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Forbes - 16 Aug 2017 18:00Tech companies urge U.S. Supreme Court to boost cellphone privacy
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2017 07:08
(Reuters) — More than a dozen high technology companies and the biggest wireless operator in the United States, Verizon Communications Inc, have called on the U.S. Supreme Court to make it harder for government officia...
PewDiePie happily made Nazi jokes until he saw real Nazis
Venture Beat - 17 Aug 2017 01:31
YouTube’s biggest gaming personality is done making Nazi jokes. Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg came under fire, and even lost his original YouTube Red show, in February for moments in his videos that were either anti-...
Sony teams up with Streamline Studios to support games development in China
Venture Beat - 17 Aug 2017 00:53
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced today that Streamline Studios is joining its China Hero Project, an initiative to support PlayStation games from Chinese development studios. China’s gaming market is growing, a...
Elgato Gaming adds Xsplit support to its Stream Deck command center
Venture Beat - 17 Aug 2017 00:11
Elgato Gaming has updated one of the most interesting and useful new tools in the world of livestreaming. Its Stream Deck USB command center, which enables broadcasters to control Twitch and other live content using 15 L...
Alaina Shearer Faced Sexism Throughout Her Media Career, So She Founded Womenin.Digital
Forbes - 17 Aug 2017 00:10
Alaina Shearer faced sexism throughout her media career, so she founded Womenin.Digital, a member organization designed to support and promote women in digital marketing industry.
Cedar Point's next thrill ride debuts in Planet Coaster
Venture Beat - 17 Aug 2017 00:01
Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, is one of the most famous roller coaster parks in the world. Thrill-seekers often anticipate its new rides. Well, now you can check out its next coaster digitally before it opens next year....
3 Essential Lessons For Startup Founders From A Top Hong Kong VC
Forbes - 16 Aug 2017 23:44
Startup founders often waste too much time marketing when they really should be focusing on their product
Tech companies are choosing the Midwest as costs of outsourcing rise
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2017 23:38
U.S. companies have long moved work overseas to save money. But a long-emerging trend of moving work to lower-cost areas of the U.S. instead of overseas appears to be gaining steam. The New York Times article “Hot Spot...
Courts Won't Charge Cowboys' Ezekiel Elliott, But Roger Goodell Couldn't Care Less
Forbes - 16 Aug 2017 23:27
"I want to hear Roger Goodell explain what Ezekiel Elliott did that's six times as bad as what Josh Brown did," asked Pro Football Talk's Michael David Smith. He's not alone. Cartoon by Rob Tornoe.
Cheap Travel: 13 Places Where The Dollar Goes Far
Forbes - 16 Aug 2017 23:08
The cofounder of Journy, a digitally-driven travel agency for the modern traveler, shares 13 places where you get the most bang for your buck.
Outdated Tech Is Costing You More Than You Think
Forbes - 16 Aug 2017 23:07
Technology is provided to employees with the intent of helping to augment their productivity by saving time and effort, reducing human error, and driving speed of service. When your technology becomes a daily source of f...
Will games ever take on white supremacy? GamesBeat Decides
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2017 23:01
Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan are in the news in the United States for holding rallies and murdering a counter-protester in Charlottesville, Virginia. That grim reality weighed on our minds when we went to record the GamesB...
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds updates are going to slow down
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2017 22:27
Bluehole Studio has updated its last-person-standing shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds 14 times since launching it in late March, but the developer is now planning to slow down that cadence. In a blog post today, t...
Tespa and Blizzard serve up $1 million for college esports scholarships
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2017 22:00
While esports has spent much of 2017 building and formalizing infrastructure, Tespa has been around since 2013 as a network of collegiate-level esports clubs and tournaments. It now boasts over 65,000 members and 220 cha...
Where's The Next Big Thing In Tech? Try A Government Funded Lab
Forbes - 16 Aug 2017 21:45When Being Too Accurate Hurts Sales
Forbes - 16 Aug 2017 21:33
So many business owners get caught up in doing things "the right way." I take a look at why precision may matter less than you think and why all that accuracy could be holding you back from making real connections.
Decentralizing The World - Blockchain And The Removal Of Centralized Profit Centers
Forbes - 16 Aug 2017 21:33
The decentralized power of blockchain produces a new kind of business that can revolutionize a number of industries while creating connectivity between users in a way that makes sharing of information and value seamless ...
How robots will really take our jobs
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2017 21:12
ANALYSIS: A March report from the research arm of PwC found that 38 percent of U.S. jobs are at high risk of being replaced by robots and artificial intelligence over the next 15 years. Right now, many companies like Ama...
Google Home now makes voice calls, and they're free in Canada and the U.S.
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2017 21:00
Starting today, Google Home smart speakers will be able to make voice calls free of charge to contacts and millions of businesses in the United States and Canada. The added feature begins rolling out today and strikes a ...
The Daily Stormer comes back online by moving to a Russian domain
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2017 20:25
The right-wing hate site Daily Stormer has returned to the web with a Russian domain. In the wake of the racial violence by Nazis in Charlottesville last weekend that left one woman dead, GoDaddy booted the site off its ...
Blockstack announces $25 million fund to rebuild the internet for a blockchain world
Venture Beat - 16 Aug 2017 20:20
Blockchain startup Blockstack is out to build a decentralized version of the internet, where users own their own data and apps live locally on your device. The idea is to free users from security breaches, platform lock-...