technology
Who Decides Which Emojis You Get on Your Smartphone?
Published on November 10, 2016The Unicode Consortium does a lot of good for the world. It’s thanks to the…
Read MoreWhat the Touchbar Means for iOS and OSX App Users
Published on November 9, 2016There’s been talk of iOS and OSX merging into a single operating system for some…
Read MoreFacebook Messenger Launches In-App Games to Take on Apple
Published on November 8, 2016It sometimes seems like Facebook gets a cut of virtually every market these days, from…
Read MoreWhat Happens to Workers in an AI Economy?
Published on November 7, 2016If you were in Pittsburgh in the past couple months, you might have spotted one…
Read MoreApp Developer Challenges: Writing Helpful Bot Dialogue
Published on November 4, 2016The chatbot trend has been burning for a while now, and one of the biggest…
Read MoreInstagram Introduces In-App Shopping for Brands
Published on November 4, 2016If Twitter is the poster child of angry users and poor monetization attempts, Instagram is…
Read MoreWhat Would Happen If Capital Hill Ran the US Like a Startup?
Published on November 3, 2016Government is often slow and difficult to understand. Tech moves quickly and is relatively simple…
Read MoreThe NYPD Just Got Smartphones: Not the Brand You’d Expect
Published on November 1, 2016The Windows Phone accounts for less than 1% of the US smartphone market. That might…
Read MoreUK Data Spying Case Shocks and Outrages Tech Community
Published on October 28, 2016While much of the app development community assumes the Snowden disclosures only really applied to…
Read MoreWant to Get into Y Combinator? Check out This Data.
Published on October 27, 2016Jared Friedman of Y Combinator has shared a fascinating talk that looks at formerly closed…
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