The tech industry’s diversity problems are exasperated by its obsession with genius coders and brilliant founders, Carissa Romero, a partner at the diversity consulting startup Paradigm, said today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Romero, who took part in a panel of diversity advocates, … | Continue reading
29 random thoughts about content and copywriting, from titles to post length. Read Ian Lurie's tips, & his take on life as a marketing writer. | Continue reading
Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War hit theaters this weekend, and thus far, the film’s combination of hero-on-hero violence and ideological exchanges is striking a chord with viewers and critics. But it’s been daring audiences to "pick a side" for months, so The Verge’s own Brya … | Continue reading
You never know what you’re going to get when you sit down with Parrot CEO Henri Seydoux. The executive is every bit as unpredictable as the company he runs – and just like Parrot’s products, he always puts on a good show.Seydoux’s panel at Disrupt today was largely focused on the … | Continue reading
The Ministry of Justice and the Interior Ministry in Russia have – according to reports – questioned the “public danger” that Bitcoin supposedly brings, as proposed by the Russian Ministry of Finance. Unsubstantiated reports from Russian news outlets quoting prominent Russian new … | Continue reading
Doing something bad with good intentions don’t make it right! Maybe no one told this to the cybercriminals behind this new Bitcoin ransomware. CryptMix, the new ransomware doing rounds on the internet extorts money out of its victims, but forwards the ransom for charity. Like any … | Continue reading
If Nearpod CEO Guido Kovalskys has his way, overhead projectors and PowerPoint presentations will never bore students again. Instead, he wants to see cutting-edge technologies and interactive content become standard tools of the teaching trade. To that end, Nearpod has raised $9. … | Continue reading
Five generations work side by side in today’s workforce, making it important to create an inclusive culture that meets the varying needs of each age group, according to a new research paper. | Continue reading
Donald Trump may be a controversial and divisive character, but PR experts say he offers important lessons to PR professionals and business leaders. PR veterans don’t suggest adopting Trump’s political views or copying his hairstyle, but they do recommend that PR and corporate ex … | Continue reading
The Game of Game of Thrones is a fickle mistress. No literally, the Game of Game of Thrones is run by an actual fickle mistress, aka yours truly, the Thronesmaster. By now it should be clear that's a feature, not a bug, but over the last two weeks I've gotten increasingly angry f … | Continue reading
Five generations work side by side in today’s workforce, making it important to create an inclusive culture that meets the varying needs of each age group, according to a new research paper. | Continue reading
A new Samsung Good Lock UI update is now available, with new quick settings toggles and the ability to remove Keep and the app tray in recent apps. | Continue reading
HANG TIME SOUTH BEACH — Stephen Curry will be named winner of the Kia NBA Most Valuable Player award for a second consecutive season later this week, according to a report from ESPN’s Marc Stein. Warriors guard Stephen Curry will this week be named NBA Most Valuable Player for a … | Continue reading
Today, onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Siri creator Dag Kittlaus showed off the first public demo of Viv, an AI virtual system that aims to be “the intelligent interface for everything.” In a live presentation that mentioned the word “paradigm” at least a dozen times, Kittlaus … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Everything you need to know about Motorola's next flagship modular phones. | Continue reading
Heat center Hassan Whiteside has been ruled out of Monday's Game 4 of Miami's Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Toronto Raptors with a sprained ligament in his right knee. | Continue reading
The city of Zug, Switzerland, will pilot a bitcoin payments project that will allow local citizens to pay fees using digital currency. | Continue reading
SEO isn’t what it used to be. Treat your audience like people, not machines, and your content will appeal to them, and Google will reward you. Here's how. | Continue reading
LendingClub CEO Renaud Laplanche has stepped down immediately, following an investigation into sales practices, sending the company's shares to all-time lows. WSJ Heard on the Street columnist Aaron Back joins Tanya Rivero to discuss. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
If you're a T-Mobile customer and plan on traveling to Cuba anytime soon, you're in luck. | Continue reading
Digital rights group Privacy International has filed a judicial review in the UK High Court of an earlier decision by the oversight body of the UK’s security agencies to sanction the use of so-called “thematic warrants” — aka a highly intrusive investigatory capability that can c … | Continue reading
In our latest installment of C4D Staffer Spotlight, we’d like to introduce you to a vital member of our design team, Nathan Billman. He consistently delivers outstanding design concepts for both client and internal C4D projects, bringing content marketing to life with compelling … | Continue reading
While it’s perfectly easy to share your favorite Spotify or SoundCloud tracks and playlists, finding an easy way to play back music from a variety of different sources in a collaborative way with friends is a trickier prospect. Flo Music launches officially today – after a ‘soft … | Continue reading
Image management and distribution platform Musikki raised a first round of funding in 2014 to become “the IMDB of music”. It’s now inked a deal on another $1M in funding from Portugal Ventures, the biggest VC in Portugal. It’s also launching Exclusiph, an image management and dis … | Continue reading
Nike teamed up with architect Greg Lynn to create a stylish chair that keeps athletes warm or cool during games, even when they're on the bench. The microclimate chair relies on 70 embedded Peltier thermoelectric pads that either heat up or cool down depending on a desired temper … | Continue reading
