No-one would describe the HTC Vive as a particularly slick, user-friendly piece of consumer hardware, which is perhaps why I’ve so far been mostly happy with a new accessory called the rEvolve. Ungainly, unattractive, and in general unlike what you’d expect from a commercial prod … | Continue reading
Once a critic of blockchain hype, Tierion CEO Wayne Vaughan has now launched an ICO built on ethereum for his time-stamping startup.Source | Continue reading
Partech Ventures has raised so many funds over the past couple of years that it’s hard to keep track of all of them. This time, the VC firm is closing the fundraising of Partech International Ventures VII. With $450 million under management (€400 million), the team plans to use … | Continue reading
Numerous esteemed authors have previously relied on Twitter to tell original Flash fiction, but one talented storyteller is pushing his tales way beyond the 140 character limit to create interactive scenarios that put you in charge of the story. Artist Nas Maraj has created a tru … | Continue reading
Researcher in Computer Vision at the Media Integration and Communication Center (MICC) under the supervision of Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo | Continue reading
Waymo, the Google self-driving project that spun out to become a business under parent company Alphabet, has been ordered by a U.S. district judge to provide Uber with documents related to an alliance with rival Lyft. The ruling, along with other court documents, was filed on Fri … | Continue reading
Neues aus der Gerüchteküche rund ums kommende iPhone 8 (oder wie das Smartphone am Ende auch immer heißen mag). Der Leaker Benjamin Geskin postete kürzlich über Twitter, dass das neue iPhone in vier Farben erscheinen wird, dabei... | Continue reading
Mobile gambling is a huge niche that remains yet to be tapped completely. The internet traffic generated from mobile platforms continues to be on the rise while having already surpassed the desktop platforms generated traffic in 2016. With 68% of all internet traffic being mobile … | Continue reading
The lines between long-form content and social media marketing are becoming blurrier each day. Social networks now allow for native video viewing, live video and even some long-form content. They have essentially become their own content platforms competing with blogs and brand w … | Continue reading
Amazon is offering some big discounts for its Echo and Echo Dot devices today. As part of the company’s annual Prime Day, Amazon is cutting the Echo price by 50 percent, and the Echo Dot by 30 percent. Amazon’s Echo will be available for just $89.99 (£79.99 in the UK) at 6PM PT / … | Continue reading
Oculus has just announced a significant price drop for the Rift headset and Touch controller bundle: it's down to £399. It's an impressive d… | Continue reading
Architecture Architecture have completed a fit-out of one of the Cairo Studio Apartments, a fully functional 24 sqm studio apartment. | Continue reading
Barbacoa in South Texas Vera’s Backyard Bar-B-Que is an understated temple to barbacoa in Brownsville, Texas. When two friends and I arrived at 10:45 one hot morning, Armando Vera, the owner, was turning customers away. They were sold out. Barbacoa has roots in the pre-colonial A … | Continue reading
The Bitcoin situation in Russia is quite remarkable, to say the least. Various smaller districts demand the Russian Central Bank legalizes Bitcoin. That is a surprising turn of events, although the logic behind this request is more than solid. Border cities feel Bitcoin can help … | Continue reading
The original Motorsport Manager [$1.99] was a lot of fun, and we really liked it in our review. It managed to balance casual with a simulation of one of the most complex sports out there and did so using really lovely visuals. The franchise then made the jump to the PC, where it … | Continue reading
The big question in Washington this week: What is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) going to do about health care? WSJ's Gerald F. Seib explains three options McConnell has in the coming days. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Mass Effect: Andromeda launched back in March to fierce criticism of its facial animations. Four months later, BioWare is still issuing patches to fix them.… | Continue reading
So it is time to get things moving on another fresh week of trading in the bitcoin price and it looks as though we are in for a pretty strong one from a volatility perspective; that is, if action over the weekend is anything to go by. Price jumped all over the place throughout th … | Continue reading
Talk Talk and Samsung worked with experiential agency Undercurrent to create brand activations at House Festival, which took place last week in London. | Continue reading
We are not in the coffee business serving people, but in the people business serving coffee. — Howard Schultz For four crazy year... | Continue reading
Wenn heute um 18 Uhr der Prime Day bei Amazon startet, winken auch Schnäppchen-Angebote beim mittlerweile umfangreichen Hardware-Angebot von Amazon selbst. Vor allem interessant: der Echo.Der Lautsprecher mit Alexa-Steuerung kostet regulär... | Continue reading
The impressive sales success of Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy continues - it's now secured two weeks at number one in the UK chart.This is this first time a PlayStation 4 exclusive has held onto the top spot since Uncharted 4 came out back in 2016.Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy … | Continue reading
In this new video, we’re talking about speaker management at conferences. The way you handle content has become one of the most important factors in how we evaluate conferences and the relationship you have with your speakers defines the outcome of your event. If you’re able to h … | Continue reading
Ever wanted to spend your city trip in a tent in a parking garage? Thanks to this Dutch Airbnb clone, your squalid urban dream might just come true. After apartments, cars, and tools, it was only a matter of time before the sharing economy would come for the fallow ground of real … | Continue reading
