Kurz nach dem letzten Trailer zur sechsten Staffel von Game of Thrones hat HBO ein spannendes, knapp vierminütiges Filmchen veröffentlich: Barrie Gower, der als Prosthetic Designer bei der Fernsehserie für die Monstermasken und -k&ou... | Continue reading
Over the last few months, Google engineer Benson Leung took to Amazon to review hundreds of shoddy USB-C cables that were available for purchase but not up to specification. Today Amazon quietly made a change to its terms and conditions to prohibit USB-C cables that aren’t compli … | Continue reading
An EA marketing survey detailing Mass Effect: Andromeda has leaked online.The questionnaire provides facts about BioWare's upcoming space shooter sequel, then asks how likely it is you would buy the game after hearing them.Here's the opening blurb:Read more… | Continue reading
Following months of rumors and delays, Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group has approved a deal to buy 66 percent of Japanese firm Sharp. According to a report from Bloomberg, the companies announced the move in a joint statement this morning, with Foxconn's board agreeing to pay 38 … | Continue reading
French startup Frichti is making the news again with yet another round of financing. This time, the company is raising $13.4 million (€12 million) from Idinvest, existing investor Alven Capital, as well as busin Read More | Continue reading
Human beings are prediction machines. Successful humans skate to where the puck is going to be, predict what's going to happen next, have an inkling of what's to come. We do this by creating models. A really good model is... | Continue reading
Oh, Microsoft. Last week, the company pulled its Tay chatbot from Twitter after some users trained it to become a racist jackass. On Wednesday, Tay was brought back online, sending thousands of tweet replies. The vast majority of these were just "you are too fast" messages indica … | Continue reading
Near a week after being silenced because the internet taught her to be racist, Microsoft’s artificial intelligence bot “Tay” briefly returned to Twitter today, whereon she went on a spam tirade and then quickly fell silent again. Read More | Continue reading
"Copywriting can be fatally disconnected from the real world of buying and selling," says Brad Shorr in Convince & Convert . To bridge ... | Continue reading
A new offender has been added to Amazon's prohibited products list for third-party sellers: USB-C cables and adapters that are "not compliant with standard specifications issued by USB Implementers Forum." It's a perfectly sensible policy, though it's probably most significant fo … | Continue reading
Vodafone will remain the headline sponsor of Capital's Summertime Ball for the next three years after signing an agreement with Global, the station's owner. | Continue reading
Tay's back. Microsoft AI chatbot is tweeting again after being taken offline following a bout of sudden racism last week. At some time around 03:30AM ET this morning, Tay started firing out tweets to other users, with one particular message repeated over and over again: "You are … | Continue reading
Ursprünglich für den März angekündigt, wird das Honor 7 Premium nun wohl Mitte April in Deutschland verfügbar sein. Bestätigt hat Honor dies zwar nicht, aber in den Onlineshops von Saturn und Media Markt kann man das S... | Continue reading
India’s e-commerce space might be about to get a shake-up after the government appeared to open the door to overseas companies owning majority stakes in domestic internet sales companies. Read More | Continue reading
Canadian retail brand Kit and Ace is teaming up with luxury hotels across the globe, to launch branded pop-ups within the buildings. | Continue reading
VOX Television GmbH: Köln (ots) - Die schönste Zeit des Jahres verbringen sie im Caravan, Wohnmobil oder Zelt - in den neuen Folgen von "Einmal Camping, immer Camping" zeigt VOX ab dem 8. Mai immer sonntags um 18:15 Uhr die spannenden und witzigen Urlaubs-Abenteuer von ... | Continue reading
Microsoft’s biggest event of the year is upon us once again: Build 2016 is being held in San Francisco from May 30 to April 1. You can stream the company’s developer conference here or watch via the embedded livestream below. Day 1’s keynote is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. Pac … | Continue reading
Well, uh, Microsoft’s Tay chatbot, which got turned off a few days ago after behaving badly, has suddenly returned to Twitter and has started tweeting to users like mad. Most of its musings are innocuous, but there is one funny one I’ve come across so far. “i’m smoking kush infro … | Continue reading
INRIX: München (ots/PRNewswire) - - INRIX stellt die erste App vor, die maschinelle Lerntechnologien nutzt, um Fahrtrouten, Reiseziele und Verkehrswarnungen vorherzuberechnen und zu personalisieren - Durch Integration des Kalenders werden persönliche ... | Continue reading
Today, INRIX is launching its completely redesigned GPS app, INRIX Traffic. The app uses machine learning to better plot your routes in addition to providing turn-by-turn navigation with maps from OpenStreetMap (OSM). The app uses smart algorithms to take most routing decisions o … | Continue reading
Phil Tippett the man is perhaps best known as the subject of a meme — for failing in his role as "dinosaur supervisor" on Jurassic Park — but the veteran artist's most famous work is his holochess pieces, stop-motion beasts originally seen on the Millennium Falcon's game table in … | Continue reading
Uber’s mission is to help you get from point A to B with as little friction as possible — it’s all about the overall experience you get. When you request a ride, a car arrives, you get in, and you’re on your way. But what happens when Uber’s ride request feature is integrated int … | Continue reading
Jetzt gibt es für Nintendos erste Smartphone-App auch ein Veröffentlichungsdatum. Am Donnerstag kommt Miitomo nach Deutschland und ist dann für iOS und Android verfügbar. Miitomo lässt einen über den eigenen Mii-Charak... | Continue reading
Ryuichi 'Woshige' Shigeno had been waiting for more than a decade to fight Ken-ichi 'Ogawazato' Ogawa on a tournament stage when he heard that he'd drawn, as he puts it today, the "match of his dreams." When he was 13-years-old, Shigeno played in his first Japanese national video … | Continue reading
