The blockchain could serve as the foundation of a system for connecting energy grids, delivering more efficient and environmentally sustainable energy, according to Greentechmedia.com, a news site for the global clean energy market. One company, L03 Energy, is building an “open s … | Continue reading
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Global Internet-based firms could have their services blocked in Indonesia if they do not obtain “permanent establishment” status in the country and pay Indonesian tax, government officials said on Monday. Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro told reporters a … | Continue reading
If when you woke up this morning the first thing to pop into your head was The Boomtown Rats hit ‘I don’t like Mondays‘ (or maybe Deathcab for Cutie’s ‘Monday Morning’ is more your speed) then I can only empathize with your distress, offer my apologies that the weekend has indeed … | Continue reading
Every four years, the worldwide calendar reminds us of a secret. Leaping. Leaping powers innovation, it is the engine of not only our economy, but of a thrilling and generous life. Of course, you can (and should) be leaping regularly.... | Continue reading
Far Cry Primal has leapt to the top of the UK all-format charts in its debut week of release.Ubisoft's Stone Age adventure beat off competition from EA shooter Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, which dug its heels into second place.But there's no word yet on how well either s … | Continue reading
Date: 29/02/2016The CROP project’s advances in developing an innovative cycloidal rotor technology to power such an aircraft brings this prospect much closer. An aircraft with cycloidal rotor technology can spin through 360 degrees around all axes, take off and hover like a helic … | Continue reading
Snapchat suffered a data breach over the weekend after one of its staff fell for a phishing email asking for payroll information and purporting to be from the company’s CEO Evan Spiegel. The company has assured the world that its servers were not breached – so no user data has be … | Continue reading
Soothing chamomile and zesty lemon pair beautifully together in this shortbread to create a sweet, comforting flavour. Perfect served with a cup of chamomile tea! This recipe is based on my original vegan shortbread recipe with the obvious additions as well as a tablespoon of cor … | Continue reading
Am Vortag der IMEX 2016 in Frankfurt laden MICE-Anbieter aus Kroatien Veranstaltungsplaner aus Agenturen, Unternehmen und Verbänden zum “(M)ICE Cream CROATIA” Messe-Kick-Off Event ein. Die Abendveranstaltung mit Workshop am 18. April beginnt um 18 Uhr. Kroatien ist eine vielfälti … | Continue reading
Nikon hat nicht nur neue Kameras der Coolpix-Serie am Start, Mit der DL-Reihe will man ab Juni drei Kameras anbieten, die alle mit einem 1" großen Bildsensor ausgestattet sind. Die Strategie dahinter ist klar: Nikon will sich Marktanteile im K... | Continue reading
Four years after launching the original Raspberry Pi, an ultra-cheap, barebones and tiny but surprisingly versatile PC, the Raspberry Pi Foundation launched the third major iteration of the same product.The Raspberry Pi 3 has a new, 1.2GHz, 64-bit, quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 proces … | Continue reading
Concerto Live has appointed Max Fellows as head of client services. | Continue reading
Netflix said it was going to declare war on users that took advantage of VPN services and DNS hacks to gain access to the US library, and it wasn’t kidding: a number of common methods for obscuring your location have been blocked entirely in the last week. Users poured into a thr … | Continue reading
Snapchat has revealed it was targeted in a phishing attack by a scammer impersonating Evan Spiegal, the company’s co-founder and CEO. The popular social network, which has raised more than $1 billion in funding, received an email last Friday requesting payroll data for employees. … | Continue reading
Last week was a pretty good week for our intraday, bitcoin price strategy. We managed to get in and out of some decent trades, and limited our downside to just a few, negligible chop outs. With any luck, we’re in for a similar week this time around. If action over the weekend is … | Continue reading
Amanresorts: Singapur (ots) - Am 1. März eröffnet Aman mit dem Amanemu sein erstes Thermalresort in Japan. Heimat des Amanemu ist der Ise Shima-Nationalpark an der zerklüfteten Ago-Bucht in der Präfektur Honshu Mie. Mit seinem zweiten japanischen Resort hat die ... | Continue reading
