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JBL réalise un nouveau record avec 100 millions d’enceintes portables livrées

HARMAN International, filiale à 100% de Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, spécialisée dans les technologies connectées pour les marchés de l'automobile, des particuliers et des entreprises, annonce un nouveau record de sa marque JBL avec 100 millions d'enceintes portables livrées dans le monde entier. JBL consolide ainsi sa position de leader dans le domaine de l'audio portable et de créateur de catégories. La marque repousse les limites de l'innovation en donnant vie à la musique, afin que tout le monde puisse la ressentir. Aujourd'hui, JBL équipe les musiciens, les athlètes, les sites et les voitures les plus épiques du monde, tout en étant le leader du marché des enceintes portables avec 34,2% de parts de marché.




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JBL geluid én gemakkelijk muziek streamen: Maak kennis met de JBL® Link Portable en Link Music

Van knallende baslijnen tot vloeiende gitaarsolo’s, JBL introduceert de JBL Link Portable en Link Music. Ze zijn net zo handig als ze mooi zijn, de speakers zijn voorzien van 360 graden JBL’s kenmerkende sound, Wifi- en Bluetooth-connectiviteit en ingebouwde Chromecast en Google assistent.




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Help Power HARMAN to SXSW 2020

SXSW, one of the most popular conferences for film, culture, music and technology, has opened its PanelPicker voting platform again this year to choose sessions for its 2020 conference—and we need your votes by August 23!




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JBL sound plus easy music streaming: Meet JBL® Link Portable and Link Music

From heart-thumping basslines to face-melting guitar solos, the new JBL Link Portable and Link Music have arrived. With 360 JBL Signature Sound, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, Chromecast and Google Assistant built-in, they’ve got brains to match their beauty.




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JBL Sets New Record with 100 Million Portable Speakers

HARMAN International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. focused on connected technologies for automotive, consumer and enterprise markets, is delighted to announce that its JBL brand has reached the tremendous milestone of 100 million portable speakers shipped worldwide, cementing its position as the portable audio leader and category shaper. JBL pushes the boundaries of innovation, bringing music to life in ways that audiences everywhere can feel. Today, not only does JBL power the world’s most epic musicians, athletes, venues and automobiles, JBL is the market leader in portable speakers with 34.2% volume share.




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JBL Sets New Record with 100 Million Portable Speakers

HARMAN International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. focused on connected technologies for automotive, consumer and enterprise markets, is delighted to announce that its JBL brand has reached the tremendous milestone of 100 million portable speakers shipped worldwide, cementing its position as the portable audio leader and category shaper. JBL pushes the boundaries of innovation, bringing music to life in ways that audiences everywhere can feel. Today, not only does JBL power the world’s most epic musicians, athletes, venues and automobiles, JBL is the market leader in portable speakers with 34.2% volume share.




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HARMAN Empowers Girls in STEM with Continued partnership with Christel House, Bangalore

Continuing our global efforts to provide opportunities to young students  to learn STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), HARMAN India has renewed its partnership with Christel House, a non-profit school that is transforming lives of impoverished...




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Tactical voting campaign says maths can solve the UK's political mess

A site designed to help voters who want to stop Brexit has come under fire for its recommendations, but the group behind it say it is backed by statistics




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Time travel without paradoxes is possible with many parallel timelines

Time travel brings up paradoxes that break the laws of physics, but multiple similar timelines running parallel to one another could get around this




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It would take Iran more than 4 months to develop nuclear weapons

The US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani has raised fears of nuclear conflict, but Iran has been on the road to building nuclear weapons for some time




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Your decision-making ability is a superpower physics can't explain

In a universe that unthinkingly follows the rules, human agency is an anomaly. Can physics ever make sense of our power to change the physical world at will?




