Hack Your Life: The Hottest Lifestyle Startup Trends for 2015

The hottest lifestyle startup trends for 2015 take some of the most routine parts of your day and give them a digital makeover. Whether it’s breathing, reading, shaving, doing laundry or getting to know your city better, the next wave of innovations for 2015 are here to help.This week, the Slush 2014 conference has been showcasing the best and brightest startup ideas. Each year, Slush brings together entrepreneurs, investors,...

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'World Of Warcraft' Tops 10 Million Subscribers Following 'Warlords Of Draenor' Expansion

World of Warcraft has once again proven itself the king of MMO hill.The long-running massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) saw its fifth expansion launch last week, and according to publisher Activision-Blizzard the numbers are looking good.In the first 24 hours after launch, the expansion sold over 3.3 million copies through to customers. At $49.99 for the Standard and Digital copies (and higher price tiers above that) we’re...

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How Graph Analytics Can Connect You To What's Next In Big Data

Everything in our digital universe is connected. Every single day, you wake up and start a series of interactions with people, products and machines. Sometimes, these things influence you, and sometimes you play the role of the influencer. This is how our world is connected, in a network of relationships and influence among people, products and technologies. Understanding connections is the realm of graph analytics and its what’s next in big data.The...

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Defining Big Data In Two Words: Who Cares?

I’d like to think of my new Forbes BrandVoice blog series as a conversation with you about analytics. So let’s start here with the same question that usually comes up at the start of many conversations I have with colleagues, customers, partners and other industry watchers: “How do you define big data, Bill?” Before I share my answer, though, let’s take a quick look at some of the other definitions for “big data” since the term made its...

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This Is How Facebook's Groups App Will Dominate And Win The Group Chat Market

Facebook Groups (image: Facebook PR)Earlier this week Facebook launched a new application. Facebook Groups gives you access to the groups you manage or are a member of. As well as resurfacing an old community mainstay, the return of Groups as a standalone app can be seen as a defensive move for Facebook, ensuing that start-ups in a similar field gain less traction.Groups on Facebook used to be a really (really)...

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CERN's Higgs Discovery As Portal To New 'Technicolor' Physics

CERN’s historic discovery of the elusive Higgs boson — the subatomic particle thought to be at the root of what gives normal matter its mass — may actually represent only a portion of a more complicated and heretofore unexplored particle physics paradigm, say researchers.After new analysis of CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) observations of the Higgs particle, the authors of a paper recently published in the journal Physical...

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Adobe Embraces Location-Based Marketing

As organizations look to gain an edge against their competitors, marketing organizations are increasingly being pushed to deliver ever more contextual messages to consumers. One of the areas that marketers personalize messaging is through the use of location-based tools and Adobe is today rolling out some updates to its Marketing Cloud suite to take advantage of new approaches towards location-based marketing.The idea of the functionality is to allow organizations to tailor marketing messages based on an individual users proximity to iBeacons....

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New 'Final Fantasy 15' Footage Shows Off The Size Of The Game's World

Square Enix recently released some new game footage for the upcoming Final Fantasy 15. The focus of this new footage, despite running real-time in-game, is mostly just to show off their new Luminous engine.This means we don’t get to see any actual gameplay but we do get a sense of the game’s scope (as in rather large), as well as the fact that the increased world size definitely necessitates the use of a car (as seen...

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Nokia Adopts Android As Foxconn Works With Finnish Company On Eight-Inch Tablet

Nokia's Android powered tablet, the Nokia N1 (image: Nokia.com) At the Slush conference in Finland today, Nokia announced its next move in the consumer electronics department. The Finnish company, divested of its smartphone and feature phone business, is releasing the N1, a new tablet computer which will be powered by Android.The N1 is a 7.9 inch tablet with a Gorilla Glass 3 covered IPS panel running at...

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The World Has More Young People Than Ever; What Does Their Future Hold? Not A Lot

Of the 7.3 billion people on the planet today, 1.8 billion, including 600 million girls, are between the ages of 10 and 24, a never before demographic, says a new report from the United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA.“Never before have there been so many young people,” the report says. “Never again is there likely to be such potential for economic and social progress. How we meet the needs and aspirations of young people will define our common future.”Most of the 1.8 billion live in the developing world. India has the highest...

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Nokia Backs Android. New Era Begins With Impressive iPad Clone

That didn’t take long. Just seven months after Microsoft finalised the long running deal to buy Nokia’s mobile phone division, the Finnish giant is back with a new consumer device… and this time Nokia is backing Android .Nokia took to the stage at Slush 2014, one of Europe’s largest technology events (where I will be for the next two days), to announce the ‘Nokia N1’ – an iPad mini look-a-like tablet running Android 5.0 Lollipop.The N1 makes...

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Nintendo's 'Duck Hunt' Is Coming To The Wii U Version Of Super Smash Bros.

Nintendo's 'Duck Hunt' Is Coming To The Wii U Version Of Super Smash Bros. In 1984, Nintendo introduced us to the world of Duck Hunt when the game was bundled with the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console. Duck Hunt players had three attempts per round to shoot one or two virtual ducks using Nintendo’s light gun controller called the NES Zapper. Points were awarded for shooting each...

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OmniEarth Partners With Ball Aerospace For 'Scientific Quality' Satellite Imaging

OmniEarth Partners With Ball Aerospace For 'Scientific Quality' Satellite Imaging Ball Aerospace's Operational Land Imager for the Landsat 8 mission. (Credit: Ball Aerospace) Data analytics and imaging company OmniEarth is partnering with Ball Aerospace on a planned constellation of 18 imaging satellites, which is set to be fully deployed by 2018.The 18 satellites will be “about the size of a dishwasher,” OmniEarth...

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Zynga Shares Advance Despite Massive Loss, Declining Users

Zynga Shares Advance Despite Massive Loss, Declining Users Mark Pincus hosting a Zynga event back in 2012. (Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Thursday, Zynga founder, former-CEO and on-and-off-again billionaire Mark Pincus announced that he is starting an incubator called Superlabs to find apps smartphone users can’t resist. For a time that was one way to describe the games his former company...

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iDevices Wants To Show The Smart Home World How To Play Apple's Game

iDevices Wants To Show The Smart Home World How To Play Apple's Game Apple AAPL -0.16% is building a closed ecosystem for the connected home. If device makers want to play with the Cupertino tech giant, they better be prepared to spend a lot of time and money revamping their entire product to fit into Apple’s specifications.iDevices wants to make that process a little easier. The maker of an app-connected thermometer for grills, iDevices knows how hard it is to fit into Apple’s plans. For the past 10 months, iDevices...

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Feds Shutter Illegal Drug Marketplace Silk Road 2.0, Arrest 26-Year-Old San Francisco Programmer

Feds Shutter Illegal Drug Marketplace Silk Road 2.0, Arrest 26-Year-Old San Francisco Programmer (Screenshot from Blake Benthall's Instagram feed) By Ryan Mac, Kate Vinton and Kashmir HillAnother year, another dark web takedown.A year ago, the FBI shut down Silk Road, an anonymous online narcotics website that generated $1.2 billion in sales, and arrested its alleged creator Ross Ulbricht in a San Francisco...

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