Remember the Brexit Bus? During the fraught campaigning surrounding the UK’s referendum on its EU-membership, the Vote Leave campaign hired a bus, and plastered on it the words “We send the EU £350 million a week. Let’s fund our NHS instead.” They didn’t realize it at the time, b … | Continue reading
Not every game needs a purpose or a thrilling ending to suck you in – and this little web experience nothing but proves this. Unlike most game, Short Trip has no apparent aim or a quest set in sight. It starts off unassumingly, without a bang and without any instructions. All you … | Continue reading
Although many consumers will be replacing their smartphones to purchase the new flagships that Apple, Samsung, Google and others are launching, their old devices will not wither and die. They’ll most likely be integrated into the growing market of used and refurbished phones. Acc … | Continue reading
A major barrier to the adoption of Facebook’s React front-end library has been its license. Facebook chose to use a BSD-derived license that contained some troubling terms surrounding patent litigation. But this is no longer an issue, as Facebook has announced it intends to re-li … | Continue reading
A great party needs good food, appropriate beverages, and the perfect video game. Unfortunately, finding the best game for a party isn’t exactly easy. Mixed groups of young children, teens, and grown-ups make finding something appropriate in a sea of titles a challenge. I’m here … | Continue reading
This summer, I had the opportunity to spend some time in the lively city of Shanghai, China. I gorged on juicy soup dumplings, visited historic Confucius temples, and most importantly saw China’s rapidly growing tech-scene.Shoutout to my friend Eric for the awesome photos Don’t … | Continue reading
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Developing an application can be a daunting task, but launching it shouldn’t be. There’s no simple answer to the question of which one should you develop for first, Android or Apple. It depends on various number of factors and circumstances which may influence the final decision. … | Continue reading
Employee happiness is one of the biggest things every company should focus on. Considering that a happy team is a productive one, as well as the fact that people are the most important aspect of any firm, it makes no sense why more businesses don’t try and capitalize on such a cr … | Continue reading
Whenever a new industry sector starts gaining momentum, savvy entrepreneurs and marketers can usually get involved on the ground floor and turn a profit. However, they need to get in early before that sector gets oversaturated and they miss the opportunity. So here’s a tip: now i … | Continue reading
Hate is a strong word, but it’s more than appropriate when it comes to these mobile UI and UX strategies. With over 50 percent of website traffic now originating from mobile, businesses need to try harder when it comes to converting smartphone users who have a much lower conversi … | Continue reading
It’s an old question: should designers code? And it gets a lot of people riled up whenever brought up in a conversation. So, why are we still talking about it? Well, there’s a few reasons as to why, but it’s mostly because of the reality that, now more than ever, companies are se … | Continue reading
If you’re looking to get into the retail game yourself, there’s plenty of money to be made by hanging your shingle on an Amazon Marketplace virtual storefront. You can find out how to make those dollars without all the growing pain mistakes with the Sell on Amazon: Simple and Eff … | Continue reading
As I think about the parallels between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technologies that have had an impact on their marketplaces, I often come back to the analogy of hybrid and electric cars. People who buy those cars may have a basic understanding of how the technologies work, … | Continue reading
Surprise, surprise: it has been confirmed that WeChat gives your personal data to the Chinese government. The company recently updated its privacy statement declaring: “We may be required to retain, preserve or disclose your Personal Information for a longer period of time: in or … | Continue reading
The evolving nature of the marketing landscape can be tough to keep up with. Every week, it feels like there is a new strategy to follow. And even then, it can be challenging to discern which trends are “real” and here to stay from the fads that will wear off quickly. One directi … | Continue reading
One of the worst things you can do to someone is make them question their employment status. Getting fired sucks, but there’s an unmistakable sense of finality about it. You know it’s the end of the road, allowing you to be proactive and move on with your life. When you don’t kno … | Continue reading
Falon Fatemi is the definition of a “people person,” at 19, working for Google, she was a match-maker for business partnerships. By her mid-twenties she was working alongside investor Mark Cuban to create her own company. Today she is bottling serendipity, or more accurately: her … | Continue reading
Dell’s XPS 13 has long been regarded as one of the best Windows laptops around – we said so much in our review. Since I’m one of those weirdos who prefers 2-in-1s to traditional laptops though, I was stoked when Dell announced it was giving the XPS 13 a convertible treatment. Sti … | Continue reading
Walmart is testing direct-to-fridge delivery, a service that taps Amazon’s newest acquisition, Whole Foods, in bringing groceries not only to your house, but your fridge itself. Walmart announced last Friday it would be testing the service on a few customers in Silicon Valley. Th … | Continue reading
Social media gets a bad rap for distracting teens and inciting political trolling, but it can also be an immense tool for compassion. A study this summer pointed out that over half of the money raised on GoFundMe was for medical expenses. If you’re on social media arguing about O … | Continue reading
There’s a gross misconception that shapes today’s startup landscape: you have to raise money in order to successfully launch a scale a company. It makes sense that young entrepreneurs would live and die by this notion, because some of the most successful startup stories of all ti … | Continue reading
The iPhone may have sparked the mobile photography revolution, but Android devices have matched or surpassed Apple’s offering for several years now – at least according to metrics like DxOMark’s intensive camera testing. Now Apple’s fighting back. The new iPhone 8 and 8 Plus surp … | Continue reading
Apple’s 4K TV has launched to a wealth of positive reviews, but it turns out the 4K experience comes with some odd fine print. For example: You can’t actually download 4K movies from iTunes, only stream them. MacRumors spotted the quirk in an Apple Support document. Customers can … | Continue reading
