Coding bootcamps are cheap and short — so what’s the catch? So, here’s the TL;DR If money is tight, I suggest going to a coding bootcamp or an online program associated with an accredited university. Otherwise, go to a university to receive formal instruction because you will develop a more thorough understanding of computer science. This will pay off in the long term.This is because you will learn to think for yourself when tackling challenging problems and be exposed to various applications of computer science....

Coding, hacking, vlogging — how tech is changing your everyday language When tech changes language then lives forever When names live on 127 years after Edison and a phone book popularizedhello, another generation’s innovator took the stage to introduce another communication medium. Podcasts, he called them, echoing a term coined at random a year earlier. Everyone seemed to have a blog online and an iPod in their pocket in early 2004; put both together and an audio revolution seemed imminent....

Cryptocurrency trading firm Amber Group has reached unicorn status with its latest funding round of $100 million today. The Hong Kong-based firm raised money in the Series B round led byChina Renaissance. Other firms contributing to the $100 million sum included some prominent names, such asTiger Brokers, Tiger Global Management, Arena Holdings, Tru Arrow Partners, Sky9 Capital, DCM Ventures, and Gobi Partners. The company — backed by Coinbase in Series A investment round — caters to both individual and institutional cryptocurrency investors....

A quick pan of today’s software and productivity market reveals a number of collaborative solutions.Thissoftware will allow you to collaboratively manage projects,thissoftware will let you edit video together, whilethissoftware will let you manage your social media activity together, etc. For all the bells and whistles of working together, before you dive into a multi-person project, are you sure you’re maximizing the outcome by first laying the proper groundwork? By working collaboratively, individuals are able to tackle big challenges and solve complex problems in ways that would be impossible if attempted alone....

Apptopus Inc., has developed a first of it’s kind app that helps mobile directors produce movies using multiple iPhones as live cameras. It’s called Collabracam. We’ll tell you right off the bat, we unfortunately don’t have three iPhones available, so we’re unable to test drive the app. Nonetheless, the concept of operating up to 4 iPhone cameras remotely does sound pretty cool. It works like this: The app must be installed on each iPhone capturing footage and each device connected is basically a standby camera that the director can access at will....