Earlier this year, Google announced its plans to bring Android Auto, its phone-centric in-car infotainment platform, “to every car” by launching it as a stand-alone Android app, too. It’s taken a while, but the company today launched an update to the Android Auto app for — well — … | Continue reading
With both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in New York City on election night, NYPD Chief of Department Carlos M. Gomez and James Waters, NYPD chief of counterterrorism, detail the city’s security preparations at a press conference on Monday. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Apple is bringing in help to boost its News app. Apple is going to hand over ad sales for the app to Comcast’s NBCUniversal in an exclusive deal that starts in January.Publishers who put content on the app can still sell their own ads and will keep 100 percent of the revenue from … | Continue reading
The end is nigh for the 2016 presidential election. We have but one hurdle left: the outcome. If, like us, you plan to spend your election night in a dark living room hunched over your laptop, we’d like to make the experience a little easier. Here’s how to follow along with the e … | Continue reading
A new treatment that protects the babies of pregnant mice infected with Zika could help us create a similar therapy for humans. The mosquito-borne Zika virus has “spread explosively” through the Americas, leading to health and travel advisories in many countries. The virus can ca … | Continue reading
I’m often asked, why would I use a multimedia platform if I already have a way to create content and connect with my customers and employees? Well, first it’s important to recognize what a multimedia platform is and how it can be used to engage your Read more ...The post Why onl … | Continue reading
Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Open Whisper Systems (OWS), the not-for-profit software group behind the respected Signal Protocol crypto (and the eponymous Signal secure messaging app) has responded to criticism of how the group is developing its projects by calling for more contr … | Continue reading
It’s hard to make an original wristwatch these days. But hard doesn’t have to mean impossible, as evidenced by the Swiss-made Klokers Klok-01 that I’ve had the pleasure of testing over the past few weeks. This watch, funded on Kickstarter and costing a hefty €399 ($445) today, st … | Continue reading
If you’re a frequent Twitter user with an Android smartphone or tablet running Nougat, you’ll be glad to hear that the stable version of the application has finally been graced with multi-window compatibility, launcher shortcuts and a shiny new circular icon. Some may argue that … | Continue reading
Luxury chocolate brand Lindt is offering members of the public the chance to attend a chocolate and wine pairing masterclass. | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Wellington Financial LP, a privately-held specialty finance firm, today announced the firm was named to U.K.-based Preqin's Most Consistent Top Performing Private Debt Fund Managers list for 2016. This is the second time in three... | Continue reading
BioWare has released a new trailer for Mass Effect: Andromeda, the next entry in its super-successful sci-fi series, due out on consoles and PC early next year. We've seen teasers for Andromeda before, but this new minute and a half trailer gives us our first good look at the gam … | Continue reading
BioWare has kicked off this year's Mass Effect N7 Day celebrations with a new Andromeda cinematic trailer, and detail on the game's two sibling stars.There's actually little new in the trailer we haven't seen before - alien worlds, a big space worm, a slightly clearer look at you … | Continue reading
YouTube is getting a major quality update today with the addition of HDR video support. Unlike when YouTube added HD and 4K years ago, this time it’s all about the colors. If you’re not familiar, HDR video is somewhat similar to what it means for photos in the sense that it allow … | Continue reading
YouTube today added support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos. This means you can now watch YouTube videos in HDR on supported devices, including HDR TVs with the Chromecast Ultra and soon on all 2016 Samsung SUHD and UHD TVs. HDR videos have higher color contrast as well as mo … | Continue reading
C J W Griffiths, auctioneer :Bankrupt stock! In accordance with instructions received Mr C J W Griffiths will sell by public auction at his rooms, Market Place, Blenheim, at 12 o'clock noon, on Saturday next, June 7th, one of the largest and most varied s | Continue reading
Microsoft is announcing today a few updates to its Azure public cloud lineup. Most significantly, the company is introducing a new Azure Container Registry service that will let developers host container images for applications they want to run on the Azure infrastructure. Contai … | Continue reading
The open source Kubernetes container management project is probably the most popular of the various competing container management services available today. The Cloud Native Compute Foundation, which plays host to the open source side of Kubernetes, is hosting its first Kubernete … | Continue reading
Video quality on YouTube is getting an upgrade today, with the launch of HDR support across the video-sharing site. HDR offers improved picture quality with higher contrast, which means you’ll see more vibrant colors as well as make out more of the image in darker, shadowy scenes … | Continue reading
Not saying that the US election results could impact Bitcoin, one can still see digital currency traders mirroring stock market traders’ cautious take. | Continue reading
President Obama warned that democracy is on the ballot this year, but there’s even more at stake — Americans could also be voting to protect the future of our entire planet. Climate change is the biggest story in science policy, and this year we’re faced with a stark choice. On o … | Continue reading
YouTube today announced that its platform now supports high dynamic range, or HDR, video. HDR essentially allows screens with the right hardware specifications to display a more accurate and realistic range of whites and blacks, as well as a wider range of colors. Alongside 4K re … | Continue reading
YouTube, the world's largest and most popular video service, now supports HDR content for sharper, more vibrant picture quality.The company announced HDR (High Dynamic Range) support in January, and now it's finally live.SEE ALSO: Now you can see incredibly lifelike picture with … | Continue reading
