You can add Snapchat to the list of apps that will help you stay up to date on what's going on at the Olympics.Snapchat added a boatload of new Olympics-themed features, including new stickers, lenses and filters. The app will also host video content via its Live Stories and a ne … | Continue reading
Rainmaker Rewind spotlights top Rainmaker FM podcast episodes. This edition begins with a discussion about the art of book illustrations on Zero to Book. | Continue reading
Mercedes-Benz isn’t just planning one or two all-electric vehicle options to woo customers away from competitors including BMW and Tesla who are further along with their EV lineups – they have four models in the works, according to sources speaking to Bloomberg. These cars will b … | Continue reading
Grumblings of Just Cause 3's uneven PlayStation 4 and Xbox One performance has circulated since its late 2015 launch - a subject broached in our original Face-Off comparison. The recently released patch 1.05 gives us a chance to fully reassess the console experience, with a look … | Continue reading
As Boris explained last week, people spend a bulk of their time at work. So when the weekend finally rolls around, it’s time to relax, ditch your office attire, and unwind. And what defines a lounging atmosphere better than good music? As such, we’re creating weekly Spotify playl … | Continue reading
Passend zum Start der Sommerolympiade in Rio hat Google einen besonderen Doodle gestartet. Sieben Mini-Games kann man heute spielen. Schwimmen, Wettrennen, Tennis, als Zitrone, Banane oder Kirsche. Äußerst knuffig umgesetzt und witzig zu spielen.... | Continue reading
Procter & Gamble male grooming brand Gillette has teamed up with MakersCafe to offer consumers the chance to design and create their own razor handles. | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING Why Westbrook re-upped with OKC | Westbrook opens up on Durant’s departure | Wade’s wife excited about move to Chicago No. 1: Inside why Westbrook re-upped with Oklahoma City — The Oklahoma City Thunder picked up a major victory of sorts yesterday when All-Sta … | Continue reading
Deliveroo, the on-demand food delivery startup in Europe, has raised another $275 million in funding, a Series E investment that we have heard from sources values the company at around $1 billion. This latest round is led by new investor, Bridgepoint, previous investors DST Globa … | Continue reading
NewsFollowing the nomination of the chair, Prof. Mlynek, the Commission has now formally set-up the Commission Expert Group, with 13 very high-level academic members that will provide recommendations on the preparation of the Quantum Technology Flagship.Date: 05/08/2016 - 14:06Ra … | Continue reading
Our last edition of TNW Europe was a Mecca for 20,000 international coders, founders, and geeks – a festival-like extravaganza with countless speakers, side events and workshops. For Momentum – our new conference for New York – we’re introducing a more intimate approach: 5,000 l … | Continue reading
Gamers have had a lot to complain about when it comes to the scaled-down graphics processors companies like AMD and Nvidia cram into laptops. That’s why MSI and Nvidia teamed up to fit a full desktop GPU into an oversized notebook — and the result is a spectacular gaming rig. MSI … | Continue reading
Shapeshift has launched a new tool – Shapeshift Ethereum Splitter – that helps users split the Ethereum based cryptotokens: ETH and ETC. The Ethereum blockchain project had split into two following its hard fork last month. With Ethereum (ETH) continuing on a new fork, the origin … | Continue reading
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SSE's tennis installation, Currys PC World's giant fan and Disney's Finding Dory Westfield activation are among the most-read stories this week. | Continue reading
Perceptive visitors to Target's website this week may spot a handful of new, but familiar, products: e-readers and tablets built by Amazon. The devices are being sold online by the retailer for the first time after a four-year absence, and, according to a report from Bloomberg, w … | Continue reading
Erinnert ihr euch noch an Prime Air? Die Amazon Drohne, die euch das Paket schnell vor die Haustür fliegt? Es scheint so, als wäre der Name jetzt zunächst mal von einer älteren Technologie übernommen worden: dem Flugzeug.Ihr... | Continue reading
U.K. startup Network Locum, which has built a staffing platform and workplace management software targeting the U.K.’s National Health Service, has acquired a smaller locum GP-booking platform, Leicester-based RLocums, which operates across the East Midlands. Read More | Continue reading
The average seed round in the nascent cannabis industry in the U.S. hovers around $1 million, according to hemp and cannabis-focused investment research by Poseidon Asset Management.But Denver-based Baker has raised $1.6 million in seed funding for software that helps marijuana d … | Continue reading
Google is partnering with password management service Dashlane to build what they’re calling Open YOLO, a new API that will allow Android apps to securely access your login credentials to sign you in without any fuss. Of course you’re wondering that name is about. Here, YOLO stan … | Continue reading
Digital music may have brought the experience of listening to an artist to a more convenient platform than ever, but there’s never really been a way to replicate the social experience of seeing an artist perform live at a concert.TheWaveVR is hoping to do just that by utilizing s … | Continue reading
Yesterday my colleague Sam Byford beefed about Apple’s habit of selling outdated laptops and desktops, some of which haven’t had spec bumps in years despite the availability of faster components like CPUs and GPUs. That got me to wondering: how old is your primary laptop or deskt … | Continue reading
