SWR - Südwestrundfunk: Mainz / Baden-Baden (ots) - Nach mehr als 17 Jahren Bauzeit wird am 1. Juni 2016 mit dem Gotthard-Basistunnel der längste Eisenbahntunnel der Welt eröffnet. Eine 57 Kilometer lange Röhre, gefräst durch das Felsmassiv im Herzen der Schweiz. Dieses ... | Continue reading
The pressures on Uber are immense. On one side, it’s taken on more than $10 billion in funding since it launched in 2009 and is now so widely used that the car-hailing service is present in hundreds of cities around the world. And yet, it hasn’t taken the decision to standardize … | Continue reading
Since 2011, NASA has been trying to wean itself off Russian rockets as the only way of getting astronauts up to the International Space Station, and in 2014, Boeing and SpaceX won contracts to carry out launches. Now, though, Boeing says it's going to have to delay its crewed fli … | Continue reading
Virtual reality headsets have debuted, but now they need VR content. That’s why HumanEyes Technologies is launching a 360-degree Vuze camera today that can capture images in VR. The camera is available for preorders from today and will ship this fall. The Denver-based company is … | Continue reading
Hyperlocal weather app Dark Sky is a favorite for many smartphone users – the caveat, of course, being that it was only available on iPhone and iPad. Today, that finally changes. Yep: Dark Sky for Android has landed, and will bring you all the major features such as next-hour not … | Continue reading
With few exceptions, the traditional camera market has a product for pretty much every price imaginable. Virtual reality cameras, on the other hand, tend to be either a few hundred dollars (e.g. Ricoh's Theta series) or somewhere in the five-figure range. HumanEyes is aiming to f … | Continue reading
In-home video entertainment is a very big deal. $381 billion globally in 2019 big. About $100 billion in North America big. Triple the revenue of apps and games big. No wonder, then, that it won’t get re-worked as easily or quickly as music did. The TV conglomerates are sticking … | Continue reading
There's nothing that will give you more nostalgia than the first generation iPhone, released in 2007. Though it was super laggy, really chunky and very round, it was incredibly unique at the same time. But the biggest downer is that it didn't have a front lens camera, a millennia … | Continue reading
A college education can cost as much as $200,000, and the small scholarships that most students apply for won’t make much of a difference in the long run. So Schoold, a college search app that debuted a few months back, is making it easier to search for scholarship information as … | Continue reading
Virtual reality is expensive. High-end headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive will run you $599 and $799 – and the cameras required to capture the content runs several times that. At $799, the VUZE isn’t particularly cheap by most of our standards, but it’s certainly enough … | Continue reading
Jim D'Arcangelo, Senior VP of Marketing at Booker.com, joins the Content Pros Podcast to share how a smartly structured blog and organized content strategy can triple sales. | Continue reading
The new Kindle Oasis has a sleek profile and comes with a fancy leather case that gives Kindle even more batter life — but it also starts at $290. As my Verge colleague Katie Boehret wrote in her review, for that price you might think you'd dinner and a bottle of wine with your K … | Continue reading
Today, the clouds have parted for Android fans. Dark Sky, the weather app with a cult-like following, is finally available in the Google Play Store.Dark Sky (the app and company share the same name) prides itself on precise precipitation notifications for your time and location — … | Continue reading
Collectible card battler Chronicle: Runescape Legends will launch fully via Steam on Thursday, 26th May.The Runescape spin-off is already available try via its open beta, which has been running for the past couple of months. Download the beta and try it before launch day and you' … | Continue reading
How does marketing drive an effective customer experience? To find out, we asked Robert Rose, content marketing strategist, to share his thoughts | Continue reading
Smartphone, Tablet or PC: Which one is better to watch your favourite subtitled film? Judit Castellà, Andreu Oliver, Olivia Gerber, & Olga Soler presented their last work “Smartphone, Tablet or PC: Which one is better to watch your favourite subtitled film?” carried out in the sc … | Continue reading
Ein kürzlich veröffentlichtes Patent von Apple beschreibt, wie zukünftige Version des Smart Covers, der Schutzhülle des Tablet-Displays, sowohl mit Sensoren als auch mit Screen ausgestattet werden können. Verschiedene Funkt... | Continue reading
Bangalore, India-based firm Creo has come a long way. From creating a commendable Chromecast rival that I liked a lot, it’s now secured funding from Sequoia and others to take on smartphone makers and mobile software developers. The company recently launched its Mark 1 handset wh … | Continue reading
According to a study by the Duke University Fuqua School of Business, companies are rapidly increasing their social marketing budgets, even as they struggle to demonstrate the impact their efforts are having on their businesses. The study revealed that the average business spends … | Continue reading
In an effort to ensure the security of its Firefox browser, Mozilla has filed a brief with a US district court in Washington to request that the government reveal details about a vulnerability the FBI discovered in the Tor browser. Back in 2015, the the agency launched ‘Operation … | Continue reading
In the time it took for me to realize that the grit I was chewing on was Nevada desert dust, Hyperloop One’s open air propulsion system test was done. It had taken far more time for company co-founder and executive chairman Shervin Pishevar to recite a favorite Teddy Roosevelt pa … | Continue reading
Talking to Taiwanese media, Asus CEO Jerry Shen said that the next generation ZenFone devices will be launched in June. | Continue reading
Kraken has introduced Ether (ETH) Dark Pool trading in its platform, chalking a milestone as the first ever digital currency exchange to do so with the currency powering Ethereum. In a nod to ether’s rapid rise, both in popularity and value, Kraken has become the first virtual cu … | Continue reading
