<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/kate-rooney/ ">By Kate Rooney </a>



Billionaire investor <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/warren-buffett/">Warren Buffett</a> is doubling down on his bitcoin criticism. 



&#8220;Bitcoin has no unique value at all,&#8221; Buffett told CNBC&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/becky-quick/">Becky Quick</a>&nbsp;in a &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/squawk-box-us/">Squawk Box</a>&#8221; interview Monday. &#8220;It is a delusion, basically.&#8221;



The Berkshire Hathaway CEO said he is sympathetic to optimists who bought the world&#8217;s largest cryptocurrency in hopes that &#8220;it would change their lives.&#8221;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=BTC%3D">Bitcoin</a>&nbsp;has lost more than 80 percent of its value since reaching a high near $20,000 at the end of 2017. The cryptocurrency was trading near $3,781 on Monday, according to CoinDesk.



&#8220;It attracts charlatans,&#8221; Buffett said. &#8220;If you do something phony by going out and selling yo-yos or something, there&#8217;s no money in it — but when you get into Wall Street, there&#8217;s huge money.&#8221;



Buffett has been a long-time critic of cryptocurrency. He called bitcoin &#8220;probably rat poison squared,&#8221; ahead of the 2018 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting. A &#8220;mirage,&#8221; &#8220;not a currency,&#8221; and &#8220;tulips&#8221; are among the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/27/warren-buffett-has-been-ragging-on-bitcoin-since-2013.html">descriptors</a>&nbsp;Buffett has used for bitcoin, according to&nbsp;<a href="https://buffett.cnbc.com/">CNBC&#8217;s Warren Buffett Archive</a>.



In the interview Monday, he did point to potential in bitcoin&#8217;s &#8220;important&#8221; underlying technology blockchain but said its success does not depend on cryptocurrency.



Buffett is not alone in his skepticism. Business leaders including Bill Gates, economists Nouriel Roubini and Robert Shiller, and fund managers Ray Dalio and Howard Marks are among those who have questioned bitcoin&#8217;s legitimacy. J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon was also a vocal critic of bitcoin. Yet earlier this month, J.P. Morgan became the first major bank to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/jp-morgan-is-rolling-out-the-first-us-bank-backed-cryptocurrency-to-transform-payments--.html">launch</a> its own proprietary cryptocurrency for cross-border payments.



This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/25/warren-buffett-says-bitcoin-is-a-delusion.html?&amp;qsearchterm=Warren%20Buffett and is republished with its permission.

Why billionaire Warren Buffett says bitcoin is a ‘delusion’ and ‘attracts charlatans’

By <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/todd-haselton/">Todd Haselton</a>



<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=593-KR">Samsung</a>&nbsp;announced the first consumer-ready foldable smartphone Wednesday at a launch event in San Francisco.



The new phone, called the Galaxy Fold, has a special display that can fold open if you want to use it like a tablet. The new device will launch at a time when consumers are looking for innovative new features in smartphones to justify increased prices in the $1,000 range.



Samsung said that, when closed, the phone can easily fit in your hand like a traditional phone. But it also opens up into a large tablet for when you want to watch movies. You can also switch between screens on the fly. Samsung said that means, if you get an alert on the front screen, you can open into tablet mode and see the notification automatically in the app. 



There are two batteries, one on each side of the fold, that allow the tablet to fold in half easier.



Both Samsung and Apple have seen their smartphone market share lose ground to companies like Huawei, which makes phones with similar features at a lower cost. Folding phones, which so far have only been shown as prototypes by Samsung and other companies like Xiaomi, could usher in a new wave of unique smartphone form factors that will excite customers to upgrade.



Samsung first unveiled a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/samsung-foldable-phone-release-date-specs.html">prototype of the Galaxy Fold in November</a>2018, when it promised that a model people will actually be able to buy was launching &#8220;soon.&#8221; The Galaxy Fold runs a version of Google Android that automatically adjusts the software so that it works in both tablet and phone modes. 



