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China has won AI battle with U.S., Pentagon's ex-software chief says

LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times.

1819 – Innovation Hub

The University of Cincinnati 1819 Innovation Hub, Where next happens. What is 1819?

FBI chief slams Chinese cyberattacks on U.S., calls it 'one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history'

WASHINGTON — In blistering remarks Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray slammed the Chinese government for its use of espionage and cyberattacks against the United States which has amounted to what he called "one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history.

Hot and Violent

No one knows how climate change will transform our lives.

The 10 Buffer Values and How We Act on Them Every Day

Hey there! Since this post was published, we’ve updated the Buffer values. See the updated values here. There are a few things I can count on when I tell someone about what it’s like to work at Buffer.

Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer: Our Transparent Formula and All Individual Salaries

Heads up! We’ve updated our transparent salary formula since this post originally was published. Learn more about the latest formula and see all the team’s current salaries.

Introducing Open Equity: Buffer’s Equity Formula and Full Individual Breakdown

Ever since we established the Buffer values that are at the heart of our company culture, we’ve been continuously on the lookout for new ways to live those values every day – particularly our important value of defaulting to transparency.

We’re Raising $3.5m in Funding: Here is the Valuation, Term Sheet and Why We’re Doing It

Update: We closed a first syndicate on AngelList today, October 27th. We have opened a new one with VegasTechFund now here. Update 2: All our public AngelList syndicates have been oversubscribed and are now closed. The full $3.5m is now committed.

Introducing Transparent Pricing: What Your Money is Used for When you Purchase a Buffer Subscription

One of the things we’re incredibly excited about at Buffer is transparency. A big part of that is because being transparent simply feels like the right thing to do, intuitively. That by itself, seems reason enough to pursue it.

Anatomy of a VC “seed program” (and you)

Seed investing is different than any other stage of investing. Unlike Series A, B, C, D etc… there is little to no history of milestones, numbers, customers, references, etc to evidence an investment decision.

An Introduction to Lean Canvas

As an entrepreneur, one of the most important tasks you can perform is getting your idea(s) out from your head into a tangible format so that you can communicate that with others.

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The Discovery Map

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422 startup failure post-mortems

It's hard to say goodbye. Find out how 422 startups have failed and why in the words of their investors and founders.

Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Product Manager

Shaun Russell shares his journey into product management, sketching out the well-trodden path he took to getting started – reading, taking workshops, learning from peers, and so on. But being a product manager is really hard, and nothing can prepare you for it.

Why you Need a Product Analytics Playbook

When it comes to successfully implementing a data-informed approach to product analytics, it’s easy to find lists of tips and tactics. It’s much harder to put together a strategy you can return to time and again. Every product is different, of course. There’s not a one-size-fits-all approach.

This Product Prioritization System Nabbed Pandora 70 Million Monthly Users with Just 40 Engineers

When it went public in 2011, over a decade after the company’s founding, Pandora employed fewer than 40 engineers.

How to Prepare the Next Generation for Jobs in the AI Economy

Most of us regard self-driving cars, voice assistants, and other artificially intelligent technologies as revolutionary. For the next generation, however, these wonders will have always existed.

Getting Your Start Up Started by Stuart Bertsch at Code City

Stuart Bertsch, co-founder of Tech Toledo, (CS degree and Technologist) shares an overview of insights about what makes a successful Start-Up. Utilizing a model popularized by Steve Blank of Silicon Valley, Stuart covers everything from scalability, customer validation, business models vs. business

Stories from 300 developers who got their first tech job in their 30s, 40s, and 50s

This is one of the most commonly asked questions in the entire field of software development. To give you an idea of how many aspiring developers are worried about their age, I looked for variants of this question on Quora.

Google and Others Are Building AI Systems That Doubt Themselves

The most powerful approach in AI, deep learning, is gaining a new capability: a sense of uncertainty. Researchers at Uber and Google are working on modifications to the two most popular deep-learning frameworks that will enable them to handle probability.

Intel’s New Chips Are More Brain-Like Than Ever

This week, Intel will show off a chip that learns to recognize objects in pictures captured by a webcam. Nothing fancy about that, except that the chip uses about a thousandth as much power as a conventional processor.

“Vote out” congresspeople who won’t back net neutrality, advocates say

Some supporters of net neutrality are focusing their attention on Congress and vowing to vote out lawmakers who won't join a legislative effort to reinstate net neutrality rules.

Your Tweets Could Show If You Need Help for Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder causes periods of severe depression punctuated by periods of elevated mood or mania. People with the condition behave in extreme ways, experiencing extreme highs and hyperactivity followed by devastating lows and lethargy. Some estimates suggest that 30 percent will die by suicide.

500,000 Britons’ Genomes Will Be Public by 2020, Transforming Drug Research

In an effort to vault genetics into a new era of big data, six drug companies say they will decode the genes of half a million Brits and then make the data public—all by 2020.

Driverless Cars Could Make Transportation Free for Everyone—With a Catch

Want a gratis ride? You’ll just have to stop at some stores along the way. As self-driving cars inch closer to everyday reality, journalists, futurists, economists, and ethicists have weighed in with numerous predictions about autonomous vehicles’ future impact.

Uh Oh—CRISPR Might Not Work in People

A sampling of human blood has turned up a surprise: most people could be immune to one of the world’s biggest advances in genetic engineering.

Comcast fired 500 despite claiming tax cut would create thousands of jobs

Comcast reportedly fired about 500 salespeople shortly before Christmas, despite claiming that the company would create thousands of new jobs in exchange for a big tax cut.

4 U.S. tech hubs to watch in 2018

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!

Brain Implants and the BRAIN Initiative: lights and Shadows

Researchers at the University of Southern California recently announced the successful application of brain implants to improve memory in human volunteers.

DHS weighs major change to H-1B foreign tech worker visa program

The Department of Homeland Security is considering new regulations that would prevent H-1B visa extensions, according to two U.S. sources briefed on the proposal.

The Biggest Technology Failures of 2017

MIT Technology Review spends most of the year identifying and writing about the most important emerging technologies. One day each year we highlight the worst of the lot. Today is that day.

WTF Is Blockchain?! Inside the Most Disruptive Tech Since the Internet

Let OZY catch you up with our explainer and vault you ahead with the latest crypto-trends you need to know about.

18 Exponential Changes We Can Expect in the Year Ahead

Azeem Azhar is a strategist, product entrepreneur, and analyst living in London. He is the curator of the weekly newsletter Exponential View, from which the following is adapted. You can (and should!) sign up here. This is the first year I am presenting predictions for the coming year.

The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI

Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017

Face-detecting systems in China now authorize payments, provide access to facilities, and track down criminals. Will other countries follow?

First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society

Not so long ago, nobody met a partner online. Then, in the 1990s, came the first dating websites. Match.com went live in 1995. A new wave of dating websites, such as OKCupid, emerged in the early 2000s. And the 2012 arrival of Tinder changed dating even further.

As Goldman Embraces Automation, Even the Masters of the Universe Are Threatened

At its height back in 2000, the U.S. cash equities trading desk at Goldman Sachs’s New York headquarters employed 600 traders, buying and selling stock on the orders of the investment bank’s large clients. Today there are just two equity traders left.

Meet the microgrid, the technology poised to transform electricity

This is the path to a cleaner, more reliable, more resilient energy grid. If we want a livable climate for future generations, we need to slow, stop, and reverse the rise in global temperatures. To do that, we need to stop burning fossil fuels for energy.

Wisdom of the Crowd Accurately Predicts Supreme Court Decisions

FantasySCOTUS is an online fantasy league in which contestants compete by predicting decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court. Players are ranked as in any fantasy league, and the best performers can win prizes such as a “Golden Gavel” and even $10,000 in cash.

