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- Surprise: Fallout 76 is a multiplayer survival game and it’s out in November
“In Vault 76, our future begins,” announces a voice at the end of the new Fallout game trailer that was first played at Microsoft’s E3 press conference. The follow-up – or rather, prequel – to Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic action RPG looks great, is much bigger than Fallout 4, and now has a release... - The Elder Scrolls VI gets an all-too-short teaser
At its E3 press conference, American game publisher Bethesda revealed a teaser clip that revealed The Elder Scrolls VI, is real, and in development. That means the company hasn’t merely been resting on its laurels since the launch of the incredibly popular The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim back in 2011... - Cyberpunk 2077 gives us a beautifully twisted glimpse into the future
- Google’s enterprise ambition is the reason behind Gmail’s redesign
- Here’s how less than $40 of computer science training can land you a six-figure salary
- GDPR will increase reported breaches and trigger a flood of ‘Right to be Forgotten’ requests
- Research: Restricting free speech isn’t the solution to violence and hate speech
- Religion isn’t the opiate of the masses — AI is
- Stake out a .tech web domain for a decade at less than $4 a year
- Week two of GDPR: We’re still not ready
- In the EU’s fight against fake news, disinformation is winning
It hasn’t even been a month since Brussels was hyped about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg being (supposedly) grilled by the European Parliament. COO Sheryl Sandberg is next on the agenda, rumored to be questioned by MEPs in June. Simultaneously, for five months now the European Commission has been ... - Taiwan is obsessed with claw machines (and so am I)
Taipei is game-crazy. From pinball machines to toy dispensers, the gray city blocks are sprinkled with the neon glow of mini arcades, with enticing names such as “Happy Moments” and “Sweet Box” (😬). But no game is more common than the claw machine. Claw machine games are, of course, not exclusive... - Crocodile snacks on internet-famous terrier after years of torment (Warning: Graphic)
- Twitter troll David Leavitt offers up a master class in how to be an asshole
- Radsone’s EarStudio is the best gift for audiophiles missing the headphone jack
- Facebook apologizes. It does other stuff too, but mostly it apologizes
- Adblock Plus now blocks social media tracking for Chrome & Firefox
- Snapchat’s new sports ticket market could draw a more mature crowd
- Google’s principles for developing AI aren’t good enough
- Review: Huawei’s P20 Pro isn’t my favorite Android phone, but it might be the best
- 8 courses for mastering the Adobe Creative Cloud…and you name your price
Whether it’s images, video, graphic design, web creation and anything in-between, Adobe’s industry-topping package of apps maintain their lofty status because they can still get the job done better and faster than anybody else. Right now, you can learn how to wield the entire Adobe CC catalog of ... - The EOS mainnet nightmare: How not to launch a blockchain network
In a year-long initial coin offering (ICO), Block.one raised $4 billion for its blockchain and smart contracts platform EOS. It is worth noting that a host of such platforms already existed, but Block.one promised a more scalable solution for decentralized applications (DApps). The only problem i... - A bunch of ‘art bots’ got swept up in Twitter’s political crackdown
- Facebook courts teen audience with dedicated game streaming page
- Windowless planes might soon become reality
- Detective Dot wants to teach STEM skills through the magic of storytelling
- Yahoo Messenger is getting killed off in July
- Join us for a glass of rosé during Afterhours Cannes
- TNW2018 was off the (block)chain: Cats, free money, and more
- GitHub’s new CEO promises to save Atom post-Microsoft acquisition
- Facebook! Stop sending us lobbyists! demands European Parliament
The European Parliament is sick and tired of Facebook refusing to properly answer its questions. After the fiasco of the Mark Zuckerberg show, a further two hearings are planned for June 25 in Brussels and July 2 in Strasbourg. However despite a clear request for COO Sheryl Sandberg to join the l... - Research: Only 10% of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is used for transactions
When Bitcoin Cash (BCH) – a hard fork of the world’s apex cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) – first took off last August, it promised to solve BTC’s soaring transaction fees and make cryptocurrencies a viable option for everyday transfers once more. But it appears hardly anyone is using it for its so-... - Three things TCL needs to do in order to make the BlackBerry Key2 a success
- GDPR is an opportunity for AI companies to build trust
- Smart sound sensors will help Dutch police nip street fights (and weed farms) in the bud
- Facebook’s latest blunder made private posts public for 14M users
- DeepMind’s AI mastered Go, now it’s playing Atari
- The Pixel 3 XL may have just leaked with a notch and glass back. Let’s discuss.