&#8220;You can simply unfold the device to get a larger tablet-sized screen,&#8221; Google Android&#8217;s vice president of engineering, Dave Burke, said in November. &#8220;As you unfold, the app seamlessly transfers to the bigger screen without missing a beat.&#8221;



It will launch in LTE and 5G versions beginning April 26 for $1,980.



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This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/20/samsung-galaxy-fold-release-date-price-specs.html and is republished with its permission.

Samsung just announced the first foldable phone you can buy, here’s how much it will cost you

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By <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/neil-mcarthur-548397">Neil McArthur</a>, <a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-manitoba-1113">University of Manitoba</a> and <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/markie-twist-683911">Markie Twist</a>, <a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-wisconsin-colleges-and-the-university-of-wisconsin-extension-2074">University of Wisconsin Colleges and the University of Wisconsin-Extension</a>

Sex as we know it is about to change. 

We are already living through a new <a href="http://time.com/3611781/sexual-revolution-revisited/">sexual revolution</a>, thanks to technologies that have transformed the way we relate to each other in our intimate relationships. But we believe that a second wave of sexual technologies is now starting to appear, and that these are transforming how some people view their very sexual identity. 

People we refer to as “<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/spark-423-1.4988389/digisexuality-emerges-as-a-new-sexual-identity-1.4988400">digisexuals</a>” are turning to advanced technologies, such as robots, virtual reality (VR) environments and feedback devices known as <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne55x8/teledildonics-patent-has-expired">teledildonics</a>, to take the place of human partners.

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<h2>Defining digisexuality</h2>

In our research, we use the term <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14681994.2017.1397950">digisexuality in two senses</a>. The first, broader sense is to describe the use of advanced technologies in sex and relationships. People are already familiar with what we call first-wave sexual technologies, which are the many things that we use to connect us with our current or prospective partners. We text each other, we use Snapchat and Skype, and we go on social apps like Tinder and Bumble to meet new people. 

These technologies have been adopted so widely, so quickly, that it is easy to miss what a profound effect they have had on our intimate lives. 

It is fascinating to study how people use technology in their relationships. Not surprisingly, in our research we can already see people displaying different attachment styles in their use of technology. As with their human relationships, people relate to their technology in ways that may be secure, anxious, avoidant or some (often disorganized) combination of the three.

There is a second, narrower sense, in which we use the term digisexuals for people whose sexual identity is shaped by what we call second-wave sexual technologies. 

These technologies are defined by their ability to offer sexual experiences that are intense, immersive and do not depend on a human partner. Sex robots are the second-wave technology people are most familiar with. They don’t exist yet, not really, but they have been widely discussed in the media and often appear in movies and on television. Some companies have previewed sex robot prototypes, but these are nothing close to what most people would consider a proper sexbot. They are also incredibly creepy. 

<h2>Refining sexbots</h2>

There are several companies, such as the Real Doll company, working on developing <a href="https://realbotix.com/">realistic sexbots</a>. But there are a few technical hurdles they have yet to overcome. Truly interactive artificial intelligence is developing slowly, for instance, and it is proving difficult to teach a robot to walk. More interestingly, some inventors have begun experimenting with innovative, <a href="http://goldsmiths.tech/sex">non-anthropomorphic designs for sexbots</a>.

Meanwhile, VR is progressing rapidly. And in the sex industry, VR is already being used in ways that go beyond the passive viewing of pornography. Immersive virtual worlds and multi-player environments, often coupled with haptic feedback devices, are already being created that offer people intense sexual experiences that the real world possibly never could. 

Investigative journalist Emily Witt has written about her experience with some of these technologies in her 2016 book, <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/future-sex-emily-witt-interview">Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love</a>.

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There is compelling evidence that second-wave technologies have an effect on our brains that is qualitatively different from what came before.

MIT professor <a href="http://www.mit.edu/%7Esturkle/">Sherry Turkle</a> and others have done studies on the intensity of the bond people tend to form with what she calls “relational artifacts” such as robots. Turkle defines relational artifacts as “non-living objects that are, or at least appear to be, sufficiently responsive that people <a href="http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/pdfsforstwebpage/ST_Relational%20Artifacts.pdf">naturally conceive themselves to be in a mutual relationship with them</a>.” Immersive VR experiences also offer a level of intensity that is qualitatively different from other sorts of media.

