events of E3 2017. Unlike some of the other press conferences at the event, Nintendo is holding a purely digital experience, which means we’ll be watching this stream at the exact same time as everyone else. We expect to see a… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
It’s a spherical world, after all.
Source: Wired
Eero’s new hub router is twice as fast and delivers twice the range of the previous generation, and supports Thread-enabled smart home devices. It ships alongside a compact Beacon router designed for hard-to-reach places.
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Source: Digital trends
Google News was taken over with hacked content for both pharmaceutical and dating site spam in the early morning hours of June 12. It proved that even the largest of our tech giants aren’t infallible.
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Source: Digital trends
The New York Times has called upon Alphabet to help improve the quality of discussion in its online comments sections, with an automated moderation tool being rolled out to assist human moderators.
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Source: Digital trends
It’s now official. After Yahoo shareholder approval last week, Verizon today announced that it has finally closed its acquisition of Yahoo, which it plans to combine with its AOL assets into a subsidiary called Oath, covering some 50 media brands (including TechCrunch) and 1 billion people globally. It will be led by Tim Armstrong, who was the CEO of AOL before this. As expected,… Read More
Source: TechCrunch