Best Of 2019 Chinese Vertical Dramas Made For Phone Viewing Show The Future Of Mobile Video

Instagram launched IGTV in 2018, and is pushing creators to explore what’s possible for mobile video. Netflix introduced vertical 30-second previews, and is now experimenting with mobile-first features like vibrating movies. Spotify is releasing vertical music videos. Snap is delivering plenty of premium mobile video content with its Snap Originals, and has more on the way. But compared to traditional videos which have been around since 1895, mobile video is still a newborn baby....

November 26, 2022 · 5 min · 902 words · Randy Ripple

Best Of 2019 The Cowboy E Bike Is So Good I Want To Cycle With It Off Into The Sunset

Uh, Cowboy? Yep, it’s a Belgian company that makes electric bikes. The version I tested over the last month or so is the bike’s second iteration, but was still an engineering model. Despite this, I didn’t come across any huge, glaring flaws during my testing. Also, an interesting little fact before we begin, the company actually managed to get the cowboy.com URL. Lord knows how much that cost them. Yeah, but what about the Cowboy e-bike?...

November 26, 2022 · 6 min · 1140 words · Marvin Booth

130 Twitter Accounts Were Targeted By Hackers In The Grand Bitcoin Scam

The strategy used for this hack is what’s called social engineering: the attackers managed to convince someone at the company to give them access to Twitter’s admin tools. [Read: Everything we know about how Twitter’s biggest hack went down] In a fresh revelation, the social network said that hackers targeted approximately 130 accounts and took control of a handful of them. Twitter is still investigating the incident and has temporarily disabled ‘download my data’ function for all users....

November 26, 2022 · 2 min · 426 words · Alan Knapp

2010 2019 The Rise Of Deep Learning

Deep learning is a friendly facet of machine learning that lets AI sort through data and information in a manner that emulates the human brain’s neural network. Rather than simply running algorithms to completion, deep learning lets us tweak the parameters of a learning system until it outputs the results we desire. The 2019 Turing Award, given for excellence in artificial intelligence research, was awarded to three of deep learning’s most influential architects, Facebook’s Yann LeCun, Google’s Geoffrey Hinton, and University of Montreal’s Yoshua Bengio....

November 26, 2022 · 5 min · 1027 words · Ruth Hicks

218M Words With Friends Players Data Reportedly Stolen In Zynga Hack Updated

On September 12, the company disclosed that “certain player account information may have been illegally accessed by outside hackers,” but didn’t reveal any details about the scope of the breach and the number of players who may have had their information stolen. But now, there appears to be more than meets the eye in this case. According to Hacker News, gnosticplayers — the threat actor behind the sale of two colossal data dumps comprising of 747 million stolen accounts spanning across 24 websites, including Dubsmash, MyFitnessPal, 500px, CoffeeMeetsBagel, Houzz, and Ixigo, on the dark web earlier this year — has claimed to have compromised Zynga....

November 26, 2022 · 3 min · 494 words · Yolanda Propheter

3 Signs Analytics Engineering Is The Job For You

I’ve been seeing more and more job postings for analytics engineers in recent months. Every company wants someone that has both data analytics and software engineering skills. It’s the best bang for their buck in hiring one person. I first became an analytics engineer 6 months ago, after working for 2 years as a data engineer. And I’ve never looked back. I’m glad I decided to apply for a position I had never heard of....

November 26, 2022 · 4 min · 759 words · Darlene Hall

3 Ways Ecommerce Brands Can Stay Agile And Adapt In Uncertain Times

The COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges to businesses across the globe. Global supply chain disruptions, more people shopping online instead of in stores, and increasing product returns are just a few of the major shifts brands have had to adapt to, in a short space of time. The war in Ukraine is only expected to exacerbate surging costs, delivery delays and other challenges for companies in Europe. Meanwhile, the global push towards sustainability is influencing both consumers and businesses to rethink their priorities and way of working....

November 26, 2022 · 5 min · 1007 words · Sean Tyler

4 Common Mistakes People Make When Scaling Their Hr And Finance Systems

Rapid growth in a startup or small business is both exciting and daunting. Your team’s ability to bring a bit of order to the chaos can be the difference between flaming out or effectively scaling to become a household name. You will face decisions about whether to build, borrow, or buy your way to the next level. If your organization is like my last company, then you want to remain laser-focused on your customers and delivering them a high-quality product or service....

November 26, 2022 · 7 min · 1357 words · Leonard Eicher

5 Easy Ways You Can Push Your Sales Team To Do Better

If there is one department that is traditionally pushed to its very limits, it’s sales. No matter how well a company may be doing, you can always close more deals and get better numbers. One of the best ways to get more sales and better performance from your sales team is to find better ways to manage it. Here’s how you can do just that. Hire coachable sales reps When you hire for sales roles, choosing the right person can be incredibly challenging....

November 26, 2022 · 8 min · 1603 words · Scott Preston

5 Innovations Shaping The Future Of Train Travel

The likes of HS2 can deliver considerable improvements in network capacity but through incremental changes in conventional designs, from tracks to train bogies. Yet while the rail sector is warily slow at introducing new technologies due to the long time it takes to plan and build new lines and vehicles, there are a number of technical innovations in development that, if adopted, could make the trains of tomorrow both faster and safer....

