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Nazis aren't Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus's worst villains
Venture Beat - 27 Oct 2017 23:47
In video games, you kill Nazis. That’s what we do. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (read my review) doesn’t try to disrupt or examine this. The latest shooter from developer Machine Games treats Nazis like zombies, ...
We Won't Freelance For Free: Why More Freelancers Want Regulations And More Benefits
Forbes - 27 Oct 2017 23:14
The Freelance Isn't Free Act gives New York City freelancers the right to full payment received in a timely manner, a written contract, and protects them from retaliatory acts. Freelancers elsewhere want it too.
AI is making smart homes safer
Venture Beat - 27 Oct 2017 23:10
GUEST: Smart home and AI devices aren't just convenient — they can also make your home a safer place. And thanks to the proliferating internet of things (IoT), good security practices are becoming less of a chore. It's...
How This Mexican Startup Is Delivering Joy Through Flowers
Forbes - 27 Oct 2017 22:04
If you've ever been far away from home, you know the feeling of longing you often feel for your friends and family. The Mexican based startup AZAP is looking to serve this market via the delivery of beautiful flowers.
Tartarus traps you in a space ship and forces a cook to pull a Scotty
Venture Beat - 27 Oct 2017 21:37
Tatarus is a first-person sci-fi survival game with an unlikely hero: Cooper, a part-time cook on a mining ship in space. It’s from the Istanbul-based indie studio Abyss Gameworks, and it will be out on November 21 for...
Facebook reveals new political ad policies in wake of U.S. election
Venture Beat - 27 Oct 2017 21:16
Facebook announced new advertising transparency policies today that affect all ads on the network. In addition to letting all Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger users view any ad on a devoted page regardless of whether t...
Artificial intelligence is changing the face of plastic surgery
Venture Beat - 27 Oct 2017 21:10
GUEST: You've probably read that artificial intelligence is transforming medicine. While the field has yet to reach its full potential, researchers are exploring ways that machine learning, a subset of AI, can dramatical...
Intel launches hyperfast Optane SSD 900P storage with special Star Citizen ship
Venture Beat - 27 Oct 2017 19:50
Intel is bringing some of its most impressive storage technology to consumers for the first time with its new Intel Optane SSD 900P Series of products. These are Intel’s latest PCIe NVMe 3.0 SSDs that provide much fast...
ProBeat: Samsung's slow software scheduling shenanigans
Venture Beat - 27 Oct 2017 19:30
OPINION: Earlier this week, the official Samsung Turkey news portal Güncel Miyiz let slip that Samsung phones will be getting Android 8.0 Oreo in early 2018. The page, which the site has since pulled (Google cache, Bing...
Kansas City SaaS startup Awari wants to identify workplace biases
Venture Beat - 27 Oct 2017 18:40
During a summer internship with a large Kansas City corporation, college student Louis Byrd was unexpectedly called into the HR office. Although the incident was about 10 years ago today, it has not yet left his mind, By...
Hidden Agenda: Sony's new PlayLink game lets your team decide how to play
Venture Beat - 27 Oct 2017 18:30
When Supermassive Games launched the horror title Until Dawn in 2015, it became a party game where your friends could help you make the right decision to save the lives of doomed teenagers. With Hidden Agenda, Supermassi...
The Corporate Partnership Bringing Education And Technology To Rural Ghana
Forbes - 27 Oct 2017 18:30
To bring education and technology to rural students in Ghana, social entrepreneur, Kafui Prebbie and his company, TECHAide, form a partnership with the IBM Corporate Service Corps to amplify impact through technology inn...
Product Design Journey: How We Went From Idea, To Prototype, To A Live App
Forbes - 27 Oct 2017 18:02
Turning an idea into a working product does not have to be expensive and complicated. Here is how a cash constrained start-up founder with no product design experience did it.
Meet the Entrepreneur Who Wants To Shrink, Not Grow, His Market
Forbes - 27 Oct 2017 16:48
Course materials like textbooks can amount to 25 percent of the cost of college for millions of students enrolled at community colleges and other higher ed settings. Why the high costs, and what can be done about it?
American Underground seeks to build a more inclusive startup community in North Carolina
Venture Beat - 27 Oct 2017 16:40
In the early 1900s, downtown Durham’s Parrish Street was a thriving entrepreneurial hub for African American-owned businesses and financial services — so much so that it earned the name “Black Wall Street.” Today...
EDUCAUSE Preview: Manage Your Campus For Student Success With Campus Management
Nibletz - 27 Oct 2017 16:25
Campus Management Does Exactly What Their Name Says They Do, Manage Campuses For Student Success Through their years of pioneering innovation in constituent relationship management for higher education, the team at Campu...
Britain's Most Productive Locations for SMEs... And The Least Productive
Forbes - 27 Oct 2017 16:19
SMEs in high-performing areas of the UK are almost 26 times' more productive than those in low-performing areas
Zebra shifts business model to AI that saves lives at scale
Venture Beat - 27 Oct 2017 15:00
We hear a lot these days about how AI is changing the marketing technology landscape, helping us sell products and services in the 21st century. But during my two-week journey through Israel’s startup scene, it was a m...
The One Question To Ask Your First Marketing Hire (And Eight Misconceptions About The Industry)
Forbes - 27 Oct 2017 15:00Medieval Censorship, Nudity And The Revealing History Of The Fig Leaf
Forbes - 27 Oct 2017 14:54
How did we come to use fig leaves to cover naked figures in art? The tale of the fig leaf is part of the long history of censorship in the art world.
Yankai's Peak: When your hobby turns into your full-time job...and awards
Venture Beat - 27 Oct 2017 13:10
SPONSORED: Presented by Intel When Kenny Sun's latest solo project, Yankai's Peak, came out earlier this year, he never would have anticipated that the game would be selected to win the Best Sound award from the Intel Le...
5 Ways To Get Unstuck And Fire Up Your Productivity
Forbes - 27 Oct 2017 12:42
We all get stuck sometimes, especially as entrepreneurs with heaving task lists. All too often, a problem or to-do item will crop up and suddenly we find ourselves in the procrastination twilight zone, spiraling in a sea...