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Virtual reality lands live in the NBA NBA and NextVR have announced that each week of the season they will broadcast a game in virtual reality, with special announcers dedicated to it.    Starting next November, NBA stars like Lebron James, Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry sneak into homes around the world thanks to the agreement of the American League and NextVR. With the arrival of the 2016/2017 season, the NBA will broadcast through virtual reality a game of the best basketball league in the world. In addition, it will do so with special speakers dedicated to it, with multiple camera angles and graphics optimized for virtual reality, they explain. Users who want to enjoy the experience will have to have a full NBA League Pass subscription to see the games in virtual reality there will be no ads, although there may be 'sponsored experiences'.    "This programming marks the first regular agenda of live matches broadcast in virtual reality by a professiona...

Cellnex Telecom deploys broadband in the new state of Atletico de Madrid The company will provide service to the 68,000 spectators of the site thanks to a network of 'small cells' that can work with different telephony operators   Cellnex Telecom will equip the Wanda Metropolitano stadium, the new 'home' of Club Atlético de Madrid, from the 2017-2018 season, with multi-operator mobile broadband coverage, thanks to the signed agreement between both parties. Cellnex has already closed agreements with several operators - among them Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange - which, from the outset, will offer their customers access to voice and data services in 4G broadband and in the future 5G. The deployment of this infrastructure in the Wanda Metropolitano will improve the user experience and avoid the network failures that usually occur in areas of high connectivity demand due to the conglomeration of a large number of simultaneous users.    This solution is a pio...

Patented hiking stick that allows recharging mobile devices It has a handle that wraps the hand when walking and becomes a helix at rest   A research group from the University of Jaén has patented an electronic hiking stick that allows recharging electronic devices. The invention, as reported by the Discover Foundation, stores, from wind or hydraulic sources, electricity in an internal battery that allows recharging mobile devices, such as GPS or cameras on medium and long haul routes. The recharge of these electronic devices allows to increase the security of the hiker, according to the investigators, who assure that, precisely, that was the beginning of the invention. "During a route with my daughter I had an accident and I ran out of battery in the mobile, it was impossible to establish communications, so I asked myself how to solve the problem with a specific device", explains the researcher Cristina Martín.   According to this expert, the depletion of batte...

It is possible that your work does not exist in 2030 Technology will not replace workers, but new jobs will appear   Big data, artificial intelligence, new technologies applied to software are the tools that are increasingly common in jobs and that, over the years, will be daily in the jobs in all companies. A study carried out by the Institute for the Future has analyzed how emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual reality, augmented reality and the cloud, will transform lives and jobs in the next decade.   The landing of these tools will cause that 85% of the jobs that will be in 2030 do not exist today, and all organizations by then will be technological, and as such, companies must start thinking now about how to protect their infrastructure and their labor, according to this report. By the year 2030, the human dependence on technology will become an authentic relationship, bringing skills such as creativity, passion and an entrepre...

From the heart to the flamenco: the language revolution    A smiling face, a heart, a silent monkey ... or an eggplant. Perhaps writing is a strange enumeration, but if these words are translated into a small image of 12 x 12 pixels and Unicode format they are understood in Spain, the United Kingdom, Japan and China. They are the famous emoji, who have jumped from smartphones to everyday life. A link between countries that came together with the Japanese Shigetaka Kurita in 1999 and that every July 17 is celebrated on Emoji Day.    However, the choice of this date is not the true birth of these little symbols. The choice is a bit arbitrary, according to the Emojipedia, encyclopedia network about the most famous images of the Internet. The answer is Apple and its calendar that marks July 17. The choice was made by Jeremy Burge, the founder of the online encyclopedia, "emojis are the best way to add personality to a purely textual conversation," he explains. ...

An application studies offer taxi drivers to accompany seniors to make the purchase When the driver accompanies the contractor, the meter enters the state of 'waiting service'    The mobile application of the National Taxi Association (ANT), ' TaxiES ', launched in 2015 to "defend" the VTC, is working to offer a new social service to accompany seniors and people in need to make the purchase or go to the doctor while the car is waiting (at normal stop rate). The ANT has signed on Tuesday July 18 a collaboration agreement with Unitramc, the association of freelancers attached to the UGT, with the aim of promoting innovation, training and utilities of taxi drivers assigned to the web application and the tool itself, which "shortly" will implement a new social service that, if we succeed, could reach Madrid soon. As indicated on Tuesday by a representative of the taxi sector in Alicante, the birthplace of this service, the new applicability...

An iPhone of 1,000 dollars? The giant of Cupertino bets 100% on the device of the tenth anniversary    September 2017. This is the date that lovers of Apple's bitten apple are waiting to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the iPhone. Little official information is known so far, although the rumors are an incessant source that does not stop reaching the media. Ten years of the presentation of Steve Jobs and a phone that revolutionized the market, but that has nothing to do with current smartphones. That first iPhone was worth $ 499, double that of its competitors, and it had a 2 megapixel camera, it worked through 2G and it was impossible to turn the screen.   Now seven generations later it is expected that Apple will leave the market amazed, after several attempts in recent years. Although, it is not known when it will see the light, Apple has given to twist its arm to the OLED screens and it has done to its maximum rival Samsung according to Nikkei. 70 mill...