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• Taylor Swift is watching you watching her

  In 2018, face recognition technology (“FRT”) stumbled from childhood into adolescence in commercial applications. It evolved from being used primarily as a gimmick to unlock your phone or retrieve pictures of specific persons within your 60K pictures, to being used in an almost ...

  • Brahim Bénichou

• 15 strategies everyone should know to protect their online information

  As technology increases at an ever-faster rate, so too do the ways in which our information can be put at risk. With the constant growth of internet of things, it’s now more important than ever to make sure all aspects of our lives are protected from online dangers. To find out ...

  • Scott Gerber

• Just like the Kindle, our AI and AR future will be here sooner than we think

  Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can also get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! On January 1st, 1997, Nicolas Negroponte ...

  • Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

• Your company is losing mobile customers - here are three ways to optimize mobile experiences right now

  When’s the last time you booked a Lyft or Uber or ordered a meal on DoorDash using your laptop? Many popular apps and services are changing the dynamics of how customers communicate, share, discover, and shop. Through their smart phones, they’re learning how to quickly and ...

  • Brian Solis

• 4 simple (yet brilliant) ways to nurture leads without being ‘pushy’

  Nurturing leads along the buyer’s journey and turning them into paying customers is a vital part of successful entrepreneurship — but it’s often easier said than done… Go too long without following up with a prospective client, and they may forget about you altogether. But ...

  • Nathan Resnick

• Where automotive cybersecurity is headed in 2019

  There are more connected cars than ever -- manufacturers are making more of them than ever, more people are driving them than ever, and that means hackers and bad actors have a bigger target than ever. As connected “devices” -- albeit the biggest and most complicated of connected ...

  • Yossi Vardi

• CMS platforms and web designers should be partners, not competitors

  When web designing platforms give people the ability to create something incredible on their own -- coupled with a professional-looking design -- it’s a true benefit for users at any skill level. However, these ‘anyone can build a website’ tools can sometimes be perceived ...

  • Hagit Kaufman

• Facebook sucks for privacy, but how good are advertisers at targeting me?

  Amid the massive hue and cry about Facebook’s utter disregard for data privacy, and the illicit use of personally identifiable information, I thought I’d take a step back and examine the company’s data handling from a new perspective. Facebook sells a bunch of targeting methods ...

  • Preetish Panda

• We need robot driving schools for our autonomous cars

  Utopian fantasies centered around miraculous autonomous cars have existed for some time now, but recent developments in the ...

  • Steve Jones

• Push notifications are the future of multi-factor authentication

  It's hard to believe, but the most popular password in 2018 was – get ready for it - “123456,” the winner and still ...

  • Raz Rafaeli

• Facial recognition tech sucks, but it’s inevitable

  Is facial recognition accurate? Can it be hacked? These are just some of the questions being raised by lawmakers, civil libertarians, ...

  • Christopher Shiostu

• Just starting out in the cloud? 14 experts offer their advice

  You're unlikely to find a modern business that hasn't heard of cloud computing — and many have already made the switch ...

  • Scott Gerber