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New password guidelines say everything we thought about passwords is wrong
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 00:10
GUEST: When I recently discovered a draft of new guidelines for password management from NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology), I was amazed about the number of very progressive changes they proposed....
Meet the G413: Logitech's latest Romer-G mechanical keyboard
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 23:20
You already had a nearly limitless number of mechanical keyboards to choose from, but Logitech is preparing to give you one more to consider. The PC hardware manufacturer announced its G413 Mechanical Backlit Gaming Keyb...
A Latino From Texas Makes His Mark On Silicon Valley
Forbes - 19 Apr 2017 23:12
Last month, at SxSW, I got the opportunity to meet with Mark Madrid, who was then the CEO of the Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which I have heard is one of the most successful Hispanic chambers in the nation.
Facebook CTO: Bots should be able to answer questions about your life
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 23:02
During a keynote speech at the second day of the annual Facebook developer conference F8, CTO Mike Schroepfer said bots need to answer more questions that are pertinent to people's lives and the things they do everyday. ...
Chrome 58 arrives with IndexedDB 2.0 and improvements to iframe navigation
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 22:42
Google has launched Chrome 58 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Among the additions is support for the IndexedDB 2.0 standard and improvements to iframe navigation. You can update to the latest version now using the browser�...
Justices Skeptical Church-State Separation Reaches Missouri School Playground Program
Forbes - 19 Apr 2017 22:38
Supreme Court justices appear skeptical Missouri can ban a grant for playground improvements to a church school on religious grounds.
Twitter's Gnip chief Chris Moody is joining Foundry Group
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 22:21
Twitter is losing another key executive as Gnip chief executive Chris Moody has announced his departure. He has joined venture capital firm Foundry Group as a partner, a move Moody described as a “once-in-a-lifetime op...
2017: The age of AI in advertising
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 22:15
SPONSORED: Presented by Refuel4. Consumers are savvier than ever: They reject naked sales pitches; instead they expect to be seen and understood. They want to be served ads that are relevant to them, personalized and spe...
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Revert VM for Hyper-V
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 21:53
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview build for people participating in the fast ring of the Windows Insider Program. Build 16179, which contains some bug fixes and one notable new feature, comes a week after...
Dave Elkington Creates Insidesales.com Machine Learning Platform To Accelerate Sales
Forbes - 19 Apr 2017 21:15
Dave Elkington is the co-founder of the Provo, Utah-headquartered sales acceleration platform, Insidesales.com, the fast-growing, privately-held firm valued at over $1 billion, that has huge implications for speeding up ...
4 ways AI can improve email marketing
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 21:10
GUEST: Email marketing is in for a complete overhaul. With AI, email marketing isn’t limited to rule-based triggers but has evolved into a means of more in-the-moment personalization. AI has filled in the missing gap b...
When The President Paid No Taxes -- No, Not That President
Forbes - 19 Apr 2017 20:55
Trump is not the first chief executive to wrestle with the optics of being a non-payer. In 1977 Jimmy Carter paid exactly nothing to the federal treasury.
ServiceMaster Offers To Clean-Up David Fizdale's $30,000 Fine For Officiating Rant
Forbes - 19 Apr 2017 20:53
Memphis Grizzlies head coach David Fizdale went on an epic rant about officiating that cost him a $30,000 fine. But one company appears ready to cover the fine. Here's the details.
Facebook's new developer SDK lets users capture 360 photos and videos in-app
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 20:10
Facebook has released a software development kit (SDK) that developers can incorporate into their apps to allow users to capture their experience in a 360 photo or video. The file could then be shared and viewed either o...
StarCraft is now free as Blizzard rethinks the huge franchise's future
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 20:10
One of the most popular games and esports of all time is now completely free. Blizzard Entertainment has just updated StarCraft, its 19-year-old real-time sci-fi strategy classic, to make it a free download. You can get ...
AWS launches Redshift Spectrum, which lets users query data in S3
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 19:53
At the AWS Summit in San Francisco today, public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of Redshift Spectrum, an extension of AWS’ Redshift managed data warehousing service that en...
Ubisoft opens studios in France and Germany to boost blockbuster game development
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 19:37
Ubisoft skipped out on debuting a new Assassin’s Creed game last year, but the French publisher is not skimping on the future of its big-budget releases. The company revealed today that it is opening Ubisoft Bordeaux i...
Firefox 53 arrives with new themes, separate graphics process on Windows, and compact tabs on Android
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 19:31
Mozilla today launched Firefox 53 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The new version includes two new themes on desktop, running the graphics compositor in a separate tab on Windows, compact tabs on Android, a redesig...
Facebook takes on Lytro with new Surround 360 cameras that shoot in 6 degrees of freedom
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 19:15
Facebook has introduced two new Surround 360 cameras targeted toward professional filmmakers and content producers. The x24 and x6 are successors to the one the company debuted at last year’s F8 developer conference, b...
Facebook built a helicopter to provide internet from a fiber-optic cable
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 19:07
At its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, Facebook introduced the latest technology for expanding internet access. It’s a little helicopter with a power line and a fiber optic cable that will be able to dr...
Yahoo's Mail app now works with any email address
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 19:00
If you’re interested in using Yahoo Mail but have resisted because you have a Gmail, AOL, or Outlook email address, you no longer have anything to worry about. Today Yahoo announced that it has abolished the Yahoo emai...
RotoQL raises $1.2 million to level the field in daily fantasy sports
Venture Beat - 19 Apr 2017 19:00
RotoQL is announcing today that it has raised $1.2 million in seed funding to solve a very practical problem for the millions of people who play daily fantasy sports. Daily fantasy sports became a $3 billion business in ...