After Clausnitz: How theater can counteract xenophobia
When a group of refugees arrived in the German village of Clausnitz in Saxony last weekend, a hundred protestors were there waiting for them. Shouting racist comments and shaking their fists, the...
View ArticleAfter Clausnitz: How theater can counteract xenophobia
When a group of refugees arrived in the German village of Clausnitz in Saxony last weekend, a hundred protestors were there waiting for them. Shouting racist comments and shaking their fists, the...
View Article17-year-old Jamie-Lee Kriewitz to sing for Germany at Eurovision 2016
The winner of the television singing contest “The Voice of Germany” took her song “Ghost” to the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) preliminaries in Cologne. After learning of her victory, Jamie-Lee...
View ArticleLong necks, fat bellies, shrill colors: How Florence's 16th-century artists...
“Elegant, cultivated, artificial,” is how curator Bastian Eclercy describes the style of a new generation of Florentine Mannerism artists in the early 16th century. They wanted to set themselves apart...
View ArticleJamala: “No political content in my ESC song”
DW: On May 14, you’ll represent Ukraine in Stockholm at the Eurovision Song Contest with “1944” – a song about the forced expulsion of Crimean tatars to central Asia during the Stalin regime in the...
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Explore Google Maps with Link from ‘The Legend of Zelda’
Filed under: Etc., Driving, Technology Open up Google Maps in the browser and you'll notice that the yellow Pegman now looks like Link. Explore Google Maps with Link from 'The Legend of Zelda'...
View ArticleToyota’s data-focused company aims to make cars smarter
Related Video: A few weeks ago, Ford announced its Smart Mobility subsidiary that will focus on autonomous vehicles, in-car tech and more. Today, Toyota made a similar move with Toyota Connected, Inc....
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Uber affirms tipping drivers ‘is not expected or required’
“Riders tell us that one of the things they like most about Uber is that it’s hassle-free,” he said. “And that’s how we intend to keep it.” “Nothing has changed. As we’ve said for many years, being...
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The Google autonomous car has learned how to honk
Google’s self-driving cars are not only getting smarter by the day, but they’re also getting a little bit more polite. According to the project’s latest monthly report, the self-driving car team has...
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There’s more money in on-demand taxis than going to Mars
NASA’s annual budget for the 2015 fiscal year is $18.5 billion, a figure that you should bear in mind when we talk about the ride-hailing app business. It’s because Didi Chuxing, more commonly known...
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