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"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned" Richard Feynman
"The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by people worse than themselves."
- Plato, Greek philosopher.
Immigrants 'became a scapegoat' in Brexit vote, and it worked
The Leave campaign deliberately stirred up anti-immigration anxieties
to win the Brexit vote, researchers say. That could spell trouble for
other countries considering parting ways with the postwar order in
Europe.
Your life or theirs? Scientists mull ethical dilemmas of driverless cars
Would you buy a car that would sacrifice your life in order to save the
lives of 10 pedestrians? Or would you buy one that would save you,
above all else? That’s the question researchers are mulling in a new
report about driverless cars, released today in the journal Science.
Scientists discover 1st contagious cancer that can spread between species
Contagious cancers are a scary idea to begin with, but scientists have
made some startling new discoveries about them – they are likely more
common in nature than originally thought, and some can even spread
between species.
After oil, Norway looks to startups for economic growth
Politicians responding to the oil troubles are heeding calls for a new
way forward, centered around startups. And the efforts to foster a new
approach are led by an ambitious ex-business exec, the Crown Prince of
Norway and a handful of contrarian entrepreneurs. Read More
The hungry consumer and the software pivot
The internet has become a lonely space, and consumers are hungry for
something new. We don’t talk much anymore about new processors, video
cards and faster dialup modems — at least not like we used to. The
technology industry, specifically the internet, continues to become
further standardized and ...
Telecoms open shop on Madison Avenue, but will brands buy?
Many companies have transformed and realigned their focus with great
success. Avon transitioned from peddling books door-to-door to marketing
beauty products. Wrigley started as a soap and baking soda company. IBM
originally sold massive mainframe computers and calculators. Now,
telecom companies a...
Students are demanding the facts about coding bootcamps
It’s been a remarkable rise so far, but for coding bootcamps to become
mainstream they must prove that the outcomes they advertise are real.
In 2012 coding bootcamps began offering courses in software development
and promising graduates new careers in technology. The schools, now
backed by hundreds...
The app boom is not over
There’s a new wave of reporting focused on the post-app era. Recode
announced “The app boom is over.” Quartz points out how most users never
download any apps. Let me be very clear: The app boom is not over.
There has never been a better time to be an apps developer. Read More
The last driver license holder
Say hello to Liam. He recently celebrated his first birthday. Not only
is he a cutie, he is the last person to get a driver license.
Impossible? Not in your lifetime? I don’t know if Liam will be the last
person to get a driver license. It could be Sophia or Ethan. But one
thing is certain: The las...
President Obama calls for diversity efforts and openness with Mark Zuckerberg at GES
Obama encouraged companies to continue hiring workers from diverse
backgrounds, citing tech companies’ diversity reports as a step in the
right direction. The president also discussed censorship of the internet
in Egypt and said international leaders need to welcome free speech
rather than attempt ...
Review: Acton’s Blink Board is a quirky board with an unpolished remote
As you can already tell, this is an electric skateboard. It’s not my
first rodeo on one either, and it won’t be my last. But here’s something
I learned the past few days: Acton’s budget-friendly electric
skateboard has been the least fulfilling of the electric rolling planks
I’ve ridden. Summed up,...
ATM skimmer caught in the wild by a real security engineer
Whoda thunk it? Tourist/cybersecurity expert Benjamin Tedesco was
hanging out in Vienna when he walked up to an ATM. Because he trusts no
one he decided to give the reader a little tug and came away with a
working skimmer designed to look exactly like the card slot on the
original machine. “It pays...
Is the future of VR NVIDIA, Sony and Apple?
Virtual reality is all the buzz nowadays. And why wouldn’t it be when
analysts like Goldman Sachs make estimates that the industry is poised
to surpass the TV market in annual revenue by 2025. That would make
virtual reality bigger than TV in less than 10 years. These estimates
are so massive becau...
Twitter quietly launches tags to location feeds with Foursquare
Location feeds linked to from these tags could inspire people to tweet
more while out and about, fuel Moments about particular places, and
improve Twitter’s ad targeting data. Better location functionality could
be an important building block for Twitter’s future products and
revenue potential. [Up...
360fly’s new ad is a racist mess. I thought we were better than this.
What do you do when nobody is paying attention to your shiny new line
of cameras? You could put together a campaign that shows how good your
tech is and how it is the perfect match to your target audiences. Or you
could go the other way, enlisting a Trump impersonator and an
inexcusable dollop of s...
The automation of design
Murphy’s Law decrees: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” For
any of us whose livelihood depends on our labor, things going wrong
could mean: “Anything that can be automated, will be automated.” Our
labor or skill in exchange for pay has undoubtedly caused us to seek
security in the notion...
On the floor of The New York Stock Exchange at Twilio’s IPO
Today Twilio braved the public markets and did what no technology
startup has done all year – go public. The company began trading this
morning on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TWLO, and
didn’t disappoint. After pricing at $15 dollars, the stock opened at
$23.99 per share and ...
13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week
This week, Tesla announced plans to buy SolarCity, Twilio IPOed, the
NY State senate passed an anti-Airbnb bill and we discovered the world’s
largest Nerf gun. Read on for a recap of the biggest tech stories of
the week. Read More
With 4,700 and counting, VinylHub aims to catalog every record shop on the planet
Over the last 15 years, Discogs has developed the near-definitive
database for vinyl fanatics, cataloging over 6 million records from
nearly 4 million artists. Now the company is working on another
laborious project: creating the largest global record store database in
the world, called VinylHub. “D...
Ranadivé to lead fund to promote University of California innovations
By Rory Carroll SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Vivek Ranadivé, a Silicon
Valley entrepreneur whose software innovations helped automate Wall
Street trading floors, will lead a $250 million fund aimed at promoting
ideas hatched in the University of California's educational system. The
fund will be tempora...
Best TVs under $500
There was a time when purchasing a “budget” flat screen TV meant giving
up on performance, features, and even brand names. No more. As
technology has advanced, the mid-to-entry level HDTV segment has enjoyed
continually improved picture quality and added a bevy of other options
once reserved for the...
Runaway Russian robot may be scrapped
Officials at Promobot said a specific model tried to get away for a
second time this week — and this time may be the final straw.
Apple building secret team to work on virtual reality: FT
(Reuters) - Apple Inc has assembled a large team of experts in virtual
and augmented reality and built prototypes of headsets that could one
day rival Facebook's Oculus Rift or Microsoft's Hololens, the Financial
Times reported. A secret research unit, housing hundreds of staff
assembled f...
BlackBerry wins approval to expand share buyback program
BlackBerry Ltd has received approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange to
more than double its existing share buyback program and repurchase up
to 5.8 percent of its public float, the smartphone maker said on Friday.
The approval will allow the Waterloo, Ontario-based company to buy back
up to 27 mill...
BlackBerry raises ceiling on 2015-16 stock buybacks, has spent US$73.7 million
BlackBerry Ltd. (TSX:BB) has more than doubled the amount of stock it
can repurchase from the public market by mid-2016. The Waterloo,
Ont.-based company said Friday that it has already repurchased 9.9
million common shares since June 29, 2015 — about 2.1 per cent of the
public float — at an average...
Do Home Automation Hubs Require Internet?
There are a number of automaton controllers supporting technologies
including Insteon, Zwave and Zigbee, and a number of different popular
home automation controllers. While it makes sense that an Internet
connection can be used for remote control, email or SMS alerts, many
automation controllers ...
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