This AI Learns Your Fashion Sense and Invents Your Next Outfit

In a paper published on the ArXiv, researchers from the University of California, San Diego, and Adobe have outlined a way for AI to not only learn a person’s style but create computer-generated images of items that match that style.

Hijacking Computers to Mine Cryptocurrency Is All the Rage

Have you visited Showtime’s website recently? If so, you may be a cryptocurrency miner.

The Alt-Right Created a Parallel Internet. It’s an Unholy Mess.

If you’ve lost sleep worrying about the growing power of the alt-right — that shadowy coalition that includes white nationalists, anti-feminists, far-right reactionaries and meme-sharing trolls — I may have found a cure for your anxiety. Just try using its websites.

The Download

Scientists have used the gene-editing tool to restore hearing in animals with a genetic form of deafness. The work, which is detailed Wednesday in the journal Nature, was done in mice, but a similar technique could eventually be used in humans. In mice,… Read more

Data Mining Reveals the Way Humans Evaluate Each Other

The way we evaluate the performance of other humans is one of the bigger mysteries of cognitive psychology. This process occurs continuously as we judge individuals’ ability to do certain tasks, assessing everyone from electricians and bus drivers to accountants and politicians.

Schumer promises a Senate vote on overturning FCC's net neutrality repeal

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Friday that he intends to force a vote on a bill that would preserve Obama-era net neutrality rules, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to repeal this week.

Ex-Google exec Matt Dunne has a plan to create a string of tech hubs across rural America

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. It’s no secret that while Silicon Valley is gaining jobs, rural America is losing them. A September report from the Economic Innovation Group found that nearly 90 percent of the ZIP codes in the U.S.

The FCC’s Myths vs. Facts sheet defending its plan to reverse net neutrality, annotated

Immediately after FCC Chairman Pai announced his intention to remove the net neutrality rules set in place in 2015, the agency issued a little preemptive strike against detractors. “Internet Regulation: Myths vs. Facts.” I’ve annotated it with a few extra facts.

Comcast deleted net neutrality pledge the same day FCC announced repeal

We wrote earlier this week about how Comcast has changed its promises to uphold net neutrality by pulling back from previous statements that it won't charge websites or other online applications for fast lanes. Comcast spokesperson Sena Fitzmaurice has been claiming that we got the story wrong.

Hedge Funds Are Increasingly Turning to AI—and That Might Be a Problem

Financial firms have generally been slow to accept artificially intelligent stock pickers. They have already invested billions collectively to bring in quantitative analysts, who do major number crunching as well as develop powerful non-AI algorithms.

Lawyer-Bots Are Shaking Up Jobs

Meticulous research, deep study of case law, and intricate argument-building—lawyers have used similar methods to ply their trade for hundreds of years. But they’d better watch out, because artificial intelligence is moving in on the field.

India Warily Eyes AI

Two days after K.S. Sunil Kumar received a promotion, Human Resources phoned him up and asked him to resign. This happened in April, just as Kumar was beginning his ninth year at Tech Mahindra, one of the giants in India’s IT services industry.

Ajit Pai jokes with Verizon exec about him being a “puppet” FCC chair

On Thursday night in Washington, DC, net neutrality advocates gathered outside the annual Federal Communications Commission Chairman's Dinner to protest Chairman Ajit Pai's impending rollback of net neutrality rules.

Neural Networks Are Learning What to Remember and What to Forget

Deep learning is changing the way we use and think about machines. Current incarnations are better than humans at all kinds of tasks, from chess and Go to face recognition and object recognition. But many aspects of machine learning lag vastly behind human performance.

Progress in AI seems like it’s accelerating, but here’s why it could be plateauing

I’m standing in what is soon to be the center of the world, or is perhaps just a very large room on the seventh floor of a gleaming tower in downtown Toronto.

Alpha Zero’s “Alien” Chess Shows the Power, and the Peculiarity, of AI

The latest AI program developed by DeepMind is not only brilliant and remarkably flexible—it’s also quite weird.

I Ignored Trump News for a Week. Here’s What I Learned.

I spent last week ignoring President Trump. Although I am ordinarily a politics junkie, I didn’t read, watch or listen to a single story about anything having to do with our 45th president.

Google Has Released an AI Tool That Makes Sense of Your Genome

Almost 15 years after scientists first sequenced the human genome, making sense of the enormous amount of data that encodes human life remains a formidable challenge. But it is also precisely the sort of problem that machine learning excels at.

How Reuters’s Revolutionary AI System Gathers Global News

“The advent of the internet and the subsequent information explosion has made it increasingly challenging for journalists to produce news accurately and swiftly.” So begin the research and development team at the global news agency Reuters in a paper on the arXiv this week.

Ambient AI Is About to Devour the Software Industry

Amazon has casually unveiled what could turn into a fundamentally different way to build software. At its AWS conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, the company demoed Amazon Cloud 9, an integrated development environment (IDE) that plugs directly into its cloud computing platform.

The Internet Is Dying. Repealing Net Neutrality Hastens That Death.

The internet is dying. Sure, technically, the internet still works. Pull up Facebook on your phone and you will still see your second cousin’s baby pictures. But that isn’t really the internet.

Comcast hints at plan for paid fast lanes after net neutrality repeal

For years, Comcast has been promising that it won't violate the principles of net neutrality, regardless of whether the government imposes any net neutrality rules.

Sophia, The World's First Android Citizen, Says She Wants To Have A Baby

Remember last month when Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to an android called Sophia? Well, stuff just got a little bit stranger. In a recent interview with The Khaleej Times, Sophia suggested she wants to start her own family.

Disruption games: why are libertarians lining up with autocrats to undermine democracy?

At a time when strange alliances are disrupting previously stable democracies, the Catalan independence referendum was a perfect reflection of a weird age.

These are the arguments against net neutrality and why they’re wrong

The next few months will be full of bitter dissent regarding the FCC’s net neutrality rules, how they should be enforced, and indeed whether they should exist at all.

As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change

SAN FRANCISCO — After Paul Minton graduated from college, he worked as a waiter, but always felt he should do more. So Mr. Minton, a 26-year-old math major, took a three-month course in computer programming and data analysis. As a waiter, he made $20,000 a year.

A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree

ROCKET CENTER, W.Va. — A few years ago, Sean Bridges lived with his mother, Linda, in Wiley Ford, W.Va. Their only income was her monthly Social Security disability check. He applied for work at Walmart and Burger King, but they were not hiring. Yet while Mr.

Hot Spot for Tech Outsourcing: The United States

For years, American companies have been saving money by “offshoring” jobs — hiring people in India and other distant cubicle farms. Today, some of those jobs are being outsourced again — in the United States.

As ‘Unicorns’ Emerge, Utah Makes a Case for Tech Entrepreneurs

When Josh James traveled to the Bay Area in 2000, seeking funding for a web analytics company he had founded, he spoke at length with a venture capitalist about his plans for growth. The conversation was going well, Mr. James recently recalled, until the investor asked where he was based.

As Silicon Valley Gets ‘Crazy,’ Midwest Beckons Tech Investors

COLUMBUS, Ohio — They seem an odd couple. J. D. Vance, author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” his best-selling memoir of growing up in the postindustrial Midwest and his journey of escape. And Steve Case, the billionaire co-founder of America Online. But Mr. Vance joined Mr.

F.C.C. Plans Net Neutrality Repeal in a Victory for Telecoms

The Federal Communications Commission released a plan on Tuesday to dismantle landmark regulations that ensure equal access to the internet, clearing the way for internet service companies to charge users more to see certain content and to curb access to some websites. The proposal, made by the F.

