Mar 24
“He wanted to be judged on actions, not press conferences.”
Mar 24
Andrei Zhestkov, 27, told authorities he’d intended on keeping the two-year-old animal as a pet.
Mar 24
“Dora and the Lost City of Gold,” starring Isabela Moner and Eva Longoria, is slated for release on Aug. 2.
Mar 24
Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe has banned campaigns that seek funds for spreading misinformation related to vaccines, the company has revealed. The platform has been used in the past by anti-vaxxers as part of their mission to promote conspiracy theories related to supposed health issues caused by vaccinations. Current campaigns in violation of this new rule will be removed. GoFundMe has previously … Continue reading
Mar 24
Curved TVs might be a on their way out, but curved computer monitors actually make some sense, because you actually sit close enough to them for the curve to wrap around your periphery.
Mar 24
On March 26, aging game Star Wars Battlefront II will get an update that brings a new mode called “Capital Supremacy” set during the Clone Wars era of the franchise. The game mode will be set in Pipeline Junction West on Geonosis, as well as in the interior of the Separatist Dreadnought and Republic Attack Cruiser capital ship. According to … Continue reading
Mar 24
Apple event will focus on subscription services for news, video, and maybe games
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Apple will be holding its spring press event on Monday, March 25th, but unlike its usual stage presentations the company won’t be focusing on new hardware. Instead, last week we saw staggered announcements for new iPads, iMacs, and AirPods. This frees up Monday’s event to reveal something else entirely: a new set of digital services for things like news, video, … Continue reading
Mar 24
Rescue services are attaching lines to the ship from tugboats to begin towing it toward port.
Mar 24
Image credit – Oslo Taxi
At the moment electric cars still need to be plugged in when charging. The problem with this solution is that it can be slow and due to the limited nature of these plugs, it also means that other cars might have to wait longer than you might wait for a car to get refueled using more traditional methods.
However over in Norway, a Finnish utility company by the name of Fortum is working on a wireless charging system that will help keep the country’s electric taxis topped up and charged. The country is aiming for all of its taxis to be at zero emission by 2023 and Fortum believes that this could encourage the adoption of more electric taxis.
The company thinks that current hard-wired charging is too time-consuming, and they think that their wireless charging system will help keep taxis charged up while idling at taxi stands waiting for customers. Fortum’s system is expected to be capable of charging taxis at up to 75kW. There is no word on when this system will be implemented, but if successful it could open up all sorts of possibilities where it could potentially be used in homes, parking bays in malls, and so on.
The charging plates will be used at taxi ranks which will then be linked to a receiver installed in the taxis themselves.
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Mar 24
Some Publishers Are Warning Against Joining Apple’s News Subscription Service
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Image credit – 9to5Mac
Apple has been dabbling in news with the launch of services such as Apple News, but come 25th of March, the company is expected to launch a new subscription service in the form of a news and magazine subscriptions where for a fixed monthly price, customers can expect to be able to access multiple publications at once.
It sounds like a good idea and one that Texture was attempting before Apple acquired them, but it seems that some publishers aren’t thrilled about it. Speaking to Reuters, the New York Times’ CEO Mark Thompson has actually warned other publishers that they should be wary about joining Apple’s upcoming service.
Thompson said, “We tend to be quite leery about the idea of almost habituating people to find our journalism somewhere else. We’re also generically worried about our journalism being scrambled in a kind of Magimix (blender) with everyone else’s journalism.” He adds, “If I was an American broadcast network, I would have thought twice about giving all of my library to Netflix.”
This comes on the heels of a previous report which claims that The Wall Street Journal could be part of Apple’s subscription service, but others such as The Washington Post and the New York Times won’t. From a business perspective Thompson might have a point, but we’ll have to wait and see how the overall response turns out.
Some Publishers Are Warning Against Joining Apple’s News Subscription Service , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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