Point-of-sale machines: you don’t really think about them, do you? They’re just the little computers you use to key in your credit card PIN when you buy some fast food, or load up on groceries. For the most part, they’re drab, unremarkable pieces of technology. Square’s new point … | Continue reading
The US Geological Survey (USGS) has a little tool called the Coastal and Marine Video and Photograph Portal, through which you can view some remote and scientifically fascinating regions of the country as easily as you would a street in Google Maps. It’s like a Google Earth, comp … | Continue reading
Our newest ally in the fight against opioid abuse is a computer that’s learning how to figure out when humans are selling each other prescription medication on the internet. A team of medical researchers in San Diego created an unsupervised AI to look for signs of illegal opioid … | Continue reading
Arbitration is a fundamental aspect of human relationships be it social, professional, or business relationships. The emotional and psychological composition of humans cannot be absolutely prevented from interfering during the execution of contractual agreements and processes. Co … | Continue reading
This is truly half-brutal, half-hilarious. A Microsoft employee was forced to pause his Azure presentation in the middle of a live demo session in order to install Google’s Chrome… because the company’s own Edge browser kept crashing. But here is the best part: this comical occur … | Continue reading
YouTube’s new(ish) streaming service, YouTube TV, is about to land on a whole bunch more smart TVs and gaming systems. Over the next few days, YouTube TV apps for the Xbox One, Android TV-powered smart TVs, and the Nvidia Shield will hit their respective app stores. The company a … | Continue reading
Databases are tricky, even for the companies that make them. Assimilating and storing vast quantities of data requires databases with advanced functionality, unshakable reliability and rock solid backup options. Because if you can’t trust your database... well, you’re in big trou … | Continue reading
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) watchdog is investigating business practices in the hotel comparison website industry, to see if consumers are getting shafted with high-pressure sales tactics and deceptive deals. The investigation follows a year-long study of the … | Continue reading
Learning about retirement planning can seem like a tall order, but it doesn’t have to be. Gamifying its key concepts can help people get educated about an important area of life. Launched in October, Master of Retirement is an online game that lets users invest pretend money to g … | Continue reading
Apple is probably hating it, but the wave has started hitting the shore: iPhone X demo videos are popping up on the internet like there is no tomorrow, courtesy of several YouTube creators who appear to be releasing their reviews a little prematurely. Thunder E from popular tech … | Continue reading
The concept of “free walking tours” is proving to be a big hit with those on a quest for authenticity on their travels. Similarly to traditional walking tours, they usually involve covering the main landmarks of a city while explaining the history and curiosities of the location … | Continue reading
Samsung is making it easier to browse the web in the dark without hurting your eyeballs. The company has updated its speedy Samsung Internet browser with a dedicated Night Mode setting – and it looks pretty sleek. The feature initially appeared in a beta version (6.2.00.38) of th … | Continue reading
Scientists at the ETH Zurich university have trained an AI to improve on photos taken with any phone camera, with a goal of attaining DSLR-quality output. The project uses a simple training method in which the AI looks at the same picture shot using a DSLR camera and a phone came … | Continue reading
“If only I could have LEARNED SPANISH three years ago…” “If only I learned about investing when I was still in my early twenties…” If only. For many of us, there are more things we want to learn than we have time. As information becomes more readily accesible online, the number o … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is automating tasks in many domains. Do musicians have reason to worry? | Continue reading
There’s been talk for at least a couple of years about whether Facebook ‘listens’ to your conversations and anything you say out loud through your phone to learn what you’re interested in and then bring relevant ads to your feed. While it seems all too plausible at this point, th … | Continue reading
Elon Musk’s world-changing ideas can sometimes sound like science fiction or the stuff of dreams, one of the most recent being his plan to tunnel beneath cities and create ultrafast networks for cars to zip across town. After revealing his idea half a year ago, he set up the Bori … | Continue reading
The spookiest night of the year is nearly here and whether you’re hosting a party, hanging out with family, or spending the evening alone, Alexa has the right entertainment options. With Amazon’s AI you can play your favorite spooky soundtracks, and tune your Fire TV device to th … | Continue reading
You can now add this increasingly important skill to your arsenal with the Adobe CC Essentials Training bundle, available now for just $29 (over 90 percent off) from TNW Deals. | Continue reading
As the general manager of Europe for a global marketplace serving startups, entrepreneurs and freelance designers from around the world, I often find myself in debate over which city will be seen as the new business hub of the EU. With the UK on the brink of “Brexit,” few tech in … | Continue reading
Unless you have been living in an underground bunker for the last five years, you must have caught a whiff of the legal marijuana industry booming in the 29 US states where consumption has been decriminalized. Marijuana retail sales across the US accounted to $6.5 billion in 2016 … | Continue reading
Rather than focusing on where your data is stored, SpiderOak is a cloud storage provider that puts just as much time and attention into how your data is stored and, most importantly, protected. Right now, one year subscriptions to SpiderOak ONE service is $39.99, a 69 percent sav … | Continue reading
30 years ago, Peter Weller took on the role as Robocop, a dystopian entity revived by mega corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) as a superhuman law enforcer running the Detroit Police Department. Badass cop, but maybe not the most effective one. Robocop had a fourth classifie … | Continue reading
Businesses and internet users are finally becoming more aware of the danger of cyber attacks. They’ve started to boost their defending techniques, leaving hackers with fewer options to carry out their malicious deeds. However, exploiting a vulnerability is just a matter of techni … | Continue reading
