It is beginning to seem that time is the new currency of our time. Companies like IKEA are using innovative marketing techniques to encourage customers to spend more time in the store. One example is the "Shop with Time" campaign at IKEA Dubai, where customers can pay for their purchases with the time they spend on the way to the store. This ...
The number of cases where the Apple Watch smartwatch has proven to be not only a movement and health tracker, but also a life saver, continues to grow. One of these cases occurred recently with a user in Cincinnati, USA. Twenty-nine-year-old Kimmie Watkins from Cincinnati owes her Apple Watch for saving her life after doctors discovered a lif...
Amazon is facing allegations that it improperly signed up millions of users to the paid Amazon Prime program and made it harder for them to cancel the premium service. The internet giant is being taken to court by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This was pointed out by CNN. The commission announced the filing of the lawsuit on its webs...
In the context of the search for the lost submarine Titan, which went to the wreck of the Titanic with five people on board, the American media brought information that the wife of the head of the company OceanGate, which organizes these cruises, has among her ancestors great-great-grandparents who died in 1912 in the sinking of the seemingly un...
Australian journalist Jacqueline Felgate shared a video of a rare round egg on social media. It was among the standard eggs in a box that one of her followers brought from the supermarket. The almost perfectly round egg was in a pack in a supermarket in the central area of Melbourne, Australia, and Jacqueline immediately began searching onlin...
Two of the world's most prominent tech billionaires, Twitter chief Elon Musk and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, have agreed to a cage match. Their communication has quickly spread across the internet and social network users are now debating who will win. Musk came up with the challenge when he tweeted that he was "ready for a cage match" wit...
A Counter-Strike player in France spent six months plotting revenge on the man who beat him in a knife fight in the game. In the end, his revenge didn't just take place virtually. Twenty-year-old Julien Barreaux from Cambrai "stabbed" his character in Counter-Strike late last year against another man known only as "Mikhael". Enraged by this d...
Google is facing the prospect of having to sell part of its internet empire, with the European Commission (EC) ordering the US company to "discontinue its lucrative digital advertising business". This is in direct response to concerns that Google could abuse its dominant position in the European market. This was reported by Reuters, citing an of...
A fascinating new feature has appeared in the AI applications Stable Difusion and ControlNet - custom QR codes in the form of images with full QR code functionality. This innovative combination of technology and creativity brings a whole new dimension to the use of QR codes. QR codes are now a normal part of our everyday lives. They are used ...
