China’s ridiculous censorship laws are now chipping away at scientists’ ability to rely on outside sources in their academic pursuits. Commonly referred to as the Great Firewall, China has become notorious for its nationwide internet censorship which renders popular global platfo … | Continue reading
Words like worm, trojan horse and zombie may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but they’re part of the reality of life online. Now that we communicate, work and entertain ourselves on the internet, these familiar terms start to take on new meaning. They’re just a few of the … | Continue reading
SEO is still an industry that many struggle to understand. Here are 16 SEO FAQs that can help you improve your search engine optimization strategy. | Continue reading
I have a PlayStation 4 Pro and an Xbox One S attached to my oversized 65-inch 4K television. I haven’t touched either of them since I got my Nintendo Switch.At this point, it seems silly to enumerate all of the reasons why the Switch is great. It's not just that it's the best way … | Continue reading
As part of our revamped tech reviews program, Verge Guidebook, we're introducing a new category: Editor's Choice. This award means something different at The Verge than other "best" badges you have probably seen elsewhere. We give the Editor's Choice to the devices that we think … | Continue reading
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Back in March, T-Mobile introduced Scam ID and Scam Block, two features that help users avoid annoying robocalls, and now it’s bringing the service to MetroPCS. Starting tomorrow, all MetroPCS users will automatically get Scam ID, the feature that displays a “scam likely” tag abo … | Continue reading
The Justice Department’s 2015 report examining police practices in Ferguson, Missouri, revealed the ways that the local government’s dependency on money from court fines and fees turned law-enforcement officials into de facto tax collectors and citizens into deliberate sources of … | Continue reading
A very long, narrow site in the heart of Darlinghurst, previously a commercial garage and bounded by terrace houses on all sides .... | Continue reading
Daimler and Bosch teamed up to bring autonomous driving tech to one of the more annoying parts of driving – finding and parking a vehicle. Their automated valet system is debuting today at the parking garage for the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, making it easy for … | Continue reading
Capturing institutional knowledge is vital to the success of your startup, but how do you build a system and process to do so? Find out here. | Continue reading
Google hat vor einigen Tagen einen neuen Newsfeed vorgestellt. Was bedeutet das für den Tourismus? Google’s Entwicklungsphasen starteten mit „Lieferung von Suchergebnissen“ und wurden in den letzten Jahren immer stärker abgelöst durch „Lieferung von Antworten“. Vor einigen Tagen … | Continue reading
Restaurant owners have a lot of responsibilities and a wide array of skills to handle those responsibilities. That said, building a website isn’t usually within that skill-set. That’s where BentoBox comes in. The company, which helps restaurant owners quickly build full-featured … | Continue reading
Pay-per-mile car insurance service Metromile is touting a new “first of its kind” automated claims system designed to enable claims to be verified and paid out speedily. Metromile’s new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered claims assistant, dubbed Ava,”promises to reduce the manu … | Continue reading
The era of Microsoft Paint appears to be coming to an end with the upcoming release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The image-editing application is officially being classified by Microsoft as a “deprecated feature,” as noted by The Guardian. That means that, come this fa … | Continue reading
If for some cruel reason I was forced to rewrite that mid-‘90s viral essay / hit single “Wear Sunscreen,” I would replace the titular advice with a simple plea: use a password manager. Like sunscreen, it can be a hassle to apply, but it’s an easy way to stop yourself from getting … | Continue reading
Facebook videos! They get results, sometimes they engage even better than a great photo, and brands are highly encouraged to try them out – especially if you have some strong video concepts elsewhere that can be adapted to Facebook. There's only one significant catch: You only ha … | Continue reading
The first job threatened by self-driving cars might not be the long-haul trucker, or even your Uber driver. No, the best place to start with autonomy is the parking garage, according to a new concept called “automated valet parking” that was unveiled by Daimler and Bosch today at … | Continue reading
Lululemon Athletica hosted a one-day Sweatlife festival on 22 July at London's Tobacco Dock, inviting guests to combine sweat sessions with personal development. | Continue reading
Im November erscheint der nächste Teil der Thor-Saga mit dem Namen "Thor: Ragnarok" in den Kinos. Neben Chris Hemsworth als nordischer Gott Thor sind mit dabei Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett und Mark Ruffalo als Hulk. Wie in den ersten Teasern schon... | Continue reading
First there was white. Then gold. Then there was rose gold, AKA pink. Then there was shiny black. So what will be the next cool smartphone color?Nokia seems to be betting on copper. SEE ALSO: This is Nokia's new flagship phoneA ton of images of Nokia's upcoming Nokia 8 leaked out … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — The Roomba robotic vacuum has been whizzing across floors for years, but its future may lie more in collecting data than dirt. That data is of the spatial variety: the dimensions of a room as well as distances between sofas, tables, lamps and other home furnishings. T … | Continue reading
Nexar has released a dataset that it says is the world’s largest photo set featuring geographically diverse images for automotive tech development, for an open competition. There are 55,000 tagged photos in the set, taking from over 80 countries, in a variety of lighting and wea … | Continue reading
There’s a lot of fuss in the bitcoin community about what will happen on August 1. Will the cryptocurrency split into two new ones? Will it not? What is BIP 91? What is BIP 148? What is SegWit? The incredibly significant date is just around the corner but there are still so many … | Continue reading