After first launching in 2014, Echo might have been the device that kicked off the digital assistant craze. Many had come before, many more came after, but Alexa — Amazon’s smart assistant — was the first to offer true utility. Smartphone assistants, remember, were little more th … | Continue reading
Few computer peripherals are as venerable as Microsoft’s IntelliMouse Explorer, an old series of office mice so well-rounded they were once one of the most popular choices for professional gamers. Now Microsoft has brought it back to life with the new IntelliMouse Classic, making … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Facebook rolled out ‘Stories’ to FB Lite – a version of its mobile app meant to minimize data consumption – prompting us to ask: why? Though my colleague Bryan Clark wrote the piece, I was the one who first pointed out the apparent irony: Facebook was rolling out an un … | Continue reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today outlined the social network’s newest measures to get a handle on its political ads problem and reach “an even higher standard of transparency.” He listed three points the company is implementing to effect this change and plans to put in action n … | Continue reading
The New York Times today announced it was launching an “experiment in secure communication,” on the the dark web, only accessible through TOR (The Onion Router). As The Times says: The New York Times reports on stories all over the world, and our reporting is read by people aroun … | Continue reading
Earlier this year a vascular surgeon diagnosed his own cancer while testing out a new ultrasound gadget for his smartphone. Dr. John Martin, who is not an oncologist, was tapped to test out the Butterfly iQ, a tiny ultrasound device designed to replace several bulkier, more expen … | Continue reading
Remember Vine, the popular video sharing app acquired by Twitter in 2012, and brutally murdered by the same company just last year? I certainly do, and so too does Live.Me, which just launched a spiritual successor to the service, called Cheez. The Cheez formula should sound imme … | Continue reading
While Excel changed the way we handle data, VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) takes that data manipulation to new energizing heights. If you’re ready to take your spreadsheets and business information to startling new places (in a fraction of the time you usually spend), get in … | Continue reading
In the summer of 2015, a small group of Yelp “Elite” members filed a lawsuit claiming the company should be paying them for their reviews. Yelp had become successful and profitable thanks to its millions of user-submitted reviews, the plaintiffs argued, so they should be financia … | Continue reading
Following months of preparation, WhatsApp has finally added the ability to delete those embarrassing messages you sent by mistake before your contact has had a chance to read them. The best part is that the feature will be available for Android, iOS and Windows Phone users. The a … | Continue reading
Developer Stephen Downward is an evil genius: he’s figured out a way to prank friends and enemies alike with a sneaky little Chrome extension that will drive victims up the wall. The innocuously named ‘Chrome Engine’ extension slows down YouTube video playback by 1 percent each d … | Continue reading
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Green energy isn’t just a buzzword embraced by environmentally conscious consumers. It is also a strategy implemented by some of the world’s best run organizations to save or even make money. Take Apple as an example. The company recently opened a new headquarters called Apple Pa … | Continue reading
Google’s Android Studio 3.0 dev environment has just become available in the stable channel, with a few major changes and a bunch of small ones – the most notable being built-in support for Kotlin and Java 8. Google first announced that it would bake Kotlin compatibility into And … | Continue reading
Facebook is not only a platform to be used by the average internet user anymore, but have also become a powerful tool for any type of business that wishes to be a success online. The platform features a variety of useful options and tools that businesses can now utilize to help t … | Continue reading
Google today responded to the growing chorus of Pixel 2 users complaining of inaccurate color representation and burn-in on the larger XL model. Mario Queiroz, Vice President of Product Management claims each phone undergoes rigorous quality control screening and that the burn-in … | Continue reading
Facebook today revealed it was bringing the feature no one really asked for, Facebook Stories, to its lightweight version, Facebook Lite (FB Lite). FB Lite is actually a remarkably useful tweak to Facebook’s “real” mobile app. It’s designed for those with less-than-stellar connec … | Continue reading
Uber’s in trouble again. Three women filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the company of unequal pay and gender discrimination. Ingrid Avedano, Roxana del Toro Lopez and Ana Medina, three Latina software engineers, state the system is “not based on valid and reliable performance m … | Continue reading
1Aim, a German startup, is building a “ground up” AI platform for offices that combines physical security with artificial intelligence. From securing the actual locks in the doors, to optimizing conference room usage, the company intends to turn any building into the kind of plac … | Continue reading
The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, today boldly announced fully autonomous vehicles will be on the road in “no more than four years.” This may shock some, but there’s an ever-expanding list of companies in agreement. At this point, anyone who doesn’t see driverless cars as imminent … | Continue reading
Instagram is adding another wacky effect to its Stories camera, and it might be my favorite one yet. Say hello to ‘Superzoom.’ It’s pretty much what it sounds like – you select an area to zoom into it in a video. It’s sure to be used for a plethora of melodramatic videos, and Ins … | Continue reading
As a former writer at VentureBeat, the state of media industry in the U.S. has always been important to me. Since the internet boom took momentum, even the world’s most established publications have been forced into a downturn, as they struggle to adapt to monetizing in the new … | Continue reading
Earlier this year Google boasted its security AI has smartened up so much it no longer requires you to tick a box in its reCAPTCHA system to know you’re not a bot. But it appears the company might have celebrated a bit prematurely. A group of researchers from the University of Ma … | Continue reading
The social media giant surpassed 2 billion active monthly users earlier this year — and the opportunity to reach large, yet hyper-targeted groups of those users is staggering. Now, you can learn how to harness all that reach to benefit your agenda with the 2017 Facebook Ads Certi … | Continue reading