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Why Apple’s iPhone SE Will Tank In India
Apple’s iPhone SE may be dead on arrival in Asia’s top emerging smartphone market, India. The launch of the lower-priced, smaller iPhone is Apple Inc’s bid to offer consumers a cheaper entry point to its signature device without sacrificing technological upgrades. It’s clearly a play for new Apple users or those still clinging to their iPhone 4s.

Why I’m Braking On My Business While I’m Building Good Momentum
Things are all moving in the right direction. So, why do I feel like pulling back the reigns?

‘Kirby: Planet Robobot’ Gets More Details On Its New Robotic Armor
One of the big additions to the upcoming Kirby: Planet Robobot is that Kirby can now pilot a delightfully small mecha. In a recent issue of Famitsu, we now have a lot more information on what Kirby?s mecha can do.

Is Nuclear Power A Renewable Or A Sustainable Energy Source?
Nuclear fuel made with uranium extracted from seawater will make nuclear power both renewable and sustainable. Because uranium extracted from seawater is replenished continuously, nuclear would become as endless as solar. Seawater concentrations of U are controlled by steady-state chemical reactions between waters and rocks on the Earth, both in the ocean and land. It is impossible for humans to extract enough U to lower the overall seawater concentrations of U faster than it is replenished. And new technologies of extracting U from seawater are fast becoming economic.

Capcom Asks Fans What They Want From The ‘Mega Man’ Series
In a new Japanese survey, Capcom is asking fans what they want next from the Mega Man series. With emphasis on what types of new games would be preferable.

You Don’t Have To Work In Tech To Be A Digital Nomad
If you?re interested in becoming a digital nomad, here are some jobs outside of the technology world that might fit your skills, passions, or desire to live a flexible lifestyle.

Machine Learning Could Be Google’s Secret Cloud Weapon
Google is making the machine learning it uses in everything from search to speech recognition, available for other companies to use, hoping it will supercharge its effort to gain on Amazon in cloud computing services.

10 Potentially Game Changing Wearable Technology Innovations
Earlier this month at the Wearable Technology Show in London developers showcased their new products and services designed to take advantage of today’s always-online society.

Apple iOS 9.3 Is Causing Serious iPad Problems

AMBER Health Sets Out To Be The Uber Of India’s Medical Emergency Response System
India?s emergency medical response system has long been criticized for being slow and unresponsive. While the public sector has not openly supported change within the system, the private sector is now yielding new technologies, such as AMBER Health – which has set out to change how Indians deal with emergency medical situation in an Uber-like fashion.

CIOs Are Prioritizing Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing And Security In 2016/2017 Budget Cycles
CIOs expect cloud consumption (private/public/hybrid) to rise from 31% consumption in 2014 to 58% in 2018. Public cloud adoption in predicted to attain the fastest growth rate, rising from 8% of consumption in 2014 to 19% in 2018. SaaS deployments are expected to increase from 33% of applications deployments today to 56% of deployments over the next five SaaS subscription spend is expected to be 15% greater than prior application software maintenance spend. Senior IT leaders predict that the percentage of IT consumption on their internal infrastructure will fall from 67% to 42% from 2104 to 2018 as cloud adoption accelerates.

What Has SXSW Become? Lil Wayne, Emerging Artists And Big Brands Describe The Puzzling State Of It
What exactly is South by Southwest today, nearly 30 years after it launched in 1987?

Beef Up Your Security By Revoking Unnecessary Third-Party Permissions
Is your Twitter account posting or direct messaging out spam? Getting inundated (or inadvertently sending) game requests on Facebook? Here’s what to do…

All I Want From Nintendo Is A Powerful Console With No Gimmicks And Great Games
Touchscreens, waggle, 3D, and dual screens don’t define Nintendo. It’s always been their incredibly charming and highly polished games. I don’t want another gimmick from the Big N. I just want a powerful console with great games.