Does the thought of dying absolutely terrify you? If so, you might suffer from a condition known as ‘Existential Death Anxiety’, a disorder Dutch experimental designer, Frank Kolkman wants to treat with Outrespectre – a proposed medical device supposedly capable of simulating out … | Continue reading
“How did we get here?” That seems to be the automatic first response from anyone coming to realization about the depths of this country’s opioid epidemic. This summer has been eye-opening for people who don’t live in areas typically riddled with overdose cases. But the mounting d … | Continue reading
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Online trading gives you an opportunity be your own boss, set your work hours, work from home (or the beach), and make as much money as you want without the artificial cap placed on salaries. However, beginner traders often have a hard time understanding how the market works – th … | Continue reading
If you are in the startup ecosystem — or just a casual reader of tech sites — I’m sure that the majority of the fundraising stories you must have heard in past few months had a new term attached to them — ICO. The fundraising didn’t happen by selling out the equity of the company … | Continue reading
Here we go again. Notorious torrenting portal The Pirate Bay is getting blocked in the Netherlands yet another time. A court in the Hague has ordered Dutch internet service providers Ziggo and Xs4all to cut all access to The Pirate Bay within the next 10 days, local news outlet T … | Continue reading
Whether you want to try gaming on your PC for the first time, are looking to get back into it, it’s worth noting that there’s no need to splurge on a computer Want to play games but have an older or less-capable laptop? Join the club. My work computer can handle 30+ browser tabs … | Continue reading
London’s transport authority, Transport for London (TfL), has said it will not renew Uber’s license to operate in the city, which expires September 30. In a statement shared on its official Twitter account, TfL said that “Uber London Limited is not fit and proper to hold a privat … | Continue reading
Over the past year, Facebook and Microsoft have been working together on an incredible project to add internet connectivity infrastructure to support the ever-expanding population that’s accessing the web. We keep talking about how so much of our data and connected services live … | Continue reading
“We can no longer just talk about cyber security, but we need to take action and prevent actual cyber wars that can affect both companies and governments.” Inti The Ceukelaire, the Belgian ethical hacker who published a piece on how he gained access to companies through their hel … | Continue reading
Relax, your colleagues aren’t going to think you’re slacking: Slack is down for many users around the globe. It remains unclear what is causing the issue, but a slew of users are taking to Twitter to report experiencing difficulties connecting to the team messaging service. … | Continue reading
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After bringing its voice-activated Assistant to phones and speakers, Google is now working with gadget makers to build in support for the service into headphones, starting with Bose and its new QC 35 II Bluetooth set. You’ll need an iPhone or Android device for this to work, of c … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg is back from paternity leave and ready to face some of Facebook’s most prominent problems. The CEO held a talk today via Facebook Live where he addressed Russian interference in the US elections, democracy and transparency on Facebook, which appear to be the main … | Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal this week published an article declaring Bitcoin’s value to be “probably zero.” Last week finance and tech outlets discussed JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s assertion that Bitcoin was “a fraud.” If you’re keeping score, these are two big names in the financial … | Continue reading
The FCC might be changing its standards for high-speed internet, but not in a way that benefits anyone who doesn’t have it. The Commission filed a notice of inquiry last month to redefine the speeds which define broadband internet — today is the last day to comment on it. If the … | Continue reading
Fall, each year, signals the arrival of a new iPhone. And now that Apple’s annual event has come to pass, we’re left to reflect, albeit briefly, before the rumor mill begins picking up steam for next year. This year we’ll see two new iPhone models: the iPhone 8/8 Plus, and Apple’ … | Continue reading
According to a recent study the internet is a blue wavy place that’s used for connecting to people. This insight comes from one hundred people who were asked by cloud service company Summit Hosting to describe how they saw the internet, a computer virus, and the cloud. The best p … | Continue reading
What comes in your mind by the mention of the term ‘virtual reality’? Most people will conceive it to be either a film or a game set. However, Virtual reality (VR) is an artificially generated environment by a 3-D computer program and then presented to its user in a manner that … | Continue reading
Nobody’s perfect, not even Bill Gates. The billionaire recently admitted that if he could go back in time, he’d switch the Ctrl+Alt+Delete command for a single button. Gates spoke out on the subject yesterday at a Bloomberg business forum in response to David Rubenstein’s questio … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Nest laid out a series of new smart home products at a launch event. Here are the best of the bunch in this new line of goods for the protective and territorial. Outdoor smart cameras The first of Nest’s new products was the IQ Outdoor camera. These cameras use facial … | Continue reading
With all the companies making headphones in the world, you probably haven’t heard of FIIL Audio (pronounced ‘feel’) if you live in the west. That could change soon. The company has been referred to as the ‘Beats of China,’ and I recently had a chance to listen to its $250 FIIL Ca … | Continue reading
There are thousands of articles on artificial intelligence and, if you follow the field, the vast majority of them seem to be warnings of impending doom or technology experts shrieking that AI isn’t as big a deal as the media would have you believe, “Move along there’s nothing to … | Continue reading
What would Instagram be without its filters? Unfortunately, for all their prominence, you haven’t been able to use any filters in the increasingly popular live streaming feature – until now. Starting today, Instagram is rolling out the ability to apply filters or masks during liv … | Continue reading