In order to understand cryptocurrency you’ll need to grasp the fundamentals of blockchain. Luckily, someone made an interactive tutorial that not only explains the idea, but walks users through mining valid hashes with their CPUs. Blockchain Demo overcomes part of the learning cu … | Continue reading
Shortly after the FTC brought the hammer down on Uber with 20 years’ worth of privacy audits, the rideshare app is cleaning up its act. Its first step is removing a controversial feature which would allow its app to track riders for up to five minutes after a trip was completed. … | Continue reading
YouTube has a new design, and a new logo to accompany it. In fact, it’s the company’s first new logo in 12 years. The new logo does away with the classic ‘Tube-in-a-tube’ design. The red blob super imposed on ‘Tube’ portion of YouTube has been removed. Instead, the red Play butto … | Continue reading
Amazon speakers can now play back audio in multiple rooms at once. It’s about time. The company today announced Echo users can now sync music across devices in a household. You’ll be able to say something like “play music upstairs” to target speakers in one area of your home. It … | Continue reading
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Blockchain tech is causing a massive rethink in how the internet can be used across all sorts of applications – from social networking, to financial transactions, to establishing binding contracts, and more. I have written before how blockchain technologies are disrupting industr … | Continue reading
Google is continuously striving to make it easier for Maps users to effortlessly find parking spots in busy areas – and thanks to a recent Google Maps update, this feature is now available to a bunch of new users. In a fresh blog post, the internet giant announced that starting t … | Continue reading
The Steam discussion board is an ugly mess right now. The forums dedicated to Assassin’s Creed‘s yet-to-be-released tenth instalment, Origins, have been flooded by a barrage of toxin-infused hate speech. To give you a feel for the scale of the influx, there has been an upward of … | Continue reading
A new charitable organization allows you to automatically donate your money whenever President Donald Trump sends a tweet. Whenever President Trump tweets — which you can definitely count on him to do — ChirpChange will automatically donate a certain amount of money to a charity … | Continue reading
Fitbit was, for years, a company without an identity. Packaged and marketed for fitness aficionados, the products often felt behind other offerings, and without a clear place in the market. It wasn’t the cheapest, didn’t offer the most advanced features, and some of the company’s … | Continue reading
Amazon today implemented a new pricing plan for its Whole Foods franchises. The immediate benefit for consumers arrives in the form of discounts reaching up to 43 percent at Whole Foods locations today. Walmart is about to get a taste of its own value-flavored medicine. The disco … | Continue reading
Just 10 or 15 years ago, a large portion of a company’s storage closet was taken up by boxes of software and their bulky training manuals. The larger the company, the more shelves it had dedicated to these discs and soft bound books. In addition to these things, companies also ha … | Continue reading
Managing your finances can be really stressful. There’s so much information to know, mastering all of it seems like an impossible task. Moreover, if you’ve developed some bad financial habits over the years, correcting them may seem extremely daunting. Luckily, it is possible to … | Continue reading
Dell’s XPS 13 has been one of the best Windows laptops you can buy for years, so it’s no surprise it’s received several spec bumps already. This season’s update is arguably the most significant one yet: the XPS 13 is going quad-core. Intel’s recently announced 8th-gen chips (Kaby … | Continue reading
The NYPD bought 36,000 Windows Phones over the course of the last two years as part of a “mobility initiative,” costing tax-payers $160 million. The money wasn’t very well spent. In the wake of Microsoft announcing it would be discontinuing support for phones with the Windows 8.1 … | Continue reading
Facebook today announced its latest tool in the fight against fake news: ad revenue, or the lack thereof. As two Facebook product managers explain in today’s update, Pages which repeatedly share news marked as false by its third-party fact-checkers will not be allowed to advertis … | Continue reading
A gentle squeeze of the trigger sends a bullet hurling toward its target at speeds of nearly 1,800 mph. At expected top speeds of 700 mph — fast enough to traverse the United States (from LA to Manhattan) in under four hours — Elon Musk’s levitating people mover, Hyperloop, isn’t … | Continue reading
Tropical storm Harvey is currently ravaging the coast of Texas, with torrential rains and floods putting countless numbers of people in danger. At least five people have lost their lives and thousands more their homes and possessions. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the US Coast … | Continue reading
It’s been a long time since Microsoft first announced native support for VR headsets – made by partners like Dell, Asus, and HP – in Windows. Nearly a year later, those headsets are finally ready to ship, along with the fancy new VR controllers revealed in May. The key difference … | Continue reading
The wait is nearly over: Apple is announcing its next iPhone on September 12, according to the Wall Street Journal. The timing lines up with the usual iPhone announcements. This time around, however, the company is reported to be revealing three devices. One is the fancy, nearly … | Continue reading
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Ever wonder how popular a GIF really was? With more than 25,000 GIFs a minute shared on Facebook Messenger alone, the ability to track the popularity of animated slices of pop culture has never been more needed. Wonder no more. Giphy today is unveiling a brand spankin’ new featur … | Continue reading
Too many of us are settling into media mixes quickly and poorly, based on the wrong factors, like what’s most attainable or what will get the most immediate returns. | Continue reading
It is now clear that many brands are incorporating influencer marketing campaigns in their various marketing strategies to get an edge on their competitors. According to a research carried out in 2016, influencer marketing did deliver amazing results to brands that had started ap … | Continue reading
Apple retails its MacBooks at notoriously high rates, but hackers might have found a way to bend the system – and possibly bring the price down to a measly dollar. Researchers from software security firm ERPScan have discovered a vulnerability in point-of-sale terminals developed … | Continue reading
