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By Mary-Ann RussonTechnology of Business reporter, BBC Newsimage copyrightVirgin Orbitimage captionVirgin Orbit’s LauncherOne lofts satellites into spaceSir Richard Branson’s rocket company Virgin Orbit has joined a growing list of private companies that can launch satellites into orbit.Earlier this month, 10 payloads were lofted on the Virgin Orbit rocket, which was launched from under the wing…

The camera on the first iPhone way back in 2007 was a mere 2 megapixels. And it only had a rear camera; there wasn’t even a front-facing selfie shooter. Today, you’ll find multiple cameras on the front and back of phones—some of them with sensors as large as 108 megapixels, like the biggest camera on…

As battles over Israel and the Palestinian territories have migrated online, technology has scrambled the debate.Clashes erupted in 2018 at a student celebration of Israel in Washington Square Park in Manhattan.Credit…Mack DeGeurinPublished Jan. 22, 2021Updated Feb. 10, 2021Leila Khaled is a two-time hijacker, a member of a Palestinian group on the State Department’s list of…

ben smithDo you have the file in front of you?erik connollyUm, give me a second. It’s rather heavy, so yes.ben smithYeah, how many pages is it?erik connollyIt’s 280 pages.ben smithAnd would you mind just reading me the beginning?erik connolly“The Earth is round. 2 plus 2 equals 4. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020…

Mr. Dobbs, a loyal supporter of former President Donald J. Trump, was named in a $2.7 billion lawsuit filed on Thursday against the Fox Corporation and two other Fox anchors.Lou Dobbs had the top-rated show on Fox Business. It was canceled the day after he was one of three Fox anchors named in a lawsuit…

As tips about online child sexual abuse have spiked, the F.B.I. is investigating the case of a Florida technology contractor who the bureau said shot two agents executing a search warrant at his apartment.The police on Wednesday investigated the scene of a shooting in Sunrise, Fla., that left two F.B.I. agents dead and three hurt,…

German drone technology startup Wingcopter has raised a $22 million Series A – its first significant venture capital raise after mostly bootstrapping. The company, which focuses on drone delivery, has come a long way since its founding in 2017, having developed, built and flown its Wingcopter 178 heavy-lift cargo delivery drone using its proprietary and…

Robotic process automation (RPA) has found a strong foothold in the world of enterprise IT through its effective use of AI and other technology to help automate repetitive tasks to free up people to focus on more complicated work. Today, a startup called Infinitus is coming out of stealth to apply this concept to the…

ben smithDo you have the file in front of you?erik connollyUm, give me a second. It’s rather heavy, so yes.ben smithYeah, how many pages is it?erik connollyIt’s 280 pages.ben smithAnd would you mind just reading me the beginning?erik connolly“The Earth is round. 2 plus 2 equals 4. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020…

Xiaomi has today revealed its “Mi Air Charge Technology,” which is able to wirelessly charge devices from across a room with 5W of power. Mi Air Charge Technology offers a “true wireless charging” solution, with no cables or stands. Devices charge remotely with 5W of power, using advanced spatial positioning and beamforming energy transmission. Xiaomi…

NTP or NEP? — “It’s the kind of technology challenge that NASA was built for.” Eric Berger – Feb 12, 2021 8:56 pm UTC Enlarge / NASA originally studied nuclear thermal propulsion in the 1960s. Here is concept art for the Nuclear Energy for Rocket Vehicle Applications (NERVA) program.NASAGetting humans to Mars and back is…

An aerial view shows an oil tanker on fire Lagos, Nigeria in November 2020.Photo: Benson Ibeauchi/AFP (Getty Images)This is the decade oil and gas must begin their decline. To avoid warming above 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) without overly relying on unproven technology, world oil and gas use must drop 37% and 25%, respectively,…

In June of 1999, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins invested $25 million into an early-stage company developing a new search engine called Google, paving the way for a revolution in how knowledge online was organized and shared. Now, Sequoia Capital is placing another bet on a different kind of search engine, one for physical objects…

