Amazon is launching its new Amazon Video Direct service today to let video creators share any content and receive a cut of the revenue.

Amazon is offering a variety of ways for creators to earn money, including royalties through streaming by Prime members, and revenue sharing through rentals, purchases, subscriptions, and ad impressions.

Amazon has a variety of launch partners, including How Stuff Works, Mattel, The Guardian, and independent titles from Samuel Goldwyn Films.

В 2015 г. продажи музыки выросли на 3,2% до $15 млрд, сообщила Международная федерация звукозаписывающей индустрии (IFPI)

Рост рынка обеспечен прежде всего тем, что продажа музыки в цифровом формате приносит теперь больше выручки, чем продажа треков на физических носителях – CD- и DVD-дисках.

На цифровые форматы теперь приходится 45% всех продаж, или $6,7 млрд. А в 19 странах мира они занимают уже больше половины рынка. За последние 10 лет онлайн-продажи музыки выросли в 6 раз, а в 2015 г. – на 10,2%.

Компания Mail.Ru Group превратила агрегатор онлайн-кинотеатров Афиша Mail.Ru в Кино Mail.Ru, запустив новый плеер, позволяющий пользователям выбирать поставщика фильма или сериала

проект агрегирует бесплатный и платный видеоконтент от таких онлайн-кинотеатров, как ivi, Megogo, Amediateka и Okko, TVzavr, Tvigle, Zoomby, Now, Rutube, Videomore и Pladform (включая контент телеканалов ТНТ, СТС, НТВ и Первый).

для каждого конкретного фильма, сериала и телешоу пользователь сможет увидеть все онлайн-кинотеатры, в которых они представлены, а если видео представлено по платной модели, то можно будет сравнить цены.

RT активно внедряет технологии виртуальной реальности (VR) уже сейчас.

В ближайшее время планируется запуск новой версии приложения, которая будет построена исключительно на контенте 360 градусов.

RT запустил отдельную страницу в соцсети Facebook, где транслируется только новостной контент с панорамным видео, а также публикует видео в формате 360 градусов на своем канале на видеохостинге YouTube. 

A new glove will turn even the most deficient in musical talent into rockstars.

The glove works in tandem with a motion sensor bracelet, allowing you to create sounds by moving your fingertips or your entire hand. You can tap any surface and it will sound like you're playing on a keyboard.

You can then record songs in real-time, on-the-go, and trust that they'll all be saved onto the app. The glove can send recordings over WiFi or Bluetooth.

Realeyes last year received a near £3m grant from the The European Commission help develop its technology, which claims to track the ‘likability’ of brand’s marketing efforts by measuring people’s emotions via standard webcams as they watch video content.

Tools such as Realeyes allow us to get behavioural information upfront, so we can optimise and measure content before launch.

This enables us to deliver more effective video and more efficient distribution, making the message more impactful and delivering increased business advantage for our clients

wearable system that tracks human movements to understand what task you’re doing, how difficult it is, and when you switch to something else. His goal is to help us control our multitasking lives

Epps’s team has made a device which straps to a baseball cap that can work out the intensity of a task and when a person switches to another task – just from their head movements.

the device could turn your phone to silent or deliver only emergency notifications. It could also tell you when you need to take a break

A company in Japan is building an indoor lettuce farm that will be completely tended by robots and computers.

The company, named Spread, expects the factory to open in 2017, and the fully automated farming process could make the lettuce cheaper and better for the environment.

The plants can be grown hydroponically without exhausting soil resources.

Apple announced Wednesday it will build 200 megawatts of solar energy projects in China and work with local suppliers to source more renewable energy

the tech giant said it will launch an initiative to "drive its manufacturing partners to become more energy efficient and to use clean energy for their manufacturing operations."

Apple said the 200 megawatts projects will produce the equivalent of the energy used by more by than 265,000 Chinese homes in a year.

AirConsole is a recently launched browser-based games platform that repurposes players’ smartphones as controllers

For a local multiplayer gaming session AirConsole is super simple to use

your phone becomes the touch pad to control the goings-on on the other screen