There’s an epidemic in Canada. That epidemic is a mentality that leaves top talent with no option but to leave the nation’s borders and with them, everything they learned. It undervalues breakthroughs developed and paid for by Canadian taxpayers. It’s a mindset that resents the s … | Continue reading
Europe is putting an end to the roaming fees that can quickly add up on a consumer's wireless bill, but before that happens, the charges will first be capped. Beginning April 30th, roaming charges across the European Union can be no higher than €0.05 per minute for outgoing voice … | Continue reading
If you're an athlete sponsored by Puma, you're about to get a new toy. The shoe company partnered with ad agency J. Walter Thompson New York to create the Puma BeatBot, a self-driving robot built to help runners train. The BeatBot, which looks like a rolling shoebox with LED ligh … | Continue reading
Epiphyte co-founder and general counsel Gabrielle Patrick weighs in on the major factors that shaped a recent EU Parliament event on blockchain. | Continue reading
Here’s what it sounds like when artificial intelligence learns to play “Ode To Joy” in the style of EDM, Brazilian guitar, and The Beatles’ “Penny Lane”. The Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris was challenged to reorchestrate the theme song of the European Union. Using the … | Continue reading
WSJ's Erik Holm joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero and discusses what to expect at this weekend's Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
I don’t know about you, but there are times when I spend so much time writing that I type myself into a corner. All of the words start to blur, and my eyes see something like this: “sadofinaisfnaosdfiasmdofinaoifnaosdfnasdiofnsaoifn.” Our hectic schedules, tight deadlines and am … | Continue reading
Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) research group today announced that for all future research it will use TensorFlow, a machine learning library that Google open-sourced last year, instead of Torch, an older framework. The move suggests that some of Google’s brightes … | Continue reading
Microsoft PowerApps allows anybody to build basic business apps without having to touch any code. These apps can run on the web and on mobile (through the PowerApps apps for iOS and Android). Microsoft first announced a private preview of this project last November but starting t … | Continue reading
Your money: Almost no one knows how to think about money and investing. Squadrons of people will try to confuse you and rip you off. Many will bore you. But Andrew Tobias has written a book that might just change... | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! We had a lot of news out of Nintendo, but we were also busy playing Hearthstone’s new expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods. We also looked at a virtual reality roller coaster. So, you know, it was a good week. Enjoy, and have a great we … | Continue reading
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If you’re looking for a deal, Craigslist isn’t a terrible place to start. If you’re looking for a deal on an eight billion dollar company it’s probably best to look elsewhere, unless you’re in the business for a piece of history that’s fallen on hard times. According to a (obviou … | Continue reading
This week: It’s a best-practice to keep redirects indefinitely, most SEOs aren’t implementing AMP, and comments really do matter. | Continue reading
Woah there! The year is zipping by, but before we launch full-force into next month, there’s just about enough time for a quick roundup of the best updates and launches in April. From notable updates from big names like Google, to the world of bots and ultrasound-like file beamin … | Continue reading
If you've been looking for a good flight simulator, keep an eye on Take Off, which will, well, take off June 9th. As I wrote about a few weeks back, Take Off tries to offer plenty of variety in the experience of flying rather than just have you fly from A to B like an | Continue reading
Whatever your feelings about President Obama and his time in office, I believe we, as a nation, can agree he gave us one pure, unquestionably great thing: the Vice Presidency of Joseph R. Biden.This dialogue, shared by yesterday's White House pool report and transcribed by the Lo … | Continue reading
Samsung held a developer conference this week in San Francisco. The company talked about a bunch of neat stuff! An untethered VR headset. A personal assistance robot called Otto. Utilizing a new graphics API in Android to improve battery life. Using Samsung Pay to get cash from A … | Continue reading
Dies ist nicht der erste Spiegel mit smarten Funktionen, aber es ist selten genug, dass jemand einen Spiegel mit Touchscreen baut, der obendrein auch noch diverse Apps versteht. Neben einem Musikplayer gibt es diverse Apps wie Reddit, Fotos, Mess... | Continue reading
A quick scan of LinkedIn for former employees underscores the point. Of Uber’s roughly 6,700 employees, only a tiny fraction have left, and in most cases, those hires weren’t around long enough to be worrying about vested options. Employees of privately held companies have long w … | Continue reading
HTC is holding a Mother’s Day promotion that sees the One A9 and One M9 at just $389 and $399 respectively. | Continue reading
We here at Mashable are obsessed with Snapchat — the filters, the live stories, and of course, the Discover channels.But of course, it's not perfect. In addition to a confusing, non-intuitive interface — Snapchat makes you work just to find that black drawing tool — there's a lot … | Continue reading
Special Correspondents has a scale problem. Ricky Gervais’ third directorial project, made for Netflix on what looks like a tiny budget, is modestly hilarious when it keeps the story proportional to its funding. But Gervais expands his premise into an international farce with glo … | Continue reading
