Last month, paddlers in New York state floated their kayaks and canoes in the Erie Canal to celebrate the waterway’s 200th birthday. Workers first dug their shovels into the ground to start the construction of the ditch in 1817. Eight years later, over 300 miles opened for busine … | Continue reading
A Samsung executive told Korean media that the Galaxy Note 8 would be unveiled in the second half of August in New York. | Continue reading
Apple has introduced PayPal support as a way to make purchases within its ecosystem, meaning it’s going to get easier to trick iTunes into thinking you’re in another country if you want access to different apps.Users in Canada and Mexico will now be able to use PayPal to pay for … | Continue reading
Wie lange bräuchte Iron Man, um einmal um die Welt zu fliegen? Wie lange bräuchte die USS Enterprise im Warp-Modus, um von der Erde zu Alpha Centauri zu gelangen? Diese und viele andere Fragen beantworten diese Infografiken, die einen interessanten... | Continue reading
Chinese troops are headed to Djibouti to set up the country’s first foreign military base in order to carry out its “international obligations,” the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday.Geng Shuang, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, said the base will, in the wor … | Continue reading
There might come a point in your business when social media starts to feel....tired. You've already shared the latest joke, the last big event, the newest "please pay attention" photo. You and your followers are tired of contests, blog links, and random platitudes. You're not sur … | Continue reading
This post was originally published by NoCamels. Check out their excellent coverage and follow them down here:frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”> Imagine this: you’re sitting in your house. Next to you, your companion robot turns its head and begins to converse, suggesting a TED talk … | Continue reading
The most important question that Donald Trump was ever asked in a press conference is suddenly easy to identify: “Can you say whether you are aware that anyone who advised your campaign had contacts with Russia during the course of the election?”President Trump’s answer last spri … | Continue reading
Meet the OrCam MyEye, a tiny wearable device that can give you secret powers if you have vision problems. It’s a tiny device that you clip to your glasses. It has a camera, a speaker and a cable that hooks up to a bigger device that is roughly the size of a smartphone. After tha … | Continue reading
Hundreds of companies and websites, including VentureBeat, are coming together today to support net neutrality and educate users about its importance. Battle for the Net has organized a “Day of Action” to protect online privacy and free speech on the internet. Net neutrality refe … | Continue reading
Hyperloop One conducted the first full-scale system test (via The Verge), achieving full vacuum conditions in its closed tube environment with a test pod that’s the actual size of what it envisions for its production systems. The ultra high-speed transit system didn’t pull off a … | Continue reading
There are no greater joys in life than gadgets and fried chicken, so why not enjoy them at the same time? KFC gets it: it partnered with Huawei to release a limited edition smartphone to commemorate 30 years since opening in China.Since this is a gadget blog, I am compelled to te … | Continue reading
Samsung’s Next technology fund has announced it intends to open shop in Berlin over London because Britain’s capital city is too expensive, and “not a fun place to live unless you are really rich.” In an interview with The Times, Felix Petersen, the managing director of Samsung’s … | Continue reading
Blizzard announced today the first seven team owners and partners for Overwatch League, the company’s ambitious plan for bringing the e-sports side of its popular multiplayer team shooter mainstream with city-based teams that mirror conventional sports franchises.And those owners … | Continue reading
In the pursuit of sustainable and consistent ecommerce growth, we look to many places: content, SEO, Facebook, Instagram, paid acquisition, new channels, growth hacking. But rarely do we turn the focus to our own website and ask, “how can we improve our own ecommerce user experie … | Continue reading
How has Slack grown so quickly? Take a step by step look at their SaaS growth strategy so you can apply it to your own business. | Continue reading
Hyperloop One completed the first full-scale test of its hyperloop technology in a vacuum environment on May 12th, the company announced today. In the test, the company’s hyperloop vehicle — which uses magnetic levitation, or mag-lev, technology — pulled 2 Gs while reaching 70 mi … | Continue reading
Sega’s making good on its promise to continue adding titles to its Sega Forever library of mobile games – the latest is the Dreamcast classic Virtua Tennis Challenge. The Sega Forever model sees the game maker releasing games from its previous console generations as free-to-play … | Continue reading
As an important deadline approaches, CoinDesk defines SegWit2x and breaks down the support and dissent of the most talked about scaling proposal. Source | Continue reading
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has developed a new method for displaying 3D movies at home without requiring the use of 3D glasses, and without some of the downsides of traditional methods for glasses-free 3D video playback. The method also doesn’ … | Continue reading
With this clear and simple guide, we'll show you how to make managing multiple marketing clients easy with repeatable processes and five free templates. | Continue reading
3D TV is dead. Buried. Done. Or so it seemed.Though 3D TV technology was assumed to be a dream of the past, researchers think they can revive the technology with a new glasses-free algorithm-based 3D hardware and software.And maybe they can.Research coming out of MIT's Computer S … | Continue reading
When you learn how to use the following 12 pairs of words, it will be easier to choose the proper one for your content. | Continue reading
The Honor 6A comes in gold or silver and can be yours for €169 in Germany. | Continue reading
It comes with no surprise that SEO and Social Media have become the cornerstones for digital marketing campaign. With little investment and high ROI potential, they seem to be an ideal option for spreading the awareness of a brand over the web and make the most out of it. When yo … | Continue reading
