Out of the house! Why home assistants like Alexa are destined for so much more

7 years ago

Thanks to home assistants such as Alexa, chores have never been easier. While they may have found a strong purpose within…

Parasitic cryptocurrency mining, ad revenue and volunteer computing, a 3-sided coin

7 years ago

The cyptocurrency mining on The Pirate Bay and Politifact is less a question of hacking or exploitation, and more a…

How video analytics and facial recognition are fighting crime

7 years ago

Security surveillance just got smarter thanks to the development of video analytics and facial recognition technology.  (more…)

Huawei’s 2-year $100B global initiative begins in Europe

7 years ago

Chinese tech giant Huawei's ambition is no secret: to be a $100 billion company within two years, and it starts in…

How social media affects our collective unconscious

7 years ago

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." - Carl Jung. (more…)

Beyond the code: how Microsoft developers tackle humanity’s global crises

7 years ago

With some 124,000 employees worldwide, Microsoft's brightest cadre of coders are working with various organizations to tackle humanity's most pressing…

FINNOSUMMIT to bring Latin America’s most advanced Fintech startups to Miami

7 years ago

Arguably one of the most successful fintech conferences in Latin America, FINNOSUMMIT Miami will bring together cutting-edge industry players to discuss…

Air travel tech turning more consumer-focused

7 years ago

The experience of checking flight options and then checking back a short time later only to see a dramatically increased…

Is SoftBank single-handedly hyperfunding the next tech bubble?

7 years ago

With a confirmed $93 billion invested into SoftBank's Vision Fund, the Japanese investment firm has the potential to single-handedly hyperfund…

Goodbye makeup and Photoshop: the rise and fall of ‘perfection’ in media

7 years ago

Even before the genius brothers Thomas and John Knoll produced photoshop, photo manipulation had always existed. (more…)

New STEM edtech platform provides training for coveted and in-demand jobs

7 years ago

Midwest-based organization GreenApple has released a new STEM education platform this month aimed at providing training tools for the technological,…

DADA to host first digital art marketplace using blockchain

7 years ago

Collaborative platform for artists, DADA.nyc, announces today the launch of the first digital art marketplace using blockchain technology. (more…)

Pawn Friday will unite 1,000 shops to provide financial lifeline to underbanked

7 years ago

PawnGuru has come up with an alternative way to grant the underbanked financial access by using the pawn industry as an…

Taking care of your treasure trove: making protecting your digital footprint as secure as making payments with PayPal

7 years ago

In the early internet age, paying for goods online or transferring funds was a risky business.  Users had to open…

Espacio incubator acquires The Tech Panda to follow India’s tech transformation

7 years ago

Media incubator Espacio announces today its most recent acquisition of The Tech Panda, a Bangalore-based media publication dedicated to startup and tech…

Honolulu begins fining pedestrians for texting while walking

7 years ago

“Now, dear, what do we do before crossing the streets?” “We close Facebook, look both ways, and safely walk across.”…

Hacking your life with behavior conditioning tech

7 years ago

If B.F Skinner's work into operant conditioning has taught us anything, it's that reward and punishment with behavior conditioning can be…

Is Facebook planning to change the News Feed as we know it?

7 years ago

Facebook is considering changing its News Feed by separating social posts from public posts by introducing a new Explore Feed…

US can now collect social media data on immigrants, citizens, and travelers

7 years ago

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) modifies the Privacy Act of 1974 to allow the collection of social media…

Murky methods: social media’s initial anti-terrorism efforts

7 years ago

As governmental pressure mounts on social media companies to rid their platforms of terrorist content, initial AI methods are producing…