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A Silicon Valley Maverick Steps into Washington David Sacks, a tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as the White House’s inaugural “AI and Crypto Czar.” This unconventional appointment promises to merge the worlds of Silicon Valley innovation and Washington policymaking. Sacks, a PayPal co-founder and ally of…
A Shock to Corporate America The sudden and violent death of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, has shaken both the business world and the public. Thompson, a seasoned leader of one of the largest private health insurers in the U.S., was shot in a targeted attack outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan. The incident,…
There is no doubt that we are currently experiencing the golden age of artificial intelligence, although that should not mean that this is as good as it gets for the technology. In fact, it should only be the start before another golden age is produced in the future. According to recent surveys that have been…
Cloud storage is an essential element of a backup business process. As your business grows, so does your need for storing data on the cloud. You might need to scale up your storage requirements because of new orders or due to seasonal changes in business needs. Or perhaps you may be implementing a new software…
Nobody could have imagined that voice assistants like Siri would become such a driving force for technological progress when they were initially launched in 2011. Almost a decade later, it is believed that one in every four Americans has a smart speaker (Amazon Echo, Google Home), and eMarketer forecasts that by the end of 2020,…
Electric automobiles long ago shed their image as flimsy, slow, and possibly slightly humiliating. Priorities of the public have shifted. Many people, particularly members of the younger generation, consider environmental stewardship as more important than speeding down the interstate in a beautiful muscle vehicle. Even if that’s not always true, newer electric vehicles have a…
Over the weekend, an open letter with over 4,000 signatures circulated online, adding to the chorus of voices expressing alarm and dismay about Apple’s latest Child Safety measures. The Apple Privacy Letter urged the iPhone manufacturer to “reconsider its technological rollout” or risk undoing “decades of effort by engineers, researchers, and policy advocates” on privacy…
More than 500 million people worldwide use Instagram every day. Unsurprisingly, this popular social networking platform has attracted more than 25 million businesses around the globe. Most people dream about gaining massive Instagram success and growing their brands on the site. However, not many users achieve this dream. If you desire to grow your followers…
Even people who aren’t technologically literate know who the biggest tech companies in the world are. Ask the average person in the street who the industry’s biggest players are, and they’ll almost certainly give you a list of names that includes Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook. You might get a few additional names thrown…
We live in the 21st century, where almost everyone has a mobile phone, laptop, PC and so on. We cannot imagine our lives without these gadgets. They affected many spheres of our life as a business, marketing, education, relationships, career, health, and many others. So, nobody can argue that education is among the most important…
The education system finds itself at a particular crossroads in society. On the one hand, it is charged with the duty of anticipating real-life skills and preparing individuals to take part in an increasingly complex and competitive world. At the same time, education methodologies can only be made formal after the practices have been researched…
One of the most lucrative industries to be born alongside the internet is web hosting. With every company needing a website, and every second individual building one for good measure, online real estate has consistently been in high demand. Supply has remained plentiful and that has allowed web hosting companies to sell subscription services at…
The question of how to erase data on Mac or any other platform might seem like a relatively simple one, right? Just delete the file, then go to the Trash Bin and empty it to permanently remove the file from your system. What could be easier than that? Unfortunately, you’d be dead wrong if you…
The way we drive is changing. From futuristic Hollywood movies to sci-fi fiction novels, the idea of driverless cars has been around for some time now – but it’s never felt as close to becoming reality as it does today. The UK’s Department for Transport wants fully autonomous cars on the road by 2021. The…
Many organizations are not in the technology business, and the work of hosting their own infrastructure can be a distraction from their core business activities. By leveraging the services of cloud service providers, these organizations can leave infrastructure management to the experts and reap the benefits of sharing infrastructure costs with other cloud customers. However,…