While the characters of Mad Men have gone bicoastal in recent years, the show’s heart and soul has always been in New York City. In honor of the final season—the series will end on May 17—we’ve taken a tour through Manhattan of some noteworthy sites that have appeared on the show. Replicas of these well-known institutions have been used in the show because Mad Men is filmed in Los Angeles,
In the summer of 2016, 205 countries will be represented by 10,500 athletes in the first Olympic Games to be held in South America. For 17 days, 42 sports (including rugby and golf, returning to the Games after 92 and 112 years, respectively) will showcase their top athletes in 306 medal events. There are 7.5 million tickets available, 3.8 million of which are less than $30. Here’s how to get one. First, register
Microsoft Surface fans hold on to your hats as the firm’s latest high-end tablet-PC hybrid is getting for its first outing later on this month. First reported by SlashGear, an anonymous source told the site that the Surface Pro 4 will get its long awaited big reveal at a special Microsoft event that is slated to take place in the middle of May. It goes on to explain that even
Technology is many things, but it’s rarely dull. Take this week, for example. Microsoft may have just shown us the future of the PC, we’ve seen smartphones covered in cows and we’ve discovered how chickens can cause chaos in virtual cities. Not only that, but we’ve seen a whole tech sector die and a watch hurt somebody’s shoulder. It’s another weird and wonderful week in tech! Microsoft: Build and they
Apple and IBM are working together on a piece of software that has the potential to revolutionise the lives of elderly people worldwide. First reported by the Wall Street Journal, the two companies are working with Japan Post to develop Post Office Watch service software for the iPad that will assist in the care of elderly people. Post Office Watch was launched at the end of 2013 and allows Japanese
A few weeks back, Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft ran out of fuel. Since then, the first and only probe we have orbiting Mercury has been on a doomed spiral towards an inevitable crash landing on the surface of the planet closest to the Sun. On April 30, at 7.26pm UTC, Messenger hit the ground at 3.91 kilometres per second – leaving a crater about 16 metres wide. Just beforehand, however, it
Introduction It’s hard to believe that it’s almost been a year since Microsoft launched the Surface Pro 3. A tough act to follow, it remains one of the best 2-in-1 devices around and sets the bar high for the Surface 3, the newest member of Microsoft’s Surface family, to follow. If the mood leading up to the launch of the Surface Pro 3 was quietly cautious following several Windows RT-shaped
Shares of LinkedIn Corp, operator of the most popular social network for professionals, fell 20 percent in early trading on Friday, wiping out more than $6 billion of market value, after the company slashed its full-year forecast. LinkedIn reported on Thursday its slowest quarterly revenue growth since it went public four years ago. The surprisingly weak results followed Twitter Inc’s on Tuesday. Twitter’s stock fell by as much as 24
A bill to end spy agencies’ bulk collection of Americans’ telephone data advanced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, setting up a potential showdown over the program, which expires on June 1. The House Judiciary Committee voted 25-2 to approve the “USA Freedom Act,” seeking to tighten control of a program publicly exposed two years ago by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The bill would bar
Rocket Internet, a tech investor focused on emerging market ventures, has reduced its stakes in two of its Europe-focused financial services start-ups after facing setbacks there, Germany’s Spiegel magazine said. Lending site Lendico had all but retreated from three of the six countries where it had been operating, while corporate lending site Zencap made fewer than 200 loans to small firms with a total value of 14 million euros ($16
