PS4 exclusive 'Detroit' is a flawed depiction of race in America

Detroit: Become Human begins with a warning: "This is not a story, this is our future." Writer-director David Cage's follow-up to Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls weaves a tale about robots attempting to transcend their programming. But rather being...

Box expands Zones to manage content in multiple regions

When Box announced Zones a couple of years ago, it was providing a way for customers to store data outside the U.S., but there were some limits. Each customer could choose the U.S. and one additional zone. Customers wanted more flexibility, and today the company announced it was allowing them to choose to multiple zones. […]

Uber is building a flying taxi technology center in Paris

Uber has wildly ambitious plans to send flying taxis soaring over cities, but building them will be orders of magnitude harder than anything it has ever done. As such, the company announced that it will open a Paris lab dedicated to its Elevate progr...

How to conquer the Chinese market, according to 9GAG’s Ray Chan

China is an enticing growth market, particularly for tech companies. But according to 9Gag CEO Ray Chan, it’s also the place where Western tech companies are failing. He likens the Chinese tech market to awkward teenage fumbles with the opposite sex. “Everyone talks about it, nobody knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone clams they’re doing it,” he quipped on stage at the 2018 TNW Conference in Amsterdam. The thing is, he’s not wrong. Companies like Uber and Whatsapp, both giants in their own right, haven’t managed to unseat domestic-made rivals like Didi…

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Tinder Places matches you with people from your favorite hangouts

The science involved in making a match on Tinder is rudimentary at best: you can narrow your pool of potential baes by age and distance, and after that you're largely on your own, relying on carefully selected photographs and vague bios that reveal h...

YouTube Music Hands-On

Google’s YouTube Music service is rolling out this week. We took a look at what’s working and what needs to be improved for Google to match Spotify and Apple Music. Subscribe to Engadget on YouTube: http://engt.co/subscribe Get More Engadget: • Like us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1k1iCZT • Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/engadget • Follow us on Instagram: https://ift.tt/1k1iCZV • Read more: http://www.engadget.com Engadget is the original home for technology news and reviews.

Samsung Galaxy J6 Official TVC: Live Colorful

The screen as vibrant as you. Welcome to the colorful world of the Galaxy J6 with Super AMOLED Infinity Display. Learn more: http://spr.ly/6054DggJk

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Macron defends the European way of tech regulation

French President Emmanuel Macron gave a speech at VivaTech in Paris, alternating between French and English. He defended a third way to regulate tech companies, which is different from the U.S. and from China. Macron thinks Europe should have a say when it comes to regulation — and it shouldn’t be just about privacy. Of […]

The Morning After: Sony looks beyond the PS4

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Morning there! The end of the PS4 has been greatly exaggerated, but Sony is already planning for it. Don't expect to see the PS5, however, until after 2020. Meanwhile, Apple is offering a tidy $50 of credit for...

How Logitech’s CEO used a 40-year-old design philosophy to shape his company

While on stage at TNW’s 2018 conference today, Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell spoke about his belief that everyone is a designer while they’re young, and that many companies, including his own, strive to achieve that same attitude again. As he puts it, we’re all naturally designers until we enter school. “Our education system does a great job of coaching us out of design.” Darrell covered his past during his talk, including his work with his work with German design-forward consumer products firm Braun. There he was influenced by the philosophy of designer Dieter Rams, who pioneered the “less is better”…

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Tesco Direct to close as it falls to other online retailers

Online shop Tesco Direct -- the non-food outlet of British supermarket Tesco -- will close this summer. The store, which sells electronics, clothing, sports goods and video games has "no route to profitability" according to bosses. The site and its d...

StumbleUpon is calling it quits after 16 years

After helping some 40 million users discover billions of pages with interesting stuff from across the web over since the early noughties, StumbleUpon is shuttering its content curation and discovery platform today. The service was arguably one of the first of its kind when it launched in 2002, providing users with a dead-simple way to find new sites to visit, articles to read, and pictures and video to gawk at. It also happened to arrive at a time when people were graduating from using the internet for essential functions like research and monetary transactions, to killing time and sharing things…

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Instapaper on pause in Europe to fix GDPR compliance “issue”

Remember Instapaper? The Pinterest-owned, read-it-later bookmarking service is taking a break in Europe — apparently while it works on achieving compliance with the region’s updated privacy framework, GDPR, which will start being applied from tomorrow. Instapaper’s notification does not say how long the self-imposed outage will last. WTF is instapaper doing with data? pic.twitter.com/eG2dhtkvnd — […]

Google Lens updated with smart text selection and real-time lookup

The new features Google showed off at I/O 2018 will soon land on your Android devices if they haven't yet. According to 9to5google, smart text selection, style match and real-time results have started rolling out to people's Lens cameras. The new fea...

TNW and Vodafone are building a smart city in just six months

Building a smart city from the ground up is a complex challenge that requires the cooperation of multiple stakeholders — such as governmental institutions, large enterprises, and small businesses Understandably, this cooperation between different stakeholders isn’t all rainbows and unicorns. Corporations often fight with municipalities over local taxes, threatening to bring their jobs elsewhere. Startups look at corporations less as potential partners and more as Goliaths that need to be brought down. And, in all of this, municipalities must assure that cities remain cities, a welcoming spaces for all citizens, and not tech hubs with unaffordable housing. If it wasn’t…

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The Power of the One-on-One Approach to List Building and Selling Online

Bryan Harris, founder of Video Fruit, made $8,337 with 575 emails he collected from Facebook groups. Without a sales funnel, website, or advertising. Just by approaching potential clients the old school way, one-on-one. But marketers are too obsessed with scalability and automation. We want more fans, more traffic, a bigger list. We fall over ourselves to deploy the latest automation tools, chatbots, and whatnot. Yet, sometimes something as primitive as one-on-one conversations can bring in as many or even more highly-targeted leads — and without the need for complex tools and funnels. As I always say, in a world of abundance,…

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Facebook now supports 2-factor authentication without SMS, here’s how to set it up

If you have a Facebook profile – it doesn’t really matter if you use it a lot or not – it’s important to secure it with two-factor authentication so your account isn’t hacked. The social network has offered an SMS-based option to do so for a while, but a new feature lets you protect your account without handing over your phone number – and you should switch right away. All you need is an authentication app like Google Authenticator, Authy or TypingDNA’s browser extension. Just log into your Facebook account, head to Settings > Security and Login, and then to…

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