Dressed in a Naruto t-shirt and a hat emblazoned with the phrase “lone wolf,” Ne-Yo slouches over in a chair inside a Holberton School classroom. The Grammy-winning recording artist is struggling to remember the name of “that actor,” the one who’s had a successful career in both the entertainment industry and tech investing. “I learned about all…
Since McKinsey released a report on how best to use prizes to incentivize innovation nearly a decade ago, an entire industry has grown around social innovation challenges. The formula for these “save the world” competitions has become standard. Drum up a lot of buzz around an award. Partner with big names to get funding and…
Now that Bluetooth earbuds are the norm for on-the-go audio, your standard cookie cutter wireless headphones have to bring a little something extra these days to get noticed. In fact, wireless earbuds are now being called upon to check several comfort, ease of use and, of course, performance boxes on their way to must-use status.…
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Cinema camera company Red has promised big features from its first smartphone since it began taking orders last summer, but few official details have been available on the smartphone — outside of the holographic display. More details are emerging. We spent some time with the phone, checking out its unique 3D display and spatial audio, and…
We all know Reddit is a source of pretty strange stuff. This one we came across isn’t exactly strange, but it’s a rare one indeed. A customer walked into Best Buy with the intention of buying a second-gen Chromecast but walked out with a still unreleased third generation. The OP (original poster) as redditors like…
NEWSBYTE: The Internet of Things Community, which claims to be the world’s largest group of corporate executives, IoT professionals and practitioners, has announced a new healthcare-focused IoT Centre of Excellence (CoE). The CoE is being created to provide solid guidelines for healthcare providers to implement IoT. Chris Sullivan, global healthcare practice lead, Zebra Technologies will…
The Pentagon is going to make one cloud vendor exceedingly happy when it chooses the winner of the $10 billion, ten-year enterprise cloud project dubbed the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (or JEDI for short). The contract is designed to establish the cloud technology strategy for the military over the next 10 years as it begins…
For hobbyist photographers like myself, Hasselblad has always been the untouchable luxury brand reserved for high-end professionals. To fill the gap between casual and intended photography, they released the X1D — a compact, mirrorless medium format. Last summer when Stefan Etienne reviewed the newly released camera, I asked to take a picture. After importing the raw file…
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Getting personal: Funding rises for software-driven tastemakers The alumni of these universities raised the most VC in the past year A lot of people still get paid to sit in offices and do repetitive tasks. In recent years, however, employers have been pushing harder to find ways…
