Looks like 2014 was the year of the data scientist, judging by LinkedIn’s "25 Hottest Professional Skills of 2014" report. The social network people use to impress their peers and future bosses, LinkedIn knows very well what skills recruiters search for on its site and which particular talents get people hired....
Editor's Note: This was originally published by our partners at PopSugarTech. Leila Janah is eradicating poverty by bringing developing countries into the tech world. She is the founder and CEO of Silicon Valley's hottest tech-minded nonprofit, Samagroup, which connects companies like Google and Microsoft to people who need jobs in Asia, Africa,...
It's about time Google remembered its roots. For years Google has largely ignored the mobile Web, preferring to focus on native Android app experiences, even as Apple (yes, Apple) has invested heavily in improving HTML5 performance on iOS.So much so, in fact, that with Apple's inclusion of WKWebView (a Web browser...
Spending bitcoins is a little bit like spending gold. Most stores don’t accept it, and owners want to hold on to it anyway just in case the value hikes up. Bitcoin Black Friday is Jon Holmquist’s solution to stagnating Bitcoin transactions. Amid a recent report that 70% of Bitcoins remain...
When cybersecurity firm Symantec uncovered the sophisticated malware Regin over the weekend, its analysts reported that it was most likely created by a national intelligence agency. Now, new reports suggest that the malware was a tool of the U.S. National Security Administration and British intelligence. See also: Meet Regin, Government-Created...
Symantec has uncovered yet another sophisticated, malware-based spying tool, dubbed “Regin,” apparently the latest spyware tool created by a national government agency.The company's research, published Sunday, identifies Regin—also known as Backdoor.Regin—as a Trojan virus that exhibits “a degree of technical competence rarely seen” on behalf of its creators. Its purpose...
Editor's Note: This piece was originally published by our partners at Kill Screen. The Sext Adventure booth at the Boston Festival for Indie Games stood out almost because it had little to distinguish it. While many of the other tables surrounding it had monitors, art, multiple people in matching T-shirts running...
While games continue to dominate the apps that consumers buy, there are clear signs that the future of mobile may not be what they allow you to play, but what they enable you to buy. According to a new research report, mobile commerce is finally getting real. How real? This busy...
Game company Nintendo has developed a fatigue and sleep deprivation sensor (via GameSpot) that functions without ever touching your body. Instead, Nintendo chief executive Satoru Iwata says, the sensor can be placed on a nightstand to monitor you while you sleep. Its hands-free approach to health tracking has the company calling the device...
Boring has never looked so cool. The decades-old relational-database management system Postgres, once the forgotten older sibling to MySQL, has been on a tear the last few years. Postgres has Oracle to thank for some of its newfound sexiness, as Oracle has fumbled MySQL's community outreach at crucial moments.But far...
If Jeff Bezos has taught us anything, it’s that anything Amazonian is big—including his company's e-commerce muscles, fodder for comedy and ambitions as a consumer gadgets company.Apparently, so are its flops, as well as the CEO and founder's power of denial. Because, as the spectacular failure known as the Fire...
Warning: serious programming geekery ahead.With the release of Java 8 back in March 2014, the developer community was primarily excited about two things. One was support for lambda expressions, also known as anonymous functions, which (in Cay Horstmann's admirably simple definition) are blocks of code you can pass around in a...
ReadWrite editor's note: This post was originally published by our partners at Kill Screen.Kill Screen editor's note: Our long-time writer Jon Irwin recently published a book documenting the artistic history and legacy of Super Mario Bros. 2. It’s available now, via Boss Fight Books. We asked him upon its release...
A few days ago, Google researchers alerted the world to a new Internet attack they called Poodle, which could theoretically let an attacker impersonate you on sensitive websites—Facebook, your bank, Amazon or wherever. We've previously covered how Poodle works, so have a look if you want more details. See also:...
Microsoft used to be evil. Then it was irrelevant. Now it looks like a winner.How did this happen?I have competed against Microsoft for most of my career, battling Windows with Linux in the mobile, desktop and server markets, but also taking on SharePoint while at Alfresco and SQL Server in...
Mobile malware is exploding, though it's mostly not where you live. If you live in Russia, where 10 gruesome factories churn out 30% of the world's malware, you're far more likely to have malware infect your mobile phone than, say, if you live in Sweet Home Alabama. That's the good...
If you've got something to say about the pending Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger but never found time to formulate your thoughts, we have good news for you, The Federal Communications Commission extended the Oct. 8 public deadline by 21 days, largely due to a "voluminous" (and tardy) document Comcast filed...
In a world being eaten alive by software, you need to hire more developers. A lot more.Perhaps more importantly, according to former Netflix cloud chief and current Battery Ventures Technology fellow Adrian Cockroft, you need to help to make them productive. Which mostly means you need to get the heck...
Ello, a social network that assures an ad-free experience, lept into the spotlight last week, and currently claims to process between 40,000 and 50,000 invite requests per hour. But is it doomed to make its exit just as quickly?Not so, according to RJ Metrics. The web analytics company collected a sample...
ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.You know those super-awkward "before" shots with a fat guy holding a newspaper as he's about to start a diet and workout regimen?I have to imagine that's what Apple's software designers had in mind when they created...
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