Think about all the frustrating products you’ve used at work. Expense reporting apps. Outdated CRM systems. Database management tools. In the world of B2B products, UX has historically been an afterthought. But the status quo is changing. Enterprise UX — which refers to the desig … | Continue reading
Youth unemployment is one of the ticking time-bombs facing Afrika. Take for instance two of the continent’s larger economies, Nigeria and South Africa, both are sitting with youth unemployment rates of well over 30%. There seems to be no clear or promising solution in the short t … | Continue reading
EUclaim: Duisburg (ots) - Flugpassagiere in Deutschland mussten im ersten Halbjahr 2017 viel Geduld und Nerven aufbringen. Tausende Flüge wurden annulliert oder landeten deutlich verspätet. Laut Datenbank des Fluggastrechteportals EUclaim fielen von Anfang ... | Continue reading
Das Wall Street Journal berichtet, dass Apple in den vergangenen Jahren spürbar Marktanteile im lukrativen Geschäft mit Leih- und Kauffilmen eingebüßt hat. Noch 2012 soll Apple rund 50 Prozent dieses Geschäfts kontrolliert... | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: While the Internet provides open access to a variety of information, scientific research remains largely siloed and inaccessible. Sparrho is trying to solve this by offering a free platform to find and share research publications and patents. The London-based startup a … | Continue reading
Need more conversions? Time to pay attention to your leads. Here are 3 inbound marketing tips to help nurture leads, increase sales and grow your business. | Continue reading
Last week, Delaware passed legislation that will give corporations the right to issue and trade shares on a blockchain. This is why it's a big deal.Source | Continue reading
Since his presidential campaign was first alleged by critics to have colluded with the Russian government to undermine Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump has been consistent—and unusually so—in steadfastly denying it. Now it seems clear that if his denials are true, it is because Trum … | Continue reading
Battlefield 1 Premium Trials begins this month.Premium Trials, which lets players who don't own a Battlefield 1 Premium Pass play on maps they normally wouldn't have access to, starts with the release of this month's new night map Prise de Tahure.Here's how it works: if you don't … | Continue reading
München (ots) - Die Sommerreisewelle hat Deutschland fest im Griff. Auch Nordrhein-Westfalen und der Süden der Niederlande starten in die Ferien. Hinzu kommen Autourlauber aus... | Continue reading
After revealing the Hydrogen One last week, we've now got a look at some of RED's potential module designs for the phone. And they're expectedly crazy. | Continue reading
In a show of strength, in anticipation of a huge political event, China is cracking down hard on the one thing it hasn't been able to control — livestreaming. With 731 million internet users in China — of which 300 million have used livestreaming apps — its no surprise that the c … | Continue reading
What do a collection of wooden spoons, a newly-installed rain gutter, and a dialysis machine have in common? They’d all look fantastic on your next smartphone case according to my-handy-design — a bot on Amazon that’s currently going hog wild with algorithmically-generated produc … | Continue reading
Netflix's animated Castlevania adaptation will get a second season.Eight new episodes have been ordered by Netflix - double the length of its four episode f… | Continue reading
Summer Games Done Quick has smashed last year's record, raising over $1.7m for Doctors Without Borders.Finishing early this morning, the speedrunning marath… | Continue reading
Ende Juni hatte Android-Erfinder Andy Rubin das erste Produkt seiner neue Firma Essential vorgestellt, das "Essential Phone". Gleichzeitig wurde in den USA die Webseite für die Vorbestellungen freigeschaltet. Rubin sagte damals bei der Code-Konferenz,... | Continue reading
Tele 5: München (ots) - Haltung für Europa zeigen: Sowohl TELE 5 als auch die Reisesuchmaschine KAYAK widmen dem Sommer proeuropäischen Kampagnen und zeigen Kante gegen ein vermeintlich europafeindliches Klima. Während KAYAK aktuell mit der Kampagne "Love ... | Continue reading
Von Beginn an war es das gemeinsame Ziel im tp-blog, kritisch-konstruktiv neue Ideen, Chancen und Risiken, Entwicklungen und Probleme im alpinen Tourismus zu thematisieren und mit unseren Lesern zu diskutieren. Umso mehr freut es uns, dass wir heuer wieder neue Autoren bei uns be … | Continue reading
CosmosDirekt: Saarbrücken (ots) - Sommerurlaub: Knapp zwei Drittel nehmen das Auto Keine Baustelle in Sicht, kein Unfall gemeldet - und trotzdem geht es nicht weiter auf der Autobahn. Besonders in der Urlaubszeit rauben Staus Reisenden den letzten Nerv. Grund ... | Continue reading
Australian coffee liqueur brand Mr Black has teamed up with DrinkUp London to launch the first Espresso Martini Fest, which will take place in London from 10-12 August. | Continue reading
Kritischer Faktor bei der Bewerbung ist nicht das Geld. Es geht wohl darum, die Bevölkerung einzubinden und die Angst vor den Spielen zu nehmen. | Continue reading
Generation Z is supporting social causes at an increasing rate. More than 76% are concerned about humanities impact on the world and 60% want their occupation to impact the world. With society gradually becoming more focused on social good, entering the world of social entreprene … | Continue reading
A new rumor from leaker Benjamin Geskin says Apple's upcoming OLED iPhone — or iPhone 8, if that's what it'll be called — will come in four colors, including an entirely new one: "mirror."Geskin shared no details about the new color, and the photos he supplied were photos of an i … | Continue reading
Getflix is the easy way to stream all your favorite shows without having to sacrifice the rest of your bandwidth to a VPN. | Continue reading