- Steam’s hands-off approach is the only one it could take
- Hitman 2 trailer shows off Agent 47’s latest murder methods
- Dungeon Defenders II will implement ‘proof of skill’ algorithm for crytpocurrency rewards
Blockchain startup Signal Zero today announced a partnership with Trendy Entertainment to bring its Loot protocol to the massively popular game Dungeon Defenders II. This marks the first major game release to feature baked-in cryptocurrency rewards. Dungeon Defenders II is a free-to-play game ava... - Hands-on: The BlackBerry Key2 has me unreasonably excited for a physical keyboard
After weeks of teasers and leaks, TCL’s Blackberry Key2 is finally official. If you have dearly missed a physical keyboard this is obviously the phone for you. But even if you’ve never cared about a clicky keys, the Key2 is compelling in just how different it is from the competition. It’s unique ... - Polyarc Games’ VR masterpiece Moss finally launches for Vive and Rift
- Lyft’s new app focuses on carpooling and public transport
- Cryptocurrency companies realize they can’t fight the government forever
- Researchers are using AI to save indigenous languages from extinction
- TCL launches the BlackBerry Key2 for $649
- Get working as an ethical hacker now with this intensive bootcamp training
- This TV-shaped speaker is the cutest gadget to grace your nightstand
- The US-China Association of Commerce site is running cryptocurrency mining malware
Tech Crunch
- Facebook cuts down annoying ‘now connected on Messenger’ alerts
“‘You Are Now Connected On Messenger’ Is The Worst Thing On Facebook” BuzzFeed’s Katie Notopoulos correctly pointed out in a story yesterday. When you friend someone on Facebook or Messenger, or an old friend joins Messenger, you often get one of these annoying notifications. They fool you into t... - Rakuten acquires mobile commerce startup Curbside
Tokyo-headquartered Rakuten, Japan’s answer to Amazon, is acquiring the Silicon Valley mobile ordering and pickup startup Curbside, the companies announced today. Terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed, but Curbside had previously raised between $40 million and $50 million from investors i... - At Apple’s WWDC 2018, accessibility pervades all
Accessibility has long played an integral role at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, and it certainly had its presence felt in 2018. There are some constant elements of the week, such as the labs, sessions, and mid-week social that brings together members of Apple’s Accessibility group, dev... - Apple introduces the AI phone
- Bloomberg Media Group’s chief product officer sees big opportunities in audio
- Essential is releasing a wired headphone jack accessory
- GDPR panic may spur data and AI innovation
- How Facebook’s new 3D photos work
- Google’s new ‘AI principles’ forbid its use in weapons and human rights violations
- Stitch fix blows out Wall Street’s expectations and announces the launch of Stitch Fix Kids
- Uber and Lyft apply for electric scooter permits in SF
Uber and Lyft have officially put their respective names into the electric scooter competition. Uber and Lyft are among the 11 companies that applied to operate an electric scooter-sharing service within San Francisco city limits. The city, however, will only offer up to five companies permits to... - IBM and the DoE launch the world’s fastest supercomputer
IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) today unveiled Summit, the department’s newest supercomputer. IBM claims that Summit is currently the world’s “most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer” with a peak performance of a whopping 200,000 trillion c... - Airbnb creates $10M fund to cover cancelled reservations in Japan after regulatory shift
Airbnb has been one of the breakthrough stories in the wave of shared-economy startups that have emerged out of Silicon Valley, with a valuation of $30 billion for its travellers platform that lets people book private homes as accommodations, as well as other services. But even so, it’s not immun... - Workday acquires Rallyteam to fuel machine learning efforts
- GitHub’s epic exit, Domo’s dicey math and Dataminr’s big raise
- Yahoo Messenger is shutting down on July 17, redirects users to group messaging app Squirrel
- Hans Vestberg to take over as Verizon’s CEO in August
- Alibaba’s Ant Financial fintech affiliate raises $14 billion to continue its global expansion
- What to expect from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony at E3 2018
- J.J. Abrams and Tencent combine to form Bad Robot Games
- Uber is looking to buy the bike-share company behind Citi Bike and Ford GoBike
