WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has finally been arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Thursday—that’s almost seven years after he took refuge in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case. According to a short note released by London’s Metropolitan Police Service, Assange has been arrested immediately after the Ecuadorian…
Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends This year, the mobile tech community is readying itself for a massive influx of folding smartphones, and the first major release will be the Samsung Galaxy Fold. It’s out at the end of April, and so far we’ve only had a teasing glimpse of this exciting phone. Now, as it gets closer…
No ratings yet. What are contact database segments? How can you identify them? The tasks of segmentation How to understand whether a segment is worth the cost? Conclusion Segmentation is what turns bulk mailing into effective marketing communications. A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. Segmentation is what helps you achieve that. The conversation…
Xiaomi’s newest mid-range stars, the Redmi Note 7 and Redmi Note 7 Pro, have been doing very well in terms of sales, surpassing four million globally, while the Redmi Note 7 sold more than a million units in China in its first month of availability. The story now repeats itself in India, where the local…
When you buy cryptocurrencies on Coinbase, many users simply don’t know what to do with them. Customers in the U.K. can now get a good old plastic card and spend cryptocurrencies in-store and on any online website. This is a Visa card so it should work with any merchant on the Visa network. The company…
DARPA wants to be able to launch anywhere, any time, and several times in a row. Is that too much to ask? Not for Vector Space, Virgin Orbit, and an unnamed startup that just qualified to take place in the agency’s Launch Challenge, which will push their responsive and mobile launch capabilities to the limit.…
Silicon Valley may have dealt with some rough hubris throughout the saga of Theranos, but Hollywood is basking in its downfall. Weeks after the premiere of an HBO documentary chronicling Elizabeth Holmes’s grand blood-testing charade and in the midst of development of a film starring Jennifer Lawrence, Hulu has ordered its own Theranos limited series…
Google today announced that Google+ in G Suite, the last remaining remnants of what was once Google’s attempt to rival Facebook and Twitter, will now be called Currents. We don’t need to belabor the fact that Google+ was a flop and that its death was probably long overdue. We’ve done that. Now it’s time to…
Sometimes, reading a lawsuit, it’s tempting to pick sides, to judge who is more right than wrong based on its contents. But a new lawsuit involving two venture-backed companies — both of which are rooted in machine intelligence — makes both sides sound surprisingly careless given their line of work. The plaintiff is Quid, a…
The development of the algorithm that made it possible to create the first image ever of a black hole was led by computer scientist Katie Bouman while she was still a graduate student at MIT. Bouman shared a photo on Facebook of herself reacting as the historical picture was processing. The algorithm, which Bouman named…
