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Accelerators, for the uninitiated, are programs which bring startups and corporates together for a short, but intense period; typically between around 10 weeks and three months. The corporate could be a company which wants to explore how startups could help deliver their strategy, or it could be a consultancy which will connect the startups with their customers. The key is that both parties should benefit. The corporate gets to explore new ideas quickly and at a low cost....

With so many companies now vying for your cloud storage dollar, it helps to just break down the numbers and see who’s really offering you the best deal for your money. And if you’re like most of us in this video-heavy, data-intensive age of rapidly growing file sizes, you should probably lean in the direction of having too much cloud space rather than not enough. If you go with Google Drive, you can get a business-centric 30TB of cloud storage at a cost of about $300 a month....

The Store Wars PC gaming has always been a market cornered by one major player — namely, Valve’s Steam platform. Smaller competitors like GOG might offer some competition, but Steam has for years felt almost too big to be approached. Enter Epic Games. This company, flying high from its smash hit Fortnite, decided to start a storefront of its own. It sought to attract users via exclusive games they couldn’t get on Steam, and began approaching game developers....

Beyond that, I love programming by itself: it’s a game to me. Logic is really fun to mess with. Learning is fun too: the excitement of discovery, the joy to finally understand a hard concept. It brings more colors to the world. In this article, I will describe the process I used to learn the programming languages I know. I’ll answer these questions: How can you properly learn a new programming language?...

But with the exponential growth of e-commerce in recent years, customers are increasingly utilizing multiple online platforms — with an emphasis on “multiple.” As their shopping experience gets easier, our jobs as e-commerce entrepreneurs get harder. Multi-channel management has become a stressful but necessary fixture of our daily work lives. To help save you some of the growing pains I’ve experienced as a multi-year veteran of multi-channel selling, I’d like to give you a few management tips that have worked for me:...

And with 310 billion emails expected to be sent and received every day in 2021, you want your emails to stand out from the crowd and make a lasting impression. That’s why I’m going to convince you that your email signature is the handiest tool you have for boosting customer satisfaction. #1 Offers easy access to important information Nowadays, everyone is so busy, we simply don’t have time to trawl websites looking for contact details....

Even pre-COVID-19, company culture has shown a huge impact on hiring and retention. One report found that 35% of staff in the US and 40% in Canada wouldn’t accept a position at a company with a poor culture fit. Satisfied employees who stick around long-term are great assets. They’re often the team members driving company success and growth. Wondering whether your culture is strong enough to brave a long-term pandemic?...

This is a critical question since culture — as fundamental it is for a company’s success — is a fragile thing. In an Upwork survey, 30% of hiring managers reported reduced team cohesion as one of the biggest issues with remote work. Even though culture and team cohesion might not be high on the list of priorities during a crisis, I believe they are absolutely crucial to ensure that productivity stays high in the long run....

So we decided it was finally time to see what we could make of it on our own… but it failed miserably. Here’s what I learned. Let’s start off with a bit of background. Before this, Kevin and I launched a small Chrome extension that had around 3000 users. This extension allowed people to save products they wanted to buy online and receive emails once the price dropped. Basically, it was similar to ShopTagr, just uglier....

According to specialist researchers, Crypto Fund Research, more than 70 hedge funds specializing in investments into digital asset projects have closed this year, Bloomberg reports. The majority of the closures identified came from North America and Europe, with 28 and 23 respectively. This trend runs contrary to recent research from Fidelity Investments that suggested institutional investments in cryptocurrency were likely to increase over the coming five years. Investors are reportedly nervous about venturing too deep into the cryptocurrency market because of its volatility and lack of regulation....

Attribution is a way for us to see how much each of our activities — across marketing, product, support, and more — is influencing the customer journey. It gives us a holistic view of how each touchpoint — from a blog post to an email to the product itself — contributes to user behavior. To say attribution models are complex and nuanced would be an understatement: it took us years to build and execute a robust attribution model at Zapier....

Affordable cars that move the green needle Price is one of the most significant roadblocks to clean transportation. Tesla, arguably the most iconic electric automaker right now, recently raised the price of several models in the U.S. While new EVs come out all the time, many of them aren’t cheap. Despite these trends, there are still affordable clean cars on the market today. The most famous examples may be expensive, but not everything is....

Luckily for Lara and the rest of us, that doesn’t happen, but the attitude with which this moment of implicit threat was treated by the developers left some gamers with a bad taste in their mouths. It raised a question which, eight years later, still has not been answered by the industry at large: When is sex and/or sexual violence in games okay? And when one does include it, how far is too far?...

In this tutorial, we are going to give you a quick introduction to Redis. We’ll also use Redis to create a simple cache for a Node application to see how it impacts its performance. What is Redis? Redis is an open-source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker. You can think of it as a No-SQL database, which stores data as a key-value pair in the system memory....

Todesco’s exploit uses two bugs to corrupt memory found in the OS X kernel. This condition can be used to circumvent built-in safeguards against intrusions and grant the attacker access to a root shell. His exploit code works on OS X version 10.9.5 through 10.10.5. However, Apple has already fixed the issue in El Capitan 10.11, which is currently in beta. Todesco posted details of his findings, along with a patch for them on GitHub....

When it comes to grabbing someone’s attention, slapping them with a wall of text is not the way to do it. As any marketing guru will tell you, it’s visual content that draws people in, which is why it’s so important to have stunning visuals at your disposal and ready to plug into your messaging. That’s why there’s Scopio, which gives you access to a treasure trove of professional, royalty-free images for a price that won’t tank your budget....

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Germany made the discovery by recording the faces of lab mice when they were exposed to different stimuli, such as sweet flavors and electric shocks. The researchers then used machine learning algorithms to analyze how the rodents’ faces changed when they experienced different feelings. The software showed that their facial muscles would subtly shift as their emotions changed. Mice feeling pain pulled their ears back and puffed out their cheeks, while mice experiencing pleasure would push their jaw and ears forward, and pull their nose towards their mouths....

Remember when X, a subsidiary company of Alphabet — yes, the parent company of Google — was working on Project Loon? It uses giant balloons to beam the internet to people living in remote parts of the world? In January this year, Loon wound down in response to an unsustainable business model. But now there’s something almost as weird: kites to guide cargo ships and reduce their carbon emissions. But this one might just gain traction....

Creating Alexa skills Alexa skills are built by two different components: The voice controls or actions The functionality In this article we’ll evaluate how to set up both, starting with the functionality. The functionality is simply some code that will be executed when Alexa is tasked with our custom actions (or skill). This code for our purposes will run on AWS Lambda, a service matching perfectly with Alexa, it’s cost-efficient and super easy to set up....

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) took the chequered flag at the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The team bagged a cool $1 million after hitting an average speed of 218 km/h on the fabled oval track. The contest was an impressive showcase of self-driving engineering, but it didn’t convince me that AI will soon replace human race car drivers. One reason for my skepticism is that the algorithms didn’t prove they could compete with IndyCar drivers....