2008 ist in technischen Belangen eine Ewigkeit her. Aber manchmal behalten Themen ihre Aktualität. Das zeigt dieser Lenovo-Spot von 2008, der seinerzeit das MacBook Air aufs Korn nahm. Erst kurz zuvor präsentierte Steve Jobs den neuen Rechner... | Continue reading
Financial services has the reputation of being a dry industry. Even for consumer-facing financial businesses, it can be challenging to communicate such in-depth and complicated concepts as financial health and wealth management, budgeting, retirement investment plans and so much … | Continue reading
This is a guest post by Siddharth Ram – Chief Architect, Small Business. Siddharth_ra... | Continue reading
Patrick Bach, general manager of DICE, the Electronic Arts game studio that makes the Battlefield series, has left the company. EA confirmed the departure of Bach, who worked at DICE in various jobs at the Stockholm, Sweden studio that just shipped Battlefield 1. “I’ve had an epi … | Continue reading
As part of the “Festival della Scienza”, a very important and wide event taking place from October 27 to November 6 at Geneva (Italy), CIVIC EPISTEMOLOGIES project has been selected to discuss about the Citizens engagement and the results of its … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The Clothes Show, owned by Haymarket Media Group, will relocate from Birmingham to Liverpool for July 2017 and become a three-day city-wide festival. | Continue reading
Doctor Strange hit theaters just a few days ago, catapulting fans deep into the weird far reaches of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s brand-new territory for the long-running series; where superheroes like Iron Man and Thor already have fantastical abilities, they’re grounded … | Continue reading
Polling from the Romney-Obama race four years ago shows that the 2016 election cycle is actually not as competitive as that race was, though it may feel more contentious. Here's a look at the numbers. | Continue reading
The Finland ice hockey club IFK Helsinki announced that it has created a team for Blizzard’s team-based shooter Overwatch. This is the first foray into the world of esports. This is another example of a traditional sports group getting in the competitive gaming scene, a business … | Continue reading
The questions — which I put to Intel, Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Slack, Google, and Salesforce — were pretty straightforward. I simply wanted to know why none of the major technology companies in the U.S. (with the exception of LinkedIn) include disability in their public diver … | Continue reading
Brian Trautman used to work as a software analyst at Microsoft. Then he decided to teach himself how to sail and head out to sea. Now he has thousands of fans who follow him online as he travels around the world. Photo: The Delos Project | Continue reading
Mass Effect Andromeda will launch with a $199 Collector's Edition which includes a remote-control Mako.Amazon.com has a listing for the special edition which is now available to pre-order (although there's no sign of the UK version just yet).Now renamed the Nomad, Mass Effect And … | Continue reading
Fast food goliath McDonalds is almost ready to enter the digital age as the popular franchise is gearing up to launch its own order-and-pay online service. The new app is slated to arrive in 2017, but will initially be available only in select international markets, including Aus … | Continue reading
Content Science Review Headquarters, Atlanta This week, we are having our annual Content Science Review company retreat, but here at Content Science, we’ve never taken too kindly to the term “retreat.” Why is it that an event that’s all about planning, strategizing, tweaking, bra … | Continue reading
If you've been on the fence about getting an Amazon Echo, today's your lucky day. Amazon is slashing $40 off the voice-controlled tube, bringing the device down to $140 from its regular price of $180.The limited time discount is in celebration of the Echo's second birthday. The s … | Continue reading
If you could change anything about the Huawei Mate 9, what would it be? Be sure to cast your vote in our latest Poll of the Week! | Continue reading
AMC’s The Walking Dead has always had a knack for manipulating its audience, but this year’s hyper-violent season premiere went too far. In fact, it went so far that we canceled our ongoing series The Walking Dead Quitter’s Club, with co-author Bryan Bishop swearing off the show … | Continue reading
With more online shoppers turning to sites like Amazon, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers have had to step up their competition on the e-commerce front – including by offering faster deliveries – or risk losing customers. The latest to join the fight is PetSmart, which today … | Continue reading
PR pros read plenty of advice on being interviewed by the media but little on how to interview others. Interviewing others is an often neglected, underdeveloped skill in PR. Few if any PR schools include interviewing in their curriculum, and instruction on the topic remains rare … | Continue reading
Der große Kampf zwischen Hamburg und Berlin, wer denn zuerst sein Großbauprojekt zu Ende stellen wird, scheint entschieden. Im Januar 2017 wird die Hamburger Elbphilharmonie eröffnet. Die Bauarbeiten sind abgeschlossen und wann der Flughafen... | Continue reading
To celebrate the device's second anniversary, the Amazon Echo is on sale for just $140 today only, a 22 percent saving. | Continue reading
The Indian Bitcoin sector has come of age. Unocoin, one of the country’s “Big Four” Bitcoin exchanges has today announced the launch of a robust API for businesses. According to the company’s latest press release, the new Application Programming Interface (API) will allow compani … | Continue reading
Insect bites on fossilized leaves have finally helped us solve a long-standing mystery around the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. For years, scientists thought that the meteor hurt North America more, making South America a refuge for the species t … | Continue reading
During Google’s annual developers conference this past spring, the company teased a version of its Android Auto software that would run entirely on an Android phone and not require a new car or aftermarket dashboard display. Now the company is starting to roll this software out t … | Continue reading