Quick Summary: Bristol City Women Appointed Strategic Leadership Reset
Bristol City Women appointed Hannah Buckley as CEO, effective June 15, marking a strategic leadership reset.
The club aims to place a...
Scientists studied the bones of nearly 100 women who lived in farming communities in Central Europe from 5300 BCE to around 850 AD and found that prehistoric women had stronger arms than modern day women. That is likely because farming women from the past had to work hard and...
Amazon reveals new tools for companies to invest in artificial intelligence. Today, Amazon’s business subsidiary, Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced a new line of products with the mission to sell artificial intelligence products. Among them is a $250 AI-powered camera called DeepLens, a new platform for developing and revealing...
Yesterday, the cost of a single Bitcoin reached $10,000. Today, it was reported NASDAQ, the second largest stock exchange on planet Earth, plans to launch futures contracts for Bitcoin starting 2018. This will allow investors to invest and essentially bet on the rise and fall of the cryptocurrency and...
Bitcoin is worth over $10,000. The cryptocurrency surged past $10,000 on Tuesday evening as it climbs closer to $11,000, according to CoinDesk. Bitcoin had spiked 933 percent since the start of 2017, when it traded at $968.23, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Despite concerns with Bitcoin’s association with criminal...
Facebook has been increasingly copying Snapchat’s features and profiting off the company in the process. Whether it’s stories or the recently announced messaging streaks, Facebook has taken features from Snapchat and repurposed them time and time again. But, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is not taking this sitting down.
In an...
Snapchat introduced a new redesign of their app intended to promote more sharing among friends while pushing professionally produced content into a separate news feed. The redesigned app also includes a new dynamic friends page that consists of both chat messages and Snapchat stories and pushes items from your...
For a brief point in time, Pokémon Go was one of the most popular apps in the country. Despite bringing millions in revenue for the Niantic company, it also brought injuries and death, well at least according to a new paper.
This report titled Death By Pokemon Go, shows the...
There is increasing evidence suggesting that using laptops during lectures actually decreases learning, which can result in lower grades.
According to The New York Times, researchers at Princeton University and the University of California asked a group of students to take notes at a lecture using pen and paper while...
Facebook Messenger is adding a streak feature, a feature that is already on Snapchat.
When Snap, the Snapchat parent company, announced their plans to go public the company stated their most significant competitor was Facebook. Snapchat explained in their IPO filing that their most significant risk factors include competition. “We face significant...
Twitter is currently testing a new feature called Bookmarks, which will allow their users to save tweets for later. Twitter’s product designer Tina Koyama tweeted a preview of what the feature looks like, with a bookmarks option listed on the user’s navigation menu.
“We went through all the designed flows...
Following a Verge story revealing examples of predatory comments on videos of minors, YouTube announced on Wednesday that they will turn off comments entirely on videos where the video-streaming detects predatory behavior.
Recently, The Verge reported on the number of predatory comments on videos of minors. The Verge reports, "videos of young children doing activities like...
Left is the latest company to receive a permit to test self-driving cars on public roads in California. This news comes after the company wanted to build their own self-driving software only four months ago. Left appeared at the bottom of the California’s DMV’s list of permit holders, a...
Foxconn has reportedly been employing students to illegally work overtime at their factories to assemble Apple’s, iPhone X. According to the Financial Times, six high school students told the news outlet they regularly work 11-hour days assembling the device, which is illegal for student interns to do under China’s...
Even if you have turned off location services and do not have a SIM card, Android phones gather your location data and send the information to Google, according to Quartz.
On Tuesday, “location services” refers to exact GPS data for app usage, such as the information Google Maps gives...
The United States Justice Department announced on Tuesday that it has charged an Iranian man for hacking HBO, which resulted in a high-profile security breach that led to the early release of TV episodes and scripts.
In an indictment, prosecutors claim Behzad Mesri gained server access to HBO by hacking...
Uber has partnered with carmaker Volvo to purchase 24,000 of their XC90 SUVs between 2019 and 2012 to form a fleet of self-driving cars, according to Bloomberg News. The XC90 is Uber’s latest-generation of autonomous vehicles, which features sensors and self-driving technology installed by the ride-sharing company after purchase...
Uber has added several new features just before the holidays that should make it easier for you and your friends to grab a ride on the ride-sharing app. The service has added live location sharing, which will allow your driver to see your location once you hit the gray...
The Bundesnetzagentur, Germany’s telecommunication agency has banned smartwatches for kids and is now asking parents to destroy them.
According to Bleeping Computer, the regulators have concluded smartwatches targeted at kids “prohibitive listening devices” and are asking parents to destroy any smartwatches their kids have and advising schools to pay...
Since 2015, Peter Thiel served as a part-time adviser to the startup accelerator Y Combinator. However, according to The Verge, the startup accelerator has parted ways with the entrepreneur. The company did not explain why they have cut ties. But, the company did issue a short statement at the...
A former Tesla employee is seeking permission from a judge to sue Tesla for racial harassment on behalf of 100 affected African-American workers, according to Bloomberg Technology. In the legal complaint, Vaughn v. Tesla Inc. in the Superior Court of California, alleges that Tesla workers, including managers, routinely used...
