Technology is evolving faster than ever before. It creates the opportunity for new products, business models, and bringing products more quickly to market. But what does it mean for industries such as mobility and energy? I spoke to Girish Nadkarni, the CEO of TotalEnergies Ventures, to find out. TotalEnergies Ventures focuses on finding, funding, and fostering high-potential startups that will create a low carbon future. This encompasses areas such as renewables, distributed energy, new mobility, energy access, energy storage, bio-plastics and recycling, AI, and IoT....

Call for Code is a multiyear challenge issued in 2018 with the purpose of soliciting solutions from the global developer’s community. Individuals and teams are tasked with building novel, scalable solutions to problems effecting everyone. This year’s focus is on combating climate change and mitigating the disastrous effects of COVID-19. IBM’s Daniel Krook, Chief Technology Officer, Call for Code, told TNW: The current list of regional winners will be whittled down to the challenge’s finalists between now and 13 October, at which time an esteemed panel of judges featuring President Bill Clinton, entrepreneur Mark Cuban, and many others will announce this year’s winner....

Startup owners are often a one-man band when they’re getting a new business off the ground. That’s a lot on the plate of just one person. In addition to production, distribution, sales, staffing and all the rest of the infrastructure any new venture requires, owners are also usually their own marketing department as well, trying to find just the right message and venues to bring customers to their door. With all that going on, new owners need a set of proven digital tools that can adapt to any business, cover all of their varied needs and basically help reduce the time it often takes to execute an online marketing plan....

This is especially true for the tech industry, where standardized (coding) languages and software have enabled people to collaborate, eliminating social and cultural barriers. So where should you move if you want to up your living standard and also get a hefty pay bump? Look no further, we’ve crunched some numbers to make the decision easier for you. What we’ve done For twelve of the most common tech jobs, we gathered and ranked average income data per city from salary comparison site PayScale....

More importantly, it’s reducing free tier usage to three applets (tasks). The company said it’s taking this step to “better align our Pro product roadmap with the needs of our most active Applet creators.” With the pro tier, IFTTT is introducing new features such as multi-step applets, multiple action execution with logic, and faster execution. The last one is important because, for some tasks, you might want to get an alert as soon as the event takes place....

As per documents reviewed by HuffPost India‘s Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava, the government plans to record important milestones in citizens’ lives, including moving cities, changing jobs, property purchases, and changes in their family trees. There have also been discussions for geo-tagging every single residence and integrating it into a geo-spatial database built by the country’s space agency, ISRO. [Read: India admits to using facial recognition to identify rioters amidst communal tensions] Srinivas Kodali, a data and internet governance researcher, who obtained this information through a Right To Information Act (RTI), suggested this searchable database — a single database or a cluster of multiple databases — will be supported by Aadhar data and updated in real-time....

For the first time in three years, the major social media platforms are expected to be trumpeting a collective growth in engagement. Since 2017, usership across all the biggest social outlets has actually been trending down. But in the wake of home quarantining and COVID-19, adults are projected to spend an average of 1 hour, 22 minutes a day on the apps this year, 7 minutes more than they spent in 2019, according to researcher eMarketer....

Thankfully, the company is working on changing this approach. Last night, the firm’s head, Adam Mosseri, said that it’s working on a “full search result page” that will show photos and videos as results, along with tabs for accounts and hashtags. Here’s what the new search will look like: The inner workings of this feature sound obvious in this day and age, but it might be a bit tricky. It’s easy for an algorithm to find posts for the keywords “space,” if the posts have the search query in their captions and hashtags....

But if you ask Intel, ‘eventually’ is still a long way off. In its first real statement since everyone started chiming in on the metaverse after Facebook’s rebrand, Intel says that for immersive computing to really hit its stride, we will need a 1000x increase in computation efficiency from today’s very best tools. Specifically, Raja Koduri, a senior VP at Intel, writes: He later adds that aside from hardware, we will need new software architectures and algorithms to make the metaverse a reality....

Surveys have found that nearly half of young adult women have been sent unwanted, graphic images by men. Receiving so-called dick pics is especially common among women who use dating apps. In some high-profile cases, people have even been AirDropped images by the hundreds while traveling on public transport. In 2019, British Transport Police found that 88% of those targeted were women. Cyberflashing has clear parallels with indecent exposure, which is already a sexual offense carrying a maximum two-year custodial sentence....

