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Just a few hours ago, the Internet was having a collective laugh at the woman who got a tattoo of the profile pictures of 152 of her Facebook friends. Dutch newspaper The Telegraaf has crashed your party: the story is a hoax. The tattoo artist named in the original story, Dex Moelker, told the paper that the story was a publicity stunt concocted to drive sales and that the tattoo was a transfer — the kind of fake tattoo your kids bring home in party bags and the like....

The past year or so has been one of the most interesting periods for smartphone design since the early days of iOS and Android. After the bezel wars of a few years ago, we’re now seeing companies explore wackier form factors that break the typical. We’ve seen phones that canfoldand phones that canroll, so it was only a matter of time until somebody combined the two. That’s precisely what TCL has done with its new “Fold ‘n Roll” concept....

It’s been an interesting afternoon on the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. A team of 5 powerful Angels and VCs have been on the stage for a Q&A session that has brought out some enlightened points. 500 Startups’ Dave McClure has had some great words and with them has provided us with some insight into his investment strategies. The question was asked as to what point a company should seek investment, whether it’s better to build a relationship early or to talk to investors when they are ready to pitch....

Tech dismally failed a 25-year challenge to achieve gender equality by 2020 Swimming upstream I loved math as a kid. I loved finding elegant solutions to abstract problems. I loved learning thatMobius stripshave only one side and that there ismore than one size of infinity. I was a math major in college and eventually found a home in computer science in graduate school. But as a professional, I’ve seen that tech is skewed by currents that carry men to success and hold women back....

Tech helped fight COVID-19 in the short term — but it might backfire in the long term A shift in habits With people staying at home, calls for support and assistance increased dramatically. According to Raj Koneru, the CEO and founder of the conversational platformKore.ai, “There has been a spike of 30-40 percent in calls, the burden of which simply fell on agents who have been forced to work remotely.”...