Tech

Seek out jobs with fast learning cycles

Standard career advice for high-achievers early in their careers is to seek out jobs with “steep learning curves”. In other words, find a job where you’ll be able to learn a lot, quickly.

How to Manage Passwords in a Team

It has always been challenging to manage shared passwords in a team setting. This challenge gets…

How teens hack their phones (and what it means for the rest of us)

What I learned about Big Data and Machine Learning from trying to predict football matches.

Two years ago I asked myself if it in any way would be possible to use Machine Learning techniques to predict the outcome of football matches.

Evernote Without Evernote

Tags, Descriptors, and Kissing Folders Goodbye in Mac OS X

How to Pop Your Filter Bubble

Or How to Broaden Your Range but Stay True to Yourself

Apple vs. FBI: Privacy & Inequality

In the FBI’s ideal world, privacy is a luxury

The (un)affordability of London housing in 8 charts

Average sale price of a home in London is predicted to have reached £667,000. That’s a record.

From the Firehose: Activity at Disputed Scarborough Shoal in South China Sea

Dark Harvest

Big Data will revolutionize the world, both the light and the dark

Silicon Valley is losing U.S. born high-tech workers. Here’s why that’s actually a good thing.

Your Discount Pricing Strategy may be Flawed

Leveraging competitive price intelligence in the world of…

The Do’s And Dont’s Of Buying A Laptop

Everyone needs a computer in today’s world. Maybe not a traditional computer like a laptop…

‘A++++!! Would vote again.’

User reviews build trust in digital services. Governments need trust to…

Journey Through Coding: Embracing Challenges, Growth, and Fulfillment

Even seasoned professionals with decades of experience can still come across bugs in their projects, proving that perfection isn’t the essence of QA work. As a programmer, embracing the inevitability of…

PROCURA -SE UNICÓRNIOS

A nova constelação de Startups que invadiu o mercado financeiro e está abalando…

Building Tech in Real Estate

If you had told me 5 years ago that today I would be sitting in a…

Where Do We ‘Go’ From Here?

By Andrew Lenoir

If you’re reading this, you probably already know that Google’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence program has defeated World Go Champion Lee Sedol, four games to one.

Instant Commerce

The Combination of Programmatic Buying, Data and Insights, to Create Moments of Brand Love that lead to instant commerce.

The Case for a Data-Driven Approach to Marketing

A shortsighted animal?

I was just a seven year old boy when I watched Blade Runner for the very first time. I can still remember the feeling…

What your’re doing is amazing. There are a lot of misconceptions like this in the field of mathematics. I always get to learn something new from your each of your lessons.

#DesignSpam: Week 202

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Self-lacing shoes, printable websites and a hypnotic frog feature in this week’s round up of design inspiration, from the team at W12 Studios

Bize yeni bir oyuncak lazım — 1: Sanal gerçekliğin ısınma turları

I am literally a ticking time bomb!

Yes! I am constantly tensed. Don’t get me wrong. I am a very happy person and I am nice to be…

Issue #40 — Friday IAM In:

Make-Believe

😎 Weekend Picks by Rachel Uwa

Sobre diversidade na Campus Party

Ah, o infinito mundo digital.

Estar na Campus Party é tão…

Mas tão…

De tudo um pouco, não tem nem como palavrear.

If Your Recruiter Isn’t Doing These Things, Choose Another

#TIL robots.txt and sitemap.txt for search engines

robots.txt is a file that is requested by search engines when they crawl your website. It has instructions for the crawler such as what they are allowed to crawl and what content is uncrawlable. In your robots.txt file you can also mention…

Killer Robots, Superior AIs, Car Hacking — Don’t Worry, Be Happy…

One monitor or more for increased productivity?

I Didn’t Sign Up For This

In the startup world, there is a lot you don’t sign up for. You think you are coming in to a company to do X, but…

Snippets from #SearchFest

I was in Portland last week to attend SearchFest, a digital marketing conference presented by SEMPDX. It was…

Confessions of an “Unsolicited Advice-Giver”

I have a confession to make. I am a recovering “unsolicited advice-giver”.

The Camellia Digital Web Hosting Platform

Sometimes I am asked about our web server. Where is it? (It’s in one of those racks…

Is Virtual Reality the New Reality for Advertisers?

Informal Infrastructure: Cuba’s Offline Internet

How the population of Cuba accesses the world’s media…

ICYMI: SXSW Edition

Hey everyone! It’s Friday again. Isn’t that great?

Why Instagram is the future museum of art , not Snapchat !

