Hulu’s upcoming shows include ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ and a Blumhouse horror anthology

Hulu is announcing several new shows this morning at the Digital Content NewFronts, running the gamut from romantic comedy to horror. On the romance front, the streaming service has placed a series order for an update of Four Weddings and a Funeral, which will be written and executive produced by Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton. […]

Homecare services startup Cera announces $17M Series A

Startup life is nothing if not full of ups and downs. On the up this week is Cera, the London-based homecare startup advised by former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg, which today is announcing $17 million in Series A funding. Investing in the round is Guinness Asset Management (via its EIS fund), Yabeo (which […]

ICO services: Lots of barnacles but no whales

Nearly every aspect of the current ICO market is pay-for-play or otherwise tainted. I do not paint the industry with such a broad brush lightly but this sort of chicanery hasn’t existed since the heyday of print media when journalists – myself included – took long, convoluted trips to distant headquarters where they enjoyed, as […]

DigitalOcean launches its container platform

DigitalOcean is getting into the container game. While it’s still best known for its affordable virtual private server hosting, the company’s ambition is to become a major player in the cloud computing space. Hosting was just the first part of that plan, and with its Spaces storage services, for example, it signaled its future plans. […]

Misty is crowfunding its personal robot

Misty Robotics has been talking a good game for 10 months now. Back in June, the Colorado-based Sphero spin-off announced its plans to develop a mainstream home robot. At CES in January, it introduced the world to the Misty I, a skeletal robotic development platform. Four months later, it’s back with Misty II. While it […]

Lyft expands its free ride program to veterans and job-seekers

Last year starting with Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Lyft launched its "Relief Rides" program for folks caught in hurricanes and other emergencies. Now, the ride-sharing company has announced that it will start offering its services in non-emergency...

Bullet hell shooter 'Ikaruga' comes to Switch on May 29th

Ikaruga is beloved (and notoriously difficult) Japanese arcade game from the early 2000s, and now it's coming to the Nintendo Switch. The developer, Nicalis, revealed this week that the shoot-em-up style game would be priced at $14.99 in the Nintendo...

Make trippy music in VR with pals (and OK Go)

When I heard that OK Go frontman Damian Kulash was teaming up with VR studio Within to create an interactive music-making experience, I was stoked. But when I checked out Lambchild Superstar: Making Music in the Menagerie of the Holy Cow at the...

Nikola (Motors) is suing Tesla

Nikola Tesla invented alternating electrical current. Nikola Motors is a mobility company working on a hydrogen-powered semi truck. Tesla makes fully electric vehicles and last December unveiled its EV Semi. Nikola Motors is suing Tesla Motors over p...

Under Armour takes on HQ Trivia with the help of NBA star Steph Curry

Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry returned to the court after a lengthy absence last night, and Under Armour is giving fans another reason to celebrate. The shoe company will take on the likes of HQ Trivia with Steph IQ: a basketball-themed qu...

LG G7 ThinQ hands-on: The loudest, brightest smartphone yet

As much as I liked LG's V30 and G6 last year, numbers don't lie: The company's latest earnings show just how a tough the smartphone business is. So what kind of approach would LG take this time around? Play it safe or go bonkers? Well, in the end...

Hulu will offer ad-supported offline content soon

Back in January Hulu hit 17 million subscribers. Now it's sailed past the 20 million mark, and to celebrate, has revealed a raft of upcoming plans for the platform. For a start, it's expanded its slate of original series, confirming the arrival of Mi...

Newton email app makes the 'sent' folder unnecessary

The Newton email and calendar apps offer a fairly unique way to deal with those unfortunate but necessary components of modern life. Some of its smarter features include read receipts, the option to recall a sent email, one-click unsubscribe from new...

Sphero spin-off's Misty II robot is now available for pre-order

Sphero spin-off Misty Robotics has officially announced the mass-produced version of the robot helper it showed off at CES this year. The cute little machine officially called Misty II still resembles its Wall-E like its predecessor, but it can actua...