Four years ago when Zach Jones went to do due diligence on C-Zero, a startup out of Santa Barbara, California commercializing a new approach to producing hydrogen, for the small family office he was working for, he had no idea he’d wind up as the company’s chief executive officer. Or that the company would wind…

This story is adapted from Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, by Anne Helen Petersen.The first thing I hear in the morning is my SleepCycle app, which is supposedly monitoring my movements in order to “gently” wake me as I emerge from sleep. I swipe it off and see the first alerts from…

Electric power only started making sense for land vehicles about ten years ago, but now the technology is ready to make the jump into the water. Pure Watercraft hopes that its electric outboard motor can replace a normal gas one for most boating needs under 50 HP — and it just raised $23.4M to hit…

New York (CNN Business)The pandemic delivered a serious scare to Ryan Williams and his technology real estate startup, Cadre.The investment platform hunkered down and braced for the worst in March, despite being backed by well-connected and well-heeled investors like Mark Cuban, George Soros and Jared Kushner. So Cadre, led by Williams, its 32-year-old co-founder and…

THE NEEDIEST CASES FUNDWith new technology in their homes, New Yorkers get a lifeline to pursuing their dreams.ImageAfter spending 17 years in prison, William McCollum hoped to become a substance abuse counselor. Credit…Hiroko Masuike/The New York TimesThe first time William McCollum was released from prison, his mother pleaded with him to stop selling drugs.But Mr. McCollum, who…

Today’s Facebook Connect kicked off with a two-hour keynote that detailed the company’s latest virtual and augmented reality developments. There were product announcements, new apps and games on display, and compelling peeks at some speculative technology. We’ll recap the highlights for those who couldn’t catch the presentation live.Oculus Quest 2 Everyone expected it, but the…

By Leo KelionTechnology desk editorPublishedduration2 hours agoimage copyrightGetty Images/ARMUK-based computer chip designer ARM Holdings is being sold to the American graphics chip specialist Nvidia.The cash-and-stock deal values ARM as being worth as much as $40bn (£31.2bn). It has been struck by current owner, Japanese conglomerate Softbank, four years after it acquired ARM for $32bn.ARM’s tech…

Dr. Patricia Scanlon Contributor Dr. Patricia Scanlon is founder and CEO of SoapBox Labs, a Dublin-based developer of safe and secure speech-recognition technology designed specifically for children. She was named one of Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech in 2018. Before the pandemic, more than 40% of new internet users were children. Estimates now suggest…

As Covid-19 spread across the United States this spring, Jodie Pond, the health director in Teton County, Wyoming, looked forward to deploying a new weapon against the pandemic. Technologists were racing to create apps that would quickly and quietly identify people who had been close to others who were infected. This process of “contact tracing”…

Western Digital’s G-Technology brand today announced the release of a new ArmorLock encrypted NVMe SSD, which is a 2TB SSD that uses G-Tech’s newly introduced ArmorLock Security Platform. ArmorLock is a data encryption platform designed with finance, government, healthcare, media, IT, and legal professions in mind, offering greater security than is available with standard SSDs.…

As US-China relations reach a boiling point, Washington has started to screen Chinese students at airports for technology theft.When Boston Logan International Airport’s announcement asked Keith Zhang to come to the boarding desk, he thought it was a regular boarding check.But when he saw two armed American officers expecting him there, his heart sank.”They questioned…

For decades, scientists have been tinkering with genes—cutting and pasting bits of DNA into organisms like plants, bacteria, and mice. So, of course, they thought about the possibility that one day someone might use such tools to alter human genes, even human germlines—making changes to people’s DNA that they’d pass on to future generations.In 2012…

New York (CNN Business)With spectators unable to fill stadiums, sports leagues have to get creative with new forms of digital engagement to keep fans entertained. During the US Open, which started Monday, the US Tennis Association is inviting fans to engage in online debates about some of the sport’s most contested questions, with the help…