<h2>Immersive experiences</h2>

In a lecture at the <a href="http://www.virtualfutures.co.uk/">Virtual Futures Forum</a> in 2016, VR researcher <a href="https://www.gold.ac.uk/computing/people/pan-sylvia-xueni/">Sylvia Xueni Pan</a> explained the immersive nature of VR technology. It creates what she describes as a placement and plausibility illusion within the human brain.

As a result of its real-time positioning, 3D stereo display and its total field of view, the user’s brain comes to believe that the user is really present. As she says: “If situations and events that happen in VR actually correlates to your actions and relates personally to you, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/virtualfutures/videos/making-virtual-reality-immersive-dr-sylvia-xueni-pan-virt/1169622529755933/">then you react towards these events as if they were real</a>.”

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As these technologies develop, they will enable sexual experiences that many people will find just as satisfying as those with human partners, or in some cases more so. 

We believe that in the coming decades, as these technologies become more sophisticated and more widespread, there will be an increasing number of people who will choose to find sex and partnership entirely from artificial agents or in virtual environments. 

And as they do, we will also see the emergence of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/style/sex-robots.html">this new sexual identity we call digisexuality</a>. 

<h2>Sexuality and stigma</h2>

A digisexual is someone who sees immersive technologies such as sex robots and virtual reality pornography as integral to their sexual experience, and who feels no need to search for physical intimacy with human partners.

Marginal sexual identities almost invariably face stigma, and it is already apparent that digisexuals will be no exception. The idea of digisexuality as an identity has already received strong negative reactions from many commentators in <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/5008805/sex-robot-craze-digisexuals-men-sleep-dolls/">the media</a> and <a href="https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/digisexual-robot-lovers/">online</a>.

We should learn from the mistakes of the past. Society has stigmatized gays and lesbians, bisexuals, pansexuals, asexuals, consensually non-mongamous people and practitioners of bondange/discipline-dominance/submission-sadomasochism (BDSM). 

Then, as time goes on, we have gradually learned to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/04/same-sex-relationships-gender-fluid-queer-kristen-stewart">more accepting of all these diverse sexual identities</a>. We should bring that same openness to digisexuals. As immersive sexual technologies become more widespread, we should approach them, and their users, with an open mind.

We don’t know where technology is going, and there are definitely concerns that need to be discussed — such as the ways in which our interactions with technology could shape our attitudes towards consent with our human partners. 

Our research addresses one specific piece of the puzzle: the question of how technology impacts sexual-identity formation, and how people with technologically based sexual identities may face stigma and prejudice. Yes, there are dangers. But whips and paddles can hurt too.<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/110690/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" style="border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; margin: 0 !important; max-height: 1px !important; max-width: 1px !important; min-height: 1px !important; min-width: 1px !important; opacity: 0 !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0 !important; text-shadow: none !important" />

<a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/neil-mcarthur-548397">Neil McArthur</a>, Director, Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, <a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-manitoba-1113">University of Manitoba</a> and <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/markie-twist-683911">Markie Twist</a>, Professor, <a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-wisconsin-colleges-and-the-university-of-wisconsin-extension-2074">University of Wisconsin Colleges and the University of Wisconsin-Extension</a>

This article is republished from <a href="http://theconversation.com">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/for-the-love-of-technology-sex-robots-and-virtual-reality-110690">original article</a>.

Sex with robots: Will more people turn to advanced technologies, such as robots, VR environments to take the place of human partners?

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/emmie-martin/">By Emmie Martin</a>



Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/jeff-bezos-accuses-national-enquirer-publisher-of-blackmail-extortion.html">accused the National Enquirer and its publisher, American Media Inc., of blackmail and extortion</a>.



In a&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310f">blog post published Thursday</a>&nbsp;that included copies of his email correspondence, he wrote that AMI threatened to make public compromising photographs of him. AMI called those images newsworthy because, he wrote, they would &#8220;show Amazon shareholders that my business judgment is terrible.&#8221;



In a statement Friday,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/08/national-enquirer-publisher-believes-it-acted-lawfully-on-bezos-story-vows-to-investigate-matter.html">AMI maintained it did nothing illegal</a>&nbsp;but said it would begin an internal investigation.



