America’s transportation infrastructure keeps people and goods moving, which helps drive the U.S. economy. Unfortunately, the nation’s infrastructure is in bad shape. The ASCE’s (American Society of Civil Engineers’) 2017 Infrastructure Report Card gave America’s roads a “D,” while bridges earned a slightly better “C+,” transit earned a “D-,” and aviation infrastructure earned a “D.”…
Every time you drop your phone face down, there’s a brief moment of fear that overcomes you right before you pick it up to (hopefully) see that your phone’s screen didn’t crack. We’re accustomed to this feeling because we all know that smartphones have a delicacy problem. Some companies are aware of this, and they’ve…
No ratings yet. Among all ways of how web professionals can buy digital products, they favor bundles the most. We have a sort of a success story related to bundle, last winter we’ve released an All-in-One Web Design Bundle, while gathering assets for that item we made a thorough research, interviewed a bunch of developers…
Gameloft has released Asphalt 9: Legends a full day ahead of its release date of July 26. The game is now live on both App Store and Play Store, and can be downloaded for free on compatible devices. Whether it’s a mistake or not, we don’t know, but at least you get to play the…
Picture three American muscle cars parked in the enterprise driveway. One, the largest vehicle, carries the badge ‘AWS’, the second ‘Microsoft Azure’, and the third ‘Google’. But closer inspection of the third car reveals a shiny new badge that says ‘Google Cloud Services Platform’. These are the three leading options for organisations that want to…
Rep. Jim Hines Contributor Alastair Fitzpayne Contributor Most of the two million college students graduating this year will begin careers that will be unrecognizable to their parents and grandparents. The days of getting stable corporate jobs and single company careers are gone. According to Harvard University Extension School Dean Hunt Lambert, recent graduates can expect…
Market research firm GlobalWebIndex, which provides consumer insight data for marketing purposes for customers including Google, Spotify, WPP, IPG and Omnicom Group, has closed a $40 million Series A round. The funding is its first VC raise, almost a decade after the business was founded. The investment comes from New York-based growth fund Stripes Group, along with a…
For the past few months, Facebook has been testing something it calls “Watch Party”. It’s a feature that would let Facebook Groups host shared video streaming sessions, with everyone in the group being able to see/comment on the same videos at the same time. Take the Facebook Live concept and swap in a queue of…
Line, the company best-known for its popular Asian messaging app, is doubling down on games after it acquired a controlling stake in Korean studio NextFloor for an undisclosed amount. NextFloor, which has produced titles like Dragon Flight and Destiny Child, will be merged with Line’s games division to form the Line Games subsidiary. Dragon Flight…
A group of computer vision researchers from ETH Zurich want to do their bit to enhance AI development on smartphones. To wit: They’ve created a benchmark system for assessing the performance of several major neural network architectures used for common AI tasks. They’re hoping it will be useful to other AI researchers but also to…
