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Reasons to Reconsider Remote Working Creating a Global Company Without Ever Signing a Lease The summer after I graduated high school in 2004, I was sitting in a branch office of a Morgan Stanley SVP working away at my computer building a model to calculate average exponential interest rates over time. It was simple enough: I remembered the equation from sophomore year, and it was just a matter of solving a few lines of algebra, writing a little code, and making it foolproof enough that a banker could enter the inputs on his computer while pacing around his office on…

Lithium-ion batteries are commonly used to power most tablets, smartphones, and portable PCs of today. These batteries are usually pretty expensive, and if not handled with care, are prone to early failures. Listed below are 5 basic and easy to follow tips that can prove beneficial in keeping your portable device’s battery up and running and able to function as it should for years to come. Don’t let your Lithium batteries overheat Heat is the primary reason behind Lithium battery issues, as it loses its ability to hold a charge by about 20 percent once it reaches temperatures in the…

Remember the Facebook feature called ‘Notes’? You can be excused for forgetting it since we ourselves hardly knew people who used it enough to justify its inclusion. The largely forgotten feature is finally getting the overhaul it needs from its maker, however. Following the success of newer sites such as Medium, Facebook is finally giving it a more digestible look, with a larger cover image, a likeable font, roomy space and a cleaner, non-intrusive page below. It was first noticed by David Winer of Wired, and is only available to a limited number of people on Facebook for the time…

Video game piracy remains a major head-ache for developers, especially on the PC platform now that the world has moved on to Blu-ray on the new-generation of consoles. Microsoft, with the release of Windows 10, has apparently acknowledged that issue too. According to report by Alphr, Microsoft has updated its services agreement to add a new clause regarding the piracy issue, among other things. Here’s how it reads: We may automatically check your version of the software and download software updates or configuration changes, including those that prevent you from accessing the Services, playing counterfeit games, or using unauthorised hardware…

Samsung’s Note series has been second in popularity to perhaps only its flagship Galaxy series within Android. By incorporating features such as the S-Pen and Multi Window, it is one of the few companies which actually know how to make use of the extra screen-estate. Now it is the time for the next iteration of the series, the Galaxy Note 5. What’s New? So what has changed this time, apart from being announced earlier than the previous versions? First thing to note is that the Note 5 borrows a lot from the S6 design language. The back more than anything…