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Facebook’s ‘Meta’ Name Change Has Also Sparked the Beginning of its New Effort to Win Back the Youth

Can Facebook win back younger users, and re-establish itself as the connective platform of choice moving forward? It’s no secret that Facebook has lost ground to TikTok and Snapchat among younger audiences, which trends have indicated for some time, and which was officially confirmed as part of

Sonos will release a new app and operating system for its speakers in June

Sonos is today detailing the future of its multiroom home audio strategy, which revolves around a new app and operating system called Sonos S2 that will run on many current Sonos products and be the foundation for all of the company’s future devices. Sonos S2 will be

Microsoft’s voting software is getting its first test in a small Wisconsin town

People in the small Wisconsin town of Fulton are the first to try out software Microsoft designed to confirm that votes are being properly counted. On Tuesday, Fulton residents are using the technology while choosing who will join the local school board and hold a seat on Wisconsin’s state

Learn these 6 technical skills for a career in software development — and its more than just programming languages

Companies are trying to stay competitive in the job market, investing in future technologies. This has lifted the demand for software engineers. Globally, software development is one of the highest paying tech jobs. With more and more Indians planning career overseas, the demand has surged over the

How investing in hardware differs from software — and why it’s worth the trouble

Software will eat the world. That’s what they say, but IoT is inherently not only software. When it comes to looking at hardware startups, or even products, you need to look at a lot of moving parts. Potential investors need to look at hardware in a very

EpicPxls offers pro web design assets for life, and it’s over 90% off

Web design is absolutely an art, but don’t think there isn’t a fair amount of practical process work happening there as well.  While creating the perfect style flourishes or themes can be time-consuming, experienced designers know customizing preexisting templates is the way to create artistic web sites,

Holberton opens its software engineering school in Medellin

Holberton School, which sees itself as a college alternative for budding software engineers, today announced that it has opened a campus in Medellin, Colombia. With this, it now operates two schools in the country after opening its Bogota campus earlier this year. The idea behind Holberton School,  which doesn’t charge

Mozilla is Removing WebIDE the Last Service of its Late Operating System from its Browser

Mozilla had its own open-source operating system for smartphones; unfortunately, they had to discontinue it. The OS was based on the rendering engine of the Firefox browser and the Linux kernel. WedIDE is one of the premiere services related to the late OS. It allowed users to

Google scales back its ambitions for Android Things operating system

Google LLC is curtailing the scope of its Android Things operating system, saying the platform will be used exclusively to power smart speakers and smart displays from now on. When Google announced Android Things in December 2016, the company had a much bigger vision. It said Android Things would

Remember Life Before Social Media? Maybe It’s Time For A Reminder

When Twitter was young and tweets a mere 140 characters long, I used to mock the platform for consisting largely of posts that merely used tiny URLs to direct readers to in-depth articles on real new sites. Now I long to return to those days. Last week