The idea of the crowd as a source of knowledge, skills and finance has immensely gained in popularity over the last few years. The crowdfunding market alone is projected to grow five fold by 2022 compared with 2016 levels. Entrepreneurs are using these people not only for the purposes of cash flow, but also as… Read more »
Last year was a shock for many people. On a quiet Friday in May, 57 000 people in 150 countries woke up to the horror that their computers had been infected with the malware called WannaCry. By the weekend 150 000 more systems were infiltrated, including 48 hospitals. Each of the users received a message… Read more »
Github is probably the most influential company you haven’t heard of. Unlike Google or Facebook, companies that make it into the headlines occasionally, Github tends to stay out of public view. But in many ways it is comparable to these tech giants in that it has contributed to thousands and thousands of products that you… Read more »
Since 2009 Google has been allowing users to create a “previews” of pages in the search results, a so-called snippets. Known as rich snippets or featured snippets, these elements add extra information that help searchers decide whether to click or not. As illustrated in this image, this information could take the form of reviews, TV… Read more »
At the turn of the century, when the internet was going through its growth spurt, all an author needed to do to get traffic was stuff the page with a particular keyword. If you were selling purple ladybirds, for instance, you would need to make sure you had the words purple ladybird, purple ladybirds, purple… Read more »
Chawin Sitawarin and a team of researchers at Princeton University recently published a study that sent ripples around the world of AI. The paper dealt with potential hacks on driverless cars as its central theme. It posed the question: What would happen if a malicious agent were to cause a car to misinterpret a road… Read more »
Almost as certain as the fact that humans will always continue to invent new technologies is the fact that those very same humans will be skeptical of the implications of those technologies. This is nothing new. As far back as 1492, just after the printing press was invented, a monk wrote disparagingly of the new… Read more »
The year was 2015. Denis Sverdlov, CEO of the car manufacturer Kinetik, announced that his company, together with the Formula E racing circuit, would launch a new kind of race. He explained that this one would not create individual celebrities à la Lewis Hamilton or even accentuate the engineering prowess of a particular engine. It… Read more »
