All eyes may be on the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens Lego sets at the 2016 Toy Fair this week, but that's not the only Lego franchise that'll set off your geek radar. … [Read more...]

As the world’s big messaging apps add more features to keep their users locked in for longer, other apps are tapping into messaging features in the hopes of creating more stickiness of their own. In the latest development, Flipagram, the app that lets you sew together pictures and video snippets with one minute of music to create packaged stories, has added a … [Read more...]

If you regularly have 50 cents left over from your daily coffee purchase, you could be doing more with it than simply tossing it in a jar with all your other shrapnel. … [Read more...]

Adblock Plus developer Eyeo is in talks with publishers to set up an independent group to identify 'acceptable' ads that should be allowed past blockers. The new body to judge and enforce acceptable online advertising could be the solution that breaks the existing deadlock between online publishers and ad-blocking firms. … [Read more...]

DataSift made a name for itself as a company that took large unstructured datasets — such as anonymised firehoses from social media services like Facebook (and previously, Twitter) and ordered them in a way for enterprises and brands to get a better idea of consumer preferences and other insights. Now Nick Halstead, the person who founded and led DataSift, has started a new … [Read more...]

We may never know exactly what Twitter planned to do with its timelines before #RIPTwitter became the most popular hashtag on the beleaguered service, but we do know this: The much talked about experiment is done — at least for two users. … [Read more...]

In October 2006, Yahoo SVP Brad Garlinghouse wrote a blistering internal memo, urging the company to narrow its focus and clarify its vision. … [Read more...]

There are a lot of wacky electric vehicles out there. Nothing is quite like the QUANTiNO from nanoFlowcell. … [Read more...]