In exchange for valuable tax breaks from the city five years ago, tech companies have been flocking to San Francisco's low-income Tenderloin and Mid-Market neighborhoods. As the area improves, will long-time residents get left behind? Photo/Video: Jake Nicol/The Wall Street Journ … | Continue reading
View of the gardens behind the Wanganui Racecourse, with swans on a lake | Continue reading
The American Society for Association Executives this week shuttered its decades-old "Springtime in the Park" and announced a new un-expo... | Continue reading
Our blog articles feature the latest ideas and thinking from our Action and Research Centre and Fellowship staff and guest bloggers. You are welcome to contribute and comment. | Continue reading
Snapchat just scored a big win: streaming highlights from the Olympics. According to Bloomberg, Snacphat penned a deal with NBC to show off clips from the Olympics, the first time NBC has shared content outside of its own network in the US. NBC tells Bloomberg that Snapchat “real … | Continue reading
Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Universe in one image ( Pablo Budassi ). Imagine an ancient... | Continue reading
Georgia joins Horizon 2020, the EU's Research and Innovation Programme - The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation | Continue reading
Bitcoin price has slowly gained alttude in a non-committal rise to $450. This analyst keeps questioning why the market compulsively buys price up when the technicals are pointing down. Some say that perhaps the market is trading the expectation of a block reward rally. This analy … | Continue reading
IBM is venturing into the world of blockchain and distributed ledgers, as they target Government, financial services, and healthcare through IBM Cloud. A significant vote of confidence for blockchain technology in general and another exciting development to see where this industr … | Continue reading
Auch HP scheint jetzt auf Chromebooks mit mehr Designexklusivität und Wumms zu setzen. Das Chromebook 13 mit seinem 13,3 Zoll Bildschirm hat nicht nur eine beeindruckende Auflösung von 3.200 x 1.800, einen schlanken Aluminium-Körper... | Continue reading
Uber's stated mission is "transportation as reliable as running water." Now, that literally includes luxury vessels that operate on running water.This Saturday, Uber is offering yacht rentals to residents of Dubai for 300 AED (or $82). That price includes free Uber rides to and f … | Continue reading
I asked a flexible display industry veteran why flexible displays are taking so long to “arrive”. The short answer? Because no one is making enough of them. | Continue reading
A few months back we wrote about the upcoming Duelyst going into beta, and I talked about how I was looking forward to getting this game on my mobile. Well, that day is closer since Duelyst has launched for PC and according to the developers, from here on they'll be focusing on m … | Continue reading
CloudMagic, an email application that today has grown to 4 million users, has just added a useful feature that can aid those who receive a lot of inbound email from unknown persons: Sender Profile. Similar to services like LinkedIn’s Rapportive or newly launched Connect from Clea … | Continue reading
While nostalgically binging on old internet comedy from my childhood, I was struck by an epiphany: just as the comical repacking of 1980s nostalgia during the 2000s made cheap toys and crummy cartoons into flashy movies, so too will the web videos of the late 1990s and early 2000 … | Continue reading
It just got a lot easier for law enforcement agents to hack anonymous computers over the internet. Last night, the Supreme Court approved changes to the rules of criminal procedure, enabling warrants for searches of remote computers, regardless of their physical location. That ki … | Continue reading
Woah there! Where did May come from already? Before we launch into next month, there’s just about enough time for a quick roundup of the most notable updates and releases across April. As always, only the best iPhone and iPad apps from the last month make it into this list. Hippo … | Continue reading
Delta announced Friday it will be the first airline in the U.S. to deploy Radio Frequency Identification — or RFID — baggage tracking technology, for all 120 million bags it handles each year.Since the 1990s, airlines have tracked baggage with barcodes and hand scanning. Delta ca … | Continue reading
Razer has released a new ultrabook as it continues to stamp its name on more categories of gaming gear. Read More | Continue reading
Ah, welcome welcome. I see you enjoyed last week’s edition and are back for more. Well we won’t disappoint. For the uninitiated (go back and start at post one, please) the team at TNW has made a New Year’s Resolution to read a bit more. So every week, a select number of our team … | Continue reading
Volkswagen’s emissions testing scandal last autumn was so severe some observers said it threatened to send the company to the junkyard. But Volkswagen now believes it has turned a corner and hopes to speed away from the crisis, leaving it behind in the smog (sorry about that). Vo … | Continue reading
If you perform a very specific query in the search field of online code repository Github, where many Slack bot projects are stored, you can get info that potentially lets you access a trove of corporate data, including companies' internal chats and files. This is because a lot o … | Continue reading
It's a weird week when Edward Snowden is the biggest action hero in new movie trailers, but here we are and I guess it's kind of great? See below for 13 new trailers worth checking out. Continue reading… | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: TRACT Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing personalized regulatory T-cell (Treg) therapy, announced today that it received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to initiate a Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate... | Continue reading
Blockchain data startup Tierion has raised $1m in seed funding from several of the industry’s leading venture capital firms. | Continue reading