Germany will soon punish social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube with fines of up to €50 million (approximately $57 million) if they fail to take down illegal or offensive content within 24 hours. The rule will be enforced starting from October and will apply to al … | Continue reading
The good folks at Android Police have spotted a new app from Google called Triangle; it lets you control which other apps can use your mobile data. It’s a handy little tool if you’re stuck on a crappy plan or are low on credits abroad. Just fire up Triangle, grant it the necessar … | Continue reading
Twitter is believed to be testing a feature to allow users to report tweets containing fake news and bogus or misleading information, reports The Washington Post. Sadly, that’s not quite enough reason to celebrate: a company spokesperson told WP, “There are no current plans to la … | Continue reading
Calling all pop culture nerds: if you believe your knowledge of what’s hot and what’s not in the world of YouTube stars, you’ll want to bring your A-game to DejaView, a fun -and sometimes challenging – quiz about celebrities on the video platform. DejaView pits you against anothe … | Continue reading
Machine learning is becoming more prevalent than ever before and is slowly integrating into our day–to–day lives. From maximizing efficiency in the workplace to better understanding how consumers emotionally connect to brands, services and products, the applications of artificial … | Continue reading
Real estate platform Zillow has finally come to its senses and backed off from suing McMansion Hell, a blog that highlights architectural atrocities committed by tasteless homeowners on their own houses across the US. Earlier this week, Zillow had sent Kate Wagner – the one-woman … | Continue reading
Yelp’s Photos Team is developing AI and machine learning algorithms to understand content in user photos. Using neural networks, the systems are able to identify specific attributes that make a photo “beautiful.” The neural network can also identify and categorize based on the ty … | Continue reading
Raising over half a billion dollars since its inception in 2009, Kickstarter has been responsible for some of the coolest crowdfunded projects on the planet. Despite the platform’s wild success, figuring out how to crack the “Kickstarter Code” can seem like an overwhelming task. … | Continue reading
Following up the iOS 11 public beta earlier this week, Apple’s newest version of macOS, High Sierra, is now available for anyone to try. As a recap, High Sierra adds a plethora of features, many of them subtle improvements under the hood. Some highlights: Speed improvements for … | Continue reading
Apple released its iPhone to the public on June 29th 2007, to the delight of both critics and fans. Finally, Steve Jobs’ newest toy would see its official release and cease dominating the tech headlines. Ten years later, however, not much has changed. A decade later and the iPhon … | Continue reading
A young couple trying to get famous on YouTube fatally underestimated the power of a bullet — and now two children are going to grow up without a father. 19-year-old Monalisa Perez of Minnesota was arrested following the fatal shooting of her boyfriend last Monday. She said on Tw … | Continue reading
Summer is just getting into full swing and with that it means more time spent outdoors, whether by the pool or out in nature. The beckoning of summer also means it’s time to start gathering the gadgets you’re going to need to make this summer as awesome as humanly possible. There … | Continue reading
If you’ve been on the Web in the past decade, you’ll likely have visited Reddit, Craigslist, Wikipedia, 4Chan, Hacker News, or The Drudge Report at some point. While these sites are all vastly different, they have two things in common: they’re all extremely popular among their au … | Continue reading
There have never been consumers like Generation Z. Marked by low attention spans and vocal opinions, this up and coming cohorts buyer power affects many industries, connecting and consuming at an ever increasing rate. Gen Z’s tastes and priorities largely contribute to the direct … | Continue reading
When physicists at CERN discovered the Higgs boson — the so-called ‘God particle’ — they used Comic Sans to make the announcement. For all the hate it gets by designers, humans love the typeface, and researchers felt it added an approachability to the science. So, they used it to … | Continue reading
Huawei announced three laptops and tablet designs last month in an attempt to become an established PC brand. Today the company has confirmed the devices are coming to the US, and all are competitively priced. The devices fit three main categories: The MateBook E is a convertible … | Continue reading
