Microsoft gibt Groove Music auf und schickt Nutzer zu Spotify

Microsofts Vorstöße ins Geschäft mit Streaming-Musik sind nicht von Glück gezeichnet. Jetzt hat das Unternehmen mitgeteilt, dass es seinen Dienst Groove Music zum 31. Dezember 2017 einstellt (Streaming, Einkäufe und Re-Downloads).... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 7 years ago

Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL release dates hinted at by Evan Blass

We now have an idea of when Google's new phones will be officially released thanks to a VentureBeat article written by leaker Evan Blass. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

This could be our first look at Tesla's sleek semi truck

Tesla is about to launch its first truck in October, and now, courtesy of an anonymous Reddit user, we may have gotten an early glimpse of its design. The photo on Reddit (first spotted by Electrek) was provided with little explanation (and later removed), but it's still availabl … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Where the Catalonian Crisis Came From

The shocking violence in Barcelona on Sunday makes the politics behind Catalonia’s separatist movement even harder to parse. Helmeted police in riot gear disrupted polling places, beat citizens attempting to vote, and left an incredible 893 people injured—all in the name of halti … | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 7 years ago

Tesla electric semi truck possibly spied in new photo

 Is this the new semi truck Tesla is set to unveil at the end of this month? The truck, posted to Reddit (then deleted, then re-posted) bears more than a passing resemblance to the image shared in a teaser released by the automaker itself (via The Verge). The sleek angled front a … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Kahoot launches premium version aimed at corporate training market

 Few people thought that a simple site which allowed teachers to create quizzes for their classes online would get this far, but Kahoot has been a smash hit since it launched. Only a few months after Kahoot closed a $20 million funding round, with Microsoft Ventures participating … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Neill Blomkamp’s new short film proves Unity has lots to offer to filmmakers

Popular game software developer Unity has finally revealed the trailer for the next instalment of its award-winning short movie, Adam. The upcoming sequel chapters will be directed by none other than director Neill Blomkamp, who took Hollywood by storm with his 2009 sci-fi pictur … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Nobel Prize in physics awarded to three scientists for the detection of gravitational waves

Today, three researchers have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their work in detecting gravitational waves — ripples in space and time that travel throughout our Universe. The recipients are Rainer Weiss, a physics professor at MIT, and Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, who … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Shopify rolling out Instagram shopping feature to thousands of merchants

 Online commerce giant Shopify is ready for its Instagram moment: The one-stop shop platform provider is opening up its Instagram integration to thousands of its merchants leading up to the holiday season. The platform expansion adds yet another sales channel to the considerable … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Price of Freedom

The phrase "the price of freedom" used to be reserved for reference to war dead. Bill O'Reilly has co-opted it for a new purpose. Am... | Continue reading


@blog.themightycopywriter.com | 7 years ago

Image of Tesla's electric semi truck surfaces

We’re less than one month away from the day when Tesla plans to unveil its first electric semi truck, and of course that means it’s time for speculation and sleuthing to skyrocket. Today’s fodder is a picture of what could be the Tesla big rig that was posted to, deleted from, an … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Facial Rig v2.0: Überlebensechte Mimik-Animation für Games

Die Software-Firma Snappers hat ein Demo produziert, um die Möglichkeiten des firmeneigenen Gesichts/Mimik-Animationsprogramms Facial Rig v2.0 deutlich zumachen, das es als Plug-in für die 3D-Software Maya und die beliebte Game Engine Unreal... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 7 years ago

European Twilio rival MessageBird raises $60 million from Accel, Atomico, and Y Combinator

MessageBird, a European Twilio rival that says it bootstrapped its way to profitabilty early on, has raised its first notable equity financing via a $60 million series A round led by Accel, with participation from London-based Atomico and Y Combinator. Founded out of Amsterdam in … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini passes away at 67

Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini has passed away at the age of 67. Otellini was a lifelong Intel employee who had silicon in his blood. He was named CEO of the world’s biggest chip maker in May 2005, and he stayed in that post until he retired in 2013. In its 49-year history, Intel … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

This Is the Most Inspirational Show About Customer Experience

Experience This! launches today, a brand-new customer experience podcast featuring inspiring examples of excellent customer service. | Continue reading


@convinceandconvert.com | 7 years ago

HP Enterprise Shared Pentagon’s Cyberdefense Source Code With Russia

Hewlett Packard has acknowledged sharing cybersecurity source code with the Russians as part of a product evaluation. While not unusual, it raises serious questions about how best to secure systems the US depends on. The post HP Enterprise Shared Pentagon’s Cyberdefense Source Co … | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 7 years ago

