Editor’s note: A previous version of this post had the headline “Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock The iPhone” but Gates appeared on Bloomberg after this report was published, and attempted to clarify his intentions. You can watch the whole interview here where he backpedals a … | Continue reading
Snapchat just got a little more like FacebookThe app rolled out a new "Birthday Party" feature on Tuesday, which allows you to unlock special Snapchat lenses on your birthday and on the birthdays of friends. You can enable the feature by entering your birthday in the app's main s … | Continue reading
Today Snapchat announced a new feature called Birthday Party, which is essentially a duet of lenses – one of which can only be used on your birthday, and one that can only be used if snapping friends on their birthday. Snapchat will also put a cake emoji next to the name of frien … | Continue reading
Buddybuild, a startup with a cloud service for building, testing, deploying, and getting feedback on mobile apps, today announced that it has raised a $1.2 million round of funding. Also today, the startup is announcing that it can now support Android apps, not just iOS apps. Rat … | Continue reading
Snapchat just launched Birthday Party, a new feature in today's iOS and Android update that lets users celebrate the day of their birth with decorative snaps. If you turn on the Birthday Party feature, Snapchat will give you access to a one-day-only filter on your birthday that y … | Continue reading
Making a system work in one datacenter is hard. Now imagine you move to two datacenters. Now... | Continue reading
Kevin Smith's most famous creations, Jay and Silent Bob, are getting their own game. At least they will if developer Interabang (Super Comboman) can raise $400k on crowdfunding platform Fig to finance Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch.Slated for PS4, Xbox One and PC, the Cl … | Continue reading
Microsoft continues to slowly reveal more and more about its HoloLens augmented reality device, and the latest (albeit inadvertent) peek, aimed at developers, delivers yet another exciting view of mixed-reality computing. Also, the company is giving the first hints of a release d … | Continue reading
Marc Gasol underwent successful surgery on Saturday, Feb. 20 to repair a non-displaced Type II fracture of the navicular bone in his right foot. Although Marc will not return to the court this season, he is expected to make a full recovery. The surgery was performed by foot and a … | Continue reading
Date: 23/02/2016Songo Plain, MaliWhile rich in mineral resources, individual countries often lack the needed knowledge and skills to fully reap the benefits. Many minerals sources remain unexplored. And where available, the latest geological surveys, data and other information ab … | Continue reading
Content creation is going to be easier than ever on Facebook coming this spring. Here are the details on Instant Articles. | Continue reading
SpaceX is gearing up for its next Falcon 9 rocket launch this Wednesday, which will send a telecommunications satellite into orbit for the company SES. It will also attempt to land its rocket after launch, but doesn't expect a successful recovery. Continue reading… | Continue reading
I think we'll be playing stealth games forever. While combat is what most people crave, there's a definite appeal to sneaking around and avoiding conflict that so many people resonate with. That's where Rogue Agent [$2.99] comes in, providing tons of subversion in the shadows whi … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: You can’t survive as a business today without social media — but succeeding in social media has its challenges (understatement). Join VB’s Director of Marketing Technology Stewart Rogers and Smule CEO Jeffrey Smith in our upcoming webinar as they unpack the most curr … | Continue reading
Date: 23/02/2016Neglected infectious diseases exact a heavy toll on the globe’s poorest citizens in developing countries. Diarrhoeal diseases are the second leading cause of mortality worldwide in children under the age of five. Each year there are around 600 000 deaths due to se … | Continue reading
Was einst als Onlineversand für Bücher begann, liefert heutzutage so ziemlich alles. Kleidung bei Amazon zu bestellen ist heuer auch alles andere als exotisch. Aber kaufen Kunden auch Mode von Amazon? Der Tech-Gigant hat ohne viel Trara... | Continue reading
Before we get started on this evening’s analysis, there are two things worth pointing out from this morning’s publication. The first, that we remain well within the range we slated, which likely means that we’ve seen the end of last’s night’s decline, at least temporarily. Second … | Continue reading
In the ongoing war of words between Apple and the FBI, there 's a lot to unpack.In what is quickly becoming a public-relations war between the Department of Justice and Apple, one of the core issues that keeps coming up again and again is, "What would happen to the software the F … | Continue reading
Date: 23/02/2016The Infect project studies severe soft tissue infections, such as necrotising fasciitis, to shed new light on the factors that cause them. Building on this information, the partners intend to develop tests that will permit doctors to detect these infections more r … | Continue reading
If catching Pokémon is your real test, and training them is your cause, then you probably want your gadgets to reflect that.Luckily for you, there are plenty of ways to Poké-ify your gadgets, so you can rock your geek pride on your sleeve — or your smartphoneSee also: Richard She … | Continue reading
Charli XCX is releasing a new EP on Friday on her very own new label, and the projects share a name: Vroom Vroom. The British pop star worked with enigmatic producer SOPHIE on the EP's title track, which premiered on The Fader this morning. The song made its public debut in Octob … | Continue reading
The key to effective marketing case studies is to tell a story. It should feel familiar to your audience so it’s easy for them to relate. | Continue reading
Volvo is on a roll this year. Following reports that the Swedish car manufacturer is building high-tech safety trucks with Samsung and scheming to replace your car keys with your phone, the company just announced it is partnering with Spotify to integrate a native streaming app i … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price sold off after falling below its advance channel trendline. The decline is at various stages of development in different exchange charts. Potential targets await lower in the chart. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis … | Continue reading