Twitter is now more accessible to the visually impaired, introducing descriptions to images with screen readers and braille displays.SEE ALSO: The best and worst U.S. states for people with disabilitiesTwitter announced the new feature Tuesday, which will be available on the Twit … | Continue reading
Yeah, you know where this is going. That poor Galaxy S7 Edge won’t live to tell the tale. That’s not surprising. But you know what is surprising? How dramatic the whole thing is. | Continue reading
Ben & Jerry's has teamed up with civil rights group Hope Not Hate to launch its Don't Get Frozen Out campaign, which aims to increase voting among Londoners. | Continue reading
Neurotechnology startup Rythm, based in France, has raised $11 million in funding and announced a new partnership with France’s biomedical research institute for research into sleep conditions. The new round of funding comes from biotech investor and entrepreneur Dr Laurent Alexa … | Continue reading
Cyan Banister, a renowned angel investor and startup founder, has joined Founders Fund. She’s the 11-year-old firm’s first female investing partner. According to a Bloomberg story, investors at the San Francisco-based outfit now include its billionaire cofounder Peter Thiel; cofo … | Continue reading
Email marketing is one the digital marketer’s strategies of choice when trying to build conversations with prospects as well as existing clients. The fact that email is more or less free while remaining an effective way to send messages means that you don’t need a big budget to d … | Continue reading
Uber added a ride request button to let third-party apps add the ability to order a ride last year, but today it has introduced a more feature-rich option that it says caters to requests it has received from Asia. Read More | Continue reading
Planday, the Danish startup that offers a cloud-based “shift planning” solution for various types of businesses that employ a flexible workforce, such as restaurants, hotels, stores, call centers and gyms, has scored $14 million in Series B funding. Read More | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is one of the most popular Casino Multiplayer Role Play Games in the whole cryptocurrency industry. Its unique content and original style is incomparable, and its features beat any other gambling option in the ecosystem. In this game, players will find dozens of ori … | Continue reading
Key Points Bitcoin price found offers intraday, and as highlighted in yesterday’s post, the $425 resistance area acted as a perfect barrier for the bulls. BTC/USD broke a crucial support trend line on the hourly chart (data feed from Bitstamp), which ignited sharp losses. The pri … | Continue reading
The MLB is taking a page from the NFL’s playbook and equipping teams with tablets to use during games for the 2016 season. But, instead of Microsoft Surface Tablets, the MLB has made a deal with Apple to provide all 30 MLB teams with iPad Pros to use. The iPads will give coaches … | Continue reading
Apple and Major League Baseball have signed a multi-year deal that will see every team receive iPad Pro tablets for use in the dugout, reports The Wall Street Journal. The 12.9-inch tablets will have rugged cases featuring the MLB logo, and a custom app called MLB Dugout will hel … | Continue reading
There's a lot to look at in the night sky, but sometimes amateur astronomers get particularly lucky. That was the case for two individuals — one in Austria, and one in Ireland — this month, who... | Continue reading
There’s good news in the fight against rogue USB-C cables, some of which have caused major problems with smartphones and laptops, after Amazon tightened the regulations around the type of cables that it sells. Read More | Continue reading
Tokyo-based BizReach, the Japanese company providing an online talent search platform under the same name, announced today that it has fundraised about 3.73 billion yen (about $32.9 million) in the second funding round. This round was led by YJ Capital, the investment arm of Yaho … | Continue reading
In 2016, eMarketer estimates, digital ad spending will make up 35.8% of total media ad spending in the US, just 1 percentage point below the share for TV. That 1 percentage point adds up to about $1.78 billion, but a new eMarketer report explores how digital is catching up. | Continue reading
While the internet of things (IoT) is changing the automotive industry, most young US internet users still prefer a traditional car to a self-driving vehicle, according to October 2015 research. | Continue reading
Smartphone penetration in France has steadily grown quarter by quarter over the past two years. In Q4 2013, 64.1% of internet users in France were smartphone users; in Q4 2014, that figure rose to 66.0%; and in Q4 2015 69.2% of internet users were also smartphone users. | Continue reading
Mothers may be in the driver's seat when it comes to making household purchases, but that doesn’t mean fathers aren’t taking part in the decision-making. For brand messaging to resonate with the modern dad, marketing and advertising content should reflect his expa … | Continue reading
Internet usage is higher in China among men than among women, according to our latest forecast of internet usage around the world. And, in turn, men outnumber women in the digital population of the country. | Continue reading
Uber’s developer team has unveiled a Ride Request “widget”. The on-demand private car service introduced today a widget — essentially an SDK — that directly brings the Uber service right into third-party apps, eliminating any deep-linking. Although it’ll be available worldwide, t … | Continue reading
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor 2 seems like it's a thing that's happening as the title was leaked via a stuntwoman's curriculum vitae.As discovered by NerdLeaks, the actress listed her role as "stunt/acting" for the yet-to-be-announced title and noted Blur as the employer. Blur S … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price has been trending higher recently, moving above a rising channel on its 1-hour time frame. Price is now testing the channel support near $410 and a bounce could take it back to the top at $430. Technical indicators are suggesting that fu … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price managed to trade higher once again after a minor dip, but failed to clear the $11.80 resistance area. There were a couple of attempts to break the stated level, but the bears managed to defend it successfully. There is a bullish trend line formed on … | Continue reading