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Freelance payment platform Kalo's new ranking puts the spotlight on employers who have prioritized treating independent contractors on their team with respect.

I’ve already written that I think that the Shadow of the Colossus remake on PlayStation 4 looks too refined. But I’m trying put that aside so I can play this new version on its terms. I do admit that when I look beyo...

Tired of the pain of wearing high heels, but unwilling to give them up, Abby Walker built a fast-growing company that aims to make stylish shoes more comfortable.

GUEST: Earlier this week, Facebook announced it is rolling out a new privacy center to help the company comply with Europe’s GDPR regulation that comes into effect in just four months. The company’s announcement come...

There are four key reasons companies may not hire a Chief People Officer, and they're all wrong, according to Meghan M. Biro. Here's why we'll always need a human at the helm.

The traditional bicycle sports a pretty smart design, one that has stood the test of time. But this might be the moment for smart bikes to take over. That’s the thinking behind the Flash ebike, a technology-heavy bike ...

You'll make many mistakes when you start a small business--don't let your marketing strategy be one of them.

Bird Brain Technologies Is Bringing STEM, STEAM, Coding And Even Art Projects To Life. When you think of the term “bird brain” it isn’t typically the nicest thing to say about somebody. When you talk about Bird Bra...

The Overwatch League had a great debut a couple of weeks ago, with more than 10 million viewers turning in during the first week of the inaugural esports league based on Blizzard’s Overwatch third-person shooter game. ...

Hands-down my biggest issue with the HTC Vive as a platform is the lack of a thumbstick (or joystick or control stick or whatever you want to call it) on the Vive wand controller. While acceptable in most cases, the touc...

As a freelancer, you may have found that you're working longer hours and stressed out over finances. Here are four signs that freelancing isn't working for you right now, and some strategies for fixing those problems.

If Classcraft Wasn’t So Awesome We Would Have A Big Problem This may go down in history as our best story from FETC 2018 in Orlando Florida this week. It involves Class Craft the company that gamifies the entire classr...

(Reuters) — The co-founders of a cryptocurrency project called Tezos have caused a “catastrophe” by making unfounded accusations against the president of a Swiss foundation that controls the money raised, a former ...

Chicago unicorn startup Outcome Health saw its star quickly fall in November when prominent investors including Goldman Sachs and CapitalG sued the company for allegedly providing them with false information. Today, thos...

On Tuesday the creative collective Botnik Studios released an imitation Coachella poster with artists names generated by a recurrent neural network trained on thousands of band names. In past weeks Botnik, an Alexa Accel...

The Women's March celebrated its first anniversary on Sunday, January 21st. Beyond the message of protecting women's rights and promoting gender equality, the second Women's March was laser focused on creating opportunit...

Dragon Ball wasn’t just an anime thing that I was into back when I was an awkward teenager. It turns out that most awkward teenagers are into it and many of them carry that fandom with them into adulthood, and that mai...

GUEST: Alexa and her corresponding Amazon devices are best known for streamlining tasks in our personal lives. Things such as checking news briefings or weather forecasts and adding items to a to-do list are made easier ...

Communicating technical concepts to another technical person requires focus and discipline. Add to this picture other complexities in cross-gender communication. Then scratch below the surface, and you'll understand why ...

GUEST: It feels like a page out of a science-fiction book: self-driving cars shuttling people around with little or no input from passengers. And yet, here we are. Self-driving technology is already a reality, and it’s...