If you’re a movie buff, you know that a lot of production and marketing money is spent in putting together movie trailers. There are also a lot of people who are movie trailer fans, and will watch as many as they can get their eyes on. iOS appCan’t Wait!doesn’t want you to have to go to theaters to see the latest and hottest movie trailer, and it wants to deliver it right to your mobile device....
Cape Town hones ambitions to become an African tech hub Local investment behemoth Naspers has sparked the growth of a lively community of entrepreneurs Diverse tech sector Cape Town is also home to some of South Africa’s largest financial institutions, which explains the emergence of several innovative fintech solutions – but success isn’t confined to this sector. Get Smarter, an edtech company founded in Cape Town,was soldfor $103 million to 2U, an American listed company, in October 2017....
SuperMegaUltraGroovyis a startup based in Waterloo that is developing both Mac and iOS applications that assist users with acoustics, audio recording and learning how to play music within their own iTunes collection. We had a chance to speak with Chris Liscio of SuperMegaUltraGroovy earlier today, the one man show behind the startup. Liscio, a graduate from the University of Waterloo, worked at RIM for four years and left his career to pursue his startup full time, something Lisco says he likely wouldn’t have done without the free health care in Canada....
Capture the Flagis a Web-based game, launched recently by New Zealand-based app developersnapr, that lets you conquer real world locations based on the popularity of the pictures you upload. And you get rewarded with deals by vendors participating in the game. You play by joining one of the national or lifestyle-based tribes, like Hambo, the Kiwis, La Garra, the Wallabies or the ’wawas, and then checking in photos of the locations you visit....
In the following video,GEtook the basic make-up of the sun (71% Hydrogen, 21.7% Helium) and used that recipe to fill a weather balloon with. GE then ignited the balloon and captured the chemical reaction with 18 Canon 7d’s and 6 Canon 60d’s for a total of 24 cameras to shoot the explosion in a full circle. The result is a 360 degree portrait of our miniature sun. “The actual sun is a fusion reaction, and millions of times more powerful than our little suns, but the idea of capturing this power is how we bring in the solar panels,” says a GE spokesperson....
