Trump’s Immigration Policies are Opening a Door to the Silicon Valley of the North

Outside the MaRS Discovery District in downtown Toronto. MaRS It’s a startup founder’s dream: a community of 2,500 early-stage tech companies, a government investing in high-tech innovation and expediting work permits, and venture-capital investment levels not seen since the heyday of the dot-com bubble. This isn’t San Francisco, New York, or London — it’s Toronto.…

Beams and Reebok Collab On The Instapump Once Again

The Japanese apparel company BEAMS and sneaker empire, Reebok, share quite the history. Previously, they’ve worked on a mismatch pair of Instapump Fury’s, they’ve even worked on the unorthodox BEAMS x Reebok Workout Lo, but now the brand is redirecting their attention to the Instapump Fury for a brand new take on the popular silhouette.…

These iPhone-Connected Hearing Aids Let Doctors Make Adjustments Remotely

Connected hearing aids are nothing new, but today a company called ReSound introduced the iPhone-compatible LiNX 3D, which can be adjusted remotely. This means doctors can access their patients’ hearing aids and make minor adjustments without the person having to revisit their office. The hearing aids also pair with an app for iOS, watchOS, and…

Western Digital Unveils its First Portable SSD

Western Digital only just started accepting that SSDs are ready for the mainstream, but it’s making up for that lost time by launching its first portable SSD just months after unveiling a desktop drive. The simply-named My Passport SSD gives you 256GB, 512GB or 1TB of flash storage in a pocketable and ever-so-slightly fashionable design.…

Artist Reimagines Pablo Picasso’s Famous Paintings as Hyperrealistic 3D Visuals

Pakistan-based artist Omar Aqil has transformed six of Pablo Picasso‘s most iconic paintings into a series of hyperrealistic 3D visuals.  Called “MIMIC,” Aqil’s ambitious project centers upon six pieces created by Picasso as early as 1928: Seated Woman (1930), Visage (1928), Buste de femme Dans un fauteuil (1949), Monument to the Spaniard (date unknown), Composition (1946)…

Xbox Project Scorpio: 6 questions Left to Answer

Microsoft has exclusively revealed the specs for Project Scorpio in a unusual and exhaustive collaboration with Digital Foundry. The many videos and stories go into great detail about the CPU, GPU, and various other technical aspects of the upcoming console, going so far as to speculate about how drastically Project Scorpio will improve Xbox One…