Facebook tries a new way to release open-source projects

Facebook tries a new way to release open-source projects

Last week, Facebook launched Create React App, a new project that helps React developers get started with their new projects. Turns out, that was only part of the story. Create React App was also the first project to enter the Facebook Incubator on GitHub. The Facebook Incubator is the company’s new process for releasing open-source projects and ensuring […]

Google’s AMP project expands beyond news

Google’s AMP project expands beyond news

Six months after launching AMP for news stories in its mobile search results, Google today announced the next step for the project: moving AMP beyond news and bringing it to other mobile sites, too. Just like with the rollout of AMP pages for news sites, Google is launching a demo site today that will allow you […]

Anybody can now buy Microsoft’s $3,000 HoloLens

Anybody can now buy Microsoft’s $3,000 HoloLens

You can now buy Microsoft’s HoloLens Development Edition, the company’s futuristic augmented reality helmet, without having to go through an application process. Until now, Microsoft only made HoloLenses available to developers who put in an application. Now, if you have $3,000 to spare and you are in the U.S. or Canada, you can simply buy up […]

Panoply.io raises $7M Series A for its data analytics and warehousing platform

Panoply.io raises $7M Series A for its data analytics and warehousing platform

Panoply.io, a startup that wants to make setting up a data warehousing and analytics infrastructure as easy as spinning up an AWS server, today announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A round led by Intel Capital, with participation from previous investor Blumberg Capital. This follows Panoply’s $1.3 million seed round from late last year. […]

Pokémon Go tops $160M in global revenue, time spent in-app remains high

Pokémon Go tops $160M in global revenue, time spent in-app remains high

I’m still trying to deal with losing Pokévision, too, but Niantic’s recent changes to the game don’t seem to be putting a damper on player appetite just yet — new data from analytics firm Sensor Tower reveals that users are still spending, on average, around 26 minutes per day in the app in the U.S., which […]

LG’s new flagship will be the first phone to ship with Android Nougat

LG’s new flagship will be the first phone to ship with Android Nougat

Samsung’s all set to steal the smartphone spotlight tomorrow at its big Unpacked event, but LG’s kicking August off with an important announcement of its own. The electronics giant will attempt to send a shock to its struggling mobile device wing with the launch of the V20, a new flagship that will be the first […]

The silver linings amidst crumbling iPhone, iPad, and Mac sales

The silver linings amidst crumbling iPhone, iPad, and Mac sales

What’s really worrying though is not only have iPhone sales gone weak, the safety net that Apple built around the iPad and the Mac is evaporating. Apple narrowly beat Wall Street expectations, but the third quarter was pretty bad for hardware sales. Let’s begin with iPhone sales, which at 40.4 million, is the lowest sales […]