CNBC&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/08/cramer-on-bezos-blackmail-if-youre-selling-amazon-off--this-youre-really-stupid.html">Jim Cramer has warned investors</a>, &#8220;If you&#8217;re selling Amazon off this, you&#8217;re really stupid.&#8221;



Other analysts agree. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think the allegations have a direct line into the fundamentals of Amazon,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/08/amazon-analysts-shrug-off-bezos-enquirer-saga-see-no-impact-on-the-stock.html">said Anthony DiClemente, an internet analyst at Evercore ISI</a>. &#8220;Certainly from a public relations standpoint, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s ideal. When you look at the fundamentals, it&#8217;s hard to imagine it will have a negative impact.&#8221;



<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=AMZN">Amazon</a>&nbsp;shares were down 2 percent in early trading Friday. Still, if you had invested $1,000 in Amazon in February 2009, your initial outlay would be worth more than $23,600 as of February 2019, according to CNBC calculations. That&#8217;s an increase of more than 2,000 percent.



While Amazon&#8217;s stock has performed well, any individual stock can <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/30/how-amazon-became-one-of-warren-buffetts-biggest-investment-regrets.html">over- or underperform</a> and <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/03/avoid-these-4-investing-mistakes.html">past returns do not predict future results</a>.



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Amazon&#8217;s stock prices as of Feb. 8, 2019, at 11:18 a.m. ET. 



So far, 2019 has been a mediocre year for Amazon. The company is up about 5 percent this year, but it has underperformed the market&#8217;s 7 percent gain.



On the heels of a hugely successful 2018, investors are starting to have concerns about the company&#8217;s spending — but not its founder&#8217;s personal life. In early January,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/jeff-bezos/">Bezos</a>&nbsp;announced that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/09/jeff-bezos-and-wife-mackenzie-are-divorcing-.html">he and his wife are divorcing</a>.



There have been a few highlights, though. In January, the e-commerce giant briefly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/07/amazon-passes-microsoft-market-value-becomes-largest.html">surpassed Microsoft</a>&nbsp;to become the largest publicly traded company in the U.S. by market cap when it hit a valuation of $789 billion and later ended that day at a value of $797 billion. Apple fell to fourth place, trailing both Microsoft and Alphabet.



As of Feb. 8, Amazon has a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=AMZN">market cap of around $775 billion</a>. Microsoft and Apple are in a tight race for first place: Both hold fluctuating market caps of more than $800 billion.



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">&#8220;If you&#8217;re selling Amazon off this, you&#8217;re really stupid.&#8221;-Jim Cramer, CNBC</blockquote>



Amazon is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/07/amazon-stock-could-surge-20-percent-in-2019-analyst-says.html">expected to see shares surge more than 20 percent in 2019</a>, according to a recent report from Pivotal Research Group.



In the note published in early January, analyst Brian Wieser predicted a $1,920 year-end price target for the retailer. That would mark a 21 percent rise in the price of the company&#8217;s stock and put Amazon&#8217;s valuation close to $1 trillion.



&#8220;Despite its current massive size, we see Amazon&#8217;s opportunities as mostly unconstrained based on a successful track record of capitalizing on consumer and IT department spending,&#8221; Wieser wrote.



The research note forecasts that Amazon&#8217;s digital advertising business will continue to be a major source of revenue growth. In 2018, the sector grew more than 70 percent and earned Amazon the <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/19/amazon-third-largest-digital-ad-platform-behind-facebook-google.html">third-most digital ad sales for the year</a>, behind only Google and Facebook, according to market research company e-Marketer.



This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/08/how-much-a-1000-dollar-investment-in-amazon-10-years-ago-would-be-worth-now.html?recirc=taboolainternal and is republished with its permission.

