All stories in Digital data
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Master promoting and selling online with this digital marketing masterclass—only $9
Digital marketing has advanced by leaps and bounds this century, and it’s time to know all the inside info that can push ...
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This app will pay you for every step you take
Starting today, the easiest way to make some money is by doing what you already do so often -- walking. Sweatcoin is a new ...
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4 practical tips to verify if your customers are who they say they are
In the future, a digital ID may replace all your current forms of identification. At the same time, as we become more and ...
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Designers, don’t be afraid to let robots design
In 1961, Alan Perlis, an early pioneer in computer science, advocated that computer programming should be a requirement of ...
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G20: Cryptocurrencies are okay, blockchains are great, and money laundering is still a problem
G20 has announced that cryptocurrencies pose no significant risk to global financial stability, but money laundering is still ...
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This is how you can personalize marketing campaigns — without violating GDPR
GDPR -- no other four letters are giving tech companies a bigger headache this year. So many articles have been written about ...
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Prepare yourself: Facebook could be the future of national census
Every ten years, governments around the world conduct their national census: a count of the resident population. This is ...
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All Android phones should run stock OS (including you Samsung!)
Countless consumers around the globe cherish the customization options available to them when it comes to their smartphones, ...
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Zuckerberg's failures must be your lessons
After a worldwind of a year for Facebook (so far), we must take something away from it. There's a lot to learn from Suckerberg's ...
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SurfSafe offers a browser-based solution to fake news
In the aftermath of a school shooting that claimed the lives of 14 students and three staff members, students like Emma González, ...
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Revolut launches Metal debit card that gives 'cashback' in cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency users have a new way of showing dedication to the cause. Meet Revolut's solid metal card that literally pays ...
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To fight the talent shortage, train your current employees
Looking for new candidates can be an expensive process. Actively encouraging your employees to spend time on their learning ...
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Google releases tools for probing Ethereum's blockchain
Google has added Ethereum support to its BigQuery database tool, giving us a new method of analyzing data stored on its blockchain. ...
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A hands-on approach to designing for kids
This article aims to share a series of advices, stemming from lessons learned from designing for kids over a period of 12 ...
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‘Free tech’ economy creates harmful monopolies and alters our self-expression
Many of the world’s biggest companies would be giving away their services for free in today’s digital economy and costs ...
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Sext-shaming won't stop revenge porn — and it's sexist
The Dutch police have called on young people to stop sexting completely. This announcement came as a solution to prevent ...
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Will the algorithmic timeline be the death of social media?
A built-in stopping point provided a sense of control over our social timelines and newsfeeds. Do you miss the days of chronological ...
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Here’s how you can painlessly integrate voice in your business
A digital voice strategy that will end up proving lucrative for businesses and useful for consumers is one that places customer ...
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We were promised digitized health care... what’s the delay?
The issues faced by many in the healthcare industry when it comes to digitization are vast, not only in the UK and Europe ...
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September in Africa: Alibaba saves wildlife and Google Partners comes to Nigeria
Pan-African ecommerce giant Jumia may be about to launch an initial public offering (IPO), if reports are to be believed, ...
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The 'female blackout' protest didn't work — it silenced women
A viral post flooded women's direct messages on Facebook urging them to leave Facebook for the day and "black out" their ...
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ASMR videos could be a new digital therapy for mental health
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos could help mental health issues. Videos include soft-whispering and relaxing ...
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The average of these 5 death clocks could be the day you die
These 5 death clocks know when you're going to die using information about you and your lifestyle. Including your age, BMI, ...
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October in Africa: Egypt stifles tech innovation, Google gets busy
The Egyptian government has had a busy time of late, shutting down taxi app mergers, taxing e-commerce platforms, and enforcing ...
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8 expert predictions on what will define tech in 2019
On the imminent death of native apps, and seven other trend predictions.
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Latin America joins EU in considering a new digital tax
Mexico and Chile, Uruguay, Peru, and Argentina are the current Latin American countries who are considering the EU Digital ...
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AI’s success hinges on new attitudes — not old regulations
We need to stop regulating machine learning models as if they were computer programs, and start thinking about how to use ...
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We’re living in digital serfdom — trading privacy for convenience
Think for a second: compared to your grandparents and parents, what do you actually own outright? Why own when you can ...
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Don’t post your kid online
As we set out on a two-hour drive, my pregnant girlfriend told me she didn’t want anyone, including ourselves, to share ...
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Post-WannaCry: Only 3% of companies are prepared for new types of cyberattacks
One year ago, my phone lit up with the first text alert about the WannaCry ransomware attack. From the onset, it was clear ...
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Genies makes realistic looking Bitmoji that can be used in other apps
Genies has launched their new Android and iOS mobile app that lets users create a digital version of themselves that looks ...
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Here's how we take back control over our digital identities
The data reckoning has arrived. We’re already too familiar with the breach headlines: Equifax, Under Armour, Target. But ...
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How to perfect your digital copywriting
Does anyone actually know what it means to be a copywriter in the digital age? Each and every day, a wave of ecommerce shoppers, ...
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What Amazon’s Alexa microwave teaches us about interacting with AI assistants
Does it make sense to put a voice assistant in your microwave? Amazon, the leader in smart speakers and voice assistants, ...
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New whisteblower app fights forced evictions in Kenya
The Sengwer community in Embobut Forest is now using "This Is My Backyard" app, to document, and boost negotiations to resolve ...
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Alibaba exec Brian Wong explains the company’s plans for Afrika
After training their first cohort of 24 Afrikan startups, Alibaba went on to launch another initiative aimed at empowering ...
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Alibaba’s Jack Ma opens a startup hub in Kigali to support Afrikan innovation
A new hub has been opened in Kigali, Rwanda which aims to assist the country's small and medium-sized enterprises, as well ...
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How you can teach AI to speak Welsh (and other minority languages)
Pioneering smart home technologies and voice assistants don’t, as a rule, speak Welsh – although the Welsh government ...
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Only 2% of Japan’s 340,000 money laundering cases involve cryptocurrency
Japan's efforts to regulate the cryptocurrency industry might have come a little later than needed, as the country has seen ...
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France will tax tech giants in 2019 if EU doesn’t step up
France hasn't given up on creating a tax on digital revenue to prevent the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and ...
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Switzerland says its national blockchain will be more secure than Bitcoin – it won’t be
Swiss Post and Swisscom are building a completely private Swiss blockchain for launching locally operated "decentralized" ...
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Hello Big Brother: EU wants to manage your digital identity on the blockchain
Blockchain promised us freedom and liberation from centralized authorities like governments, but in the latest report from ...
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MasterCard wants to make electronic payments anonymous… with blockchain
According to a recent patent application, the payment infrastructure provider, MasterCard, wants to anonymize "electronic ...
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Here’s how a second-hand game market for digital copies should work
What if we did have a secondary market for digital copies of video games? How would it work, what would it look like, and ...