Look, Overwatch fans — I’m willing to accept some of the goofy controllers y’all have dreamed up. Turntables for Lucio, a sword for Genji, even a hammer for Reinhardt? All good for me. But now someone’s created a custom Widowmaker controller … from a baguette. And I think it’s ju … | Continue reading
Patricia Dickson, A professor of pediatrics at UCLA, believes the creator of the video game Halo: Combat Evolved based key concepts and characters in the game on her ideas and personality. One of the characters Dickson believes was based on her is the AI Cortana, which became the … | Continue reading
In a bizarre move, VR pioneer and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has purportedly pledged $2,000 to support the development of the popular Revive software – an app that lets gamers crack exclusive Oculus games in order to play them on the HTC Vive. Earlier today, Revive creator Jule … | Continue reading
VPN shoppers can find it difficult to pick apart which features matter when searching for a reliable VPN provider. But among all the bells and whistles, two factors should be of primary concern when searching for the perfect VPN: rock-solid privacy guarantees and fast, dependable … | Continue reading
Using social media comes with the unfortunate risk of encountering hate speech and offensive comments. The companies behind them are constantly looking for new ways to combat hate speech and now Instagram is turning to the logical next step: Artificial intelligence. Last year, In … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is making huge strides in innovating the creative industries, and thanks to a collaboration between IBM and the Tribeca Film Festival – the trend seems set to grow even bigger. Earlier this week, the two companies hosted the Storytellers with Watson contes … | Continue reading
The rise of voice-enabled devices and digital assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home is allowing consumers to engage through our most natural form of communication. Maybe, we shouldn’t be too surprised to hear that Adobe Analytics data shows that online sales of voice- … | Continue reading
“MIXhalo takes the best sounding place in the venue and brings it to wherever you happen to be.” That is the mantra that renowned musician and composer Michael Einziger lives by with his upcoming platform MIXhalo. Einziger is a man of many passions, and is a very driven man when … | Continue reading
As someone who works at their desk 90 percent of the time, I’m a sucker for anything that improves the look of my workspace. If you’re tiring of black plastic and brushed metals, you might be interested in the latest toy that arrived at my doorstep a couple of weeks ago: Oree’s B … | Continue reading
The retro gaming hype is in full swing. After Nintendo announced the re-release of the beloved SNES Classic console earlier this week, peripheral hardware maker Hyperkin has decided to complete the full old-school gaming experience by bringing back one more accessory: the retro s … | Continue reading
Global payment provider Payoneer has built a reputation as an innovative cross-border payments platform. The explosive growth of FinTech and a traditional industry that has been slow to adapt is creating more opportunities than challenges for agile startups. As the digital transf … | Continue reading
Since the launch of the internet, brands have been taking their businesses online and utilizing the many benefits that online marketing has for them. As the Internet grew, more and more brands have started to take it upon themselves to promote their content on the internet to att … | Continue reading
Beloved internet radio and playlist service 8tracks has been hit by hackers who stole account details for millions of its users, with data going back all the way to 2008. It isn’t clear exactly how many users are affected: Breach notification site LeakBase told Motherboard that t … | Continue reading
Google Photos is upgrading its cloud storage service with a couple of new automated sharing features today that might be a bit too clever for their own good. The first is actually kinda neat: a new Sharing tab will show you pictures from notable events that Photos thinks you migh … | Continue reading
Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post and a member on Uber’s board, launched Thrive Global in the US last year to tackle stress and burnouts in the workplace, by offering wellness workshops, tech products to address the needs of your body and mind, and a content plat … | Continue reading
Two drones go in, one comes out. This is the mantra for a new underground sport known as drone dueling. In it, quadcopters of all shapes and sizes take to the skies to duke it out until only one remains. For a pilot, the mission is simple: kill or be killed. Battles often take pl … | Continue reading
