Mizuho Bank is weighing possible client-facing services after testing a prototype digital currency in partnership with IBM Japan.Source | Continue reading
Facebook made its contribution to the weirdly crowded genre of tech platform year-in-review blog posts today, highlighting 2016’s most-discussed stories on its increasingly controversial platform for the sharing of all news fake, real, and imagined. It is a list of people who are … | Continue reading
Who remembers Ben Stein as the econ teacher from the '80s classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Anyone? Anyone? The actor's famous monotone and hypnotic repetition will soon be lulling you to sleep in a meditation app.The app, Calm, launched "Sleep Stories" this week after months of … | Continue reading
Nantero has raised $21 million in funding for its carbon nanotube memory devices, which are an alternative to mainstream semiconductor chips. The Woburn, Mass.-based company makes nonvolatile random access memory (NRAM), which can be used in a variety of products, such as smartph … | Continue reading
Building hardware with Alexa included is likely a smart way to go, given interest in Amazon’s voice assistant, but it’s also hard to do well. Consumer electronics industry supplier Conexant is looking to make the early stages of the process easier with a new development kit desig … | Continue reading
Circle, the financial service company blames the slow rate of Bitcoin Core development for its decision to stop offering Bitcoin exchange services. Read more... | Continue reading
Yesterday, tech columnist Farhad Manjoo at The New York Times pronounced gadgets dead. With an influx of third-party rip-offs from China, the sad state of Kickstarter campaigns, and the fact that even historically well-funded crowdfunded products can’t make it in the market, gadg … | Continue reading
Samsung has announced a seventh color option for the Galaxy S7 Edge: Black Pearl. The finish is glossy, exclusive to the 128GB version of the handset, and will be available in unnamed “select markets” from December 9th. Obviously Apple doesn’t have a patent on glossy black smartp … | Continue reading
Perhaps you’re like me and you wasted (or spent wisely) hours and hours of your youth playing Escape Velocity and its various sequels on an early Mac. If you are in that group, than the Galaxy on Fire series is probably no stranger, either. And if neither of these games sounds fa … | Continue reading
President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency—a climate change skeptic and sharp critic of the organization. Photo: AP. | Continue reading
www.ZerCustoms.com - This is one of the first reviews of the new 2017 Mercedes E63 AMG. For the purpo... [...] | Continue reading
The top tier, white-shoe, silver spoon set that banks with Citi in the U.S. through its Citigold program are about to get a taste of the first fruits from the financial services giant’s year-old Citi FinTech initiative. The newly updated Citi Mobile App for iPhone combines bankin … | Continue reading
Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has launched a campaign to celebrate new characters and bigger stories in its Lego Dimensions video game. | Continue reading
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Ende August hatte Blizzard mit Legion die sechste Erweiterung für den MMORPG-Klassiker World of Warcraft veröffentlicht. Den rund 800.000 Fans der reinen, unerweiterten WoW-Lehre, deren privater Vanilla-Server Nostalrius im April von Blizzard... | Continue reading
Apple's latest laptops are suffering some significant battery life problems, and there's no known common issue to tie them all together. Some systems have AMD GPUs, but not all of them, and the problem appears to be cropping up on both 13-inch and 15-inch hardware. The post Apple … | Continue reading
While no one knows what Donald Trump’s victory in last month’s election will mean for Silicon Valley, or the technology industry broadly, the President-Elect’s win has crystallized the region’s thinking around at least one problem. Many tech workers think that local, state and fe … | Continue reading
HLX: Baden-Baden (ots) - Anfang Dezember 2011 ging Deutschlands erster voll dynamischer Reiseveranstalter an den Start. Nun schaut HLX auf fünf äußerst erfolgreiche Jahre zurück: 250 000 Urlauber nutzten bis jetzt Deutschlands ehrlichsten Preisvergleich ... | Continue reading
When was the last time you thought the most impressive thing about a film were its special effects? It’s probably been a while. You couldn’t write a review of Jurassic Park in 1993 without mentioning how lifelike the dinosaurs were, but by the time Jurassic World came out in 2014 … | Continue reading
The Moto 360 Sport smartwatch, which was released last December with an initial price tag of $299.99, is now available for only $103.99 (white color only). | Continue reading
[…]The post Japanese MegaBank Mizuho Tests its Own Digital Currency appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. | Continue reading
Deep space exploration game Elite Dangerous, already available on PC and Xbox One, will finally touch down on PlayStation 4 in Q2 2017, developer Frontier Games has announced.This new PS4 version will include touchpad controls to allow you to easily swipe through your Milky Way n … | Continue reading
2012 hat die Firma People Products ihren Transparent Speaker erfolgreich per Kickstarter-Kampagne realisiert und auch wenn nicht nur wir die (so weit wie irgend möglich) durchsichtigen Lautsprecher damals schon todschick fanden, war das Preisschild... | Continue reading
Uber updated its Community Guidelines Thursday, and now the term “community” is more accurately applied, because for the first time, the ride-hailing company is publishing a policy outlining why riders can lose their access to the service – previously, this was only spelled out f … | Continue reading
