Honestly, who expected Nien Nunb? Who even is Nien Nunb? He's the "jowled, mouse-eyed native of Sullust" as Wikipedia puts it, who flew with Lando on the Millennium Falcon in the Battle of Endor in Return of the Jedi.The reason the Star Wars Battlefront community suspects Nunb an … | Continue reading
The Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab today announced a new partnership program that will benefit academic researchers in Europe. It’s not just that Facebook will work in lock step with the academics; Facebook will actually giving out 25 powerful servers powere … | Continue reading
Finland-based bitcoin broker Prasos has acquired a local bitcoin exchange to add to its range of services. | Continue reading
If you live in New York City and you ride the subway, you've probably seen those tall, skinny Help Point kiosks with the blue glowing light on top. On the surface, the intercom systems, which debuted in 2011, seem fairly straightforward: a red button for emergencies, a green butt … | Continue reading
Pay-to-win is a flawed concept, overused by critics of free-to-play games. It's true that to reach the top levels of many free-to-play games, you'll have to spend money. But these games are hardly a direct correlation between money spent and top players. And where do you draw the … | Continue reading
Before he worked on Civilization with legendary game designer Sid Meier, Bruce Shelley was a board game designer at companies such as Avalon Hill. He designed games on paper back in the 1980s and 1990s, and it was easier to keep revising until the game was right. That’s a lot lik … | Continue reading
SpaceX hat im Dezember eine Rakete auf den festen Boden zurückgeholt - eine Wasserlandung ist Elon Musks Weltraumfirma bisher aber nicht geglückt. Heute Nacht will sie es zum vierten Mal versuchen, nachdem der Start gestern wegen ungü... | Continue reading
Bitcoin price has lost direction. Ordinarily, this kind of price action can be described as merely corrective, but the chart shows several months of lower lows and, now again, a lower high. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. … | Continue reading
Tech companies like Amazon and Google have been aggressively advocating for drone delivery over the past few years. They wanted the Federal Aviation Administration to provide them with a set of rules they could test against, a safety standard they needed to meet in order to safel … | Continue reading
Cadillac's camera-based inside rear mirror shows up to 4X the viewing angle of a traditional mirror; you press a button to switch between camera and reflective mirror views. | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: At a time when email volume has increased by almost 25 percent year over year, you simply can’t afford to not be testing and determining what will make your customers click. | Continue reading
ruf Reisen GmbH: Bielefeld (ots) - Der Jugendreisespezialist ruf ist auch in diesem Jahr Partner der Internationalen Tourismusbörse (ITB) in Berlin. In Halle 4.1 am Stand 107 präsentiert der Veranstalter sowohl dem Fachpublikum, als auch den Privatbesuchern neue ... | Continue reading
Capcom's announced PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ports of Resident Evil 4, 5 and 6.Resident Evil 6 comes out on 29th March and includes all the additional post-launch DLC (so, all the costumes originally only available through ResidentEvil.net).Resident Evil 5 follows in the summer, … | Continue reading
Ibn Battuta, or ‘Abu Abd al-Lah Muhammad ibn Abd al-Lah l-Lawati t-Tangi ibn Batutah’ to give him his full name, is a strong contestant for the greatest traveller in history. Not only did he travel a distance greater than the ... | Continue reading
You’re going to need a big ol’ pile of cash if you want to get into high-end virtual reality on the PC, but that is creating an opportunity for Samsung and Google to sweep up entry-level consumers. Mobile VR is on track to reach $861 million in revenues this year, according to da … | Continue reading
As Apple and federal law enforcement continue to hurl rhetoric about encryption, one thing has become crystal clear: today’s encryption debate is neither healthy nor well-informed. Read More | Continue reading
andai Namco Entertainment America has teamed up with Jordan Weisman’s Harebrained Schemes to bring Necropolis, a permadeath dungeon-action game, to home gaming consoles. Longtime game creator Weisman, the chief creative officer of Seattle-based Harebrained Schemes, told GamesBeat … | Continue reading
Alongside “Unicorn” and “Grexit/Brexit,” “Fintech” was considered one of the top 10 financial buzzwords of 2015. But fintech isn’t a newcomer to this list — and for good reason. For a few years now, fintech companies have moved from the margins to the mainstream. They are buildin … | Continue reading
Modewort Contentmarketing – Nur ein Trend oder steckt wirklich etwas dahinter? Wie Sie mit Inhalt Gäste gewinnen und den Umsatz erhöhen. | Continue reading
It’s a familiar pitch — taking an industry that relies on outdated technology and rethinking it with modern, web-based tools. The industry in this case is commercial real estate, and the startup trying to rethink the process is CREXi, whose name stands for commercial real estate … | Continue reading
Bern, 3-6 October 2016 iPRES is the premier international conference on the preservation and long term management of digital materials. The 13th International Conference on Digital Preservation will be held on October 3-6, 2016 in Bern, Switzerland. PREFORMA submitted a proposal … | Continue reading
Girona, 17-18 November 2016 The 14th edition of the Image and Research Conference, organized by the Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI) of the Girona City Council with the collaboration of the Association of Archivists of Catalonia, will be held in Girona on 17-18 Nove … | Continue reading
CNet meldet, dass OnePlus das neue Smartphone OnePlus 3 zum Ende des zweiten Quartals 2016 vorstellen will. Das bestätigte der Mitgründer des Start-ups Carl Pei gegenüber der spanischen Redaktion des Online-Mediums. Details zur Featu... | Continue reading
Typically, when VCs invest in a young company, they get equity and a board seat. The startups get money and a new board member. But good portfolio companies should get more, because VCs have a lot more to give – especially to companies that deserve it. VCs are well connected and … | Continue reading
