The newest Philips Hue product is slated for release soon and will allow users to sync up their smart lights and TV for a rich gaming and viewing experience. The Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box connects between your set-top boxes, game consoles, etc. and your TV to offer smart light effects that match what’s happening on screen. Reported by The Verge, Signify is set to expand its Philps Hue lineup with the Play HDMI Sync Box next month....

The onslaught of all this new, quality content—and the communities that formed around the people creating that content—became the foundation for influencer marketing. But while all these Instagrammers were still building their influence, Kyle Wong saw uses for the content regardless of who made it. The same year that IG hit 50 million users, Wong launched Pixlee TurnTo—a platform built for brands to curate the best social content featuring their products, for use as marketing assets across a variety of channels....

PlanetSide 2 developer Daybreak Games is teasing something big coming in 2020 for its long-running massively multiplayer online shooter. Word of the updates likely comes as welcome news to fans disappointed after the recent cancellation of PlanetSide Arena. Running since 2012, PlanetSide 2 sets itself apart from most first-person shooters in some key ways. The most obvious is simply in being active for seven years, when other popular shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield tend to release a new entry every year or so....

Plastiq, a fintech serving SMBs for the past ten years, announced Tuesday that it has launched Plastiq Pay, which provides small businesses with the resources they need to improve their cash flow as high inflation rates threaten their businesses. Plastiq Pay gives SMBs the ability to thrive in a highly evolving economic landscape by automating every aspect of invoice receipt, payment approval routing, submission and bill reconciliation, according to the company’s announcement....

Fake news is meant to scare people and to incite strong emotional response, and that’s what makes it so easy to spread like wildfire — or a virus. And contrary to one of those popular conspiracy theories, vaccination is a proven way to prevent and thus stop the spread of viruses. Creating a vaccine, so to speak, is the idea behind a game meant to educate the masses on the fake news epidemic....

The PlayStation Now service is adding more PlayStation 4 exclusives in 2020, as Sony has announced that both Horizon Zero Dawn and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy will be available for a limited time next year. There has been a lot of discussion regarding streaming games and how they will influence the future of the industry, especially now that Google Stadia is proving that such a service is viable, even if it’s still unrefined....

Pokémon GO go has been holding in-person events around the world for the last few years that have proved to be very popular. The biggest event of the year is the annual Pokémon GO Fest and now dates have been announced for this July but as a global virtual event in light of the pandemic. Developer Niantic announced the news on its website today setting the dates for July 25-26. Even though many will be sad to miss out on meeting up with Trainers in-person from around the world, the virtual event brings some neat opportunities and means anyone can join in on the fun....

Motif is a popular photo book printing service from the company responsible for printing Apple’s photo books in the past. The Motif app for iOS was updated today with major changes to its interface, including an Express Project Creation mode, revamped photo browser, and more. You might remember that Apple offered a service in the Photos app on Mac that let users choose their favorite photos to create a printed photo book....

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Portal is billed as an iPhone and iPad app designed to help you focus, relax, or sleep. It was last year selected by Apple as App of the Day and is a demo app in Apple Stores. I’m not quite sure I buy the ‘focus’ part of the claim – I personally find silence the best thing for that – but it does tick the relaxation and sleep boxes for me…...

Germany-based homebuilder WeberHaus announced today that it will soon offer its pre-fabricated homes equipped with Apple’s HomeKit platform, a first for the European market. That means that new home buyers purchasing a house through the builder will be able to opt for a smart home package that consists of products like lighting, smart plugs and more, all controllable via iPhones, iPads and Siri. The company says it’s been working with Apple to develop the HomeKit package for its customers:...

This is one of those podcasts, which is built off of one of the biggest books of the last decade. “Freakonomics” helped explain the economy in a pop-culture way, and the Freakonomics Podcast keeps it going. Recent podcasts have included “How to Build a Smart City,” “How Stupid is Our Obsession With Lawns” and how vilified pharmaceutical corporations are among the most charitable groups in the world. Dig through the site’s archives for more, such as how candidates for president try to sound presidential....

With the release of Apple’s new iPad Mini, you now have a device that lives somewhere between an iPhone and a full-sized iPad. We know that while iPhone photo taking is fully acceptable, taking pictures in public with your iPad certainly is not (see middle image). But the question, first posed on Reddit, is: with the high quality 5MP camera in the 7.9-inch display iPad Mini, is it socially acceptable to grab a snapshot with your Mini or should you keep the photos for the iPod touch and iPhone sized devices?...

It’s been almost a month since Apple Music first launched, and reception seems to be largely critical despite the music streaming service being completely free to use for the first three months after signing up. With Apple Maps-level horror stories materializing after spending some time with Apple Music, should Apple have simply labeled the service as a beta until the initial three-month trial expired and the service hopefully shapes up?...

TechCrunch recently spoke to the service developers, who mentioned the impending Android app. Based on a fork of the software. The Popcorn Time app for Android should launch tomorrow if all goes according to plan. Popcorn Time will join the many Android applications that allow pirated content when it arrives. Google has cracked down on piracy apps, purging them when it sees fit. It’ll be interesting to see if action is taken....

Popular podcasting app Instacast for iOS and Mac is shutting down as the founders can no longer fund it or any of Vemedio’s other projects. In an email sent to paid members, Martin Hering says that all of Vemedio’s products will be ‘discontinued’, with Instacast being the most well known app affected by this. The company says they will keep the servers up for as long as possible so current users will not be left with non-functional apps immediately....

Predator is one of the most fun action-horror films of all time. It is one of those ideas that is so cool, it’s a wonder no one came up with it before. The film follows a group of special forces soldiers on a mission in the deep jungle who are stalked by an alien who hunts for sport. The movie is a hugely entertaining adventure that has a continued impact on pop culture....

In Summary Predis.ai is a content marketing platform that lets you create quality content for social media with minimum effort. Unlike its competitors, Predis.ai doesn’t just stick to basic content creation, but it also gives you inputs on things like captions and hashtags to improve the reach of your posts on social media. With Predis.ai, you can even analyze your competition’s content to learn what works and what doesn’t. A good content marketing strategy usually involves creating, publishing, and distributing content in the form of news, videos, infographics, newsletters, and blogs to attract attention, develop leads, increase brand awareness, and, in turn, generate online sales....

While Google-based phishing attacks have been around for years, the pandemic provided a perfect opportunity for cybercriminals to double down on these attacks. As a result, a number of phishing attacks have been detected in recent months that leverage trusted Google services, including Google Sites, Firebase, Docs and Forms. Google Sites and Google Firebase host “trusted” phishing pages Many organizations’ anti-phishing solutions and employee cybersecurity awareness training focus on URL recognition....

When the windows of Australia’s most iconic Apple Store were covered on January 5 to keep curious eyes from peeking at a major renovation project, the world looked different. Apple had emerged from 2019 after opening and remodeling 66 stores. Budding developers around the world were sharing insights together at Code with Apple creative sessions. As the window wrappings fell this week, the balconies of Apple Sydney looked onto a George Street transformed as much as the store itself....