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Big Dutch bank teases cryptocurrency wallet, people think it’s a scam
2018-02-28

Bitcoin conspiracy theorists have long speculated that banks and financial institutions are out to slay the cryptocurrency market, but it seems the narrative is gradually starting to change: leading Dutch bank Rabobank is apparently toying around with the idea of launching its own cryptocurrency wallet....

Dick’s Sporting Goods will stop selling assault-style rifles
2018-02-28

In a sign that the tide may finally be turning when it comes to public opinion on guns, Dick’s Sporting Goods has announced they will stop selling assault-style rifles, reports The Hill. But Dick’s isn’t stopping there. The company also announced it will also no longer sell guns to anyone under...

Do Resume Typos Matter? Here’s What Hundreds Of LinkedIn Users Say
2018-02-28

Typos are often interpreted as a sign of poor attention to detail. But in a digital world where most text is editable, does that still make sense? A few months ago, I posted a question on LinkedIn: “If someone who is not a professional writer has a couple of typos in their resume, why does that speak to...

Facebook just expanded its job listings to 40 countries
2018-02-28

Facebook is opening up the ability to post jobs on its platform to 40 countries today. Roughly 26% of consumers found or searched for a job on Facebook, according to a 2017 Morning Consult Intelligence survey commissioned by Facebook. The social network first rolled out job postings and job applications last...

The moon is getting its own 4G mobile phone network
2018-02-28

In what is sure to make E.T. happy, the moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, reports Reuters. No, this is not a joke. Vodafone Germany, Nokia, and Audi are teaming up for a private space mission next year that will see a mobile phone network rolled out on the moon that … Continue reading...

Amazon’s Prime Music streaming service lands in India
2018-02-28

The rumors from  last March were true: Amazon has rolled out its Prime Music service in India today, with apps available for the web, Android, and iOS. The service is part of Amazon’s Prime subscription, which grants access to fast and often free shipping, as well as Prime Video, for Rs. 999 ($15) a year. That’s...

Google’s Flutter framework for building iOS and Android apps launches in beta
2018-02-28

After being announced last year, Google took to the stage at MWC 2018 to announce a beta release of Flutter, its free and open-source framework for building iOS and Android apps with a unified codebase. The SDK lets devs code their apps in the Dart programming language, and packages them along with a rendering...

Amazon acquires Ring’s home security business for $1 billion
2018-02-28

Amazon has acquired Ring, a Santa Monica, California-based maker of connected video doorbells and security cameras, for $1 billion. That will see the ecommerce giant push further into the home security business: it previously acquired Blink, which makes similar products. Plus, it already offers a Cloud Cam that’s...

This Menswear Brand Lost 10K Instagram Followers Over Same-Sex Ads
2018-02-27

Dutch menswear company Suitsupply’s latest campaign features men who appear to be attracted to each other and many on social media cannot handle it. Advertising drives people nuts. Sometimes it’s for a sensible reason, like when Dodge Ram used a Martin Luther King Jr. speech to sell trucks during the...

Google rejected 57% of 2.4 million “right to be forgotten” privacy requests
2018-02-27

Google has played by the European Union’s “right to be forgotten” rules since 2014, when the European Court of Justice introduced a law that allowed European citizens to request that search engines erase information about them from search results. In its latest annual Transparency...

Bye bye black box: Researchers teach AI to explain itself
2018-02-27

A team of international researchers recently taught AI to justify its reasoning and point to evidence when it makes a decision. The ‘black box’ is becoming transparent, and that’s a big deal. Figuring out why a neural network makes the decisions it does is one of the biggest concerns in the field of artificial...

Meet Vero, the barely-functional app gunning for Instagram’s audience
2018-02-27

In the last few days a fledgling social media app shot to the top of the free app charts. Vero is a bit of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram all rolled into one and it’d undoubtedly be over the moon dethroning any or all of those apps. Spoiler alert: it won’t. Vero has been on the market for three years. Recently,...

Here's how to delete your Vero account
2018-02-27

So you jumped on the bandwagon, and now you're desperately trying to figure out how to get off.  Welcome to the world of Vero, the Instagram-challenger currently taking social media by storm. The app has seen a surge in downloads over the past week, with people excited about chronological timelines and a...

Watch The Growth Of Cities Using 100% Renewable Energy
2018-02-27

Countries might be slow to implement smart climate policies, but cities around the world are pushing the envelope. This map shows their growth. As nations drag their feet on even modest climate change commitments, cities continue to take up the slack, particularly in taking up clean energy. More than 40 cities...

How To Discreetly Look For A New Job While You’re At Work
2018-02-27

You can’t always do your job search after-hours. Here’s how to be inconspicuous when you have to do it at work. If you clicked on this article, there’s a high probability that you’re considering finding a new job. Maybe you’re actively applying. Maybe you’re just...

Pinterest names former Square exec as its first chief operating officer
2018-02-27

Pinterest just tapped Francoise Brougher to be its first chief operating officer. She recently resigned from Square, where she spent the last four years as one of founder Jack Dorsey’s top executives, and prior to that led Google’s Business Operations group since 2005. At Pinterest,...

Facebook’s vaguely worded face recognition “announcement” coincided with a legal setback
2018-02-27

Perhaps you saw a post this morning on your Facebook feed touting face recognition for “more features.” According to the social network, this ability to analyze users’ faces–which before only helped users tag photos–is becoming even more widespread. For background: Facebook has long...

Even Barack Obama thinks Facebook and Google need to change their ways
2018-02-27

The first president to have a Twitter account thinks social media needs to change. In what was supposed to be an off-the-record speech at MIT’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference on Friday, Barack Obama shared his concerns about how social media has un-united these states of ours. Libertarian...

Plae, the cult sneaker brand for kids, now has bigger shoes to fill
2018-02-27

Four years ago, kids’ shoe startup Plae entered the market in a big way. The shoes–designed by founder Ryan Ringholz, former lead designer at Puma–were quickly embraced by kids in the celebrity set. (The Afflecks and Kutchers are fans.) When Ringholz had kids, he wanted to use his experience to...

There’s a major lack of quality VR/AR content — this startup wants to fix that
2018-02-27

In the past few years, advances in hardware and software have helped push augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) from test labs into the hands of millions of consumers. Headsets such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Microsoft HoloLens and the newer versions of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems have...

Top Companies Are Missing Talent From Historically Black Colleges
2018-02-27

As Silicon Valley blames the “pipeline problem” for its lack of diversity, there’s untapped talent at HBCUs. Meet a few people working to change the ratio. How many times have you seen a report where today’s top tech companies admit to struggling to recruit top diverse talent? Only 2% of...

Bitcoin developer warns Lightning Network is flawed and vulnerable to DoS attacks
2018-02-27

Bitcoin maximalists have long counted on the Lightning Network and its off-chain transaction solution to fix the network’s increasing scaling issues and exorbitant transfer costs – but it seems this dream might not be as close to reality as the blockchain community wishes. Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd has...

Forget learning to code, bosses value collaboration and communication
2018-02-27

The top priority for developing talent is to train for soft skills,  according to LinkedIn’s 2018 Workplace Learning Report which surveyed more than 4,000 professionals. The report found that while automation is requiring workers to maintain technical fluency across roles, the rise...

WeWork’s rival Industrious just raised $80 million
2018-02-27

Sure, it’s not a $4.4 billion investment like WeWork got from SoftBank, but the $80 million Industrious just nabbed shows the coworking space sector still has room for growth. Industrious raised the $80 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital and Fifth Wall Ventures, reports Axios. What will the company do...

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