Tech: Germany Have Lauched The Transparent Car

The transparent car of ZF company equipped with different security systems is presented on the second press day of the Frank

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12 things you didn't know you could do with Facebook

 

Managing its growing sea of features can be daunting, but there are ways to make the social network more to your liking.

Here are 12 tips and ideas:

1. Reduce notifications
You can't get rid of all notifications on Facebook's website. But you can disable a lot of them.
Go into your Settings, and click on Notifications. Once you're there, adjust the alerts you want to get on your computer and your phone.

Unfortunately, Facebook doesn't let you disable email notifications through Settings. You have to click Unsubscribe to every type of notice until you stop receiving them.

To stop alerts for a group or a page, you have to go into each page and individually select Off. You can also click Unlike or Hide on the page.

Cristiano Ronaldo likes to operate in top gear on the pitch

The 30-year-old, who recently became his club's all-time record goalscorer posed for a picture while sat on top of his new car, which matches the colours of Real Madrid's home kit

Cristiano Ronaldo likes to operate in top gear on the pitch and he's now shown his need for speed on the road too after purchasing a brand new Ferrari.

The Real Madrid star, 30, posed for a picture while sat on top of the car, which he's tastefully bought in white to match the home jersey of his club...

Breakng News: Messi drops out of Forbes top 10 most valuable athletes list

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi is no longer among the top 10 most valuable athletes in the world, according to American finance publication Forbes.

Messi previously occupied ninth position in 2014 with an estimated worth of $12 million - a drop of one million from the previous year - but does not feature at all in the athletes' top 10 for 2015.

Rory McIlroy and Floyd Mayweather Jr instead enter the top 10 with the undefeated boxing champion having signed several lucrative endorsements before his July fight with Manny Pacquiao.

Statistics not enough for Benitez at Real Madrid

Real Madrid were in a delicate situation against Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday. Despite a list of absences through injury, the Spanish side played perhaps their best match since Rafa Benitez took over from Carlo Ancelotti in the summer. But, despite the performance, there were no goals and there was no win.

A little over two months into his tenure, Benitez has yet to lose a match but his team's performances have hardly made Madrid fans - or anyone else - fall in love with this team. The players, it seems, are still struggling to adapt to his concepts, to their new positions and to tactical formations.

The difficulties in adapting are nothing new, of course. Like Benitez, Jose Mourinho failed to win his first fixture as Madrid boss, while it took Ancelotti a full six months to get the best out of Angel Di Maria, for example.

Messi: I don't compete with Ronaldo & he doesn't compete with me

Barcelona star Lionel Messi insists he doesn’t see himself as being in competition with Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo despite the constant comparisons that exist between the pair.

As individuals, Messi and Ronaldo have dominated the game for the best part of the last decade, with the last seven Ballon d’Ors won by one of the two.

That’s expected to become eight in January, with Messi tipped to win it back from Ronaldo, who has won it for the last two years.

Messi is Barcelona’s best ever - but is Ronaldo Madrid’s all-time greatest?

Cristiano Ronaldo is now officially the greatest goalscorer in the history of Real Madrid. The Portuguese forward scored after just half an hour against Levante on Saturday to surpass Raul's record of 323 goals for los Blancos. But is he the greatest player to ever represent the club?

Over at Barcelona, there is no such debate about Lionel Messi. When Madrid coach Rafa Benitez surprisingly said recently that Ronaldo was not necessarily the best he had coached, eyebrows were raised. Asked the same question about Messi the following day, Barca boss Luis Enrique had no doubt. "I don't like to compare them," he said. "But Messi is the best in the world and the best in history. That's my opinion."

It is the opinion of many. Yet while the Argentine attacker is often described as the best player to ever grace the game, few have dubbed Ronaldo the finest footballer in history. One notable exception is Jorge Mendes, but he is Cristiano's agent and personal friend, bigging up his prized asset whenever he has the chance.

Could John Obi Mikel still be Jay-Jay Okocha’s heir?

The best decision Sunday Oliseh could make right now is to reinvent Chelsea 's John Obi Mikel as Nigeria 's deep-lying playmaker.