Uber is reportedly looking into buying Motivate, the company that makes Ford GoBike’s in the San Francisco Bay Area and Citi Bike over on the East Coast. This comes following reports of Lyft getting close to purchasing Motivate in a $250 million deal. Uber bought bike-share startup JUMP, a dockle... - How (and when) to watch the E3 2018 press conferences
Sure, E3 doesn’t actually officially start until Tuesday, but the big news kicks off this weekend. Here’s a quick overview of some of the biggest new titles we expect to be shown off at press conferences from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, but there’s a lot more to the show than just the big three... - Airbnb will now let people register as Open Homes emergency volunteers before a crisis hits
Airbnb — the travel startup that lets individuals rent out private homes or rooms in private homes to people as an alternative to hotels — has racked up more than 17,000 nights in its Open Homes program, a voluntary effort where Airbnb hosts can offer their houses and rooms free of charge to peop... - Silicon Valley scooter wars
- Accenture wants to beat unfair AI with a professional toolkit
- US startups off to a strong M&A run in 2018
- This box sucks pure water out of dry desert air
- TraceLink just landed $60 million more to eliminate counterfeit prescription drugs
- Zoetrope effect could render Hyperloop tubes transparent to riders
- Why Microsoft wants to put data centers at the bottom of the ocean
- Keegan-Michael Key plays Skyrim on an Echo, pager and fridge
For the first few moments of the Skyrim: Very Special Edition trailer, you kind of want it to be real. Hell, the game’s been ported to every of platform, and Alexa games are kind of thing now — or at least Amazon is trying to convince us of as much. Of course, the longer Keegan-Michael […] - Wolfenstein and Doom get sequels at E3
It’s no surprise, really, but it still managed to wow the crowd at tonight’s Bethesda press conference. Doom just got a sequel, and it looks, fittingly, extremely dark. Doom Eternal is actual the direct sequel to the 2016 reboot of the classic first-person shooter. That title, which began life as... - Here’s what Microsoft announced at E3 2018
With 50 titles, including 15 Xbox exclusives, today’s Microsoft E3 event was wall to wall with new game trailers. As the first press conference of the big three, the company clearly wanted to put on a big (and extremely loud) show — and largely succeeded on that front. We won’t bore you by featur... - Microsoft acquires a whole bunch of game studios
- Microsoft announces ‘Halo Infinite’
- Korean crypto exchange Coinrail loses over $40M in tokens following a hack
- The largest buys of tech’s Big Five: a look at M&A deals
- The piggyback problem
- LIV is Kickstarting a beefy and bold chronograph for race lovers
- Here’s what EA announced at E3 2018
- Pan-European seed fund firstminute hits a final fund close of $100M
New UK early stage VC firstminute Capital launched in June last year to the tune of $60m, with Atomico Ventures as it’s first cornerstone investor. They were joined by 30 unicorns founders form Europe. Last September they brought in the huge China-based company, Tencent, reaching a fund size of $... - Xiaomi posts $1.1B quarterly loss ahead of much-anticipated IPO
A month after it filed for a much-anticipated Hong Kong IPO, Xiaomi has revealed a little more financial information after a monster 621-page document disclosed a $1.1 billion (seven billion RMB) loss for the first quarter of the year. The IPO, which could raise up to $10 billion value Xiaomi at ... - Notorious Kindle Unlimited abuser has been booted from the bookstore
A few levels past the bestsellers and sci-fi/romance/adventure titles on Kindle Unlimited, in the darkest corners of the Kindle Direct Publishing market, there are books that are made entirely out of garbage designed to make scammers hundreds of dollars a day. One user, who called his or herself ... - Memrise raises $15.5M as its AI-based language-learning app passes 35M users
- Bitcoin price falls but doesn’t flatline
- CapitalG leads $21.5M investment in Aye Finance, its first deal in India
- Over 100 UK tech leaders back new call for a people’s vote on Brexit
- Africa Roundup: African startup investments turn to fintech this winter season
- After report on “appalling” conditions, Foxconn will investigate plant that makes Amazon devices
- Here’s what Bethesda announced at E3 2018
The Verge
- How to watch Bethesda’s E3 2018 press conference
