The streaming media sector is undoubtedly approaching the maturity stage of its product life cycle. Nonetheless, there are still opportunities for new brands to carve a niche. Market leaders like Spotify, Netflix and Twitch face dozens of challengers, with each platform offering unique advantages and drawbacks. As standards rise across…

The human body is, in many ways, a perfect machine, a rich resource well worth a significant investment of time and research. One of the most fascinating recent discoveries comes from from X-Prize and Singularity University founder Peter Diamandis. …

Apps are big business nowadays. Almost 200 billion downloads are believed to have taken place since Apple ushered in a new way of using smartphones a decade ago. …

In 2000, Lego was named by the British Association of Toy Retailers (BATR) as the Toy of the Century, weathering almost 50 years of change to remain a generational constant. Today, the toy has gone from simple Danish block box to nearly bankrupt to a multi-billion dollar industry, embracing everything…

When I’m working, I usually have two monitors set up, Slack alerts flashing in the corner of one screen, my phone sitting next to me, and my colleagues chatting around me. I’m pretty much in information overload all day, every day. The way we work, however, has changed. Where we…

Google has largely created the infrastructure that we think of as the internet. It has established the way we search, and has succeeded at turning its company name into a verb. Gmail accounts for more than 1 billion monthly active users. Android mobile software is one of the only successfully…

There are many frameworks out there which come with ORMs (object relational maps) which allow you to perform database migrations as part of your deployment. A schema database migration is the process of updating a database to a new schema along with any data manipulations required. The idea is simple…

During the 2016 Rio Olympics, a number of endorsed athletes were seen donning a very special item, created by the titan of sporting appeal: the Zoom Superfly Elites. The shoes were initially hyped for numerous reasons, the first of which were their unique design, in which the sole was molded…

Although flying cars still remain a good while away, self-driving cars have begun their slow and steady immersion into the world at large. Test runs in major cities have increased over the last few years, with San Francisco becoming the most populated state in the country to host autonomous car…