It’s not hard to find somebody who’s willing to call the president of the United States crazy. “Madman” was, after all, one of the words that cropped up most frequently in coverage about him during the 2016 campaign.But psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental-health profes … | Continue reading
Master these techniques and rule the world . Ad hominem . Attacking your opponent, as opposed to his position. Ad nauseam . Att... | Continue reading
The fabled wireless earbuds finally work well, but still fall short of the original dream Continue reading… | Continue reading
A subsidiary of Indian IT giant Infosys is pushing ahead with its plans for blockchain in a bid to create new revenue streams. | Continue reading
When I first came across Katherine Boo’s work in journalism school, I was immediately taken with her ability to expose injustice while weaving gorgeous narratives. I carved up her stories in The Washington Post and The New Yorker with a black pen, hoping I could figure out their … | Continue reading
Brain damage was diagnosed in 87 percent of donated brains of 202 football players, including all but one of 111 brains of National Football League athletes.This new study, published today in the journal JAMA, is the latest linking dangerous head injuries to football, though the … | Continue reading
Nikon was founded 100 years ago today in Tokyo, and in honor of that fact the corporation has made itself a Wizard of Oz-inspired music video full of glitter, rainbows, candy-colored blimps, and guys with cameras for heads. The video is for the song “Oz,” by Japanese rock band Mr … | Continue reading
Yesterday Quartz reported that a little over a dozen customers had complained on DJI forums about their new Spark drones mysteriously shutting down and falling from the sky in midflight. Today, DJI acknowledged the issue in a statement:“DJI is aware of a small number of reports i … | Continue reading
The Senate Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena for Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, to appear Wednesday before the panel that is holding a hearing on attempts to influence the U.S. elections. Manafort’s extensive ties to Russian officials have made hi … | Continue reading
“Are you ready for Isaac?” I attended a startup and tech conference four years ago, and one of the presenters asked this as the main argument of his keynote about fintech. Back then, the industry wasn’t yet widely known as fintech. But the presenter, Scott Bales, had a vision for … | Continue reading
The widely leaked Nokia 8 is arriving a bit later than expected.While some rumors pointed to an end-of-July release, HMD Global (the owner of Nokia brand) has started pinging media outlets about an Aug. 16 event in London. SEE ALSO: This is Nokia's new flagship phoneNokia confirm … | Continue reading
HBO’s “Game of Thrones” isn’t just a cultural phenomenon – it’s also a driving force for the company’s over-the-top service aimed at cord cutters, HBO NOW. According to new data from app store analytics firm App Annie, the HBO NOW streaming app was downloaded over 500,000 times … | Continue reading
Facebook may launch its own smart home gadget to get you messaging more friends and looking at more photos. DigiTimes reports from Taiwan that Facebook is building a 15-inch touch screen smart speaker.Citing sources from the “upstream supply chain”, Chinese iPhone manufacturer P … | Continue reading
The American Psychoanalytic Association, a leading psychiatry group in the US, told its 3,500 members that they can comment on the mental state of politicians, including President Donald Trump. The decision breaks with a decades-old rule that keeps experts from publicly talking a … | Continue reading
Naughty Dog is pulling a mind trick on its fans with Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. Its heroes are two women who weren’t exactly on the side of good in the previous games in the series. Nathan Drake hung up his grappling hook at the end of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End as he finally re … | Continue reading
HDM Global, neuer Markeneigner für Nokia-Handys, bringt dann endlich das Android-Flaggschiff, auf das Nokia-Fans schon sehnlichst warten, weil sie die bisherigen Modelle eher als Fingerübungen auffassen: Am 16. August wird das Nokia 8 in London... | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: More businesses are realizing the importance of mobile apps, but are discovering deploying and managing apps in their business is not as easy as they had thought. To gauge the state of apps in the enterprise, Kony, Inc., the leading... | Continue reading
Remember Roomba, the cute robotic vacuum cleaner who's been navigating around your house for years? SEE ALSO: Live your best life with the help of these 9 robotsWell, its creator, iRobot, has hinted it may be selling Roomba-derived maps of your home to one or more of the Big Thre … | Continue reading
Google will start putting emergency information about fires, floods, and other disasters in relevant search results and Maps locations. It’s calling the feature “SOS Alerts,” and they’ll include info such as news stories, emergency phone numbers, relevant websites, and updates fr … | Continue reading
LG Display announced today that it will invest 7.8 trillion won (about $7 billion) to boost its OLED production capacity. This increases the stakes in LG’s competition with Samsung over OLED displays, a market that Samsung dominates by far, as Apple prepares to launch the iPhone … | Continue reading
An active social media presence is starting to become mandatory across many different industries, especially as more leaders realize its potential for improving services and attracting clients. Even the healthcare industry, which is notoriously slow...read moreThe post How Doctor … | Continue reading
An active social media presence is starting to become mandatory across many different industries, especially as more leaders realize its potential for improving services and attracting clients. Even the healthcare industry, which is notoriously slow...read more | Continue reading
Though much of the Trump administration’s policy agenda has been hobbled by chaos and scandal, Scott Pruitt’s Environmental Protection Agency has been remarkably productive. Under Pruitt’s leadership, the agency has limited communication between its staffers and the public—even s … | Continue reading