SpaceX, the space exploration company dedicated to cost efficient space travel and exploration, loves to land rockets on tiny barges out in the middle of the ocean. Given the vast amount of resources that the company has, why not just return those rockets back to land instead of … | Continue reading
Kraken yesterday announced that it is introducing Ether Dark Pool on its platform, thereby becoming the first digital currency exchange to have introduced such a trading feature. The core motto behind the launch of Ether Dark Pool is to provide traders with an abstract layer of p … | Continue reading
I woke up this Monday morning in a hotel in China, excited and ready to buy the new Radiohead album. I wouldn’t say I listen to Radiohead a ton these days, but if I had to make a gun-to-my-head choice for My Favorite Band, they’d be as good a pick as any. I’ve followed them ever … | Continue reading
Today, Hopscotch Technologies released an iPhone version of its popular visual coding app for kids. The new app lets users design games, art, and animations using a block-based visual programming language and then share those programs in-app with other Hopscotch users. It's a maj … | Continue reading
Enthymemes . We're up to our eyeballs in them. An enthymeme, first described by Aristotle in Rhetoric is an incomplete logical con... | Continue reading
Fintech is as old as finance itself. And throughout history, technology has always sparked innovations in the way money is used and perceived. Think of the groundbreaking impact the introduction of money would have had in traditional barter economies – where each party in an exch … | Continue reading
Studio PAN has recently completed the renovation project Live-Work in Paris, France. A complete renovation of an abandoned beauty salon ... | Continue reading
A whitepaper review of the BBC’s activities in the UK has led John Whittingdale, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, to say that the way in which the licence fee currently operates for on-demand content will have to be overhauled. Currently, to watch live TV shows vi … | Continue reading
Microsoft hasn't put Windows on your wrist just yet, even with the Microsoft Band, but that's not stopping developers experimenting with the possibility. We've seen Windows 95 on Android Wear previously, but nobody wants a 21-year-old operating system on their wrist. Thanks to Yo … | Continue reading
In October 2008, Microsoft released Lionhead's Fable 2 to critical and commercial acclaim. At a launch party an emotional Peter Molyneux held aloft glowing reviews and praised the exhausted team of developers who had spent the previous four years pouring everything they had into … | Continue reading
Ein selbst für Samsung-Verhältnisse skurriles Video erreicht uns aus Brasilien. Dort zeigt man gemeinsam mit dem Surfer Gabriel Medina, welche Möglichkeiten ergeben, wenn man ein Surfbrett smart macht, mit einem großen LED-Disp... | Continue reading
The Reception of Automatic Theatre Captions Preferences, Perception and Engagement The International Symposium on Accessible Live Events held at the Belguim University of Antwerp, the 29th April 2016 was a best occasion to present some of the HBB4ALL achievements. Indeed, Pablo R … | Continue reading
www.ZerCustoms.com - Fiat revealed this week the 2017, updated, version of the Abarth 595. The new ve... [...] | Continue reading
Carmaker Nissan has announced a rival to Tesla's Powerwall home battery pack called the xStorage. Like other residential batteries, the device is supposed to pull cheap electricity off the grid during off-peak hours and feed it back into the home when power is in demand and expen … | Continue reading
‘Hey Joe’ is a rehabilitation project of an apartment in Nice, France, completed by Strasbourg-based Collectif Etc. Description by Collectif Etc: In March 2015, we were with Agathe Sicard in Nice, to collaborate in the rehabilitation project of the Carolina Moretti and Paul Matet … | Continue reading
Evaneos, the European travel marketplace, has beefed up its coffers once again. The French startup has raised a further $21 million in funding, money it will use to continue developing the product and for international expansion, including a planned U.S. launch. Read More | Continue reading
A report by recode indicates Google wants to get in on the Amazon Echo-esque action with Chirp. The device is said to look like its OnHub wireless router. | Continue reading
Installing Windows on incompatible devices is many a geek's favorite hobby, and today we have a treat for the extremely patient: Windows 7 running on an Android Wear smartwatch. Posted on YouTube by a user called Hacking Jules and caught by Android Community, the trick involves u … | Continue reading
Mozilla has filed a motion [PDF] with a U.S. District Court requesting information about potential Firefox vulnerabilities unearthed by the Government in a criminal investigation. It relates to an ongoing case brought about by the FBI after it hacked a Dark Web child pornography … | Continue reading
Less than a week since its reveal, Battlefield 1 now has the best-rated trailer across the whole of YouTube.That statistic covers games, TV shows and movies. After six days, it boasts a colossal view count of 26m, with 1.3m upvotes and 24k down.To put that in perspective, compare … | Continue reading
Oculus' head of mobile, Max Cohen, told a press conference in San Francisco on Tuesday that a million people used the Gear VR headset last month. | Continue reading
Healthcare marketer Rob Birgfeld talks to TopRank Marketing about industry trends & how his team uses digital marketing to create a better user experience. | Continue reading
www.ZerCustoms.com - Audi revealed this week a new special edition version of the new R8 V10 plus, ca... [...] | Continue reading
The new Doom game will be released this Friday (the 13th day of the month, appropriately enough), and one of the best looks inside the game was provided by Nvidia during the launch of its new GeForce GTX cards. The gameplay from that event has now made its way to YouTube in its f … | Continue reading
Neben dem Elektroauto-Hersteller Tesla und der Raumfahrtfirma SpaceX betriebt Über-Unternehmer Elon Musk ja noch ein weiteres, tatsächlich revolutionäres Projekt, das Transportsystem Hyperloop One, das man sich als übergroß... | Continue reading