If you invested $1,000 in Amazon 10 years ago, here’s how much you’d have now

TORONTO (Reuters) &#8211; About C$180 million ($137.21 million) in cryptocurrencies have been frozen in the user accounts of Canadian digital platform Quadriga after the founder, the only person with the password to gain access, died suddenly in December. 



Gerald Cotten died aged 30 from complications with Crohn’s disease while volunteering at an orphanage in India, according to the Facebook page of Quadriga CX, which announced his death on Jan. 14. 



The platform, which allows the trading of Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum, filed for creditor protection in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court last week.



Quadriga has 363,000 registered users and owes a total of C$250 million to 115,000 affected users, according to an affidavit filed by Cotten’s widow Jennifer Robertson on behalf of the company.



Robertson said in the affidavit that Cotten’s main computer contained a&nbsp;“cold wallet”&nbsp;of cryptocurrencies, which is only accessible physically and not online, and his death left “in excess of C$180 million of coins in cold storage.”



Robertson said she was&nbsp;not involved in Cotten’s business while he was alive and did not know the password or recovery key.



“Despite repeated and diligent searches, I have not been able to find them written down anywhere,” she said.



Robertson said that she has consulted an expert who has had “limited success in recovering a few coins and some information” from Cotten’s other computer and cell phones, but the majority remains untouched on his main computer.



Quadriga’s troubles highlight the unique challenges of cryptocurrencies, Dean Skurka, vice president of rival platform Bitbuy.ca, said in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.



“This really highlights the need for the government to take action and regulate cryptocurrency exchanges,” Skurka said.



Robertson said in her affidavit she has received online threats and&nbsp;“slanderous comments”, including questions about the nature of Cotten’s&nbsp;death, and whether he is really dead.



Reporting by Tyler Choi; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall

Millions in cryptocurrencies frozen in user accounts of a digital platform after Canadian founder’s death

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/tom-popomaronis/">By Tom Popomaronis, Contributor</a>



When it comes to job interviews, we all want to give answers that make us stand out from the rest of the candidates. That means knowing how to answer each question, including the tricky ones designed to stump you.



But what if you don’t know the answer to a question?



That’s a problem Google CEO Sundar Pichai faced in 2004, when he first interviewed at the company for the VP of product management position. In a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2csJXGJ4Gqg" class="">2017 chat with students</a>&nbsp;at his alma mater, Indian Institute of technology, Pichai shared details about his interview experience at one of the world’s largest tech companies.



In the first few rounds, Pichai said the interviewers asked him what he thought of Gmail. There was just one problem: Google had just announced the email service that very same day, on April 1st. “I thought it was an April Fool’s Day joke,” Pichai said.



He responded by saying he couldn’t answer the question because he hadn’t been able to use the product. “It was only in the fourth interview when someone asked, ‘Have you seen Gmail?’ I said no. So he actually showed it to me. And then the fifth interviewer asked, ‘What do you think of Gmail?’ And I was able to start answering it then,” Pichai said at the talk.



Most candidates would have attempted to make something up before trying to move on to the next question. Pichai did the exact opposite and ended up impressing his interviewers (after all, he got the job).



Here’s why his response was so brilliant:1. He displayed “intellectual humility”



More often than not, telling an interviewer you don’t know the answer to something will dock off a few points, but it’s better than coming up with something that may be completely false.



Science agrees, too.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15298868.2017.1361861?journalCode=psai20" class="">Research has shown</a>&nbsp;that people with “intellectual humility” – or, as they say, the willingness to admit what you don’t know – are better learners.



<a class="" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/28/how-to-determine-if-a-potential-boss-is-a-good-fit-during-an-interview.html">Laszlo Bock</a>, Google’s former senior VP of people operations, <a class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html?_r=0">calls it one of the top qualities</a> he looks for in a candidate. In an <a class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-big-data-may-not-be-such-a-big-deal.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=1&amp;&amp;pagewanted=all">interview</a> with The New York Times, he said: “Successful, bright people rarely experience failure, and so they don’t learn how to learn from that failure. They instead commit the fundamental attribution error, which is if something good happens, it’s because I’m a genius. If something bad happens, it’s because someone’s an idiot or I didn’t get the resources or the market moved.”



