There are few millennials who can utter the words “Potion Seller” without bursting into giggles. “Potion Seller” is a 3 minute, 8 second video depicting an unnamed knight’s determined quest to obtain the eponymous Potion Seller’s strongest potion. Published in 2011, the short depicts the knight, played by Justin Kuritzkes, …
Thomas Edison is credited with the phrase “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration” and I believe there is no field where this applies more than architecture and design. So often people assume that interior design is such a fun, creative job – that it’s all about drawing, colours …
John Wyndham’s 1957 novel The Midwich Cuckoos is the story of a fictional English village in which, following an unexplained event that causes everybody within Midwich to fall unconscious, all of the women in the village fall pregnant and 61 children are subsequently born all at the same time. The …
DevOps platform JFrog has raised $165 million in a series D round of funding led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from Battery Ventures, Spark Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Vintage Investment Partners, and Geodesic Capital. The company hasn’t revealed an exact valuation following…Read More Source: Venture Beat Republished by …
Concord‘s digital contract management platform simplifies procurement, review, and approval. The startup has raised $25 million to expand its product.Read More Source: Venture Beat Republished by Blog Post Promoter
New research from TeleWare claims that 94 percent of employees in financial services firms believe it is important for them to be able to choose the hours they work and where from. Yet, only just over a third (36 percent) of employees in the sector work for firms that offer …
Workers continued use of unapproved apps in the office, including Instagram, Facebook Messenger and Snapchat, to communicate with colleagues as well as friends and family is putting their organisations at risk of cyber-attack, new research suggests. Four in ten employees (41 percent) admit to using Instagram for more than two …
How do you define success? And do you consider yourself successful? These are just some of the questions I received when I wrote – It takes more than money to retire early. My first reaction was to say yes, I’m successful. My family enjoys a modest lifestyle and we’re happy. …
Digital transformation has been a priority for businesses for many years, primarily to benefit from the opportunities presented by a mix of digital technologies and their impact across all aspects of society. Customer-facing functions such as sales, marketing and procurement, in their quest for new revenue sources and information-powered ecosystems …
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but we don’t necessarily think Tom Marvolo Riddle – notorious stick-in-the-mud – would agree. While Lord Voldemort was Riddle’s evil persona, Lady Voldemort is the alter ego of drag performer Florida Man. But instead of slaying innocent people with unforgivable curses, …
Monday morning can often feel like a bit of a drag, especially if you are coming in hot from a big weekend of fun. You have a few options to tackle the Monday morning blues, and some are more appealing than others. You could exercise? No thanks. You could fight …
When it comes to deals, it feels like everyone is primed on the start line, ready to sprint when Black Friday finally arrives. Well before you engage in any form of physical activity, it’s important to warm up — and it’s no different when it comes to deals. You can’t …
From my very first demo two years ago, back when it was called Santa Cruz and had a fan and processor strapped to the back, I’ve been impressed with the headset. Last year, I saw an even better demo that convinced me the future of VR is wireless. Now that …
Warning: Spoilers for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey ahead. A lot has been written about the epic story of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and it’s true that the main quests of the game span a massive map and take players on a journey that blends myth, mystery, and the requisite boatloads of murder. …
Tile has more or less defined the “personal object tracking” category with its range of Bluetooth trackers that you clip or attach to various things (like house keys) to keep from misplacing them. By connecting these beacons with an iOS or Android device, you can easily find your things by …
Lisa Lambert will lead National Grid’s $250 million fund for investing in energy and other tech startups.Read More Source: Venture Beat Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Timing is everything. Re-launching a professional body while the country’s politics unceremoniously implode could not have been foreseen, but the vacuous space was full of the registered and invited, many with a trail of string going back a few decades or more. What a lovely gathering of old friends it …
The Flexible Working Task Force, a partnership across government departments, business groups, trade unions and charities, has today launched a campaign to increase the uptake of flexible working. Members of the task force are collectively using their ability to reach and influence hundreds of thousands of employers to encourage them …
Facebook showed a demo of its new Oculus Quest virtual reality headset on Wednesday, and it could be quite liberating because it gets rid of those pesky wires that have kept VR tethered. The Oculus Quest will arrive as a stand-alone product — you won’t need to connect it to …
A new report claims that because workplace technology is perceived as less intuitive and intelligent than consumer technology lags behind. The survey commissioned by The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated conducted with UK-based Coleman Parkes Research, asked more than 2,800 hourly and salaried employees across a variety of industries in Australia, …