Japan: What I Expected, What I Got
I’ve always wanted to visit the birthplace of my favorite TV show. When you build something up for that long, it can get twisted. You can develop expectations that will never be met.

Is The Era Of Social Media Analytics Coming To An End?
As social media shifts from shouting through a public megaphone to private conversations within walled gardens, is the era of social media analytics coming to an end?

Why Coca-Cola Works With Both Google And Its Rivals In The Cloud And Warns Not To Worry About Price
Coca-Cola’s CTO explains why Coke is moving almost its entire business to the cloud across three providers, and why it’s a bad idea to focus too much on price differences between Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

There’s A Psychological Reason Why People Don’t Want To Pay For Apps
Why are people willing to pay $4 for a bag of chips but not $1 for an app? This question was originally answered on Quora by Balaji Viswanathan.

6 Tips To Help You Avoid A ‘Near Miss’ In Security
Happy Near Miss Day! In 1989 an asteroid roughly the size of a mountain came within 500,000 miles of colliding with Earth. Geophysicists estimate that the impact of that asteroid—had it actually collided with Earth—would have released energy equivalent to the explosion of a 600-megaton nuclear bomb. Astronomers didn’t discover the asteroid—or evidence of how close the near miss was—until nine days after the asteroid has passed.

Mega Utility Deal Between Exelon and Pepco Gets Toughest Approval Yet
The bigger they are, the harder they are to get together. That’s what Exelon Corp. and Pepco Holdings discovered as they have tried to merge over the last two years. But on Wednesday, the two overcame the final regulatory hurdle. It’s a $6.8 billion dollar deal that gives Chicago-based Exelon a foothold in eastern markets it would not otherwise have: Washington, D.C., Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey. But it gives the powerhouse something else — a diversified energy portfolio, which will include income from regulated operations that will offset the losses it has suffered on its unregulated merchant nuclear plants. The deal had gotten the Okay from all prior regulators that include the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other state utility commissions. But the District of Columbia had been especially concerned about the impact the deal would have on low income residents and giving up local control to an out-of-state utility. At the same time, environmentalists said the deal was not green enough. To get it through, the utilities made concessions, essentially saying that they would freeze rates for about three years. The utilities have thus offered to put up about $25 million into a fund to give its customers rate relief and another $20 million into a fund that would allow the public service commission to make grid updates, or to use as it pleases.

Cisco TacOps Can Have A Network Established Within 72 Hours Of A Disaster
Before I created my technology industry analyst business, I worked over 20 years in F500 technology companies running products, strategy and marketing. As an employee and as a stint running corporate marketing, what became apparent was that there were companies who “pretended” to do CSR and those who manage it like a business. Cisco Systems’ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, as I wrote here, is impressive.  It is the most comprehensive CSR programs I’ve examined, aligned and prioritized to business goals, and is run like a business with real metrics and accountability.

Hashtag Smashtag — Pics And Posts Make Driving Doubly Distracting
Snapping photos and posting them to the Internet while driving can be a fatal distraction.

12 ‘Greenest’ Cars For 2016

From The Sweet 16 To The Final Four: How To Watch Online
If you’re stuck behind a computer at work or watch everything on their laptop or tablet, you aren’t limited to watching NCAA Tournament highlights. There are several ways to watch live games on the Internet.

‘Infinite Arms’ Smart Robot Toys Reinvent Video Game Upgrades
Infinite Arms is a new game-toy cross over from Jumo looking to age-up Skylanders, Disney Infinity and Lego Dimensions for a more avid gaming audience with a massively modular robot payload.

