Als Mercedes-Benz letztes Jahr sein Konzeptvehikel Smart Vision EQ erstmals präsentierte, wurde an dieser Stelle schon mal darüber fantasiert, wie entspannt es sein muss, von so einem vollautonomen, knuddeligen Elektrovehikel durch die Gegend... | Continue reading
Think back to the last time you were watching a movie and the main character was working on an important project. Time speeds up and the camera rotates around her, while numbers and equations flash onscreen in illuminated colors. At the end of the scene, she sits back with a big, … | Continue reading
WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk: Köln (ots) - "Die Sendung mit der Maus" ist als erste Sendung des WDR komplett barrierefrei. Neu ist seit Januar 2018 eine Audiodeskription-Version für Blinde und Menschen mit Sehbehinderungen, ein sogenannter Hörfilm. Ein Sprecher beschreibt die ... | Continue reading
new business: Hamburg (ots) - Die traditionsreiche Zeitschrift 'auto motor und sport' (Verlag: Motor Presse Stuttgart) geht inhaltlich und optisch neue Wege und passt sich den veränderten Leserbedürfnissen an. Das berichtet das Hamburger Medienmagazin 'new ... | Continue reading
new business: Hamburg (ots) - Die Comedy-Sendung 'Dittsche' mit dem Schauspieler Olli Dittrich kehrt nach fast einjähriger Pause im April ins Westdeutsche Fernsehen zurück. Das meldet das Hamburger Medienmagazin 'new business' (www.new-business.de) in seiner am ... | Continue reading
ADAC SE: München (ots) - Weit über 100.000 Kilometer legen die ADAC Inspekteure jedes Jahr zurück, um sich vor Ort persönlich ein Bild von den Campingplätzen in Europa zu machen und ihre Bewertung abzugeben. Die bis zu 300 Einzelinformationen fließen dann in ... | Continue reading
Auf der Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas hat Samsung den aktuellen Prototyp seines legendenumwobenen FaltPhones mit biegbarem Display dem Vernehmen nach fleißig im Hinterzimmer vorgeführt, und obwohl das unter strengster Verschwiegenheit... | Continue reading
neues deutschland: Berlin (ots) - Grund für das Verwaltungschaos um die Aufnahme und Registrierung von Geflüchteten in Berlin war fehlende vorausschauende Planung. Das sagte Sebastian Muschter der in Berlin erscheinenden Tageszeitung "neues deutschland" ... | Continue reading
Osnabrück (ots) - Richterbund fordert von einer neuen Bundesregierung Investitionsschub für die Justiz Geschäftsführer: Justiz darf nicht zum Nadelöhr bei der Strafverfolgung... | Continue reading
Osnabrück (ots) - Handwerk kritisiert "Zwei-Klassen-Lösung" beim Wegfall des Solidaritätszuschlags "Für alle muss der Soli weg" - Generalsekretär Schwannecke: Sorge über... | Continue reading
Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung: Osnabrück (ots) - Streit mit Ex-Partner: Peter Heppner sieht wenig Chancen für Reunion seiner Erfolgsband Wolfsheim Hamburger Sänger verweist auf fehlendes Vertrauen - "Kann mir nicht vorstellen, unter welchen Umständen das funktionieren sollte" ... | Continue reading
Tiens Group: Hangzhou, China (ots/PRNewswire) - Am 10. Januar 2018 fand Chinas fünftes globales Entwicklungsforum für kleine und mittlere Betriebe (Fifth China SME Global Development Forum) und Markeninnovations- und Entwicklungsforum (Fifth China Brand ... | Continue reading
Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung: Osnabrück (ots) - Middelberg: Abgeltungsteuer für Dividenden bleibt CDU-Politiker zu Sondierungsergebnis Osnabrück. Union und SPD wollen an der Besteuerung von Dividenden mit 25 Prozent Abgeltungsteuer festhalten. Das stellte der ... | Continue reading
Apple says that an email sent to users with Apple IDs outside of China that their iCloud data was being moved to a Chinese company’s servers was done so accidentally. The Cupertino tech giant had announced Wednesday that next month it will begin the process of moving Chinese use … | Continue reading
Düsseldorf (ots) - NRW-Finanzminister Lutz Lienenkämper (CDU) fordert Nachbesserungen bei den Sondierungsergebnissen in Berlin. Weil die Gespräche bislang keine finanzielle... | Continue reading