Take your content intelligence to the next level with in-depth keyword tools and content analytics dashboards that will put you above your competition. | Continue reading
Periscope users are getting some new features designed to make their livestream broadcasts more impactful. The Twitter-owned company said that over the next few weeks, you’ll not only be able to search for broadcasts by title or topic, you’ll also have the ability to control the … | Continue reading
It’s been a month now since Facebook rolled-out a dramatically improved design for live video — a design that borrowed liberally from Twitter-owned Periscope. Facebook’s enormous audience, combined with its willingness to pay media companies to broadcast there, immediately threat … | Continue reading
Quirky media can often be a breath of fresh air. Whereas dramas and grimdark settings usually go over well with just about anyone, weird comedies like Arrested Development can break the mold and have us enjoy something we never even knew we wanted. But quirk alone isn't enough to … | Continue reading
Facebook Live might be the hottest live-streaming app right now, but Periscope is raising its game to meet the new challenge.The Twitter-owned streaming app gave Mashable a look at three new features it plans to roll out over the next few weeks. The service will soon support stre … | Continue reading
Whether they know it or not, Millennials' destinies have been shaped by the Great Recession—just as Boomers' were shaped by the Vietnam Wa... | Continue reading
Periscope is officially launching its beta save function as a stable feature, introducing search functionality and rolling out a new feature that will let you trade off between your phone and a DJI Drone during a live-stream. In the Periscope app, you’ll soon see a new feature th … | Continue reading
If you have a smartphone that includes a microSD card slot then you are likely to ask, 'what is the highest capacity card that I can use on my phone?' Unfortunately the answer isn't as simple as you might think. | Continue reading
Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge get so much right. Not only are they two of the most powerful smartphones with arguable the best and fastest cameras, they're also waterproof and have long battery life.Last year, the ruggedized Galaxy S6 Active made up for the Galaxy S6's lack of … | Continue reading
Siri co-founder and CEO Dag Kittlaus has been quietly working on a much-anticipated voice assistant powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning and integrations with third-party services. This product is called Viv and, in a world first, Kittlaus just gave us a demo at T … | Continue reading
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, we had both the founder of AdBlock Plus Till Faida and Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO Randall Rothenberg on our stage — but not at the same time, mostly because Rothenberg refused to even shake hands with Faida in public. Read More | Continue reading
The most talked about experience in technology over the last six months has be The Void, an immersive virtual reality theme park based in Utah that transports users to another world they can see, feel, and interact with. It uses a VR headset powered by a supercomputer backpack to … | Continue reading
Simone Giertz ist eine talentierte und kreative Bastlerin, wenn es darum geht, möglichst obskure, künstlerische und witzige Roboter und Maschinen zu bauen. Kürzlich bastelte sie mit Adam Savage noch den ultimativen Popcorn-Helm. Die... | Continue reading
Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer created the artificial intelligence behind Siri, Apple's iconic digital assistant, and one of the first modern apps to capably handle natural language queries on a smartphone. Today the pair showed off their newest creation, Viv, a next generation AI … | Continue reading
Today, Mercury is passing between the Earth and the Sun, in an event known as a solar transit. That means that over the course of 7.5 hours, the tiny planet will appear as a small black dot slowly creeping across a portion of the Sun's disc. It may be a slow trot, but Mercury's c … | Continue reading
Pivotal filed a Form D last week with the SEC indicating that last week’s $253 million round was actually closer to $653 million. Where did the extra money come from? Well, existing investors EMC converted $400 million in debt to equity to account for the additional money recorde … | Continue reading
Happy Europe Day, the commemoration of Schuman’s 1950 speech declaring the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community, which we all know and love as the European Union. Well, maybe not all of us love it… yes, we’re looking at you, UK. But it’s a day to celebrate peace and … | Continue reading
Get exclusive analysis and cryptocurrency insights on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Bitcoin price is pushing higher once again but the market is struggling to make a new high since last week. Could this be the final push to resistance? This analysis is provided by xbt.social … | Continue reading
Verizon has decided that the Galaxy S7 doesn't have enough unwanted apps on it, so it installed another unwanted app that'll let it install even more unwanted apps in the future. A number of people are reporting on Reddit that a recent update for the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge install … | Continue reading
Right now you can switch out straps and swap digital dials on Android Wear smartwatches, but what if you could change the entire look of your watch in seconds without having to buy another timepiece? Well you may have that option soon, thanks to an interchangeable smartwatch buil … | Continue reading
Tmolo House is an old farmhouse converted into a holiday home for a young family with four daughters. Designed by Pyo Arquitectos | Continue reading
Adblock Plus, the world’s most popular ad-blocking tool, today announced it has passed 100 million active users. Just four months ago, the tool had passed 500 million downloads, which shows a decent retention rate given that Adblock Plus has been around for 10 years and many have … | Continue reading