Even though the 2018 Winter Olympics don’t begin until Friday, February 9th, people have already started talking about the Canadian athletes and their chances for medals in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Year in and year out Team Canada stands tall and this year should be no exception. Here are some of …
Read More »Turing Robotics Files for Bankruptcy Without Ever Delivering a Phone
The Turing Phone looked like an interesting device when Turing Robotics Industries (TRI) unveiled it back in 2015. The phone packed powerful hardware, a modern build of Android, and it was fully encrypted. This was back when most phones were not encrypted — it didn’t even have a data port. …
Read More »New Android Malware Mines Cryptocurrency on Your Phone
The value of cryptocurrency is down right now, but online criminals are still happy to generate coins using your hardware. Usually, this comes in the form of crypto mining plugins running on websites, but there’s a new form of Android malware spreading online that mines coins on your phone. The …
Read More »Pornhub, Reddit Ban AI-Generated Fake Porn Videos
Over the past two weeks, a new Reddit community for creating fake porn videos took off, courtesy of new machine learning algorithms and editing tools. It’s an alarming concept for multiple reasons, given the way revenge porn has been used to target individuals. A user community focused on the creation …
Read More »Tinder is launching a new location-based feature set this year
Tinder will launch a series of new features based on location in 2018, its parent company Match Group revealed during this week’s Q4 2017 earnings. The dating app maker has been fairly vague on what these new features will entail, having only described them previously as something that will blur …
Read More »Elon Musk expects to do coast-to-coast autonomous Tesla drive in 3 to 6 months
Tesla had aimed to do a cross-country U.S. drive in one of its vehicles using fully autonomous driving capabilities by the end of last year. Obviously it didn’t make that goal, or you’d have heard about it. Instead, Tesla CEO Elon Musk now says he anticipates being able to make …
Read More »Elon Musk’s self-driving strategy still doesn’t include LiDAR
Elon Musk’s vision of autonomous driving differs from a lot of Tesla’s competitors in that he’s been adamant that LiDAR isn’t a core component of his approach. It’s a stance that provokes a lot of debate among experts in the field, many of whom, including former Tesla employees, disagree that …
Read More »Lyft hires Tesla’s president of Sales & Service as COO
Lyft has hired a new C-level executive: Jon McNeill, who joins as Chief Operating Officer. McNeill previously held a top role at Tesla, where he was president of Global Sales Service, overseeing all of the company’s showroom and customer-facing interactions. Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed on the company’s earnings call …
Read More »Google adds new features & improves navigation for mobile hotel & flight searches
Google is stepping up its hotel and flight search features on mobile, aiming to make it easier to plan travel no matter the size of the screen being used. Starting today, a number of new features will begin rolling out across Google’s mobile travel search experience. According to the announcement, …
Read More »Best practices for onboarding new clients
Your customers have more choices for products and services than ever before. And with the proliferation of digital communications, it’s easier for your competition to reach your prospective customers — and harder for you to stand out. To be successful, winning a new customer isn’t enough. You must provide an …
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