This 25-Year-Old Hasn’t Owned A Cell Phone In 4 Years, And Loves It
Could you imagine living without a smartphone? What about living without a cell phone at all? Ben Brast-McKie, a 25-year-old tutor in the midst of applying to graduate programs in philosophy, decided to ditch his cell phone altogether back in August 2009, right before his trip to India. Brast-McKie also doesn’t use Facebook, Twitter, or any other forms of social media. “The reason is just that they don’t really appeal to me,” McKie told Business Insider. “I felt averted to the idea of creating a digital identity to publish online. I am not some digital profile. I don’t know why I ... → Read More
Silicon Alley Insider - Sunday, October 6, 2013
Everyone knows Google dominates search. It usually has a roughly 70% market share of all search activity on the net. Microsoft’s Bing comes a distant second. But Google is facing a series of challenges that could upset that dominance. The challenge comes with a new type of search, called “latent,” “abstract” or “conversational” search. Until now, if you wanted to search for something on the web, you typed in keywords. Google has trained us all to type in those words in order of importance, not the order in which they make sense. In the future, that may change. Google, Facebook ... 
Samsung’s first ad for the Galaxy Gear smartwatch is straightforward stuff: Man on street accosts members of the public, shows them smart watch, members of public gasp in delight. And … scene! We don’t know who the ad agency is, but the video has that trendy, slightly-washed-out look favored by Samsung’s lead U.S. shop, 72andSunny. Tell us what you think in the comments below: Join the conversation about this story » Tech
Google is constantly being named as one of the best companies to work for. It feeds its employees three gourmet meals a day for free. It offers them a crazy array of perks from yoga classes to massages. See the pictures >> So we asked for a tour of the famous Googleplex, hoping to see cool spots like the bowling alley or one of the seven fitness centers. Unfortunately, Google’s PR folks asked if they could review and approve our photos before we published them. We declined, but we were allowed to the campus and the land Google owns around ... 
PureVPN — one of the VPN tunnelling services that assign new IP addresses to a users’ connected devices, useful for those accessing the Internet in firewalled countries or those who want to use services that are usually geo-restricted at their current location — has been dealt a double blow by malicious hackers in the last several hours: a zero-day exploit via a third-party CRM service the company uses; and then a subsequent letter sent out to some users alleging account closure and a data compromise, which is fake. PureVPN founder Uzair Gadit tells us that there is no issue with ... 
In 1965, Gordon Moore (one of the founders of Intel) stated that he believed the number of transistors that could be put on the same sized wafer for a minimum cost per transistor would double every year. Go straight to the companies who are challenging the limits of Moore’s Law > In 1975, he changed his estimate to a doubling every two years. For a very long time, that estimate has been incredibly accurate. Because of how semiconductors work, the smaller transistors produced over time inherently used less power while running faster. Until the early 2000s, that is. That’s when ... 
Don’t criticize Twitter CEO Dick Costolo for not having any women on his board of directors. He’ll compare you to Carrot Top, the ginger-haired comedian who headlines a long-running (but somewhat uncool) show in Las Vegas. The New York Times quoted Vivek Wadhwa, an academic who writes for Techcrunch, in a story that noted Twitter filed its IPO after searching for, and failing to find, a single woman to sit on its board. Here’s how the story frames that quote: The board? All white men. The investors? All men. The executive officers? All men but for the general counsel, Vijaya ... 