Technology

Why Twitter, Snapchat, and Facebook Are So Successful: Behavioral Economists Point Out This 1 Key
21:00 2017-11-04

One current debate in technology circles concerns whether mobile apps are still a must-have or on their way out. The correct answer, of course, is that’s the wrong question to ask. To understand why, let’s talk about Texas hold ’em. What makes playing that game so seductive and addictive, in part, is that it triggers …

Google Search becomes country-specific by default
03:35 2017-11-02

San Francisco, Oct 28 (IANS) You will no longer have to manually enter country code top-level domain names to avail country-specific services for Google Search and Maps on the web and the Google iOS app. And this applies even when you travel from one country to another, for example from the US to India. Country …

Two immigrants, their drone and American agribusiness
20:36 2017-11-01

CHICAGO (chicagobusiness.com): Naira Hovakimyan didn’t know any- thing about flight before she was hired to work on a new autopilot system as a young researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the late 1990s. These days, the University of Illinois math professor is all about drones. She’s co-founder of IntelinAir, a startup that uses …

PicsArt Fam, We’re Thankful for All 100,000,000 of You
20:03 2017-11-01

By Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO Today, I’m excited to announce that PicsArt crossed 100,000,000 monthly active users! With 850M+ images and 50M+ stickers edited with PicsArt every month, we’re quickly becoming one of the largest open-source collections of images in the world. In other words, this is a pretty exciting day. To celebrate, we’re launching the …

Apple ‘fires’ engineer over iPhone X leak
02:10 2017-11-01

Apple has reportedly fired one of its engineers after his daughter posted a video of the iPhone X before the official launch. The YouTube video was shot on the Apple campus in September when the young woman met her father for lunch, BBC News reports. The video was widely shared after being spotted by tech …