Today, the scope of learning has greatly expanded to enable education beyond the classroom thanks to new communication technologies. Students can now connect with educational resources, and interact with them in a myriad of ways, using technologies such as the interactive whiteboard featured in the Boost Academy app. Today’s digital learners require much more than black and white information out of a textbook. Instead, they want to be immersed in the world around them and develop skills that they feel are relevant and will prepare them for the workplace....

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx calls this “one of the most dramatic periods of change in the history of transportation,” NPR reports. Though Foxx was including other innovations with outsized impacts (notably self-driving cars, which I’ve written about a lot), the number of drones is set to expand by 30 times its current size within a year. Why Expect 580,000 More Commercial Drones? A new regulation will make owning a commercial drone far easier, dramatically boosting industry interest....

But though the platforms are fairly different, one little misunderstanding about what it takes to get viral fame plagues both services. Here’s how it works. You can’t get on Facebook or on Patreon in order to become successful. The reverse is true: You need to become successful in order to become known on Facebook or Patreon. Here’s where I saw this rule detailed most recently, in an article Coelevate recently ran about Patreon’s efforts to double the number of creators it on-boarded....

Despite Facebook’s attempts to distance itself from the issue, Texas Supreme Court Justice James Blacklock has firmly stated that the website is responsible for any human rights or criminal violations that may have been facilitated over its service. The three women who originally brought the case against Facebook have said that they themselves had been forced into prostitution as teenagers by sex traffickers who used Facebook to groom them. The case has resurfaced tensions between Facebook and various regulators over the legal responsibility that social media platforms bear for criminal conduct committed on their services....

The messaging is likely to upset many website owners, who rely on revenue from adverts to stay operational. However, there are ways to use an ad blocker and still support your favorite sites. An ad blocker will provide protection against fraudulent advert, but won’t protect against more common phishing and ransomware scams, so we’d also suggest using password managers and antivirus software. Cyber Criminals Using Adverts to Catch Out Users In a statement from the FBI this week, the agency suggested that internet users download an ad blocker, as cyber criminals adopt more and more sophisticated ways to dupe victims into downloading harmful software or handing over their details....

This is one of the largest venture-capital deals made by Google. Magic Leap is developing its own eyeglasses-like device, different from Google Glass, designed to project computer-generated images over a real-life setting. Magic Leap is working on creating a wearable device that will track users’ eyeballs and project images on to them, sources told technology blog Re/code. According to a press release from earlier this year, Magic Leap’s CEO Rony Abovitz said that his company’s mission was to “develop and commercialize… the most natural and human-friendly wearable computing interface in the world....

A long-time user of the email services offered by Google is used to the many kinds of advertisements that keep being shown to them. These are what the Google calls tailored advertising. They are sent to the user on the basis of keywords of the contents in their email inbox. Google uses a software which scans and analyses the content of the emails automatically. Google has the right to send out such advertisements....

If you’re not familiar, Stadia is Google’s game-streaming service that allows you, in theory, to play the games you love anywhere on almost any device. But there has to be a catch, right? Google wouldn’t just give something away for nothing? How to get Google Stadia Pro for Free Signing up for Stadia Pro is easy. Head over to Stadia.com and sign upDownload the Stadia app on Android or iOS...

The Pixel 4a was supposed to break cover in May, at Google’s I/O developer conference. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event was postponed before eventually being cancelled. The Pixel 5, as a result, has also been pushed back. Lets take a look at how Google has managed to fumble an incredibly important phone when every other manufacturer is, seemingly, able to carry on with minimal disruption. Pixel 4a – What Went Wrong When We all knew the Pixel 4a would be coming....

Google’s Concerned About Productivity The news comes from Google parent company Alphabet’s weekly all-hands meeting, in which Pichai said that productivity isn’t where it needs to be based on the head count it currently has. In other words, people aren’t pulling their weight. According to CNBC, Pichai said that: Last week, the company reported a second consecutive quarter of weaker-than-predicting earnings and revenue — a sign that “productivity” in this case may translate to “profitability....

Today, Waymo announced an early rider program and the first public trial of their self-driving cars. Residents in the Phoenix metropolitan area can apply to use Waymo’s fleet of self-driving vehicles to do everything they would do on a daily basis. Waymo will be adding 500 self-driving Chrysler Pacifica vans to the fleet with a total of 600 on the road. But don’t worry, in the initial stage of the program, Waymo will have a test driver at the wheel....

According to a recent study from HubStaff, freelancers with a website charge their clients 65 percent higher hourly rates on average that their website-less counterparts, highlighting the fact that in this day and age, you need a website to prove you’re legitimate. This is particularly true if you don’t have the experience or geographic advantage on your competition. To be more specific about the difference in hourly rates, freelancers with a website charge $33....

Fortunately, we understand your confusion and want to make sure you fully understand the tech before you get behind the now-defunct steering wheel of one of these cars. From avoiding obstacles to obeying traffic signals, knowing is half the battle when it comes to defeating the fear of this futuristic technology. The Sensors As you’re probably already aware, self-driving cars are all fitted with an abundance of sensors. Waymo is no exception, and its sensors are a lot more impressive than you likely realize....

Reykjavik, Iceland is one such healthy ecosystem, as we’ve reported before. But it’s time to explore one you might not be as familiar with: Barcelona, Spain. The Barcelona Startup Ecosystem Startup Genome has the report on the strengths of the Barcelona startup ecosystem, and aptly summarize the infrastructure of the city. Those 21 exits in 2016 alone are impressive when measured up to the U.S.’s dwindling number of IPOs. But three different elements of the Barcelona startup ecosystem prove it’s worth, according to the report....

Last month in the midst of so much CES hard plastic and neon lights, it was difficult to find anything remotely organic feeling. A few booths tried to bring in plants and soften it up, but one that stood out was House of Marley. The booth, filled with wood and earth tones, provided a mini-Bob Marley haven amidst an electric jungle. Damian Marley was there revealing a range of their eco-conscious audio accessories designed by the family of Bob Marley – well, actually produced by HoMedics (owner of Sharper Image brand), who has a licensing agreement with the Marley family....

Recently I sat down with Moisey Uretsky, cofounder of DigitalOcean, and talked about the elevator pitch. Moisey said that founders and investors often focus on their elevator pitch, and that’s fine. But what most don’t know is that it’s not nearly as important as the customer’s elevator pitch. He explained that it is the elevator pitch that a customer of a startup would give on behalf of a startup to a prospective customer....

This shift in mobile consumer banking is at the core of fintech startups and the heart of the Capital One Labs experimental product and technology incubator and accelerator. Within their corporate structure there is a hidden startup culture that has cross-functional teams of product managers, designers, data scientists, developers and other innovators who are figuring out ways to make banking more seamless and secure for customers. You might think that fintech is boring....

Check out one of the Startup Weekends that make up the Global Startup Weekend and try your hand at tackling a weekend-long learning event. This year, we’ll see more than 15,000 entrepreneurs meeting up for over 200 events across the weekends of November 11-13 and 18-20. Here’s how it works and how you can benefit. The 2016 Initiative John Beadle, Director of Startup Weekend at Techstars, had this to say in a recent blog post about the unique elements of 2016’s events: Attendees at each weekend workshop will receive select perks....

A Personalized Approach Machine learning looks at the data and transforms the website into something geared more toward the individual customer. It’s all part of the goal that many businesses have—taking the personal face-to-face strategy and converting it into a digital format. One study from 2013 says that in the next three to five years, we could see 88% of all interactions with customers take place digitally. Another study shows that millennials want a more personalized approach from technology....

I interviewed the Voice.com CEO, David Ciccarelli, in order to learn about the twists and turns of the company’s journey, which includes pitstops at two tech accelerators: The Canadian Technology Accelerator program in San Francisco for four months in 2013, and the CTA Digital NYC in New York in 2015 for a five-month program. Read more about emerging marketplace With this preliminary information in hand, dive deeper by finding data to support why this specific accelerator is relevant to your business....