WhatsApp group administrators can heave a sigh of relief. Following two directives issued in April by two separate state governments that made social media group administrators liable for content circulated by other members of the group, the Delhi High Court has now ruled out any … | Continue reading
A look at a recent WhatsApp beta build suggests that users may soon be able to amend and delete messages – whether they have been read or not. | Continue reading
LittleBigPlanet creator Media Molecule announced its next PlayStation 4 game, Dreams, at E3 2015. We've not seen or heard much about it since.Some had hoped to see more of the creation game at the recent PlayStation Experience event, but it came and went without a peep from the G … | Continue reading
A Google pop-up store in New York is offering customers jumpers for their Pixel phones, made in-store using a knitting machine. | Continue reading
Square Enix Japan has put out a lovely new gameplay video for Dragon Quest 11.The video, below, shows off field exploration on the PlayStation 4 version of… | Continue reading
Im Hollywood Reporter ist zu lesen, dass Sam Esmail, der kluge Kopf hinter der TV-Serie "Mr. Robot", an einer neuen Miniserie arbeitet, die die Geschichte von "Metropolis", Fritz Langs SciFi-Klassiker von 1927, neu aufnimmt. Wann das Ergebnis fertig... | Continue reading
Retailer Debenhams is hosting a make up class at this Oxford Street store in partnership with beauty brand Estée Lauder. | Continue reading
By the first quarter of 2017, this driverless shuttle bus will begin service in Singapore.The autonomous vehicle can hold 15 passengers, and will ferry them between the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) campus and the CleanTech eco-business park roughly 1.5 km (0.93 miles) a … | Continue reading
All photos in this post courtesy of Amy Dickerson. Copyright 2016.Dear friends, we had the pleasure of sharing our Yalda celebration in the December issue of Sunset Magazine. Thank you to everyone involved for making it such a bright and joyous evening.This Yalda I leave you with … | Continue reading
Streiks bei Amazon sind in Deutschland ja fast schon Tagesgeschäft. Immer wieder legen die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter in den Logistikzentren die Arbeit nieder, um für bessere Bedingungen und höhere Löhne zu kämpfen, zu... | Continue reading
As 2016 comes to a close, it’s a good time to flip through your photos from the year that was. Why not show off the best ones while you’re at it? Here are two of our favorite tools for the job. Instagfy, which we discovered at the beginning of the year, creates a simple animated … | Continue reading
I can't see it much myself, but Deathwing is supposed to be Warhammer 40k's take on Left 4 Dead. Sure its multiplayer game is co-op only (and its campaign fed by AI bots), with you and up to three others up against relentless hordes of skittering horrors, but Left 4 Dead's clever … | Continue reading
Standard FUNCTION: Gives month-to-month accounting, monetary, and reporting help in a manner that assures the integrity & accuracy of the financial statements.Even so, the prospects of researching, sorting through and making sense of the enterprise, monetary and legal elements of … | Continue reading
Even as smartphone brands are charting plans to aggressively expand their businesses in India, Acer is calling it quits — for now, at least. The Taiwanese company is putting its insignificant mobile business aside to focus on its growing laptops and other hardware businesses in … | Continue reading
[…]The post Blockchain Tech Ignores USD, Allows Baht-Yuan Transfers in Thailand, China appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. | Continue reading
2016 is almost out but there’s just time to anoint one more ride-sharing unicorn. Careem, one of Uber’s lower profile rivals in emerging markets, has taken a step into the global limelight today after it announced that it has raised $350 million led by Japanese e-commerce firm Ra … | Continue reading
Vor ziemlich genau einem Monat hatte Propel mit viel Kunstnebel und Laser die Star-Wars Drohnen in London vorgestellt. Zum wiederholten Male, nur wirklich kaufen konnte man sie nicht. Die eingeladenen Journalisten bekamen eine opulente Show präsentiert,... | Continue reading
Email marketing is one of the oldest forms of inbound marketing - but instead of becoming outdated, it's only become more relevant. This is in part because of the increase in mobile use, which allows users to receive instant notification of new emails. In a recent survey, it was … | Continue reading
David Lynch has continued his run of using trailers to tell us very little about the much-anticipated next season of Twin Peaks, releasing a short clip over the weekend that showed him contemplatively munching on a donut. The clip serves to show us that Lynch will be reprising hi … | Continue reading
In one of its smallest, yet most useful updates ever, Google Maps has now begun displaying whether a location, such as a building or restaurant, is accessible by wheelchair. The service sources this information from its human Local Guides, who answer questions about the places th … | Continue reading
Clippers forward Blake Griffin is scheduled to undergo minor surgery on his right knee in the next few days and will probably be out until sometime in January , according to a report by The Vertical's Shams Charania. | Continue reading
Memebox, a Y Combinator startup that sells Korean beauty products in the U.S. and Asia, has raised $60 million. The cash is an extension of the firm’s Series C round which initially closed at $65.95 million in August. Read More | Continue reading
