Innovation hubs have become a mainstay of Africa’s emerging technology ecosystem. Scratch the surface of the continent’s information and communication building blocks and you’ll likely find connections to a tech space.Over 150 startups have launched out of Kenya’s iHub. MEST’s In … | Continue reading
This mountain has stories. That's what someone in Steep told me early on in the adventure, although I may be paraphrasing. And I thought: Sure, stories, blah blah blah. The time I spun off that jump at a wonky angle and landed, inelegantly, in the open embrace of a tree. The time … | Continue reading
Es gibt ja nicht selten Dinge, vor die man Smart klatscht, die sich irgendwie eher peinlich anhören. Überflüssig sogar. Ein Bett dass man nicht mehr machen muss, weil es sich selbst macht, klingt nun fast verlockend. Was haben wir in... | Continue reading
Brandneu und in erster Auflage erschienen ist der „Tourismusatlas Deutschland“ von Bernd Eisenstein, Rebekka Schmudde, Julian Reif und Christian Eilzer. „Welche touristische Position hat Deutschland im globalen Vergleich, wie ist das Reiseverhalten der Deutschen und wie gestaltet … | Continue reading
Sony’s ambitiously aiming to be the first third-party manufacturer to distribute the recently-announced Android 7.1.1 update, reveals Xperia Blog. In a statement made to the online publication, Sony’s Xperia development team allegedly revealed that adapting the firmware is its “n … | Continue reading
Es ist noch nicht so lange her, da hatte Magic Leap mit ihrem "Just another day in the office at Magic Leap" alle von übertriebenen Augmented-Reality-Interfaces träumen lassen. Da konnte man Fenster durch das Office schieben, mal eben den... | Continue reading
At 6pm, to a packed house of fans (including many dressed as, or bearing the logo of, their favorite plumber) Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto sat down with Katie Linendoll from The Today Show to talk about his illustrious career including, of course, Super Mario Run. Spea … | Continue reading
Vodafone in India is now offering double the amount of data for its existing 4G pre-paid customer plans, with prices starting at Rs 255. | Continue reading
The first trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man: Homecoming debuted on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, giving us a clear look at how well leading man Tom Holland can handle himself in the ol’ red and blue pajamas.The trailer follows Spider-Man as he interrupts a bank robbery, perches on tall build … | Continue reading
If you can't beat them, join them. That seems to be Facebook's approach to winning over the youth of the world, who just can't get enough of its fast-growing competitor, Snapchat. Facebook is currently testing a navigation bar that looks remarkably similar to Snapchat Discover's … | Continue reading
Key Highlights ETH price after forming a new minor high above $8.60 against the US Dollar started correcting lower. Yesterday’s highlighted bullish trend line on the hourly chart (data feed via SimpleFX) of ETH/USD acted as a support and prevented losses. If the trend line suppor … | Continue reading
If you were using Twitter this evening and noticed a distinct lack of @-symbols in your mentions, you weren't alone. Twitter has confirmed that it 'accidentally' pushed an 'experiment around replies' to all iOS users, removing the conventional username signifier from the start of … | Continue reading
There’s been a lot written recently about how YouTube star PewDiePie—whose real name is Felix Kjellberg—is threatening to delete his hugely successful channel, and how this is just a temper tantrum by a man-baby who makes millions of dollars playing video games. As accurate as th … | Continue reading
Charulata Ravi Kumar, CEO of interactive agency Razorfish India, tells eMarketer what is preventing widespread internet use in its mobile-first market and what brands need to know about digital advertising in India. | Continue reading
Following a wave of popularity for the mobile game Pokémon Go, more smartphone users in Japan are spending time with location-based games. The games are even altering gamers’ daily habits, offering potential opportunities for savvy marketers. | Continue reading
Apple is in discussions with major movie studios to offer early access to films about two weeks after they’re released in theaters, a move that points to a growing trend of video content accessed and consumed on demand. | Continue reading
Many children in the UK are prolific digital media consumers from an early age, and digital video consumption is particularly marked. But not all digital video is equally embraced—the ready availability of short-form content means longer-form video-on-demand (VOD) services … | Continue reading
Marketers are cracking the code of making advertising creative and programmatic work together to target consumers, according to Nick Welch, UK business development director at ADmantX, a first-party data provider for programmatic advertising. eMarketer’s Sean Creamer spoke … | Continue reading
Denise Colella, senior vice president of advanced advertising products and strategy at NBCUniversal, discusses the growing interest in audience-driven TV buys, and tells eMarketer the cross-device trends and challenges that could soon apply to TV. | Continue reading
HBO unveiled its latest standalone video-on-demand (VOD) service, HBO España, in November, offering subscribers access to original programming such as “Game of Thrones” and additional content from Disney and Nickelodeon. The problem? Spain does not have a pay TV cultu … | Continue reading
Facebook appears to be in strong position to take a leading role in the social commerce space in the region, where digital purchasing is still in the early stages but users are young and mobile. | Continue reading
Nintendo’s Super Mario Run could gross $70 million in its first month; Netflix drops subscription price in India; Pokémon Go teams up with Starbucks; and more. | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where we do it all for Sommerlund and the Kai! Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store's past to see how it's doing in the here and now. It's a chance to revisit old favorites, reflect on | Continue reading
vDice is on cloud 9! The Ethereum-based gambling platform, which has launched its crowd sale round three weeks back, has raised a whopping $1.8 million worth of Ether tokens. The ICO has been well received from the cryptocurrency community and other industry insiders. The success … | Continue reading
