In the pilot episode of The Bold Type, the dramedy that premiered this month on Freeform, Kat Edison, the social media director for the women’s magazine Scarlet, tries to convince an edgy artist to participate in a story highlighting her work. The artist, Adena El-Amin, is also a … | Continue reading
Mal von ein paar ganz, ganz wenigen, auch eher fragwürdigen Ausnahmen abgesehen, steht der Computerhersteller nicht für den Versuch, einen hübschen Computer zu bauen. Die Neuauflage des Pavilion 24 und 27 soll das jetzt ändern. Und... | Continue reading
The UK’s Co-Op Insurance wants you to be able to park your car without it getting stolen. The best way to accomplish that is to make an informed decision about where is safe. With that in mind, it’s released a new web-based tool called Park Smart, which uses open data published b … | Continue reading
It is Tuesday morning and the session out of Europe in the bitcoin price is about to kick off. Action during yesterday’s session was nice and volatile and we had plenty of opportunities to jump in and out of the markets according to the rules of our intraday strategy. For anybody … | Continue reading
This week on Technotopia I interview Rahul Sood, former founder of Voodoo PC and the current CEO of Unikrn, an e-sports betting service. Sood, who spent a number of years at Microsoft Ventures, started Unikrn because he was the e-sports space was exploding in popularity. His com … | Continue reading
On a misguided mission to protect jobs in India, the country’s Union Road Transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday, “We won’t allow driverless cars in India. I am very clear on this. We won’t allow any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you h … | Continue reading
The cubist house, designed for a young couple, abolished the spaces and traditional partitions. The big wooden box calls everybody’s ... | Continue reading
An epic battle of tech minds is about to go down. Mark Zuckerberg just commented on artificial intelligence, saying people who warn of "doomsday scenarios" regarding AI are "pretty irresponsible." This did not sit well with Elon Musk, who returned fire on Twitter, saying Zuckerbe … | Continue reading
Guys, good news: Microsoft isn't actually going to kill its Paint app in the next update of Windows 10. SEE ALSO: Hold your faux outrage over the demise of Microsoft PaintPaint, which started its life 32 years ago as a monochrome, bitmap Windows 1.0 drawing program, ended up on M … | Continue reading
Eschborn (ots) - Im kommenden Jahr werden die Preise für Reiseleistungen deutlich steigen: Der vierte jährliche Global Travel Forecast prognostiziert Erhöhungen um bis zu... | Continue reading
Online gambling brand Betsafe has appointed brand experience agency Fuse to work on the brand's sports partnerships and ambassadors programme. | Continue reading
Mere months after the launch of its U11 flagship, HTC has launched a more powerful version, one that sports 128GB of storage memory and 6GB of RAM. The new version is not entirely new, as the U11 with exactly those specs was initially available in Asia. But this release now means … | Continue reading
Mercedes Benz wird ab 2019 in der Formula E mitmischen, wo sich bereits Audi, BMW und Jaguar tummeln, dafür werden die Stuttgarter nach 18 Jahren aus der/den DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen-Meisterschaft/Masters) aussteigen: "Die Formula E ist wie ein... | Continue reading
In your organization, how many decisions and interactions are driven by culture first? While it's possible to imagine an organization that has no culture, one that is merely a context-free meritocracy and game-theory driven machine, that's unlikely. The higher your... | Continue reading
Introduction of Suretly Among the plethora of decentralized products and services. Suretly is here with a non-decentralized service and yet promises to serve with an out-and-out new form of investment alternative (known as crowd-vouching). Suretly, with the capability to perform … | Continue reading
A new report from US-based Bank of America Merrill Lynch argues that bitcoin will go mainstream once banks start accepting it.Source | Continue reading
So-called “Uber for trucking” logistics startup Convoy has raised $62.5 million in a series B round of funding led by Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund. Other notable new investors include Bill Gates’ Cascade Ventures, Mosaic Ventures, and former U.S. senator Bill Bradley, who join … | Continue reading
