October 2017 – ValorDelWeb

In their first Russia hearing, tech giants try to placate Congress (with mixed results)

October 31, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee kicked off the first of three hearings this week examining the relationship between social media and Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The hearings mark the first time that lawmakers will hear testimony from Google, Facebook and Twitter around how their platforms

Congress grills Facebook, Twitter, Google on shells hiding election meddlers

October 31, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

How can internet giants know that innocent-seeming U.S. companies aren’t actually shell vehicles for malicious foreign actors to buy ads to interfere with elections? The short answer is they can’t, and that drew questioning from a congressional probe today into Facebook, Twitter and Google being used to manipulate the 2016

Stripe Atlas adds a tool to set up stock issues for founding teams as it builds its business services

October 31, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

Stripe Atlas was launched by payments company Stripe last year to help small businesses set themselves up as a legal, incorporated business entity in the U.S. Now with “thousands” of entrepreneurs from 125+ countries using Atlas, Stripe is expanding it with a new feature as it hones its focus on

Apple releases iOS 11.1 with shiny new emojis

October 31, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

New emojis. Do you need to hear anything else? Apple just released an iOS update. iOS 11.1 is the first feature update for iOS 11. It adds a couple of new things, starting with dozens of new emojis. Apple already previewed some of the new emojis, but they are now

Alas, Astropad’s ‘Camera Button’ was too cool for Apple

October 31, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

Astropad’s forthcoming Luna display adapter and software turns your iPad into a wireless, essentially lag-free monitor for your Mac – and the company wanted to make it even cooler by including a clever hack that turned the iPad’s mostly useless front-facing camera into a software button. But, unsurprisingly, Apple has

Kevin Rose launches free rapid meditation app Oak

October 31, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

If it’s tough to find even five minutes of quiet in your busy day, Oak could be the meditation app for you. Launched today by Digg founder and True Ventures partner Kevin Rose, the free Oak app offers quick and simple breathing exercises as well as longer guided and DIY

Unroll.Me brings its email management app to Android

October 31, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

Android users will now be able to battle junk mail and manage their email subscriptions using the new Android app from Unroll.Me. To be clear, anyone with a smartphone could get the benefits of the service already. You just had to connect you email account, then use Unroll.Me’s features to

Latch touts first deliveries via NY Jet.com smart access tie-up

October 31, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

In July b2b smart access startup Latch announced a partnership with ecommerce platform Jet.com to install 1,000 of its smart locks on residential apartment buildings in New York. It’s now announced the first “secure, unattended deliveries” enabled by the installations. Writing in the customary Medium post, co-founder Luke Schoenfelder says Latch-enabled unattended

Microsoft will launch a Surface Pro with built-in LTE Advanced in December

October 31, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

Microsoft today announced that in December it will launch a Surface Pro with built-in LTE Advanced support to its business customers. Panos Panay, Microsoft’s corporate VP for Windows devices, made the announcement at the company’s Future Decoded event in London. In the announcement, Panay argues that as the global workforce

Russian-backed content may have reached 126 million on Facebook

October 30, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

Facebook has reportedly upped its estimate of how much content was produced by Russian-backed actors during the election and how widely that content was seen. According to prepared remarks due to be presented tomorrow but acquired by The Wall Street Journal today, the company estimates 80,000 pieces of content may have

No, iPhones don’t have a special folder for your sexy pics

October 30, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

It’s understandable when things change as fast as they do these days that it takes a bit for our ideas of how things work to catch up to how they actually work. One misunderstanding worth clearing up, since it’s so sensitive, is the suggestion that Apple (or Google, or whoever)

Conflict Management Simplified | ProTimely

October 30, 2017 No Comments Yohannes Torres

(Amazon Books) – – One of the most important things that hardly miss whenever continued relationship between two or more persons exists is conflict. Yet many people find themselves unprepared to handle conflicts since they have cultivated an attitude that considers conflict as a bad omen that ought not to

A Complete Guide on How to Make Money Online

October 30, 2017 No Comments Yohannes Torres

This book lists numerous ways in which users can earn money online. It is divided into three parts. In the first part various methods to earn money via Facebook are given, in the second part earning money through YouTube is explained and in the last part earning money from Umugenzi

Instagram injects 2X bigger Stories previews mid-feed

October 30, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

Instagram Stories is doing so well, the app wants to ensure you don’t just scroll by its Snapchat clone. Instagram confirms to TechCrunch that it has redesigned its mid-feed re-engagement box for Stories to show preview tiles of people’s slideshows that are twice as big as the Stories bar atop

The MSI Trident 3 Arctic packs crazy gaming power into a tiny case

October 30, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

Here’s the skinny: This computer is skinny. The MSI Trident 3 Arctic is a gaming rig in a surprisingly small package. During testing the found the computer capable of running the latest VR hardware and games even though the tiny computer lacks the traditional cooling found on standard cases. The

Nintendo says Switch will beat Wii U total sales within its first year

October 30, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

The Switch is beginning to pay off for Nintendo. The new console is selling so well that the Japanese firm said today it is likely to outsell the Wii U, its predecessor, within one year of its release. Today Nintendo raised its prediction for total Switch sales over its financial

Kenzie Academy is an ambitious project to bring tech jobs to Middle America

October 29, 2017 No Comments Désiré LeSage

The most logical thing to do when you decide to step back from your successful startup, which didn’t end up in the deadpool like the other 99 percent, is to take some time off. Appreciate things. Enjoy the fact that years of work paid off, literally. Watch your kids grow