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“Spotify Podcast Ads”: Streaming service wants to optimize podcast advertising

Spotify wants to offer companies the possibility of switching data-supported and data-controlled podcast advertising in the future. In addition, the advertisers should receive information about the effect achieved by their advertising. The advertising format “Spotify Podcast Ads” and the advertising control tool “Streaming Ad Insertion” (SAI) will be available in Germany in the future. The… Read more

Counter-Strike pros agree to safety protocols so they can return to LAN competition

Counter-Strike players could be returning to in-person competition soon thanks to a new agreement on safety protocols. The Counter-Strike Professional Players’ Association announced a new series of protocols, created in conjunction with two major tournament organizers — the ESL and DreamHack — that could see players return to LAN tournaments early this year. “The players… Read more

Sales of electric vehicles with a strong leap forward: + 43% in 2020

Europe pushes towards diffusion of electrified vehicles, including fully electric and hybrid, with sales increasing by more than 130% compared to to the 2019. For the 2021 the estimates are a further leap forward by Paolo Corsini published on 21 January 2021 , at 15: 21 in the Technology channel During 2020 sales of electric… Read more

Amazon offers US President Biden assistance with vaccination efforts

Amazon has offered help to newly appointed US President Joe Biden to meet vaccination goals. The new US administration plans in the first 100 days of office, 100 million US Providing citizens with vaccine. Now the online retailer emphasizes the role of 800. 000 Amazon employees as ” systemic workforce “who ensure that customers can… Read more

Merkel defends the data protection level of the Corona warning app

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) has defended the decision for a high level of data protection for the Corona warning app. This is very important for the acceptance of the app, said Merkel on Thursday in Berlin. “A corona warning app for far fewer users with less data protection would not be good either.” Your government… Read more

Mad Catz BAT 6+ gaming mouse: spaceship, supercar and Batmobile in one

When designing his new gaming mouse, Mad Catz claims to have used very different sources of inspiration. The BAT 6+ gaming mouse is intended to show elements of spaceships, super sports cars and Batmobile. For readers who do not recognize the design references directly, Mad Catz also provides a more detailed explanation. According to the… Read more

Is the end of LG smartphones near? The company CEO speaks

The South Korean consumer electronics company it seems increasingly aimed at an abandonment of smartphone production. The competition is too much and LG in recent years has not met expectations despite the many efforts of Lorenzo Tirotta published on 21 January 2021 , at 12: 41 in the Telephony channel LG For some time now… Read more

The EC fined Valve 1.8 million euros for regional price blockades. The company does not want to cooperate, and it also announces more expensive games

A few years ago, the European Commission launched an investigation into possible breaches of EU law by Valve and five publishers – Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home Interactive, Koch Media and ZeniMax, to which currently belongs, among others Bethesda, Arkane, id Software or Obsidian. The situation crashed (and still crashes) with the introduction of regional… Read more

Volkswagen strategy: Trinity electric car comes in 2026

Volkswagen is still struggling with the aftermath of the parallel introduction of two platforms. The giant has imposed a tight pace of development, which is a challenge even with the enormous resources of this group. The pressure is unlikely to ease because, on the one hand, Volkswagen has to make the current modular kits for… Read more

SpaceX: Two oil platforms are being converted into space ports

SpaceX bought two oil rigs last year and is currently converting them into rocket launch sites. This reports, among other things, CNBC and explains that the two platforms should allow the planned giant rocket Starship to take off and land away from inhabited areas. Elon Musks The company bought the platforms for a total of… Read more

Elastic: Now comes the fork

Logz.io is promising new distributions for Elasticsearch and Kibana, which, in contrast to Elastics’ future direction, should appear completely as free software. The developers do not use the word fork, but due to the new licenses, the future project is left with less than a split from the original provider. This is exactly what CEO… Read more

Netflix’s new Shuffle Play promises to prevent endless scrolling

Home News (Image credit: Netflix) Spend more time browsing Netflix’s catalogue than actually watching it? We feel you, and we bring you good news. Netflix’s new Shuffle Play feature aims to help put an end to endless scrolling by handpicking titles based on your viewing history. Having been tested at the end of last year,… Read more

Google Economic Report: Influence in Australia is $ 53 billion

Overall, Australian companies and users benefit from 53 billion Australian dollars through the services of Google. This is the result of an economic report by the search engine giant. The investigation is related to the dispute over the planned media law. 1.3 million companies receive thanks to Google 39 Billion Australian Dollars (approximately 25 billion… Read more

iPhone 12: Less mini, more pro

Is the iPhone 12 mini a slow seller? At least the smallest Apple smartphone seems to have been less popular with customers for years than expected by the manufacturer. As the banking house Morgan Stanley has found out, a production shift has now been ordered. A total of two million less of the iPhone 12… Read more

Telekom and Cellnex merge radio towers in the Netherlands

Deutsche Telekom and the telecommunications service provider Cellnex want to merge their radio towers in the Netherlands. The leading independent tower company in the country is to be created under the name Cellnex Netherlands, as the Bonn-based company announced on Thursday. In this, the approximately 3150 roof locations and radio towers of the Telekom subsidiary… Read more