This decision is literally a step backward, as startups have been able to register online since 2016, so I’m afraid this will be a detriment to the economic development of the country and the development of its startup ecosystem. If Italy wants to step up its innovation game, it has to facilitate entrepreneurs… well… getting started! As an Italian startup advocate, the news left me deeply worried. Even though I’ve been living abroad for many years, I still keep a close eye on the development of the startup ecosystem back home....

Well, what if you want both a retro design and a horn-type sound? JBL has a hi-fi speaker for you too: the $2,000 JBL 4309. Mercifully, unlike so many speakers appealing to retro aesthetics and nostalgia, the 4309 are still solid examples of modern acoustic design. While they aren’t perfect, the speakers maintain JBL’s neutral approach to speaker design with an impeccable spatial presentation. If you’ve read my review of the JBL HDI-1600, the 4309 sounds a lot like it....

And no, we don’t mean because it’s the holiday season. While festive lights and unexpected presents are great, there’s something else to get excited about this December, hiring season is just around the corner. With hiring budgets topped up and ready to go, January and February tend to be the best time of year to land a new job. So, if you’re fed up in your current role, looking to make a career change, or just open to opportunities, now is the time to start getting ready....

Credit: The Verge Just as predicted by earlier leaks, the Sonos Roam is a more compact Bluetooth speaker than the Sonos Move — the type of speaker you might keep in a backpack. It’s also a lot cheaper, coming in at $169, rather than the $399 of the Sonos Move (as good as that speaker may be). Here are the other details we learn from the report: And that’s about it....

If you don’t feel 100 percent comfortable that you’ve got a full command over how to reach and market to potential customers online, don’t be discouraged. Between constantly changing avenues and best practices that can shift almost daily, pinning down the best way to get the word out about your products and services to a receptive audience is incredibly tricky. Not impossible, however. There are methods that can increase your chances of reaching your target audience and finding the customers you seek....

According to Business Korea, VinGroup has the most attractive offer on the table for the Korean tech giant’s phone business. The Vietnamese group already produces LG’s phones as an Original Design Manufacturer (ODM). It’s the third-largest phone maker in Vietnam after Samsung and Oppo. As Korea Times reported yesterday, continuous losses are one of the prime reasons why LG wants to offload its mobile unit — it has suffered a slump for 23 quarters straight....

All this positive coverage has tempted many to take the plunge and buy one of the new machines — even if some apps are not running natively at the moment. Even Linus Torvalds, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, wants one. However, he wants it to run Linux: [Read: Here’s how to make your website more accessible] Answering to question in the Real World Tech forum, Torvalds said that while Apple runs its servers and cloud services on Linux, its computers don’t run it natively....

Match Group’s latest annual earnings report shows it posted $2.1 billion in revenue in 2019, an increase of 19 percent year-on-year. The firm also owns dating services OKCupid and Hinge. The report further notes Tinder averaged 5.9 million subscribers last quarter, up 36 percent over the previous year. Such strong numbers only prove how important Tinder is to Match Group’s success. Even though the app launched some eight years ago, it seems the world isn’t tired of judging random strangers with a swipe just yet....

Fixing each individual pic so it’s worthy of saving is an incredibly tedious process, especially when you know a whole set of images are all in need of the same basic edits. Thankfully, photo editing is starting to incorporate artificial intelligence to help speed the process along. One of the first to embrace 21st century touchups is Luminar — and right now, you can get the complete award-winning Luminar 3 Software Bundle at almost half off, just $49 now from TNW Deals....

While her predecessors ran for president, founded charities, and wrote books, Melania was never going to waste her talent on such trivial pursuits. Instead, she’s combined her business acumen, tech wizardry, and philanthropy into the perfect project: an NFT venture. The model, designer, entrepreneur, and humanitarian is selling a series of tokens on her own NFT platform, which is powered by the MAGA hellsite Parler. The first NFT, “Melania’s Vision,” a stunning watercolor of her cobalt blue eyes, can be yours for around just $150....