Drones flying in the sky are becoming a commonplace sight, so seeing one swing perilously close to a DJ mid-concert is not concerning by itself. Seeing one fall from the sky like Icarus a few seconds later is a little more unusual. In the video, you can see the drone hovering bet … | Continue reading
You can’t talk about the G6 without comparing it to the S8. Be warned, I’ll be doing that a lot in this review. Even as the G6 was first announced and impressed everyone with its minimal bezels, gorgeous display, and refined design, we knew the S8 was right around the corner with … | Continue reading
Canadian Supreme Court today ruled against Google in an intellectual property case, despite the fact that the company wasn’t a defendant in the initial case. The highest courts in Canada decided that the sovereignty of an ‘interlocutory injunction’ (a cease-and-desist order) on t … | Continue reading
“All white people are racist. Start from that reference point, or you’ve already failed,” read a Facebook post by Black Lives Matter activist Didi Delgado. The post earned her a temporary ban from the social network. “Racist,” according to Facebook, is a racial slur, and using it … | Continue reading
The price of cryptocurrency Ethereum dropped dramatically following news of its creator’s death. One problem: he wasn’t dead. A post on 4Chain claimed Vitalik Buterin — creator of blockchain technology Ethereum and currency Ether — died in a fatal car accident. Following news of … | Continue reading
Looking at the periodic table, most of us have no issues identifying the use of certain elements. Sodium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and others are no-brainers but what about the less talked about elements. Seriously, do you know what vanadium is used for? How about Polonium? Chanc … | Continue reading
The drop shipping business model is a real catch for entrepreneurs who have an eye for e-commerce. Still, setting up a fully functioning drop shipping store is an exciting yet complex process. This is why you should definitely consider these 5 aspects that will make both your bus … | Continue reading
Microsoft is adding seven new titles to it’s $9.99 Xbox Game Pass in July. The game subscription service lets gamers download and play any of the over 100 titles available on the service, about three-quarters of which are games either launched on the Xbox 360 or ported to Xbox On … | Continue reading
Big data is one of the business world’s most notorious buzz terms these days. In case you’re new to the concept, big data is the mountain of raw output spewed forth from the scads of analytics reports available to most businesses. Production data, customer information, financials … | Continue reading
You’ve been able to create your own filters on Snapchat since early last year, but you’ve always had to use a desktop tool to do so. Fret no more: you can now create Geofilters right within Snapchat itself. You’ll find the new tool within Snapchat’s Settings menu. Tap on ‘On-Dema … | Continue reading
This might be the first time you hear about it, but Samsung has quietly rolled out a special walking app that alerts distracted pedestrians anytime they’re about to bump into a wall or cross at a red light – but nobody is using it. While Walk Mode landed on the Google Play store … | Continue reading
Let’s get down to brass tacks – your content and information might be “safe,” but if someone really wanted to crack that vault of information they could with the proper tools and people. This isn’t true for all businesses, but if you’re a SMB or maybe even a fledgling enterprise … | Continue reading
The Blueye Robotics Pioneer underwater drone bridges the gap between professional-grade remote operated vehicles (ROV) and remote control toys. Most professional-grade ROVs cost $5,000 to $10,000; the Pioneer comes with everything you need to get started for $3,000. The Blueye Pi … | Continue reading
Earlier in 2017, the Western Cape province of South Africa experienced devastating wildfires that destroyed houses, businesses and even took lives. It has emerged that during their rescue operations and work to stop the fires, South African firefighters requested drones to survey … | Continue reading
The first year is always the hardest. The first year of trying to get back into shape. The first year of learning a language. The first year of learning a new skill. For us, it was the first year of launching our company. While this wasn’t my first time starting a new business, I … | Continue reading
There is no debating how important Internet connectivity is, by extension, fast Internet connectivity – the type made possible by fiber. In my opinion, fiber infrastructure requires long-term vision and patient investment capital. If such infrastructure is harnessed correctly, th … | Continue reading