Achieving Your Goals

Imagine a football match in which two teams are competing for a trophy, but there are no goal posts. Which of the teams will take the trophy? Obviously none!

Skyrocketing bitcoin is more than just an investment — it could help the world, says investor

Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has been on a tear of late, is not only an attractive investment, but it is also a potential solution to easing a strained global financial system, according to a top money manager.

Jeff Bezos is getting closer to becoming the richest man

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

With Amazon's stock price brushing $1,000, Jeff Bezos is within striking distance of 

becoming the world's richest man.

Amazon shares break above $1,000 for the first time ever

Amazon logo

The race between Alphabet and Amazon to $1,000 was on earlier this month and Amazon just took the prize.

Reddit continues to reshape itself by adding location tagging

Reddit has been quietly transforming into a more mature social network, and today it’s adding another small but critical piece: the ability to add location tags to posts.

Apple is stepping up its war to steal Android customers

Apple is trying to steal away Google's customers.

Running Your Own Race

I was cycling and noticed a person ahead of me, about 1/4 of a km.

Microsoft announced new surface pro this week. Here is what you need to know

New Microsoft Surface Pro.

Why you should stop asking if a tablet can replace your laptop — the world has moved on

Apple is working on a technology that will increase the iPhone's internet speeds (AAPL)

Apple is testing next-generation wireless technologies, often called "5G," that could potentially radically increase the speed and bandwidth of an iPhone's cellular connection.

China is Apple's biggest problem right now (AAPL)

Apple CEO Tim Cook and China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua (left) pose with iPhones at a launch event in 2014.

 (Kim Kyung Hoon/Reuters)

China generates 25% of all Apple's profits and is the company's second-largest market. Over time it's expected to eventually become the company's single biggest market.

Facebook will let users live-stream self-harm, leaked documents show

Provided by The Guardian

Facebook will allow users to livestream attempts to self-harm because it “doesn’t want to censor or punish people in distress who are attempting suicide”, according to leaked documents.

Eraser and the Pencil

Pencil: I’m sorry.

Eraser: For what?

The 5 most common online scams you should watch for

The internet can be a scary place. Misinformation, false promises, and fake news lurk behind every clickbait headline and questionable link. Entire industries are built to profit from deceptive tricks to con the naive.

Facebook's plan to eat another $350 billion IT market

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

On an ordinary work day in mid-2016, a handful of Facebook engineers were sitting on the couches in a corner of the company's Menlo Park, California, headquarters when one of them tossed out a wacky idea.

China's version of Twitter has more users than actual Twitter...

Twitter is banned in China, so instead the country uses a platform called Weibo. Now, Weibo has more users than Twitter. 

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold.

Android Phones Beat iPhones In Performance Efficiency: Survey

Apple And Android logo

Android is developing a lead over iPhones in terms of smartphone reliability, according to “The State of Mobile Device Performance and health: Q1 2017” study done by data security firm Blancco.

Facebook slapped with $122 million EU fine: Here is why...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook has been fined 110 million euros ($122 million) by European regulators for providing "misleading information" about its acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp.

Apple's new headquarters will reflect Steve Jobs's desire to replicate the outdoors

Office thermostats have a special place in corporate culture. They were parodied in an episode of "The Office," and a scientific study of office temperatures and gender went viral last year, leading to a story in The New York Times.

How to Restore Backed-Up Data After a Ransomware Attack

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Friday’s massive ransomware attack, “WannaCry,” paralyzed computers in hospitals, universities, and companies worldwide in what is believed to be the biggest online extortion scheme in history. The ransomware has so far affected more than 350,000 computers.  

Facebook to reimburse some advertisers after discovering bug

Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would refund some advertisers after finding a bug that wrongly attributed video carousel ad clicks as clicks to the advertisers' websites.

13 things to remember

Below are the 13 things to remember every day and night:

Here's what went down during Google's biggest event of the year (GOOG)

Google CEO Sundar Pichai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said there were now 2 billion active devices based on the company's Android software and touted the company's new artificial-intelligence efforts as he took the stage at I/O, Google's annual developers conference, on Wednesday.

Here's what the world's most influential tech CEOs studied in college

Top Tech CEOs

The best and brightest CEOs in tech come from a wide-range of educational backgrounds.

