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Here’s how male (and white) VC firms are

Jan25
by on January 25, 2019 at 4:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Venture capitalists (VCs) are a key part of the technology ecosystem. They’re the ones with the money that helps a small company to grow into a larger one. This is why it’s such a massive problem that the industry is so overwhelmingly male and white. When this demographic makeup exists, you generally get individuals at VC firms investing in companies that cater towards white males. Marketing towards this demographic isn’t a bad thing in itself, it only becomes that when every other group is ignored in their favor. Basically, it’s bad business. Not only are huge swathes of the population…

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Brexit, Northern Ireland, and the return of extortionate roaming charges

Jan25
by on January 25, 2019 at 4:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, UK


Brexit is infinitely complicated, but it starts to make sense when you think about it as someone reinstalling a computer’s operating system from scratch. All the existing programs and files (or in the case of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, trade deals and international agreements) are gone. In 2016, 52 percent of British voters chose to reinstall Windows. Tabula rasa. A casualty of this is the UK’s membership in the EU Digital Single Market, which permits fee-free roaming across all the EU’s member nations. After 11PM on March 29, 2019, Britain will no longer be party to this agreement.…

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Ballsy mobile devs can now monetize their games with cryptocurrency

Jan25
by on January 25, 2019 at 3:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A new software development kit (SDK) for Unity has been released, allowing indie developers to monetize their mobile games from top-to-bottom with KIN cryptocurrency. As of today, mobile games made with the Unity engine can support earning, spending, and tipping KIN in-game, and even reward users with cryptocurrency for interacting with each other. Players can be given cryptocurrency for participating in groups, or helping other players. Devs will even be able to sell their users extra lives for KIN. There is also functionality for studios to purchase additional cryptocurrency to inject into their in-game economies to support growth. CryptoKitties 2:…

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Everybody hates cybersecurity professionals

Jan25
by on January 25, 2019 at 1:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


What’s the worst job you’ve ever had? I’ll start. When I was 20, I spent six long months working as a Sharepoint developer for a massive UK-wide charity. Our team was small and horrendously overstretched, and I often helped out with helpdesk calls, where I’d inevitably spend much of my time explaining our stringent password requirements to disgruntled non-technical staff. That wasn’t fun, but at least I could say I was merely following orders. I didn’t come up with the rules. Unfortunately, top-level information security professionals don’t get the luxury of passing the buck as I did. Good cop, bad…

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