Reisebüro Nees GmbH: Krombach (ots) - Damals, als Kreuzfahrten noch den Wohlhabenden vorbehalten waren, sah man sie oft an Bord: prominente Gäste, bekannt aus Funk und Fernsehen. Heute sind wieder viele VIPs an Bord der Schiffe. Doch sie arbeiten statt sich zu erholen. ... | Continue reading
Fergus McGovern, founder of British developer and port house Probe Software, has died.He was reportedly aged just 50.McGovern founded Probe Software (later re-named Probe Entertainment) in 1984. The studio was a huge British success story, and worked on world-famous games such as … | Continue reading
Shenmue 3 is real - it still feels slightly strange typing that - and our latest update suggests it's shaping up pretty well. Yu Suzuki and his studio Ys Net has offered Kickstarter backers a new look at work in progress on Shenmue 3, with a batch of fresh screens being released … | Continue reading
Amazon has signed a wholesale supply deal with Morrisons, one of Britain’s largest supermarket chains, to deliver fresh and frozen groceries to Amazon Prime Now and Amazon Pantry customers. Read More | Continue reading
A software developer in Denmark has created a way to track the sleep patterns of his Facebook friends using only the activity data available on the social network. The tool, developed by Søren Louv-Jansen, is based on the activity timestamps that Facebook stores on users of its s … | Continue reading
Volvo arbeitet an ROAR (RObot based Autonomous Refuse handling), ein System zur autonomen Müllentsorgung. Letzte Woche führte das Unternehmen zum ersten Mal die Müll-Drohne vor, die Studenten von drei Universitäten (Chalmers Uni... | Continue reading
Snapchat is famous for its disappearing messages, but not everything is ephemeral. Today the company disclosed that a number of its current and former employees had their identifies compromised following a phishing attack staged on the company this month. Read More | Continue reading
A major new Raspberry Pi microprocessor has been announced today: the Pi 3 Model B board becomes the new top-of-the-line Pi, with a 64bit 1.2GHz quad-core chipset and 1GB RAM it’s being slated to offer a 50 per cent power bump over the Pi 2. But is still priced at just $35… Read … | Continue reading
Did you know content upgrades can be used not just on your blog, but on other content you have across the web too? Find out how... | Continue reading
Here's how much money you'll need to buy an HTC Vive virtual reality headset: £689.If you live in the US, it's $799. In the rest of Europe, it'll cost you €899.It seems a lot, and it is. Oculus Rifts costs £499 by comparison, although that is just a headset. Read more… | Continue reading
Nur wenige Tage nach der Vorstellung der neuen Galaxy-Smartphones meldet Samsung eines 256 GB großen Speicherchips, der auch in Smartphones zum Einsatz kommen kann. Mit einer Lesegeschwindigkeit von bis zu 850 MB/s und bis zu 260 MB/s im Schr... | Continue reading
Raspberry Pi was born on 29 February 2012, the last leap year, and now on the second leap year in the company’s history it’s releasing a major hardware update. The Raspberry Pi 3 features a 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core, 1GB of RAM, integrated 802.11n wireless and Bluetooth 4.1, as wel … | Continue reading
Leonardo DiCaprio made history multiple times during the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday. Not only did the actor finally win Best Actor for his performance in “The Revenant,” but Twitter said that he created the most-tweeted minute ever to take place during an Oscars telecast. It u … | Continue reading
When a startup manages a successful exit, its earliest adopters usually don’t get much in return except for bragging rights. RocketClub wants to change that. Read More | Continue reading
E-commerce giants with ambitions to build regional Amazon rivals in emerging markets continue to rake in huge amounts of funding. Today, comes the latest development: Souq — an online marketplace that has been described as the Amazon of the Middle East — has announced that it has … | Continue reading
Gabe Newell, Chef von Valve, hat abrupt und reichlich öffentlich den Moderator des "The Shanghai Major 2016"-Turniers (Dota 2, 16 Teams, 3 Mio. Dollar Preisgeld) rausgeworfen und die Produktionsfirma des Turnier-Streams gleich hinterher. In ei... | Continue reading
These days it's not hard to find free indie games to play. With sites like Newgrounds, Kongregate and Itch.io providing a platform for up-and-coming developers, it's never been easier for aspiring game creators to bring their experimental prototypes to the masses. This will attra … | Continue reading
