Are you preparing to invest in a used car? Whether it is a particular salesman or professional, there are always pitfalls to avoid. Here are our 10 tips! 1. The private or professional seller, what to choose? Buying from a professional ensures you a minimum mechanical guarantee o … | Continue reading
Data science is just that — science. Specially trained individuals well-versed in how to break down big data sets and interpret their meaning are in high demand… with serious credentials needed to back it up. You can start accumulating those credentials now with the training in t … | Continue reading
One of the most difficult things when starting out in business is figuring out how to get in front of the right people. You might have the perfect product or service, but just need that one big break for a decision-maker to offer you the “keys to the kingdom.” As many young peo … | Continue reading
That chatbots are emerging faster than ever is an undeniable fact. Since 2016, chatbots have becoming increasingly more common, largely owing to the fact that major messaging platforms have embraced them. Chatbot developers and related startups are heralding the dawn of a new era … | Continue reading
When we talk about the Internet of Things, rarely do we include our cars. For some, these services have just become standard, starting with programs like OnStar to now being able to heat your home before you even leave the office. It’s true that the internet is the future, with o … | Continue reading
Scientists from the University of Liverpool have taught computers to sift through the infinite possibilities of atoms in search of new materials. The computers use machine-learning to help scientists narrow their focus when combining atoms to create something entirely new. This n … | Continue reading
Your big day is almost here! The cake is ready to go, dress and tux are waiting to be worn, the venue is finally prepped, but wait 一 you’re missing something. Instagram. Planning a wedding is difficult, but thanks to Instagram, it’s even more difficult. Don’t know where to start? … | Continue reading
Millennials aren’t able to identify the networks responsible for some of the most popular television shows, with the exception of those created by Netflix. Consulting firm Anatomy Media released a report indicating most viewers age 18-26 can’t match television shows from ABC, NBC … | Continue reading
Everyone loves dear old Winnie the Pooh. Everyone that is, aside from the forgetful bear’s creator A.A. Milne who couldn’t stand the sight of him. Milne could never understand why his books for kids were so popular – he grew to hate them. He thought the three novels, four screenp … | Continue reading
Laptops are an exercise in compromise. Faster processors, longer battery life, and quality materials usually mean sacrificing thermals, portability, and/or your bank account. Wanting a decent dedicated GPU will generally sacrifice all of these, and mainstream ultraportables avoid … | Continue reading
We love YouTube mashups. Since DJ Earworm’s year-end masterpiece is still about six months away, we have to quench our thirst for exemplary mixes with whatever we can find. And today, we found this: YouTuber ‘The Hood Internet‘ mashed up over 150 songs from 100 different artists … | Continue reading
Ikea is working with American space experts at NASA to figure out how to make furniture for people in densely populated cities. The Swedish furniture company is sending a team of designers to an astronaut training facility in Utah. The group will be locked inside a ‘spaceship env … | Continue reading
Times are rough and everyone can use a couple of extra bucks for the holidays. Fear not though, tech has come to save you (sort of, provided you don’t need any serious cash) with apps that let you earn real money from an Android or iOS device. There’s certainly no shortage to cho … | Continue reading
The internet is a vast wilderness full of politics and cat memes. Navigating social media requires a PhD in Facebook and an intravenous Twitter feed. It’s just flat-out overwhelming — until now. Binky is a new app that aims to rid you of the worst part of every social media platf … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 Insider build is jam-packed with new features, but let’s cut to the most important one: Windows 10 finally has an honest-to-goodness emoji shortcut. Press Win + period (.) or Win + semicolon (;) to make the menu pop up. Hoorah! You can also press Tab … | Continue reading
Scrum Alliance released its 2016 ‘State of Scrum‘ report and the results indicate that businesses are having difficulty adapting to Agility based project management. Scrum is an Agile framework for completing complex projects. The basic idea behind the platform is for workers to … | Continue reading
It’s easy to overlook a suite of programs that predate most offices and the people who staff them. However, there’s a reason Microsoft Office is celebrating a quarter-century as the gold standard of office productivity programs: because it’s powerful and still runs like a Swiss w … | Continue reading
Learning a language is hard. Schools, in particular, are especially bad at teaching them. If you’re just reciting verb conjugations, and learning words and phrases that don’t interest you, you won’t make any progress. Over the past few years, there’s been several interesting effo … | Continue reading
At its inception, the internet was a beautifully idealistic and equal place. But the world sucks and we’ve continuously made it more and more centralized, taking power away from users and handing it over to big companies. And the worst thing is that we can’t fix it — we can only … | Continue reading
A lot of gamers use multi-monitor setups for a more immersive gaming experience. But why spend money on a clumsy screen array when you can have just one insanely wide monitor instead? That’s the approach Samsung took with it’s newest gaming monitor, the 49-inch, 32:9(!) CHG90. It … | Continue reading
You never know what to expect from programmers once boredom starts to muddle with their otherwise highly rational brains. Last week, one bored coder took to Reddit to show off an dreadfully designed volume control implementation, ironically urging fellow members to one-up his eff … | Continue reading
For those of you who’ve forgotten, on March 28, 2017 the United States House of Representatives voted in favor of overturning a FCC provision that required Internet Service Providers to uphold the privacy of their users. A week earlier, the Senate had already passed the measure i … | Continue reading
For many people, craft is wooden chairs and pottery, all lovingly constructed by hand. A 3D-printed plastic object? Not so much. The work of Australian designer Berto Pandolfo, shown in a new exhibition at Kensington Contemporary in Sydney, upends that rule. His sidetables demons … | Continue reading
During the latest edition of its annual WWDC event, Apple made important strides to show developers and creators that it is finally getting serious about artificial intelligence. The company announced its all-new Core ML framework specifically designed to enable developers to bui … | Continue reading