Companies pay cloud computing providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google big money to avoid operating their own digital infrastructure. Google’s cloud division will soon invite customers to outsource something less tangible than CPUs and disk drives—the rights and wrongs of using artificial intelligence.The company plans to launch new AI ethics services before the end of…

Filed under: Entertainment “I think the key for the post-corona era is how real we can feel in a virtual world.” The only live music I’ve managed to see all year came from an unexpected place. I recently found myself on a Friday night after hours at teamLab Planets, a popular tourist spot in Tokyo,…

Like other accelerators, Brinc hasn’t let 2020 get in the way of its program for early-stage startups. The firm is known for focusing on food technology, health tech, clean energy, and hardware, and has a knack for finding some of the most interesting startups in those spaces. Today, we joined Brinc’s first online Demo Day…

Years ago, I fact-checked two memoirs by powerful men. Their books wised me up to an invisible poltergeist in world events: the feverish infatuation of one straight man for another. One of the authors was Michael Eisner, then the CEO of Disney. He offered insight into how powerful producers of the 80s and 90s used…

Accessory maker Nomad has a long history of delivering great accessories for iOS and Android devices, using great quality materials and craftsmanship. Now, the company is partnering with wireless charging technology startup Aira to debut the later’s premiere product: FreePower, a position-free wireless charging technology. Nomad’s new Base Station Pro ($229) is the first product…

Welcome to 2000s Week! We’re exploring the pop culture that shaped us at the turn of the millennium, and examining what the films, shows, and games from the era say about us then and now. It’s a little #tbt to the days before #tbt was a thing. It’s hard to think of a time before this…

An author reflects on her pre-pandemic pronouncements about children’s technology use and offers new advice, like focus on feelings, not screens.Credit…Michelle MildenbergPublished July 27, 2020Updated Aug. 9, 2020Before the pandemic, I was a parenting expert. It was a cushy gig. In 2019, I boarded 34 flights. I checked into nice hotels, put on makeup and…

A private technology company that gathers data for a coronavirus database said a nondisclosure agreement with the Trump administration blocks it from discussing its $10.2 million contract.A list of confirmed Covid-19 cases at the county health department in Salt Lake City. Hospitals were ordered abruptly to stop reporting coronavirus patient data to the Centers for…

In the world of technology, online learning has been one of the bigger beneficiaries of the last several months, with people staying home and away from their normal routines because of the coronavirus pandemic and using that time to expand their knowledge, or more critically, figure out what to do next if they want to change…

We have tracked down the best budget-friendly 4K TVs for streaming, gaming, and everything else in between. By Joseph Green2020-08-20 04:00:00 UTC 4K TVs have been around for a while now, but that doesn’t mean that everybody understands exactly what is going on with the technology. This is where we can help. Basically, a 4K…

Dogs are not very high tech. Dogs inspire us to put our phones down. They live perfectly and completely in the moment. Even so, as our lives have become more technologically advanced, so has our relationship with our dogs. Advances in technology have provided the opportunity to give our canine best friends longer and healthier…

Industries have seen many evolution in terms of growth and productivity. Technological advances have made their way easy towards achieving success with short-term as well as long-term objectives. Here is how technology is helping to improve small business growth. Innovation is turning into the main consideration in each new company. The most recent two decades…

The UK government is suspending the use of an algorithm used to stream visa applications after concerns were raised the technology bakes in unconscious bias and racism. The tool had been the target of a legal challenge. The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and campaigning law firm Foxglove had asked a court…

Coronavirus pandemic has proven catastrophic and has shaken the world. But this viral infection has given rise to many new innovations as well. People are about to step into a new world that will be different from the world known pre-COVID-19. Here are the technology trends that are emerging post-pandemic. Grab hold of the innovation…

ByteDance is not backing down from its ambitions to become a global technology powerhouse, even as TikTok loses its largest market India and faces insurmountable challenges in the US. But some in China are blasting the Beijing-based company as too accommodating and yielding to US demands. ByteDance said it will “remain committed to our vision…

