Most developers love open source software, and often we come across a piece of software that we’re writing and think “it would be great if that already existed as an open source package”, but then, it doesn’t. Since we’re writing software for a company, the natural tendency | Continue reading
In this blog, I take you through the basics of email outreach for link building, the specific elements of great outreach emails, and some emails you can try | Continue reading
GUEST: The robots are coming! The robots are coming! Actually, in some cases, they’re already here. Not everyone needs to learn how to program the robots, but we’ll all need to get comfortable working with algorithms and bots as well as people. Will they be friends or foes? And w … | Continue reading
The first thing you notice about Google's Amazon Echo killer is how small it is. The second is that it actually looks pretty good. In fact, Google Home, which isn't much taller than the company's larger Pixel phone, looks better than most Bluetooth speakers and far better than Am … | Continue reading
The computing world has been shaped by massive changes that tend to come about every 10 years, said Google CEO Sundar Pichai Tuesday at a major press event where Google Home, Google WiFi and the Daydream VR headset made their debut. The personal computer, the web, and mobile devi … | Continue reading
Blockchain startup Factom has raised a $4.2m in new funding as part of a newly announced Series A.Source | Continue reading
Whether you like the Pixel phones or not, Google’s announcement is a huge deal because it signals a monumental shift in Google’s mobile phone strategy. | Continue reading
GUEST: The morning after last week’s presidential debate, social media blew up with opinions on how each candidate fared and riffs on – sniff, sniff – the more interesting and bizarre moments. And, as to be expected, online polls weighed in on which of the contenders won. Being i … | Continue reading
So, Google made a phone. In fact, it made two new flagship products: The Pixel and Pixel XL.The heavily teased smartphones were unveiled at an event in San Francisco Tuesday, but how much will these iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus rivals set you back in Australia?SEE ALSO: Google beco … | Continue reading
The Vice Presidential debate is happening in about an hour, but Republicans have already decided on who won. The Republican National Committee accidentally published a story to its website this evening stating that there was a "clear consensus" their candidate had won the debate, … | Continue reading
The Rockets and Knicks players stood along one sideline with their arms locked shoulder-to-shoulder during the singing of the national anthem prior to Tuesday night's game at Toyota Center. | Continue reading
Google has put together impressive phones in the Pixel and Pixel XL. They’ve got some software features you can’t get anywhere else — almost like a premium Android phone from Huawei, LG, or Samsung — but with regular operating system updates and without the bloatware. The five-in … | Continue reading
GUEST: Last week, BlackBerry confirmed it would stop designing and producing its smartphones in-house. Yes, there are lessons we can take from the world of manufacturing and from the world of recognizing your rivals, but everyone interested in modern advertising and marketing sho … | Continue reading
Google’s Pixel hardware event today unleashed a torrent of news and product announcements on the tech world. We got to see two new phones, a new virtual reality headset, a tiny puck-sized router, a 4K-ready Chromecast, and pricing and availability for the new Google Home speaker. … | Continue reading
Two years after what ordinarily would have been his NBA debut and a little more than 2 ½ years after his last organized game, Joel Embiid played for the 76ers for the first time Tuesday as Philadelphia opened its exhibition schedule against the Celtics in Amherst, Mass. | Continue reading
All 1 billion Facebook Messenger users can now encrypt their messages so that governments, hackers, and even Facebook itself can’t read them. Facebook announced its “Secret” messages feature back in July. Now it’s fully rolled out, but still a bit tricky to use. Messenger threads … | Continue reading
We just witnessed Google’s moonshot. They’re ready to play hard(ware) ball at an Apple level. No more half measures or product designs inspired by- or influenced by Google. The Pixel phone, which Google officially unveiled on Tuesday in San Francisco, is developed, designed and b … | Continue reading
In September, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued guidelines for the testing and deployment of autonomous [PDF] vehicles. The important thing to remember for now is that these are merely guidelines and not rules. Complying with them is voluntary on the part … | Continue reading
Starting on Nov. 4, Google's physical invasion of the home begins when consumers start installing Google Home, the company's Amazon Echo rival.Google Home builds on what the Echo started and piles on Google Search, Google Cast, Google Assistant and many more of the company's serv … | Continue reading
Of all the pitches I receive, those requesting I take a look at speakers or headphones are the most common. To be frank, there are really only a handful of quality Bluetooth speakers that our readers aren’t already hyper aware of, and we could easily fill our pages with negative … | Continue reading
Should a self-driving car full of old folks crash to avoid puppies in the cross-walk? Is it ok to run over two criminals if you save one doctor? Whose lives are worth more, seven-year-olds or senior citizens?This new game called the “Moral Machine” from MIT’s researchers lets you … | Continue reading
Google's new Pixel phones may be its most ambitious smartphones to date. The devices, home to Google Assistant and what Google says is the best smartphone camera ever, are the company's first to launch under a name other than Nexus. While Google emphasized its manufacturer partne … | Continue reading
Recent news that Amazon is working on a way to deliver items inside your door, without packaging, is huge. It means that e-commerce might overcome its greatest obstacle: Thinking inside the box. Read More | Continue reading