F.C.C. Plans Net Neutrality Repeal in a Victory for Telecoms

A Mind-Bending Cryptographic Trick Promises to Take Blockchains Mainstream

There are, believe it or not, many among us who remain skeptical that blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum will ever have much of an impact on the mainstream tech world.

Lessons From A Study of Perfect Pitch Decks: VCs Spend An Average of 3 Minutes, 44 Seconds On Them

DocSend, a startup that provides people with a secure and private way of sharing files like offer letters or legal agreements, studied more than 200 pitchdecks to figure out the right way to graduate from bootstrapped to seed-funded, or from angels to a Series A.

Social-media images shown as evidence of 'Russian trolls'

US senators have put on show several examples of what they believe to be Russia's attempt to influence US citizens via social media.

Portugal Doesn't Enforce Net Neutrality. This Is What Their Internet Looks Like

Update: The exact nature of the situation in Portugal was originally incorrectly reported. We've since updated the article. The basic principle of net neutrality is hard to disagree with.

This Is the Reason Ethereum Exists

In the beginning, there was Bitcoin. The cryptocurrency has for many become synonymous with the idea of digital money, rising to a market capitalization of nearly $100 billion. But the second-most-valuable currency, Ether, may be far more interesting than its headline-grabbing older sibling.

Join our worldwide team helping entrepreneurs grow amazing businesses

If you're passionate about startup programs and helping businesses grow, we want to hear from you! Start by reviewing open Techstars jobs.

Mapped: Top Travel Tech Startups Around The Globe

While China takes just 8% of global travel tech deal share, the country accounts for over a quarter of funding to the travel tech industry since 2013. Since 2013, travel tech startups from general booking platforms to smart luggage have raised well over $10B across 1,000+ deals.

Facebook funds tech training for 3K in Michigan

Detroit — Facebook has a new partnership with a Detroit-based information technology hub to provide free training in coding and digital marketing to 3,000 Michigan residents over the next two years. Gov.

A Bigger, Badder Botnet of Things Has Been Found, and It’s Primed to Ravage the Web

Actually, maybe you should fear the Reaper. At least the one that takes the form of a freshly discovered botnet, which threatens to become far larger than the one that took down a big chunk of the Internet last year.

In These Small Cities, AI Advances Could Be Costly

It’s long been clear that urbanization and automated technologies are shaping society, but it hasn’t been obvious how the two forces affect each other. Until now, perhaps. A new study from MIT’s Media Lab posits that the smaller the city, the greater the impact it faces from automation.

How Close Are You Really?

The network of links between individuals—their social network—has long fascinated social scientists. These networks are neither random nor entirely ordered.

Smartphones Are Weapons of Mass Manipulation, and This Guy Is Declaring War on Them

If, like an ever-growing majority of people in the U.S., you own a smartphone, you might have the sense that apps in the age of the pocket-sized computer are designed to keep your attention as long as possible.

Serious flaw in WPA2 protocol lets attackers intercept passwords and much more

Researchers have disclosed a serious weakness in the WPA2 protocol that allows attackers within range of vulnerable device or access point to intercept passwords, e-mails, and other data presumed to be encrypted, and in some cases, to inject ransomware or other malicious content into a website a cli

Your Brain Limits You to Just Five BFFs

Back in the 1990s, the British anthropologist Robin Dunbar noticed a remarkable correlation between primate brain size and the social groups they formed. This correlation was simple: the bigger their brains, the larger their social groups.

Google, Amazon, Alibaba, And The Battle For Fintech In India

Google, Amazon, Paytm, and others are in a bare-knuckled fight to win India's next billion financial services consumers. These companies are launching apps and digital wallets, as well as creating partnerships and walled gardens to hurt competing products.

First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society

Nvidia’s New Driverless-Car Computer Crunches 320 Trillion Operations a Second

That’s enough to have a car drive fully autonomously, according to the chipmaker. The new device, announced by Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang at an event today in Munich, is the latest generation of its DrivePX on-board car computers.

The Coming Software Apocalypse

There were six hours during the night of April 10, 2014, when the entire population of Washington State had no 911 service. People who called for help got a busy signal. One Seattle woman dialed 911 at least 37 times while a stranger was trying to break into her house.

Scientists Discover Biophotons In The Brain That Could Hint Our Consciousness is Directly Linked to Light!

Scientists found that neurons in mammalian brains were capable of producing photons of light, or “Biophotons”! The photons, strangely enough, appear within the visible spectrum. They range from near-infrared through violet, or between 200 and 1,300 nanometers.

A quick look at the evolving software engineering jobs market

Hired, a recruiting platform that connects companies with tech talent, published a new report this week on the state of software engineering jobs that suggests contract workers can make more than full-time software engineers.

Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein In a Wild Web

On a muggy, late spring evening, Tuan Pham awoke to the police storming his house in Hanoi, Vietnam. They marched him to a police station and made their demand: Hand over your Facebook password. Mr.

Low Costs of Solar Power & Wind Power Crush Coal, Crush Nuclear, & Beat Natural Gas

We already published a great article from Nexus Media regarding Lazard’s new report showing the extremely low (and falling) costs of solar power and wind power.

Top 10 Tech Evangelists in Northeast Ohio, Part 2: Tech Czar Talk

Tech Evangelists in Northeast Ohio. These are brave souls who have taken on preparing Cleveland as a key tech center in the U.S. It is not easy duty. The first five on the list were: 5. JJ DiGeronimo - Tech Savvy Women.

Biased Algorithms Are Everywhere, and No One Seems to Care

Opaque and potentially biased mathematical models are remaking our lives—and neither the companies responsible for developing them nor the government is interested in addressing the problem.

A New Mobile Chip Beams Data for Miles Using Almost No Power

For under a dime and with just a whisker of electricity, devices could send data throughout a building.

This inventor applied game theory to machine learning to make computers smarter

A few years ago, after some heated debate in a Montreal pub, Ian Goodfellow dreamed up one of the most intriguing ideas in artificial intelligence. By applying game theory, he devised a way for a machine-learning system to effectively teach itself about how the world works.

A Material That Throws Heat into Space Could Soon Reinvent Air-Conditioning

Eli Goldstein, a fresh-faced cofounder of SkyCool Systems, pulled open the garage door on the side of the Stanford spinout's cramped workspace in Burlingame, California, and rolled a set of square silver panels into the parking lot.

Seven Questions about Technology You Aren’t Even Allowed to Ask

What technologies and questions about technology are just too hot to handle?

Rivetz Secures IoT Devices Using Bitcoin Blockchain & Tokens

One of the biggest challenges facing the Internet of Things (IoT), whether it's commercial or consumer-based, is security. How do we protect all these new devices from unwanted visitors or hackers? At GearBrain, we believe security must be built into the devices.

Here’s what the world’s most accurate weather model predicts for Irma

Note: This story was written during the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 6. As of Thursday morning, the forecasts discussed within are still more or less accurate. However we will post an updated story based upon the latest model data by around 3:30pm ET on Thursday.

Should You Worry About the Global Pursuit for AI Domination?

One thing is for certain: the race to achieve AI supremacy is certainly on. Russian state news organization RT reports that Vladimir Putin believes "artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind.

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Engineers Turn a Laser Beam into a Stream of Liquid

Lasers are one of the iconic breakthroughs of 20th century science. They produce coherent photons in tight beams of specific energy. They can transmit data, detect molecules, and burn through metal. The photons they produce also have significant momentum. And that raises an interesting question.

