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User interfaces traditionally have been 2D for desktops and the web. Mobile phone apps, while supporting 3D for specific cases like games, also have been 2D. The Flat UI design movement, although incorporating subtle elements of 3D, has only reinforced that 2D is the main and most optimal interaction mechanism for existing computing devices. Conversely, full 3D has always occupied niches, such… Read More... →

Adam Grant, a best-selling author and the youngest tenured professor at Wharton, is back with a new book that hits both real and virtual bookshelves today: “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World.” We talked about the book yesterday with Grant, who, despite being just 34, has already been teaching for a dozen years, including earlier at UNC Chapel Hill. (According to his… Read More... →

Компания Uber обвновила свой логотип и представила новый фирменный стиль, в котором отказалась от использования черно-белой палитры. Об этом руководитель компании Трэвис Каланик написал в корпоративном блоге.... →

Компания Uber обновила свой логотип и представила новый фирменный стиль, в котором отказалась от использования черно-белой палитры. Об этом руководитель сервиса Трэвис Каланик написал в корпоративном блоге.... →

Twitter announced two updates today that should make it easier to use for logged-out users — a group of people the company has generally not taken as seriously as it should. First of all, Twitter is now rolling out its updated homepage, which makes it easier for logged-out users to drill into interesting messages, pictures and videos on the platform without having to sign up for it,… Read More... →

Following Facebook’s shutdown of Parse many mobile app developers are looking for alternatives. Google’s Firebase is among the most popular ones. It’s a solid back-end-as-a-service that can store and sync data instantly with your apps. But the only issue is that it doesn’t support push notifications. Read More... →

Get ready for Yammer, Microsoft announced today – and it’s not kidding. Microsoft said this afternoon it will begin to activate Yammer for all its eligible Office 365 business customers starting today, in what’s a major push for the enterprise social networking service. The rollout will come in waves, beginning with those customers who have a business subscription, and… Read More... →

The 9th Annual Crunchies are fast approaching, and as we look ahead to what’s shaping up to be our best Crunchies yet, we thought it’d be fun to take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of the Crunchies of yore. Mars was on the minds of voters at the 6th Crunchies in 2013. The Mars Curiosity Rover launched from Cape Canaveral in November 2011, landed on the Red Planet on August… Read More... →

Over the last year, Slack engineer Erica Baker has become a well-known advocate for diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. Although she started at Slack as a build and release engineer, her role has since evolved to include some work around diversity and inclusion. Baker recently sat down with me to discuss diversity, inclusion and her role at Slack. Here’s the full Q&A,… Read More... →

Алексей Поликарпов, бывший коммерческий директор компании «Тематические медиа» (издания «Хабрахабр», «Мегамозг») инвестировал в сервис по доставке еды «Нужен ужин». Как сообщил Firrma Алексей Поликарпов, сделка состоялась в январе 2016 года и составила 2 млн рублей. Доля инвестора в стартапе не раскрывается по соглашению сторон. Известно, что по итогам сделки Алексей Поликарпов назначен коммерческим директором сервиса, а также его исполнительным директором по совместительству. Осенью 2015 года стартап привл... →

Back when I reported on whether we would see a full new ‘Apple Watch 2.0’ in March (still no), I mentioned that a March event from Apple could still happen — and that likely releases would be an iPad and smaller iPhone. At the time, the event was in a state of flux, according to a couple of sources — basically in a holding pattern that depended on what hardware was… Read More... →

A new transatlantic data transfer deal has been announced today between the EU and the US. The new EU-US Privacy Shield replaces the old Safe Harbor agreement, which was invalidated by the European Court of Justice last October, on the grounds that US mass surveillance programs were violating fundamental European privacy rights. Read More... →

One of the top free-to-play digital card games in the world has some big changes coming. Publisher Blizzard is breaking up its Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft card battler into two distinct play format. The first, called Wild, is the same Hearthstone you’ve played over the last few years. It enables you to use any card […]... →

Brands, start your GIF engines. Kik, the chat app with 300 million registered users, is giving companies the chance to boost their marketing via their own GIFs on its service. Read More... →

Представитель МТС Дмитрий Солодников обвинил аналитическое агентство Telecom Daily в некорректном исследовании качества сотовой связи и передачи данных в Москве. На своей странице в Facebook он написал, что методика тестирования, применяемая исследовательской компанией, не соответствует методике Минкомсвязи.... →

The latest version of Android is finally on 1 percent of devices. Google released its monthly update to the Platform Versions page for Android today, and the preceding zero for Marshmallow’s adoption is gone. Android Marshmallow debuted just over four months ago on September 29 with the launch of Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P. But […]... →

Early-stage investor 500 Startups has kicked off its 2016 Distro Dojo season with the first session taking place in London, England. Today the accelerator and venture capital firm announced the six startups it’ll be working with to scale their business. The companies are Fy, Bidvine, Click Mechanic, Bizimply, Rock Pamper Scissors, and StoreMaven. In December, 500 […]... →

When companies have to pick what kinds of services they want for their operation — like marketing or human resources — they can easily be paralyzed by choice. That’s why Vamshi Mokshagundam decided to start Siftery, a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. The company just raised $4 million from Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, and Venrock among… Read More... →

When Yahya Mokhtarzada got a $40 bill from Gogo, he started taking a closer look at the subscriptions on his bank statement. It turned out that he had been subscribed to the service for more than a year — which racked up to a substantial amount of money. “I called them to give me a refund on it, which was nice, but I said how many people are out there that have these subscriptions… Read More... →

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