Fizzics, who closed a successful Indiegogo in July, has found a way to infuse beer with more foam and carbonation, thus giving it a better mouthfeel. They do this by controlling pressure flow, fluid and gas dynamics to create good foam, which allows the release of esters, Fizzics encourages foam and carbonation. The device also employs high frequency sound waves and oscillation technologies to diffuse gas, creating a dense and frothy foam....

The news comes in the middle of a larger hardware shakeup at the company most well known for its Facebook social network: Meta will be ditching the AR glasses and smartwatch models it has worked on for years. Meta’s proposed Metaverse is still many years in the future, and massive amounts of AR-equipped hardware are key to the existence of the virtual space, so it makes sense that they’re taking their time as they attempt to develop the groundbreaking tech....

The layoffs make up around 10 percent of Microsoft’s total sales force. Focusing on the Cloud The Cloud’s Adding a Billion Users by 2020 The news is a sign of the important of cloud computing, which is now essential for dozens of industries, from tech to fashion to NASA’s Mars program. The cloud is only getting bigger in the next few years, as TechCo reported earlier this year: Microsoft wants in on that billion users: The company, as Bloomberg reports, called the cloud computing sector a “$4....

As the ninth annual festival kicked off last week, startup founders, tech leaders, and aspiring entrepreneurs descended on the beautiful Louisiana city in hopes meeting their next mentor, investor, cofounder, or new friend. Each day showcased a bevy of qualified startups, in addition to providing workshops, interactive discussions, and keynote speeches from Leslie Miley of Slack, Suzanne DiBianca of Salesforce, and many more to an ecosystem that is ready to explode onto the global scene....

The attack occurred in March of last year, but was only discovered by the company earlier in 2019. Yesterday’s announcement was the first time the issue has been publicly disclosed. NordVPN claims that while it has taken the attack seriously and dealt with the issue, no user information was taken in the attack. We take a look at how the breach happened, and the consequences for NordVPN users. How Did the NordVPN Breach Happen?...

In May 2014 The Nobel Laureate PeaceJam Foundation launched its biggest campaign to date – One Billion Acts of Peace. Officially launched at the United Nation’s Social Innovation Summit, the goal was to inspire one billion acts of peace globally by 2019. They have partnered with Google, Wells Fargo, Hill + Knowlton Strategies, Chadbourne & Parke, among others, to create this international global citizens’ movement designed to tackle the most important problems facing our planet....

Outsourcing websites You don’t have enough resources to hire permanent staff? Outsource! You can have, for instance, your website content written by an external writer. You can have the whole design taken care of, and you can even outsource your sales through specialized websites like Freelancer or oDesk. Prices are variable and if you look around carefully, you can find good professionals who offer their services at a fair rate....

As the winner of the competition, Oppleo will receive three, free months of office space with Carr Workspaces, free rent at the Residence Inn in Rosslyn, free access to the Metro and Capital Bikeshare, and legal support from the Arlington Law Group. The company plans to hire as many as seven new employees working in the Arlington area by next year. Prior to winning the competition, they received funding from the Center for Innovative Technology in Virginia and are also a graduate of the MACH37 Cybersecurity Accelerator....

The good news is, even if you did inherit the procrastination gene, there is still hope. You’re not destined to be an unproductive lump, half-assing your way through life, and probably getting there late. The most important thing to do is to recognize and understand why you’re procrastinating, because there are different reasons depending on the task: Fear of failure, fear of an uncomfortable situation, boredom, the list goes on....

Designed to help professors, corporate trainers, and marketers, ProProfs’ platform is fully web-based in terms of its functionality. Users never have to download any additional software, and the learning curve is virtually nonexistent, thanks to its simplicity. To that end, the web-based quiz creator has a host of built-in features. The user interface can be altered with drag and drop capability to create interactive and fully branded quizzes. Additionally, you can input your own quiz questions or select a pre-made, crowdsourced quiz from a group of over 300,000....