Scientists create ultra-thin membrane that turns eyes into lasers

It will still be a while before scientists are able to harness Superman-like laser vision, but the technology is now closer than ever before thanks to a new development from the University of St Andrews. The team there have created an ultra-thin memb...

Goodbye you stupid pitch: 2 essential tools to make PR and journalism play nice

With nearly five PR people to every journalist, it’s not surprising the relationship between the two is similar to that of a failing marriage. Journalists think the PR industry is mostly terrible, PR people think journalists are dicks, and unfortunately, this feud isn’t one that can be solved overnight. PR policies and procedures are outdated. Blogs and social media have become the easy and obvious place to make company announcements, and human attention spans are now shorter than that of a goldfish. As millions of companies beg for a millisecond of people’s attention in a world oversaturated with products and services, journalists are…

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Facebook denied a stay to Schrems II privacy referral

Facebook’s attempt to block a series of legal questions relating to a long-running EU privacy case from being referred to Europe’s top court has been thrown out by Ireland’s High Court. Earlier this week the company’s lawyers had asked the Irish High Court to stay the referral to the CJEU of a number of key legal […]

April in Africa: Mega funding month and government crackdowns

Mobile money interoperability — whereby users of different mobile money services can send money to each other — is becoming a reality in Kenya, but market leader M-Pesa went a step further in April. Safaricom, which owns the groundbreaking mobile money service, has inked a deal with PayPal that will allow users to receive money from PayPal accounts across the world directly into their M-Pesa accounts in real time. This is a major step forward for financial inclusion on the continent, which is also set to receive another boost with the launch of a dedicated African cryptocurrency later this year.…

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BMW, GM, Ford and Renault launch blockchain research group for automotive industry

Car makers BMW, General Motors, Ford and Renault are the big names behind a new group announced today to explore the potential of the blockchain in the automotive and mobility space. MOBI — the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative — launches today with over 30 founding members that also include Bosch, Blockchain at Berkeley, Hyperledger, Fetch.ai, IBM and IOTA. The […]

Badoo adds Live Video chat to its dating apps

European dating giant Badoo has added a live video chat feature to its apps, giving users the chance to talk face-to-face with matches from the comfort of their own home — and even before agreeing to go out on a first date. It’s claiming it’s the first dating app service to add a live video […]

Google Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring helps developers find problems in Kubernetes apps

In the world of DevOps, developers ship code and operations deals with all the managing, monitoring and troubleshooting, but Google Cloud has found that it sometimes it makes more sense to put some of these responsibilities back in the hands of the developers. Today, the company announced the Beta release of Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring, a […]

LG’s new G7 ThinQ bets all its chips on AI and hi-fi audio

LG is set to unveil its latest handset in just a few hours from now, but VentureBeat’s already spilled the beans on the new G7 ThinQ, which boasts some impressive hardware, as well as a couple of interesting AI and audio features. As we’ve seen in leaks earlier, there’s a dedicated hardware button below the volume rocker, with which to invoke Google Assistant. You can tap it to bring up the Assistant screen, long press to issue voice commands; there’s a Super Far Field Voice Recognition feature to help the G7 pick up what you’re saying from up to five…

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Poq closes £9.5M Series B for its ‘apps-as-a-service’ for retailers

Poq, the London-based startup that offers a SaaS to make it easier for retailers to launch and maintain a consumer-facing shopping app, has raised £9.5 million in Series B funding. Leading the round is Smedvig Capital, with participation from previous backers Beringea, and Revolt Ventures. It brings the total amount raised by Poq to £16.5 […]

Google open sources gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime

Thanks to KubeCon in Copenhagen, this week is all about containers — and especially Kubernetes. Given that Kubernetes was born out of Google’s internal container usage, it’s no surprise that Google also has a few announcements at the show. Maybe the most interesting of these is the launch of gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime that […]

Samsung offers $400 discount on its artsy 'The Frame' TV

When tuned properly, a good TV can offer a window into another world. Samsung knew this when putting together its design-forward Frame TV last year, and now the tech juggernaut is making it easier to put one on your wall. Now through May 12th (the da...