In late 2017, AB InBev, the Belgian giant behind Budweiser and other beers, began adding a little artificial intelligence to its brewing recipe. Using data collected from a brewery in Newark, New Jersey, the company developed an AI algorithm to predict potential problems with the filtration process used to remove impurities from beer.Paul Silverman, who…

Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Photograph: Beate Sonnenberg/Getty ImagesScience fiction author Arkady Martine holds a PhD in Byzantine history, which she puts to good use in her first novel A Memory Called Empire. The story is inspired by the historical figure Petros Getadarj, who surrendered part of Armenia to the Byzantines. “I…

In March, Brooklynite Jeremy Cohen achieved minor internet fame when he launched an elaborate scheme to court Tori Cignarella, a cute stranger living in a nearby building. After spotting Cignarella across an air shaft, Cohen used drones, Venmo, texting and FaceTime to interact with his socially distanced crush. But it was on their second date…

(Updates with one month’s delay to launch of satellite, changes dateline) By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, July 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Argentina plans to put into orbit a satellite with new precision technology in late August, to monitor felling of its native forests round the clock and accurately measure forest carbon stocks in a…

Debbie Pope (she/her) is senior manager of product at The Trevor Project, the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ youth. A 2019 Google AI Impact Grantee, the project is building an AI system to identify and prioritize high-risk contacts while simultaneously supporting more youth. As AI and machine-learning tools become more…

Al GorePhoto: Matthias Nareyek (Getty Images)For the first time ever, the world will have technology to track greenhouse gas emissions in near real-time. That’s the promise of Climate TRACE, a coalition of nine organizations led by former Vice President Al Gore. The group says it will use a combination of satellite data, artificial intelligence, and…

Text size Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images As the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to rage across the U.S., people are yearning for a win after Washington’s spectacular failures to secure adequate supplies of testing kits and personal protective equipment. Success hinges on whether any of the fast-tracked Covid-19 vaccine candidates supported by the almost $10 billion federally…

Teaser images and leaked photos of the 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class suggested the automaker was moving toward a more digital-centric interior. That might have been an understatement. Mercedes-Benz revealed Monday its second-generation MBUX infotainment system, and it is loaded with new technology, including touchscreens, augmented reality heads-up display and improved voice and facial recognition. Gone are…

This month, advertising giant WPP will send unusual corporate training videos to tens of thousands of employees worldwide. A presenter will speak in the recipient’s language and address them by name, while explaining some basic concepts in artificial intelligence. The videos themselves will be powerful demonstrations of what AI can do: The face, and the…

Expressing excitement for his soon-to-arrive “new material,” a man shared with his online network of child sexual abusers an in-utero picture of his unborn child. This is just one of far too many horror stories I have heard from investigators at the Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.Children as young as 8, 4,…

Illustration: Andrew Liszewski/GizmodoI MissI MissGizmodo staff fondly remembers the extinct gadgets of years past.A lifelong obsession with technology has left me with drawers full of gadgets, many of which I don’t even remember buying. But the very first? That memory remains crystal clear. It was a Sony, one of the company’s first truly pocket-friendly portable…

Photo: Eric Baradat (Getty)On Tuesday, Amazon rolled out a shiny new addition to its flawed climate plan: a $2 billion venture investment fund for low- and no-carbon technology. It is instantly one of, if not the, biggest climate venture funds out there. But it also shows a fatal flaw that runs through Amazon’s—and capital in…

Do you ever think why technology is so important in small businesses? The answer is simple. Technology saves time and labor, and it increases the security of your business. As most of the business tasks nowadays depend on the latest technology; consequently, the corporate world cannot ignore the benefits of technology to businesses. Businesses need…

Roger Duncan is a former Research Fellow at the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and the former General Manager of Austin Energy. He is the co-author of the upcoming book, “The Future of Buildings, Transportation and Power.” The economic lockdown resulting from the coronavirus pandemic has had an immediate negative impact…