Houston's Flood Is a Design Problem

It’s not because the water comes in. It’s because it is forced to leave again. Floods cause greater property damage and more deaths than tornadoes or hurricanes.

Elon Musk Is Very Freaked Out by This Artificial Intelligence System's Victory Over Humans

With all that's happening in the world, Elon Musk wants to make sure you don't forget about what he thinks is the biggest danger to humanity. Over the weekend, Musk returned to tweeting about one of his favorite topics of discussion: artificial intelligence.

White Supremacists Have Stumbled Into a Huge Issue in Genetic Ancestry Testing

Neo-Nazis, it turns out, dig gene tests—but they often don't like the results. Two sociologists, Aaron Panofsky and Joan Donovan, plowed through years of posts on the white-supremacist website Stormfront in search of accounts of people taking genetic ancestry tests to prove their whiteness.

Daily Stormer might have made up hack to stir up anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, Anonymous account suggests

The 'Anonymous' hack on the Daily Stormer might actually be a hoax pulled by the notorious Nazi website. That's according to one of the biggest Anonymous Twitter accounts, which suggests that the group doesn't actually have anything to do with the hack and it could be fake.

In January, Fox News Posted a Video of Cars Mowing Down Protesters That Urged Viewers to “Study the Technique”

Conservatives are rightfully aghast at the terror attack on Saturday that left one woman dead and more than a dozen injured in Charlottesville, Virginia.

US Justice Department Wants To Know Identities Of 1.3 Million Anti-Trump Web Users

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has formally requested that the IP addresses of 1.3 million people that visited an anti-Trump protest organizing website, disruptj20.org, be handed over – along with their contact information, email addresses and content, and photograph uploads.

Maybe Americans don’t need fast home Internet service, FCC suggests

Americans might not need a fast home Internet connection, the Federal Communications Commission suggests in a new document. Instead, mobile Internet via a smartphone might be all people need. The suggestion comes in the FCC's annual inquiry into broadband availability.

James Damore has sued Google. His infamous memo on women in tech is still nonsense.

Don’t be taken in by the document’s faux-reasonable tone. James Damore, the man fired by Google last year after he wrote a memo arguing that there may be biological reasons why women are underrepresented at Google and other tech companies, has sued his former employer.

First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News

Diffusion network for the article titled “Spirit cooking: Clinton campaign chairman practices bizarre occult ritual," published by the conspiracy site Infowars.com four days before the 2016 U.S. election.

The Innovator Gap

An innovator I know—let’s call him Tom—had trained for a decade at some of the world’s top research institutions to become an expert in materials science and engineering.

Learn Anything in Four Steps With the Feynman Technique

With the Feynman Technique, you learn by teaching someone else a topic in simple terms so you can quickly pinpoint the holes in your knowledge. After four steps, you're able to understand concepts more deeply and better retain the information.

Blockchain For Beginners: What Is Blockchain Technology? A Step-by-Step Guide

What is blockchain technology? What makes it so important? Imagine a world where you can send money directly to someone without a bank – in seconds instead of days, and you don’t pay exorbitant bank fees.

Wait, Bitcoin Just Did What?

After years of infighting over how Bitcoin’s software ought to change in response to the digital currency’s growing popularity, the community supporting the technology has suddenly split. It’s not yet clear what this means for Bitcoin and its users in the long run.

How Quantum Physics Is About to Revolutionize Biochemistry

One of the strange consequences of quantum mechanics is the phenomenon of indistinguishability—that two quantum particles can be impossible to tell apart, even in principle. This happens, in part, because it is impossible to determine the precise position of quantum particles.

Hot Spot for Tech Outsourcing: The United States

Go From Coding Novice to Expert Dev With This Ultimate 'Learn to Code' Bundle

This is it—your chance to stop making excuses and finally learn to code, so you can start the career you've always dreamed of. And, lucky you, you don't even have to rack up a mountain of student debt doing it.

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China Plans to Use Artificial Intelligence to Gain Global Economic Dominance by 2030

Artificial intelligence may have been invented in the West, but China seems determined to own its future. Its rising AI community just got a tremendous shot in the arm, in the form of a massive new government investment plan.

14 In-demand Tech Jobs Employers Are Struggling To Fill

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AccelerateKID® – Kids + Entrepreneurship + Technology℠

AccelerateKID® educates kids K-8 in entrepreneurship and the latest technology including computer programming, game design, robotics and digital arts. We are committed to excellence with quality S.T.E.A.M. (Science Technology Engineering Arts Math) programs and curriculum.

Human Legacies When Robots Rule the Earth

The three biggest disruptions in history were the introduction of humans, farming, and industry. A similar disruption could arise from artificial intelligence in the form of whole brain emulations, or “ems,” some time in the next century.

In the knowledge economy, we need a Netflix of education

With 4.6 billion pieces of content produced daily, it might seem that our hunger for knowledge should be satisfied — but information production and distribution is not the same as consumption and it’s not as simple as just putting information out there.

Everybody lies: how Google search reveals our darkest secrets

Everybody lies. People lie about how many drinks they had on the way home. They lie about how often they go to the gym, how much those new shoes cost, whether they read that book. They call in sick when they’re not. They say they’ll be in touch when they won’t.

Cybercrime a growing threat for local businesses, governments

Late last November, Keith St. John received a jarring notification — there had been some kind of intrusion into Rudolph Libbe Group’s computer network. The attack was caught quickly, but in some respects the damage already had been done.

The Machines Are Getting Ready to Play Doctor

It might not be long before algorithms routinely save lives—as long as doctors are willing to put ever more trust in machines. The automated approach could prove important to everyday medical treatment by making the diagnosis of potentially deadly heartbeat irregularities more reliable.

You Don’t Have to Major in Computer Science to Do It as a Career

Basic economics suggests that if college students see booming demand for specific skills, a stampede to major in such lucrative fields should ensue.

Challenge and Triumph of Older Tech Workers

Ten years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a pronouncement that would soon become infamous: “Young people are just smarter,” he told an audience at Stanford University. Despite the outcry over his words, the fact remains that tech is often perceived as a young person’s game.

50 Smartest Companies 2017

Continues to tweak its chips, originally developed for gaming, to help develop breakthrough technologies like deep learning and autonomous driving. Creating an AI-powered store of the future with Amazon Go while expanding intelligent voice assistant Alexa into phones, cars, and more.

Personal details of nearly 200 million US citizens exposed

Sensitive personal details relating to almost 200 million US citizens have been accidentally exposed by a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee. The 1.

Jared Kushner Knows Nothing About Technology

It’s Technology Week at the White House! Jared Kushner is in charge: Kushner is not a very impressive speaker. He’s reciting his speech like a sixth-grader, not like a White House aide who actually knows what he’s talking about.

Wikipedia’s Founder Wants to Fix Fake News

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Inspecting Algorithms for Bias

It was a striking story. “Machine Bias,” the headline read, and the teaser proclaimed: “There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.”

Latest NSA Leak Reveals Exactly the Kind of Cyberattack Experts Had Warned About

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First Quantum-Secured Blockchain Technology Tested in Moscow

Interest in cryptocurrencies is currently at fever pitch with banks, businesses, and governments racing to understand the technology and how they can exploit it.

This Simple Blood Test Can Predict Cancer Years Before Symptoms Appear

The technology, which involves scanning the blood for bits of DNA shed by tumours, is also referred to as a 'liquid biopsy', and these new results are getting us one step closer to a major upgrade in cancer diagnostics.

Facebook is broken

The problem is this: Facebook has become a feedback loop which can and does, despite its best intentions, become a vicious spiral. At Facebook’s scale, behavioral targeting doesn’t just reflect our behavior, it actually influences it.