Apple is opening up its digital ecosystem to PayPal from today, with customers now able to use the omnipresent payments platform to purchase goods through iTunes, iBooks, Apple Music, and the App Store. Kicking off today in Canada and Mexico, PayPal payments will be slowly rollin … | Continue reading
Apple-User konnten bislang mit Apple ID und Kreditkarte Einkäufe bei iTunes tätigen, Apps kaufen oder Filme downloaden. PayPal wurde bislang nicht unterstützt. Bis jetzt. Wie PayPal-COO Bill Ready bekannt gab, wird PayPal nun auch als... | Continue reading
Microsoft has released Seeing AI — a smartphone app that uses computer vision to describe the world for the visually impaired. With the app downloaded, the users can point their phone’s camera at a person and it’ll say who they are and how they’re feeling; they can point it at a … | Continue reading
Unless you’ve had a chance to try some Apple HomeKit products in someone’s home or apartment, it can be hard to understand how it all works. In order to help with that, Apple has unveiled interactive HomeKit experiences in 46 of its retail stores worldwide.Now, when you go into … | Continue reading
President Trump’s selection of Christopher Wray to serve as the next FBI director is perhaps the most important non-Supreme Court nomination he’ll make during his presidency. If confirmed, Wray will take command of the bureau months into an investigation with the highest possible … | Continue reading
The concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for a long time. Science fiction unfortunately gives AI a bad rap and depicts it as an evil entity dead-set on taking over human society and dominating the world. But in reality, it can do a lot of remarkable things to m … | Continue reading
The early access token pre-sale is live! It will be open until 28th of July at 11:59 . Total amount of 10.000.000 DROP tokens will be available during the pre-sale and the price for 1.000 tokens is 1 ETH. Join now at: https://droplex.org/ico.php Droplex has recently launched a t … | Continue reading
Microsoft has made its Presentation Translator feature for PowerPoint open to the public. The PowerPoint add-in is designed to add real-time captions to a live presentation in a wide variety of languages, using the power of machine learning. Users can now download the add-in here … | Continue reading
Hutch, the interior design app that takes a photo of your room and virtually redecorates it, has raised $10M in funding from real estate platform Zillow. Zillow’s CEO Spencer Rascoff will also join Hutch’s board of directors as part of the investment. Right now the investment is … | Continue reading
Part of the sexism problem in tech/VC comes down to the fact that women are far outnumbered by men, especially at the top of the food chain. Women represent seven percent of the partner positions within the tech VC community. This, in turn, leads to female founders receiving les … | Continue reading
The objective of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is to kill everyone else, so you are the last man (or woman) standing. However, when streamer DooM49 gathered an enormous team of 50 players together for an "epic 50 man madness" stream they showed that friendship can exist in the wa … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago I stopped at a garage sale in Brooklyn and found a stack of Nintendo Power magazines. Nintendo Power, for the non-80s kids, was a magazine produced by Nintendo from 1988 to 2012. It was full of tips and tricks and even had walkthroughs of popular games. If you ha … | Continue reading
Blockchain in the Medical Sector Makes Sense Our society can greatly benefit from solutions which allow us to optimize our health. More specifically, there is a growing need for personalized solutions and treatments. Despite the health supplements market being valued at US$200bn … | Continue reading
The main challenge when reconstructing and extending the old family house into a holiday house was utilising the existing local advantages. | Continue reading
Some more M&A news in the world of artificial intelligence. Today it was announced that Google has acquired Halli Labs, a very young (its first public appearance was on May 22 of this year) startup based out of Bengaluru, India, that was focused on building deep learning and mac … | Continue reading
ZeroFox, a startup that helps companies manage social media risk including scams, malicious links and account hijacking, announced a $40 million Series C investment today.The round was led by Redline Capital Management and Silver Lake Waterman (which is Silver Lake’s late stage … | Continue reading
Samosas in Chennai It was a pleasantly warm morning, and little fluffy clouds chased each other across a crystal blue sky, but I wasn’t in the mood to appreciate any of it. My mother and I had spent the night in my grandmother’s hospital room, and neither of us could face another … | Continue reading
Esports is growing up. Activision Blizzard just announced the Overwatch League, a new esports league built around Overwatch, which will be the first major esports league with a traditional city-based team structure, just like professional sports leagues. Seven teams are being an … | Continue reading
The venture capital firm Fifth Wall, an investor in construction and real-estate focused startups that is backed by some of the country’s largest real estate companies, is expanding into early stage investing with the launch of a new accelerator program. For the firm’s co-founde … | Continue reading
A few other exchanges have recently enabled ETC trading as well. It is evident there is a growing global demand for Ethereum Classic right now. | Continue reading
GTÜ Gesellschaft für Technische Überwachung GmbH: Stuttgart (ots) - Vor der Fahrt in den Urlaub kommt es auf die richtige und damit sichere Beladung des Fahrzeugs an. Routinierte Camper laden hier mit System. Nicht nur, dass Kleidung, Proviant und Urlaubsutensilien so geschickt a … | Continue reading
Event looks at how Honda brought its core brand values to life with a 'Challenge Lab' activation at Goodwood Festival earlier this month. | Continue reading
More than a few people might own connected devices, but that does not mean they purchased an Amazon Echo or Google Home to play nice with them. | Continue reading