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Perhaps 2018 was the fabled ‘year of the Linux desktop’

Dec26
by on December 26, 2018 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev


It’s the year of the Linux desktop. I swear. I promise. Yes, I know you’re probably jaded from hearing that every year since 1998, but this year it’s true. Would I lie to you? But first, a throat-clearing: I’m not talking about desktop dominance. I’m talking about something far more meaningful. For the first time, perhaps ever, Linux is being regarded as a first-class citizen. It’s been a good year. Cross-platform app frameworks like GitHub’s Electron means that Linux users get to use the same applications as their Windows and MacOS counterparts. Meanwhile, in 2018, we’ve seen a flood of…

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End of year crypto roundup: How did Ripple perform in 2018?

Dec26
by on December 26, 2018 at 10:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork, The next generation of money management


If anyone said that banks and cryptocurrencies are natural enemies and can never work together — Ripple was out there to prove them wrong! Unlike Bitcoin — which is aimed at performing like regular currencies and be used to pay for goods and services  — Ripple is a real-time payment settling and remittance system for banks and other payment networks. The network is supposed to better traditional financial models in place like SWIFT and allow institutions to make near-instant secure international transactions with very little costs. Unlike other blockchain networks which value their own native currency as the asset being transferred, Ripple…

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TNW’s top 11 women making waves in STEM from 2018

Dec26
by on December 26, 2018 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion


You’ve heard it a million times before — in the science, technology, engineering, and math industries, women are still grossly underrepresented. Currently, women are only nine percent of IT leaders around the world. The figure has barely changed in the past few years despite one third of organizations claiming to have implemented diversity initiatives. Women make up only 24 percent of computer science jobs — a decline from 37 percent in 1995 — and make up just 11 percent of executive positions in Silicon Valley. While this problem isn’t being fixed fast enough, the following women in STEM are stepping up by tackling the…

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