Wanted: Creatives With Data And Technology Skills

Sara Dietschy grew her YouTube channel from 4,000 to 100,000 subscribers in a month, which now boasts nearly 160,000. As an Adobe creative resident, Sara has taken the past year to refine her online persona and pursue new mediums to share her creative work.

Experts Predict When Artificial Intelligence Will Exceed Human Performance

Artificial intelligence is changing the world and doing it at breakneck speed. The promise is that intelligent machines will be able to do every task better and more cheaply than humans.

Tech Board Directory

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Fibonacci and the Golden Ratio: Divine Geometry?

“God geometrizes continually”, Plato (427-347 B.C.). Phi (Φ,φ) –the golden number or Fibonacci’s number– is a very familiar concept, and one that has been studied by mathematicians of all ages.

Google Now Tracks Your Credit Card Purchases and Connects Them to Its Online Profile of You

Google’s new ability to match people’s offline credit card purchases to their online lives is a stunning display of surveillance capitalism in action.

Microsoft Has a Plan to Add DNA Data Storage to Its Cloud

Based on early research involving the storage of movies and documents in DNA, Microsoft is developing an apparatus that uses biology to replace tape drives, researchers at the company say.

Analysis predicts extremely disruptive, total transition to EV / autonomous vehicles in 13 years

(Tech Xplore)—RethinkX, an independent think tank that analyzes and forecasts disruptive technologies, has released an astonishing report predicting a far more rapid transition to EV/autonomous vehicles than experts are currently predicting.

The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI

Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Google Reveals a Powerful New AI Chip and Supercomputer

If artificial intelligence is rapidly eating software, then Google may have the biggest appetite around.

India and China Are Emerging as Climate Icons

Donald Trump is trying his best to ensure that America burns coal, whatever the implications to the planet. While that’s unpalatable for many U.S.

A new AI algorithm summarizes text amazingly well

Who has time to read every article they see shared on Twitter or Facebook, or every document that’s relevant to their job? As information overload grows ever worse, computers may become our only hope for handling a growing deluge of documents.

Nvidia CEO: Software Is Eating the World, but AI Is Going to Eat Software

Tech companies and investors have recently been piling money into artificial intelligence—and plenty has been trickling down to chip maker Nvidia.

Trump Wants ‘Goddamned Steam,’ Not Digital Catapults on Aircraft Carriers

Navy officials were “blindsided” on Thursday, a spokesman told me, by President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he has convinced the Navy to abandon a long-planned digital launching system in favor of steam on its newest aircraft carrier.

A Japanese Technique For Overcoming Laziness

At the heart of this method is the idea that a person should practice doing something for a single minute, every day at the same time. Almost all of us periodically set ourselves a new goal or challenge — and just as often in the end we fail to achieve it.

Federal court lets net neutrality regulations stand

The victory for net neutrality supporters comes just days after FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced that he is starting proceedings to repeal the rules, and could set the stage for a Supreme Court showdown. In its denial for what's called an en banc review, the D.C.

Clean Technology Innovation Is in Decline

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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

You were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that’s ever been published.

Big Data Exposes Big Falsehoods

When Vladimir Putin took power “a few seconds before 2000,” the world’s attention was elsewhere.

Flavor Networks Reveal Universal Principle Behind Successful Recipes

Given the number of ingredients that humans eat, the total number of ways to combine them is on the order of 10 to the 15th power. And yet the actual number of recipes we eat is around one million—a small fraction of the total.

What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters

Unlike other currencies, Bitcoin is underwritten not by a government, but by a clever cryptographic scheme. For now, little can be bought with bitcoins, and the new currency is still a long way from competing with the dollar.

Central Bankers Have Their Eyes on Blockchain

Bitcoin’s emergence has been a wake-up call for the financial industry, where executives and regulators see digital currency and blockchain technology as an opportunity to make systems more efficient by eliminating middlemen (See “What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters”).

Fears Google Hire could allow employers to see your entire search history

THE tech giant is working on a job site called Google Hire, which could let prospective employers snoop your embarrassing search history. IN THIS day and age, every boss is going to quickly Google a prospective employee before asking them to come in for an interview.

One Startup’s Vision to Reinvent the Web for Better Privacy

Venture capitalist Albert Wenger has done well by investing in Web businesses—he was an early backer of Etsy and Tumblr. But at his urging, Union Square Ventures, where he is a partner, is backing a company founded on the principle that the Web needs a rethink.

Congress Takes Blockchain 101

Congressman David Schweikert is determined to enlighten his colleagues in Washington about the blockchain. The opportunities the technology creates for society are vast, he says, and right now education is key to keeping the government from “screwing it up.”

AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals

An artificial intelligence tool that has revolutionised the ability of computers to interpret everyday language has been shown to exhibit striking gender and racial biases.

Google is quietly recording everything you say. Here’s how to hear it

Google could have a record of everything you have said around it for years, and you can listen to it yourself. The company quietly records many of the conversations that people have around its products.

As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — In the South Pacific, software no longer needs a hard sell. New Zealand has long wanted to be a tech hub, but distance was an issue. Now, at a moment of political upheaval around the globe, that isolation has become a selling point.

How to Pull Water Out of Thin Air, Even in the Driest Parts of the Globe

Scientists have developed a device that can suck water out of desert skies, powered by sunlight alone. They hope that a version of the technology could eventually supply clean drinking water in some of the driest and poorest parts of the globe.

MIT speeds up its futuristic lensless single-pixel camera by 50 times

Traditionally, cameras achieve resolution by having many pixels spread across space — the surface of the sensor. They also use a lens to focus the image on that sensor.

The FBI Shut Down a Huge Botnet, but There Are Plenty More Left

Last Friday, at the request of the FBI, Spanish police officers arrested Russian hacker Peter Levashov while he holidayed in Barcelona with his family. The reason: Levashov is thought to be better known as Peter Severa, a cybercriminal who controlled the Kelihos botnet.

Russian arrested in Spain 'over mass hacking'

Spanish police have arrested a Russian programmer following US allegations of large-scale hacking. Pyotr Levashov was held in Barcelona on Friday and is remanded in custody.

How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes

People are (rightfully) freaking out about their privacy as the Senate voted to let internet providers share your private data with advertisers.

Facebook to tackle fake news with educational campaign

Facebook is launching an educational tool as part of measures it is taking to counter fake news. For three days, an ad will appear at the top of users' news feeds linking to advice on "how to spot fake news" and report it.

Twitter Sues the Government to Block the Unmasking of an Account Critical of Trump

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter sued the federal government on Thursday to block the unmasking of an anonymous account that has posted messages critical of the Trump administration and has claimed to have ties to a government agency.

Changes to H-1B visa policy could have a chilling effect on the tech industry

The first week of April is always a frantic time for technology companies.

Uber Is Engaged in Psychological Warfare with Its Drivers

It’s hard to say no to a manipulative boss—and it may be worse if your boss hides behind an app. We’ve reported in the past that Uber uses its software to guide the behavior of its drivers.

The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America

Loren Yu was on a weekend trip in Los Angeles when he received an urgent email from a friend. The friend, Kalvin Wang, had a proposition. At the time, Yu was working for an education startup in New York called SkillShare. SkillShare had two technical employees. Yu was one of them.

Oppenheimer, from the atomic bomb to Pacifism

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” In 1965, in the middle of the Cold War and with nuclear tests at their peak, NBC television broadcast the documentary The Decision to Drop the Bomb.

