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Tech In Toyland

Mattel’s latest toy is a voice-activated speaker with an AI tailor-made for kids.

Everyone Is Talking About AI

But what does it mean for marketers right now?

10 Uses For Your Old Smartphone

Smartphones are an absolute necessity in today’s information age. After a few years, though, devices—particularly those that we carry with us at all times—are bound to show a little wear and tear. They might have some bumps and scratches, or perhaps they slow down. But if you take some basic precautions, your old phone can have a productive afterlife.

The Many Virtues Of Virtual Reality

Virtual reality’s biggest and longest-awaited headsets, the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift, are good enough to make even the most skeptical people optimistic about the future of VR.

How Ransomware Conquered the World

Ransomware can hit anyone, but hackers are increasingly targeting people who are more willing to pay up. 

5 Ways Virtual Reality Will Reshape Industries

How virtual reality will reshape industries.

Welcome To Drone-kota

A cottage industry wants to put North Dakota on the map.

3 Ways the Ad Industry Can Embrace Emerging Tech

As tech advances like VR recast brand-building relationships, sharing culture and capability is crucial.

Edward Snowden: The Internet Is Broken

Edward Snowden on our digital naiveté.

5 Google Apps for iOS, and How To Use Them

Not all Google geeks use Android. Bring popular productivity tools to your iPhone or iPad with these native versions of your favorite apps.

How Giphy Became the Internet's Go-To Gif Brand

Giphy is taking on the biggest, weirdest branding challenge online today: How to become the go-to company for a new kind of internet culture.

The 10 Best Virtual Reality Experiences

How Channing Tatum learned to tap-dance (and sing, kind of) for the Coen brothers.

Oculus Rift Now Available to the Masses!

If you are able to find a way to protect yourself from all the extra emotions and added pressures, there are great positives in playing at home. There is no doubt that when things are going well it can be really inspiring to be playing in front of a vocal and supportive home crowd.

Microsoft Axes Chatbot That Learned a Little Too Much Online

For a year, I turned my life into a dating petri dish so you could learn from my experience.

Why You Might Soon Text Robots As Often As Your Friends

As the daughter of Latino superstar, El Puma, Génesis Rodríguez knows what fame is all about. And now, with a taste of Oscar glory in the Academy Award-winning animated film, Big Hero 6, she's searing her path to major stardom in her own right.

Transit Systems Eye Uber, Lyft for Savings on the Disabled

Where once was Tabasco, there is now sriracha, gochujang, and more. What the condiment aisle says about American consumers.

Slack Hacks to Help You Say Goodbye to Email

Slack has become one of the most popular tools that groups use to communicate and collaborate, but it’s not necessarily any more efficient than email on its own. These tips will help you get the most out of this powerful new messaging application.

A Bold New World for Batteries

The almost endless possibilities of battery tech.

The March of The Chatbots

Despite the Tay debacle, brands from Barbie to Uber are hot on automated messaging platforms.

Never Tried Virtual Reality? Here's What It's Like

Teaching responsibility to your child when both you and your spouse are working may be challenging, but it can be managed with the right approach.

Clippy's Back: The Future of Microsoft Is Chatbots

Microsoft is building an army of artificial intelligence bots. Can they be controlled?

Google's Visionary CEO Larry Page Has Some Very Big Plans

The inspiration for what we now know as Google came to Larry Page in a dream. Now fully awake, the enigmatic CEO of Alphabet is on a mission to solve the world’s biggest problems, including mortality itself.

Learn How to Recycle Your Technology

Do your part by donating our old technology or getting rid of it in an environmentally friendly way.

11 Great Virtual Reality Apps You Should Try Right Now

Once a Mumbai boy, the former electronics baron (Akai TV and baron electronics) and his wife give us an exclusive glimpse into their beachfront mansion on Nurai Island a breathtaking property off the coast of Abu Dhabi Kabir Mulchandani.

The Journey of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

Twitter just turned 10. The CEO says he’s got a plan to get it to 20.

Is Gesture the Future of Computing?

 With its Project Goa, Nod Labs hopes to make gesture control more powerful and portable than ever.

Will Google's Alphabet Pay Off?

When Google became Alphabet, the rationale seemed simple: that a company of companies can innovate faster than a single large beast. But that's only the start.

How A Dance Trend Turned Into A Glowing Empire

How one entrepreneur turned a dance trend into a glowing empire. 

Can GE Become a Software Company? CEO Jeff Immelt Is Determined To Find Out

Jeff Immelt’s plan to turn around GE is finally working.

As Twitter Turns 10, How Can It Convince Young Users to Show Up to the Party?

Despite what you've heard, the social network that changed how we talk to each other is still at the party.