Dior modernizes brand image with Rihanna-fronted campaign
Dior Secret Garden campaign image featuring Rihanna French fashion house Christian Dior is leveraging pop star Rihanna’s celebrity and modernity in the latest installment of its Secret Garden advertising campaign. The singer was the first to release any of the campaign images, posting them to Instagram May 13 ahead of Dior’s May 14 publication, creating a media frenzy and the attention of her millions of social media fans. Building interest before
Mighty and majestic, waterfalls are one of nature’s most incredible and dramatic features. Though they can easily be found in many locations across the country, the most awe-inspiring waterfalls have become destinations in their own right. From a surging water wall to an indoor torrent 30 million years in the making, these waterfalls capture the power and beauty of nature in one stunning sight. By Zachary Laks
A flexible robot arm, aimed at improving surgical operations and filled with coffee granules, has been constructed by scientists in Italy. The 14-centimetre-long tentacle has no rigid inner skeleton. Instead, it has a central tube with chambers that can be pumped full of air to varying degrees to lengthen or bend the arm in different directions. In the middle of the tube is an additional chamber filled with coarse-ground coffee.
The US department of energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has joined the group of organisations claiming they can fabricate graphene on a large scale. Graphene is something of a wonder material – it’s stronger, lighter and more conductive than almost anything else we know. But while it’s easy to make in small batches, it’s a pain to make in bulk. For years, various groups have claimed that they’ve cracked a
Intel has agreed a deal with eASIC to develop a new breed of customised Xeon chip designed for specific workloads like security and big data that can cut the time-to-market for chips in half. The collaboration is part of Intel’s plan to get reprogrammable technology inside its Xeon processors and bring a greater level of performance and power at a more competitive price level. In order to bring that new
Introduction It’s become second nature to most smartphone or tablet users to have a personal hotspot option as standard in order to share their super-fast 4G wireless internet connection with other devices at any time. Things get a bit harder, however, if you try to achieve the same thing with a Windows 7 or 8.1 PC. Many people may ask why, in this age of affordable home internet connections and
Without any HDR content to play with you might be feeling a little glum about your sexy new Samsung SUHD TV right now. But worry ye not, potentially as early as next month the Korean tech giant is going to be putting together a new UHD Video Pack to compliment its new televisions. Samsung’s latest range of 4K TVs – the Samsung UE65JS9500 and UE65JS9000 in particular – have been
By Dan Levine and Lawrence Hurley SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration has been locked in internal wrangling over what position to take in high profile litigation between two American technology giants, Google and Oracle, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. It faces an end-of-May deadline to decide whether to take sides in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that will have wide implications for the
Taiwan has ordered Alibaba’s online marketplace Taobao to withdraw from the island within six months for violating investment rules required for a Chinese company, Chinese and Taiwanese media said on Thursday. Taobao has been fined T$240,000 ($7,860) and must withdraw or transfer its holdings from its operation in Taiwan, China’s Xinhua news agency and Taiwan’s Economic Daily News quoted the island’s investment commission as saying. Taobao and the commission could
By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium’s privacy watchdog accused Facebook on Friday of trampling on European privacy laws by tracking people online without their consent and dodging questions from national regulators. The Privacy Protection Commission (CPVP/CBPL), which is working with German, Dutch, French and Spanish counterparts, launched the blistering attack after trying to find out more about the U.S. social media giant’s practices. It urged Internet users to install
