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TLDR:The PocketGuitar Bluetooth-Enabled AI Guitar is like playing and practicing on a real guitar…but without the guitar. If you’re ready to learn to play the guitar, you know it won’t just happen overnight. In fact, it won’t just happen, period. It’ll only happen with lots and lots and lots of hard work. Experts suggest young players practice a bare minimum of15 minutes each day. Hub Guitar estimates that to become a competent rhythm guitar player, you’ll need to spend over 600 hours playing, or the equivalent ofabout 6 months of practicing around 4 hours a day....

The Pope has made it atraditionto discuss the rights and wrongs, as he sees them, of social media in his annual World Communications Day message, and this year is no different with honesty and integrity online being his main themes. Inhis address, the 83 year-old leader of the Catholic church seems surprisingly tuned in to a popular topic among social media watchers – is it better to use your real identity online or a fake one?...

By: Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng Life360, a popular family safety app used by 33 million people worldwide, has been marketed as a great way for parents to track their children’s movements using their cellphones. The Markup has learned, however, that the app is selling data on kids’ and families’ whereabouts to approximately a dozen data brokers who have sold data to virtually anyone who wants to buy it. Calling all Scaleup founders!...

Hashtags on Twitter go beyond spreading the #BieberFever, many brands that leverage Twitter to form instant and immediate connections to their fans, use hashtags in different ways in order to get the most out of their (and user-generated) content. Lets take a look at how different brands have used hashtags: For promoting their content The Washington Postsponsored the hashtag#Electionsas trending topic during the latest US elections. This way the newspaper’s tweets appeared first on election day when people clicked on the hashtag, driving this way traffic to The Washington Post’s site....

If you’re a blogger, you’ve likely received a banal email from a nondescript “hack” that has aggressively (and therefore irritatingly) tried to grab your attention. And if you work in public relations, you’ve probably been either ignored or rudely answered by countless writers. But aren’t we meant to work together? David Spinksis a serial entrepreneur living in NYC. He’s the co-founder ofu30pro,Scribniaand nowBlogDash, a new site that’s dedicated to connecting PR professionals with the appropriate and relevant bloggers they’re trying to reach....