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A study done by Carta, believed to be the first comprehensive public study of cap table (the capitalization table, which is a list of owners of a company) data by gender, revealed that the equity gap in startups is real. In the Carta study, they analyzed a subset of Carta's overall table data, which included nearly 180,000 employees, over 6,000
AMP - Accelerated Mobile Pages a protocol with some controversy and largely orchestrated by Google is now being essentially given back to the developer community in part by a new open governance that from initial reaction looks like the developer community is going to get behind. For those of you that do not run websites what AMP does is essential
Ever asked the question how do I turn off my kid's cell phone? Well, there is hope as Google has introduced Google Family Link which gives you parents a lot of power in controlling what your kids are doing on their mobile phones. Family link lets you set screen time limits, approve or block apps that can be downloaded from the
Robocalls are at a point where they are now interfering with my business largely because my team is on cell phones. Yesterday I received 14 business calls and 32 Robocalls and the volume is only increasing. My blocked number list has now grown to an ungodly size and due to number spoofing, they just spoof a new number. I can now
Amazon might be planning a plethora of Alex-enabled devices over the coming months (according to CNBC and covered by Todd), but Optoma's voice control into their HD projectors right now. Here's the Alexa-supported 4K Ultra HD projector, UHD51A. To get the boring out the way, the UHD51A is a very capable ultra HD DLP (digital light processing) projector with a resolution
Amazon Reviews apparently can be manipulated by a simple bribe. Goes to show you that Amazon is likely not paying their employees enough if a payment from $80 to $2000 can get sales reports, negative reviews removed and a whole bevy of nefarious things. Tonight I cover that and other top stories and lay out some re-involvement I am going
Everyone with half a brain realizes that the efforts behind Chinese industrial espionage and IP theft have helped fuel their economoy. They are masters of stealing and duplicating tech that they did not build, design and or create. One only has to go to any trade show and watch vendors throw covers over their newest products when the Chinese spies
Over the past six months, I have really tried to limit my non-work utilization of Social Media. I found in a way that it was making me sick, both physically and mentally. I found myself sometimes feeling actually sick to my stomach and most definitely causing me to be moody. I tried clearing putting friends on snooze or unfollowing them
CNBC is reporting that Amazon is going to flood the marketplace with at least 8 more Alexa smart home devices. I pity households with a wife our daughter named Alexa lots of re-programming will be happening in those homes. My home already has three Alexa devices and honestly I am not sure we really need another. The new devices include
The new Apple iPhones announced last week have been analysed to the nth degree. They're all very understandable and credible additions to the evolutionary tree of species iPhone. However what I can't understand is how anyone thought that the new names were worthy of these otherwise excellent devices. Much as Apple would like everyone to pronounce the Roman numeral X
The big question some are asking is where is Larry Page. He seems to have really gone underground for a long time according to internal sources at Google. While not entirely true he is definitely not as engaged as he once was and in my opinion should the man not be deserving to do what he wants. He has built
Facebook has created and deployed a large-scale machine learning system named Rosetta. It can extract text from more than a billion public Facebook and Instagram images and video frames, in a wide variety of languages. This is excellent news for people who use screenreaders, because it will make the text in images, videos, and memes understandable for people who are
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