Jorge Agüela
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Apple unveils Business Chat, which brings customer service and shopping into iMessage
Apple just unveiled Business Chat, its bid to turn iMessage into a communication platform that can compete with Facebook Messenger – and perhaps, make iMessage one of the main ways you interact with businesses.<p>The company quietly announced the service earlier this week with an update to its …
Customer ServiceXbox exec reveals Scorpio has 9GB of RAM available for games
We're still a couple of days away from seeing Microsoft officially reveal its Project Scorpio Xbox, but details continue to dribble out. Xbox & Windows gaming platform VP Mike Ybarra tweeted that the team "Unlocked extra GB of RAM for (game developers), now 9GB of GDDR5." In April, program manager …
GamingApple won’t let apps annoy you with their own review prompts anymore
Apple is putting an end to the scourge of review prompts that seemed to pop up inside of some apps every few days. In a change to the App Store rules this week, Apple said it will now enforce hard limits on how review prompts show up and how often users have to see them. The changes were first …
AppsTheresa May’s failed gamble
Britain’s electionTheresa May’s failed gamble<p>The Conservatives’ botched campaign will bring chaos—and opportunities<p>print-edition iconPrint edition | …
BrexitMicrosoft unveils a lot of big changes for Windows 10
Microsoft is releasing a new test version of Windows 10, build number 16215, today and there are a lot of changes on the way. If you’re a Windows Insider on the Fast Ring then it’s available immediately, for everyone else all of the new features will arrive in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update …
MicrosoftWill Fortnite Be the Game Minecraft Players Graduate To?
The end of the world is at hand in the free-to-play survival game Fortnite, or least it is whenever I want it to be. For now, I'm content to let it …
GamingWhy E3 2017 Will Be The Best In Years
A powerful new console launch from Microsoft, a full-fat Mario game and another strong showing from Sony await<p>In just three days, the most important …
GamingCancer Drug Proves to Be Effective Against Multiple Tumors
The 86 cancer patients were a disparate group, with tumors of the pancreas, prostate, uterus or bone. One woman had a cancer so rare there were no tested treatments. She was told to get her affairs in order.<p>Still, these patients had a few things in common. All had advanced disease that had resisted …
CancerSoftBank Acquires Boston Dynamics From Alphabet
Japanese tech giant SoftBank is acquiring robotics company Boston Dynamics from Alphabet for an undisclosed sum.<p>Boston Dynamics is best known for the videos it periodically posts on its YouTube page featuring its latest and strangest walking robots. Each video would quickly rack up millions of …
RobotsThe Stalled Evolution of Video Game Pricing
In the next few days, we’re going to be treated to the announcements and gameplay of some exciting upcoming games at E3. We’re all itching to break …
GamingApple’s next major display innovation is coming soon, but not to the iPhone
One of the iPhone features Apple steadily improved over the years was the smartphone’s screen. The Retina display quality soon became the norm in the …
AppleGamer chat tool Discord secretly raised ~$50M as insiders cashed out
It’s been a rocky road to glory for Discord, a startup whose iPad battle arena game, “Fates Forever,” earned it a top spot at our 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt show, but wound up flopping with users.<p>What a difference a few years makes. After pivoting to a voice and text chat tool for video game teams and …
StartupsEstonia’s ex-president: Countries must issue digital IDs for a viable future
As a devoted advocate for better digital policies within the EU, Estonia is currently one of the world’s leading countries when it comes to providing government services online. Many of its digital initiatives — such as the e-residency, online voting and tech-minded education — were implemented or …
InnovationChina now has a one-dog policy
After China's lifting of its longstanding one-child policy, it's started to put in a one-dog policy.<p>A couple of cities in China have introduced restrictions on dog ownership, allowing each household to only have one dog.<p>Qingdao, in the eastern part of China, released new rules on Thursday that will …
ChinaA ‘Call Of Duty: WW2’ Developer Reveals ‘War Mode’ And Big Changes To The Traditional ‘CoD’ Multiplayer
With just a couple days until E3, <i>Call of Duty</i> fans are clamoring for any early info before Activision pulls out all the stops in Los Angeles. For weeks, the game has been shrouded in relative mystery, with coded messages relating to the new Zombie Mode and few details around how the campaign and …
GamingApple is Doubling Down on Music, and Spotify Should Take Notice