It’s fascinating to imagine the conversations that happened behind closed doors between the world’s richest and most powerful, so when they occur in the open — and over topics that impact the future of the world — it’s hard to do anything but grab the popcorn and watch intensely … | Continue reading
In the 1970s, the Apollo astronauts returned from the moon with tiny beads of volcanic glass they had picked out of the lunar soil. The beads are remnants of the moon’s early history billions of years ago, when eruptions spewed magma onto the surface. The magma, exposed to the va … | Continue reading
HMD is preparing to unveil its flagship Nokia-branded Android phone next month. The phone maker has started sending media invites to an event in London on August 16th, just days after a Nokia 8 handset leaked. The new Nokia 8 is expected to be unveiled on August 16th, and it will … | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is not convinced that Facebook’s boss Mark Zuckerberg fully comprehends the basic tenets of artificial intelligence (AI). Chilling in his Palo Alto backyard, this weekend Zuckerberg hosted an impromptu Facebook Live Q&A session where the young boss answered a … | Continue reading
Airbnb has teamed up with live music hire company Little Concert to launch a new experience offering, which will be exclusively available via the Airbnb website. | Continue reading
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has admitted he paid an army of social media trolls to defend him while he was on the campaign trail last year.The outspoken and at times controversial politician was defending himself after a University of Oxford study was published, finding … | Continue reading
Creative agency DRP has expanded its production team with the hire of Richard Morris as assistant production manager. | Continue reading
Der Drohnenhersteller iRobot Corp möchte Wohnungsmaße, die seine autonomen Roomba-Staubsauger sammeln, an andere Smart-Home-Anbieter verkaufen. Das sagte iRobot-Geschäftsführer Colin Angle im Gespräch mit Reuters."Es gibt... | Continue reading
ICESTORM LIVE GmbH: Berlin (ots) - Der vielleicht populärste Märchenklassiker der letzten Jahre, »DREI HASELNÜSSE FÜR ASCHENBRÖDEL«, kommt im noch nie dagewesenen Arena-Format auf die großen Bühnen in Deutschland und Österreich. Der Veranstalter ICESTORM LIVE reagiert ... | Continue reading
This year Lisbon is roaring along with noted startups like Uniplaces, Aptoide, Farfetch, Seedrs and Unbabel putting the Portuguese capital on the map. Vast annual startup conference Web Summit arrived last year with 53,000 people, and entrepreneurs and investors have been increa … | Continue reading
CosmosDirekt: Saarbrücken (ots) - Sommerurlaub: Deutsche meiden bestimmte Reiseziele Viele Länder sind derzeit von politischen Umbrüchen oder gar Terror betroffen - darunter auch beliebte Urlaubsziele der Deutschen. Diese Entwicklungen wirken sich auf den ... | Continue reading
Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing GmbH: Leipzig (ots) - Mit über 200 Veranstaltungen würdigt Leipzig das Reformationsjubiläum 2017. Kulturinteressierte können auch in den nächsten Wochen viele Höhepunkte erleben. So füllt vom 2. bis 4. September 2017 eine 42 Meter lange, von 95 Stü … | Continue reading
In the past couple of days, Bitcoin value has shot up to nearly 28% in reaction to the much-feared cryptocurrency split being averted. On July 20, the value had touched $3,000, which is a tremendous increase in value and it indicates the powerful influence of the impending August … | Continue reading
Nees Reisen GmbH: Krombach (ots) - Das Karussell der Verrücktheiten auf Kreuzfahrten dreht sich weiter: Die Schiffe werden größer und die Bars spektakulärer. Zu den Neuheiten zählen Roboter-Barkeeper und Theken aus purem Eis. Kreuzfahrten.de, das Online-Reisebüro für ... | Continue reading
River Publishers has made available a book focusing on the research and experimentation on the Future Internet from the FIRE community. The book contains a chapter on TRIANGLE and how it will provide advanced benchmarking for applications and devices for | Continue reading
