Handling Intensive Tasks with Laravel
Toptal When dealing with time consuming, resource intensive tasks, most PHP developers are tempted to choose the “quick hack route”.…
IDG Contributor Network: TeleSign rolls out new (behavior) biometrics tech
Increasingly, individuals and companies have critical data on their devices and look to their device and service vendors to keep…
IDG Contributor Network: Persado scoops up cash to crucify the creative process; Shakespeare spins in his grave
News this morning that Persado has closed a $30 million Series C funding round. Usually I’m not overly interested in…
Oppo brings the selfie-focused F1 Plus to international markets
The new Oppo F1 Plus targets style-conscious customers with a taste for stylish self-portraits. A rebranded version of Oppo R9,…
Report: 60% of smartphone users are dissatisfied and ready to switch carriers
This may not come as any particular surprise to many of you – after all, more than half of you…
Don’t let embarrassment about a data breach cost you even more
Nobody likes to be embarrassed. That goes for company executives. This fact of human nature helps explain why the breach-disclosure…
Facebook takes a guess at what's in pictures to help visually impaired
With images an ever-growing proportion of what we share on social networks, Facebook fears that users with visual impairments may…
This startup uses math to show whether your network is safe
How do you know your network is safe from attacks and failures? Veriflow, a startup with backing from the U.S.…
AMD's 7th Generation laptop chips will take on Intel's Skylake
AMD hopes to provide stiffer competition to Intel’s Skylake with its new “7th Generation” processor for laptops and desktops. The…
Laptops, tablets could pack more DDR4 memory with Samsung breakthrough
Samsung wants to cram faster and more power-efficient DDR4 DRAM in laptops and hybrids with new memory chips it introduced…