Category: Tech news

 Giphy, the betaworks-backed search engine for gifs, has released a brand new tool that makes sharing gifs on social networks even easier and more efficient. Giphy is a search platform that is based entirely around gifs, with artist profiles so that creators can get more exposure and easy sharing tools for social media. However, without in-line integration on Facebook or Twitter people still have… Read More

 True story: a few years ago I was in the East Village when I heard the disco version of the Superman theme playing loudly. A man on a skateboard was riding back and forth, around and around, blaring the Superman theme for all and sundry, sharing the horns of John Williams’ most uplifting hymn with the world (to a disco beat). The Wearhaus ARC is not like that at all. These headphones connect… Read More

 Getting a meeting with a top venture capitalist is tough unless you’ve got the right connections. For all the talk of meritocracy around product development, raising money is still a bit of an old boy’s club. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is offering chances to break into the club house with today’s launch of its 5th Annual VC Auction. Meetings with A-list VCs and founders go to the… Read More

 It’s one thing to bring your mind into virtual reality. Get some snazzy VR goggles in front of your eyes, bump the framerate up high enough — bam, you’re a good part of the way there. But bringing your body into the mix? Thats a whole different challenge. Crack that one, and you’ve got yourself a holodeck. It’s far from perfect (even as a spectator) but developer… Read More

 It’s Episode XVII of the Flappy Bird Saga, and this time the formerly recalcitrant (he’s on a media tour at the moment) creator of the addictive game is promising the game’s return, eventually, complete with multiplayer. Nguyen told CNBC’s Kelly Evans the news on the network’s Closing Bell program today, albeit with the caveat that the game wouldn’t be coming… Read More

 Senior executives at design-oriented e-commerce startup Fab.com are in the midst of determining what the company’s future could look like in a series of strategy meetings this week. But that’s not stopping it from moving forward with a bold new initiative to introduce a series of private-label and exclusive products for its customers. Read More

 If MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis’ dreams come true, we’ll one day see a 3D printer in every home. And when you’ve got a 3D printer in every home, what do you need? Things to print, of course. A few months back, MakerBot set out to launch a store front for premium 3D printable objects — sort of like an iTunes for 3D printing, if you will. MakerBot put up a few offerings of their… Read More

 Jelly, Quora, Yahoo (sometimes to absurd ends), and others have looked to question-and-answer services as a way to boost user engagement and advance conversations. Now another player could be entering the fray: Pinterest has confirmed to us it is testing out a new Q&A feature, too. “We’re always gathering feedback from Pinners to make Pins more useful,” a spokesperson… Read More

 According to security firm Qualys, Windows XP’s market share among enterprise-level corporations has slipped under the 10 percent mark, falling from 10 percent in April to “close to” 8 percent in May. Read More

 Ahead of tomorrow’s vote on the consideration of new net neutrality rules, House GOP leaders today published a letter to the FCC’s Chairman Tom Wheeler, pushing back against regulating the Internet, especially in the context of reclassifying broadband access as a utility on Title II authority. Read More

 One in five children who need vaccinations can’t get them. And while that fact is neither startling nor incomprehensible, it is tragic. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent several years and millions of dollars trying to cure the diseases that afflict children unnecessarily in the world’s poorest countries, but always run up against the last mile problem with vaccine… Read More

 Around a year and a half ago, a company called Mozio debuted its plans to introduce an airport ground transportation search engine that would help travelers book that “last leg” of their trip: getting from the airport to their final destination. Today, the company is announcing it has raised $750,000 in seed funding from a number of strategic backers in the travel industry, including… Read More

 Vudu is introducing a feature that will allow its customers to share their UltraViolet collections with up to five friends or family. With the new Share My Movie feature, Vudu customers will be able to enter the email address of five people that they’d like to give access to for their movies. Read More

 Facebook is taking a swing at suggesting contextual content to keep you surfing after you share. A new test on iOS surfaces related content cards including photos of restaurants you say you’re at, friends who’ve checked in where you did, photos of friends you check in with or mention in a status, and friends who listened to a song you just posted. The cards could make News Feed feel alive. Read More

 Predictably, BlackBerry is working on a new QWERTY handset. According to the BlackBerry 10.3 SDK, the device will rock a square screen with a 1440×1440 resolution and pixel density of 453 DPI — that’s significantly higher than the somewhat arbitrary definition of a retina display. BlackBerry has long said that they are not giving up on making handsets. With that, the company has also… Read More