GoPro already conquered the video camera market, and now it’s diving into virtual reality.
Source: www.money.cnn.com
GoPro’s CEO Gives an Intriguing Answer to Why His Company Is the Leading Tech in the Video Space
What Akon Is Doing to Change the Course of Energy Needs in Africa Is Truly Amazing
At the United Nations Sustainable Energy for All Forum on May 21, R&B star Akon announced the creation of a “solar academy” in Mali, adding job training to his company’s work bringing solar power to rural communities around the continent.
Source: Andrew Revkin
5 Notable Signs You Are Addicted to Gaming
You Ensure Access to Your Games on Every Device
Every gamer has to have a contingency plan. Just as I’m sure you won’t catch Bear Grylls in the middle of a jungle without a camera crew to film all his awesomeness as he eats bugs in the name of survival, so too will you never catch a real gamer without access to a compendium of games. Visiting Grandma this weekend and have a six-hour car ride ahead of you? Betta’ have that emulator installed on the Android. Ain’t no way you’ll catch me trapped anywhere tryin’ to deal with my inner thoughts and welling up with depressing emotion cause I don’t have access to at least one game that’s gettin’ the treatment right about then. Real gamers do whatever they have to not only to have access to gaming greatness to pass the time that usually is used for self-loathing by lesser people of the world, but also game saves. You’d better invest in that $10 a month for 1TB of cloud storage from Dropbox and sync those game saves because the only thing worse than not having access to your gaming library at any given point, is not having access to your last save point and being forced to start all over after you’ve already gotten into the swing of a game.
5 Interesting Reasons People Give for Hating Educated Black People
There are some stigmas educated Black people have to deal with that other educated groups don’t. You can’t speak proper English or wear clothing outside of hip-hop styles without being labeled as trying to be white. Most people should know that white people don’t have a monopoly on education, intelligence or class.
Name Assimilation
When people of color have children, they have to decide whether to give their child a name that is stereotypically white or a name representative of their culture and people. “Creative naming has reached every race and class, but it is largely and profoundly the legacy of African-Americans,” writes Eliza Dinwiddie-Boyd in her baby-naming book “Proud Heritage.” However, there are issues with this. In the documentary Freakonomics, economist Steven Levitt put it to the test. People with white-sounding names got more callbacks from future employers than Latinos and African-Americans with non-white names. The facts are clear: racism and prejudice are real. Parents have every right to give their children whatever name they choose, but the world isn’t always an accepting place. Hopefully, one day no one will be judged based on their name, but that day has yet to come.
Can This New Initiative Spark the Next Generation of Black Male Entrepreneurs?
The U.S. Black Chambers Inc. has launched an initiative to nurture the next generation of young Black male entrepreneurs, with a focus on closing the economic gap and providing positive role models in the community.
On Tuesday, Howard Jean, chief engineer of Young Black Male Entrepreneur Institute; Keith Benjamin, chief organizer/connector of Young Black Male Entrepreneur Institute, and Ben Carter, CEO of Manager Your Damn Money and former participant in the institute, joined Roland Martin on NewsOne Now to talk about the initiative aimed at developing new Black male entrepreneurs.
Source: www.newsone.com
This Just Might Be the ‘Safest Bike Ever’ Devised, But Will It See Commercial Success?
A British inventor says his Babel bike is the safest bicycle ever produced. Crispin Sinclair — son of famous British inventor Sir Clive Sinclair — hopes the bike’s safety cage, double seatbelt, and host of other measures will inspire non-cyclists to get in the saddle. Jim Drury went to see it in action.
Eggplants Are Officially Too Naughty for Instagram’s Emoji Search
As Instagram rolls out its new emoji hashtag search feature, the social media giant is still trying to keep its users minds out the gutter by disabling a search for the eggplant emoji.
And we ALL know why.
The powers of Black Twitter are mysterious ones. The digital community’s hearty blend of activism and comedy has never failed to capture the attention of many and redefine the parameters of communication forever — especially when it comes to the way we all view the once innocent eggplant.
