Time is supposed to make technology better. The idea is simple: With more time, humans make newer, better technology and our lives improve. Except for when the opposite happens. Google is a good example of this. I’ve been harping on the matter for a while now. Google mobile search, in case you haven’t used it […]
2020-01-23
Founder Andreas Kröpfl has spent almost a decade hard-grafting in the B2B unified communications space, building a videoconferencing business with a patented single-stream system and a claim of no “drop-offs” thanks to “unique low-bandwidth technology.” His Austria-based startup’s current web-based videoconferencing system, eyeson (née Visocon), which launched in 2018, has had some nice traction since […]
2020-01-24
If I watch a Story cross-posted from Instagram to Facebook on either of the apps, it should appear as “watched” at the back of the Stories row on the other app. Why waste my time showing me Stories I already saw? It’s been over two years since Instagram Stories launched cross-posting to Stories. Countless hours […]
2020-01-23
Der ehemalige Außenminister und SPD-Chef Sigmar Gabriel wird neues Mitglied im Aufsichtsrat der Deutschen Bank. Dazu Dietmar Deffner im Gespräch mit Jörg Eigendorf, Sprecher Deutsche Bank.
2020-01-24
Zweimal kamen Wind und Wetter dazwischen, im dritten Anlauf hat es endlich geklappt. Boeings neues Großraumjet mit Klappflügeln ist abgehoben. Amerikas führenden Luftfahrtkonzern kann gute Nachrichten wie diese gut gebrauchen.
2020-01-25
Unternehmen, die sehr viel Energie verbrauchen, schützt die Politik bisher vor zu hohen Strompreisen. Solche Vergünstigungen sollen künftig aber wegfallen, sagt Valdis Dombrovskis, Vize-Präsident der EU-Kommission. Sie verletzten den Geist des europäischen „Green Deal“.
2020-01-24
The three were part of a quiet resistance against the Nazis in Second World War Berlin.
Die Beratungen der Mindestlohn-Kommission werden noch 2020 zu kräftig steigenden Verdiensten in Pflegeberufen führen, sagt Arbeitsminister Hubertus Heil. Grundsätzlich könnten zwölf Euro Mindestlohn nur ein Zwischenziel sein.
2020-01-25
Industrieverbände und Gewerkschaften haben einen Beschwerdebrief an die Kanzlerin geschrieben: Im Gesetzentwurf zum Kohleausstieg fehlten die versprochenen zwei Milliarden Euro, mit denen die steigenden Strompreise abgefedert werden sollen.
2020-01-25
Seit der Wiedervereinigung ist der Bierabsatz in Deutschland um fast ein Viertel eingebrochen. Das liegt an der Demografie, der Tatsache, dass Bier aus Alltagssituationen verschwindet – und Fehlern der Getränkehersteller.
2020-01-25
Die polnische Staatsairline LOT greift sich den Ferienflieger. Der 380-Millionen-Überbrückungskredit des deutschen Staates kann vollständig zurückbezahlt werden. Zwei große Investmentfirmen hatten beim Bietergefecht das Nachsehen.
2020-01-24
During the opening panel of this year’s Understanding Bitcoin conference in Malta, some prominent members of the Bitcoin community reflected on the block size limit controversy and the eventual activation of Segregated Witness (SegWit). One of the individuals involved in the conversation was Bull Bitcoin CEO Francis Pouliot, who was working at The Bitcoin Embassy […]
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful has partnered with crypto services provider The White Company to give Paxful customers the ability to cash out bitcoins into prepaid cards in multiple currencies, the companies said on Thursday. The new partnership allows Paxful users to exchange their bitcoins into Visa or MasterCard digital prepaid cards in 10 fiat […]
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Blockchain – a bursting bubble or disruptive transformation? The Internet has created digital marketplaces that efficiently bring supply and demand together. The success of tech giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, but also Tencent and Alibaba, can be largely explained by their two-sided digital marketplaces and the resulting platform economy. The platform companies […]
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Media company Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), insurance firm NTUC Income (Income), and LumenLab, MetLife’s Asia innovation center, have teamed up to pilot a blockchain platform aimed at automating the life insurance claim process, the companies said on Monday. Using LifeChain, a technology developed by LumenLab, SPH will encrypt and share verification data used for obituary […]
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Prince Charles seems to ignore US Vice-President Mike Pence as he shakes hands at a forum in Israel.
2020-01-23
One person died and seven were wounded in a rush hour shooting in downtown Seattle.
2020-01-23
The singer reveals in her new book how a childhood incident led to a reliance on drugs and alcohol.
2020-01-23
A burglar in a phone shop in Vancouver had to wait for police after getting trapped by a security fence.
2020-01-22
At the World Economic Forum, he asked: "Do we want to go down in history as the people who did nothing?"
2020-01-22
A devastating earthquake has hit Turkey's Elazig province, with over a thousand injured and many dead.
2020-01-25
In der Debatte um ein Tempolimit auf Autobahnen hat der ADAC seine jahrzehntelange ablehnende Haltung aufgegeben. Die Auswirkungen eines Tempolimits sollten dringend in einer umfassenden Studie geklärt werden, so die neue Haltung des ADAC.