Employers still struggling to fill certain tech jobs, and it's getting worse

A new report from G2 Crowd shows a consistent trend in difficulties filling high-skill jobs in tech, and 81% of hiring managers say it's only getting tougher. Here's what this means for business.

How ISPs can sell your Web history—and how to stop them

The US Senate yesterday voted to eliminate privacy rules that would have forced ISPs to get your consent before selling Web browsing history and app usage history to advertisers.

Self-Driving Cars’ Spinning-Laser Problem

Many components go into making a vehicle capable of driving itself, but one is proving to be more crucial and contentious than all the rest. That vital ingredient is the lidar sensor, a device that maps objects in 3-D by bouncing laser beams off its real-world surroundings.

Governments Around the World Deny Internet Access to Political Opponents

Whether or not your ethnic group has political power in the country where you live is a crucial factor determining your access to the Internet, according to a new analysis. The effect varies from country to country, and is much less pronounced in democratic nations.

Tech Insider

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Super-Safe Glass Battery Charges in Minutes, Not Hours

Who says that only young scientists make breakthroughs? For John Goodenough, the 94-year-old co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery, lightning appears to have struck twice.

How Hackers Can Break Into Your Accounts Without Your Password

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, a host of prominent Twitter accounts were compromised and, as a result, began spouting swastika-laden propaganda in support of Turkey's president Recep Erdoğan ahead of a referendum next month which could consolidate his power.

Trump to drop climate change from environmental reviews: Bloomberg

The order, which could be signed this week, aims to reverse former Democratic President Barack Obama's broad approach for addressing climate change, the report said. (bloom.bg/2nkDvKo) The directive will urge the U.S.

Guess Which Word the EPA Just Deleted From Its Science Mission Statement

This story was originally published by the New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When President Donald Trump took office in late January, his administration began tweaking the language on government websites.

Google’s Algorithms May Feed You Fake News and Opinion as Fact

The fake news baton appears to have momentarily passed from Facebook to Google. In the wake of the U.S. presidential election, much public ire was directed at Facebook for failing to combat the rising tide of fake news.

Amazon’s $150 Million Typo Is a Lightning Rod for a Big Cloud Problem

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Facing a future of technologic wonders: Artificial Intelligence

Don't be demoralized; we've faced waves of anti-science mania before. Today, let's assume we decide to resume being a boldly confident, ever-ambitious, scientific and technological civilization, in which children believe they can be better than their parents...

AI’s PR Problem

HBO’s Westworld features a common plot device—synthetic hosts rising up against their callous human creators.

The Scary State of Volcano Monitoring in the United States

One of the most volcanically active countries in the world is not ready for a devastating eruption. Thirteen days before Christmas, somewhere in the frigid waters of the Bering Sea, a massive volcano unexpectedly rumbled back to life.

How Uber Deceives the Authorities Worldwide

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive the authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service was resisted by law enforcement or, in some instances, had been banned.

Most U.S. workplaces still use ‘old-school’ tech like email and phone calls to communicate

We’ve all seen the images: Happy young employees, working productively in open-air workspaces, easily collaborating with co-workers and outside colleagues all over the world, utilizing persistent chat tools like Slack to keep on top of all their latest projects and other efforts.

The Facebook Algorithm Is Watching You

Here’s one way to confuse it. You can tell a lot about a person from how they react to something.

Disney Researchers Make Wireless Power Transfer Breakthrough

Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and… breakthroughs in wireless power transfer? Yep, scientists at a branch of the Walt Disney Company called Disney Research have found a way to charge devices on a room-scale without using any wires.

Everything-as-a-service: Modernizing the core through a services lens Tech Trends 2017

During the last decade, the one-two punch of business imperatives and a rapidly evolving technology landscape has led many CIOs to revitalize their legacy core systems.

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People's Deepest, Darkest Google Searches Are Being Used Against Them

On the Internet, search queries are used to target vulnerable consumers. Google knows the questions that people wouldn’t dare ask aloud, and it silently offers reams of answers. But it is a mistake to think of a search engine as an oracle for anonymous queries. It isn’t. Not even close.

Trump staffers using app that deletes their messages: report

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'Give Us Your Passwords'

What happens if border agents are allowed to demand access to your phone and online accounts—and turn you away if you don’t comply? That’s what U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly wants foreign visitors to hear before they’re allowed to enter the United States.

Google's DeepMind Has An AI That Understands The Benefits Of Betrayal

It’s looking increasingly likely that artificial intelligence (AI) will be the harbinger of the next technological revolution.

“The Relentless Pace of Automation”

Last October, Uber had one of its self-driving trucks make a beer run, traveling 200 kilometers down the interstate to deliver a cargo of Budweiser from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs. A person rode in the truck but spent most of the trip in the sleeper berth, monitoring the automated system.

A rash of invisible, fileless malware is infecting banks around the globe

Two years ago, researchers at Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab discovered their corporate network was infected with malware that was unlike anything they had ever seen.

China Is Building a Robot Army of Model Workers

Inside a large, windowless room in an electronics factory in south Shanghai, about 15 workers are eyeing a small robot arm with frustration. Near the end of the production line where optical networking equipment is being packed into boxes for shipping, the robot sits motionless.

Data shows a downward demographic spiral for Republicans

Since taking the presidency by surprise back in November, the Republican Party has been salivating on the unexpected opportunity laying before them — control of the White House and both chambers of Congress.

Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm; no one knows how it works

Google Brain has created two artificial intelligences that evolved their own cryptographic algorithm to protect their messages from a third AI, which was trying to evolve its own method to crack the AI-generated crypto.

Fibonacci and his Magic Numbers

Leonardo Bigollo (Leonardo Pisano or de Pisa) was a mathematician who lived in Italy between the 12th and 13th century (1170-1240) and who turned to turn his back on the Roman numerals system that prevailed at that time.

A ‘rogue’ group of staffers is tweeting secrets from the White House

There’s no question about it, technology is playing a bigger and bigger role in all aspects of our lives, especially when it comes to the way we consume news.

Levi Felix, a Proponent of Disconnecting From Technology, Dies at 32

Levi Felix, who championed the virtues of unplugging from smartphones and other technology and co-founded Digital Detox, which sponsored retreats and camps to help people reconnect in real life, died on Wednesday in Pismo Beach, Calif. He was 32. Adam S.

Expedia to Use 'Skype Bot' to Book and Manage Travel

The 'Skype Bot' came out in March of this year, and it looks like Expedia will be the latest to join the "Skype Bot Party.

CTS Blog

CTS Toledo is excited to be associated with the TechHire Toledo initiative here in Northwest Ohio.

When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees

“During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we observe a slow but steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared between the future couple.”By Facebook might understand your romantic prospects better than you do.

Ohio is 10th for high-tech work in U.S.

Ohio has the 10th most high-tech jobs in the nation, according to a recent report from a Washington-based group that advocates for science and technology policy.

Rocket AI: 2016’s Most Notorious AI Launch and the Problem with AI Hype

It’s 3 AM on a warm Thursday night in December, a usually quiet street in the Gothic Quarter in Barcelona is bustling with activity, as a cohort of 200 artificial intelligence researchers leave in single-file out of a sprawling yellow mansion.

2016/2017 MUST-KNOW WEB DEVELOPMENT TECH - Watch this if you want to be a web developer

What should you learn in 2016/2017? This video gives you a complete roadmap! View the mindmap: https://coggle.it/diagram/Vz9LvW8byvN0I38x The Docker Course!: shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920051343.do -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Also watch: "Tailwind CSS - why CSS utility classes save so much time" https://ww

UCSF Lays Off Tech Workers, Stepping Into Jobs Outsourcing Controversy

Hank Nguyen is an IT employee at UC San Francisco. Until recently, his daughter wanted to follow in his footsteps and work in information technology. She was accepted at UC Santa Cruz and planned to study computer science. Then, last July, the letters arrived.