MessageBird, a European cloud comms platform that competes with Twilio, raises $60M Series A

 MessageBird, a cloud communications platform that counts publicly listed Twilio as a competitor, has raised a hefty $60 million in Series A funding. The round is being led by Accel in the U.S., with Atomico, the VC firm founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennström, leading in Europe. Rea … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

4 Great Influencer Marketing Campaigns

More brands than ever want to tap into influencer marketing. There are four important influencer marketing campaigns that your brand can benefit from. | Continue reading


@copypress.com | 7 years ago

Golden Crossover: Bitcoin Charts Suggest Price Ready for Bump

The weekend rally in bitcoin's price may have come to a halt at $4,470 on Monday, but bullish signals hint at further gains. | Continue reading


@coindesk.com | 7 years ago

District 9 director Neil Blomkamp makes two sci-fi film shorts with Unity

Neil Blomkamp, the Academy Award-nominated director of District 9, has taken a film created with the Unity Technologies game engine and made a couple of new short films based upon it. The project means that Unity can be used to democratize film making, just as it is used to democ … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Get the cybersecurity hacking know-how to get hired — for under $30

It’s the background of the 21st century, and you can start down that lucrative career path now with the Zero to Hero Cyber Security Hacker course bundle. It’s available for only $29 (over 90 percent off) from TNW Deals. | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Welcome to the age of ultra-premium smartphones

A new category of smartphones is on the rise: the ultra premium flagship. But what are ultra premium flagships and why are they so damn expensive? | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

DS Plus Announces the PlusCoin Black Friday Sale

The People’s Cryptocurrency is gaining momentum. Today, the PlusCoin team has two big announcements for PLC token holders and DS Plus users. But first, a little background about the project: DS Plus is a Global Mobile Marketing Platform For a little over a year, the guys behind t … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 7 years ago

Philips adds HomeKit support for Hue accessories

Philips is making its Hue system of accessories a bit more useful to Apple Home users: a new update rolling out today makes products like the Hue Tap, Hue Dimmer Switch, and Hue Motion Sensor compatible with Apple’s HomeKit. In other words, you’ll be able to use Philips’ switches … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Which is the definitive version of Blade Runner?

A thorough and absolute examination Continue reading… | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

The Harrowing Personal Stories of Syrian Refugees, in Their Own Words

“I don’t think the human mind is able to understand the suffering we’ve experienced,” says a man in Matthew K. Firpo’s short documentary, Refuge. Filmed on location in 2016 in four different refugee camps across Greece—outside Athens and on the islands of Lesvos and Leros—the fil … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

BlackBerry is moving from Nasdaq to the New York Stock Exchange on October 16

BlackBerry has announced plans to move its shares from Nasdaq to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 16. The Canadian tech firm hasn’t given a specific reason for upping sticks and moving its shares to another stock market, but as the company continues to shift away fro … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

BitProperty Announces a Token Sale and Beta Release of Its Real Estate Investment Platform

The crypto-world is continually growing. With cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology being implemented in various fields including medicine, transport, and AI trading platforms, it is just a matter of time it is introduced to the real estate sector as well. And, BitProperty i … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 7 years ago

How to Discover What Social Search Keywords You Should Be Using

When it comes to using keywords in social media, most brands stick with a simple copy-and-paste strategy. Whatever keywords they are using on their websites, they stick a few of those onto social media and call it good. That's better than no social keywords, but social networks a … | Continue reading


@alltop | 7 years ago

Sony’s confusing rat king of an AI assistant strategy

This summer at consumer tech conference IFA in Berlin, Sony released its LF-S50G smart speaker, the first device from the company with Google Assistant inside. With its release, Sony continued to send unclear messages about its AI assistant strategy, or if it even has one. For in … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Lab Report: The Attack Vegas Has Been Dreading

“Soft target”: Though Las Vegas had seen attempts at mass violence before, and beefed up security in recent years, the essential nature of Sin City—with so many tourists, resorts, and venues squeezed in together—has also seemed its greatest vulnerability to attacks. Calling Sunda … | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 7 years ago

Xiaomi sets sales record thanks to high demand in India

Xiaomi shipped more than 10 million smartphones in September, which is a record for the company. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