This has been building since Apple’s acquisition of Beats in 2014, but after WWDC, I think things are starting to come into clearer focus. Apple is now transitioning from dominating the declining business of purchasing music to dominating multiple areas in the field. But it goes deeper than that. …
AppleiOS 11 will finally bring native GIF support to your iPhone
Your GIF game is about to get a big upgrade.<p>With the company's latest mobile software update, iOS 11, Apple is finally adding native GIF support to your iPhone. Though the company did not mention the feature at WWDC, developers who are testing the new OS quickly discovered the new feature. The …
iOSiOS 11 will let you record your iPhone or iPad's screen
Screenshots are so 2016; with iOS 11 you can record a video of your iOS device's screen with a tap.<p>The developer preview is out, and users are beginning to talk about features Apple didn't announce during the keynote. One such feature is built-in screen recording.<p>It appears — as of right now — the …
iOSApple reportedly adds simple Wi-Fi sharing in iOS 11
Sharing the Wi-Fi password when a friend comes over is one of the minor trials of modern life. After all, <i>your</i> devices are all already configured, so why should you have the exact alphanumeric string of random capitals memorized to hand out at the drop of a hat?<p>Apple appears to be solving this …
Wi-FiiOS 11 video player gets a serious upgrade
iOS 11 has gotten a big upgrade to its QuickView video player, the one that takes care of videos playing in apps, on web sites, and so on. Previously you only got a basic video scrubber, a volume slider, and a play button. Now, you can not only access subtitles and AirPlay right from the video …
iOSWorld's Most Generous Welfare State Leaves 20% on the Dole - Bloomberg
Norway, we have a problem.<p>Unemployment may be hovering below 3 percent, but the oil crisis that has hammered Scandinavia’s richest nation could be …
Basic IncomeBattleborn has gone free-to-play
<b>Gearbox Software’s Battleborn has received a free trial version that essentially makes it a free-to-play game.</b><p>The free downloadable title grants …
GamingApple opening up (some) access to the iPhone’s NFC chip in iOS 11
Third-party app developers will for the first time get access to the NFC chip in the iPhone 7/Plus (and presumably this year’s iPhones) in iOS 11. To date, only Apple Pay has been allowed to use the near-field communications chip.<p>Apple’s WWDC keynote did give one hint that use of the chip was being …
AppleCannabinoids and chemotherapy in combination kill cancer cells
A new study confirms that cannabinoids, which are a class of active chemicals in cannabis, can successfully kill leukemia cells. They also find that …
CancerFox News host tears into Trump: News media is not your problem — 'it's you'
Fox News host Neil Cavuto tore into President Donald Trump on Tuesday night for Trump's continued social-media outbursts that targeted the news media and members of his own administration in recent days.<p>"Mr. President, it's not the 'fake-news media' that's your problem," Cavuto said. "It's you. …
Donald TrumpFor the Pound's Sake, Don't Write May a Blank Check
Brexit will shave 7.5 percent from U.K. GDP over the coming years, and a no-deal Brexit would be even more destructive.<p>By calling a general election on June 8, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is asking Britain for a stronger mandate to steer the country through Brexit negotiations. With a larger …
EconomicsOverwatch is getting double XP this weekend
Earn loot boxes faster as Blizzard wraps up the game’s Anniversary event<p>Blizzard Entertainment is giving <i>Overwatch</i> players a chance to earn loot boxes twice as fast beginning later this week. All players who log in from June 8-12 can earn double the experience while playing <i>Overwatch</i> on PlayStation …
GamingApple finally added a one-handed keyboard mode for iPhones with iOS 11
Apple is finally making it easier to type on the go.<p>The tech company introduced its new iOS, iOS 11, at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, and the new update comes packed with upgrades that'll make it even better to use your iPhone and iPad.<p>In addition to adding numerous new tools …
iOSHow to explain anything to anyone, according to Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson just wants to get back to his lab at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York. “My possibly delusional goal is to one day give all this up and go back to the lab in a way that no one notices,” he says.<p>That day will come, though, only when there’s a …
Neil deGrasse TysonWorld Bank: Trump GDP Growth Will Be Worse Than Obama's
Remember when Donald Trump lambasted his predecessor Barack Obama (and often) about how weak the economic recovery was during the Obama presidency? It was the weakest growth post-recession ever, Trump reminded us. And he was right about that. If the World Bank’s latest forecast — released this week …
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