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As technological innovation evolves, society evolves with it. The problem is, with each new innovation also comes risk. While this competition may fuel greater innovation, many are concerned that this comes at a heavy price. The Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed the vulnerability that comes with trusting companies with our user data. Last year GDPR, the most comprehensive data protection regulations to date, came into force. But some say this doesnt go far enough....

Sounds like a great way to listen to music right? But there is a catch. EvenAmazon Primeis aloyalty programin the guise of a subscription bundle. They are promotions that are meant to make you buy and use their products and services. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. They have become so powerful thatFacebookandGooglehave bought their data to learn more about their users. You see, the devil is in reading the fine print....

The answers to almost any question that pops into our head can be answered by simply Googling it. Facebook fiercely denies being a media company despite that fact that aroundfour-in-tenU.S. adults (43%) get their daily news from Facebook. There is an argument that there has never been a more powerful media company than Zuckerbergs social media behemoth. Another misconception in tech is that the Microsoft Bing search engine is a complete failure....

When empathy and understanding are not part of our daily life, we suffer. But social media has filled in that chasm and it can provide a lifeline. While pregnant, I started to followElsie Larsons entry into motherhood on Instagram. Larson is known for her popular DIY blog on A Beautiful Mess and for the app A Color Story. She adopted a girl with albinism from China named Nova. They painted together, giggled together they were what I wanted to look like with my little girl....

Asking your favorite voice assistant what the weather will be like tomorrow? Thats thanks to a knowledge graph. But what exactly is a knowledge graph? The easiest example is probably the box you see in Googles results. 40% off TNW Conference! Well, one of the best examples is its effect on SEO. Try asking Google Who are the founders of The Next Web? This information is encoded, among billions of other entities, in a data structure called triples made ofsubjectpredicateobjectstatements....

Internal communication seem to be this mystical concept that means very different things to everyone. For a PR nerd, it is a silver bullet that helps you improve everything about a company. If you are an HR specialist, it is something that reduces the workload. The thing is, they are all correct answers. Internal communication is a wide field that has the potential to solve many problems a company faces....

The world, however, is a noisy place. He covers two methods of silencing the digital world around you, methods he calls backgrounding and bouncing. As Pierce says, its like stepping out of a room where everyone else is still talking. Heres how its done on the services you (probably) use most often. From there, just select Mute from the list of available options. Or, if you have keyboard shortcuts turned on, you might just hit the M key....

Remember when software was eating the world? The trendy observation these days is thatartificial intelligence (AI)is eating software. Even Google CEO Sundar Pichai has talked about software that automatically writes itself. Traditionally, developers have written software as a series of hard-coded rules: If X happens then do Y. The human instructs the machine, line by line. Well just be finding data and feeding it into machine learning systems. In this scenario, we can imagine the role of software engineer morphing into data curator or data enabler....

The Nokia 2.2 is an interesting duck, as it doesnt seem overtly compromised. As a rule of thumb, they tend to be a bit cheaper than Qualcomms own chips. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The MediaTek Helio A22, which appears on this particular handset, was released halfway through last year. Thats helpful, given HMD is selling the Nokia 2.2 primarily on its entry-level photography credentials. As mentioned, it comes with a solitary 12-megapixel rear shooter....

Alexa, are you ready to have a body? 40% off TNW Conference! Mayfield Robotics, the manufacturer of the Kuri home robot,shut down in August. Boston Dynamics is stillstruggling to find real-world problems to solvewith its robots. These are just a few of a string of failed robot projects, with probably more to come. To be clear, Alexa is backed by one of the largest and richest tech companies in the world....

This will be a short review. The RHA MA650i retails at $59.95 (59.99 in the UK), so its not exactly bank-busting. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The cable itself feels rather thick. Halfway down theres a remote control. This lets you adjust volume and control playback. This has a small profile, but is wonderfully clicky, making each press feel deliberate and precise. This design makes it easy to use without having to directly look at it....

Its June, which means its time once again for Apples Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Occasionally well get a hardware announcement or two, but make no mistake, WWDC is for developers. Heres everything cool that Apple announced today at WWDC. tvOS Credit: Apple Multi-user support is perhaps the feature weve all been waiting for on tvOS. TVOS also brings with it the ability to support Xbox and PS4 DualShock controllers. This might make me use the streaming game service that Ive mostly forgotten about....

Weresquandering increasing amounts of timedistracted by our phones. And thats taking aserious tollon our mental and physical well-being. Some apps reward you for staying off your phone for set periods of time. Others punish or block you from accessing certain sites or activities altogether. Andresearchby myself and others shows that excessive technology use can be problematic. In extreme cases, it is linked to depression, accidents and even death. But what makes some apps work better than others?...