Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 — Instagram now allows businesses to schedule their posts. This week, Instagram changed its product in a way that will please companies’ social media managers. It will now allow businesses on Instagram to schedule […]

XRP Ripple has been tipped as the “dark horse of 2018” with its value set to soar if the firm signs more deals with major financial companies, despite being embroiled in a bitter court case and having to overcome progress in regulation laws. The cryptocurrency is the only one in the top-five to have had […]

PhD candidate Yonatan Sompolinsky and Dr. Aviv Zohar, both of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, released a paper this week on a new scalable BlockDAG — an alternative network structure to Blockchain — protocol called PHANTOM. Sompolinsky and Zohar's 2013 paper on the GHOST protocol …

An Amtrak train traveling from New York to Miami collided with a CSX freight train early Sunday morning in Lexington County, South Carolina, killing two Amtrak personnel and injuring more than 100, according to authorities. The crash overnight Sunday caused the lead engine and some passenger cars to derail, Amtrak said in a statement. There […]

After serving on countless DesignCon technical program committees and delivering 19 years worth of tutorials and technical papers, Mike Peng Li says the conference has become a part of him. “It takes a bit of energy and passion to do it,” he told Design News recently. “It becomes so much a part of your life, it’s hard to separate […]

Sunday, February 4 marks World Cancer Day, which aims to unite the whole world in the fight against cancer and raise awareness of the disease. As more and more research focuses on how our lifestyle can affect our risk of developing cancer, here we round up some of the latest findings which suggest small everyday […]

The idea of a corporate university isn’t new. Apple’s Steve Jobs famously set up Apple University to teach company lore and indoctrinate employees in the company’s quirky ethos. McDonald’s Hamburger University teaches restaurant management skills and already has over 275,000 graduates. But few, if any, startups have done it as quickly or with as much […]

What’s better than a fresh bouquet of your favorite flowers on Valentine’s Day? A little something to add to your beauty stash, of course. Celebrate this Valentine’s Day by treating yourself to a new rose-infused or rosy-hued beauty product of choice. If you’re in the market for a fragrance, give Coach’s new rose elixir a sniff or stock up […]

The fortunes of the world’s 500-richest people dropped by $68.5 billion Friday as equity markets swooned with investor worries about the pace of interest rate hikes in the U.S. Warren Buffett led the declines, shedding $3.3 billion to end the day at No. 3 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with $90.1 billion. Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person with $119.6 […]

When my children were little (4, 7 and 9 respectively), I decided to take them on a week-long trip to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I also took along my mom and my step-father. This intergenerational trip was a ton of fun: My parents really enjoyed watching the kids’ reactions to the Disney characters they would meet […]