France Bans Smartphones in Schools – But Will It Actually Help?
Keeping smartphones away from students helps them to pay more attention in class and focus on interacting with one another. It’s these reasons why France decided to ban smartphones from students in the first to ninth grades. The country’s education ministry set the rule to start at the beginning of September. A Message to Society […]
Google Spotlights Fact-Checkers to Manage Misinformation
Last week, Facebook announced its News Integrity Initiative, another gesture toward fixing the internet’s misinformation epidemic. While the social media giant has received most of the flak for the explosion of fake news, NYC app developers are well aware that it’s not the only platform guilty of disseminating false information. As the search engine, Google […]
Musk’s Neuralink Venture May Connect the Human Mind to AI
The tech world is abuzz this week with chatter about Elon Musk’s latest privately-funded venture Neuralink. Details about the “medical research” company are scant, but everyone seems to be in agreement that the purpose of the venture is to pursue Musk’s dream of “neural lace” technology. The idea is to create a direct connection between […]
Paid vs Free: What’s Best for Your Mobile App Idea
Fact: making your dream app costs money. Another fact: over 90% of mobile apps cost exactly zero dollars for users to download. So, if most apps are free, where did 2015’s approximately 60 billion dollars in mobile app developer revenue come from? And more importantly, what price is best for your app: 99 cents? 4.99? […]
How to Make Hires as a Non-Technical Founder
Whether you’re an iPad app developer looking to hire a designer or an entrepreneur looking to hire a coder, finding and vetting talent is no easy task. Especially when the specialty you’re hiring for is something hard to judge like backend coding, how can you be sure you’re hiring the right person for the job? […]
Tablets to Dominate, Rendering PC’s a Thing of the Past
It is of little surprise that sales of tablet computers continue their meteoric rise. However, not everyone is in a celebratory mood as tablets are simultaneously taking a massive bite out of the personal computer market. This year alone sales of tablets will skyrocket by nearly 70% while laptop and desktop computers continue their downward […]