The next time you’re faced with a difficult interview question, stay calm and take a moment to think before you respond. Pichai carefully thought about the question. What could he say about something he hadn’t even seen? Gmail, at the time, was a newly launched, invite-only product, and so he concluded that it was acceptable to not know the answer.2. He had a reason



Instead of simply saying “I don’t know,” Pichai told his interviewers&nbsp;whyhe didn’t know: he wasn’t able to use the product. By doing so, he expressed curiosity, which is a trait employers always love to see in a candidate.



Pichai recognized his advantage in the scenario: for every “I don’t know,” there lies an opportunity to learn. And by the fourth round, his interviewer decided to demonstrate the product.3. He redirected the conversation



After asserting what he didn’t know, Pichai redirected the conversation to assert what he&nbsp;did&nbsp;know.



Getting a glimpse of Gmail gave him a clearer understanding of the product. This allowed him to display the forthrightness and intellect that he would go on to become so famous for at Google.



The takeaway is that giving an honest answer doesn’t happen in a vacuum where you score virtue points. The value of being intellectually honest is that it gives you the opportunity to show what you do know.



Pichai demonstrated the best-case scenario – being well-prepared, but also managing a dynamic situation with respect and candor. In a moment of uncertainty, he grabbed the bull by its proverbial horns, adapted to the challenge, and it paid off in a big way.Find your inner Pichai



Out of the millions of applications that Google receives each year, you have at least a&nbsp;<a href="https://qz.com/285001/heres-why-you-only-have-a-0-2-chance-of-getting-hired-at-google/" class="">0.2 percent chance of getting hired</a>. If you’re lucky enough to make it through the rounds and get invited to an in-person interview, think about how you can stand out. Make it count and claim your place in that 0.2 percent.



Tom Popomaronis is the Senior Director of Product Innovation at the <a class="" href="https://rhawkinsgroup.com/">Hawkins Group</a>. His work has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company and The Washington Post. In 2014, he was named one of the “40 Under 40” by the Baltimore Business Journal. Follow him on Twitter at .



This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/01/how-google-ceos-brilliant-answer-in-a-job-interview-helped-him-get-hired.html and is republished with its permission.

15 years ago, Google’s CEO had a brilliant response to a tricky interview question – and it helped him get hired

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/elizabeth-schulze/">By Elizabeth Schulze</a>



Elon Musk showed off videos of the first test firing of SpaceX’s Starship Raptor engine in a series of tweets late on Sunday.



SpaceX’s Starship is a rocket the company is designing with the goal of transporting humans and cargo to Mars. SpaceX is currently building a prototype of the rocket at its facility near Brownsville, Texas.



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">At <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpaceX</a> Texas with engineering team getting ready to fire new Raptor rocket engine <a href="https://t.co/ACFM8AtY8w">pic.twitter.com/ACFM8AtY8w</a>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1091958352513425408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">First firing of Starship Raptor flight engine! So proud of great work by <a href="https://twitter.com/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpaceX</a> team!! <a href="https://t.co/S6aT7Jih4S">pic.twitter.com/S6aT7Jih4S</a>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1092268892339273730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In a tweet, Musk said he was “so proud of great work” by the SpaceX team. Musk is CEO of privately-held SpaceX as well as electric vehicle company <a class="" href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=TSLA">Tesla</a>.



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><a href="https://t.co/ChEGbjTGKZ">pic.twitter.com/ChEGbjTGKZ</a>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1092270756715737088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><a href="https://t.co/yFhNx3fiOD">pic.twitter.com/yFhNx3fiOD</a>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1092272377889738753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Billionaire Elon Musk posts video of the first firing of the new SpaceX Raptor rocket engine

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/saheli-roy-choudhury/">By Saheli Roy Choudhury</a>



<a class="" href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=FB">Facebook</a> has been paying people in secret to install an app that allows the tech giant to collect data on how they use their smartphones, <a class="" href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/">TechCrunch reported Tuesday evening</a>.



