Apple’s latest and greatest is iPhones x, but 2018 kicks off a new era in smartphones as we know it. Spotify hit with another lawsuit, this time its for $1.6 billion and yet they still filed for its IPO. While U.S authorities have begun using drones to detect and tract drug shipments, Mexican drug lords […]
What started as a spin-off project from Samsung’s experimental C-Lab arm is now a fully fledged, fully funded product that makes you look like a secret agent when you answer your phone. The smart strap Korea-based Innomdle Lab connects to your phone via Bluetooth and allows you to listen to phone calls conducted through the tip of […]
The future of jobs is at risk, thanks to the development of robots and robotic automation. Today an explosion in robotics technology is leading to rapid advances in capability that will affect nearly all employment sectors—if not every single one. The LA Times reported that a third the U.S. jobs will be taken by robots by the year […]
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to get out of the house and move a little more, a mobile app called Sweatcoin might help give you the incentive you need to get off the couch for a few more minutes each day. The Android and iOS app tracks your steps each day and then converts them into […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has included “gaming disorder” in a draft of its upcoming 11th International Classification of Diseases—a book used by researchers and doctors to track and diagnose disease—describing it as “a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour” that may include impaired control over gaming activities, and is severe “to the extent that […]
Two young Latina women are taking charge and running a business that helps sexual assault victims. When Jacqueline Ros founded Revolar she had her sister in mind, who was a victim of sexual assault. Andrea Perdomo grew up in Bogota, Colombia, and witnessed her grandmother get kidnapped. They closely understand how dangerous it is for women to exist and how important […]
How to Launch an Initial Coin Offering This comprehensive guide has been developed by Intrepid Ventures for serious entrepreneurs with a vision and commitment to their long-term projects. If you are reading this to find a get-rich-quick scheme or as a last resort to save a financially struggling company, then you should probably look somewhere […]
In the era of internet and mobile, it’s next to impossible that one can refrain himself from carrying multiple digital presences. According to a recent study, on an average, each internet user has 7.6 active social media accounts, and the figure increases when we screen only the young internet users, aged between 18 and 24 years. […]
Number 16 is “starwars.” Number 71 is “killer.” Number 72, as if in response to killer, is just “aaaaaa.” And half of the top 10 include “12345.” If you haven’t caught on, these are just a few selections from the top 100 commonly used passwords (pdf), a complete list of which has been making the rounds—and getting mocked […]
In the wake of October’s Mandalay Bay shooting that left 59 dead, a hotel in Las Vegas has begun testing a discreet weapon-sensing security device. The device is called the Patscan Cognitive Microwave Radar and is currently installed at Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino’s employee entrance. The Patscan CMR units are small enough to […]
It happens all the time. A little red blip in Facebook directs you to a notification that a friend tagged you in a photograph somebody uploaded. The company rolled out the tagging feature in 2010, and all the photos since – the thousands, millions, even billions of them – were slowly building something. What that was, Facebook turned […]
Music labels and publishers have spent much of 2017 wondering what Facebook’s plans were for licensing music. Today the social network announced its first major-label licensing deal, with Universal Music Group. The companies are describing this as a “global, multi-year agreement” that will license Universal’s recorded-music and publishing catalogues for “video and other social experiences […]
