Jasná (Slovakia), 14-16 March 2016 For the 19th time, the beautiful surroundings of Low Tatras will create a scenery for the ILIDE 2016 Conference where as usually the digital preservation, digital collections access and digital processing experts from around the world will gathe … | Continue reading
With the release of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge on Friday, it took only a couple of days for the world to get an extensive look at just how much damage the smartphones can take beyond scratching and burningSquareTrade, a smartphone insurance company, took the brand-new Gala … | Continue reading
Eigentlich war es ein guter Move, als Microsoft Bitcoins als Währung für den hauseigenen Windows App Store eingeführt hatte. Das Experiment scheint aber nicht gelungen und so hat Microsoft angekündigt, für Windows 10 keine... | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced its support for Cross-Network Play, allowing Xbox owners to play games with anyone on PC or PlayStation.First, the caveats - this invitation has yet to be taken up. There's no suggestion you'll be teaming up with clans of Destiny or The Division anytime so … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. This week we saw a nice mix of updates from big names, indies, free-to-play, and paid games. A rare moment of balance. Of course, you can keep an eye … | Continue reading
In this morning’s bitcoin price watch piece, we outlined the range that we would be focusing on for the early morning session in the bitcoin price market, and noted that an element of indecision across the board (induced by the ongoing debate over the technical fundamentals of bi … | Continue reading
Skype for Web is getting more useful today as it adds a few features to bring it to parity with the desktop apps. First up, you can now call cellphones and landlines right from the Web app. As expected, you’ll have to pay, but it’s a good and fairly affordable option (prices star … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Go on. Take a moment for yourself. Why not sit on the beach, sip a piña colada, and just enjoy the view? That was, after all, the promise of running an ecommerce business — doing little to nothing while your website makes money for you in the background. In reality, we … | Continue reading
It’s certainly not the first company to start work on a pay-by-selfie technique but Amazon has filed a patent for a new system that’ll have you spending your money quicker than you already do… on Amazon. It’ll work by using facial recognition to compare a selfie taken at the tran … | Continue reading
At SXSW this weekend, Jake Gyllenhaal charmed his way to raucous laughter and exuberant applause for a movie that was frankly awful.Demolition, written by Bryan Sipe and directed by Dallas Buyer's Club and Wild's Jean-Marc Vallée, tells the story of Davis Mitchell, a man who can' … | Continue reading
Following a claim that 13,000 bitcoins & 300,000 litecoins were stolen by a hacker, a class action lawsuit and its subsequent insolvency, Cryptsy has now revealed a “reward contract” with ‘Cryptcracker’ to retrieve the stolen coins in exchange for a ‘base’ reward of 1750 BTC, app … | Continue reading
Skype for Web, the browser-based version of Microsoft’s popular communications software introduced last year, is getting a slew of new features that brings it more in line with its desktop and mobile counterparts – most notably the added ability to dial mobile phones and landline … | Continue reading
Attention Instagrammers: You no longer have to do math!The single most annoying thing about Instagram is that it displays a photo or video's upload date as so many "weeks" ago as opposed to the date. Change is finally coming. Over the weekend, we noticed the Instagram app now sho … | Continue reading
Skype today updated Skype for Web with a slew of new features. The service now lets you call mobile phones and landlines, watch YouTube videos, add non-Skype users, and get notifications. Launched in June 2015, Skype for Web is the browser version of Skype — just fire up web.skyp … | Continue reading
The humble connector is by no means a source of much excitement. But when you stop and think about it, the connector can enable some amazing things. Lattice Semiconductor and MediaTek are today announcing advances in delivery of 4K videos over universal serial bus (USB Type-C) co … | Continue reading
The Game Developers Conference doesn’t have the marketing of flashy video game conferences like E3, Gamescom, or Tokyo Game Show, but it’s no less important. For 27 years, the event has been a place for people and the games industry and the press to meet, mingle, and learn from o … | Continue reading
Modern farming has a huge problem with food waste, stemming from the mismatch between specific food buyer requirements vs Mother Nature delivering an unsaleable overabundance and/or producing knobbly fruit and veg that gets devalued on aesthetic grounds. But what happens when you … | Continue reading
An der Stanford University werden zur Zeit klitzekleine, sogenannte uBots entwickelt. Kleine Roboter, die wie Insekten aussehen und gerade mal 15 Gramm wiegen. Nun schafften sechs dieser uBots ein fast zwei Tonnen schweres Auto zu ziehen. Wie geht... | Continue reading
It seems Microsoft is jumping off the Bitcoin bandwagon.The company's online store has quietly announced — via a FAQ update — that it's no longer accepting the cryptocurrency. SEE ALSO: The Bitcoin blockchain: Could it be the biggest invention since the Internet?"You can no longe … | Continue reading
The global game market is expected to reach $100 billion by 2019, according to a new estimate by the Open Gaming Alliance, a nonprofit trade group focused on gaming. The group released the data at an event at the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC). DFC Intelligence, a separate res … | Continue reading
Ranelagh House is an old Georgian townhouse recently renovated by Dublin-based design studio Kingston Lafferty Design. The Ranelagh House ... | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: News is an industry in which the smallest nugget of information can travel quickly from outlet to outlet, gathering steam and the illusion of credibility as it goes. Such was the case with a rumor that began on the Chinese microblogging service Weibo earlier this week. … | Continue reading