Since 2016, the social networking giant has been paying teenagers and adults up to $20 a month plus referral fees to install the so-called “Facebook Research” app on their Apple or Android phones, according to TechCrunch. To mask Facebook’s direct involvement, the program is said to be administered through beta testing services Applause, BetaBound and uTest and is referred to as “Project Atlas.”



TechCrunch revealed that according to a security expert, the app allows Facebook to collect data including private messages in social media apps, photos and videos to sent, emails, web searches and web browsing activities. It can also track ongoing location information from other location tracking apps installed in the user’s phone, according to the report.



A Facebook spokesperson acknowledged to CNBC that the company is running the program to gather data on usage habits.



“Like many companies, we invite people to participate in research that helps us identify things we can be doing better,” the spokesperson said. “Since this research is aimed at helping Facebook understand how people use their mobile devices, we’ve provided extensive information about the type of data we collect and how they can participate.”



“We don’t share this information with others and people can stop participating at any time,” the spokesperson added.



The move from Facebook could potentially be a violation of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=AAPL" class="">Apple</a>&nbsp;policy since many of the users on board the program are installing the app on iPhones.



Apple did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comments but a spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company is aware of the issue.



Last year,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/22/apple-removes-facebook-onavo-app-from-app-store.html" class="">Apple removed Facebook’s Onavo security app</a>&nbsp;from the App Store because it did not comply with its privacy rules that stated apps “should not collect information about which other apps are installed on a user’s device.”



<a class="" href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/">Read more about TechCrunch’s report on how Facebook pays users to install an app to collect data on them</a>.



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Is Facebook paying users to install an app that could collect all kinds of data from their phones?

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/todd-haselton/">By Todd Haselton</a>



There’s a <a class="" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/28/apple-facetime-bug-lets-you-listen-even-if-someone-doesnt-answer.html">massive privacy bug on iPhones</a> that lets people call you with FaceTime to hear you and see you — even if you don’t pick up the call.



Here’s the gist of how it works: Using the bug, someone can listen in or see you through your iPhone.



<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=AAPL" class="">Apple</a>&nbsp;has since&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/29/apple-removes-facetime-group-calling-as-it-tries-to-fix-spying-bug.html" class="">disabled Group FaceTime until it has a more permanent solution later this week</a>. To be extra safe, here’s how you can turn off FaceTime on your iPhone to prevent anyone from trying to snoop on you in the meantime.



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Open Settings.</li><li>Choose FaceTime.</li><li>Toggle the button so that FaceTime is off (there’s no green showing.)</li></ul>



That’s it. I tested it on my own iPhone and it stopped FaceTime calls from coming in entirely, so nobody could just listen in or try to watch me through my iPhone’s camera.



Here’s the full response Apple provided to CNBC: “We’re aware of this issue and we have identified a fix that will be released in a software update later this week.”



 This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/29/how-to-disable-facetime.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain and is republished with its permission.

Here’s how to disable FaceTime so people can’t spy on you by exploiting a bug

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/todd-haselton/">By Todd Haselton</a>



There’s a FaceTime bug that lets you hear through someone else’s iPhone, even if they haven’t answered your phone call. It was previously reported on Twitter by user Benji Mobb and <a class="" href="https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/28/facetime-bug-hear-audio/">reported by 9to5Mac</a>.



CNBC tested it and verified that it’s a real bug. I tried placing a video call to my editor from my iPhone using Apple’s FaceTime app. Then, before he picked up, I used the menu option to add somebody else to the call and, as 9to5Mac’s directions state, I added myself to the call. Suddenly, I could hear my editor, even though he never picked up. We continued having a conversation while his phone only gave him the option to answer. There was no indication that the call had already gone through.



<a class="" href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/28/18201383/apple-facetime-bug-iphone-eavesdrop-listen-in-remote-call-security-issue">The Verge</a> reports that, if the person you’re calling tries to end it by tapping the power button on their phone, it sends video but no audio. That means the person calling you can see a video of you or your surroundings as if you’d answered the call. I replicated this with a friend.



