Security is a big issue when it comes to the internet of things. This isn’t privacy, which is a different but related topic, but merely securing the devices and data they generate so malicious people can’t steal it, see it...
YouTube is still the prime destination for discovering viral videos and sharing it with friends. Some videos may take too long to get to the punchline, but YouTube has a helpful sharing tool that can help with this issue.
Here's...
Don't worry, Uber isn't out to get you.
Amid all the buzz that Uber took cars off the road to force surge pricing on Valentine's Day — it didn't, it just sent out a possibly poorly worded text alluding to the...
Marketers have long been interested in using social media analytics tools to measure social efforts, and now that they have them, they’re adopting them rapidly, with nearly two-thirds of organizations in North America using them. Campaign tracking optimization is...
Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella has started reshaping the company's senior executive ranks.
Two senior executives are leaving and one has a big new job, according to reports from Bloomberg and Recode. We've also independently confirmed the executive shakeup is happening.
EVP of business development...
Google announced today that it will donate $6.8 million to a program that offers free municipal transit rides to low- and middle-income youth in San Francisco.
The program, called Free Muni For Youth, was previously funded by the city at a...
Brazil’s large population and growing internet space has helped create a superlative social media market that leads its neighboring countries on most measures, even if by a small margin. Facebook is the top social network in the nation, but...
Clear, which has been around for a few years, is an awesome to-do list app for iOS.
Usually the app costs $4.99, but it's free today only. Well, at least for the next few hours.
We wrote about the app back in 2012,...
Google gave its Hangouts app for iOS a complete overhaul on Thursday — one that will look very familiar to users of other mainstream messaging apps
The new iOS app includes tabs along the bottom of the screen with categories like Hangouts, Favorites,...
3D printing is slow; so slow that printing an object several feet long is an arduous task that can take days. As a result, most 3D printers are tailored to printing small objects that take a few hours at...
Twitter has moved beyond early adoption and is maturing across demographic groups. Growth will soon slow to single digits, and by 2016, more than 25% of internet users in all age groups from 12 to 44 will use Twitter...
A team of researchers based out of Hungary successfully flew a flock of quadcopter drones outside over a field, Nature reported today. Without any central leader, the drones were able to follow a leader or organize themselves into a formation.
Their...
A platform where the more than 71,000 employees of the 40 countries where Enel is present can propose and discuss innovative ideas to improve the company
The crowdsourcing made in Enel, the company that innovates with the direct contribution of...
Mobile payments company Square is testing out a new initiative where it will give select merchants thousands of dollars to help them grow, according to The Information.
Square — which takes 2.75 percent or less of transactions made through its card...
February had a slew of new apps arrive for iPhone and Android.
Facebook launched a news reader at the beginning of the month that made reading important information on your phone easy while everyone was talking about Secret, the anonymous...
Wearing Google Glass might be dangerous.
Sarah Slocum, a tech writer, was at Molotov's on Friday night — a bar in the Lower Haight neighborhood in San Francisco — where she was showing a friend how the device works. She...
Around the world, there are people who have lost all or part of their hand, or were born without one. There are also people and institutions with 3D printers. Pair the two, and you can print a custom mechanical...
Twitter is great for disseminating information quickly to millions. It's also great for disseminating misinformation. Now a team of European researchers is working to make the Twittersphere more reliable — by identifying lies before they go viral
This seemingly impossible task...
Facebook announced last October that the social network's average referral traffic to media sites increased 170% in 2013. Now, we're seeing mobile play an even larger role for publishers' overall traffic
More than half of Facebook's referral traffic to media sites in January...
Tom Anderson, co-founder of early social networking site MySpace, has led a lavish life since leaving the company in 2009.
Anderson co-founded MySpace in 2003. Because he became everyone's first automatic default friend, his picture became iconic around the Web....
