We have already seen disgruntled netizens build pages to shame shameless marketing campaigns, but this awfully irritated GitHub user has set out on another equally virtuous quest: To shame websites with silly password rules into requiring better safety measures. Created by data e … | Continue reading
Personal credentials, proprietary source code, confidential employee contracts, even human genome sequences – these are just a few examples of sensitive data picked up by a security firm looking into a feature of Amazon’s Web Services. “We were very surprised with both the amount … | Continue reading
Some technologies and business models come and go. The list is long. Thankfully, typewriters, cassette tapes and drive-in movie theaters wound up in the recycling bin. Along with folding maps, dial-up modems and pagers. And remember waiting for a new episode of your favorite show … | Continue reading
Technology is shaping just about everything that happens around us. From interacting with each other to making decisions, from learning to running day-to-day operations, everything is influenced by rapidly evolving and growth in accessibility of technology. And the most glorious … | Continue reading
It’s time we officially say goodbye to this notion that Millennials have a bad rep in the workplace. In fact, not only have they quickly become one of the largest generations in the labor force, but they’re also creating and running some of the most successful companies out in to … | Continue reading
The Hyperloop was conceived in the United States, but it’s in Europe where it’ll prove itself. It was a Dutch team that won the SpaceX Hyperloop competition, and that team is blazing towards a commercial solution that, one day, may connect the continent. The winning team’s idea i … | Continue reading
Dear reader, It’s 2017, and it looks like we still need to have that talk about fanboyism. It’s something we see in the comments section in our stories, and it’s something we’re accused of often – commonly for being fanboys of competing companies, I might add. People sometimes te … | Continue reading
For the majority of people who visit the United States, applying for a visa is a routine task of filling in the boxes. But for those applicants who have been flagged for further review, it’s going to get a lot more difficult. The Trump administration just rolled out a tough new v … | Continue reading
As a married, self-employed serial entrepreneur from the Dominican Republic, the well-trodden paths of gaining a green card to work in the US, like marrying an American, investing more than $500K to $1M, or finding a corporate sponsor and waiting years to be accepted for the H-1B … | Continue reading
As any typography nerd will tell you, pairing fonts on a design project isn’t as simple as you might think. Depending on your objective (to create balance or to tension, or to showcase a particular piece of content, for example), there are various approaches you can take. But wha … | Continue reading
Snapchat’s Spectacles and vending machines, which have been baffling American customers since November, are now available in Europe. Spectacles are Snapchat’s first foray into the hardware market, being sunglasses with built-in cameras. Images or videos you take with them are sav … | Continue reading
We heard in April that Google was working on an ad blocker to bake right into a future version of its Chrome browser, and we now have a timeline. The company says publishers have until early 2018 to fix their crappy ads or have none of them show up at all for Chrome users. The id … | Continue reading
Facebook is now testing a new feature which will prevent page administrators from editing the featured image, headline and description on shared links, according to a source familiar with the matter. These editing capabilities allows businesses, media outlets, and journalists to … | Continue reading
The United States Navy wants YOU to design the technology that will usher US fighting forces into a new and wonderful era of global conflict. The Chief of Naval Research issued a call to arms for the tech world with the “CNR Concept Challenge.” The challenge asks engineers, devel … | Continue reading
When you go on TV and pitch the uber-rich to obtain financing for your stick figure cat drawing business, you’ve got moxie. Steve Gadlin, best known for his partnership with Mark Cuban on Shark Tank — or perhaps the “I want to draw a cat for you” jingle — is at it again. This tim … | Continue reading
This week, Lyft released its first diversity report, accounting for the gender and ethnicity of its employees. And, for a tech company, it has a greater than average number of female employees. According to the report, 42-percent of Lyft employees in total identify as female, and … | Continue reading
Don’t push that update through! Microsoft customers — particularly Windows Insiders — running x86 architecture PCs and phones beware: there’s a dev branch build (16212) that is bound to cause problems if you allow it onto your system. MSPoweruser Senior Editor Mehedi Hassan tweet … | Continue reading
Elon Musk has abandoned Donald Trump’s tech advisory council following the president’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord. Musk made the announcement in a tweet, following up on his promise just yesterday. Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. … | Continue reading
President Trump today announced to the world that the United States will join a new “Big Three” by leaving the Paris Climate Accord. It’s “The Decision” 2017, and this time the Big Three aren’t All-Stars, nor will anyone be taking their talents to South Beach Perennial NBA Finals … | Continue reading
Skype is about to get a whole new look and purpose. In this new era of social media, Skype has long felt like a bit of a vestige of the past – useful when you want to have a reliable video call, but probably not your main choice when it comes to your everyday conversations. But n … | Continue reading
It’s the end of the road for social bookmarking website del.icio.us. After almost fifteen years, the site has been acquired by rival Pinboard, and will be shuttered on June 15, when it goes into read-only mode. While the site will continue to be viewable, users won’t be able to s … | Continue reading
The uses of technology in our daily lives increases by day, from simple tasks to complex management systems, technology has made these jobs look simple and easy to do. Tech products for instance have been embraced from all over the globe. Today, many people own devices that are t … | Continue reading
The other week, I was on Amazon looking for a present for my mother for Mother’s Day. I ended up ordering her a teapot, to make up for breaking her previous one. As soon as I completed the transaction, I decided to click back to the Amazon homepage to see what other deals I might … | Continue reading
In today’s era of cheap metrics, highly quantitative marketing, and growth hacking, everyone’s talking about funnels. The most colorful explanation of a startup funnel is easily Dave McClure’s Startup Metrics for Pirates, which goes something like this: (1) user signs up (2) user … | Continue reading