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Trail Blazers forward Meyers Leonard has found himself after the hardest year of his life. | Continue reading
The Kerbal Space Program mission isn’t over despite some key developers leaving. Nathan Kell, one of the producers of Kerbal Space Program, posted a message to the game’s forum on Reddit today to inform fans that eight members of the development team have ceased their work on the … | Continue reading
A Q4 career update from Erika Heald. | Continue reading
You can learn a lot when your cat's name ends up being the name of a terrorist organization. How to get people to change their minds isn't one of them. | Continue reading
Google Home is Google’s answer to Amazon line’s of voice-powered Echo devices. After announcing Home at its I/O developer conference this spring, the company today unveiled both its price ($129) and shipping date (November 4) at its annual hardware event in San Francisco. Maybe m … | Continue reading
Our blog articles feature the latest ideas and thinking from our Action and Research Centre and Fellowship staff and guest bloggers. You are welcome to contribute and comment. | Continue reading
If you have an Amazon Echo, you manage it through a native mobile app for Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant. Google will be doing something similar to help people manage the $129 Google Home smart speaker through which people will be able to ask Google questions. Google has a mobil … | Continue reading
(AP) -- Hornets point guard Ramon Sessions has donated $1 million toward the development of a basketball practice facility on the University of Nevada campus, the Wolf Pack athletics department announced Tuesday. | Continue reading
Just a month after announcing the sale date for its HyperAdapt sneakers, Nike is offering fans another pair of self-lacing kicks — except these ones are straight from Back to the Future. SEE ALSO: Nike officially unveils self-lacing 'Back to the Future' sneakersThe company has an … | Continue reading
World of Warcraft fans are nuts about the latest expansion, Legion, and that has led to a resurgence for the long-running massively multiplayer online role-playing game. But despite recent reports, Blizzard Entertainment is saying that a report earlier today saying it has 10.1 mi … | Continue reading
A startup that matches riders with drivers for paid, and pre-scheduled carpooling, Scoop, has inked a deal with two big towns in the increasingly congested commuter hubs in the San Francisco Bay Area, Foster City and San Mateo. With this deal, each city is subsidizing carpoolers’ … | Continue reading
The world's first "Google Phone" has now been officially announced, but where will you be able to pick up the Pixel and the Pixel XL? | Continue reading
New inflatable bike helmets may be safer than the one you’re wearing, but if you live in the US you might not get to wear one until crash-test regulations catch up to the new design.Scientists dropped a dummy on its head repeatedlyTo figure out how inflatable helmets stack up aga … | Continue reading
Yahoo is under scrutiny today after former employees claimed the company designed custom software to enable U.S. intelligence agencies to scan incoming emails to all of Yahoo’s millions of users. The allegations, first published by Reuters, raise questions about the constitutiona … | Continue reading
Those hoping for Google to deliver more details of a quantum leap towards next-gen virtual reality may have been a bit disappointed Tuesday when the company chose to promote wide user accessibility above cutting edge features in its VR headset. The Daydream View doesn’t have any … | Continue reading
Yahoo is rebranding its main app as Yahoo Newsroom. The new app will have a heavier focus on – you guessed it – news, with a bit of community-building twist. The change is a follow up on a redesign to Yahoo’s homepage and app back in January. There’s an ‘Explore’ tab where you ca … | Continue reading
Join us as we take a look at how the new Google Pixel and Pixel XL stack up against the competition on paper. | Continue reading
Many startup companies begin with either an idea or a proprietary technology. Sometimes this technology is straightforward and easily explained; other times, it is novel and revolutionary. For some founders, the latter can be a double-edged sword, especially once they begin to se … | Continue reading
Mastercard president Rob Reeg admits he doesn’t particularly care for bitcoin, but thinks the blockchain holds promise. In a recent interview with the Business Standard, Reeg opened up about some of Mastercard’s ongoing projects surrounding blockchain technology, and how they pla … | Continue reading
Today, Pinterest announced that it has hired its first chief financial officer from Twitter, Todd Morgenfeld. However, there’s a more interesting footnote that’s reported in the Wall Street Journal’s story about the hire: Pinterest generated roughly $100 million in revenue last y … | Continue reading
The Drug Enforcement Agency has reduced the amount of opioids that can be manufactured in the US next year. Production of all opioids, which are a class of pain medication, will be cut by at least 25 percent in 2017 due to less demand and growing concern around the abuse of these … | Continue reading
Damian Lillard isn't down with superteams. In an interview with Sirius XM, the Blazers' All-Star said he's not ready to team up with other stars to chase rings. He'd rather compete with the guys he's got in Portland and try to take down the "monster" that has formed in Oakland. | Continue reading
Grüezi, Zapraszam Cię dzisiaj do kolejnej części podróży po Szwajcarii. Wczoraj objadaliśmy się serami, dzisiaj zerkniemy do pięknego ogrodu, zwanego tutaj Muzeum Drzew. Nie... | Continue reading
Everybody copies everybody. It doesn't mean they're "out of ideas" or "in a technological cul-de-sac," — or at least it doesn't necessarily mean that — it does mean they want to make money and keep users. It's actually one of my favorite elements of the tech industry. It's self-r … | Continue reading
Now that it’s arguably the standard for digital comics online and on mobile devices, Comixology has announced that it will start producing original comics. Called comiXology Originals, the new program will showcase content from both creators and publishers, with debut titles comi … | Continue reading