HTC's next flagship smartphone is coming.The struggling smartphone maker wisely waited until after Samsung announced its Galaxy S7 and LG unveiled its modular G5 at Mobile World Congress to send out a teaser for its next smartphone.See also: 12 awesome Instagram features you're p … | Continue reading
The Bay Area is well-acquainted with boom and bust cycles, and while it’s too soon to declare that the tech economy has turned, recruiters see early indicators that it’s happening. Indeed, a handful of job placement executives confirms what recent headlines about layoffs already … | Continue reading
Having recently expanded to a total of 190 locations around the globe, today Netflix released an update for iOS that comes with improved functionality for iPhone as well as an optimized layout for iPad Pro. The latest iteration of the streaming service – that bumps the app to ver … | Continue reading
London residents who are MasterCard customers and use Apple Pay will be able to ride the Tube for free over the next three Mondays, as part of a promotion by the credit card company to incentivize its users to ditch their plastic cards for smartphones. This is the second time Mas … | Continue reading
Good design can change the conversation, but great design can change the world. As technology evolves and more media outlets compete for customers’ time, providing an enjoyable experience is critical to both attracting and keeping users. The UI & UX Design Bootcamp aims to demyst … | Continue reading
After Walt's review of the Eero, the duo discuss in detail the usage of wireless systems and the surprisingly numerous devices one uses in the household with a Wi-Fi internet connection.We love your feedback and suggestions on how to make our show better and more fun — you can tw … | Continue reading
I think there's a pretty good game buried somewhere in The First Tactics [$0.99]. It's hard to be sure at times because there are so many bad choices with the presentation. If you can cut through the obvious vestiges of the game being designed as free-to-play, and somehow compreh … | Continue reading
Earlier on this morning, in our twice daily bitcoin price watch piece, we noted that after the rough and tumble week we’ve seen, we may see some sideways action throughout today’s session. We hoped it wouldn’t be the case (breakout trading is far more exciting than sitting flat i … | Continue reading
Most marketers have personalized content, not web personalization. The difference is subtle, but valuable. Content and copy is only one element of UX. | Continue reading
21 Inc has announced that its Bitcoin Computer device is now shipping to European countries including the UK, France, Germany and Italy. | Continue reading
Blockchain technology can make a major impact on the world although the ramifications can vary greatly from country to country. Barbados is not a country most people would assume with the financial sector, but there is a growing FinTech scene in the region. Bitt is one of those c … | Continue reading
Word processing app startup Quip is announcing today a redesign aimed at improving everyday usage. The team has cooked up an inbox to track updates to all of your documents, and it has new filters that can help you more quickly find what you’re looking for. Folders have also been … | Continue reading
This is a guest repost by Barzan Mozafari , an assistant professor at University of Michigan a... | Continue reading
New student marketing agency Raptor has won accounts with Uber and restaurant delivery service Deliveroo, and is about to kick off the second leg of an experiential campaign with the latter. | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: MNectar came up with unique way to get players to view ads on mobile by creating playable segments of games that could be streamed directly to users. No downloads were necessary just to try out a game. Now mNectar is announcing Spectra, a cross-platform app-streaming n … | Continue reading
If you make frequent purchases from Newegg, you should definitely check out today's deal from Groupon. For a limited time, you can purchase an entire year of Newegg Premier for a hundred bucks, and get a $100 Newegg gift card for free. | Continue reading
Twitter is getting ready to roll out an update for how embedded timelines look, following up on the announcement the company made during its Flight developer conference in October. On March 3, Twitter will roll out a refreshed design for the timeline display that has a modernized … | Continue reading
Three years ago, PayPal cofounder Max Levchin set out to tackle the issue around rising healthcare costs in the United States. He started Glow with the aim of improving women’s reproductive health and its first app launched to help them conceive. Since then, the company spun out … | Continue reading
This content comes directly from the Ignite Visibility email newsletter. Subscribe now to get updates every Thursday. Big SEO news this week. Google began displaying up to four ads above organic desktop search results and removed the ads on the right-hand side. This has all kinds … | Continue reading
Glow, the company behind a suite of apps for tracking female and male fertility, pregnancy, menstruation, and sexual health, is again expanding its lineup with the launch of an application for new parents: Glow Baby. The app allows its users to track baby’s key developmental mile … | Continue reading
In the world of fitness, it’s estimated that 35 million people train in sports like boxing, kickboxing, and mixed martial arts. And while there are many wearables and sensors aimed at ensuring that the right number of calories are burned or if we’re doing the exercise right, Hyks … | Continue reading
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Marketing Strategy - Between Baby Boomers and Millennials, Generation X is often the forgotten middle child. But brands willing to invest in Gen X can capitalize on the following benefits of marketing to ... | Continue reading
Mobile - Unlike texting while driving, texting while selling is not dangerous; in fact, it can be invaluable in helping sales teams meet their numbers. But before you fire off texts to ... | Continue reading