IoT is putting itself forward as a means of tackling one of the world's biggest health problems: air pollution. A problem that is not limited to developing countries but stills plagues some of the biggest cities in Europe. Just last year the UK High Court ruled that the government must take action to...
The United Kingdom could play a “significant role” in helping India build hospitals and clinics in smart cities, according to the National Health Service (NHS) chairman Sir Malcolm Grant. "The UK has developed some of the most innovative healthcare services and systems in the world over the past seven decades...
The Thai government has announced $12 million will be allocated in its 2016 budget to begin turning the tourist mecca of Phuket into a smart city. Though the term varies in definition, a "smart city" often includes new technological updates and monitoring systems designed to assist existing infrastructure. These technologies...
Last week it was the monthly AppJunction event in London. This was my first time attending this event, after wanting to attend numerous times before. Appsjunction.net is a networking, crowd funding & freelancers platform, which goes through the steps of getting your app from initial concept, to finance, to development...
Pinterest has raised $200 million from investors in a deal that values the company at $5 billion, a source close to the company told ReadWrite. (Update: The company is now confirming its financing.)This is becoming a pattern for Pinterest, a visual search engine where people share and search for objects of...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.Last January marked the launch of Code.org, a nonprofit that promotes computer-science education. Code.org launched Hour Of Code, a nationwide campaign that urged Americans to learn how to program. President Obama even recorded a video...
Learning to program can sound like a daunting task even for well-educated adults, much less a kid. But the makers of Hopscotch think it’s easy enough for an eight-year-old, given the right interface.Hopscotch is the first iPad app designed to teach kids how to code. The free app lets budding...
Box CEO Aaron Levie has been on a one-man crusade to make the enterprise sexy again. Based on the 2012 Crunchie Award winners, it worked. While a number of nominees and winners were consumer-facing startups that will likely be passé by next year, the enterprise startups on the ballot sheet...
Maine Democrat Colleen Lachowicz made gaming history twice this year:First, when she was attacked by the Republican Party last month for being a computer gamer.Second, when she won her election on Tuesday, becoming the first Senator whose gaming habits led, in part, to her victory. Hear that, negative stereotypes about...
Another week, another influential troll publicly shamed.This week’s most famous troll is Twitter user @ComfortablySmug, the “villainous” spreader of fake news during the height of Hurricane Sandy.Unlike the unmasking of Violentacrez, which exposed a man anyone would guess was an Internet troll anyway, the big reveal of 29-year-old Shashank Tripathi...
Mitt Romney is growing his own. Well, sort of. His old firm, Bain Capital, is taking on the problem of hiring talented tech workers by training them itself. Bain’s StartUp Academy, launched by the company’s VC arm Bain Capital Ventures, recruits students from top universities and plants them in positions...
In late June, the banking and financial services giant Barclays introduced a fictional character named Dan on its Facebook page. Dan's appearance coincided with the bank facing massive fines for illegally manipulating interest rates. The social media mascot - whose character was, after all, no more honest than those of rate-fixing...
Today's theme is missing pieces. We fancy ourselves to be a pretty smart species. But when you get down to the fundamentals, we don't understand the world very well at all.We don't even know how to behave on our first date with a robot.Our popular culture is obsessed with the...
Today's theme is cosmic puzzles. The technology that fires our imaginations here at RWW wouldn't be possible if we didn't understand fundamental physical laws.But how well do we really understand them?Joselle at Mathematics Rising wonders whether all the matter and energy in the universe really just boils down to abstraction....
A new study finds it's possible to judge your potential job performance using your Facebook profile. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a...
Path uploads your entire address book to their servers. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in...
Samsung is planning to raise a billion dollars to fund US expansion, and will be pushing Tizen onto Americans as a Bada-compatible platform, with Intel's help. The bonds will have a five-year maturity, with the money being used to expand production at Samsung's Austin factory in a move...
Today could be the point in history at which we look back and say, "that was the day the Internet fundamentally changed." Today is the day the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) opens up its new registry for generic Top Level Domains and it will have a...
Comments on blogs, what are they good for? Sometimes it's hard to remember, but you know there's a lot of potential in taking the democratization of publishing to the next level and letting people comment on your blog-written comments on the world.This evening a fresh spate of debate has rolled...
The announcement of the MITx initiative last week has several important aspects, but it is nowhere near what we have been doing at the Open University in the UK for decades. It is somewhat premature, lacks any real understanding of the issues involved in assessment, and contains an uneven mix...
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