Mobile chip maker Qualcomm wants to enable deep learning-based software development on all kinds of devices, which is why it created the Neural Processing Engine (NPE) for its Snapdragon-series mobile processors. The NPE software development kit is now available to all via the Q … | Continue reading
Senate Republicans are working to pass legislation scaling back government support for health coverage, with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calling for a vote on Tuesday to begin debate on a bill whose precise contents remain unknown. “Every Republican running for office promise … | Continue reading
AI threatens world domination, but we see it for what it really is: artificial interaction. Here's how you can use it to enhance customer experience. | Continue reading
Facebook today announced several new features meant to improve the experience of watching and making Live 360 video. Live streaming is an integral part of the modern Facebook experience, so the company wants to make sure you’re engaged. First up, Facebook is introducing a ‘Live 3 … | Continue reading
PREVIEW: I got a good look at Uncharted: The Lost Legacy at a Sony preview event, and I’m happy to report that you won’t be stuck underground crawling through claustrophobic tombs all the time. Sony and developer Naughty Dog showed a beautiful, vast level in the jungles of India, … | Continue reading
Ransomware victims have paid more than $25 million in ransoms over the last two years, according to a study presented today by researchers at Google, Chainalysis, UC San Diego, and the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. By following those payments through the blockchain and compar … | Continue reading
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Facebook today announced that some Live 360 videos will be automatically stabilized when uploaded to the social network. Auto stabilization will be deployed by Facebook algorithms anytime a video is found to be too shaky. In a series of new features announced today, Live 360 vide … | Continue reading
The fact is, 360-degree video sucks for an awful lot of things. One of the use cases that kinda makes sense is in giving someone an honest look into your perspective at a given time. This is also an instrumental part of the pitch for Live so it only makes sense that Facebook wou … | Continue reading
Today, Facebook announced quite a few updates to its 360-degree live video platform to make it more accessible to both creators and viewers. Most notably, you can now view live-streamed 360-degree video on Facebook in up to 4K resolution, helping increase the fidelity of streams … | Continue reading
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Abra users can now buy bitcoin with American Express credit cards, a move that diversifies its available payment options.Source | Continue reading
Schlösserland Sachsen: Dresden (ots) - 2004 gelang es Werner Merkel, die erste »Sachsen-Kiwi« in den Handel zu bringen. Seitdem ist »Kiwi-Merkel« im Dauereinsatz, um seinen sächsischen Exotinnen zu überregionaler Bekanntheit zu verhelfen. Auf den Märkten und Gartenschauen ... | Continue reading
Amazon is continuing its international expansion push with the launch of its services in Singapore coming imminently. The arrival could happen as soon as this week, according to a source with knowledge of the plans, and it will mark Amazon’s entry into Southeast Asia. The launch … | Continue reading
Lyft has partnered with Taco Bell to launch “Taco Mode” a feature in the ride-hailing app that will let you hit the drive-through at a Taco Bell and get a free Doritos Locos Taco. Yes, Lyft has made drunk ordering bad tacos from the back seat an official marketing opportunity.Acc … | Continue reading
Wir haben hier schon den einen oder anderen Hightech-Pulli gesehen, aber gegen den 100 Year Hoodie verblasst erstmal alles: Der Kapuzenpulli der Firma Vollebak besteht unter anderem aus Aramid-Fasern á la Kevlar und wird extrem aufwendig produziert,... | Continue reading
SunContract, Slovenia based renewable energy market place, is currently having its on-going ICO, blockchain experts and community members are eager to determine if the platform is actually bringing the true value of blockchain in this sector where blockchain previously seemed not … | Continue reading
In the race to get AI working faster on your smartphone, companies are trying all sorts of things. Some, like Microsoft and ARM, are designing new chips that are better suited to run neural networks. Others, like Facebook and Google, are working to reduce the computational demand … | Continue reading
For Convoy, a meet-and-greet hosted earlier this year by two prominent investment firms has resulted in one of the bigger Series B fundings of 2017. As Convoy cofounder and CEO Dan Lewis recalls it, his company, a two-year-old, tech-enabled trucking network, was invited to the f … | Continue reading
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PRESS RELEASE: Leading venture debt provider Trinity Capital Investment (Trinity) today announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017. The Company committed $45 million to eight portfolio companies across multiple sectors, bringing Trinity's... | Continue reading
Inbound marketing and sales company HubSpot has acquired Kemvi, a fledgling startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to automatically extract information from websites, press releases, blog posts, and SEC filings in order to serve sales reps key insight … | Continue reading
HubSpot is announcing that it has acquired Kemvi, a startup applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to help sales teams. A few months ago, Kemvi launched DeepGraph, a product that analyzes public data so that salespeople can identify the best time (say, after a job … | Continue reading
If you want to start a career in SEO, an official degree in digital marketing, communications or computer science may be of use. But, as the IT businesses grow with each year, you need to learn to stand out of the crowd of people with the same degrees. And, since SEO is the defin … | Continue reading