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Don't miss: Emotional veg, antique innovations and spooky maths

This week, hide behind the sofa from mind-altering plants, listen and learn from technologies past and find out how the world is underpinned by numbers




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Mathematicians who revealed the power of random walks win Abel prize

The 2020 Abel prize was awarded to mathematicians Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis for their use of probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics




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We've figured out why bubbles make a 'pop' sound when they burst

A number of difference forces are involved in producing sound when a bubble pops, and the exact noise depends on the chemical properties of the soap film




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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The unsung discoverer of star chemistry

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered that hydrogen dominates our universe, finally gets the recognition she deserves in a rich biography, What Stars Are Made Of




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We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time

Strange particles observed by an experiment in Antarctica could be evidence of an alternative reality where everything is upside down




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Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths

The question of how the brain gives rise to subjective experience is the hardest of all. Mathematicians think they can help, but their first attempts have thrown up some eye-popping conclusions




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Pondering the big question of consciousness is a welcome distraction

Our best mathematical theory of consciousness is sparking a rethink of one of science’s hardest problems – how simple matter gives rise to a complex mind




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Musicians Expose the Decline of Sound Quality in New Film “The Distortion of Sound”

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. – "The Distortion of Sound,” a documentary exposing the decline of sound and how technology has changed the way we listen to music, premieres this evening at an invitation-only event at the GRAMMY® Museum in Los Angeles, California. Following tonight’s screening, the documentary will air on “The Distortion of Sound” YouTube channel, DistortionofSound.com, the Sundance Channel the IFC Channel on July 23 at 6 p.m. ET and PT.*




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Maserati and Bowers & Wilkins Bring the Power of Sound to the 41st Cannes Yachting Festival

In September, the 41st Cannes Yachting Festival brought together some of the world’s most dazzling vessels in a luxurious, iconic setting. As the official car of the Cannes Yachting Festival for the second consecutive year, Maserati, together with the...




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The end of the open plan office? Workspaces get post-pandemic makeovers

One-way corridors, buffer zones around desks, and clear plastic screens to guard against colleagues' coughs and sneezes may become office standards after coronavirus stay-at-home orders are lifted,...




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The return of the cubicle? Companies rethink office life post lockdown

Can creative sparks fly through plexiglass? Is the water cooler chat a thing of the past?




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yurbuds® powered by JBL® Debuts New Earphones

Berlin, Germany - yurbuds® powered by JBL®, the sport earphones guaranteed never to hurt or fall out, is officially debuting yurbuds products with JBL Signature Sound at IFA in Berlin.




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yurbuds® powered by JBL® Makes US Debut of its New Earphones Enhanced with JBL Signature Sound

CES 2015, LAS VEGAS – HARMAN, the premium global audio, infotainment and enterprise automation group (NYSE:HAR), proudly introduce yurbuds® powered by JBL®, the number one selling sport earphone in the nation, is officially debuting yurbuds® products with JBL® Signature Sound in the US. JBL® is known industry-wide for its supreme quality, so coupling that with yurbuds® ergonomics, guaranteed never to hurt or fall out, you have a headphone like no other on the market.




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Singapore robot enforces safe distancing among park-goers

Singapore unveiled a four-legged canine-like robot on Friday (May 8) to remind park goers to maintain social distancing.




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Rescuers capture king cobra in urban Singapore

A king kobra is spotted near a train station in Singapore, animal rescuers were alerted to catch it.




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Scientists hail 3D table top as "mist" opportunity

June 12 - Researchers in the UK have developed a prototype three dimensional screen made of mist, that will allow multiple participants to interact with shared images. The MisTable's inventors say their water-based technology could prove transformative in the business and education sectors. Jim Drury reports.




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Environmentalists shine World Cup spotlight on "vulnerable" mascot

June 16 - With attention focused on the world's greatest soccer stars in Brazil, conservationists are working hard to promote the plight of the animal being used as the official World Cup mascot. Known as Fuleco on posters and banners throughout the country, the three-banded armadillo is in decline, and conservation groups say FIFA and the Brazilian government should be doing more during the World Cup to ensure the animal's long term survival. Rob Muir reports.