2016/2017 MUST-KNOW WEB DEVELOPMENT TECH - Watch this if you want to be a web developer

The trolling of Elon Musk: how US conservatives are attacking green tech

He is the charismatic Silicon Valley entrepreneur who believes his many companies - including the electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors, solar power firm Solar City, and SpaceX, which makes reusable space rockets – can help resist man-made climate change.

Trump’s Seven Techniques to Control the Media

President-elect Donald Trump shouts out to members of the media at the clubhouse at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster Township, New Jersey. on Nov. 19, 2016. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) This post originally appeared at RobertReich.org.

The future of front-end development is design

Should we make our kids learn to code? This question was posed to me at a recent dinner party. As one of the only people in our social circle who has worked in and around software development for an entire career, I get this type of question often.

Trump’s Seven Techniques to Control the Media

Democracy depends on a free and independent press, which is why all tyrants try to squelch it. They use seven techniques that, worryingly, President-elect Donald Trump already employs. 1. Berate the media.

Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It’s Too Much Like TV

If I say that social media aided Donald Trump’s election, you might think of fake news on Facebook. But even if Facebook fixes the algorithms that elevate phony stories, there’s something else going on: social media represents the ultimate ascendance of television over other media.

Trump’s Seven Techniques to Control the Media

Parallel worlds exist and interact with our world, say physicists

Quantum mechanics, though firmly tested, is so weird and anti-intuitive that famed physicist Richard Feynman once remarked, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

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Advanced manufacturing is booming, it just isn’t producing many jobs

The e-tailing giant learned some hard lessons from its failure to hit it big in China, and it’s putting them to use in the subcontinent.

Grand Circus

). In addition to mentoring at their apprenticeship placement company, apprentices go through ongoing training and regular check-ins. Most importantly, apprentices walk away with the credentials that tell future employers they have the skills to do the job and they have real-world experience.

Facebook, Google Take Steps To Confront Fake News

Since Donald Trump's election victory, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has come out not once, but twice, to address the issue of fake news, inaccurate or simply false information that appears on the Web in the guise of journalism.

An Establishment Conservative’s Guide To The Alt-Right

A specter is haunting the dinner parties, fundraisers and think-tanks of the Establishment: the specter of the “alternative right.

How the Internet Is Loosening Our Grip on the Truth

Next week, if all goes well, someone will win the presidency. What happens after that is anyone’s guess.

The darker side of machine learning

While machine learning is introducing innovation and change to many sectors, it also is bringing trouble and worries to others. One of the most worrying aspects of emerging machine learning technologies is their invasiveness on user privacy.

Why we need to plan for a future without jobs

The future of work in America is uncertain. What we know is that things are going to change. Technology will upend countless careers, workers across fields will be displaced, and it’s not entirely clear how many jobs will be replaced.

Education and accelerated change: The imperative for design learning

Discussions on the impact of “technological disruption” writ large are now so common as to seem almost banal. According to research at Gartner, for example, one-third of all jobs will be converted into software, robots, and smart machines by as early as 2025.

The Legal Case for Blocking the Dakota Access Pipeline

Did the U.S. government help destroy a major Sioux archeological site? To hear the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe tell it, an old-fashioned American land grab transpired earlier this week in rural North Dakota.

You Don't Need To Be In Tech To Find High-Paying Part-Time Jobs

U.S. employees are demanding more part-time and flexible work, and employers are listening. Many, like Amazon, are among the more than half that reported investing in flexible work options this year, according to a 2015 Workplace Trends study.

Startup Aims to Help Cities Separate Smart Hype from Solid Smart City Solutions

In the rush many municipalities feel to become a "smart city" — one that collects immediate data on everything from traffic patterns to home water use, analyzes it, and uses that information to improve performance and outcomes — cities have struggled to separate what’s helpful from the hype.

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Website Accessibility: Why There’s Still Work to be Done on Government Portals

Friday Q&A: How a Non-Technical Founder Can Validate a Technical Business Idea

Every Friday, we’re answering your questions about business, startups, customer success and more. Happy Friday!

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Most Popular Programming Languages and Their uses

Any computer programming language is typically an artificially designed language which constitutes the computer, computing computations. These are the medium communication between the computer machine, and its users.

Do YOU have the caffeine gene?

Our gene play a major role in how much we enjoy coffee - and how much we drink. Researchers have pinpointed the 'caffeine gene' that controls our reaction.

Technology will change where we live

Governor Jerry Brown recently proposed legislation that would streamline the path for large-scale development across California.

Goodbye accountants! Startup builds AI to automate all your accounting

Smacc, which uses AI to automate accounting, has secured a $3.5 million Series A round from Cherry Ventures, Rocket Internet, Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures, Grazia Equity and business angels.

The Anti-Aging Pill

An anti-aging startup hopes to elude the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and death at the same time. The company, Elysium Health, says it will be turning chemicals that lengthen the lives of mice and worms in the laboratory into over-the-counter vitamin pills that people can take to combat aging.

Science

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People

This is a starting list of people in the Toledo Region tech startup community. These are the people you will want to connect with as your start your entrepreneurial journey! This list is not complete and is always evolving. Contact us for any changes or additions!

From social media managers to senior developers, here's what tech employees in Colorado actually make

Here at Built In Colorado, we want to help startups find amazing talent — and we want talented developers, designers, marketers and product managers to find the perfect job, too. The job you have isn't all about the money — but, let's be real, it's still sort of about the money.

2016 Presidential Science, Tech, Health, and Environmental Forum

What are the top science, tech, health, and environmental questions the candidates for president should answer? In 1960 the world population was 3 billiion. Now it's more than 7 billion. In 1960 the US population was 180 million. Now it's more than 320 million.

How to actually solve the “technical co-founder” problem

Today I got an email from someone looking for advice on finding a technical cofounder for his consumer app. Here’s what it said: It struck a nerve with me, because I was in a similar situation a couple years ago, and I’ve seen a lot of friends struggle with the same problem.

Techstars Chicago startup nabs $1.8M to revolutionize video game streaming

Even if you don’t travel in gaming circles, you may recall Amazon’s high-profile acquisition of video game live streaming service Twitch.tv for nearly a billion dollars back in 2014.

Ohio Third Frontier – Network of Resources

Do you have an idea for a technology startup? See how to access the many resources of Ohio Third Frontier, from incubators and accelerators to mentors and funding.

Data analysis of GitHub contributions reveals unexpected gender bias

With more than 12 million users, GitHub is one of the largest online communities for collaborating on development projects.

VC Corner: Brad Feld of Foundry Group & Techstars (Fitbit, Zynga, Moz, Sphero)

Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars.

The Denver startup community is nearing a tipping point

Its age might surprise you — first built in 1880 — and yet inside it’s newer and changing more than you might expect.

These Are The Tech Jobs With The Highest Salaries (And Where They Are)

Good news if you’re a technology worker or planning to be one: Average salaries in the U.S. jumped 7.7% to $96,370 annually, according to the annual salary survey by Dice, a careers site for tech professionals.

Ann Arbor SPARK and Amy Cell Team Up to Address Region’s High Tech Talent Needs

Ann Arbor SPARK and Amy Cell, LLC have teamed up to address the opportunity to create a more robust, sustainable high tech talent pipeline in the Ann Arbor region.