Bitcoin prices moved back toward annual highs on 7th December, coming within 2% of the $781.31 it reached in June 2016. Source | Continue reading
In his two years driving for Uber, Scott Winbolt has seen some fairly ridiculous behavior from riders: open containers of alcohol, dirty feet on the dashboard, people trying to sneak four people in a backseat designed for three. You name it. “I try to be as accommodating as possi … | Continue reading
The US surgeon general says that the increased use of e-cigarettes among young people represents a “major public health concern,” The Washington Post reports, and is calling on lawmakers to implement regulations that would curb their use among American youth. In a report to be re … | Continue reading
“It turns out that it’s actually not that trivial to have thousands of troops all in real-time on your mobile phone.” | Continue reading
Two things have happened at once: RocketWerkz announced virtual reality game Out of Ammo: Death Drive to Italica - a standalone follow-up to Out of Ammo due early next year; and studio head Dean Hall spoke out about "the hard truth" of VR development.Hall was responding to a grow … | Continue reading
Peergrade, a startup out of Denmark that enables students to grade each other’s work, has raised a modest $300k in seed funding. However, more newsworthy are its new backers. They comprise UK edtech accelerator Emerge Education, and Nordic Makers — which might be best described a … | Continue reading
VR isn’t all fun and games. One company is using it to put VR users in the middle of breaking news stories and to show them what it feels like to face a natural or man-made disaster. For example one company, Emblematic Group, has a created a VR simulation of a refugee camp and a … | Continue reading
Dzień dobry, Witam Cię serdecznie! Dzisiaj jest wielki dzień. Udało mi się oficjalnie wypuścić pierwszą, własną, „prawdziwą” linię aromaterapeutycznych kosmetyków! Ile było problemów z tym... | Continue reading
The B2B Kool-Aid claims buyers don't behave like consumers . But two new studies show it ain't necessarily so. State of the Connected... | Continue reading
www.ZerCustoms.com - Watch these three Latvian drifters take a Nissan 350Z and two BMW M3s for a spin... [...] | Continue reading
Right then. We’re closing in on the end of the week, and it is time to start securing our bitcoin price takings with a view to ending the week on a net positive note. We’ve had a little bit of luck so far this week, getting in and out according to the rules of our … Continue read … | Continue reading
Are you currently using a virtual private network, or thinking to use it shortly; you probably want to know how it works? | Continue reading
To help you close out 2016 on a strong note and have a running start for 2016, here is a list of our five most-shared social media marketing posts for 2016. | Continue reading
Paying for voice calls will soon be a thing of the past for Indians. Airtel, India’s largest telecom carrier, today unveiled new tariff plans starting at Rs 145 ($2) that will enable over 260 million subscribers on its network to make free voice calls anywhere in India. SEE ALSO: … | Continue reading
Google Drive on Android has now added the Backups section previously available on the web client. It provides a simple way to manage device and app backups. | Continue reading
Das Projekt Mars One ist 2012 mit der Ansage gestartet, dass man 2022 eine Marsmission starten werde und zwar mit freiwilligen Astronauten mit One-Way-Ticket, sprich: Mit der lästigen Rückflug-Logistik will man sich gar nicht erst belasten.... | Continue reading
As India attracts global internet businesses to the country, local poster boys are playing the nationalism card to urge the government to favor domestic companies. Founders of two of the most iconic Indian internet businesses — Flipkart and Ola — have advised the government to ta … | Continue reading
Bully, the controversial schoolyard adventure game from the makers of Grand Theft Auto, is headed to mobile phones and tablets.An Android version of the game is already available via Google Play priced £4.99. iPhone and iPad owners should get their own edition later today.This ve … | Continue reading
'Lopifit' is a hybrid between a scooter and a treadmill. It's an electric bicycle that's powered by you — just by walking on it. The electric motor lasts up to 50 miles on single charge. Read more...More about Watercooler, Mashable Video, Business, Viral Videos, and Uk | Continue reading
After several years of development, Zynga is finally launching its epic action strategy game Dawn of Titans around the world. The game has breathtaking graphics, allowing players to immerse themselves in a fantasy world where they can wage battles with huge Titans and fight with … | Continue reading
First of all, I'm sorry about that strapline. Tom Phillips said it would look better written down, but I'm not convinced.Anyway! Total War: Warhammer is getting its next big DLC today, introducing the Wood Elves as a playable race along with their new mini campaign that sees them … | Continue reading
NASA's Cassini probe, which left Earth in 1997 and is now circling Saturn, has sent back images taken from high above the planet's northern hemisphere, including close-ups of its intriguing hexagonal jet stream. Photo: NASA | Continue reading
Rumors about Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S8 flagship phone have been piling up over the last few weeks, and the latest one suggests the device might pack an innovative ‘all-screen’ bezel-less display. The report comes from Bloomberg, which in line with previous speculation, further … | Continue reading
We've heard a few rumors about Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S8 phone. It might have a larger, 4K screen and no headphone jack. But a new report from Bloomberg says much bigger changes are in the works for Samsung's new flagship. The Galaxy S8, it says, will ditch the physical home b … | Continue reading