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Remember the old IRC chatrooms that you spent hours in while you should have been doing more worthwhile things with your youth? Well, now you can relive that feeling of ‘what the hell am I doing?’ by checking out Round.io. It’s not a tricky concept to get your head around. You open the page. You type a message. It appears on the map, showing where you’re based (roughly). Sounds vaguely interesting, right? When I looked, there were only about 70-or-so people online and it

Tinder Social is a new groups feature being tested in Australia that enables you to get together all of your friends so you can swipe through and match with other groups to plan a big night out. You can then chat with the people you’re matched with or see from the group status where they’re headed. The assumption is that you’ve got a big gang of gorgeous pals, all using Tinder, who have poor planning skills but are keen to pre-meet a few eligible strangers before hea

Volvo has announced that it’ll be putting regular folk like you and me behind the wheel of its autonomous cars when they hit London’s streets next year. The company says that it’s going all-in on autonomous cars as they “represent a leap forward in car safety” and that its ‘Drive Me London’ trial will take place on real roads, with real traffic and real, err, normal people along for the ride. Professional test drivers will, of course, be provided where

When I was 12, I briefly acquired a girlfriend called Maria. I’m not sure how it started, but I am sure how it ended: badly. In high-school I dated Eylem, a Kurdish girl. Everything was great when we were alone, but she was distant in public. It took me many years to understand where both relationships went wrong. Now I run a company which makes tools for salespeople and I’ve noticed that dating requires many of the same skills that you need in sales or customer success. Sales and d

If you’ve noticed a sudden, severe drop in the traffic on your site or if you’ve received the dreaded, “manual action” notice in your Google Search Console, you know what it feels like to be blacklisted. Google doesn’t hand out manual penalties without good cause – but sometimes a manual action can still come as a surprise. Even if you’ve never participated in any black hat SEO schemes, there are certain strategies that can inadvertently get you in

If you were asked to name the one industry that has been the most negatively affected by digital disruption, I bet newspapers would be high on your list. Few would argue that they have been victims of the dramatic changes in technology, society, markets, competition, ownership and economics, but they aren’t alone. Almost every business on the planet is in the same proverbial boat. What separates the winners from the losers in the race to capitalize on this phenomenon is their ability to f

Nintendo’s annual financial results, published today, reveal that its next console will be released globally next March. The company has remained silent on details about its upcoming platform, codenamed NX, for some time now. All it has said is that it won’t run on Android, as some speculated. This time too, it hasn’t shared any further information about the console. Hopefully, Nintendo will be more vocal about it at the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles this June. via The Verge

Seven months since its first stable release, version 6.0 of the Node.js framework is now available. The Node.js Foundation says that the update brings a number of performance enhancements, including significantly faster module loading, better tests and documentation, as well as improved usability of its Buffer and File System APIs. This release ships with the version 5 of the V8 JavaScript engine, which allows Node.js 6 to support 93 percent of all ES6 language features. However, if you have an

A seemingly legit screenshot of a Windows 10 developer build shared on Reddit shows that the platform might soon bring the ability for users to switch between desktops and mobile devices, and pick up their work right where they left off. Sounds familiar? That’s because OS X has had similar functionality for the past two years, in the form of Handoff which works with iOS devices. The screenshot details an option to ‘Let apps on your other devices launch apps and continue experiences,

Two weeks ago, Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck took to Medium to share how his company analyzed foot traffic patterns at more than 1,900 Chipotle locations across the US locations in February, using data collected by its app that lets people check-in to places they’ve been. It then compared them to the previous year. The idea behind the study was to predict if Chipotle’s sales would take a nosedive after reports of E.Coli outbreaks associated with the chain first surfaced in October 2015

Nearly three years after initial rumors that Dyson was foraying into the beauty industry, we finally have our answer: the company today introduces its first hair dryer, the Dyson SuperSonic. The hair dryer uses Dyson’s digital motor V9 to create a lightweight appliance that aims to blow air efficiently and evenly, letting you style your hair without excessive heat. It’s the same “air multiplier” technology Dyson uses in its fans and heaters, which means SuperSo

The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn’t plan to reveal its method for unlocking the San Bernardino iPhone, according to the Wall Street Journal. After a congressional hearing, and an 11th hour cancellation from the FBI after finding a third party to unlock it, the world waited in anticipation for the FBI to divulge the method used for gaining access to the iPhone. According to the Vulnerable Equities Process (VEP), the FBI would be required to report the vulnerability used t

Last week, Snapchat filed paperwork as part of a legal case to defend your rights to take, and share, ‘ballot selfies’ at the polls. The filing is the latest development in an 18 month battle between the ACLU and New Hampshire over a 2014 law that takes away our god-given right to take a selfie in the voting booth, you know, principles America was founded on. Offenders who violated the law were subject to fines up to $1,000. The ACLU challenged the law saying that it viola