Month: February 2020
How will OTT in sports broadcasting impact advertising?
The sports broadcasting industry has rapidly evolved in recent years, and the move of live broadcasting to the internet, utilizing over-the-top (OTT) infrastructures will provide new opportunities in advertising. The benefits to promotional sponsors are three fold; video-on-demand (VOD) will allow more people than ever to view sporting events, creating…
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Nvidia RTX 2080 and RTX 2070 Super GPUs could be powering gaming laptops soon
Nvidia is set to launch a clutch of new mobile GPUs, including RTX 2070 and 2080 Super graphics cards to power up gaming laptops, if a fresh rumor is to be believed. Apparently an inside source within Nvidia spoke to Wccftech and revealed that the new Super mobile GPUs will…
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Apple shuts all Chinese stores due to coronavirus
Apple has announced it is shutting all its retail outlets and offices in China in an attempt to slow the spread of deadly coronavirus. “Out of an abundance of caution and based on the latest advice from leading health experts, we’re closing all our corporate offices, stores, and contact centers…
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WhatsApp has stopped working on millions of smartphones
WhatsApp has stopped working on millions of smartphones running older editions of popular operating systems. Starting February 1st, the Facebook-owned messaging platform will no longer support smartphones running on operating systems older than Android 2.3.7 and iOS version 8. Since the old operating systems do not get the latest security…
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Europe risks squandering its global advantage in deep tech innovation
Miles Kirby Contributor Miles is the managing director of AV8 Ventures and is based in London. He is focused on investments at Seed and Series A. It’s a somewhat crude yardstick by which to measure innovation in deep tech, and the result perhaps reflects historic bias as much as it…
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Scale of Airbnb’s scam problem detailed in new Vice report
A new report from Vice has highlighted the range of different scams that unscrupulous Airbnb hosts have been pulling on their unsuspecting guests. From tricking guests into switching to dirty and rundown properties at the last minute, to threatening them if they don’t leave glowing 5-star reviews, the report’s findings…
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