Technological advancement and the emergence of the Internet, has brought about amazing changes in nearly every sector of the economy. There is an element of programming embedded in all available jobs. Hence, programming skills have become very important. To be able to adapt in th … | Continue reading
GUEST: PC gamers are nothing if not passionate. They’re often labeled as “enthusiasts” and even “hardcore,” but whatever label seems most fitting, PC gamers comprise a group of more than 1.2 billion individuals around the globe. This number is only growing, and its upward swing i … | Continue reading
Angular has many Pipes built-in, but they only take us so far. Ideally we’d like to extend our applications by creating custom Pipes. | Continue reading
Westfalen-Blatt: Bielefeld (ots) - Alle Polizisten in NRW sollen noch in diesem Jahr sogenannte Körperkameras (Bodycams) bekommen. Wie das in Bielefeld erscheinende WESTFALEN-BLATT berichtet, kündigte NRW-Innminister Herbert Reul (CDU) das bei einem Besuch in ... | Continue reading
Having a good insurance coverage makes it possible for you to handle risk and uncertainties without going bankrupt. With a good insurance policy, there is adequate protection for your properties, or against business loss. Notwithstanding, how do you save on insurance? Individuals … | Continue reading
Systech International: Brüssel (ots/PRNewswire) - Systech International, weltweit führender Technologiehersteller in den Bereichen Serialisierungs- und Track & Trace-Lösungen sowie Markenschutz, erweiterte seine Präsenz in Europa im Jahr 2017 mit neuen Kunden in ... | Continue reading
There are a lot of ways to disparage a place, but some words carry more venom—and historical baggage—than others. Some version of what the U.S. president reportedly said has been said forever; it’s been said about the place I call home.Truth be told: It’s a pretty effective narra … | Continue reading
Since the first announcement of Blizzard’s Overwatch League, I’ve tried to stay excited. After all, this is the first time that an esports organization was going to do some of the things I’ve always said I wanted: city-based teams, seasonal play, and base-pay for players. The pro … | Continue reading
Haunting pictures of children bundled up tightly in freezing Baltimore classrooms drove a national conversation about the city’s crumbling facilities and government incompetence. It is beyond banal to say that there’s no easy solution. But what if it were somebody’s job to make s … | Continue reading
Rheinische Post: Düsseldorf (ots) - Deutschlands zweitgrößter Telekommunikationskonzern Vodafone fordert ein staatliches Förderprogramm, um das künftige Mobilfunknetz 5G schnell starten zu können. "Ein früher Start der 5G-Netze wäre gerade im Autoland Deutschland ... | Continue reading
Rheinische Post: Düsseldorf (ots) - DIHK-Präsident Eric Schweitzer übte scharfe Kritik an den Steuerplänen von Union und SPD. "In der Steuerpolitik hat die nun wohl mögliche Koalition die Zeichen der Zeit noch nicht erkannt", sagte Schweitzer der in Düsseldorf ... | Continue reading
David Letterman seems to be taking the title of his new Netflix show very seriously: On the very first episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman, he’s joined by former U.S. President Barack Obama. The episode has plenty of funny moments, like Obama ribb … | Continue reading
After a monster “bomb cyclone” and frigid Arctic blasts that set some new records on the US East Coast, temperatures have been a bit more merciful this week. And that’s setting the stage for some pretty cool phenomena — like this ice jam on the Ausable River in Au Sable Forks, lo … | Continue reading
When David Letterman left the Late Show in 2015, it felt like a generational changing of the guard. After over three decades as a late-night host, the comedian was stepping away, letting Stephen Colbert reinvent the show while Letterman enjoyed the free time to do, well, nothing … | Continue reading
It hasn’t been a fun time to be Intel. Last week the company revealed two chip vulnerabilities that have come to be known as Spectre and Meltdown, and have been rocking the entire chip industry ever since (not just Intel). This week the company issued some patches to rectify the … | Continue reading