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Why fun is so important and how we benefit from play

How do you get to be a professor of play? Paul Ramchandani on fun, why playing is good for people of all ages and what games he plays with his kids




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Ancient shark used its teeth like the blade of a power tool

The extinct shark Edestus used its teeth like saw blades, sliding them past each other like a power tool to slice through the soft flesh of its prey




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Releasing rescued orangutans into the wild doesn’t boost populations

Orangutan orphanages nurse animals back to health and release them into the wild, but that doesn’t seem to increase the population of these endangered apes




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Dinosaur tracks seem to show giant sauropods wading on two front legs

Sauropod dinosaurs grew to 25 metres or more in length and weighed several tonnes – but footprints in Texas seem to suggest they sometimes walked on just two legs




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A lazy cave salamander didn't move from the same spot for 7 years

Olm are salamanders that spend all their lives in pitch-black caves, and it turns out they don’t move very much – sometimes lurking in the same spot for years




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Watch tadpoles breathe by sucking in air bubbles at water's surface

Most tadpoles breathe air but they are too weak to break the elastic "skin" on top of ponds created by water tension – so they suck air bubbles from the surface




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Greenwood review: Can humanity survive a tree apocalypse?

It’s 2038 and Earth's trees are dead, bar some firs on a tiny island. The tale of what happened is an epic combining sci-if, mystery and an exposé of capitalism, says Sally Adee




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World's only known pink manta ray spotted in the Great Barrier Reef

This pink manta ray, nicknamed Clouseau, has resurfaced off Australia’s coast. No one knows why it has a bubble-gum pink underside or if there are others out there




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Warming oceans are causing marine life to shift towards the poles

Climate change is leading to lower numbers of marine life towards the equator – including mammals, birds, fish and plankton – while populations nearer the poles increase




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Jane Goodall: We must protect chimps from being exposed to covid-19

Jane Goodall has tirelessly fought for a better world for humans and wildlife, and with covid-19 we must stay positive, she says 




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U.S. stock funds see third inflow in a row, high-yield corporate bond funds see record: Lipper

Investors sent record inflows to high-yield corporate bonds and broke a six-week losing streak for investment-grade debt in the week that ended Wednesday as market volatility from the coronavirus...




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Global hedge funds post April gains but still negative for the year: data

Global hedge funds posted their biggest monthly gain in more than a decade in April when stocks rocketed higher with the help of government rescue packages designed to fuel growth stalled by the...




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Gas leak at LG Polymers plant in India kills at least 9

A gas leak at an LG Polymers plant in India has been brought under control, and the company is investigating the cause of the deadly accident and the extent of the damage, South Korea's LG Chem, the owner of the plant, said in a statement.




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Trump had 'little' contact with valet who tested positive

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday described a valet of his reportedly testing positive for the coronavirus as "one of those things" and said that he and Vice President Mike Pence have since been tested and they are both negative.




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Singapore robot enforces safe distancing among park-goers

Singapore unveiled a four-legged canine-like robot on Friday (May 8) to remind park goers to maintain social distancing.




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Rescuers capture king cobra in urban Singapore

A king kobra is spotted near a train station in Singapore, animal rescuers were alerted to catch it.




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Special report: The new megaprojects changing the face of our planet

Across the world, new roads, railways, dams and power lines are encroaching on previously virgin territory – with untold consequences for Earth’s wildlife




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Falling rocks can explode so hard that only nuclear weapons beat them

If big rocks fall far enough they can explode with more energy than any non-nuclear bomb – and the ensuing shockwave can snap large trees half a kilometre away




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Huge fossil-like scars of the Anthropocene mark walls of Russian mine

Vast machines have left the subterranean world of a potash mine in the Urals with ammonite-like whorls, photographed for a project to highlight lasting human impacts on the planet.




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Supercharged geothermal energy could power the planet

The next generation of geothermal plants will unlock more of Earth's bountiful, underground energy and could allow the technology to finally fulfil its promise




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Anthropocene review – tough film makes case for human-created epoch

From Kenyan children picking through plastic waste to swathes of Germany laid waste for coal mining, a film shows why we are in a new, human-created epoch




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<em>North Pole</em> and Polar Worlds review – why Inuit don't worry about north

Exciting tales of heroic polar explorers make a great exhibition, but a book on the North Pole shows that times are too changed not to seek deeper narratives