MUST READ: How Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest Hook Users
Type the name of almost any successful consumer web company into your search bar and add the word “addict” after it. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Try “Facebook addict” or “Twitter addict” or even “Pinterest addict,” and you’ll soon get a slew of results from hooked users and observers deriding the narcotic-like properties of these […]
How valuable will humans be in the workplaces of the future?
Work is not what it used to be. The very concept of work has evolved considerably over the centuries, as newer technologies have become integrated into how we function individually as well as a society. In engineering, work is defined as the product of force and distance. Early machines amplified force and turbocharged human productivity, […]
Internet of Everything: The IoT Market Is Projected to Expand 12x from 2017–2023
The exponential proliferation of IoT and how it may impact our future The $195 Billion IoT Market The proliferation and ‘smartening’ of IoT-driven devices is projected to reach a market cap exceeding $195 billion in 2023, according to analysts at ReportsnReports. From a market of $16 billion in 2016, this growth is mainly fueled by the increasingly ubiquitous […]
Hands On With Google’s ARCore
Google’s ARCore will let Android phones experience augmented reality. We took it for a spin. By Sascha Segan Google’s new ARCore software developer’s kit, announced today, makes augmented reality on Android much more widely available. AR is potentially a much bigger deal than virtual reality, because it mixes virtual objects into real spaces on a screen. You […]
600 Free Online Programming & Computer Science Courses You Can Start in January
Six years ago, universities like MIT and Stanford first opened up free online courses to the public. Today, more than 700 schools around the world have created thousands of free online courses. I’ve compiled this list of over 600 such free online courses that you can start this month. For this, I leveraged Class Central’s database […]
How to Sign up for Coursera Courses for Free
One question I get asked all the time here at Class Central is: are Coursera courses really free? Coursera’s user interface is intentionally designed to push learners towards Coursera’s paid offerings. It often confuses new learners regarding what content is actually free on the platform, and how to go about signing up for it. Since I’ve answered this […]
How to Recruit Investors for Your Startup
Successfully convincing investors to fund your startup is not easy. Although certain recent developments in the startup world have removed barriers to securing funding, it nevertheless remains true that new businesses often face significant difficulties when trying to recruit investors. Atthe same time, the success of the Airbnbs, Facebooks, Googles, Twitters, and Ubers of the world […]
The Maiden Abeokuta Technology Innovation Roundtable #ATIR17 holds on Saturday, 2nd December, 2017
The Online Hub Educational Services {aka @OnlineHubNG — www.onlinehubng.com} has expanded in scope and subject matter to hold the 1st Abeokuta Technology Innovation Roundtable for Tech Entrepreneurs with the theme, “Safe Online: Fundamentals of Digital and Social Media Security”. Abeokuta Technology Innovation Roundtable #ATIR17 is a convergence of awesome techpreneurs with straight-to-the-point talks focusing on […]
How virtual reality can make you better, smarter and fitter
Technologists have been predicting the widespread adoption of virtual reality (VR) for several decades now, but recent improvements in the technology and a drop in the retail cost of headsets have begun to move us towards a genuine tipping point. Investors, venture capitalists and tech enthusiasts are placing big bets on VR as one of […]
Africa’s digital revolution: a look at the technologies, trends and people driving it
This article is part of the World Economic Forum on Africa We are at the dawn of a technological revolution that will change almost every part of our lives – jobs, relationships, economies, industries and entire regions. It promises to be, as Professor Klaus Schwab has written, “a transformation unlike anything humankind has experienced before”. In no […]