Month: August 2024

Small Businesses It’s a good time to get a loan but also to take advantage of tax reform and keep pace with tech. Image credit: Hero Images | Getty Images Tom Sullivan and Melissa Bercier Guest Writer Sullivan: Head, Small Business Policy, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Bercier: Small Business Owner and Chamber Member December…

I argued in my recent post What’s Next for Podcasting? that we’re at a pivot point where podcasting is becoming a mainstream content format for all types of shows and creators as Hollywood enters the fray. There’s a surge of interest by both creatives and businesspeople in podcasts right now, so I’ve compiled a reading…

When it comes to how humans communicate with each other or with machines, voice is a major interface, with growth in the latter fuelled by the rise of artificial intelligence, faster computing technology and an explosion of new devices — some of which only, or primarily, work with voice commands. But the supreme reign of voice has…

The most important room in the house. Photograph: Tom Kelley Archive/Getty Images Chances are, you’re reading this in your kitchen. It’s not only regularly voted the most important room of the house, but it’s also the place we spend more money on than any other – filled, as it is, with the latest smart home…

Google SquooshScreenshot: GizmodoGoogle has a new, experimental web app for you to try: Squoosh. It uses the latest in image compression technology to cram your pictures into smaller file sizes with a minimal loss of quality, but what really impresses about the app—coded in the WebAssembly programming language—is its speed, even under a relatively heavy…

From UNIVAC to the will.i.am hologram. Every election night, news networks are forced to contend with two seemingly contradictory problems: more information than they can possibly report and more time than they can possibly fill. For the last 70 years, anchors, reporters, and producers from rival TV networks have competed to air the best, most…

Stuart Palley, a professional wildfire photographer here standing in the Angeles National Forest, believes mirrorless cameras will replace conventional SLRs. Stuart Palley Digital photography has changed a lot over the past two decades, with clunky DSLRs giving way to sleek smartphones. Over the next 10 years, expect a similar evolution as the science behind the…

Apple’s HomePod is a distant third behind Amazon and Google when it comes to market share for smart speakers that double up as home hubs, with less than 5 percent share of the market for these devices in the U.S., according to one recent survey. And its flagship personal assistant, Siri, has also been determined…

Home Earth Environment November 22, 2018 November 22, 2018 by Pat Eaton-Robb In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2018 photo, Joe Balog, a workforce management director at Travelers, examines weather, social media and other data from recent natural disasters inside the company’s catastrophe response command center in Windsor, Conn. The company uses the data to determine…

By Dan Moren, Contributor, Macworld | Nov 16, 2018 3:00 AM PT Analyzing Apple’s next moves Apple’s latest features don’t always make it to all of the company’s products. Here are three examples that should make the jump from one platform to another. Apple Every year, it seems like Apple comes out with at least…

Amazon decided to shut down its experimental artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting tool after discovering it discriminated against women. The company created the tool to trawl the web and spot potential candidates, rating them from one to five stars. But the algorithm learned to systematically downgrade women’s CV’s for technical jobs such as software developer. Although…

WASHINGTON — President Trump warned China on Tuesday that if President Xi Jinping failed to make good on the trade promises reached during their weekend meeting, the United States would impose additional tariffs on Chinese imports.Referring to himself as a “Tariff Man,” Mr. Trump issued a series of tweets that only further deepened the murkiness…

OnePlus is known for flagship phones that don’t break the bank, high-quality accessories, and they already make a pretty great backpack, which is why when they announced alongside the OnePlus 6T that they were releasing a new backpack with a higher capacity and a slicker look, we all sat up and took notice. The OnePlus…

Earlier this year, we told you about a now 18-month-old, Hoboken, N.J.-based cryptocurrency startup working on a “stable coin” whose elastic supply would ostensibly expand and contract to keep its value at about a dollar instead of all over the map. The company’s big idea: to develop a new token that people would actually use,…

About The Author Suzanne Scacca is a former WordPress implementer, trainer and agency manager who now works as a freelance copywriter. She specializes in crafting marketing, web … More about Suzanne November 14, 2018 Leave a comment Ever since Pokémon Go brought augmented reality into consumers’ line of sight, marketers and developers have been looking…