A rather naughty trend of men posting pictures on Twitter and Instagram wearing the type of pants or boxers that flaunted their “eggplants” forever banished the purple fruit into the land of naughty, sexual innuendo.
For that reason, Instagram users won’t be allowed to search for the eggplant hashtag with Instagram’s new emoji search feature.
Of course, it’s likely that other emojis that are now popular for their sexual innuendo will still give users their share of naughty photos — like the peach, banana, corn cob, tongue-out smiley and water squirt emojis.
Even the peeping eyeballs emoji will likely start giving users some interesting results.
But out of all of these emojis, the eggplant was certainly the most commonly used for solely sexually explicit purposes so it’s no surprise it’s the only one being blocked from the search.
Some users have expressed confusion, however, over the fact that a lot of seemingly violent emojis haven’t been blocked such as the creepy chef’s knife along with the bomb, gun and bloody syringe.
In all fairness, these emojis haven’t been linked to a lot of violent posts in the past and aren’t often used in a way that directly references their use as weapons.
Yes, the language of emoji is just weird like that.
Eggplants are vulgar, and bombs usually have nothing to do with actual explosives.
Won’t be long before courts are bringing in emoji experts to decode social media messages for evidence.
EBay’s Small Bump in Diversity Marks a Long Road Ahead in Tech
When pressure was placed on tech giants to diversify overwhelmingly white, male staffs, eBay promised to step up to the plate. That was back in 2014.
A year later, eBay’s diversity report reveals an increase in diversity, but it’s the type of incredibly underwhelming change that could serve as a serious warning sign in the world of tech.
After making a strong commitment to improve diversity within its company, eBay only managed to bump the number of female employees and Black employees up by 1 percentage point.
Some publications insist this is a sign that increasing diversity in tech will be a much longer process than anyone could have imagined.
“The modest change underscores that, even with a strong commitment from top management, it will take some time to change the makeup of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies, which are largely white and male,” USA Today reports.
But is that really the end of the story?
EBay couldn’t do it so nobody can? We should all expect to see diversity increase at such a painfully slow pace?
While nobody is expecting a diversity fairy to have Black employees randomly popping up in the boardrooms of major tech giants, a 1-percentage point increase is beyond underwhelming — it’s disappointing and suspicious.
It begs the question if tech giants are truly doing all they can to really make a difference in the makeup of their companies or are they throwing out hefty donations to random causes in hopes that the lack of diversity in their staffs is a problem that will correct itself over time.
Either way, eBay is hoping to continue its push toward diversity even as it officially breaks into two different companies — eBay and its payment division of PayPal.
“As eBay and PayPal separate into two independent companies during 2015, both plan to provide data updates for 2016 to give each of them a full year to collect diversity data,” spokesperson Abby Smith told USA Today. “It’s important though that each company has a full year of data. We will give each company some time to chart its course, so the next time we’ll report (diversity) findings is for 2016.”
Other tech giants like Google, Twitter, Apple and Facebook also fell under harsh scrutiny after their own reports pulled back the curtain on their own struggles with diversity with their staffs.
It’s unclear so far if the other tech giants have seen substantial improvements on diversity with their staffs.
8 Major Athletes Who Are Also Huge Blerds
Tim Duncan
The San Antonio Spurs star may be one of the biggest Blerds on the list with a professed love for the iconic nerd game Dungeons and Dragons. To take things up a notch, he is also a frequent visitor at Renaissance fairs.
Chris Bosh
The Miami Heat baller is a huge tech lover and advocates for everyone to learn how to code. Back in 2013, he even revealed that one of his dreams off the court would be to “teach kids about coding because the possible applications are fascinating, and it’s really quite simple when you think of it.”
These Innovators Have Cut the Old-School Bike in Half, and the Result Is Mind-Blowingly Fun
Source: halfbikes.com