How to Bag your Dream Job in Public Relations

As a PR professional with over eleven years experience of working for both in-house PR departments and for leading UK PR agencies, I have been through my fair share of interviews. This blog covers job interview advice, CV advice for PR candidates and…

I appreciate that companies are acknowledging the importance of emotions in design, as opposed to just a utilitarian “how can this be as efficient as possible” approach.

So I’m not sure I agree with your conclusion — while there’s plenty of tasks I don’t need to experience as much as get over with, I think a personal…

So where are all the women?

8 March was International Women’s Day. Statistics reveal that there’s still an urgent need to focus on the position of women, also at TU Delft. The number of female professors…

一个 19 岁美国少年眼中的各种社交应用

两年前，我氪曾经报道过一个 15 岁美国姑娘对各种社交 app 的看法，许多朋友表示很受启发。

今天我们一起来看看 19 岁的少年（Andrew Watts，现为德州大学奥斯汀分校学生）是怎么想的。

#WhereToBe: 3.18.16 to 3.24.16

Each Friday, we feature a special “where to be” post on our blog to make sure every day of the week has some sort of cultural event to check out. We hope that you all can come out into the community, learn, and commemorate some influential people and events around Boston…

Selfies — Enough Please!

This piece was originally published on Notable.ca

Top #TechForGood initiatives

Technology is well known for its ability to rapidly transform industries, bringing efficiency, access and scale to the table. A growing trend in recent years has been the use of technology to tackle serious social issues by motivated entrepreneurs. We’ve created a run-down of…

Technology and Underrepresented Minority Groups: The Great Equalizer (Part 2 of 3)

Facebook’s Messenger Bot Store could be the most important launch since the App Store

Success is making everyone you come in contact with feel a little better.

Congrats. I remember when you guys launched. Keep pushing boundaries!

Why start-ups and politics?

On the face of it start-ups and politics may seem unlikely bedfellows. After all, you can probably count the number of local and national politicians with start-up experience on one hand, whilst many start-ups founders are too intently focused on explosive growth to bother with…

Recruiting for entrepreneurs could close the unemployment gap, create more jobs and encourage innovation in Africa especially

Dear Pot,

Thank you for your scathing personal attack citing my use of a sweeping, unsubstantiated generalization.

Which you concluded with a sweeping, unsubstantiated generalization.

Sincerely,

Kettle

How to Use Android like a PC?

While Android-based smartphones have become widely common, many people find PC computers stuill relevant. And this is not limited to older users. Even younger people who enjoy using their smartphones because of the touch-screen feature and large number of apps, prefer to use…

Pixel Resurrection

It was late-night shopping Thursday finally, that certain forces and various interconnecting lines of illogical reasoning began to bond together in the mind, joining forces to eventually overcome the few weakening oppositional arguments that had prevented me from purchasing a new Nintendo DS…

I don’t know whether understanding and having empathy for people (your audience, your customer, …) is strictly necessary to producing great work. No doubt there are sociopaths who have made some beautiful things at various points in history. :)

But paying attention to helping someone rather than being or becoming someone is…

Find Useful Information about Candy Crush Soda Saga

People who play online games know how exciting Candy Crush Soda Saga is. This gamer is loved by people of all ages. Higher scores bring all the three stars and you will be on the top of the winner list. Candy Crush Soda Saga, the sequel of Candy Crush Saga has come up with…

First of all i want to congratulate you on your new job, and may you have great experiences and fulfillment there.

About VR and Augmented Reality, why do you think they will mostly develop and evolve in this order? I don’t know why, but i have a gut feeling that it will happen the other way around. Although gamers and…

Musical Maestro A.R. Rahman makes music with wearables enabled by Intels Curie

Even Our Friends Know About Us Better Than Us

Sometimes we are unable to recognize our hidden potentials and abilities. We are unable to take a step towards our future and we are in very difficulty to set goals for us and to set strategies for that goals as well. Many a times we take a wrong decision. But our friends can…

Invisible.

I am but a voice. Inaudible to your ignorance and hate, I’m different. Constantly judged by the people you thought would be there..

Launching a Startup

In the early days of starting up, the ability to scale is overrated. “Scale,” in case you haven’t heard the term, refers to the concept that there are processes in place that are fast, cheap, and repeatable because there will soon be millions of customers who generate billions of dollars of…

Very well said!

I just want to add that from a psychological perspective there is this phenomenon i read about that describes peoples tendency to associate their personal desires to hide their autonomous self with the idea of power. It happens very early on if the mother doesn’t allow the child to develop an autonomous self…