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Apple and Facebook work out news subscription deal
2018-02-13

In October Facebook launched a new program that would allow publishers to sell subscriptions to their news sites on Facebook–-including in the Facebook mobile app. The program would allow publishers to be able to potentially make recurring revenue from articles shared on Facebook’s platforms. However,...

Amazon is reportedly creating an AI chip to process Alexa commands on-device
2018-02-13

After Apple, Google, and Huawei, Amazon is the newest kid on the AI chip block, according to a report from The Information. The outlet noted that the ecommerce giant is developing its own artificial intelligence processor for its Alexa-powered hardware, which presently includes the Echo lineup of smart speakers. The...

Need labels for your product? A new logo? A new website? Have AI design them
2018-02-13

As we’re sliding into 2018, it’s safe to say AI-powered machines can do just about anything. They can detect breast cancer. Paint a new Rembrandt. Even tell us if there’s fresh coffee in the kitchen. So it was only a matter of time before artificial intelligence found its way into design. Last year, we used the...

Facebook employees are next-level paranoid the company is watching them
2018-02-13

A recent Wired profile details the lengths at which Facebook employees are willing to go to ensure the company isn’t monitoring their communications. The piece examines two years of Facebook’s struggles, detailing everything from its Trending Topics debacle, to the dismissal, acceptance, and regret surrounding the...

Facebook will now let you hang out with your interest group in VR
2018-02-13

While Facebook is eager to get more people using its social virtual reality initiative Spaces, it has until now limited the people users could connect with to their friends or family members on Facebook. But even as Facebook has been making moves recently to make the experience of its core service more familiar...

How I cleaned up my embarrassing Twitter history
2018-02-12

This may be hard to imagine, but I, a now hilarious 24-year-old with impressive self-control and impeccable taste in movies, music, and celebrity crushes, have not always crafted the best tweets. Sure, my Twitter fingers are professionally trained at this point. But when I first made my debut in 2011, I was an...

LISTEN: Tim O’Reilly Eyes The Future Of The Tech Industry By Peering Into The Past
2018-02-12

On the latest episode of the “Bottom Line” podcast, the media guru draws on lessons of history to help understand high-tech’s current perils and promise. Lots of folks have expressed amazement at the speed with which Facebook, Google, and Apple have gone from being at the center of “the...

How to Build Engaging Video with Lumen5
2018-02-12

By now everyone knows that video content drives most engagement on social media. On Facebook for example, it gets more likes, more shares, and more clicks than any other content […] The post How to Build Engaging Video with Lumen5 appeared first on Find and get the most out of the best marketing tools to promote...

Your Twitter Followers May Be Damaging your Engagement and Reach
2018-02-12

When was the last time you analyzed your Twitter followers? How many of them are fake? How many of them haven’t tweeted in the last year or have zero followers? […] The post Your Twitter Followers May Be Damaging your Engagement and Reach appeared first on Find and get the most out of the best marketing...

Digital darwinism opens the door to an age of assistance
2018-02-12

For business transformation to succeed, the whole of innovation must be greater than the progress of its parts. But in an era of digital Darwinism, as technology and society evolve faster than many businesses can keep up, it may be up to the “parts” to lead the way toward holistic business transformation. Digital...

TNW’s Big Spam: Inside Instagram’s foot fetish community
2018-02-12

Happy Monday. We’re taking a break tomorrow 😢 Don’t miss us too much ❤️ Top trending tech news: 💰 Government websites have quietly been running crypto coin mining scripts (TNW)😮 Russian election meddling is up for ad awards (TechCrunch)🤑 Alibaba invested another $1.3 billion in offline...

Report: Android P to have ‘dramatic redesign’ and notch support, because iPhone X
2018-02-12

Thanks to the Apple, you can expect a plenty of devices to copy the iPhone X’s unholy notch in the years to come (even though Essential was first). Now seems Google is preparing for this notch-filled future by building support for screen cutouts directly into the UI for Android P. According to report by Bloomberg,...

Facebook is illegally collecting user data, court rules
2018-02-12

A German court today ruled Facebook was collecting data illegally from its users. The ruling, handed down by a Berlin regional court, states that Facebook didn’t obtain the consent from its users to collect data used for targeting in its own advertising platform. The Federation of German Consumer Organizations...

The Best Printers for Graphic Designers in 2018 & How To Choose What’s Right For You
2018-02-12

What is the best printer for a graphic designer? Here we we review the top best most effective printers on the market for graphic design in 2018.

The Best Laptops for Graphic Designers 2018
2018-02-12

We look at the best laptops for graphic design and art in 2018, including models from Apple, Dell, Microsoft, HP, Acer and more.

Top 12 Courses to Take on Udemy in 2018
2018-02-12

A curated list of 12 of Udemy's top courses, in the fields of design, development, digital marketing and creativity. What will you learn in 2018?

Creative Chats with Jacob Cass
2018-02-12

Jacob Cass has a "Creative Chat" with HUNTERHunter, discussing New York agency life and how he travels the world while working as a graphic designer & blogger.

New Logotype Masterclass with Jessica Hische
2018-02-12

Take your logos from good to great, with the award-winning designer and letterer, Jessica Hische in this Logotype Masterclass.

[Podcast] Creating a Personal Brand with Jacob Cass
2018-02-12

Learn how Jacobs been able to travel the world working as a freelance designer, how he designs a logo, & how he makes a passive income from affiliate marketing.

AI-fueled edtech is our only hope for tech literate leaders
2018-02-11

Imagine, if you will, a President of the United States that truly understands AI’s potential: how to use it, when to trust it, and how to stop it if necessary. Is this prospect terrifying or exciting? It’s hard to say for sure. It seems obvious that up-and-coming generations will bring a new, if not radically...

How you can train AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS
2018-02-11

Within three years, deep learning will change front-end development. It will increase prototyping speed and lower the barrier for building software. The field took off last year when Tony Beltramelli introduced the pix2code paper and Airbnb launched sketch2code. Currently, the largest barrier to automating...

Niantic’s Harry Potter game will be a defining moment for AR
2018-02-11

Niantic, the company behind Pokémon GO, has recently announced that they’re working on a follow-up to their monumentally successful Augmented Reality (AR) game. Pokéballs and Pocket Monsters move aside; and wands and wizardry will take their place as next AR craze will be J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter being...

Chatbot data cannot fall into the hands of big tech
2018-02-11

Imagine the world a decade from now. It’s no longer ruled by powerhouse countries such as the US or China, but by a handful of tech corporations that know everything about us; what we need, buy, say, and ultimately what we desire. So join me for a short imaginary trip to our possible future. Welcome to the FAMGA...

Smartphone data tracking is even creepier than you think
2018-02-11

  Smartphones rule our lives. Having information at our fingertips is the height of convenience. They tell us all sorts of things, but the information we see and receive on our smartphones is just a fraction of the data they generate. By tracking and monitoring our behaviour and activities, smartphones build a...

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