Bethesda’s E3 presentation should give us good looks at Fallout 76 and Rage 2 when the event takes place on Sunday, June 10th. But any number of other Bethesda franchises could pop up during the company’s E3 keynote presentation. The happiest surprise for fans could come with any news about the E... - Airbnb will let hosts sign up to donate emergency housing before a disaster
- I have a Boring Company Not-A-Flamethrower
- Delete is a better, smarter Minesweeper
- Kingdom Hearts 3 gets January 2019 release date
- How to follow every keynote at E3 2018
- Retailers will probably keep selling kids insecure smart toys until they’re forced to stop
- How to watch Microsoft’s Xbox E3 2018 press conference
- The 5 biggest announcements from EA’s E3 2018 keynote
- Watch four minutes of new Anthem gameplay
- The Division 2 brings the apocalypse to Washington DC
Ubisoft’s sequel to The Division is coming March 15th, 2019. The Division 2 will take place in Washington, D., after an apocalyptic plague has laid waste to the city. A new trailer for the game premiered today at the Xbox E3 press conference, along with a gameplay demo. Ubisoft surprised fans of ... - Microsoft announces big, multi-studio push to create more Xbox exclusives
- Kingdom Hearts 3 ventures to the world of Frozen in new trailer
- Microsoft announces Forza Horizon 4 for Xbox One and PC
- New Life is Strange game, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, coming June 26th
- Watch the first gameplay trailer for Fallout 76
- Watch the first gameplay trailer for Fallout 76
- See the first gameplay for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, from the developers of Dark Souls
- Watch the new trailer for Ori and the Will of the Wisps, coming in 2019
- Microsoft teases Halo Infinite for Xbox One and Windows 10
- Cyberpunk 2077 looks incredible
CD Projekt Red, makers of the amazing The Witcher 3, made a surprise appearance at Microsoft’s E3 keynote to show off their upcoming role-playing game, Cyberpunk 2077. It’s been years since we saw a small teaser of this game, and while there wasn’t any specificgameplay on display, the new world t... - Microsoft is building a game streaming service and new Xbox consoles
- Gears Tactics transforms the grisly shooter into a strategy game
- Microsoft’s big plan to turn Gears of War into the next Halo
- Jump Force is an all-star mashup of Dragonball, Naruto, One Piece and Death Note
- Gears 5 launches next year on Xbox One and PC
- There’s a new Battletoads game on the way
- Square Enix reveals Just Cause 4 with a new, tornado-filled trailer
- Gears of War is getting a Funko Pop-themed mobile spinoff
- The first trailer for Devil May Cry 5 brings back your favorite platinum-haired demon hunting twins
- Fallout 76’s collector’s edition comes with a wearable power armor helmet
Fallout has always been known for its incredible collector’s editions, and the upcoming Fallout 76 is going to be no exception, offering a functional, life-size, wearable version of the helmet from the series’ iconic power armor (specifically the T-51). The helmet also features a functional head... - Fallout Shelter is coming to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 tonight
- Watch Keegan-Michael Key play a ‘very special’ Skyrim with Amazon Alexa
- Wolfenstein: Youngblood stars B.J. Blazkowicz’s twin daughters killing Nazis in 1980s Paris
- Fallout 76 is an online-only survival game coming out on November 14th, 2018
- This horrifying Rage 2 collectible contains the voice of party god Andrew W.K.
- Doom Eternal is a sequel to 2016’s amazing reboot
- Watch 7 minutes of Rage 2’s intense Mad Max-style action
- Fans think West Virginia urban legend Mothman is in Fallout 76
- The biggest announcements for Microsoft Xbox at E3 2018
- This Fallout 4 Dogmeat statue looks amazing
People are naturally very excited about the Fallout 76 power armor helmet that was announced today. But here’s the thing: that helmet is not a good dog. Fallout 4 companion Dogmeat, on the other hand, is a very good dog, and now you can get a wonderfully detailed statue of him. The figure is part... - Finally, the presidential mech battles of Metal Wolf Chaos are coming to America
- The biggest announcements and trailers from Bethesda’s E3 2018 keynote
- Finally, the mech-suited president of Metal Wolf Chaos is coming to America
- Devolver Digital mocks loot boxes and cryptocurrencies with its latest E3 stunt
- Whoa, Fallout 76’s multiplayer will let you nuke other people’s bases
- Bethesda is launching Prey and Wolfenstein VR games
- Bethesda teases The Elder Scrolls VI
- The next Elder Scrolls game is a beautiful mobile RPG named Blades
- Bethesda announces Starfield, its long-rumored sci-fi adventure
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