How can enterprises lessen the strain of more than half the workforce being overwhelmed by work & family commitments?

Working demographics have changed over the last 30 years and as a result, challenges on working families are more intense.…

8 years ago

Free Skype calls in Japan & Ecuador but what about the rest of the world?

Skype has temporarily offered free calls to and from mobiles and landlines in Ecuador and Japan as a means to…

8 years ago

SEO lessons from the most successful social media campaigns

Social media marketing is one of the smartest ways to get the attention of the world. The worldwide web is…

8 years ago

Job-stealing restaurant robots fired for incompetence & the future of the workforce

The robots are coming (and going) when it comes to positions in the service industry after restaurants in China had to…

8 years ago

UW research into DNA storage backs up ancient shamanic knowledge

With the successful retrieval of digital data encoded in snippets of synthetic DNA sequences, the University of Washington (UW) has…

8 years ago

Open source database security gets significant boost

Data is a vital asset for all businesses. However, there are so many risks that data faces when it is…

8 years ago

A tale of 2 brothers: the smart furniture revolution from Latin America

There are never enough hours of sleep these days, and if you’re lucky one night to be in bed at…

8 years ago

US Army researching 3D soldier avatars, advancements in medical field

What was once Hollywood science fiction, 3D soldiers are now being developed by the US Army to virtually simulate high-risk…

8 years ago

6 myths about content recommendation networks

Content recommendation networks are nearly everywhere, from major news websites to the smallest, most personal of blogs. The reason for…

8 years ago

Digital Colonialism: Facebook’s agenda to limit connectivity in developing countries

Facebook has been working hard to spread its influence to developing nations; however, it's not about providing access to all of…

8 years ago

Facial recognition: the new makeover of the selfie in 2016

The art of the selfie, the smartphone trend that has rocked the internet, until now has been limited to the…

8 years ago

How Microsoft’s AI chatbot ‘Tay’ turned incestuous Nazi accurately reflects our society

Microsoft's AI chatbot, Tay, turned into a foul-mouthed, conspiracy-theorist with a familial fetish for the Third Reich in less than…

8 years ago

#StopIslam trending on Twitter, mostly condemning anti-Muslim rhetoric

While the smoke still hasn't cleared from the attacks in Brussels this morning,  #StopIslam is already trending on Twitter, mostly condemning…

8 years ago

Customizable apparel app for self expression attracts music industry partnership [Interview]

The Sociable caught up with Billy Shipp, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of custom apparel app, Yoshirt, to find out…

8 years ago

Twitter can now detect drunk Tweets just in time for St. Patrick’s Day

While most of the Irish diaspora throughout the world is slamming down Guinness and Jameson today, researchers have come up with…

8 years ago

7 Lessons to pitch your startup like Donald Trump would

Love him or hate him, you can't deny that Donald Trump is doing a rather great job at rallying (a…

8 years ago

Microsoft’s ‘Decoded’: The importance of coding best practice

Microsoft’s Technical Fellow John Shewchuck discusses the importance of coding best practices with Node expert Isaac Schlueter. (more…)

8 years ago

A ‘Sociable’ feast at the GEC Medellin: tales of nervous encounters, death by selfie & police prostitution

Nervous laughter initiates 15 second elevator pitches where young, bespectaled boys stand arms folded, stammering out buzzwords as men in…

8 years ago

Reinforcing cultural ties with modern tech for an ancient language, Arabic

Learning any second language is certainly difficult. But what about learning a language that reads right to left, has 13…

8 years ago

Cutting-out calorie counting apps: Weight loss apps that really provoke positive changes

Difficulty controlling weight is not a new problem in the US with more than a third of American adults being obese…

8 years ago