I was a little surprised to see a news report about Andreas Schleicher, the director of education and skills at OECD — the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Speaking at the World Innovation Summit for Education in Paris, Schleicher thinks that teaching kids to code is a waste of time. In particular, he seems
Read MoreBitcoin has always been shrouded in mystery, and to this day, not much is known about its origins or the identity of its creator. The uncertainty of Satoshi Nakamoto‘s identity has spawned a host of conspiracy theories, and a lack of unequivocal proof means some are plausible, while others are obviously outright ridiculous. Think about
Read MoreThomas Ricker / The Verge: Facebook says all of its services are now operational, attributes the downtime to a “server configuration change” — Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook all appear to be operating normally — Facebook is reporting all services operational after a prolonged outage that impacted all of the company’s most popular apps. Facebook says
Read MoreFacebook has not fully restored its service as of Thursday morning, but Instagram is back online. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffered a global outage. What happened? Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIBM‘s figured out how to ignore noisy qubits and run machine learning algorithms in quantum feature spaces. Eureka-cadabra! The age of quantum algorithms is upon us. A team of IBM researchers, alongside scientists from MIT and Oxford, created a pair of quantum classification algorithms and then experimentally implemented them on a hybrid system utilizing a
Read MoreZac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple announces WWDC 2019 will be held June 3-7 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose — Apple has officially announced dates and opened registration for its annual developer conference where it will likely unveil iOS 13, macOS 10.15, watchOS 6, and tvOS 13. Apple announces WWDC 2019 will be
Read MoreWhite hat hackers have found more than 40 bugs in blockchain and cryptocurrency platforms in the past 30 days, according to an investigation by Hard Fork. There is a silver lining though: none of the vulnerabilities appear to be particularly serious at first glance. Thirteen companies dealing with cryptocurrency and blockchain tech received a total
Read MoreJust two months after allegations of sexual abuse against Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein came to light in a 2017 New York Times article, women in at least 85 countries began using the the hashtag #MeToo, to speak against sexual harassment. In China, sexual misconduct accusations led to the firing of a professor at a
Read MoreDrilling holes is easy; humans have been doing it in one form or another for almost 40,000 years. Drilling really tiny holes in hard materials is more challenging, but still doable. Drilling deep, straight holes in hard materials is another thing altogether. Luckily, these days we have electric discharge machining (EDM), a technique that opens
Read MoreLi Tao / South China Morning Post: Huawei says it has developed its own OS for both smartphones and computers in case those developed by US companies are no longer available — Huawei Technologies, the largest smartphone vendor in China, said it has developed its own operating systems (OS) for both smartphones and computers …
Read MoreMicrosoft is making a big play to get game developers to use Azure, Power BI, machine learning Visual Studio and game-specific apps and services like PlayFab, to build their next products. Microsoft packages a bunch of its apps and Azure services as 'Game Stack' Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Adthena, which offers an AI-driven search marketing intelligence platform, raises $14M Series A, says it has over 250 customers including Volvo and HSBC — Marketers are increasingly using AI to streamline workflows and automate monotonous tasks. According to an Adobe survey … Adthena, which offers an AI-driven search marketing intelligence platform,
Read MoreThis is a whopper of a deal. The 2017 MacBook Pro is on sale today for 9 at Best Buy – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePlus, don’t miss ThinkGeek’s 31.4 percent off sitewide sale! And enter for a chance to win a Marvel-ous prize bundle. Add 32GB to any mobile device with this 4-in-1 flash drive for – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe flagship phone was $1,000 just a few months ago. It’s new, not refurbished. Grab an unlocked Samsung Galaxy Note 9 for 9 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNike’s Adapt BB self-lacing shoes use a phone app to tighten and loosen. But they had problems that Marty McFly didn’t encounter. The Post’s Geoffrey A. Fowler explains. How Nike’s Adapt BB ‘Back to the Future’ shoes stopped lacing with a software update Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreFacebook and Instagram might be up for people around the world after a long outage, but for several people in India are not being able to access Reddit. However, that’s not because of a server outage. Several Reddit posts and reports suggest that telcos and ISPs (Internet Service Providers) are blocking the site. Today, MediaNama
Read MoreHi, I’m a huge word nerd. And I’m sure you’ll agree: reading is great! It’s like a word-movie in your mind, but without the crushing self-doubt that comes from looking at people too attractive to be right. Thing is, how do you know what to read next? You can only read so many books in your
Read MoreJon Fingas / Engadget: HTC’s subscription service Viveport Infinity, which gives access to a catalog of 600+ VR apps and games, will launch on April 2nd and cost $13/month or $99/year — HTC is nearly ready to launch its unlimited Viveport Infinity service after months of teasing. HTC's subscription service Viveport Infinity, which gives access
Read MoreWhen the first 737 MAX entered service in May of 2017, it was considered a major milestone for Boeing. For nearly a decade, the aerospace giant had been working on a more fuel efficient iteration of the classic 737 that first took to the skies in 1967. Powered by cutting-edge CFM International LEAP engines, and
Read MoreMicrosoft Edge extensions store goes live, showing 82 addons for the incoming browser. Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge: These extensions are coming to new browser Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreErin Griffith / New York Times: As Lyft, Pinterest, Postmates, Slack, and Uber prepare to go public, VCs are preparing to invest in a new wave of startups created by employees enriched by IPOs — SAN FRANCISCO — Riley Newman, a former head of data science at Airbnb, set out in mid-2017 to raise a
Read MoreRemember when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to show off his company’s clunky Spaces VR tech by taking a virtual tour of hurricane-hit Puerto Rico in 2017? This is nothing like that. The company has quietly been developing a revolutionary system to create virtual avatars of people that closely resemble them in their facial features
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Polarr, which develops a hardware-agnostic AI stack to enable computational photography on a range of devices, raises $11.5M Series A led by Threshold Ventures — Polarr, a six-year-old San Francisco computer vision startup cofounded by Stanford graduate and Google veterans Borui Wang and Derek Yan … Polarr, which develops a hardware-agnostic
Read MoreWith only 56 days left to go until TNW Conference, it’s time to start planning your visit to Amsterdam. You might be asking yourself, “Shouldn’t I have done it sooner?” The answer is no! Don’t worry – there’s plenty of time to secure a great hotel and pencil in some fun activities. Here’s how to do it:
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