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Time To Go Bargain Hunting In Bitcoin, Ripple, Litecoin And Other Cryptocurrencies?
Forbes - 8 Feb 2018 03:04
With many currencies trading anywhere from 60 to 80 percent below their all-time highs, and the advance/decline ratio improving, the time may be ripe to go bargain hunting.
Heartland Tech Weekly: What makes a city attractive for tech workers
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 04:12
This week on the Heartland Tech channel, we published an essay from Josh Driver, the founder of an Indiana software startup and a member of the LGBTQ community, on how his state can create a more welcoming environment fo...
6 jobs that could see an uptick in demand with the rise of AI
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 02:10
GUEST: While fears abound that AI automation will lead to big staff cuts in industries around the world, technology will bring forth a plethora of new jobs and services. Similar to the onslaught of positions created by s...
Call of Duty remains Activision's top money faucet
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 23:40
Activision Blizzard is cashing in on the renewed popularity of its major first-person shooter game, Call of Duty. The military shooter surpassed $1 billion in sales during the holiday quarter, which ended December 31. Ca...
Nvidia rides games and AI chip sales to $2.91 billion Q4 revenue
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 23:32
Nvidia used to be synonymous with graphics chips for game machines. But now it is using those same chips to drive artificial intelligence calculations, and that is taking the company into new markets from servers to self...
Twitch launches new zero-tolerance policy for hateful content, issues new streamer guidelines
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 23:11
Twitch has revised its guidelines to take a stronger stance against harassment, hate, and sexually suggestive content. In a blog post, Amazon’s livestreaming video site detailed how these changes will work, and how it ...
The 10 biggest 5G details we learned at Qualcomm
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 23:04
ANALYSIS: As Qualcomm’s second annual 5G Day progressed yesterday, I officially went from “cautiously optimistic” about next-generation 5G cellular technology to “genuinely excited.” Qualcomm offered enough spe...
CISO/Security Vendor Relationship: 15 Ways to Make 'First Contact' with a CISO
Forbes - 8 Feb 2018 22:19
CISOs universally agree that relationship selling is more effective than traditional marketing. How then do you form that initial relationship with a CISO?
Dungeon Survivor II: Dark Tide is talking signups for its Lovecraftian horrors
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 21:59
Dungeon Survivor II: Dark Tide’s world features ghoulish creatures and a dark fantasy aesthetic -- and other parts are left up to your imagination. Leiting Games’s followup to its 2014 title includes elements of text...
How startups are changing their approach to distributed teams as big tech looks outside the Valley
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 21:15
FEATURE: When ClassPass was looking to open a third office outside of its New York and San Francisco locations, it decided on Missoula, Montana — a location that doesn’t usually top the lists of the best cities for t...
Pinterest: Lens sees 600 million visual searches every month
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 20:00
Pinterest shared insights into its Lens visual search tool today, one year after the social media platform launched the tool in beta for its Android and iOS apps. Lens is now used to complete 600 million visual searches ...
Chrome will start marking all sites as not secure in July
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 20:00
Google today announced the third step in its browser’s war on sites. Starting in July 2018, Chrome will mark all as not secure right in its address bar. S is a more secure version of the protocol used on the interne...
Microsoft schedules Build 2018 developer conference for May 7-9 in Seattle
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 19:33
Last year, Microsoft moved its Build developer conference from San Francisco to Seattle. The company has apparently deemed the decision a success as Build 2018 will indeed stay in the company’s home state of Washington...
Octogeddon review -- who knew that fighting as a giant octopus could be this fun?
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 19:00
REVIEW: Octogeddon is a stellar new arcade action-strategy game from Plants vs. Zombies creator George Fan and his new indie studio, All Yes Good. Just like PvZ, it’s zany. A giant cartoon octopus watches a video of a ...
TCEA 2018 Video: SWIVL Has Re-invented Teacher Video Observation For Professional Development
Nibletz - 8 Feb 2018 18:55
Level Up Your Teacher Observation With SWIVL When we first reported on SWIVL back in 2014 they had introduced a robotic device for moving a mobile devices camera around to follow the teacher for a number of reasons. Stud...
Tech workers favor Seattle, Austin for relocation
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 18:27
Many cities in America’s heartland hope that their lower cost of living is enough of a siren call to lure tech workers out of the Bay Area. But a new survey from job seeking platform Hired shows that tech workers aren�...
TCEA 2018 Video: Milo From Robokind Is The Most Amazing Robot We've Ever Seen
Nibletz - 8 Feb 2018 18:15
Robokind Is Using Milo To Help Kids With Autism He’s part robotic buddy, he’s part aide, he’s part companion, he’s part teacher and his totally cool. That’s Milo, from Robokind and he is the most amazing robot ...
The IndieBeat: Tuned Out channel surfs between 15 different minigames
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 18:05
Tuned Out is a hectic mashup that puts up to four people through the paces of 15 minigames. It presents these as different channels of a virtual TV, enabling players to flip through various little worlds, all with a ’9...
Newzoo: Mobile esports ascends in Asia
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 18:00
Multiplayer online battle arena games like League of Legends and shooters like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive dominate the esports scene in the West, but China has a burgeoning mobile esports scene that has already see...
LinkedIn open-sources Dynamometer for Hadoop performance testing at scale
Venture Beat - 8 Feb 2018 18:00
LinkedIn today released an open source project called Dynamometer to help businesses stress-test large-scale Hadoop big data processing systems without using a massive amount of infrastructure. The tool is designed to pr...
Six Trends That Will Shape Customer Service In 2018 (For Better Or Worse)
Forbes - 8 Feb 2018 18:00'The Apologies Mean Nothing': Girls In Tech CEO On Sexual Harassment In Silicon Valley
Forbes - 8 Feb 2018 17:55
Girls in Tech founder and CEO, Adriana Gascoigne discusses her experience with harassment in the workplace and what it will take for the tech ecosystem to evolve.