Should Alibaba Focus On Revenues Instead Of Transaction Volume?
In a recent blog post, Alibaba‘s Executive Vice Chairman Joe Tsai, stated that the company had crossed RMB 3 trillion (or $476 billion) in GMV (gross merchandise value) for the fiscal year 2016 (ending March 31, 2016), tripling its GMV of RMB 1 trillion in 2012. This represents a 23% growth rate over the prior year, a rate that was slower than the 46% growth rate in GMV generated in fiscal year 2015. The company expects to double its GMV in the next four years and reach RMB 6 trillion by 2020, (a CAGR of 19%) as the Chinese economy shifts towards consumption and services. According to our estimates, Alibaba’s marketing revenue is less than 2% of its GMV and commissions are less than 3% of Tmall’s GMV. Thus the company’s revenues are a very small percentage of its gross merchandise value. Given the slowing growth in transaction volume, we believe the company should now focus on increasing revenues as a percentage of GMV. It can leverage its e-commerce ecosystem which delivers marketing, brand engagement and customer acquisition value to merchants and brands.

Liveblogging Destiny’s April Update Reveal Stream
Bungie is revealing Destiny’s newest content update today on a livestream. Follow along with our liveblog here which was analyze the announcements as they come.

Meet The Apple iPhone SE

5 Reasons To Buy The iPhone SE
Are these reasons good enough to buy the iPhone SE?

Paul Allen’s Plan To Pour $100M Into ‘Out-Of-The-Box’ Biotech Research
The new Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, backed by $100 million from the Microsoft co-founder, will provide vital funding to scientists with out-there ideas for solving medical problems.

Why iPhone SE Is The Perfect Size, Not Too Small
Apple designed its new 4-inch phone for one thumb, but you should use both hands.

Closeups Of The Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA’s Dawn Probe Solves Dwarf Planet Ceres’ Multiple Mysteries
Mysterious white spots, polar caps and even, quite possibly, water make an appearance on this bizarre world!

How Much Of An Impact Will The iPhone SE Have On Apple’s Financials?
Apple hosted its much anticipated product event in Cupertino earlier this week, where it unveiled a new 4-inch smartphone, the iPhone SE. The device’s $400 starting price – which is the lowest ever launch price for an Apple handset – indicates that it is targeted largely at emerging markets where smartphone penetration is still relatively low and market growth is expected to be significant.

What’s Behind Warby Parker’s Success?
The art of building a brand

It Might Cost The FBI Just $1,500 To Get Into Terrorist’s iPhone
FORBES discovers Israeli firm Cellebrite can crack open iPhones for just $1,500. According to reports, Cellebrite has been contracted by the FBI to break into San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone 5C.

Apple TVOS 9.2 Review: No Fix For Apple TV’s Damaging Identity Crisis
Welcome tinkering perhaps, but fundamental issues remain.

America’s Best Midsize Employers 2016

Pay it Forward: Role Models Show the Way for Inclusive Workplaces
Earlier this year Pinterest and Twitter hired their first executives to lead their respective diversity efforts. Many tech companies are embracing such an approach and, as more do so, it’s going to create a significant shift – and not just symbolically.

Is The High Cost Of Drugs To Offset R&D Expenses Justified?
Is the high cost of drugs to offset R&D costs justified? This question was originally answered on Quora by Christopher VanLang.

‘Destiny’s’ April Update Looks Like Barely Enough To Get Me Playing Again
Bungie began rolling out the new stuff coming for Destiny’s April update today with a livestream it called “things to do –” which sure seems to me like the main meat of what we all wanted to know. There’s a new strike which we don’t have a lot of information about yet, as well as a Taken remix of the Archon Priest strike. The Prison of Elders is clearly where we’re meant to spend our time for the next three months: it’s getting a new level 41 edition, along with a mashup with Trials of Osiris called Challenge of The Elders. That all comes with an increase in the max light level all the way to 335, enough to get us all running on that treadmill just a little bit further.

As Opening Day Looms, Concessions Made By TWC To Get Dodgers Games On Wider TV Distribution
Time Warner Cable has lowered the cost to pay-TV carriers of Dodgers games in the hopes of gaining wider distribution to the Los Angeles area. Here’s the details and why it may be too late to make it happen by Opening Day 2016.