Is your career endangered by AI? The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race…. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and … | Continue reading
Needless to say, the competition in SEO is fierce no matter the domain. Google’s top search rankings have been dominated by big players. The most popular search terms belong to 15-ish companies that own big networks of authoritative sites linking to each other. They can pass link … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, OnePlus announced that it would reveal its next phone, the OnePlus 5, in just a matter of days (June 20, to be precise). Of course, images of the device leaked ahead of the unveiling, and now, the company has also decided to give us a glimpse of the upcoming ha … | Continue reading
A little after a year after since we heard that Google’s parent company Alphabet was hoping to sell off robotics firm Boston Dynamics, it’s finally happened. The maker of Big Dog, Atlas and Handle is being sold to Japanese tech giant SoftBank, along with another robotics firm cal … | Continue reading
The developers at Stockholm-based game studio Overkill Software are stand-up guys: they’re giving away their much-loved multiplayer bank heist FPS, Payday 2, for free. But you’ll want to hurry, as supplies are limited. The company is bundling the game along with its extensive col … | Continue reading
As much flack as millennials get from older generations about their lack of financial savvy, the truth is that many are actually anxious about their financial futures. With our rapidly evolving economy, increasing demands on people’s time and money, and near-insurmountable levels … | Continue reading
If you thought artificial intelligence couldn’t get any better than voice recognition, you’re wrong. Google scientist Mike Tyka, is taking a new approach to art ー using AI to make digital portraits of non-existent people. According to Tyka: “For a while now I’ve been experimentin … | Continue reading
It’s time we started treating our healthcare with the same respect that we’ve given our music libraries. It’s time to personalize mental health and optimize physical training — and I don’t want to wait around for appointments with six-figure graduate students using decades-old te … | Continue reading
The virtual and augmented reality hype is now creeping its way towards the average American consumer. The thing is, no one knows what they’d even do with it, according to a recent study by Opinium. What exactly do people want to use VR/AR for? 85% 一 Travel experiences 84% 一 Museu … | Continue reading
Creative Coding Amsterdam co-founder Sabrina Verhage made an extraordinary visualization of 1372 vibrators scraped from sex toy webshops. The image was put together using ofxCcv; machine-learning algorithms designed to identify faces. The vibrators were identified and then arrang … | Continue reading
With finance driving the market, credit is an important instrument that keeps trade and transactions moving. Credit scores are an important part of credit and having good credit scores speaks highly about the borrower. Credit scores keep fluctuating according to the borrower’s re … | Continue reading
Facebook is rolling out a new tool for politicians to feel more connected with those they were elected to represent. In the coming weeks, the company will start sharing article data based on what an elected official’s constituents are reading and sharing. Facebook believes this c … | Continue reading
Sports research company Orreco is set to release a new kind of fitness app targeted at women. The product is called ‘FitrWoman’ and, for female athletes, it is going to help you navigate training during your menstrual cycle. The app is a little smarter than your average period tr … | Continue reading
In the past, companies that had working relationships with bus charters relied on complex and individualized systems for every part of the process. For instance, quotations were mostly based on telephone conversations, invoices used a paper-based system, and reports were convolut … | Continue reading
Thanks to the emergence of Web-based tools and services, most of us work primarily in the browser these days, and that means it’s our main productivity center. Google Chrome is far and away the most popular browser around and it supports a huge number of extensions, which are ess … | Continue reading
Making a Murderer is the best original show on Netflix. It is a mind-fuck sandwich with plot-twist dressing. Yesterday the real-life drama behind the documentary series took another surprising turn. The show’s focus, Steven Avery, may be going back to trial. On June 7th Kathleen … | Continue reading
We may still be a long while away from driverless cars becoming the norm, but as I’ve learned over the past few days, India – once dubbed by Uber CEO Travis Kalanick as the last place on earth to host this revolution – is raring to go. There are numerous efforts across the countr … | Continue reading
The term “full stack” web developer is becoming an ever-important buzzword in the IT marketplace. Employers are increasingly searching for programmers with a wide breadth of talent, assuring they can implement a project all the way from creating a front-end interface through back … | Continue reading
I can’t believe what I’m about to write, but all of Apple’s new iMacs have upgradeable CPU and RAMs, as revealed by an iFixit teardown. Now let me set some expectations. No it’s not easy – the replaceable components are tucked behind the logic board and display. It will also void … | Continue reading
Few instruments invented since the turn of the century have garnered as much attention as Roli’s Seaboard line. It’s wavy surface of flexible silicone allowed musicians to modulate and transition between sounds more intuitively than your typical MIDI controller, let alone a tradi … | Continue reading
We have exactly $325,710 left in our bank account. The cash is burning fast, and we’ve already wasted a big portion of our seed investment trying to market a product for which we thought we had already found a product/market fit. “Four out of ten,” shouts Lauren, breaking the sil … | Continue reading
The Dark Web is the Internet’s shady underbelly where you can buy almost anything: drugs, guns, even counterfeit documents. Thanks to research from IntSights Research Group, we can now add “Silk Road knock-offs” to the list. While monitoring Jabber, the organization noticed a gro … | Continue reading
For Muslims, Ramadan is one of the holiest months in the Islam lunar calendar. Millions of Muslims in Afrika and around the world observe the Ramadan period as they practice spiritual discipline and purification during this time which lasts approximately 30 days. Here are seven a … | Continue reading
The cardinal rule in programming is “Don’t repeat yourself,” or DRY. It says that developers should only implement a particular functionality within a project once. Doing otherwise is bad, because it introduces technical debt and potential inconsistencies. But it only really appl … | Continue reading