Interactive

Can listeners really hear the differences between standard and high resolution audio formats? A new study arriving soon from Queen Mary University of London thinks so, though the r... More

Spotify says Apple is making it harder for the streaming music company to compete by blocking a new version of its iPhone app. In a letter sent this week to Apple’s top lawyer, S... More

Although Sony’s initial virtual reality (VR) focus is aimed squarely at the video game market with the PlayStation VR (PS VR) headset for the PlayStation 4 (PS4), the company see... More

Henner Herwig Jürgens, VAST MEDIA: Discovery Channel's long-running summer event "Shark Week" returned yesterday with a variety of new content and exclusive virtual and augmented ... More

People are starting to realize the exciting potential that VR has in entertainment to the point where the world’s first permanent VR theatre opened up in Amsterdam. Million of pe... More

Facebook may be devouring the web, but Slack is increasingly nibbling on a significant portion of it. The group-chat platform announced on Tuesday that it’s partnering with 12 co... More

For any format to take hold and then take off in popularity and usage, there has to be a supply of content. Let’s take a moment to remember the sales cycle for newly introduced H... More

More than 3 million people use Slack’s workplace chat app daily—many of them for 10-hour stretches on any given workday. Now the business software company has created another r... More

There’s a reasonable amount of logic in the idea that YouTube’s dominance will only be challenged by video apps which understand a field of culture better than anyone else. Tha... More

Twitter unveiled a new mobile application Tuesday designed to help video creators increase their audiences on the social network and make money in the process. The stand-alone app ... More

Netflix remains the biggest road hog on broadband highways — but its overall share of peak-period Internet traffic actually declined slightly over the past six months in North Am... More

Gaming usually is the first thing most people automatically think of when it comes to the promises of virtual reality. But consumers are actually showing VR interests far beyond ju... More

The future of computing seems to be about a set of platform and device-independent services. Specifically, voice-based interactions, driven by large installations of cloud-based se... More

Rabbit TV PlusFreeCast is once again putting the Plus in Rabbit TV by adding features suggested by millions of users. Rabbit TV Plus has received yet another big upgrade, bringing ... More

Slack is happy if its users want other productivity apps to go with Slack’s own communications tools. But with new message buttons, Slack is making it clear that it would prefer ... More

Snapchat just took the next logical — and very big — step in a months-long process of becoming a "grown-up" social media site when it announced that it would open its platform ... More

Consoles have thrived since the mid-1980s because they offer a relatively accessible entry into gaming. Though control schemes have gotten more complex, they still play well with t... More

Publishers are stampeding into video, lured by the hope that audiences and ad dollars will follow. But not only is video expensive and hard to do, a lot of people still prefer to g... More

Pinterest is launching three new types of targeting aimed at helping brands fine-tune their Promoted Pins, the site's two-year-old ad product. Up until now, brands have primarily u... More

With VR showcases at all the forward-thinking film festivals in the world, Sundance, Tribeca and TIFF, 360 videos and installations have become a regular festival fixture. Even the... More