More Leaked Photos Of Nintendo NX’s Alleged Controllers Raise More Concerns
We’ve yet to hear any official word on the Nintendo NX, but the leaks and rumors are starting to come in. There must be devkits out in the wild, after all, and you can only keep so tight a seal on that sort of thing. A few more photos of what people are claiming to be the controller just showed up on reddit, echoing some of

The World’s Richest Tech Billionaires 2016

2016 Midas List: The Top 10

2016 Midas Newcomers

2016 Billionaires of Midas

The Top 10 Venture Capital Investors In The World: Midas List 2016
Jim Goetz’ once-in-a-lifetime bet on WhatsApp keeps him atop the 2016 Midas List. But a new crop of top tech investors with their own signature deals are hot on his heels. Here are the top 10 investors and firms in tech for 2016.

2016 Midas Hall Of Fame

Seat Of Power: Tesla And SpaceX Investor Steve Jurvetson
A look at how venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson has turned his office into a space museum.

Who’s Been On The Midas List More Than Anyone?
The Midas Hall of Fame recognizes tech investors who have been on the list of the top 100 VCs for at least 10 years.

How Instagram’s First Investor Steve Anderson Struck Gold As A One-Man Deal Machine
Steve Anderson paints his toenails blue and works alone out of a former children’s photo studio. He’s also the second-best venture capitalist in the world.

2016 Midas Newcomers: The Latest VCs To Strike Gold In Tech
As it has over the past several years, the 2016 Midas List showed that the world of top tech investors remains small, with only 11 new names to appear on the List. This continued trend of fewer new names in the top 100 – which fell from 19 in 2014 to 15 last year – reflects a persistence of returns and increasing concentration of capital and deal flow within the best-performing, most reputable VC firms. This year’s debut class of investors comes from a mix of top Asia-focused firms, seed funds, as well as graduates from the Midas Brink List, and also includes the backers of some of 2015’s most explosive deals in e-commerce, mobile games, and other consumer tech.

The Top 10 Companies Driving The 2016 Midas List
Each year, the Midas List recognizes the top venture capitalists making the biggest, earliest bets in the best tech startups of tomorrow. But what about the companies themselves? What makes one VC investment “better” than another, according to the Midas metrics?

The 2016 Midas Brink List
For six years and counting, TrueBridge has collaborated with Forbes to identify the top tech dealmakers from all niches within the venture capital industry and across all corners of the globe. In addition, each year we shine the spotlight on a handful of investors who are quickly rising in the VC and tech worlds.

Women Of Midas 2016

Meet The Women On The 2016 Midas List
Who are the women VCs who nabbed spots in FORBES annual ranking of the world’s top venture capitalists?

Report: Nintendo Is Shutting Down Wii U Production
That the Wii U hasn’t been everything that Nintendo hoped is as old news as the fact that the venerable Japanese gaming company is moving on towards its next home console, currently codenamed NX. But that transition might be a little more complete than we were thinking: according to a report in respected Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Nintendo will be shutting down production on the Wii U by the end of 2016. Nintendo responded with what looks like a denial:

Sea World Settles On An Alternative To Killer-Whale Shows
Giving in to animal rights activists, Sea World has agreed not to force killer whales to perform tricks anymore. Here’s what they’re doing instead.

Batman v Superman: Review
“Batman v Superman” is fun and visually stunning but they cram too much story into too little time. Forbes contributor Todd Kenreck reviews the film.

Am I The Only One Excited For ‘Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice?’
I’ve noticed something odd in the weeks and months leading up to the release of Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. My corners of the Internet — English speaking, video game playing, geek-inclined– are usually pretty excitable. And yet they seem to approaching the release of one of the biggest superhero movies of the year with one giant meh. Disdain at best. Maybe I’m crazy, but I get the feeling I’m one of the only people around actually excited for Batman v Superman.