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Police believe the unnamed Briton fell off a cliff after a night out on Thursday.
2020-01-24
Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power and at least 13 people were killed.
2020-01-23
Snapchat and NBC Olympics are again teaming up to produce customized Olympics content for users in the U.S. — this time, for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this summer. The companies had previously worked together during the Rio 2016 and PyeongChang 2018 Olympics. The PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games in 2018 reached over 40 million U.S. users, […]
2020-01-23
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Farewell, don’t @ me. Twitter will test a way to let you limit replies to your tweets Twitter users will soon […]
2020-01-09
Instagram will finally let you chat from your web browser, but the launch contradicts Facebook’s plan for end-to-end encryption in all its messaging apps. Today Instagram began testing Direct Messages on the web for a small percentage of users around the globe, a year after TechCrunch reported it was testing web DMs. When fully rolled […]
2020-01-14
Spotify is testing a new Stories feature that will allow select influencers to incorporate video elements into their public playlists, TechCrunch has learned and Spotify confirmed. The first influencer to test the feature is makeup and fashion YouTube star Summer Mckeen, who currently has a social media fan base that includes 2.33 million YouTube subscribers, […]
2020-01-21
Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, has acquired BSave for an undisclosed amount, the company said earlier this week. BSave is a platform that provides earning interest income on cryptocurrency. With the acquisition, Celsius Network gains access to its yield generating algorithms originally developed by the company. Celsius Network said it will retain […]
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Blockchain – a bursting bubble or disruptive transformation? The Internet has created digital marketplaces that efficiently bring supply and demand together. The success of tech giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, but also Tencent and Alibaba, can be largely explained by their two-sided digital marketplaces and the resulting platform economy. The platform companies […]
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Dash Core Group, the US-incorporated company leading the development of the peer-to-peer (P2P) payment platform and cryptocurrency Dash, has partnered with virtual reality (VR) app Aircoins to allow users to hunt, collect and send Dash cryptocurrency in an augmented reality (AR) environment, similarly to the Pokemon Go mobile game, the organization said on Thursday. Commenting […]
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful has partnered with crypto services provider The White Company to give Paxful customers the ability to cash out bitcoins into prepaid cards in multiple currencies, the companies said on Thursday. The new partnership allows Paxful users to exchange their bitcoins into Visa or MasterCard digital prepaid cards in 10 fiat […]
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Octi has created a new social network that uses augmented reality to connect the act of seeing your friends in real life with viewing digital content, like their favorite YouTube videos and Spotify songs. When I wrote about the startup in 2018, it was building AR technology that could do a better job of recognizing […]
2020-01-22
Wikipedia has surpassed a notable milestone today: The English version of the world’s largest online encyclopedia now has more than six million articles. The feat, which comes roughly 19 years after the website was founded, is a testament of “what humans can do together,” said Ryan Merkley, chief of staff at Wikimedia, the nonprofit organization […]
2020-01-23
Security and encryption experts from around the world are joining a number of organizations to call on India to reconsider its proposed amendments to local intermediary liability rules. In an open letter to India’s IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday, 27 security and cryptography experts warned the Indian government that if it goes ahead […]
2020-01-09
Der ehemalige Außenminister und SPD-Chef Sigmar Gabriel wird neues Mitglied im Aufsichtsrat der Deutschen Bank. Dazu Dietmar Deffner im Gespräch mit Jörg Eigendorf, Sprecher Deutsche Bank.
2020-01-24
Im Kampf gegen Lieferengpässe fordern die Gesundheitsminister der Länder „rasche Schritte“ für eine stärkere heimische Produktion. Derzeit sind knapp 300 Arzneien nicht lieferbar, darunter Medikamente zur Krebsbehandlung und Narkosemittel.
2020-01-25
In der Debatte um ein Tempolimit auf Autobahnen hat der ADAC seine jahrzehntelange ablehnende Haltung aufgegeben. Die Auswirkungen eines Tempolimits sollten dringend in einer umfassenden Studie geklärt werden, so die neue Haltung des ADAC.
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Payment company Xfers has partnered with blockchain startup Zilliqa to explore the use of blockchain and smart contracts to bring greater speed, efficiency and transparency to payment solutions for enterprises, the company said on Tuesday. Xfers, a Singapore-based payment processing gateway offering credit card processing and Internet banking transfers, will leverage Zilliqa’s smart contract functionalities […]
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Dash Core Group, the US-incorporated company leading the development of the peer-to-peer (P2P) payment platform and cryptocurrency Dash, has partnered with virtual reality (VR) app Aircoins to allow users to hunt, collect and send Dash cryptocurrency in an augmented reality (AR) environment, similarly to the Pokemon Go mobile game, the organization said on Thursday. Commenting […]
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Media company Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), insurance firm NTUC Income (Income), and LumenLab, MetLife’s Asia innovation center, have teamed up to pilot a blockchain platform aimed at automating the life insurance claim process, the companies said on Monday. Using LifeChain, a technology developed by LumenLab, SPH will encrypt and share verification data used for obituary […]
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