If you don’t follow ESPN on Facebook, Twitter or any other social media, you haven’t noticed the influx of eSports highlights dominating their pages. From Rocket League goals to League of Legend kills, video games have taken over the sports-focused websites’ content. And while many think this venture into the gaming world is an ill-advised move by ESPN, the people in charge are reminded of another successful investment that made “sports purists” a little upset....

In fact, in just the first four months of 2021, the US was already experiencing 25% more digital fraud than the previous year, and it didn’t get much better from there. As the consequences of poor cybersecurity continued to become a part of everyday online life, and to paraphrase GI Joe, understanding how they work is half the battle. Over the course of the year, Tech.co has covered a wide range of scams, from ransomware and phishing attacks to fake vaccine surveys and cryptocurrency hacks....

What is augmented reality? The term was coined almost 25 years ago by Thomas Caudell in reference to head-mounted displays Boeing used for wire engineering. As its meaning has naturally expanded, today AR is defined as the integration of graphic information (pictures, animation, 3D effects) into videos or user environment. Augmented reality software is created with the help of such 3D programs as Metaio and D’Fusion. It requires native development and camera-equipped hardware (smartphones, tablets and PCs)....

According to a recent poll from the National Associate of Colleges and Employers (NACE), there are 11 bachelor’s degrees that are more hirable than any others. The research was conducted through 201 surveys of companies asking what they look for most when hiring new employees. The data was quite telling when it comes to which degrees you should pick when looking at going to college. Accounting and computer science topped the list for bachelor’s degrees....

SignAloud is the name given to these technologically advanced gloves. They have the ability to sense the users hand motions and recite the words in question. It can even be used to provide text when auditory options are not available. Using Bluetooth, the gloves send hand motions to a computer that, using statistical regression, decides what the user is most likely trying to say. Thomas Pryor and Navid Azodi are the young geniuses behind the technology....

While the UK launched the “Central Bank Digital Currency Taskforce” to explore the use of a national digital currency, the Turkish government has banned the use of cryptocurrencies for payments entirely. The differing reactions to potential digital payments show just how carefully countries, companies, and — most importantly — individual people need to tread when it comes to investing in digital currencies. The decisions by the different governments are both revealing of their priorities and positions in the world, but also of the viability of cryptocurrencies going forward....

With the Chinese platform already overtaking Facebook and YouTube when it comes to screen time and total number of downloads, the new updates aim to reinstate a healthier user experience on the app – especially for its younger users. TikTok will now let users deactivate continual scrolling, place limits on how long they will watch videos, and monitor their user activity through a screen time dashboard. But with time spent on the social media app rising remarkably year on year, the impact of these changes is yet to be determined....

The Ecobe team believes that search engines have a responsibility to share their revenue with content providers, whose websites provide the results for any search. Without them, the rationale goes, search engines wouldn’t exist. So Ecobe is creating a new search engine and offering 40% of its gross profit to web publishers. This will be split among websites based on the percentage of click-throughs they get. Could Ecobe actually have a shot against Google?...

Respected business expert Tony Robbins often finds himself advising new entrepreneurs on the qualities they should look for in a mentor. In fact, lately the business strategist and author of the book Unshakeable has been doing the mentoring himself for entries to the Shopify Build a BIGGER Business Competition. I talked with him about some of the best qualities you should look for in a person who will have the power to help shape your business destiny....

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We work a lot – we all do, but at least most of us have the comfort of being able to do our work sitting at a desk. But, as we all should’ve already learned by now, this convenience of sitting all day may actually be contributing to our health problems. In 2013, Kathleen and Jeff Hale cofounded Rebel Desk, a DC-based company that designs and sells treadmill and standing desks, precisely to combat our modern-day struggle with chairs that could be killing us....

In this weeks app roundup, you can play games, alter pictures, and generally have a lot of fun with your smartphone. Check out the list below to get ready for a holiday filled with apps. Toca Life: Farm The cute little game allows you to discover the farmer’s life. In addition to milking your cow and other daily tasks, you can also have a picnic, play the fiddle, and hit the hay....

Now, following these high-profile departures, Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum and the American Manufacturing Council — both business advisory councils — are disbanding entirely. The Timeline After Trump’s initial response failed to call out the white supremacists and Neo-Nazis involved in the event, Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma resigned from the American Manufacturing Council. Trump then released a more specific statement on Monday condemning racism in all forms, before following this up with a Tuesday press conference in which he reiterated his initial insinuation that violence on both sides equated white nationalists with their protesters....

Here’s our explainer on the new 5G technology rollout, Trump’s interest in it, and why things have become so complex. What is 5G Internet? Put simply, 5G is incredibly fast mobile internet. Specifically, it’s 100 times faster than 4G. While the latter tops out at 100 megabits per second, 5G’s theoretical maximum speed is 10 gigabits per second. With 5G, you can download a full length HD film in the time it takes to yawn....

I assume all the ads will eventually turn into a disadvantage for brands, and marketers will have to move on to another platform or method, but that hasn’t happened yet. And until it does, here’s a rundown on the lessons we can learn from the way that ads on Instagram trend. Men Go for Instagram Ads More Than Women Here’s my favorite fact, pulled from a study by Influence.co that scraped the 2,100 most-liked posts with the “#ad” hashtag and sent a follow-up survey to analyze their effectiveness....

Twitter hasn’t publicly commented on the acquisition, not even a whisper. Whisper Systems will be pulling its current products offline immediately as part of the transition period. Twitter will likely leverage the acquisition to improve the security of their mobile apps. No terms of the agreement have been announced.

In short, Dashboard could be a one-stop shop to helping emerging small businesses better understand how to navigate the social media landscape. Following the announcement of Twitter’s Engage app to better help celebrities engage with their followers, the company state: For a social media company like Twitter to make a strategic move upporting how niche markets navigate their social media spaces says a lot about the state of the company and the direction of social media....

The biggest challenge to get Uber established in more cities (they are currently in about 270 cities across the globe) has been regulatory infrastructure. The rules put in place decades ago to protect an analog economy no longer make sense, and the rules that protect the industry seem staunchly affixed in place. Kalanick challenges that these laws are preventing transportation workers from making a living wage and getting in the way of choice for the citizens as well....

In the UK, an effective COVID-19 contact tracing system was supposed to allow the nation to return to a level of normality. It’s been mandatory for UK venues including pubs, restaurants, and concert halls, to collect visitor details since June. But, as the UK’s official NHS Track and Trace app wasn’t released until August 12, there was a long period where venues were, essentially, on their own with finding a solution for gathering such data....

Tech and humans rights seem like they should be a match made in heaven. After all, the marriage of complex problems and innovative technologies designed to solve them is what the tech industry was built on. However, in recent years, the tech industry has attracted criticism from some quarters for its approach to human rights. From poor working conditions to anti-trust cases, big tech has sometimes struggled to align progress with fairness and transparency....