In the past, the suggestion might have seemed ridiculous—how could Mikel seek to emulate deities of the game such as Andrea Pirlo?

How can the Nigerian hold a candle to the Italian great? Indeed, perhaps the role of the regista should be re-christened the ‘Pirlo role’ in homage to the New York City FC midfielder.

If there’s a Makelele role, there should surely be a ‘Pirlo role’ as well; the Juventus and Milan great dominated matches with his baton of a boot, conducting and controlling proceedings like an orchestral piece played in pianissimo while being able to take a game from adagio to prestissimo with a single weave of his enchanted foot, leaving spectators breathlessly in awe. The magical melodious piece itself ending in a crescendo; “Bravo maestro, Bravo” scream the crowd in acknowledgement of his bravura.

Tech: Twitter to allow users to create polls

Twitter Inc said it is rolling out a service that would allow users to run polls on their profile, in a bid to improve user engagement on the microblogging service.

The poll will allow users to ask a question with two choices as answers, and will remain open for 24 hours, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday.

Polls were already being tested on Twitter since late September with certain media professionals and Twitter employees, including Chief Operating Officer Adam Bain, sending out polls.

Twitter is working overtime to boost user growth under Jack Dorsey's second stint as CEO.
The service will be rolled out over the next few days, Twitter said.

(Reporting by Anya George Tharakan in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza)

FA suspends Platini support

 

Michel Platini's wounded bid for the Fifa presidency suffered a new blow on Friday when the English FA suspended support for the French football legend because of new information on his legal battle.

Suspended Fifa leader Sepp Blatter added to the turmoil surrounding football's governing body when he said a two million dollar payment made to the Uefa president in 2011 was "a gentleman's agreement."

Pressure mounted on Platini, who was suspended by Fifa alongside Blatter, only a day after Uefa's 54 members gave support.

The FA said it had been told of more information "relating to the issues at the centre of this case from Mr Platini’s lawyers" at the Uefa meeting on Thursday.

Because of the information the FA board has "concluded that it must suspend its support for Mr Platini's candidature for the Fifa presidency until the legal process has been concluded and the position is clear," said a statement.

Bayern confident Pep will stay on

Bayern Munich are confident coach Pep Guardiola will stay on at the German champions past the end of his current contract next year despite reported interest from other major European clubs, CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said on Monday.

Guardiola, who won more than a dozen titles in his four years at Barcelona, joined the Bavarians in July 2013, winning dominant back-to-back Bundesliga titles in his first two season in charge.

Undefeated Bayern are already seven points clear at the top of the league after a record-breaking nine-match winning start as they chase an unprecedented fourth consecutive Bundesliga crown and the third under Guardiola.

Video: U.S. military is on its way to getting its Iron Man

After an American commando died kicking in a door during a raid in Afghanistan, the top commander of U.S. Special Operations vowed to prevent similar tragedies.

Two years later, the U.S. military is closer than ever to putting Iron Man on the front lines -- or at least something that closely mirrors the superhero's tech-forward suit of armor.

Unlike Hollywood's, the suit won't give its operator the ability to fly, but the real-life body armor may have one leg up on the fictional version: The military's suit will be made of liquid armor that can solidify on command.

Fitted with the protective gear -- the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or TALOS -- troops would be more lethal and better protected, particularly the vulnerable first soldier to breach a compound.

An amalgam of academics, defense industry types and Pentagon personnel are trying to fine-tune the battery-powered exoskeleton, which would reduce strain on the body, provide superior ballistic protection and in-helmet technologies to boost communications and visibility.

Tech: HTC's new phone looks like an iPhone, but it's way cheaper

HTC has introduced a smartphone with a flat aluminum back, curved edges, antenna break lines near the top and bottom and a camera that bumps out very slightly at the top. It has a speaker grille and a headphone jack on either side of the power port on the bottom.

The new HTC One A9 smartphone is a dead-ringer for the iPhone 6S in virtually every way -- except for its price tag. It costs just $400, compared to the iPhone's $650.
HTC said it was a coincidence that the new One A9 follows the same design guidelines that the iPhone (and to a large degree the Samsung Galaxy S6) hold to.