Two decades ago, my drum teacher Marty told me how jealous he was of my (the millennial) generation. When he learned music, he repeated his favorite drummers’ licks on vinyl records. A sweaty, teenage Marty would wear out 10-second increments of the songs as he struggled to master various rolls, cymbal splashes, and fills. My…

Enlarge / People wait to vote in Georgia’s primary election on June 9 in Atlanta.There’s broad agreement that last week’s primary election in Georgia was a fiasco, with voters reportedly waiting as long as five hours to cast a ballot. Democrats accused Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger of bungling the statewide rollout of…

Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo)Giz AsksGiz AsksIn this Gizmodo series, we ask questions about everything and get answers from a variety of experts.Show me a museum of important historical inventors and I will show you a gallery of deluded mass murderers. I’m not talking about machine gun manufacturers or nuclear scientists—those people, at least, have some…

New York (CNN Business)For all its promise, the rollout of 5G has also been fraught with rumors and conspiracy theories — most recently, a narrative spread on social media that the wireless network technology fueled the coronavirus pandemic. It did not. While baseless, the theory gained such prominence that social media platforms were forced to…

Bone projectile points found at Fa-Hien Lena, and associated prey animals. Image: Langley et al., 2020Ancient bow-and-arrow technology dating back some 48,000 years has been discovered in a Sri Lankan cave, making it the oldest evidence of archery to be found in this part of the world.Ornamental beads, tools to fashion clothes, and projectile points…

Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced four years ago in March 2016. Apple designed the ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ to test features that may be introduced into future release versions of Safari. ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release 108 includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Web Inspector,…

To some in the tech industry, facial recognition increasingly looks like toxic technology. To law enforcement, it’s an almost irresistible crime-fighting tool.IBM is the latest company to declare facial recognition too troubling. CEO Arvind Krishna told members of Congress Monday that IBM would no longer offer the technology, citing the potential for racial profiling and…

Take a second to imagine all the people in your life. Your family, friends, coworkers. Your buddies down at the hackerspace, and anyone you chat with on IO and over the airwaves. Statistically speaking, one in four of these people has a disability of some kind, and needs help doing everyday things that you might…

Since 2010, the United States military has been operating a pair of small reusable spaceplanes that conduct secretive long-duration flights in low Earth orbit. Now officially operating under the auspices of the newly formed Space Force, the X-37Bs allow the military to conduct in-house research on new hardware and technology with limited involvement from outside…

If we could run back 2020 to its beginning and get a do-over, chances are pretty good that we’d do a lot of things differently. There’s a ton of blame to go around on COVID-19, but it’s safe to say that one of the biggest failures of this whole episode has been the lack of…

Impact of COVID-19 – Coronavirus is not stopping, but it has stopped all the activities in the world. There are many efforts put in by all the governments to control these situations and make things easy for people. Most of the businesses are completely at a halt and have no way of earning revenue at…

June 5, 2020 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Is it just me, or is it a bit strange to watch a movie and see strangers shaking hands when they meet? It will be a long time before that simple gesture will be an expected part of job interviews again. The…

Image: GettyOn Tuesday, Washington, DC, resident Ed Felten tweeted an image of a black bulb resembling a Christmas ornament, lying in a patch of spring grass. “Very relieved that the unexploded flash-bang grenade that my daughter found and innocently picked up this morning didn’t explode in her face,” Felten, former White House deputy chief technology…

Blockchain technology is cementing its position in the business marketplace to help you get more customers. Gratefully, the first thing that blockchain will help with is better security. But it’s going to take some time for the business community to adopt blockchain properly. With that being said, I’m going to explain ten unique benefits that…

Update 6/2/20: We’ve decided to postpone tomorrow’s COVID-19 CT/EN forum to June 17th. In light of the very important conversations that need to happen around justice, police brutality and race in the United States, we want to make sure we are not taking space and oxygen. Stay tuned for more details about how and when we…

