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Today is America’s birthday. But you don’t have to reside in the United States to appreciate this amazing footage of a drone flying directly into a fireworks display. Shot by Jos Stiglingh in West Palm Beach Florida, the footage was captured with a GoPro 3 Silver riding atop a DJI Phantom 2 drone. The first few moments are boring take off footage, but after that, it’s spectacular fireworks-in-your-face action. I can’t wait to see the footage that emerges from tonight’s festivities. H/T: Norm Chan See Also: How to Use Personal Drones Legally: A Beginner’s Guide
FIFA is in charge of the biggest sporting event outside of the Olympics. But in addition to making sure the games start on time, it’s also making sure no one mistakes random Twitter accounts with its logo as part of the organization. Torrent Freak reports that FIFA has been issuing DMCA complaints to Twitter about the offending avatars. For the offending accounts, their profile image reverts to the Twitter egg until the user replaces it with something else. In its guidelines for use of its official marks (PDF), FIFA states the following in regards to social networks: FIFA’s official logos, symbols and other…
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Christof Wittig is founder and CEO at LiquidM, a white-labeled Mobile Advertising Management Platform (MAMP). Mobile is huge, tech pundits say. But most of them miss the fact that mobile advertising isn’t growing anywhere near the pace of mobile adoption. As Mary Meeker’s 2014 Internet Trends Report shows, mobile ads still represent just a fraction of the global Internet advertising spend, which is still dominated by desktop-based ads. And if mobile content can’t make enough money through advertising, mobile is largely unsustainable as a media platform. This is a big problem for the industry, and while analysts like Meeker do a…
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Sometimes you forget a password and sometimes that password is the iCloud password associated with your iPhone. Now instead of a smartphone, you have a very expensive glass and metal paperweight. Chronicunlocks has an iCloud Removal Tool service that’ll help you regain control of your phone and it’ll only cost you $150. Apple’s Activation Lock is supposed to lower the chances of an iPhone (or iPad) being useful to thieves. It’s a second layer of security that ties the device to your iCloud account. As 9to5Mac reports, Activation Lock has helped reduce iPhone thefts. This service disables that second layer of protection….
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