Snapchat rolled out the red carpet for web users to catch up on snaps from tonight’s Academy Awards. Visitors to the snapchat.com site were greeted with an online player offering Snapchat Live updates on the awards show. This is the first time Snapchat has shown off content in th … | Continue reading
Bei Weibo, dem chinesischen sozialen Netzwerk, ist dieses Foto aufgetaucht, das die Rückseite des Huawei P9 zeigen soll. Erst vor knapp zwei Wochen kursierten erste Pressebilder/Renderings, die einige Features und auch das Design des demnä... | Continue reading
LinkedIn is currently the largest professional networking platform on the internet. With more than 300 million user accounts and counting, it’s one of the best places for job seekers to meet potential employers and for recruiters to search for talent. And that has been the case f … | Continue reading
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is celebrating its computer's fourth birthday with some big news: it's launching a brand new Raspberry Pi today. The Raspberry Pi 3 is perhaps the biggest update yet to the tiny and extremely inexpensive computer. This new model is still just $35, and … | Continue reading
nestpick: Berlin (ots) - Im Februar erhielten Airbnb Vermieter überall in Europas beliebtesten Städten wie Berlin, Paris und London die Nachricht, dass ihre Wohnungen wegen Verstoßes gegen die Richtlinien für Vermietung und gegen die allgemeinen ... | Continue reading
Mad Max's multiple Oscar wins drew deserved cheers from the Academy Award audience last night, but support for the movie also came from an unexpected source — democratic senator from Missouri, Claire McCaskill. McCaskill, who was diagnosed with breast cancer this week, tweeted a … | Continue reading
In late last year, Bitcoin surged past the established resistance to rise in value. In the month of August and early September, the digital currency was valued at around $200 plus with minimum volatility. However, thanks to the global economic conditions, bitcoin price picked up. … | Continue reading
The best Oscars speeches feel spontaneous. They're the rare, inspiring moments that actually speak to what a winner is passionate about — think Patricia Arquette's call to fight wage inequality. The Academy seemed to be pushing for more of those this year by adding a "thank-you t … | Continue reading
Ever bashed your car door trying to get out in a tight spot? Tesla has the answer, if you can afford the car, of course.Over the weekend, Tesla announced its latest software update, version 7.1.1, was being digitally delivered to Australian Model S drivers.SEE ALSO: Tesla increas … | Continue reading
Getting freelance help for business projects often feels more like dating than time-saving. Businesses have to post an attractive task, pick a freelancer to do it (based on little information) and then hope it’s a good match and that the work comes back at a decent quality. If it … | Continue reading
The biggest win of the evening may have gone to Spotlight, but it was another film entirely that really won this year's Oscars. Mad Max: Fury Road took home six awards over the course of the night, far surpassing any other film (its closest competitor was The Revenant, which earn … | Continue reading
Who better to congratulate Leonardo DiCaprio on his first Academy Award than all of the Leonardo DiCaprios who did not win Academy Awards?After all, who knows you better than all the people you pretended to be one time? They've been with you like a second set of footprints in the … | Continue reading
Leave it to good old fashioned journalism to throw off The Revenant's big night: Spotlight just won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was a clear upset victory, with The Revenant having earned several awards throughout the evening, most notably the first Academy Award for st … | Continue reading
With this year's Oscars tackling Hollywood's lack of diversity head on, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, took the stage to state how important diversity is in Hollywood. With this year's ceremony as a jumping off point, she ca … | Continue reading
By Alex Star, BlueBird Strategies Editor’s note: As part of a special arrangement, the article below has been syndicated from the blog of BlueBird Strategies, a Content4Demand partner. Ah, content. “The Kingdom,” as famously quoted by Lee Odden. And while it may not be King, i … | Continue reading