This article was sourced from Fast Company. Article by Ronald Pies. The phrase “alternative facts” has recently made the news in a political context, but psychiatrists like me are already intimately acquainted with the concept—indeed, we hear various forms of alternate reality expressed almost every day. All of us need to parse perceived from actual reality […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Kate Conger. After several courts shot down his executive order that banned travelers from seven nations from entering the United States, President Trump today made another attempt to implement his proposed Muslim immigration ban. Trump signed a new executive order this morning that reduces the list of affected nations to […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Tien Tzuo. So much for the death of the newspaper industry. A recent Nielsen Scarborough study found that more than 169 million U.S. adults now read newspapers every month, in print, online or mobile. That’s almost 70 percent of the population. The New York Times picked up […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Natasha Lomas. With retro phone brands Nokia and Blackberry remerging at Mobile World Congress this year you’d be forgiven for thinking Mistress Fortune was up to her old wheel-spinning tricks again. And as old tech becomes tech news again, it’s a sign — say some — that smartphone innovation is on […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Tom Goodwin. In a month where Facebook launched its TV app with Samsung as a launch partner, we have to ask what this means for TV and then every other channel. What if social media was just becoming the aggregation layer we accessed content through? The concept […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Devin Coldeway. The only thing I like less than getting a 50-megabyte attachment in an email is not getting it because it bounced. That should happen less frequently now that Google has raised the bar for Gmail accounts, and anything up to 50 megs is A-OK. Honestly, […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Matthew Lynley. Snap has given a final price for its IPO, setting the company’s valuation at nearly $24 billion with a price of $17 per share, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. With that, it looks like Wall Street had plenty of appetite for […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by John Mannes. Conversational AI is pushing deeper into enterprise with Workfit, a new startup promising to make conference call follow-ups and mid-meeting CRM updates as easy as playing a song or checking the weather on Google Home or Amazon Echo. Battery Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Salesforce Ventures and […]
This article was sourced from Forbes. Article by Jason Bloomberg. In many corporate boardrooms, the word Agile conjures up images of small teams of hotshot software developers, iterating over their backlogs of requirements so rapidly they don’t have time to sit down during their daily status meetings. At ICAgile’s inaugural Business Agility 2017 conference in New […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Christoffer O. Hernæs. The idea of a cashless society is one of the topics that stirs up a heated debate when it comes to the digitalization of banking and society. On one hand, physical cash is the common denominator for corruption, tax evasion, money laundering and other various illegal […]
This article was sourced from Business Insider Australia. Article by Eugene Kim. Mark Cuban, the billionaire investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, doesn’t think the greatest startup in the world is Uber or Airbnb. It’s Amazon. “I think Amazon is the greatest start-up and the greatest company in the world,” Cuban said Friday in an […]
This article was sourced from Business Insider Australia. Article by Chris Pash. Mobile phone retail chain Allphones went into voluntary administration today. Allphones, which opened its first shopfront in South Australia in 1989, is the largest independent telecommunications retailer in Australia with 80 company-owned, licensed and franchised stores and 440 staff. As a first step, 18 company-owned […]
This article was sourced from Fast Company. Article by Kevin D Mitnick. Ang Cui is the CEO and chief scientist of Red Balloon Security, but from 2008 until 2015 he was a graduate student at Columbia University, where he spent more time thinking about laser printers than most of the people who used them. Cui wondered, in […]
This article was sourced from The Sydney Morning Herald. Article by Ben Grubb. The German software developer who introduced a security flaw into an encryption protocol used by millions of websites globally says he did not insert it deliberately as some have suggested. In what appears to be his first comments to the media since the […]
This article was sourced from Sydney Morning Herald. Article by Ben Grubb. CommBank suffered an almost three-hour long major outage on Friday afternoon that affected its Eftpos machines and customers’ access to some features in Netbank, its online banking system. The outage, which began about 12pm AEST, was affecting customers across Australia, leaving some people unable to pay for […]
This article was sourced from The Sydney Morning Herald. Article by Melissa Healy. New research suggests the tax office should expand the list of acceptable explanations for procrastinators’ yearly extension requests and late tax filings. Two possibilities: “I was born this way” and “failure to evolve”. Procrastination, suggests a new study, is an evolved trait that […]