‘Fallout 4’ Automatron DLC Review: Rage Against the Mechanist
Fallout 4’s Automatron DLC is a pleasant surprise, but you may lack the ability to build the baddest robots if you built your character the wrong way in the original game.

‘Batman V Superman’: When Good Goes Bad
Batman V Superman is nothing if not ambitious, sometimes that ambition gets the better of it.

Xbox Kinect Tech Harnessed To Monitor Cystic Fibrosis, Other Lung Diseases
Researchers in the United Kingdom have rigged a gaming console to help assess patients with cystic fibrosis and other respiratory conditions.

Citigroup Investors Could Gain 60 Percent In A Breakup
Citigroup could be worth up to 60 percent more if it sold off its international consumer business and divided into consumer and corporate banks.

U.S. Nuclear Energy Industry Has A Clean Bill Of Health And Says Its Plants Deserve A Life Extension
Just five years ago, the world watched astonishingly as a massive tsunami knocked out the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power units in Japan. For many, the events of March 11, 2011 became the nail in nuclear energy’s coffin. For others, though, it would strengthen their resolve to perfect the carbon-free, reliable fuel source.

Meet The Apple iPhone SE

Galaxy S7 Vs iPhone 6S Review: Which Is Best?

Apple iOS 9.3 Has A Nasty Surprise
iOS 9.3 has given many iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners an unpleasant surprise…

iPad Pro 9.7 Vs iPad Pro 12.9: What’s The Difference?
The iPad Pro 12.9-inch and iPad Pro 9.7-inch have many important differences…

Despite Disney’s Best Efforts, ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Blu-ray Leaks Online
More than a quarter of a million people have downloaded a torrent version of Star Wars: The Force Awakens over the last two days.

Would You Actually Devote An Entire Room To VR?
Immersive, room-engulfing VR is almost here. But would actually devote an entire room to your VR play space?

Inside Apple’s New iPhone SE: Is The iPhone 6 Obsolete?
Soes the iPhone SE bury the iPhone 6 while getting uncomfortably close to the 6s?

The Rise Of Digital Consultancies        
The consulting world is undergoing a shift. Over the last four years, consulting firms have been rapidly launching new digital consulting divisions. What started off as an infatuation with product design and more engaging web interfaces has become a full blown movement towards digitalization.

India Most Exposed To Natural Hazards
The number of people facing significant threats from natural hazards is greatest in South Asia, with earthquakes, flooding and severe storms the main perils, while those in sub Saharan africa are the most vulnerable to them and will have the hardest time recovering because of political instability, corruption and availability of infrastructure and resources to rebuild.

What Everyone Should Know About Cognitive Computing
Artificial intelligence has been a far-flung goal of computing since the conception of the computer, but we may be getting closer than ever with new cognitive computing models.

Google To Challenge Amazon, Microsoft In Cloud Computing War
Google will attempt to show how it aims to scramble into cloud contention at its first global cloud users conference, NEXT, starting today in San Francisco.

Creative iRoar: Feature-Packed Speaker With Blistering Sound
The Creative iRoar has the ability to floor listeners with the sound it pumps out of such a small package. This CES 2016 Innovation Award honoree Bluetooth speaker takes things to an entire new level with high end features like Optical audio input and 20-hour battery life. Then you realize it offers virtually endless customization options, including apps, accessories and even a software development kit.

What It Means If CERN Discovers A New Particle
As hints of a new particle emerge at CERN, it’s time to consider that we might discover our first particle beyond the Standard Model.

Nintendo Stock Jumps Up 8% Since Launch Of ‘Miitomo’
Following the recent launch of Miitomo and its subsequent success, Nintendo’s stock has jumped by 8%.

Daredevil Season 2: Review
Daredevil has all the elements of a great show, but the secondary characters keep dragging it down. Forbes contributor Todd Kenreck reviews the second season.

Hurry! PlayStation VR Preorder Is Live And Running Out Fast
Preorders for PlayStation VR bundles priced $499 went live Tuesday morning — some outlets are sold out, but you might be able to get yours, if you act fast.