One of the most outspoken critics of President-elect Donald Trump leading up to the election was Mark Cuban, tech mogul, owner of the NBA's Mavericks and Shark Tank co-host. Now Cuban has apparently decided to move past his previous, and at times quite harsh, critiques of Trump t … | Continue reading
NoBroker, the India-based property startup that wants to make property agents obsolete, has landed $7 million in fresh funding to expand its service. Read More | Continue reading
Waymo, the newly-minted Alphabet company that was previously Google’s self-driving car project, has a new addition to its vehicle fleet: 100 Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans, which were produced by Fiat Chrysler specifically for the purpose of making them fully autonomous using … | Continue reading
Chrysler has completed the 100 autonomous Pacifica minivans that will join the Waymo (neé Google) fleet in early 2017. The vans, which are plug-in hybrid variants with Waymo’s self-driving hardware and software built in, are part of a partnership between Fiat Chrysler (FCA) and … | Continue reading
Having a voice online is becoming increasingly difficult for Web users in Turkey, where President Erdogan is ramping up measures to curtail free speech and the media. Watchdog group Turkey Blocks noted that the Tor anonymity network has now been blocked, following similar tactics … | Continue reading
The greatest love stories are oft met with obstacles.No greater odds have been stacked against a couple than the star-crossed lovers in the new game My Horse Prince: The story of a woman (you, the player) and her human-faced horse.SEE ALSO: 7 practical gifts for people who always … | Continue reading
Osterhout Design Group is going to China. The maker of augmented reality glasses has partnered with China Mobile’s Migu Video subsidiary to deploy ODG’s smartglasses in China. ODG makes AR smartglasses that can overlay computer-generated imagery on top of the real world, helping … | Continue reading
Key Highlights ETH price started a minor correction against the US Dollar, but facing sellers near $7.75-80. There is a tiny bullish trend line formed on the hourly chart (data feed via SimpleFX) of ETH/USD, which is currently holding the downside. A break below the trend line su … | Continue reading
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‘But then the dream became a nightmare’: Avoid transitional clichés, use fresh transitions to drive readers further into the story. | Continue reading
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If you're lucky enough to be healthy and with family this holiday season, you'll appreciate a recent tech-powered effort Honda undertook to bring the magic of Christmas to children unable to leave a hospital in Orange County, California.SEE ALSO: 2016 was supposed to be the year … | Continue reading
Japan is one of Asia-Pacific's largest markets for video-on-demand (VOD) subscribers, and also one of its most competitive. A wide range of international VOD services appear to be locked in a battle for eyeballs with homegrown VOD providers like AbemaTV and dTV. | Continue reading
China issues new rules for live streaming apps, which are being accessed by roughly half of all internet users in the country. | Continue reading
As the concept of self-driving cars enters the consciousness of US drivers, many are wondering about the practical realities of the experience. For example, what will you do while your car is driving you? | Continue reading
North American marketers are increasing their spending on video content marketing, but they appear to be a bit less bullish than last year. | Continue reading
eMarketer’s scan of the key developments of the day, plus data to make sense of it all. Today’s topics: Water resistant phones, automated beer and more. | Continue reading
China’s millennials are already the most digitally active and aware group of consumers on the planet. At more than 400 million strong, they account for almost a third of China’s population and amount to more than the working population of the US and Western Europe com … | Continue reading
Millennials are far more apt than UK internet users overall to subscribe to streaming video-on-demand (SVOD) services, according to a September 2016 survey by Decipher—the latest of several studies to come to that conclusion this year. And more likely than not, what they&rs … | Continue reading
Internet users in Sweden plan to spend nearly twice as much on Christmas gifts that they purchase digitally as their Nordic neighbors in 2016. | Continue reading
Retailers’ holiday ad spending on newspapers has been declining for years, and this year the decline is accelerating, Kantar data shows. | Continue reading
A good number of retailers use social commerce in some form. Even though direct sales attributable to social commerce have been lackluster, marketers are banking on future growth. | Continue reading
At 10pm on June 23, 2016, the polls closed in the UK on a referendum on EU membership and the counting began. The next morning Europeans woke to the news that the British public had voted to leave the 28 Member State bloc called the European Union. The ugly word Brexit — coined d … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is slowly treading higher, trying to muster enough energy for a strong break past $800.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 12/19/2016 – Breaking Past $800! appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
Here is this year's compendium of internet, E-commerce and hosting statistics and facts brought to us by HostingFacts. | Continue reading
Everyone loves to joke how venture capital is the “Dark Side,” and most of the VCs I know are good-natured about simply accepting the comparison. It’s probably better than “vulture capital,” which was how we were ridiculed when I first started in the business in the early 90s. At … | Continue reading