Christoph Waltz is one of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood right now, largely thanks to his unusual Viennese diction, and his involvement in critically-acclaimed movies like ‘Carnage’, ‘Django Unchained’, and ‘Spectre’. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that Samsung would … | Continue reading
Five percent of the people think; 10% of the people think they think; and the other 85% would rather die than think.” ―Thomas A. Edison ... | Continue reading
Action Launcher 3 has a new beta version available that incorporates all the leaked Nexus Launcher features, including slide-up app drawer and Google 'pill'. | Continue reading
Luxury phonemaker Vertu has unveiled a new trio of handsets, and, with prices starting $4,200, they might be the company's cheapest yet. The smartphones are all additions to Vertu's Aster collection, which means buyers can enjoy two-year-old specs such as a Qualcomm Snapdragon 80 … | Continue reading
Travelzoo Inc.: London (ots/PRNewswire) - Nachdem die französische Regierung am Mittwoch, den 27. Juli, bekannt gegeben hatte, dass die Strände von Cannes von bewaffneten Streifenpolizisten überwacht und große Taschen an den Stränden der Region verboten sein ... | Continue reading
Over the last year the tech product that has brought the most joy into my life has undoubtedly been Discover Weekly, Spotify's playlist of tracks personalized for my taste. Today the company is rolling out another feature along the same lines: Release Radar gives you a weekly pla … | Continue reading
Spotify is doubling down on its strategy to beat Apple Music with big data-driven personalized playlists like Discover Weekly — a huge hit that saw 40 million users in its first year. Today it launches Release Radar, a 2-hour algorithmically personalized playlist updated each Fri … | Continue reading
Instagram caught many by surprise this week when it revealed it was launching a new feature called Instagram Stories, which looked almost exactly like the Snapchat feature of the same name.While close observers likely weren't surprised that Instagram was putting its own spin on t … | Continue reading
Volume is a new kind of 3D display. It was created by Looking Glass, a company based in Brooklyn and Hong Kong. The volumetric display uses a projector and a series of transparent slices to create images in three-dimensional space, a technology Looking Glass calls "lightfolding." … | Continue reading
I’ve never been a huge fan of nature documentaries or Azis Ansari’s comedy, but it turns out combining the two together is just straight-up hilarious – and I can’t thank Netflix enough for this fortuitous discovery. Watching an episode of BBC’s Planet Earth, Redditor BenMeiri84 n … | Continue reading
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In March last year I managed to obtain a Windows ninja cat sticker for my laptop. I had been trying to track down the sticker for a few months before that after seeing it appear on Microsoft employee's laptops at Windows events. It's a ninja cat riding a fire-breathing unicorn, a … | Continue reading
Energy supplier SSE has been giving tennis fans the chance to face Andy Murray's serve with a simulator experience in Glasgow city centre. | Continue reading
Wir wissen nicht genau, ob Netflix überhaupt plant, irgendwie am 360-Grad Videohype beteiligt zu sein. Ein erstes Video dieser Art, passend aus einer Szene von Stranger Things umgesetzt, scheint aber zumindest zart anzudeuten, dass sie sich dort... | Continue reading
So we’ve come to the end of the week, and it’s been an interesting one! We’ve had a couple of classical patterns, some intrarange action, and some nice breakout scalps. All of these things have given us opportunities to get in and out of the markets for a few good take profit hit … | Continue reading
VR’s promise of boundless virtual worlds to explore is, in practice, rather more tethered to reality, given physical limits on play spaces meaning you can only walk so far in the corresponding virtual world before you’re out of sensor range and/or about to bump into a (real) wall … | Continue reading
Kraken, Virgin Trains and Havana Club feature on our list of events to watch out for next week. | Continue reading
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“Things are not as they seem, nor are they otherwise.” [The Lankavatara Sutra] Humor is a wonderful tonic for the spirit. Whenever we feel down and done for, a quip, as the British would say, pun, or well-timed joke does the job. Comedians, actors, and writers know the art of tur … | Continue reading
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Finding the best content marketing services for you can be a minefield - here's some free advice on what will work best for your organisation - big or small | Continue reading
Pokémon Go developer Niantic Labs has once again blamed third-party services like the once-popular Pokévision for continued server problems and slow rollout of its wildly popular app. In a blog post, Niantic said that that it had been delayed in bringing Pokémon Go to Brazil and … | Continue reading
A result on Geekbench and a listing over at the Chinese Technology Ministry point to a Galaxy Note 7 model with 6GB RAM and 128GB of internal storage. | Continue reading
Samsung's new Galaxy Note 7 ad starring Christoph Waltz of Inglourious Basterds and 007: Spectre fame is a weird and wonderful look at all things American. | Continue reading
In an effort to avoid any untoward accidents during the Olympics that kick off tomorrow in Rio, drone maker DJI is issuing an update for its products that will prevent them from flying into and above venues for the various sporting events in the city over the next two weeks. The … | Continue reading