PlayStation 4 firmware update 5.0 released

Isn't 'firmware' a boring word? It sounds like a pair of body-control underpants. Anyway, PlayStation 4 firmware 5.0 has been released. It is 374.7MB.The bi… | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 7 years ago

Energy-Efficient Home Built Between Two Dividing Walls in Terrassa, Barcelona

The strategy used for an energy-efficient home is to reduce its consumption by means of good covering insulation of the building ... | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 7 years ago

Educational quiz platform Kahoot launches premium subscription service to make corporate training fun

Kahoot, an online learning platform that lets teachers create and tailor quizzes for their classes, has announced its first shift into monetization with the launch of a new premium version of the service. With Kahoot Plus, the Norwegian startup is targeting companies with a produ … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Maltese Government Taps Blockchain to Publish Academic Certificates

The whole world has seen many different use cases for blockchain technology so far. Although not all options are valuable to most people, they deserve to be explored. In Malta, the government is looking to record academic certificates on a distributed ledger. This project is the … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 7 years ago

HYPR raises $8 million to prevent another Equifax hack

 The recent Equifax hack is yet another reminder that major corporations are still leaving themselves susceptible to attacks. There are countless cybersecurity startups looking to fix this problem, but HYPR believes its decentralization approach is key. Its authentification techn … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Frame.io picks up $20 million to be the Slack of video

 Frame.io, the collaboration platform for the video industry, has today announced the close of a $20 million Series B funding round led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from existing investors including Accel Partners, SignalFire and Shasta Ventures. Frame.io launched on … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Disrupting the Meeting and Events Industry : Redefining Room Block Management

Chicago, Illinois, October 2, 2017 – Resiada™ announces the public launch of its revolutionary new room block management software for event planners, Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO/… | Continue reading


@techsytalk.com | 7 years ago

Platform9’s Fission Workflows makes it easier to write complex serverless applications

 Platform9‘s new Fission Workflows brings together all the buzzwords you love: Kubernetes, Docker containers and serverless computing. In many ways, it’s the logical next step for these technologies. Fission itself is Platform9’s open source serverless computing platform that run … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

US Commerce Department Backs Blockchain Trade Mission to UAE

Representatives from the blockchain industry are in the United Arab Emirates this week on a trade mission backed by the U.S. Department of Commerce. | Continue reading


@coindesk.com | 7 years ago

Bend the knee to the new mobile Game of Thrones: Conquest

For fans of the fantasy saga Game of Thrones, the night is dark and full of delays, as the final season might not air until 2019. To take the sting out of the wait, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and HBO are announcing a new mobile game, Game of Thrones: Conquest, which w … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Be a Smarter Marketer: Announcing Year-Round Marketing Courses From CoSchedule

Our marketing courses are now offered year-round! Learn more about how to register, choose your courses, and get marketing certified by CoSchedule. | Continue reading


@coschedule.com | 7 years ago

A Day In The Life of Mexico City's 'Diableros'

In Aztec times the tamemes—bearers—would wait at the edge of the markets on the edge of Tenochtitlan, waiting for customers. There were no beasts of burden to carry loads in pre-Hispanic Mexico and humans were the best and only option. Several transport revolutions later this occ … | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 7 years ago

Your Process For Creating Awesome Content Quickly With Neil Patel From Crazy Egg & Hello Bar [AMP 054]

On this episode of the Actionable Marketing Podcast, Crazy Egg and Hello Bar founder Neil Patel explains how to create strong 10X content efficiently. | Continue reading


@coschedule.com | 7 years ago

WhatsApps neues universales Emoji-Set wirkt seltsam vertraut

Eine Milliarde Menschen (oder noch mehr) nutzen WhatsApp. Da scheint der richtige Moment gekommen, ihnen auch selbst designte Emojis anzubieten. Aber iOS-NutzerInnen dürfte das neue WhatsApp-Angebot für grafische Gefühlsausdrückung... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 7 years ago

Chatbots are coming to HoloLens – and they’ll help workers make better decisions

Soon conversational chatbots won’t just live in phones and computers, but assist industrial workers from within HoloLens. Microsoft is big on bots. Last year, during Microsoft’s Build Developer Conference, CEO Satya Nadella declared that “bots are the new apps” and the company fo … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

2017 Content Excellence Challenge: The October Prompts

Get your creativity and productivity prompts for October! One helps you improve the quality of your content and the other helps you finish more great stuff. | Continue reading


@copyblogger.com | 7 years ago