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Why The Amazon Echo Is The iPhone Of The Smart Home
Forbes - 13 Mar 2016 20:31
If you're like me, remembering how different using a mobile phone was back in 2006 is getting increasingly difficult. That's because today we live in a world so completely transformed by the iPhone, it seems as if it's...
Stardock's newest tech will let you mix AMD and Nvidia video cards in a PC
Venture Beat - 13 Mar 2016 23:00
EXCLUSIVE: Stardock is about to revolutionize the video-card market for PCs. Not only will it make high-end gaming more affordable, but it also will put virtual reality within reach of millions of consumers. In an exclus...
Think Like An Entrepreneur And Boost Your Career
Forbes - 13 Mar 2016 21:22
No matter what people may proclaim, everyone in business is looking to achieve the highest possible level of satisfaction and financial success in their career. For best results, my advice is to think like an entrepreneu...
The Week's Best Reads: Taking The Bias Out Of Tech Hiring
Forbes - 13 Mar 2016 20:00
Plus: The top 20 reasons startups fail and how to snag millennial customers.
Go board game champion Lee Sedol finally beats Google's AI
Venture Beat - 13 Mar 2016 19:54
SEOUL (by Se Young Lee, Reuters) – South Korean Lee Sedol won his first match against a computer program developed by a Google subsidiary on Sunday in the ancient board game Go, denying a clean sweep for the artificial...
YouTube shows Adblock Plus users an error message instead of ads
Venture Beat - 13 Mar 2016 18:44
Do you use YouTube with Adblock Plus? Some users have been getting the following message instead of ads: “An error occurred. Please try again later.” The error message is only shown for the duration of the ad, meanin...
How my Kickstarter blew up my life
Venture Beat - 13 Mar 2016 18:05
GUEST: In October 2014, I raised nearly $150,000 on my first crowdfunding campaign. Three months later, when I was in my final year of college and 21 years old, I wished I'd never heard of Kickstarter. I'd committed the ...
How Dragon Age's David Gaider joined the old-school role-playing game renaissance
Venture Beat - 13 Mar 2016 16:13
FEATURE: David Gaider is now part of the renaissance. The acclaimed writer for blockbuster Dragon Age role-playing game series left EA-owned studio BioWare in January. It didn’t take long for him to return to his roots...
Secrets And Lies: 5 Ways To Free Your Hiring Bias
Forbes - 13 Mar 2016 15:48
Hiring bias? Did I just use the b-word? Not us. So say countless companies, recruiters. Perhaps not overtly, but unconscious bias still influences recruiting, hiring and firing decisions everywhere , from the tiny little...
Katy Perry's Beloved Clothier Hated On A Shark Tank Offer
Forbes - 13 Mar 2016 15:01
Singer Katy Perry's beloved past times apparently includes dressing up head to toe as a pepperoni pizza , a gingerbread woman or left shark. Miley Cyrus has followed Perry's lead in wrapping herself in a pizza jumpsuit. ...
How Father.io uses augmented reality to turn the world into a first-person shooter
Venture Beat - 13 Mar 2016 14:00
Laser tag is still one of the coolest things ever, but it’s kinda weird for me (a 32-year-old man) and my friends to go to the local Magic Mountain to take on a team of kids celebrating little Gary’s 10th birthday. T...
India's Micromax is struggling
Venture Beat - 13 Mar 2016 08:01
MUMBAI (By Himank Sharma, Reuters) – A year ago, Micromax vaulted past Samsung Electronics Co Ltd to become India’s leading smartphone brand. Today, its market share has nearly halved, several top executives have res...
Android N's split-screen feature is a step forward for tablets like the Pixel C
Venture Beat - 13 Mar 2016 06:01What Windowsill Farms And Purple Corn Flakes Have In Common: Just Ask Startup Back To The Roots
Forbes - 13 Mar 2016 03:47
The huge Natural Products Expo West, from March 9-13, in Anaheim, CA., is one of the most anticipated food industry trade shows of the year, with more than 3,000 exhibitors and 70,000 visitors from around the wo...
Internet Heroine Brené Brown Wows SXSW
Forbes - 13 Mar 2016 01:39
When Brené Brown made a speech about vulnerability that would go on to become the fourth most-viewed TED talks, it was "an accident… and I didn’t know they were recording it".
Entrepreneurs: 5 Habits (To Attempt) To Maintain Work-Life Balance
Forbes - 13 Mar 2016 01:15
Here are 5 habits/practices which have helped get us on the path towards achieving work-life balance with our family startup.
Bitcoin transactions jump following consensus on how to scale the currency
Venture Beat - 13 Mar 2016 01:07
GUEST: On the February 23, 2016, bitcoin saw the highest number of bitcoin transactions so far in a single day. According to a tracking graph on Blockchain.info, there were about 260,578 transactions in the day. The high...
Mark Zuckerberg congratulates Google for 'historic milestone in AI research'
Venture Beat - 13 Mar 2016 00:08
Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had some complimentary things to say about Google today. His remarks came a few hours after Google’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence (AI) program beat Lee Sedol, a highly deco...