Intel had a bad week last week. It was so bad that the chip maker has to be thrilled to have CES, the massive consumer technology show going on this week in Las Vegas, as a way to change the subject and focus on the other work they are doing. For starters, CEO Brian Krzanich had … | Continue reading
GUEST: Ford drove the first automobile down the streets of Detroit in 1890. It would take another 30 years before the company streamlined production and made cars available to the mass market. The obvious lesson: Sometimes technology has a long gestation period before we can scal … | Continue reading
Any minute now, John Schmidt expects to be removed from his apartment by U.S. Marshals.Schmidt lives in Buffalo’s Shoreline apartments, an affordable housing complex behind City Hall. Designed by the legendary modernist architect Paul Rudolph and built in 1974, Shoreline original … | Continue reading
The Verge crew is on our way back home after a week at the Consumer Electronics Show 2018. This week, we did a ton of reporting, a ton of videos, and four live Circuit Breaker shows, so we did not have a lot of time to sit down and tape a full-length Vergecast. But what we did do … | Continue reading
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Every year, journalists start CES with faint optimism and conclude with disappointment; as the song goes, they thought the future would be cooler. At some point right as the show is ending, someone will typically float Apple — which officially skips CES every year — as either the … | Continue reading
Luma, a three-year-old, Atlanta, Ga.-based maker of smart WiFi routers, has been acquired by First Alert, a maker of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors that is itself a subsidiary of Newell Brands, a public company whose other holdings include Rubbermaid. Terms of the deal aren … | Continue reading
Stuttgarter Zeitung: Stuttgart (ots) - Auf einer Reisemesse wie der CMT in Stuttgart stellt sich die Frage, ob das Konzept der Partnerländer nicht überarbeitet werden sollte. Statt einzelne Länder in den Mittelpunkt zu rücken, könnte der Fokus künftig mehr auf den ... | Continue reading
New York-based Boxed, the startup for buying food and household items in bulk, is in talks to be acquired by Kroger for about $500 million. Other retailers are also expected to be making bids. The news was first reported by Forbes and confirmed to TechCrunch by a source with kno … | Continue reading
LXORY isn’t exactly a major company in the wireless charging business, but they’ve managed to become the first to release a wireless charger with an input for Apple’s Lightning cables, via 9to5Mac. Almost every other charger out there uses either MicroUSB, USB-C, or a proprietary … | Continue reading
I don’t know a marketer out there that would say that influence in social media is not a commodity, if you know how to leverage it. I do however, know a lot of marketers out there, who strugg… | Continue reading
David Gudeman, one of two ex-Google engineers suing the company for alleged discrimination against conservative white men, says the company is dominated by a “hate group” illegally promoting “racism and misandry.” Gudeman and his co-plaintiff James Damore filed the lawsuit earlie … | Continue reading
South Korea's citizens reacted angrily to a proposed ban on cryptocurrency exchanges, with politicians and residents alike condemning the move. | Continue reading
Hulu is doubling down on the dystopian adaptation business. With the streaming service’s The Handmaid’s Tale continuing to rack up award wins, Hulu is adding another adaptation of a literary classic to its library: Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22, which George Clooney will co-writ … | Continue reading
Design ingenuity and a dose of respect for its original Gothic Revival bones deliver a blighted 1870s harbourside home in Sydney into the 21st century. | Continue reading
Westfalenpost: Hagen (ots) - Das kategorische Nein verwandelte sich zuerst in ein zögerliches Vielleicht, jetzt ist es ein klares Ja: Die SPD-Spitze stimmt einer Großen Koalition nun doch zu. Veranlasst hat die 180-Grad-Kehrtwende ein Gemisch aus staatspolitischer ... | Continue reading