Now playing: Watch this: Facebook Marketplace attempts to take on Craigslist (again) 1:34 Enlarge Image Sceenshots of the new Marketplace. Facebook Dust off your Tiffany lamps. Facebook is throwing a giant neighborhood tag sale. The social network on Monday unveiled Marketplace, a new section of its mobile app that lets people list their furniture, cars …
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Kano has a different philosophy about computers. “Most of them are sealed up by these polished panes of glass, and people want to know how they work inside,” says founder Alex Klein. So in 2013, the startup turned the inexpensive Raspberry Pi into an award-winning kid-friendly computer by adding a simple picture-book instruction manual and Lego-like blocks of code so …
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Now playing: Watch this: Watch out, GoPro: Snapchat Spectacles could succeed where… 1:25 Let’s get this out of the way: Over the weekend, Snapchat unveiled a pair of video camera-equipped sunglasses called Spectacles, and the whole effort could crash and burn miserably. But if Snapchat has earned anything, it’s the benefit of the doubt. The $129 shades, which are coming …
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Now playing: Watch this: Watch out, GoPro: Snapchat Spectacles could succeed where… 1:25 The camera built into Snapchat’s “Spectacles” lets you shoot video that shows the world from your point of view. Spectacles.com Like to view the world through Snapchat-colored glasses? You’ll soon be able to do that for real. The millennial-friendly messaging service plus social network plus video hub …
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Elsewhere, a startup you’ve never heard of, wants to crack 3D video for phones where giants have failed. A wife-and-husband team, Wendellen Li and Aza Raskin, on Thursday launched Elsewhere’s namesake product for sale. The $50 black plastic glasses attach to your iPhone and, working with Elsewhere’s free app, make any video appear three-dimensional, whether it’s Netflix, YouTube or something …
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Virtual reality as of late has been closely linked with the phone and video game industries. However, a Japanese tech startup is using the platform for something different: stress management. Part VR headset, part brain monitor, DG Lab’s Brainwave VR headset comes equipped with built-in electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors, which measure the brain’s electrical activity. The headset monitors users’ mental states …
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PayPal has been annoying some of its customers for years. Instead of making it easy for folks to pay online using their credit cards, the digital payments company directs them to buy stuff with their PayPal balances and checking accounts. The end result has been both profitable for PayPal (because it avoids credit card networks’ higher fees) and a pain …
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Virtual reality ad-technology startup Vertebrae has raised $10 million in a Series A round of funding. The company, formed about a year ago, is working on an advertising system designed specifically for virtual reality, the immersive entertainment format reaching consumers this year through headsets like Facebook’s Oculus Rift, HTC’s Vive and Samsung’s Gear VR. Not many consumers would cheer for …
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Feeling guilty that Brave blocks ads on websites you actually might want to support? A new version of the web browser lets you contribute money directly. Brave 0.11.6 lets you contribute monthly to sites you visit with a feature called Brave Payments now in beta testing. About $5 a month is about enough to replace lost revenue from advertising, said …
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Walmart is ponying up $3.3 billion to buy Jet.com so it can strengthen its online shopping muscle. This means we’ll all be racing to Walmart.com, right? Eh, maybe. The world’s largest retailer has been getting a lot more aggressive in e-commerce over the past year, introducing an Amazon Prime-like unlimited shipping service called ShippingPass, expanding its online inventory and setting …
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