There’s no time like the present to grow or refine ourselves a little bit more, and few resources are as helpful as TED talks. In that vein, here are the top 10 TED talks we’ve featured on Lifehacker or that have been popular on TED.
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In a recent interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that the company’s current smartphone market share is “unsustainable.” He, however, argued that their aim is to create a world where a device is of lesser importance compared to the services it can access.
“I think we do ourselves a disservice if we measure our success by just looking at: What’s the market share of HoloLens? What’s the market share of Xbox? What’s the market share of PCs? What’s the market share of our phones?” he said.
“If you think of this more like a graph, these [devices] are all nodes. Sometimes the user will use all of these devices . sometimes they’ll use only one or two of our devices and some other platforms — so be it. But we want to make sure that we are completing the experience across all of these devices.”
It’s worth mentioning that market research firm Gartner in its latest report had revealed a Windows Phone market share of just 1.7%, down nearly 50% compared to Q3 2014.
Nadella also touched on many other topics in the interview – to access the full report, head to the Via link…
A group that says it targets online activity linked to so-called Islamic State claims it was behind an attack on the BBC’s website. – Source
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, which aired Friday, Jan. 1, in the U.S. and U.K.
Friday night’s Sherlock special has been a long time coming for fans of the high functioning sociopath. Two whole years to be exact. But the time has come; Sherlock Holmes has returned to our screens, if only for a night
The special begins in the late 1800s: Watson has returned from the second Afghan war where he has been working as an army doctor and is in need of a place to stay. Holmes and Watson are introduced by a mutual friend in the morgue — sound familiar? This initial introduction plays out almost identically to what we saw way back in 2010 in Season 1, Episode 1 …
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A resolution submitted by an investor who lives in New York and London would require Apple to put more “people of colour” in high-profile roles to increase diversity. Apple has tried to block this step.
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Zoo celebrated the 45th birthday of the oldest black rhinoceros in North America with a special cake of rolled oats and molasses.
The exact date of Elly’s birth isn’t known, as she was born in the wild. But she has lived at the zoo since April 1974.
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Zookeepers on Friday prepared a “sweet feed” of oats and molasses that read “45,” said zoo spokeswoman Nancy Hayden Crowley.
Happy 45th birthday to our female black rhino Elly! #FunFact Elly’s favorite treats are corn, beets and bananaspic.twitter.com/Fn2fsJLcmh
— San Francisco Zoo (@sfzoo) …
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Seven-year old Faisall Shugaa has discovered that having a great memory isn’t always a good thing. Faisall had secretly memorized the Apple ID password employed by his dad, 32-year old Mohamed Shuga. That allowed him to ring up 65 transactions with Apple between December 13th and 18th. The youngster was playing Jurassic World on his dad’s iPad, and paid to have the dinosaurs upgraded using the Dino Bucks currency in the game. He says that he was not aware that he was spending real money.
Mohamed, who runs a carpet store, found out about the transactions when he tried to make a purchase from … – Source
Smartphone battery life is one of several things that we humans just can’t get enough of on this planet. On the new Windows 10 Mobile powered handsets, it appears to be a genuine problem. Take the Microsoft Lumia 950 XL. A 3340mAh battery is inside, and while that might seem large enough to power up the phone for a long enough time, there is the matter of a large 5.7-inch screen that needs to be lit up. And with the display carrying a QHD, 1440 x 2560 resolution, more power is needed.
If you go to Settings> System> Battery Saver> Battery Use, you can see which applications are too … – Source
Most of the time when you get ‘no room’ on the IRCTC website while trying to book train tickets, it’s not due to the massive rush but software which hack the site to make tickets available online.
It took back-to-back acqui-hires for me to learn there’s a right way and a wrong way to do them. We had made it. Despite running low on money and having little traction, my company was acqui-hired by Yahoo in October of 2013. I was thrilled to have a large salary at a well-respected company. Seventeen months later, I was laid off. Read More
Neckties embedded with QR codes. Pants that make drum noises. “Uber for medical marijuana.” These are just a few of the goofy startup ideas that have cropped up in Silicon Valley in recent years. I can’t be the only one who’s disappointed with this. The Valley is the birthplace of game-changing innovations, like the microprocessor and the PC. It’s home to… Read More
