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
Brie Larson has won the Academy Award for Actress in a Leading Role. Eddie Redmayne presented the award, which was one of the more foreseeable wins of the night. Larson won for her role in Room, director Lenny Abrahamson's dark drama based on Emma Donoghue's novel about a mother … | Continue reading
As sure as the sun, the moon, and most basic laws of modern physics, Leonardo DiCaprio has won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his work in The Revenant. Presenter Julianne Moore, who won Best Actress at last year's awards, waited a respectable amount of time before announcin … | Continue reading
Famed Italian composer Ennio Morricone just won the Oscar for Best Original Score for his work on Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight. It's his first competitive Oscar after six nominations, though he did win an Honorary Academy Award in 2007 for his achievements in the field." … | Continue reading
In what many observers might have called inevitable, the Academy has awarded Alejandro Iñárritu with the Oscar for Best Director for The Revenant. The win makes Iñárritu only the third director to take home back-to-back Best Director trophies."I'm very lucky to be here tonight, b … | Continue reading
Lady Gaga took the stage alongside dozens of survivors of sexual abuse for her performance of "Til It Happens to You" at tonight's Academy Awards. Gaga and power ballad master Diane Warren are nominated on behalf of The Hunting Ground, a documentary about a series of sexual assau … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price is trading near a crucial area, and both buyers and sellers must be very careful moving ahead. There is a contracting triangle pattern forming on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken), which may ignite a lot of moves in the near term. A break belo … | Continue reading
A head for news: Seven ways to polish your traditional headlines. Tell the story, don’t tell about the story in your news head. | Continue reading
The use of data management platforms (DMPs) among industry professionals continues to grow. Yet, those same marketers are skeptical of DMPs' ability to deliver on expectations and business goals, according to research. | Continue reading
Ereaders continue to hold their own in the UK, with a quarter of the population expected to use one in 2016, according to eMarketer’s latest user forecast. | Continue reading
Demand for smartphones in India continues to increase, thanks to growing consumer interest in the devices and heavy discounts by the country's online retailers. | Continue reading
When Apple introduced the iPad in 2010, many thought it would make dedicated ebook readers obsolete. But six years later, it turns out that didn’t happen. In fact, both categories are still growing. | Continue reading
More top 1,000 retailers have sent a shopping cart abandonment message in 2015 compared to prior years, according to research. | Continue reading
Amy won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature tonight. The Asif Kapadia-directed documentary, which gave viewers a behind-the-scenes look at Amy Winehouse's life, beat out Matthew Heineman's Cartel Land, Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence, Liz Garbus' What Happened … | Continue reading
Two years ago, in an issue of the Hammock Idea Email, I wrote about research into why people aren’t convinced when presented with irrefutable evidence that something they believe in, is false. As Donald Trump’s supporters are exhibiting such a pattern — even he admitted it with t … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price has been trading inside a narrow ascending channel on its 1-hour chart, following a quick pullback to a previously broken resistance area. Recall that bitcoin broke above a longer-term symmetrical triangle pattern, indicating that bulls … | Continue reading
In one of the few surprises of the night, Mark Rylance has won Best Supporting Actor for his work in Bridge of Spies. Rylance beat out Christian Bale (The Big Short), Tom Hardy (The Revenant), Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight), and Sylvester Stallone (Creed), the presumed frontrunner who … | Continue reading
Following up it's "Monotune" commercial, Google is back on another awards show with another new ad for Android. Called "Rock, Paper, Scissors," it has the three historical enemies learning to make friends with each other. It's a story of three soon-to-be friends overcoming school … | Continue reading
The Weeknd performed his Oscar-nominated smash "Earned It" alongside a small platoon of dancers, gymnasts, and trapeze artists at tonight's Academy Awards, a performance that had a lot in common with the song's official music video. The Canadian pop star (aka Abel Tesfaye) and co … | Continue reading
Pixar's Inside Out just took home the Oscar in the Best Animated Feature category. The Pete Docter-directed film, which was a critical and commercial hit for the studio, chronicled the emotions of a young girl. Inside Out has picked up dozens awards since its release last summer, … | Continue reading
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has yet to win an Oscar tonight, losing out to both Mad Max and Ex Machina, but there's still one very important award left: Best Original Score. The nomination, turns out, is the 50th for John Williams —€” his first being 1967's Valley of the Dolls. … | Continue reading
I am a 24-year-old "millennial" and I passionately support Hillary Clinton for the 45th President of the United States. Yes, we exist. | Continue reading
Ex Machina's subtle sci-fi effects won over Hollywood this year, netting it the 2016 Oscar for Best Visual Effects. It was a bit of a surprise win for the movie. Ex Machina was nominated for two awards tonight, including Best Original Screenplay (which it lost to Spotlight). As a … | Continue reading
It takes a much heartier stomach to jump into the startup game now than it did a year ago. Zenefits recently became the latest unicorn to face devaluation after compliance issues forced the CEO to resign. Publicly traded tech companies like Twitter weathered layoffs and stock sel … | Continue reading
Visual content is integral part of an engaging social media presence. It can be hard to keep up with the different specifications for multimedia content across each social network (format, aspect ratio, file size). Bookmark this infographic as a reference guide to create smart so … | Continue reading
The Academy Awards took place once again at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. While a few awards in the acting categories were all but locks, its one of the most competitive Oscars in recent memory, with The Revenant, The Big Short, Spotlight and even Mad Max Fury Roa … | Continue reading