The Real Cocktail event aims to connect the innovators in real estate with policymakers and academics in order to promote dialogue and creative development in urban planning. Traditionally, there has been a disconnect between theory and practice – this evening of speakers and mingling aims to bridge that gap by providing an open forum to discuss innovation, planning, and policy within the real estate industry. SpeakersThis Inaugural Real Cocktail event is delighted to focus the evening on our 2 guest speakers: We invite you to help create Real Cocktail as an event where people gather, who want to make the city where they live, work, and play a better place....

Virtually every US company needs a remote network of devices of laptops, smartphones, and tablets in order to function. But a large portion of those devices can’t be monitored in any way by IT teams or are simply running outdated operating systems — two major risks that leave them open to attacks. Remote work is a modern solution to keeping a company competitive while offering employees the flexibility they need to avoid burnout....

That experience started Bhargava down a path that would ultimately lead him to write the bestselling books Personality Not Included and Likenomics. Both of which are globally marketed and nicely complement his features in NPR, BusinessWeek, and The Wall Street Journal. His books center on the idea that everybody does business and builds relationships with individuals they like. Likeability powers everything from whom we believe to what we buy, and it all goes beyond simply being nice....

Announced earlier today, Sawbuck, the DC-based creators of Homesnap– the “Shazaam for housing information” – closed a $3.5M round of funding from Revolution Ventures and Robert Stewart, a DC-based real estate investor. Where did Wolcott first meet Steve Case, the former AOL CEO and current Chairman and CEO at Revolution? Tech Cocktail’s SXSW #startuplife celebration. I’d say so. Homesnap makes obtaining information on housing a breeze. Simply snap a picture of the unit or building in question, and Homesnap’s patent-pending technology will return information pulled from tax records, MLS data, school information, census demographics, and more....

An artificial intelligence that dislikes women or people of color sounds like a concept straight out of a Twilight Zone episode. But sadly, it’s reality. How did we get to this situation? And is it possible to build an AI that won’t reflect the bone-deep prejudices that are – knowingly or unknowingly – built into our social systems? To answer that second question, it’s crucial to address the first one....

The problem is the process of maximizing your search result position has changed, and no one is talking about it. Or worse, they’re selling less-than ethical services based on old, outdated methods that not only don’t work but could negatively affect your ranking. Quite frankly, this angers me. But I’m getting ahead of myself. So let’s take a step back and talk about where this all started. It’s 1994 and all search engines that exist are coded, run and updated by people manually....

Researchers from the Mayo clinic tracked the activity of 40 adults without sleep disorders who slept with a dog in their bedroom over five months. Findings concluded that having a dog near you at night helped them sleep better regardless if the dog was the size of a Labrador or a Pug. But what about on the bed? Many dog owners like to snuggle with their best friend. Sorry so say that the same research shows it might not be the best thing for a restful night....

Abrahamson shared advice for startups wanting to understand the process of investments and valuations. A must-read for tech founders: What do you look for when making the decision to invest? What is your process like? What is typically your bite size? Does this change depending on where the company is based? Our filter process: Do we think you can make cities better? Specifically, can you have an impact in areas like – reducing energy usage and associated climate impact, improving mobility of people and things (faster, better, cheaper), improve service delivery from water and waste to social services and public safety....

According to Case, we’ve gone through to major waves or phases of the Internet. The first was during the age of AOL – between the years of 1985 to about 2000 – when the whole goal of people and companies was to build the Internet itself; it was period focused building this infrastructure and getting people to be aware that the Internet actually existed. The second wave is everything that’s been happening in the past 15 years, where the focus has been and is on building on top of that Internet infrastructure – creating apps and services like Facebook or Snapchat....

A study from the Harvard Business Review found that inspired employees performed significantly better than their coworkers. The study placed candidates in four categories: dissatisfied, satisfied, engaged and inspired. While engaged workers still performed admirably at 144 percent the rate of satisfied workers, inspired employees were 250 percent more productive than their satisfied counterparts. But what does it mean to be inspired in the workplace? Inspirational posters can only do so much and having Pop Tarts in the break room might be sending the wrong message....