Beatie Wolfe Celebrates The Power Of Music To Reach And Reanimate Even The Most Disconnected Of Us
Beatie Wolfe is an artist, technologist, and music health innovator. In part one of their conversation, Ms. Wolfe and George Howard discuss the concept of Art with a capital “A,” and how Ms. Wolfe – via her varied work – demonstrates how artists are social entrepreneurs.

PlayStation VR Headset Pre-Orders for $399 Go Live March 29th
If you missed the PlayStation VR Launch Bundle pre-order, all is not lost! The PlayStation VR headset is priced at $399 and pre-orders will go live 10 a.m. ET on March 29th.

The Science Behind The Colors We See
Does the color of an object come from the element it’s made of? This question was originally answered on Quora by Inna Vishik.

FDA Approved 3D Printed Drug Available In The US
The first FDA approved 3D drug to treat epilepsy is now officially available in the US today.

How To Start ‘Fallout 4’s’ ‘Automatron’ DLC
There can be an odd moment when you download any piece of DLC that’s not activated from the main menu. You buy it, you install it, and then you go into the game. But how to actually access the new content? For Fallout 4’s Automatron DLC, it’s pretty straightforward.

Andy Grove: A Personal Remembrance
Andy Grove, longtime

My First Night In Tokyo
Lifelong Japanophile Lauren Orsini shares her first impressions.

Follow The Customer Thread To Flip The Customer Business Perspective
Digital media and e-commerce companies are keen to have a deeper understanding of customers by gaining easy access to every customer interaction, at the lowest detail, pieced together for each individual. That’s the highly valued “customer thread.”

‘Daredevil’ Season 2 Review: Great Heroes, Terrible Sidekicks
Marvel and Netflix’s Daredevil season 2 has astonishingly beautiful stunt work, remarkable cinematography and one incredibly bad character holding it all down.

The Hottest On-Demand Startups Of 2015

What It’s Like To Raise $127 Million As Silicon Valley’s Bubble Bursts
Inside the Series C funding round for food delivery startup DoorDash.

8 Digital Trends Driving The Transformation Of Sports
Digital technologies, particularly big data and the Internet of Things, are transforming sports. Data analytics make it possible for sports organizations to analyze immense varieties of data, while IoT technology enables teams to collect data transmitted from myriad network-connected devices.

Domo Launches ‘Business Cloud,’ Makes Its Product Free And Raises $130 Million To Invest In Startups
Domo CEO Josh James says his company’s move Tuesday to a freemium model and new app ecosystem are the result of a big five-year reveal while announcing $130 million in new funding. But is his big reveal just deja vu?

Bioprospecting For Novel Antibiotic Drugs With The Leafcutter Ant
What can we learn about bacteria and antibiotics from the South American leafcutter ant? Plenty. Scientists from the University of East Anglia say the bacteria growing on leafcutter ants are a rich source of novel chemical diversity.

Social Media’s Biggest Turn Offs

Startup Hiring: What To Do When A New Hire Has Questionable Content On Social Media
The first thing on everyone’s mind is “What does it have to do with you?” Many would agree that what an employee does at home is nothing to do with an employer. But suspicious content on social media can tell you a lot about a candidate, such as how reliable they are and whether their resume is telling the truth.

New WWE Super Tokens Come to SuperCard for Limited Time
GameStop and 2K Sports have partnered to produce and distribute new limited edition WWE SuperTokens for use with the mobile card-fighting game WWE SuperCard from 2K. The tokens are now available exclusively at GameStop locations throughout the world, per a joint news release from Gamestop and 2K.

‘Chronos’ Looks Like A Fantastic Action RPG, So Why Is It A VR Exclusive?
Chronos has a great stable of developers behind it, and looks like an awesome action RPG suitable for any platform. So why is it a VR exclusive?