Bale to miss PSG clash through injury

The Wales international has suffered a recurrence of the calf injury that plagued the early part of his season and will miss the Champions League match with the Ligue 1 champions

Gareth Bale will miss Real Madrid's Champions League clash with Paris Saint-Germain after suffering a calf injury, the Spanish side have confirmed.

Video: Driving the $5 million Batmobile

Well, really, it wasn't that close of a call. But then this wasn't just any Batmobile. This was the original.

It wasn't one of those matte black military-looking machines from the movies. It wasn't driven by a brooding and emotionally conflicted Batman with visible emotional scars.

This was the Batmobile from the 1960s TV show, shiny with neon orange stripes. It was driven by my childhood hero, the comically uptight, painfully polite defender of the good citizens of Gotham as played by Adam West.
I sat in the same seat Adam West sat in. It felt pretty cool, and I was the only journalist who got the opportunity. I drove the same Batmobile I watched him drive in "Batman" reruns over 40 years ago. There were others made for the show that he would have also driven but this was the first.

It's for sale. Asking price: $5 million.
And I almost ran it off the road. You see, the Batmobile, like the aging TV star it is, is in kind of rough shape. It's tough to get replacement parts for what was, in 1955, an experimental concept car built by Ford . Back then, it was called the Lincoln Futura.

Tech: Russian woman's remarkable mission to restore Soviet jet airliner

(CNN)For nearly three decades, an old Soviet airliner lay abandoned on a small airfield deep inside Siberia.

Years of neglect under the harsh Siberian climate had reduced the Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-104A to little more than a decaying wreck.

Until Maria Karmanova came into the picture. 

On hearing about the old Tupolev rusting away at her local aerodrome at Berdsk, near Novosibirsk, she set herself the challenge of restoring it to its former glory.

Tech: Japan's robot hotel opens its (automatic) doors

(CNN)When the reception desk is staffed by a robot dinosaur, the chances of a room upgrade are going to be fairly slim.

That hasn't stopped the first guests checking in to what's billed as the world's first robot hotel.

The five-star Japanese Henn-na Hotel -- a name that translates as Strange Hotel -- this week opened its doors to bemused visitors to Huis Ten Bosch, a theme park in Nagasaki Prefecture. 

Humanoid robots greet Japanese-speaking guests at reception, while English-speaking guests are met, for reasons that aren't exactly clear, by a robotic dinosaur.

Real Madrid have Europe's most expensive squad, Uefa figures confirm

The European football authority's annual Benchmarking Report shows that the Spanish heavyweights spent the most on players and wages during the financial year 2014

 Real Madrid have assembled the most expensive squad in Europe, figures released by Uefa have confirmed.

The 10-times European champions' playing staff was found to have cost the club a staggering €629 million, according to figures from the 2014 financial year due to be published on Wednesday in Uefa's annual Benchmarking Report, to which Goal has been granted advance access.

Ballon d'Or is reserved for Messi- Neymar

The Brazilian forward believes the world's most recognisable individual award is destined to go to his Blaugrana team-mate and maintained that the Argentinian deserves it

The 2015 Ballon d'Or has already been "reserved" for Lionel Messi, according to Barcelona team-mate Neymar.

Messi is the current favourite to claim the game's top individual prize after inspiring Barcelona to the treble last season before reaching the final of the Copa America with Argentina.

Messi is a 10, Ronaldo is three points lower-Aguero

Argentina striker Sergio Aguero has praised his close friend and team-mate Lionel Messi, joking that his Real Madrid rival, who wears the No.7 shirt, is some way off his level

Sergio Aguero says Argentina team-mate Lionel Messi is a "10", and that Cristiano Ronaldo is "three points lower".

Aguero and Messi have been close friends since lining up alongside each other at the Under-20 World Cup in 2005, and their families often spend time together away from football.

I don't want Ronaldo or Messi- Jurgen Kloop

The new Anfield boss has indicated he does not need the two most recent Ballon d'Or winners and promised his new charges that hard work starts now

New Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists he is happy with the squad at his disposal and is not looking for a "dream" signing of Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo .