In her talk, Jean walked through five values and goals that are most often found in the most fearless success stories out there. Here’s a look at each one, and what insight Jean had to offer about them. Make Big Bets Yes, “moonshots” are a bit cliché at this point, but taking a look at the biggest bet of all can reveal just why going out on a limb can be a game-changer....
Yes, the age of integrated technology has officially taken a step too far by making smartphone battery power available in something as simple and disposable as a fast food container. The limited edition promotional boxes will carry within them a detachable 6,100 mAh lithium battery, a USB cable for Android phones, and an Apple Lightning cable for iPhones. Deemed the Watt a Box, the charger will come along with the 5-in-a-Meal Box, which houses five popular items from the KFC India menu....
Robert Rosenstein cofounded Agoda ten years ago, worked through growth and acquisition, and now leads the company as CEO. Below, he shares insights from that process and why he ended up in Thailand. Tech Cocktail: Why did you start Agoda? Robert Rosenstein: At the time, there were a number of websites offering hotel bookings in Asia, each with specialities in various areas. We felt we could create a global site that would have the scale and reach to deliver better deals and more choice through a simple online booking interface....
The professional mode unlocks a range of social media management tools, including advanced analytic and well-being capabilities, and a ‘Stars’ feature that lets creators earn money directly from Reels, live streams, and on-demand videos. Meta is also opening up more benefits to Instagram creators by expanding access to subscriptions and letting them create NFTs and sell them directly to fans. But as TikTok continues to eat up Meta’s ad revenue, have these changes been introduced a little too late?...
Michael Hermus does just that. In this prestigious role, Hermus integrates the President’s national security, innovation, and emerging technologies priorities with the DHS mission. In addition to that, he’s responsible for following future trends in the security realm of technology, preparing and protecting the department from any emergent security threats or weaknesses. Based on his 20 years of experience, being a CTO is what Hermus was born to do. Prior to working with the Department of Homeland Security, Hermus worked as the CTO of a wide range of companies....
Microsoft 365, formerly Office 365, is a suite of software which includes all of Microsoft’s classics: Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, and various other services. Up until next month, users were able to support these apps with Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer. However, as Internet Explorer 11 ages, Microsoft is preparing to leave it behind. Microsoft Teams already stopped functioning alongside IE11 in November of 2020, with Microsoft 365 following suit this year....
This will make life easier for existing Microsoft Teams users, who won’t even have to open their browser anymore to get the software, which is currently only available through the tech giant’s website. Oddly enough, this isn’t actually the first time Microsoft has added the app to the store – it first added it over four years ago. ‘Appy Days for Microsoft Users Microsoft recently announced the plans to relaunch the Microsoft Teams app on the Microsoft Store on the Microsoft 365 roadmap....
The change isn’t a huge one, but it’s bound to be welcomed by those who have been waiting for the entry-level Surface Book 2 to get a current generation Intel processor. Microsoft hasn’t added anything else to the line-up, but with a dedicated Surface event on the 17th of April, we could see new products soon. Entry-Level Surface Book 2 Gets 8th-Gen Chip While the 13.5-inch Surface Book 2 was already available with with an 8th generation Intel Core Processor in its premium (and more expensive version), owners of the entry-level device had to make do with a 7th generation Intel Core i5 processor....
Appealing to its multinational audience, the service allows users to engage in meetings in multiple languages by connecting them to a wide range of professional interpreters. The feature is supported by Interprefy, a remote cloud-based technology that has already been providing its interpreting services to Zoom for over a year. The update comes just weeks after Teams allows users to enter calls faster and add a local time to their user profiles....
As the saying goes about weather in Chicago, if you don’t like something about Microsoft Teams, just wait; it’ll likely change in a few minutes. The platform is so regularly updated that we can barely keep up with it, from adding compatibility with Firefox to updating functionality for parent-teacher conferences. Now, Microsoft Teams is adding a new feature that will make signing documents and forms infinitely easier for its many users....
The 2015 State of College Hiring report was conducted by Looksharp‘s InternMatch, a website serving as the largest internship and entry-level jobs marketplace for college students and recent graduates. Based on data compiled from more than 50,000 students, the report looks at everything from what students and recent grads are doing to get hired, to the kinds of internships or entry jobs that they’re finding. Of the many things the report shows, it provides supporting evidence that students are expanding their knowledge base to classes not just within their chosen majors or academic tracks....
These tools, which are part of the company’s “smart canvas” initiative, will make it easier for teams to document, track and share the progress of their projects from a far. While Google Docs may not take the take the prize over other project management software, these changes represent a broader move by the tech giant to make its in-house offering more competitive. Google Docs Introduces New Table Features and Dropdown Menus Last year, Google announced “smart canvas”, a Google Workspace initiative that aims to improve interaction between its tools....
Mattan Griffel, the CEO of One Month, built his online video learning platform to help people with this exact scenario. However, instead of history, Griffel focuses on teaching coding, website building, mobile applications, growth hacking, content marketing, and web security, among others. Better yet, One Month was built specifically with beginners in mind – programs can be completed in 30 days if you spend just 15 minutes a day on them....
Credible and Ambitious Openfire is crowdfunding for people with expertise to pull off big ideas that create long-term social good. The platform requires capital-efficient, scalable, ambitious ideas and plans that address really big problems and can be broken up into multiple, actionable phases by very credible project creators. Starting Big. Telling Stories with Technology. Timing the platform’s public launch with SXSW this month, openfire is getting ambitious right away. One of the first projects that will be featured as a launch partner for the platform is Urbsly, an attempt to aggregate data about seed varieties (and eventually genetic information) that could help gardeners and farmers around the world who currently are forced to rely on Monsanto exclusively....
20 Questions is a new take on the world’s favorite guessing game. You may remember playing it in the car on family road trips, but now 20 Questions has been introduced into the world of online social gaming. You can create an account and start asking questions to the 20 Questions community. Then, join in the conversations surrounding questions that have already been asked, and whittle down the answers until you reach the correct one....
It all began for Lee back in college; he was a light sleeper and always had things going on around him like inconsiderate neighbors or loud roommates. The earplugs he used to sleep weren’t the best at keeping sound at bay, but more importantly, they left him with no peace of mind. That is, Lee was filled to the brim with anxiety that he would sleep through his alarm clock thanks to these earplugs....
The issue is that kids are people too, and people like to socialize. At this point it was plain to see that a filtering system for URLs wasn’t going to halt this issue anymore than limiting device usage. For this need, and many other needs people have for going online, Nemer decided to take his ideas to the next level; he created a complete portal that covers as much ground as possible....
LEO Privacy Guard is a mobile app that does exactly that, along with some other very interesting features. Available for Android and, now, for iOS, this app is brings a set of tools which promise to protect the privacy of all smartphone users. It is built to keep any apps or content (like SMS messages, photos or videos) safe from the prying eyes of others. One of the best functionalities of LEO Privacy Guard is the ability to lock apps, which can be useful in multiple ways, like stopping our friends from posting goofy messages on our social network profiles or even stop our kids from spending our entire mobile data plan....
But what about real-time Q&A? That’s where Replyz fits into the landscape. Replyz is a DC area startup that looks to tap into the real-time stream that’s all around us, making questions and answers as simple as searching on Google or posting on Twitter. Replyz takes the idea of simple Q&A and brings it to life real-time through Twitter. You simply sign on with your Twitter account and Replyz does a semantic analysis of your past tweets to suggest some possible topics of interest....
These changes were announced by Reddit cofounder Christopher Slowe this morning. He acknowledged the site’s open culture and the growing need to implement strategies in place to give power back to users in the face of harassment or trolling. He writes: Social media, while it has thrived in creating an open culture for users to interact with each other digitally, largely remains unchecked when it comes to empowering users to protect themselves against issues of harassment and trolling, which impact marginalized users at larger rates than others....
