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Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide: 8 tips to get you started
Venture Beat - 20 Mar 2020 06:00
Here's a guide to get you started in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. These tips will help you get the most out of the game.
Texas-Based AI Company Gears Up To Fight Coronavirus With Fever Detection Technology
Forbes - 20 Mar 2020 22:58
Athena Security uses thermal imaging and computer vision for gun detection-- and now is using the same technology to spot fevers in hopes of mitigating the spread of the coronavirus.
Now's The Time To Build A Virtual Super-Team. Here's How.
Forbes - 20 Mar 2020 22:47
In this new period of remote work, building a virtual super-team requires empathy for the differing needs of team members, the development of a "virtual team charter," and the ability to bring a human touch to virtual co...
The RetroBeat: Crackdown is a fun way to blast the stress away
Venture Beat - 20 Mar 2020 22:03
Everyone is playing Animal Crossing. What about the people who find relaxation through, you know, casual mayhem and cartoony violence?
Diligent Robotics raises $10 million for nurse assistant robot Moxi
Venture Beat - 20 Mar 2020 22:00
Diligent Robotics announced the close a $10 million Series A today to deploy more Moxi nurse assistant robots in hospitals.
Kahlief Adams on scraping by in the podcast game -- How Games Make Money
Venture Beat - 20 Mar 2020 21:30
On this week’s episode of How Games Make Money, host Jeff Grubb speaks with Spawn On Me founder Kahlief Adams. Spawn On Me is a podcast about people of color working in video games. Adams started the show six years ago...
4 reasons you should be moving toward zero-trust security
Venture Beat - 20 Mar 2020 20:44
The distributed nature of data across IT environments creates new security challenges Here's how to secure dynamic and borderless digital resources.
How To Become A 'Compelled Entrepreneur'
Forbes - 20 Mar 2020 20:15
There is a powerful force at play that causes corporate executives and career employees to leave safety and security for the risky and uncertain life of an entrepreneur. That force is the power of compulsion.
The Missing Catalyst In Senator Klobuchar's VC Fund
Forbes - 20 Mar 2020 19:57
Sen. Klobuchar is promoting the New Business Preservation Act to start a $2 billion fund to bring VC to Main Street. To make this fund successful, and not a giant boondoggle, I think it should reverse the VC process.
A Travel Booking Website That Helps Combat The Homeless Crisis
Forbes - 20 Mar 2020 19:52
When you next book your holiday you might want to consider scrapping the points you'd earn through Expedia, Hotels.com or similar travel booking sites, and instead make an impact on some of society's most vulnerable.
World of Warcraft gives players a 100% experience bonus through April 20
Venture Beat - 20 Mar 2020 19:41
Is being stuck inside giving you an itch to return to the World of Warcraft? Well, Blizzard is giving you a pretty nice incentive to do just that.
ProBeat: The rise and inevitable fall of Microsoft Teams and Slack
Venture Beat - 20 Mar 2020 19:30
Microsoft Teams, Slack, Facebook's Workplace, Google Hangouts, Zoom, Cisco Webex, GoToMeeting, BlueJeans, and all the rest are on a coronavirus sugar high.
How COVID-19 Exposed The Injustice Of IR35 Reform
Forbes - 20 Mar 2020 19:15
The UK has postponed its controversial IR35 reforms as the self-employed struggle with COVID-19. If the regulation comes back, it must be overhauled.
Call of Duty: Warzone has 30 million players 'working from home'
Venture Beat - 20 Mar 2020 18:48
Call of Duty: Warzone has 30 million players 'working from home' in the new battle royale game. Pretty good for just 10 days.
Apple's odd A12Z chip may hint at late 2020 iPad Pros with A14X and 5G
Venture Beat - 20 Mar 2020 18:47
Apple typically doesn't release flagship iPads without touting major jumps in chip performance, and that may be a red flag for the 2020 iPad Pro.
Small businesses extend lifeline to employees and communities battered by coronavirus
CNBC - 20 Mar 2020 18:07
Small business owners are sending food deliveries, hiring spouses and more to support their workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
'Hell is here' -- 'Shark Tank' investor Herjavec's mandate for small businesses 'is survival'
CNBC - 20 Mar 2020 18:01
Robert Herjavec, cybersecurity entrepreneur and "Shark Tank" investor, told CNBC that his directive to small businesses is to do whatever it takes to survive.
IBM adds coronavirus to 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge
Venture Beat - 20 Mar 2020 18:00
IBM announced it will expand its 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge to cover the novel coronavirus. Grand prize winners will receive $200,000 in cash.
'It's a new planet overnight': New York City businesses hit hard by coronavirus pandemic
CNBC - 20 Mar 2020 17:53
New York City businesses are struggling to make money and retain workers as the coronavirus continues to inflict economic pain.
How This Teenage Serial Entrepreneur Became 'Hopelessly Addicted' To Entrepreneurship In Seventh Grade
Forbes - 20 Mar 2020 17:50
From social media marketing and selling phone cases, to graphic design and matching teens with odd jobs, serial entrepreneur Brendan Cox has founded a string of businesses - more than 10 - and he is still only 19.
The DeanBeat: Esports pivots to digital because of the coronavirus
Venture Beat - 20 Mar 2020 17:00
As the coronavirus epidemic accelerated, esports had to change. The first sign was when Blizzard canceled its events in China on January 29, to protect the safety of people who gathered at live events at stadiums in Chin...
Coronavirus, Stock Market Crash And The World Of Impact: Insights From Allie Burns
Forbes - 20 Mar 2020 15:47
Not Only for Profit talked to Allie Burns, CEO of Village Capital, about how her accelerator startups are mobilizing to address the economic crisis, the challenges they're facing and how Village Capital is adapting.