No show likes to troll its audience quite like The Walking Dead. Game of Thrones may kill off people you love, and Homeland may test your patience, but there’s something unique about The Walking Dead’s ability to get you invested, hold your hand through long stretches of dialogue … | Continue reading
There's a new Oddworld game, subtitled Soulstorm, due for launch in late 2017.Publisher Oddworld Inhabitants announced the title via oddworld.com/soulstorm, where a handful of story details are revealed.Soulstorm will be a follow-up to Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty, itself a reimaginin … | Continue reading
Decentralized blockchain prediction market project Augur has officially entered beta following its crowdfunding effort last year. | Continue reading
Next week the first piece of downloadable content for Fallout 4 launches, and today Bethesda has released a new trailer showing just what's in store for those jumping back into the wasteland. Called "Automatron," the debut DLC features a character known only as the Mechanist, who … | Continue reading
This weekend, Apple’s App Store head Phil Schiller responded to complaints that spam apps and rip-offs were appearing in the App Store’s “New” and “What’s Hot” sections for certain categories. Unfortunately, this has been a longtime issue for Apple’s third-party application marke … | Continue reading
Or do we even need one? At Disrupt New York in May, we’ll try to get to the bottom of that question. In a panel on the new frontier of digital dating, we’ll be bringing together some of the freshest minds in the space to discuss how niche dating services could be the next big thi … | Continue reading
As the battle between Apple and the FBI continues, The Guardian reports that other tech companies are close to announcing security improvements. Among them is Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp, which the publication says is set to expand encryption to voice calls "within … | Continue reading
Der Satiriker John Oliver ist mit seiner Show "Last Week Tonight" ein Garant für scharfe und zugleich humoristische Analysen. In seiner neusten Show nimmt er sich dem Fall Apple vs. FBI an und bringt die Gemengelage so auf den Punkt, dass man... | Continue reading
Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, George Ioannidis, A. Stan, Emile Bijk Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) – DEMO Session – 2011 | Continue reading
Telltale's The Walking Dead continues its Michonne mini-series later this month with the 29th March launch of Episode 2: Give No Shelter. A three episode spin-off from Telltale's main The Walking Dead games, Michonne follows its titular character during a timeframe as-yet unseen … | Continue reading
The Seattle-based e-commerce company recently filed a patent application for a process that would allow shoppers to make a purchase by taking a photo and/or video of themselves rather than keying in their account password. The application is related to a separate patent Amazon ho … | Continue reading
Philips is arguably the largest connected light bulb manufacturer with its Philips Hue system, but its color light bulbs are quite expensive. A color light bulb costs around $60. In case you just want simple connected lights, the company has added new white light bulbs to its lin … | Continue reading
Chainfire has just released an updated SuperSU test build for the Android N developer preview along with test versions of CF-Auto-Root for the entire Nexus family running Android N. | Continue reading
Automatron, the first add-on for Fallout 4, launches for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 22nd March.The DLC costs £7.99 or comes as part of the game's season pass.Automatron sees you hunting down evil robots unleashed by the mysterious Mechanist. You can then reassemble their p … | Continue reading
I really didn't know much about Stardew Valley before I started playing it. I'd never really played much Harvest Moon or the like either, as I'd never really seen the appeal of giving over your free time to cultivating the perfect crop of turnips. But Stardew Valley, at least, is … | Continue reading
Smartphones are connected computers that fit in our pockets — at this point, the "phone" part of them is virtually an afterthought. We use them for all kinds of communication that has nothing to do with a phone number: email, instant messaging, social networks, video calling, the … | Continue reading
AlphaGo’s victories against legendary Go player Lee Se-dol over the last few days mark a major milestone in AI research. The complex Chinese board game had long been considered impossible for computers to crack, but DeepMind used machine learning and neural networks to give its A … | Continue reading
Answers to 3 questions before using native advertising as part of your content marketing strategy. | Continue reading
Alooma, an Israeli startup that helps companies process and work with big data in real time delivered as a cloud service, announced an $11.2 million Series A round today led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. The product focuses on the people working with data li … | Continue reading
Marketing dashboards based solely on data visualization are not successful. Ask yourself these 3 key questions to create better, effective dashboards. | Continue reading
Content - Want to be seen as a trusted advertiser and transparent brand? Then follow the FTC's endorsement guidelines and avoid these big social content mistakes. | Continue reading
Instacoin, which operates Lamassu bitcoin ATMs in Quebec, Canada, has tweeted it is going to support Ethereum. With over 16 Lamassu ATMs in Canada (and more coming in 2016), we have plans to support #Ether / #Ethereum / #ETH https://t.co/ByvFbkwnxL — Instacoin (@Instacoin) March … | Continue reading
"If you don't know who Slenderman is, you're living under a rock," remarks one of the dozens of teens appearing in YouTube videos that are excerpted in Beware the Slenderman. It's the first hint that the documentary is going to try to do the impossible:€” explain the internet, an … | Continue reading