Get ready for new Apple laptops next month (AAPL)

Apple is preparing three new laptops expected to launch next month at Apple's annual WWDC conference, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

How a 22-year-old inadvertently stopped a worldwide cyberattack

© Provided by USA TODAY.  B. TONGO/EPA/REX/Shutterstock A programer shows a sample of decrypting source code in Taipei, Taiwan, 13 May, 2017.

Is This The End of the MP3

The developer of the MP3, which revolutionized the way people listen to music, announced Monday it has terminated the file format’s licensing program after more than two decades.

Google will now go easier on publishers that violate its ad policies

Google is changing how it enforces it ads policies: It will now strike ads from individual web pages that violate its ads standards. That means Google will effectively be cutting fewer websites out of its ad network.

Computer Scientists Are Developing A ‘Master’ Fingerprint That Could Unlock Your Phone

Provided by Popular Science

Fingerprint readers, like the TouchID on an iPhone, exist to make your device extra secure while keeping the process of unlocking it easy.

The value of a smile

The value of a smile is priceless, yet it is the cheapest, easiest, most rewarding and most sincere gift to anyone that crosses your path.

How to Protect Yourself as Ransomware Attack Spreads Around the Globe

Cyber Security

Although this latest attack was massive in scope, ransomeware threats often strike the personal computers of individual consumers, too.

Global extortion cyberattack hits dozens of nations

Cyber Attack in coding

Here's how Apple, already the world's biggest company, can get even bigger

Apple CEO TIm Cook

3 ways that Apple CEO Tim Cook is trying to change the world

Apple CEO Tim Cook

Apple CEO Tim Cook is a staunch advocate of corporations doing their part to help improve the world.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey still won't ban Donald Trump over his tweets

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

US president Donald Trump is one of the first global leaders to make daily headlines through Twitter.

No joke: Linux is coming to Microsoft's app store (MSFT)

Microsoft's Windows 10 app store is getting Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora Linux.

Satya Nadella with Microsoft and Linux logo

A Bollywood superstar delivered the next viral TED Talk — here's what he said

Check out the 2017 TED Talk by Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan.

Microsoft's next big Windows 10 update will make your iPhone and Android phone better (seriously) (MSFT, AAPL)

Microsoft windows Terry myerson

Apple just handed Microsoft a major win for its newest version of Windows

Apple CEO Tim Cook

Apple's iTunes -- and with it, the company's subscription music service -- is heading to Microsoft's Windows Store. 

The Lion And The Mouse

A Lion lay asleep in the forest, his great head resting on his paws. A timid little Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion's nose. Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny creature to kill her.

Look at the big gap between Snapchat's revenue per user and Facebook's (SNAP)

Snapchat parent company Snap's first ever earnings report as a public company is out and it's not pretty.

Snapchat's CEO dismissed Facebook's constant copying by comparing it to Yahoo

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has finally addressed the giant blue elephant in the room.

Apple is no longer the most innovative of companies, says Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson

Source: CNBC

Apple is no longer the world's leader in innovation, Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson told CNBC on Tuesday.

Apple reportedly set to start shipping iPhone 8 in October despite delay rumors

Rumors about the next-generation iPhone are spreading at such a fast pace that last week CEO Tim Cook claimed they’re practically causing sales to drop – and today we have another one.

Apple just broke its own record as the most valuable publicly traded company of all time (AAPL)

Apple's market cap was $776.60 billion on Monday morning. That beat Apple's previous market-cap peak, set in February 2015 at $774.7 billion.

The top 3 reasons why entrepreneurs fail

While the specific statistics are tough to nail down, it's widely reported that the majority of new businesses fail, many citing a 90 percent or more failure rate within five years.

Successful entrepreneurs sacrifice these 4 things to grow their businesses

Most entrepreneurs are prepared to give something up for the success of their company. It's rare, however, that an individual understands exactly how much they'll have to forfeit while growing their business.

Amazon sweeps US market for voice-controlled speakers: Study

Amazon has announced that Alexa, the brain that powers Amazon Echo, is coming to the UK,
along with two Alexa-enabled devices: Echo and the all-new Echo Dot.

Amazon.com is dominating the nascent market for voice-controlled speakers, research firm eMarketer said on Monday.

Learn any of these 12 programming languages and you'll always have a job

"Software is eating the world," venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously declared.

You Are Beyond Limit

You have counted times without number how you have tried but failed, to add to injury, people who you have trusted say to you i have told you; you can’t make it.