Nintendo’s Switch console has been raising eyebrows since it was announced, thanks to a combination of great games and audacious presentation. But it does have a number of serious limitations, and — if a new Splatoon headset is anything to go by — third parties are going to have … | Continue reading
It seems like there is an app for everything these days. As of the first quarter of 2017, there were 2.2 billion apps available on the Apple App Store and almost 3 billion on Google Play. Unfortunately for new developers, the mobile app boom is over. Most people are content with … | Continue reading
At tech festival Brain Bar in Budapest, Péter Árvai, CEO and co-founder of Prezi, gave a talk titled “Embrace automation?” where he argued that being replaced by machines doesn’t have to be a bad thing — if we choose the right sci-fi movie future. Arvai argues that we need to ret … | Continue reading
You may be confident you’ve got the drive and smarts to see a project through to its successful completion. But how does a company know you are someone who can be entrusted with an initiative that requires significant time and money? Proof of your talents is a big help when it co … | Continue reading
Last year, thousands of MongoDB instances were hacked, and their contents ransomed for a small sum in bitcoin. This episode wasn’t just a troubling reminder that people are terrible at securing the things they expose to the Internet, but a demonstration that ransomware developers … | Continue reading
Since the dawn of time – or at least since Chris Skinner, Chair of the European networking forum The Financial Services Club and Nordic Finance Innovation, says farmers traded goods for coins and coins for sex (more on that later) – banks have always been leery of innovation. How … | Continue reading
The Vim text editor is beloved by programmers. It’s ludicrously powerful, and lets you accomplish tasks with greater efficiency than you otherwise would. But boy, is it complicated. So complicated that one of the most popular questions on developer Q&A site Stack Overflow is “How … | Continue reading
If you were to search for the word “desperate” on Bing, you’d probably come up with this article. Well, er… actually… you wouldn’t. Bing is shit. But that doesn’t mean that Microsoft has given up on it. Redmond is bringing its Microsoft Rewards program to the UK, incentivizing Br … | Continue reading
Motorola’s Moto Z phones were some of the most versatile devices of 2016, effectively proving there is still hope for modular devices. Now the company is at it again, introducing the Moto Z2 Play, as well as some new neat new mods to go along with it. Like the original Z Play, th … | Continue reading
We humans have fear of failure baked into our DNA. If our ancestors stuck around a little longer to gather a couple extra nuts, they might risk being the last one remaining in the group and the first one to get eaten by a nearby predator. The danger of being eaten (hopefully!) re … | Continue reading
Apparently, Google missed the memo on Brexit. Instead of fleeing the UK mainland, the internet giant just submitted plans for an enormous new ‘landscraper’ that will serve as its headquarters in London. The 11-story building will cover an astounding 1 million square feet (92,000 … | Continue reading
Facebook, a brand with an untarnished reputation and a pedigree for reliability, is getting into the e-learning game. The social media behemoth is quietly testing a feature that would let anyone running a group to create their own online classes, which would include units and dis … | Continue reading
If there’s been any doubt about India being the next major target market for tech businesses, Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker’s latest Internet Trends Report should make that clear as day. The report, which spans 355 pages, dedicates 55 pages solely to the state of internet a … | Continue reading
Localization is a vital, but less talked-about part of the technology industry — and it can lead to a lucrative career, too. Now, to help people enter the field, Google just launched a free course on the Udacity online learning platform called Localization Essentials. This six-le … | Continue reading
There’s a common misconception that fast-growing startups are out of the woods when it comes to business uncertainty. That these companies are on the fast-track to making millions. Unfortunately, that’s not the case — high growth equals high unpredictability. Highland Europe, a v … | Continue reading
In the next five years, another 2.5 billion smartphone users will come online — of which 2 billion will come from emerging markets. What’s more, the largest percentage of smartphone users in these markets are millennials, offering brands the opportunity to capture the loyalty of … | Continue reading
While American and Asian tech and automotive companies have been making great strides in autonomous vehicle tech over the past couple of years, Russia is now entering the fray: Yandex, one of the largest internet firms in the country, announced this week that it’s launched a self … | Continue reading
As many companies keep their customers’ personal information on file for invoicing and other business purposes, there is a growing need for effective data security measures to prevent this information from falling into the wrong hands. Rising cybercrime is expected to exceed $2 t … | Continue reading
Uber’s revenues are up at the end of the first quarter this year, $3.4 billion, which is a massive 18 percent bump up from the previous quarter. However, it’s still haemorrhaging money, as it lost $708 million in Q1. The company will have stakeholders believe that it’s on the up … | Continue reading
This Wednesday, a Denver-based bakery, in collaboration with Texas-based company Drone Dispatch, delivered fresh donuts to the Denver city officials via drone. Recipients include policemen, fire departments, and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock this Wednesday. Hancock was excited, sa … | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk today threatened to leave Donald Trump’s advisory council if the administration withdraws from the Paris Agreement. Don't know which way Paris will go, but I've done all I can to advise directly to POTUS, through others in WH & via councils, that we remain — E … | Continue reading
We again have President Donald Trump to thank/blame for our latest, greatest meme. Thanks to him, the internet spent a day losing its collective mind over covfefe. In case you’ve been in a coma, this all started because Trump tweeted something in the wee morning hours that appear … | Continue reading
VR is fun and all, but it’s also a largely solitary experience. Samsung and Oculus’ new update to the Gear VR hopes to fix that. Taking a page out of Google’s book, you can now stream what you’re doing on the Gear VR to Google Cast enabled devices. Obviously, your friends won’t g … | Continue reading
Google recently released a map showing “America’s Most Misspelled Words” based on searches containing “how to spell” and then a keyword (presumably misspelled). America's most misspelled words – it's #spellingbee week and we mapped top "how to spell" searches by state#dataviz pic … | Continue reading