November 26, 2022 · 4 min · 842 words · Bryan Bartholomew

5G And Connected Living Are Taking Centre Stage At Ifa

“Radio” by Rammstein was then played to an eager room of techies. Before introducing Huawei, CEO Richard Yu, the IFA Director Jens Heithecken, reminded the audience that IFA was born as a fair for broadcasting radios. Looking back, it’s easy to see how the struggle to win a free press is every bit as relevant today as it once was. Especially with the fake news debate raging in all corners of the world....

November 26, 2022 · 4 min · 686 words · Laura Gallegos

A Look Inside Europe S 7 Trillion Technology Market

Sinch, the Stockholm-based cloud telecoms firm, is up a teeth-kissing 170% year-to-date. Second-best is Dutch fintech play Adyen: its market cap grew from $223 billion to $389.4 billion, driving its stock price up by 74%. Swedish accounting gem Fortnox just beat Germany’s TeamViewer for third place, but they were close, both up around 52% in the past six months. It’s far less than its US counterpart Zoom Video, but still impressive....

November 26, 2022 · 3 min · 599 words · Jacqueline Coffey

A Planet Surviving Its Dying Star Offers Clues About Our Solar System

So which planets will survive the death of the Sun? One way to seek the answer is to look at the fates of other similar planetary systems. This has proven difficult, however. The feeble radiation from white dwarfs makes it difficult to spot exoplanets (planets around stars other than our Sun) which have survived this stellar transformation – they are literally in the dark. In fact, of the over 4,500 exoplanets that are currently known, just a handful have been found around white dwarfs – and the location of these planets suggests they arrived there after the death of the star....

November 26, 2022 · 5 min · 970 words · Donald Reed

A Time Traveler S Guide To The End Of The Universe

So you’ve decided to visit the end of the universe? Well, bully for you. Some folks might call it a spoiler, but I say we should skip to the end just to see where all of this is going. Luckily for us Matt Caplan, a theoretical physicist from Illinois State University, recently conducted a study to determine how the end of the universe is likely to go down. I’ll save you some jargon: The universe ends not with a bang, kiss, or even a whimper, but with a Gothic rollicking finale....

November 26, 2022 · 3 min · 540 words · Arthur Mcdonald

After Driving The New Land Rover Defender I Can T Wait For An Electric Version

This will undoubtedly shock and horrify the vast majority of old-school Landy fans who love the cars for their ruggedness and utility… but I’m actually super stoked about this change. And I’m going to explain why. The reality Before we get to my controversial excitement though, let’s look at why this is happening, and what those old-school fans think. With bans on the sale of new gasoline cars set to come into force over the next decade, Land Rover’s shift to electric power had to come sooner or later....

November 26, 2022 · 5 min · 878 words · Heather Gay

After Facetime Here S How Apple Can Half Ass Other Apps To Android

In case you missed the update, Apple has spent the past year trying to copy Zoom. Part of this is that FaceTime, its video calling app, is opening up. This is all well and good — besides the fact that you can’t really use FaceTime if you’re not on an Apple device. Can you you participate in a FaceTime call if you’re on on Windows and Android? Yes! But can you start a FaceTime call?...

November 26, 2022 · 2 min · 403 words · Sara Dawson

After Tiger King Netflix Seeks 1 Billion Loan To Make More Original Content

The Los Gatos-based streaming monster reportedly said it would use the money to finance original content and make acquisitions where necessary. The outlet noted Netflix currently owes around $15 billion. [Read: How to avoid accidental skips with Netflix’s new ‘screen lock’ feature] The move comes in hot on the trails of Netflix’s quarterly earnings published on Tuesday, in which the company reported 15.77 million new paid subscribers had swelled its viewing base to 182....

November 26, 2022 · 2 min · 314 words · Nathan Smith

Ai S Not All Bad Here Are 4 Good Things It May Do By 2030

First the benign uses. I am thinking here of areas in which prototypes already exist: AI-powered activities that are likely to become normal by the end of this decade: Conversational Commerce, Home Technical Support, and Autonomous Vehicles. However, a fourth one, Institutional Decision Making, has few satisfactory prototypes at this time and so will be harder to fix. Conversational commerce This refers to voice-driven sales activity in which the natural voice is the customer’s, interacting with an AI-driven bot voice at the vendor’s end....

November 26, 2022 · 4 min · 796 words · Christopher Westphalen

Alphabet Joins The Trillion Dollar Club Alongside Apple Amazon Microsoft

The company achieved this milestone just over a month after Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped down from their respective CEO and President positions at Alphabet (founded in 2015). Last December, Page handed the reins over to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, making him CEO of both Google and Alphabet. [Read: Pichai is a mistake] The holding company includes several businesses, including Google, Sidewalk Labs (which focuses on smart city tech), DeepMind (an AI outfit), Google Fiber, and Verily (a life science research organization that was previously part of Google X)....

November 26, 2022 · 1 min · 153 words · Russell Carlisle

Amazon And Flipkart Set To Resume Delivering Non Essential Goods In India

India used a color-coding system of Red, Orange, and Green to indicate the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in certain areas of the country (Red being the worst affected). According to the new guidelines, Red and Orange zones are further divided into containment and buffer zones by local authorities. While ecommerce companies won’t be able to deliver essentials to containment zones, they will be available to fulfill all their orders in other areas....

November 26, 2022 · 1 min · 177 words · Brent Deleon