On the heels of a spate of reports over the weekend, today Intel confirmed its latest move to grow its automotive division. The chip giant is acquiring Moovit, an Israeli startup previously backed by Intel that analyses urban traffic patterns and provides transportation recommendations with a specific focus on public transit. The deal values Moovit at…

In January, my coworker received a peculiar email. The message, which she forwarded to me, was from a handful of corporate Walmart employees calling themselves the “Concerned Home Office Associates.” (Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, is often referred to as the Home Office.) While it’s not unusual for journalists to receive anonymous tips, they don’t…

Image: AMDFour months after AMD announced SmartShift, we’re finally getting a taste of the new technology that will feature in a whole lot of gaming laptops going forward—as well as Sony’s PS5 later this year. Today, Dell launched the G5 15 SE, a new laptop equipped with the brand new Ryzen 4000 series CPU and…

Emmet Smith about 1 month ago Emerald, a wireless device that infers people’s vital signs by wireless analyzing their surrounding environment, can help doctors treat COVID-19 patients from a safe distance.  Developed by MIT professor Dina Katabi and her team at CSAIL, the device already in use in several hospital and assistive-care facilities in the…

Volvo Cars will start producing vehicles in 2022 that are equipped with lidar and a perception stack — technology developed by Silicon Valley startup Luminar that the automaker will use to deploy an automated driving system for highways. For now, the lidar will be part of a hardware package that consumers can add as an…

Javier Saade serves on several boards, is venture partner at Fenway Summer and is a senior advisor at FS Vector, Fenway Summer’s advisory affiliate. Previously, he was associate administrator and chief of investment and innovation at SBA. More posts by this contributor The last two decades have ushered in significant change and transformation. I believe…

Anyone entering Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles must pass before the electronic eye of the infrared camera installed last month. The worker monitoring its display sees color-coded boxes around each face in view: green if your skin temperature is less than 100 degrees Fahrenheit; red if it’s 100 or above, which…

On Saturday, the US Air Force is expected to launch its secret space plane, X-37B, for a long-duration mission in low Earth orbit. The robotic orbiter looks like a smaller version of the space shuttle and has spent nearly eight of the past 10 years in space conducting classified experiments for the military. Almost nothing…

Image copyright UCSD HEALTH Image caption The coloured area shows where the algorithm has detected pneumonia When Covid-19 was at its height in China, doctors in the city of Wuhan were able to use artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to scan the lungs of thousands of patients.The algorithm in question, developed by Axial AI, analyses CT…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Offices will need to change in order to conform to social distancing measures As lockdowns start to ease in many countries, so the tentative return to work begins, leaving people understandably concerned about how safe a space an office will be in the middle of a global pandemic.Alongside some…

Image copyright AFP Image caption Mobile data allows authorities to know where users are at any time Hirsh Kotkovsky thrusts his phone towards me but I can’t read the screen from 2m (6.6ft) away due to social distancing rules. We’re in the bomb shelter below his Jerusalem apartment block – the only place the photographer…

One of the biggest technology takeaways of the last couple of months has been that organizations need confident, wide-ranging digital strategies to stay afloat, and Facebook — in its wider bid to build products to serve businesses — is taking note. In the same week that the social network doubled down on business tools for…

CNET’s first headquarters in San Francisco CNET Twenty-five years ago next month, just as the original dot-com boom was starting to gather steam, CNET was born. That first boom went bust five years later, but the tech industry, while certainly not unscathed, adapted and charged ahead. More of the planet’s population went online, small startups…

Time to lawyer up — Draft executive order claims that technology giants have “dangerous power.” Timothy B. Lee – May 28, 2020 2:46 pm UTC Aurich Lawson / GettyThe Trump administration is putting the final touches on a sweeping executive order designed to punish online platforms for perceived anti-conservative bias. Legal scholar Kate Klonick obtained…

