There was a study done a few years ago by Microsoft that showed that those infamous Nigerian scam emails were written with terrible English grammar for a reason; it was an easy way way to implicitly filter for the gullible types who’d be more likely to fall for the scam to begin with. I...
This tweet came across my timeline today on what an extremely automated road network could look like, with autonomous cars self-navigating through busy intersection: Looks impressive to the naked eye, doesn’t it? Square colleague and fellow Quora Top Writer Tim Morgan had more nuanced, engineering-minded perspective: Like plane autopilots, it wouldn't be...
The web is dying? Of course it's dying. The author of this opinion piece isn't the first to point out that it seems like mobile apps are taking up a ton...
Smartphones have made photos impulsive. What used to be an activity that required careful curation of moments has been made so convenient that our current problem is finding ways to store and sync our albums....
Sam Altman wrote a short post which questions a premise: Why aren't today's startups more innovative? He notes that society has benefited from the consumer-centric technological focus in the last decade; starting with the smartphone and a persistent data connection, we have enabled communication and transportation, while disrupting industries from hospitality...
For the past couple of years, "payments" has been a frequent area targeted for innovation, something that tech companies and startups boast about disrupting but rarely back up with actual results. It has...
