The social network for sharing photos by interest raised $ 225 million in its last round, which values the now $ 3.8 billion.
The platform Pinterest , which allows users to post their interests through photos "pinned" on the internet centers, has seen its value rise to $ 3.8 billion at the time of a new round according to the specialized site AllThingsD.
Pinterest, citing several people familiar with the...
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Samsung has passed 40 million Galaxy S4
The flagship smartphone brand has sold 40 million copies since its launch in April. It took two times faster than the S3.
The co-CEO of Samsung support mobile business, JK Shin said that Samsung had sold 40 million smartphones Galaxy S4 to time, reports the Korean press. The flagship phone of the brand was launched in April 2013.
After a flying start with 10 million units in the first month passed ,...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Battlefield 5: developer promises more destruction
Already in "Battlefield 4" it crashes properly. Nevertheless wants developers Dice in "Battlefield 5" go one better
like the " Call of Duty "series" Battlefield "does not appear in an annual cycle. Nevertheless developer Dice has been a week before the release of " Battlefield 4 "ideas about what the sequel could do better than the current title. On the question of what can players of "Battlefield 5" expect,...
Disney makes electricity with paper
Disney Research revisits the use of a single sheet of paper by giving a nice feature. Transforming it into electricity generator, it creates enough energy to power a LED light or an e-ink screen and it just friction.
The method does not require batteries or batteries to operate. Indeed, the generator itself is actually a thin Teflon sheet sandwiched between two conductive adhesives as an electrode. All, cleverly...
Monday, October 21, 2013
VW XL1 Sports: Fuel Savings from mobile with motor Ducati Superbike
Volkswagen XL1: Plans for fuel saver as the sport version
VW plans, according to the Austrian magazine "Auto Review" , offering its fuel-saving motor home XL1 to expand and XL Sports to produce. Such plans has presented the VW supervisory board chairman Ferdinand Piech at the Technical University of Vienna. The engine is from the Ducati Superbike 1199 Panigale where the engine 190...
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Sex and porn on the internet seduce 15-24
Two-thirds of French people aged 15-24 have surfed on a porn site, and 17% of young men and women reported having had sexual intercourse through a dating site, according to a poll Ifop.
Thanks to the mobile internet and social networks, young French consume more and more porn and make greater sexual use of the web indicates Ifop poll commissioned by the site Cam4 webcam.
69% of boys and 35% of girls aged 15 to 24 have...
Saturday, October 19, 2013
VIDEO. The American soldier of the future, strong and bulletproof, like Iron Man?
The armor Talos project in a computer simulation of a combat demonstration.
U.S. Army RDECOM
Protected and armed with an exoskeleton soldiers! This is both the return of the good old armor but also of science fiction could very well become reality.
The U.S. Agency for Defense (DARPA) has been developing for several months Talos (Tactical Assault Suit Light Operator), an exoskeleton to soldiers of the Army. This...