Date: 12/04/2016Venue: BrusselsMore informationSynergies between EU funding for research & innovation and structural funds are essential to develop regional research and innovation capacities, and drive the economic growth in Europe. The EC is organising a workshop to support thi … | Continue reading
Education startup MasterClass announced today that it has scored a $15 million investment led by New Enterprise Associates. NEA partner Rick Yang will join the board at MasterClass. The company offers on-demand classes taught by celebrity instructors like Serena Williams, Kevin S … | Continue reading
Talisman: The Horus Heresy comes out today on PC. On Steam it costs £18.99, but there's a 10 per cent discount during launch week.The digital board game is based on the Talisman rule system and is set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe during the events of the Horus Heresy.The Horu … | Continue reading
EagleRider: Los Angeles (ots/PRNewswire) - Das weltweit größte Unternehmen für Motorraderlebnisse geht für weitere Expansion Partnerschaft mit Main Port Partners ein Die JC BroMac Corporation und EagleRider, Inc. dba EagleRider, das global führende Unternehmen ... | Continue reading
Date: From 22/02/2016 to 25/02/2016Venue: Barcelona (ES)The Graphene Flagship activities at the Mobile World Congress fall into three activities:22-25 Feb: The "Graphene Pavilion" showcasing graphene-based products and demos.25 Feb at 9.15: Keynote speech by Nobel Prize winner & … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: A burgeoning software category called Mobile Device Management (MDM) is quickly offering sophisticated solutions for companies to keep track of and maintain their mobile device usage. | Continue reading
It costs $799 and it can be preordered next Monday for delivery in April. It's the Oculus Rift's closest and sternest competitor, and today at MWC, it makes its public debut. The consumer edition of the HTC Vive virtual reality headset is being shown off for the first time at the … | Continue reading
Behind the back runners are so… behind the back, you know? With so many endless runner games in the world every new one needs to find something to do that makes them stand out from the pack. In the case of Fabled Realm's upcoming Jump Legends, that differentiating factor is a new … | Continue reading
Da stimmt doch was nicht, merkt der Autokenner sofort. Das hier sind aber auch keine echten Bilder von Autos sondern natürlich Photoshop-Mock-ups, die allerdings sehr schön Retro-Klassiker und ihre Pendants aus der Gegenwart zusammen brin... | Continue reading
As innovation goes, the idea of a trained bird of prey taking out a menacing quadcopter is hard to beat, as a Dutch law enforcement video recently showed. Peruse YouTube; there are hours of footage of birds of prey doing what may be the most elegant solution yet to what is becomi … | Continue reading
Leeo announced today that it is now integrated with the automating service IFTTT. What this means is that you’ll be able to have more smart products, apps, and web services communicate with its smart alarm monitor for fire and carbon monoxide. Founded by Adam Gettings and Eddy Ch … | Continue reading
Car people are just like any other obsessive. They’ll talk to you about stuff that they expect you should clearly understand as being important, even if it’s unclear to you why it might be.Right now, car obsessives are talking about the BMW M2, a high-performance derivation of th … | Continue reading
Everyone can clearly see the BitLox Bitcoin wallet hold a lot of promise, assuming the development team can make true on all of these features. | Continue reading
Amazon Dash, the e-commerce giant’s smart supplies replenishment service, already has a number of deals with major appliance and office equipment makers like GE and Brother, for example, allowing for things like washers that automatically re-order detergent or printers that re-or … | Continue reading
Enjoy a guest post by Sabine Schostag, Statsbiblioteket, edited by Imogen Greenhalgh. A version of this post appeared first on February 4, 2016 on Europeana Sounds blog. This is a story about Danish traveller and adventurer Henning Haslund-Christensen and his ... | Continue reading
A UN panel on aviation is recommending a total ban on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries as cargo on passenger aircraft, Reuters reported Tuesday. The same group rejected a ban on battery shipments last October, but reversed course earlier this year after pilots and airplane manu … | Continue reading
Hotel Chocolat is to debut its first ever ice cream product - The Ice of The Gods - at the London Coffee Festival on 7-10 April. | Continue reading
BARCELONA — This year's Mobile World Congress is a huge sea smartphones (yay!), networking gear (meh) and people wearing VR headsets (uh...), but in between all the suited-up business folks and sweaty, stinky reporters was one booth that had something really charming.At the Andro … | Continue reading
Advertising value equivalencies (AVEs) simply refuse to die, no matter how hard the public relations industry tries to exterminate the metric as a valid measurement. A recent Meltwater white paper, written by Robert Wynne, a PR commentator and Forbes contributor, recommended AVEs … | Continue reading
The Ship: Remastered has set sail on Steam. There it costs £14.99.The Ship: Remasted is a remake of the 2006 game, The Ship: Murder Party. It's a multiplayer-focused game set on a series of 1920s cruise ships. The player must kill or be killed. All you have to go on is the name o … | Continue reading
Fast jede Woche sperrt in der Wiener Innenstadt ein Lokal (Restaurant, Café, Bar) wegen Insolvenz oder Konkurs zu. Als Hauptgrund wird vielfach der starke Rückgang an Gästen angegeben. Sicherlich sind die Gründe vielschichtiger. Gewiss, wir alle müssen den Gürtel enger schnallen, … | Continue reading
JPMorgan has reportedly been moving money between London and Tokyo as part of a trial run of blockchain technology. | Continue reading
Although certain industries may be conceded as dull or ho-hum, many of these industries lead our economy in capital growth and demand. Insurance, finance, and telecommunications for example, have flooded the marketplace with day-to-day products...read more | Continue reading