Bookatable GmbH & Co.KG: Hamburg (ots) - Aktuelle Bookatable by Michelin-Umfrage zeigt: Gäste warten nicht gern allzu lange auf ihr Essen - viele verlassen das Restaurant sonst frühzeitig Der Magen knurrt, das Essen steht immer noch nicht auf dem Tisch und das Warten dauert ... | Continue reading
Der unabhängige Handyhersteller Fairphone hat mitgeteilt, den Support für das 2013 veröffentlichte Fairphone 1 einzustellen. Das bedeutet, dass das Unternehmen weder Ersatzteile noch Software-Updates herstellen wird.In einem Blogeintrag... | Continue reading
(Reuters) — European Union authorities have increased pressure on Facebook, Google and Twitter to amend their user terms to bring them in line with EU law after proposals submitted by the tech giants were considered insufficient. The European Commission and consumer protection au … | Continue reading
Urbanbase, a Seoul-based startup that makes virtual reality tools for interior planning and design, plans to expand in Asia after raising $1.8 million in Series A funding. Its investors are CKD Venture Capital, Magellan Technology and Capstone Partners. Read More | Continue reading
Less than a day after it agreed to put $2 billion into Southeast Asia’s Grab alongside Didi, now SoftBank is being linked with an investment in Uber, the U.S. firm that rivals those two aforementioned ride-sharing companies. A Wall Street Journal report claims SoftBank has been … | Continue reading
Governments wanting to spy on the people they’re meant to serve is hardly new – but China is taking things to a whole new level by injecting itself into citizens’ phones. Based on articles from Radio Free Asia, Mashable reported last week that authorities in the autonomous region … | Continue reading
Hello and welcome to News BTC’s Market Outlook July 25. DASH/USD DASH looked slightly bullish during the day on Monday, as we broke above the $202 level. The market looks likely to test the $210 level where it will face a significant amount of resistance. Short-term pullback shou … | Continue reading
Die Budapester Verkehrsbetriebe Budapesti Közlekedési Központ (BKK) haben sich offenbar schwer mit einem modernen Ticket-System übernommen: Ihr von T-Systems Ungarn entwickeltes System für Web-Tickets schickt Nutzern auf Anfrage... | Continue reading
Millenials are voracious consumers of news. One UK survey shows that half of those aged 18 to 35 prefer to get their current affairs fix from a newspaper or magazine. A separate Associated Press survey shows that two-thirds of those aged 18 to 34 regularly consume news online. So … | Continue reading
While we hope that all of our events are sell out situations, some come close to the wire. If it’s last minute and you still have seats to sell, here are a few sure-fire ways to get them sold. It all seemed to be going so well. The early-bird pricing showed promise. You lined up … | Continue reading
MediaConch in action! Issue #3 This is the third in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Kieran O’Leary has an intership with the Irish Film Archive within the Irish Film Institute, mostly working on code, workflows, metadata, digitisatio … | Continue reading
The operators of a bitcoin hedge fund have launched a $5 million fund for investing in cryptocurrency and initial coin offerings.Source | Continue reading
Microsoft’s popular Paint app isn’t being killed off just yet. A confusing Microsoft support article, published recently, revealed that the company is marking MSPaint.exe as “deprecated” in the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. That means Paint will “not be in active deve … | Continue reading
Hello and welcome to News BTC’s Market Outlook July 25. ETH/USD Ethereum has done very little during the session on Monday, so looks like for consolidation is probably to be had. The $240 level above continues to offer resistance, so if we can break above there, the market is lik … | Continue reading
Wenn Microsoft im Herbst 2017 das Windows 10 Fall Creators Update zum Download freigibt, findet eine 32-jährige Geschichte ihr Ende: MS Paint, treue Malgenossin, beschränktes Pixelexploratorium und Feuer unter dem Hintern der Faulheit wird... | Continue reading
Hello and welcome to News BTC’s Market Outlook July 25. BTC/USD Bitcoin initially fell against the US dollar and early Monday trading, but turned around to show signs of resiliency yet again. It appears that we are currently consolidating, but the market looks very likely to cont … | Continue reading