Hinge Health, a startup originally founded out of London but that has since moved its headquarters to San Francisco, is on mission to “digitize the delivery of healthcare”. Beginning with musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders, the company is combining wearable sensors, an app, health … | Continue reading
Running a cryptocurrency exchange is not all that easy these days. Every single country around the world has different requirements to provide such services in specific regions. For Coinbase, there are some regions where providing Bitcoin exchange services is effectively prohibit … | Continue reading
Hinge Health, a fledgling digital health startup that’s building hardware and software to tackle musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders, has raised $8 million in a Series A round of funding led by European VC giant Atomico, with participation from existing seed investors, including Elev … | Continue reading
The best data is useless if you don't know what it all means. Use this guide to extract actionable social media insights from your data and analytics. | Continue reading
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Poland’s president has unexpectedly vetoed a controversial measure that critics say would have eroded the judiciary’s independence, staving off punitive action from the European Union but possibly setting up a fight with the country’s ruling party.“As president I don’t feel this … | Continue reading
Od pewnego, dłuższego już czasu, jestem fanką lokalnej wypożyczalni. Dawniej potrafiłam długie godziny spędzać w empiku, ale zdarzyło mi się kupować książki, które okazywały się nudne, źle przetłumaczone albo po prostu nie dla mnie. Bardzo ostrożnie podchodzę do bestsellerów, rec … | Continue reading
Infographics are the perfect combination of visuals and storytelling, ideal for sharing on social media and communicating your brand's messages. | Continue reading
The purpose of every product copy is to answer the question ‘what will this product do for me?’ so that it can motivate buyers and drive them straight to the shopping cart to purchase it. Rarely do we come across product descriptions that are crafted to sell. What occurs in most … | Continue reading
Dass Samsung auch dieses Jahr eine Outdoor-Variante des aktuellen Galaxy-Smartphones anbieten wird, ist keine Überraschung, diese frischen Bilder zeigen das S8 Active nun aus den unterschiedlichsten Blickwinkeln. Große Überraschungen... | Continue reading
In the paper ‘Infrastructuring for Cultural Commons’, Sanna Marttila (Aalto University) and Andrea Botero (Universidad de Los Andes) reflect on their involvement in the design and development of two information systems: EUscreen and Fusion. Abstract ‘Fusion and EUscreen are both … | Continue reading
A bill that makes it legal to use a blockchain to register corporate shares has become law in Delaware.Source | Continue reading
Freelance workers and consultants make up a third of the US workforce, but that figure is expected to approach 40 per cent according to some studies. And we know how big the overall gig economy is going to become. Thus, marketplaces which meet that need are going to continue to … | Continue reading
Most companies define the steps in sales funnel a little differently, but the core concept is fairly universal. The sales funnel breaks down the natural steps in the process of a purchase, of which customers go from being unaware of a product to a paying customer. It helps compan … | Continue reading
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will tell the Senate Intelligence Committee Monday that he took part in four meetings with Russian officials and insisted he “did not collude” with any foreign government.Kushner’s remarks were released early Monday … | Continue reading
Fairphone, the European mobile phone maker and social enterprise that has made it its mission is to build and sell fairer smartphone hardware, has announced it is ending support for its first handset, the Fairphone 1. Read More | Continue reading
Gerade im Sommer ist bei Sportlern Obacht angesagt. Hitze und Wassermangel sind eine gefährliche Kombination und Dehydration ein Plagethema in allen Notaufnahmen. Wetsleeve ist eine Wasserflasche, die eben keine Flasche ist, sondern ein Silkonbeutel,... | Continue reading
Some consolidation is afoot in the world on health-focused online media properties. Today, WebMD, one of the biggest sites in the world for health-related information — announced that it would be acquired by Internet Brands — the company that is controlled by KKR and owns a larg … | Continue reading
Would you rather unlock your smartphone with a plain four-digit PIN or with a smiley-face emoji? Would it be easier and more pleasant to remember “,” for example, or “2476”? Smartphone users commonly use emoji to express moods, emotions and nuances in emails and text messages – a … | Continue reading
The cryptocurrency markets trade 24 hours a day, seven days a week – and that changes a lot more than uptime.Source | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: This has been a blockbuster year for tech stocks. We’ll see this week if the bull run can continue with four of tech’s biggest names set to report earnings. Today: Google’s parent company Alphabet reports after the markets close. The company’s stock is up more than 31 p … | Continue reading
Russia’s apparent interference in the U.S. presidential election is a big story, but it’s part of an even bigger one: the ease with which foreign actors can insert themselves into the democratic process these days, and the difficulty of determining how to minimize that meddling.W … | Continue reading
Currently large enterprises require large accounting teams to do what’s known as cash matching and credit collection. This is very manual stuff. Some of the ERP vendors (most notably SAP) have their own modules to do this, but in this world the big players are firms like Hanse O … | Continue reading
The world’s first crewless, automated ship will launch in 2018, reports the Wall Street Journal, and is expected to be fully autonomous by 2020. The Norwegian-built Yara Birkeland will use GPS, radar, cameras, and sensors to navigate itself around other boat traffic and dock on i … | Continue reading