Causes of the global water crisis and 12 companies trying to solve it
ItsWorld Water Day. Time to wake up and take shorter showers. That is, if were fortunate enough to have them. Water scarcity and pollution are persistent global problems. According toEnd Water Poverty, some...
‘No more brilliant jerks’ – Arianna Huffington ushers in the new Uber
While Huffington doesnt want to be Ubers next CEO, shes been putting in the hard yards trying to turn the companys tarnished reputation aroundThe next Uber CEO will be charged with sweeping up multitudes...
Instagram Stories mimics Polly with new polls
Polly blew up with teens last month by tacking multiple-choice polling onto Snapchat. Instagram is following suit with its own polling feature within Stories. Now just like adding a location sticker, you can...
7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund’s Brain
Richard Craib is a 29-year-old South African who runs a hedge fund in San Francisco. Or rather, he doesn’t run it. He leaves that to an artificially intelligent system built by several thousand data...
Another European e2e encrypted Gmail alternative reports rising signups
Tutanota, an end-to-end encrypted email service locatedin Germany,saysits seeingan exponential uptick in sign-ups crediting this to growing awareness of and concern forprivacy online for a variety of (oftenpolitical) reasons. The freemium, open source...
Data Artisans announces commercial Application Manager for open source Apache Flink
Data Artisans, the business arm of open source tool, Apache Flink, announced an early-access release of the commercial version of their platform today that includes a new tool for managing streaming applications. Kostas...