Siren raises $3.4 million for smart socks that track diabetic health

Siren, a startup that has developed fabric with embedded microsensors, has unveiled its product, a sock for people with diabetes. Siren also announced a $3.4 million investment from DCM, Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund. Powered by its Neurofabric technology, the diabetic sock can monitor foot temperatures with the idea that those with diabetes will be […]

Pandora takes on Spotify with dozens of personalized playlists built using its Music Genome

Just ahead of Spotify’s public debut planned for early April, Pandora is punching its rival where it hurts: personalized playlists. Spotify’s playlists customized to its individual users – like Discover Weekly, Release Radar and Daily Mix – have been a key draw for its service, but Pandora believes it can do even better. The company […]

Volkswagen goes full America with its truck concept

Volkswagen automaker really wants you to know that it's building cars for America. In fact, at the New York Auto Show it delivered a concept vehicle that might as well have had the Stars and Stripes painted on the side of it. Get your tailgate partie...

Apple CEO Tim Cook criticizes Facebook privacy standards

In a conversation with MSNBC's Chris Hayes and Recode's Kara Swisher, Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Facebook and the way it manages its users' data, Recode reports. During the interview -- which will air on MSNBC next month -- Cook commented on Faceb...

Riot revamps EU 'League of Legends' circuit to retain pro players

Riot overhauled its North American League of Legends eSports championship to give pros a better reason to stick around, and now it's mounting a similar effort for Europe. The EU division of the League Championship Series has instituted a slew of refo...

Hyundai’s Kona Electric will have an estimated 250 mile range

Hyundai's Kona is a great little crossover and it's starting to look like the Kona Electric will follow in the gas-powered vehicle's footsteps.

NVIDIA teams with Adobe to ensure AI editing runs smoothly

Adobe and NVIDIA are partnering up to power up the former's cloud-based AI endeavors with the latter's GPUs. Each new update for software in Adobe's suite leans more on its artificial intelligence toolkit Sensei to improve editing features, and it ma...

DOJ: FBI prematurely took Apple to court over San Bernardino iPhone

In 2016, the debate over whether manufacturers should aid law enforcement officials in unlocking criminals' phones became very heated as the FBI took Apple to court over its refusal to unlock the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone. At the time, the agen...

‘Dragon Quest XI’ arrives on PS4 and PC in the US September 4th

The next game in the Dragon Quest franchise will arrive in North America and Europe on September 4th for PS4 and PC only, but the previously-rumored Switch version won't be coming in 2018. Dragon Quest XI came out in Japan last summer for the aforeme...

EU confirms UK will lose Netflix 'portability' following Brexit

Thanks to Brexit, UK residents won't be able to access BBC iPlayer or native Netflix programming when traveling around the EU. Rules just passed to let customers "carry" their copyrights with them while traveling, but that will end next year, as spot...

Cheers, chants, and 'Overwatch' at NYC’s first eSports supporters club

Richard Ng didn't plan it this way, but he might just be standing at the forefront of an eSports revolution. The 38-year-old brand strategist finds himself moonlighting as the founder of the Five Deadly Venoms Crew, a supporters club for Overwatch L...

Princeton study finds very few affiliate marketers make required disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest

Convincing humans to buy products is a massive business called marketing, and few areas of marketing are growing as fast as influencer marketing. Influencers on platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube can command prodigious fees based on their audience size and engagement: some data suggests that a single video on YouTube by a top influencer […]

Over-the-top-only U.S. households nearly tripled since 2013, impacting TV ad dollars

The number of U.S. households using only over-the-top streaming services to access TV programming and movies has nearly tripled over the past five years, according to a new report (PDF) from the Video Advertising Bureau out today. While on its own, that figure sounds impressive, the report points out that cord cutters’ slice of the pie […]

The OnePlus 6 will have a notch

Concerned over all of the hate notches have been getting, OnePlus decided to get ahead of the issue and explain to The Verge why it's going the notch route with the OnePlus 6 and why that doesn't make it just an iPhone copycat. The company says that...

The Fall of the TV Family in Trump's America

Donald Trump ruined television—just look at the *Roseanne* reboot.

Facebook reportedly tweaks data storage on upcoming video chat device

Facebook has been working on a smart home device called Portal -- a video chat gadget powered by facial recognition that could reportedly suggest a call when two users are both near their respective devices. In January, reports surfaced that Portal m...

TNW’s Big Spam: Is sweat pore poop?

Wednesday. Halfway there. Top trending tech news: 🔈 Facebook reportedly ditching its smart speaker plans (TNW)😮 Reddit dumped its Bitcoin payment option (TNW) 🇬🇧 PM Theresa May finally got an iPhone (BBC) What we’re talking about: This wearable is small enough to stick on a human tooth unnoticed and knows what you’re eating, drinking, and smoking. Also, it kind of makes you look like a pirate. An army veteran who tried to marry his laptop three times now wants to tax internet users for watching porn online. There’s a lot to unpack here. Here’s how to find out if your employer can spy on your Slack conversations. Do you often stain…

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European MPs are pushing for an even more extreme ‘link tax’

Should the European Commission’s proposal for an extra copyright for news sites become law, restricting how we can share news online? After repeated delays, MEP Axel Voss (EPP) has just released his proposal for the European Parliament’s position. His view? The Commission proposal for the “link tax” does not go far enough! After he already advocated giving the green light to “censorship machines”, Voss wants the Parliament to double down on another disastrous law that would limit freedom of expression on the internet. It’s a direct attack on who big publishers feel threatened by: Internet platforms and web startups, as well…

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Model How Light Reflects Off a Mirror With Python

Anything you can do with a pencil and paper is worth doing in code.

Tech giants are harnessing R programming — learn it and get hired with this complete training bundle

It’s R programming. While the language has been in use for over 25 years, it’s still a go-to discipline for expanding our understanding of vast data sets. And more recently, it’s doing the heavy lifting in the expansion of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

How to make the most out of secure messaging app Signal

It doesn’t matter whether you are an activist in a police state, a tech-savvy young individual who cares about their privacy, a professional with business secrets of value, or a soon-to-be mother who cares to keep her data private from advertising companies. Privacy breaches and shady uses of our data have become so ubiquitous that using a rigorously secure messaging app should already have become a no-brainer for everyone. Why not use Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Skype, or even Whatsapp you ask? Aren’t they SSL encrypted? No one can access our data in transition, right? And Whatsapp at least…

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