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Chat app Line is launching a Netflix-like video streaming app for kids TV shows in Japan

Mar21
by on March 21, 2014 at 4:26 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia

Messaging app Line is branching out into video content in Japan, where it has announced plans for an app that caters to kids programming. The Bridge reports that the app — initially for iOS, an Android version is due in spring — will include over 1,500 programs from 28 animation series, including Doraemon, Pokemon, and Thomas and Friends. Users will be able to watch for 40 minutes for free per day, beyond that they can pay 500 yen ($5) a month for up to 300 episodes or 400 yen ($4) for unlimited access to all episodes from any single program. As ever…

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Mt. Gox finds $115 million of ‘lost’ Bitcoin, but is still missing 650,000 BTCs

Mar21
by on March 21, 2014 at 3:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, bitcoin, Insider

Mt. Gox, the fallen Bitcoin exchange, has chanced upon a significant discovery after it found 200,000 ‘lost’ Bitcoin (worth around $115 million on today’s rates) in an unused account, Endgaget reports. The Tokyo-based company has misplaced around 850,000 Bitcoins, owned by both its customers and the company itself. The exchange is investigating the discovery, which gives some cause for optimism from those who had given up all hope of getting their stash back. Mt.Gox began allowing users to check their balances last week, a positive turn after rumors of its struggles came true when it imploded and disappeared offline last month. Things are still…

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Twitter gets blocked in Turkey, as its Prime Minister threatens crackdown on other social media

Mar21
by on March 21, 2014 at 2:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web

Turkey has cracked down on social media — not for the first time – after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blocked access to Twitter and threatened to “wipe out” the microblogging service after it was used to expose alleged government corruption. The BBC reports that its correspondent was unable to access the site from Turkey, where Twitter is estimated to have some 10 million registered users. Twitter hasn’t issued an official response, but it did offer instructions to help users send tweets using SMS: Turkish users: you can send Tweets using SMS. Avea and Vodafone text START to 2444. Turkcell text START to…

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PayPal’s food payment services Pay At Table and Order Ahead come to the UK and Australia

Mar21
by on March 21, 2014 at 1:26 am
Posted In: Around the Web, UK

PayPal has switched the Pay At Table and Order Ahead features in its iOS app on in Europe, starting with the UK, as TechCrunch reports. The services relate to the food and restaurant business, and were first announced in the US last year. They do pretty much what you’d expect by their names: Pay At Table checks users in to a location and handles payment for their meal at a restaurant…’at the table’, while Order Ahead lets customers to peruse a restaurant’s menu and order their food remotely, before coming to collect it and paying on pick-up. Popular noodle restaurant…

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Can artificial intelligence give a TED talk? The XPrize Foundation wants to find out.

Mar21
by on March 21, 2014 at 12:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Shareables, ted, xprize

Innovative non-profit XPrize Foundation is teaming up with TED to advance artificial intelligence, but it wants your help to make it happen. The two organizations are throwing the gauntlet down to AI enthusiasts by offering “a modern-day Turing test” to the team that delivers a TED talk with no human input whatsoever. That’s the basic premise, but XPrize and TED want fans of technology to come up with the rules for this challenge. To take part and help shape the unique opportunity, just visit the XPrize-TED website and submit your opinion. We look forward to seeing the fruits of this challenge, which…

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