Google Calendar is a typical calendar app that many of us use daily. Though we’ve all mastered the basic features, there are many powerful features hidden below the surface. Knowing these features will transform you into a Google Calendar power user, and boost your productivity. | Continue reading
Bitcoin price continues to tread slightly higher as bulls refuse to let up, keeping the cryptocurrency in its short-term uptrend.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 12/09/2016 – Bulls Trying Harder appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
It felt pretty awesome to witness the future of transportation unveiled this summer as China’s Transit Elevated Bus Train (TEB) took to the urban streets of Qinhuangdao for testing. One would think that after such an accomplishment the vehicle would be put to use as soon as human … | Continue reading
Arguably the best-looking Android Wear smartwatch, the Huawei Watch is officially gone from the Play Store, only to be replaced by a gaudy Michael Kors smartwatch. | Continue reading
Facebook’s board was sued earlier this year, with investors alleging that their interests were not adequately represented when Zuckerberg was permitted to sell most of his shares and still retain voting control of the company. And now court filings uncovered by Bloomberg show tha … | Continue reading
In February, the Federal Communications Commission voted to reclassify the internet as a Title II communications service. The Open Internet Rule, which we all started to refer to as net neutrality, gave the commission authority to impose rules designed to keep the internet a free … | Continue reading
Want to play a game with a giant friendly beast and you don't have a PS4 for The Last Guardian? You may be in luck as third-person shooter / MOBA hybrid Gigantic, which features fighting alongside a colossal beast that will terrorise your opposition once adequately charged, has l … | Continue reading
People who have looked into the code of the most recent version of Pokémon Go may have found what will be included in the next update due on Dec. 12. | Continue reading
So you bought a Nintendo 3DS to play some Pokemon Sun… but now your Pokedex is complete and you’ve explored every inch of Alola. Now what? If you’ve got a technical background, you might consider poking around the 3DS itself. There might just be a big ol’ stack of cash in it for … | Continue reading
Sixteen years after launching Joel on Software, it’s now running on WordPress. | Continue reading
For the first time, the feathered tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been found preserved in amber. That would be plenty exciting, but there’s more: this dinosaur had feathers.The tiny feathered dino was no bigger than a sparrowThe 1.4-inch tail, described in a paper publ … | Continue reading
Because 2016 needed yet another change, Uber up and switched its app icon for the second time in 10 months. The rideshare giant first overhauled the design in February.SEE ALSO: Uber's artificial intelligence ambitions just got biggerBack then, some mocked it. Others turned the s … | Continue reading
Google today announced that it’s changing the names of its services for pushing Android apps in enterprises. Google Play for Work, a tool that organizations could use to distribute public and private Android apps to employees’ devices, will now be called just Google Play. Android … | Continue reading
Skylanders developer Vicarious Visions is going to be working on Destiny in a joint effort with Bungie. "Vicarious Visions is excited to announce that we are partnering with Bungie to further expand the Award-Winning Destiny Universe", Bungie said on Twitter.This is amid various … | Continue reading
The California Department of Motor Vehicles posts a list of all the companies and entities cleared to test self-driving vehicles on public roads in the state, and that list has a new member: Nvidia. The graphics card-maker also builds processing units for use in autonomous drivin … | Continue reading
When you think about it, Super Mario Run is the perfect entry point for Nintendo's leap into mobile gaming.Without the Mario games there would be no endless runners, the genre first popularized on Apple's earliest iPhonesRun spices things up with distinctly Mario flavors — collec … | Continue reading
Magic Leap’s allegedly revolutionary augmented reality technology may in fact be years away from completion and, as it stands now, is noticeably inferior to Microsoft’s HoloLens headset, according to a report from The Information. The report, which incorporates an interview with … | Continue reading
One of biggest studios in the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) space is now establishing itself as a force in the shooter category. Paladins, a team-based shooter with fantasy elements (that competes with games like Overwatch), has reached 5 million players worldwide, accor … | Continue reading
Gameloft’s Disney Magic Kingdoms [Free] has seen a steady stream of content updates, with the most recent one being the (pretty awesome) Halloween Nightmare Before Christmas event. Now, the freemium kingdom-builder is back at it again with a new seasonal event based on one of the … | Continue reading
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Open source laptops – ones not running any commercial software whatsoever – have been the holy grail for free software fans for years. Now, with the introduction of libreboot, a truly open source boot firmware, the dream is close to fruition. The $730 laptop is a bog standard pie … | Continue reading
On December 15, Samsung may release an update to Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in the US that would stop the phones' batteries from charging. | Continue reading
The thought of a Spotify and SoundCloud marriage filled us with butterflies when we first reported it back in September. The two were said to be in “advanced talks” over an acquisition. Since then, we’ve met with radio silence. According to a TechCrunch source, it seems the relat … | Continue reading
Droughts, climate change, and deforestation are putting forests at risk worldwide, so studying these ecosystems closely is more important than ever — but it’s a hell of a lot of work to climb every tree in the Sierra Nevada. Drones and advanced imaging, however, present an increa … | Continue reading