When the first Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle images started leaking this last May they were not well-received – and that’s putting it lightly. The crossover between Nintendo’s beloved Mario universe and Ubisoft’s Rabbids (think Minions but dumber) was not something anyone had a … | Continue reading
I must not have got the memo, because as a young lecturer in computer science at the University of Southampton in 1985 I was unaware that “women didn’t do computing”. Southampton had always recruited a healthy number of women to study computing in our fledgling department, and a … | Continue reading
Of the dark net drug vendors who migrated from shut down marketplaces AlphaBay and Hansa Market to Dream Market, more than half didn’t go through the trouble of taking any evasive action, concludes Dutch research institute TNO. Earlier this year, the FBI took over AlphaBay, an in … | Continue reading
When a company the size of Google makes a tiny mistake, the outcome could have immense repercussions – and this is precisely what happened in Japan last week. Last Friday, half the internet in the country suddenly shut down after the Big G accidentally botched a Border Gateway Pr … | Continue reading
Recode reports that the board of directors at Uber is all set to offer the role of CEO to Dara Khosrowshahi, who’s presently the CEO at international travel aggregator Expedia. However, it’s believed that while the board has voted on this move, he hasn’t yet been officially offer … | Continue reading
Calendar apps by themselves are easy to find — throw a dart at the App Store or the Google Play and you’re likely to hit one. The trick is to find a calendar that you can share with other people. Whether you’re a busy family, a professional team, or just a house full of roommates … | Continue reading
When Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana in 2012, few could have predicted the scale of the growth which would bloom across the industry. Legal marijuana sales in the US and Canada are now expected to pass $20.2 billion by 2021 at a … | Continue reading
Sometimes the best isn’t good enough. Instead of giving you a treasure trove of useful information that could help you increase your productivity, make millions of dollars, and find true-love, we’re taking a different tact: let’s bring out the worst in Google’s Chrome internet br … | Continue reading
With claimed returns of 6.5 times for every dollar spent, influencer marketing is definitely a bet that brands want to place with high stakes. But, is it really legit? CNN estimates that approximately 83 million Facebook accounts are fake accounts. Twitter is estimated to follow … | Continue reading
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(Bloomberg) — This really shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who’s done it: You are just no good at texting and walking. While you might do OK at the reading and typing part, your preoccupied brain isn’t paying enough attention to what’s going on with your feet. It’s such a hazard … | Continue reading
Software might be eating the world, but most businesses are sitting out the feeding frenzy because they can’t release software fast enough to meet changing customer needs. No matter what kind of business you’re in — technology, consumer goods, manufacturing — companies are drivin … | Continue reading
The growth in digital banking is showing no signs of slowing down. Convenience, speed and security aren’t just extra benefits in consumers’ minds anymore. They are now a standard requirement of the rapidly changing customer-bank relationship. As a rule, traditional bank instituti … | Continue reading
If you’re trying to generate new business, an email campaign is a cost-effective strategy that can provide you with countless potential clients. Email can be automated and quick, and it has nearly an unlimited reach in today’s Internet-centric business world. However, a successfu … | Continue reading
With US digital ad spending set to reach $83 billion in 2017, an increase of 16 percent, the ROI for advertisers is threatened by fake clicks and views. Everyone in the ad ecosystem is affected, regardless of location. Ad Fraud is a global epidemic, crippling ad budgets and destr … | Continue reading
Generation Z is anticipated to make up 40% of consumer markets by 2020, which poses an opportunity for massive disruption in almost all industries. Even the largest of corporations can be uprooted with this quick shift in consumer preferences and the scrappiest of startup can gai … | Continue reading
In entrepreneurship, female founders are still few and far between. However, they certainly are on the rise. According to a study done by Kaufman, female entrepreneurship saw the biggest increase in the past 20 years. Every month, 260 out of every 100,000 women choose to pursue t … | Continue reading
Today, 86 percent of Americans say they earn extra money monthly from a side hustle. About 1 in 4 say that money comes from the economy that’s grown from digital platforms. With all that money on the table out there, let’s take a look at the pros and cons of some of the most pop … | Continue reading
For every startup founder with a dream of building a business and scaling to infinity, there seems to be an organization promising to help make it happen. In virtually every major city in the world, a growing number of business accelerators and incubators are trying to replicate … | Continue reading
By the time you’ve finished reading this article, roughly 20 people will have moved from the country into a city somewhere around the world. In any given week, millions of people head into cities. Cities are growing well beyond anything their founders could have imagined. At the … | Continue reading
One of the main writers on the Half-Life series released a staid “Epistle” depicting his version of the next game in the series — and, in a reaction as Pavlovian as it is premature, the internet took it and ran all the way to the conclusion that the series is dead. It’s unclear e … | Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence is getting hip by learning about tattoos. A couple of developers for the app Tattoodo wanted a better way to categorize all the tat pics they receive, so they built an algorithm. The pair created a neural-network and taught it how to use an iPhone camera t … | Continue reading
As we draw nearer to Apple’s September iPhone event, the rumor mill only grows louder. And one of the loudest rumors, one we’ve been hearing since February, is that the next generation iPhone will feature wireless charging. We can, with a reasonable amount of confidence, confirm … | Continue reading