A recent survey found that around 20 percent of all jobs in the U.S. are held by contractors — people who take on work based on a particular project or fixed-term period, not as full-time, permanent employees. We’ve definitely seen that trend play out in Silicon Valley, both among the knowledge workers building tech products…

binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror 104149546 story China’s Brightest Children Are Being Recruited To Develop AI ‘Killer Bots’ (scmp.com) 73 Posted by msmash on Thursday November 08, 2018 @09:40AM from the how-about-that dept. A group of some of China’s smartest students have been recruited straight from high school to begin training as the world’s…

Artificial Intelligence If you’re an entrepreneur in the healthcare field, you need to prepare: AI is coming to your segment soon. Image credit: metamorworks | Getty Images Toby Nwazor Contributor Consumer Goods Entrepreneur, Freelance Writer December 18, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Technology is changing fast, and the…

Augmented Reality The good news for your company is that AR is widely available to nearly anyone who wants to adapt it — using a tool which, would you believe, is on Facebook? Image credit: Busakorn Pongparnit | Getty Images Stephen Nations Guest Writer Director, Public Relations, Drive Social Media November 28, 2018 8 min…

“I tucked Joel in, but I feel so guilty I didn’t hold him longer,” Julie Rea said, her voice welling with emotion. That is all she can muster about the worst night of her life. As she tries to say more, she breaks down.The story remains, still, almost unspeakable. In the early morning hours of…

ImageThe Crescent City Connection over the Mississippi River in New Orleans.CreditCreditMarka/UIG, via Getty ImagesNEW ORLEANS — How do the greatest cities succeed?The question could not come at a more critical time, as cities around the world face challenges — and opportunities — unimagined in human history. By some estimates, 68 percent of the world’s population…

By Sen Mark R. Warner and Penny Pritzker5 minute ReadThe work landscape our children are entering today looks nothing like what our parents experienced. The notion of working for the same firm for your whole career is a distant memory, and anyone whose career trajectory looks that way is considered an outlier. Today, workers are…

Tiffany Olson Kleemann Contributor Tiffany Olson Kleemann is the chief executive officer of Distil Networks. She formerly served in executive roles at Symantec and FireEye and was deputy chief of staff for cybersecurity operations under President George W. Bush. The fact that Russian-linked bots penetrated social media to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election has…

By escalating tensions over national security, the United States may be hurting its own position in trade talks.By Lindsey Ford and Wendy S. CutlerMs. Ford, a former Defense Department official, served as senior adviser to the assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs from 2009 to 2015. Ms. Cutler served as acting…

A guide to the new reality-melting technology in your phone’s camera Alexis C. Madrigal Dec 18, 2018 A screenshot from an Unbox Therapy video showing selfies taken under identical lighting conditions with different generations of Apple phonesLewis Hilsenteger When a prominent YouTuber named Lewis Hilsenteger (aka “Unbox Therapy”) was testing out this fall’s new iPhone…

New technology allows researchers to look beneath the layers of the Dutch master’s works, revealing some macabre details.Image“The Battle Between Carnival and Lent,” painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1559. Using infrared and X-ray technology, researchers uncovered changes that have been made to the work over the centuries.CreditCreditKunsthistorisches MuseumAMSTERDAM — What would happen if…

Photo: Getty ImagesIt’s 2018. A storm is raging down the Eastern coast of the U.S., my smartphone can do almost anything I ask it, and yet I’m still expected to physically haul myself down to the polls.I did—despite what you might believe about millennials. I believe in swiping right on democracy. Still, while slogging through…

As we continue to wax nostalgic — or something like it — on 2018 and look ahead to the next year, we wanted to get a sense of how users feel about the past, present, and future of tech. We’ve covered our top news stories of 2018, and looked back on which predicted tech trends…

Still wet from a swim, I placed my finger on the digital crown of an Apple Watch and took an ECG reading of my heart. Or tried to. The squiggly red line the test produced was—and these are technical medical terms—weird and messy. The ECG, or electrocardiogram, was inconclusive “due to a poor recording.” First…