Marketers have long known that the voice of the average person can be a powerful thing. But if 2020 had a textbook case, it might well be a man known to millions of viewers only as Marcell H. Marcell is one of 55 million Americans that the Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies as a gig…Read More
When my team and I ditched our office and transitioned to a freelance-only remote team in 2015, there wasn’t much in the way of a guideline for us to follow. We had launched the previous year with a conventional setup. The company consisted of a small team of full time employees in a pokey office in Shoreditch, London. The core team worked 9 to 6, five days a week and we occasionally reached out to friends of ours who were freelancers to fill skill gaps. Like most startups, we were learning as we went along but the decision to radically…
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Martian colonies of the future will require vast quantities of food, but bringing an endless stream of foodstuffs from Earth would be costly and dangerous. The best answer to this conundrum is to grow food in greenhouse, specially constructed for that purpose. However, such a system would likely require large quantities of topsoil as a growing medium for the plants (water to supply a hydroponic system would probably be in short supply). University of Georgia (UGA) researchers developed a series of artificial soil mixtures mimicking the topsoil of Mars. These substitute samples of Martian regolith were composed of mixtures of…
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WhatsApp is finally rolling out ephemeral messages, the ones that’ll disappear after a fixed amount of time. There’s a catch though. Your disappearing messages will last for seven days on the chat. “Our goal is to make conversations on WhatsApp feel as close to in-person as possible, which means they shouldn’t have to stick around forever. That’s why we’re excited to introduce the option to use disappearing messages on WhatsApp,” the Facebook-owned chat app said in a statement. WhatsApp has been experimenting with this feature in the app’s code for a while now. However, as WABetaInfo has noted, these tests…
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Before we make a decision, we wonder about our dreams, our stories and our needs. Some of the things we wonder about, even if we don’t verbalize them to ourselves:
What will I tell my friends?
What will I tell my boss?
What is everyone else doing?
Will this make me feel dumb?
Is this good for me right now?
Does it help my family?
Is it scarce?
Does it raise my status?
Will this help me be part of a group I care about?
Would my mom be proud of me?
Will I get blamed?
Is there a shortcut?
Is it safe?
Is it thrilling?
How will I feel if they run out?
Will it make the pain go away?
Is it forbidden?
[And then, maybe, if we’ve got many choices, “how much does it cost?”]
This message will self-destruct in seven days–but only if WhatsApp users want it to. The Facebook-owned messaging application Thursday added the option of disappearing messages, which, when turned on, means that new messages to chats will be removed in seven days. Each participant in one-on-one chats has the choice of turning disappearing messages on or…Read More
Apple announced the iPhone 12 series last month. And before all of them are available to consumers, we are hearing rumors about Samsung‘s upcoming flagship launch — the Galaxy S21. According to tipster Jon Prosser, the Korean tech giant will launch its next flagship as early as January 14 next year. This is the earliest the company will launch its S-series of phones, given that the usual timeframe for the unveiling in February or March. Reports suggest that despite Apple revealing four iPhones, Samsung will stick to three phones — the Galaxy S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra. Plus, thanks to…
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DJI today announced the Mini 2, a small but significant upgrade to the company’s littlest drone model. (You read that right, by the way. The new model is called the Mini 2, not the Mavic Mini 2). As with the original Mavic Mini, the Mavic 2 is light enough that it doesn’t need to be registered with the FAA in the US — it’s 249 grams, just 1 gram under the requirement. The biggest improvement this time around is that rather than connecting via Wi-Fi, which could lead to unstable connections over large distances, the drone uses DJI’s much more…
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The uncertainty about the final outcome of the race for the White House is a temporary situation. But the condition that resulted in delayed and confused results may have a more lasting impact on what advertising, media, marketing and technology businesses face over the next four years.While Republican and Democratic partisans dig in until the…Read More
Earlier this week, popular streamer Imane “Pokimane” Anys announced she’d put a $5 donation cap on her stream donations. In an on-site economy that frequently sees massive donations thrown around, it’s a bold move — and it’s likely to have a knock-on effect for other streamers. worked with @streamlabs to create a donation cap of $5 for my channel! Thank you for supporting me to the point where I consider anything more than that unnecessary. To anyone that was more generous- please support growing channels, charities, and treat yourselves.❤️😊 pic.twitter.com/QhrusbDFxD — pokimane (@pokimanelol) November 2, 2020 Twitch streamers have several…
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