12 Techniques Women Use To Have An Orgasm, According To OMGYES

According to a 2015 survey by Cosmo, only 57 percent of women can orgasm during sex. But when it comes to how often the male partners of these women orgasm, we’re looking at a whopping 95 percent.

Inside Fargo, America's Most Undervalued Tech Hub

It gets 50 inches of snow a year and is so cold that its bikeshare moves inside for the winter. But its homegrown tech community is on fire.

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Tech Workers Are Way Picky About The Cities They'll Work In

A talent gap exists in tech. The number of computer programming jobs is growing at twice the national average for all jobs.

The One Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires

This article is the first in the Tech Hiring & Team Building series. You can find the second installment here. Let’s be real. Interviews are a terrible way to hire tech candidates. Not only do you not get a real sense of the candidate, they often weed out good candidates in favor of bad ones.

Sean Parker’s Brigade App Enters Private Beta As A Dead-Simple Way Of Taking Political Positions

Sean Parker, who changed the music industry as a teenager and then went onto have an early and formative role in Facebook, has long had one frontier that he’s wanted to change: American democracy.

Startup Brigade will use tech to boost civic involvement

There is a special corner of the Internet graveyard dedicated to sites that have promised - and failed - to improve civic engagement. Most have tanked because they were too wonky, too earnest, too focused on raising money for a specific candidate or issue.

The Three Essential Elements to Pitch Competition Success

As a professor of entrepreneurship and director of the Enterprise Development Center at Notre Dame College of Ohio, Bill Leamon has a passion for helping entrepreneurs take their innovative ideas and turn them into successful companies.

The Science of Democracy: Are Humans Hard-Wired To Be Stupid Voters?

The next United States Presidential election is just under 16 months away, and already “silly-season” is in full force.

How to Cure Anxiety — One Workaholic’s Story, Six Techniques That Work

Charlie Hoehn was a full-time employee of mine during the making and launch of The 4-Hour Body. It was an intense period. In this post, Charlie will share his M.E.D. (Minimum Effective Dose) for overcoming anxiety and managing workaholism. There are six techniques in total.

Republic Launches New Platform To Send GOP To White House

Software is eating the world, and it is continuing its monstrous diet in politics. The traditional shoe leather approach of political campaigning has been replaced by rooms of engineers, AWS instances, and data science APIs designed to maximize votes for the lowest cost.

Why Technology Hasn’t Delivered More Democracy

The current moment confronts us with a paradox.

The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America

Why Making Tech More Inclusive is All About Education

Lorien Smyer had been a bookkeeper for more than 20 years, but when the record store chain she worked for relocated to Santa Cruz, she decided to explore a new career path. Smyer began looking into immersive coding programs as an alternative to a traditional university experience.

What Good Is a Hackathon, Really?

I spent three days on a bus with a bunch of hackers. Here’s what I learned. On the third day, half the people on the Startup Bus got motion sick.

Seven More Innovators, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs To Watch In Clean Tech

The developing world solar market is already a huge one, but it’s set to blow up like no other. There are so many innovative leaders in this space that I was hesitant to highlight any individuals. But I couldn’t help myself.

Cultural Ramifications of Technical Interviews

Technical interviews are widely used from the smallest of start ups to the greatest of tech giants. They are thought of as an objective process, providing a fair means of evaluation to all.

One VC’s take on NYC and Enterprise Tech — Medium

When asked by investors in early 2010, why we were starting a seed fund focused on enterprise and leveraging NYC, I answered with Willie’s quip but also said, “because that’s where the customer-driven talent is.

How to Really Drive Across the U.S. Hitting Major Landmarks

Last week, I saw a map going around Facebook claiming to be a car route across the United States that hit all of the country’s major landmarks. I thought, Hey, neat. But when I looked more closely, I saw quite a few states obviously missing, and I when I did a quick search on Snopes.

Phishing Techniques Studied

Don’t click it. If you ever get e-mailed a link, no matter how authentic the e-mail looks or from whom it appears to be, don’t click it. If you feel you need to respond to the e-mail, then type the URL of the website directly into your browser. But never click it.

UI, UX: Who Does What? A Designer's Guide To The Tech Industry

Design is a rather broad and vague term. When someone says "I'm a designer," it is not immediately clear what they actually do day to day. There are a number of different responsibilities encompassed by the umbrella term designer.

Write Like a Pro: 5 Techniques Top Bloggers Use to Write Successful Blog Posts

In all my years of experience working in the content creation space, I’ve received plenty of requests from bloggers, marketers, and even digital marketing agencies to craft amazing articles. To my dismay, the majority of these pieces end up buried under pages and pages on Google.

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Crain's Detroit Business : Subscription Center

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After JPMorgan Chase Breach, Push to Close Wall St. Security Gaps

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Mark Cuban Explains The Four Parts Of An Ideal Investment Pitch

He noted that in Silicon Valley, young companies often view getting fundings as the “end-all, be-all.” Mark explains that he is more interested not in how the company will exit but rather how the company will be a success without an exit.

Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems

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To see tech’s biggest capital raises, you have to look beyond the IPO market

Reuters/Mike SegarGo pro—or stay private?By Published Last updated July 21, 2022This article is more than 2 years old.

Want To Break Into VC? Here is a Surefire Way

"How can I break into the VC world" is the second most asked question I get after "How can I break into the startup world." To most, VC is sexy. VC, especially at the seed and A round, is really sexy. But there are very few VC jobs. Like next to zero.

Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Thinks His New Stirling Engine Will Get You Off The Grid For Under $10K

For the new issue of Forbes Magazine I wrote an article about David Crane, the visionary CEO of NRG Energy . When I met Crane for lunch a couple weeks ago, no sooner had we sat down than he began singing the praises of this new contraption he had in his basement.

I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million

I sold my startup for $25.5 million on Monday just after 2:23 p.m. Pacific Time. Selling the company, Perfect Audience, to Marin Software took six months of writing carefully worded emails, meeting secretly in cafés, and pacing around the streets of San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood after dark.

Tech Immigrants: A Map of Silicon Valley's Imported Talent

Silicon Valley imports its brains. Where do they come from?

After Years, Michigan’s Attempts To Build A Startup Ecosystem Bear Fruit

Five years ago, Michigan had seven early-stage companies raise money from venture capital investors in the first quarter. This year that number climbed to 31.

What I Did When I Couldn’t Find a Technical Co-Founder

Without a developer, Groove would never get built. Here’s how I took the first step to turning my idea into a business. No prototype. No customers. And certainly no funding.

Growth hacking techniques for success

Call me a streamlining savant or a financial alchemist, but when it comes down to it, let’s get real: I’m a hustler. Plain and simple. I started my most recent company six years ago with four yellow notepads and four pens. We didn’t have a Rolodex of business contacts.

WhatsApp Deal Bets on a Few Fewer ‘Friends’

The address book is making a billion-dollar comeback.

5 Advanced Mobile Web Design Techniques You’ve Probably Never Seen Before

Until recently, creating mobile web designs that look and feel like native apps has pretty much been an impossible dream. There are plenty of creative workarounds to try and bring that native ‘feel’ to mobile web browsing, but so far we've struggled to bridge the gap between native and the web.

How Apple’s Address Book app could allow the NSA to harvest your contacts

Overlooked in last week's revelation that the National Security Agency (NSA) is harvesting hundreds of millions of e-mail address books around the world was this surprising factoid: Apple makes this mass collection easier because the Address Book app that by default manages Mac contacts doesn'

15 baseline tech skills every entrepreneur should have

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The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business

Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and several-times entrepreneur. His latest book, “Choose Yourself!” (foreword by Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter) came out on June 3. Follow him on Twitter @jaltucher. This is going be a bullet FAQ on starting a business.