In a one-two punch aimed at China’s rising technological prowess, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s leading contract manufacturer of chips, said it would build a manufacturing plant in the US and the White House announced new rules to block Huawei’s access to such cutting-edge components.TSMC said Friday that it plans to spend $12…

Hardware security keys add new security to passwords and can replace them entirely. Brett Pearce/CNET Editor’s note: In recognition of World Password Day, CNET is republishing a selection of our stories on improving and replacing passwords.Passwords suck. They’re hard to remember, hackers exploit their weaknesses and fixes often bring their own problems. Dashlane, LastPass, 1Password…

Self-driving cars are having a really rough time gaining our trust. This is not a total shock considering autonomous vehicles remain theoretical and elusive for most people. The limited number of self-driving cars on the road today are mostly test vehicles that aren’t available to the riding public. Combine that with Americans’ very, shall we…

Disruption Impending disruption is a reality that no company can ignore. Image credit: Westend61 | Getty Images Matt Garratt Guest Writer Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures December 14, 2018 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The rate of disruption is escalating across every industry, thanks to an increase in computing power,…

We’ve all got one of *those* stories.ImageCreditCreditGreg KletselPretty much everybody who’s ever held down a job has at least one bad interview story. For me, it’s showing up soaking wet in the middle of a downpour for an interview at a major publishing company.“This weather is terrible, isn’t it?” my interviewer asked as I stashed…

News AnalysisImageA newsstand in Australia, where coverage of a high-profile criminal case has been the subject of a court suppression order.CreditCreditJeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group, via Getty ImagesSYDNEY, Australia — There is a criminal case unfolding in Australia that shall not be named. The defendant is a figure with a global reputation, someone of great influence…

About The Author Suzanne Scacca is a former WordPress implementer, trainer and agency manager who now works as a freelance copywriter. She specializes in crafting marketing, web … More about Suzanne November 14, 2018 Leave a comment Ever since Pokémon Go brought augmented reality into consumers’ line of sight, marketers and developers have been looking…

The debates about screen time and kids are really confused: the studies have contradictory findings, and the ones that find negative outcomes in kids who spend a lot of time on their screens struggle to figure out the cause-and-effect relationship (are depressed kids using screens more because that’s how they get help, or do kids…

Year In ReviewWe look back at the best, worst, and most significant moments of the year, and look forward to next year.   No matter how jaded we become, each year the fine gadget purveyors of the world manage to find new ways to delight and surprise us with gear that’s inventive, exciting, and just plain…

Admit it: you need to get some wireless headphones. With the technology getting so good and with headphone jacks disappearing, it just makes sense to invest in a future without wires if like listening to music or watching videos or just making the outside world less loud. How you use your headphones ought to inform…

Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better. Google’s Pixelbook is my favorite Chromebook ever. It’s thin, light, really fast, and converts into a tablet. It’s the best Chromebook there is, in my opinion. But I secretly prefer a really cheap and crappier Chromebook, like the $150 Hisense…

WILDWOOD, Mo. — The news at first seemed to shock the medical world studying the relationship between hard hits to the head in sports and a degenerative neurological disease called C.T.E.Todd Ewen, one of hockey’s most aggressive fighters, who fatally shot himself at age 49 in September 2015, did not have the disease, despite displaying…

About The Author Knut Melvær is a humanities technologist currently working as Developer Advocate at Sanity.io. He has previously been a technology consultant and developer at … More about Knut November 29, 2018 Leave a comment Using a Structured Content Management System (SCMS) can be a great way to free your content from a paradigm…

Credit: Zephyr/Science Photo Library A day after news broke of a Chinese scientist who claims to have helped make the world’s first genome-edited babies, researchers fear the startling announcement will hinder their efforts to safely translate gene-editing technology into treatments. As scientists gathered for the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong…

Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading! binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror 105297482 story Some Chinese Companies Are Giving Employees Incentives For Buying Huawei Devices or Just Giving Them One and Boycotting Apple (nikkei.com) 118 Posted by msmash on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @07:30PM from the…