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Now you can answer for yourself on FaceTime even if they don’t answer?<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Apple?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Apple</a> explain this.. <a href="https://t.co/gr8llRKZxJ">pic.twitter.com/gr8llRKZxJ</a>&mdash; Benji Mobb™ (@BmManski) <a href="https://twitter.com/BmManski/status/1089967572307640325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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This bug seems to rely on the FaceTime Group Call feature, since you’re trying to add another person to the call.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/20/how-to-use-group-facetime-on-iphone-ipad.html" class="">Group FaceTime launched last year</a>.



There’s obviously a big privacy concern here. You could theoretically call anyone with FaceTime and, using the steps above, listen in on their conversations.



<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=AAPL" class="">Apple</a>, which is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/28/apple-q1-2019-earnings-preview-what-to-focus-on.html" class="">scheduled to report earnings on Tuesday afternoon</a>, said a fix is coming this week. “We’re aware of this issue and we have identified a fix that will be released in a software update later this week,” a spokesperson told CNBC. It also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/29/apple-removes-facetime-group-calling-as-it-tries-to-fix-spying-bug.html" class="">deactivated Group FaceTime to prevent people from exploiting the bug</a>&nbsp;before it releases a fix.



In the meantime, and to be extra safe, the fastest fix right now is to just turn off FaceTime. Here’s how:



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Open Settings on your iPhone or iPad.</li><li>Choose FaceTime</li><li>Toggle FaceTime to off.</li></ul>



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There’s a bug on Apple’s FaceTime that lets you listen in on people you call, even if they haven’t picked up their iPhone

<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/abigail-hess/">By Abigail Hess</a>



Perhaps the hardest part of being a member of the workforce today is predicting which skills and which jobs jobs will be needed in the economy of tomorrow.



On Thursday, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/automation-and-artificial-intelligence-how-machines-affect-people-and-places/" class="">Brookings Institute</a>&nbsp;released a sobering report that details the impact technologies such as Automated Intelligence (AI) will have on workers. “Almost no occupation will be unaffected by technological change in the AI era,” reads the report, which predicts one-quarter of jobs are at “high risk” of being automated.



One tool that can be used to predict which jobs will be in demand in the coming “AI era” is the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cognizant.com/jobs-of-the-future-index?utm_source=newsletter&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosfutureofwork&amp;amp;stream=future" class="">Cognizant Jobs of the Future (CJOF) Index</a>. The CJoF Index tracks the popularity of 50 jobs predicted to be in high demand in the future. Earlier this week, the index released its latest figures from the fourth quarter of 2018, providing insight into the jobs of the future.



Here are the jobs that had the largest growth in number of openings over the past year:&nbsp;



Software Developer/Engineer



≈ 84,000 more job openings



Cyber/Information Security Engineer/Analyst



≈ 12,000 more job openings



Cyber Calamity Forecaster



≈ 8,300 more job openings



UI/UX Designer/Developer



≈ 6,800 more job openings



The following jobs were the fastest-growing roles on the CJOF Index over the past year:&nbsp;



Fashion Designer



Job growth: +279 percent



Solar Engineer



Job growth: +257 percent



Career Counselor



Job growth: +181 percent



Social Media Strategist/Specialist



Job growth: +172 percent



Genetic Counselor



Job growth: +163 percent



Unsurprisingly, many of the jobs that topped the CJoF Index this quarter were roles in digital fields. “The employment growth in these areas reflects the greater demand for people with the software, cybersecurity and digital design to drive companies’ digital future,” states the Cognizant report.



However, many other more surprising roles also showed strong job growth. For instance, Cognizant reports that there was a 279 percent increase in the number of job openings with the title of “Fashion Designer” in 2018.



<a href="https://www.cognizant.com/futureofwork/author/details/benjamin-pring" class="">Benjamin Pring</a>, Director of the Cognizant Center for the Future of Work, says that these surprising and unsurprising job titles comes down to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) training.



“STEM-style jobs that people have been saying are going to be important — data science, machine learning, cyber security — those sorts of STEM-based jobs that people have been saying are going to be important, the data is absolutely supporting that argument,” Pring tells&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/make-it/" class="">CNBC Make It</a>. “The argument is being proven that if you’re 16, or if you’re 25, or if you’re 35, trying to get yourself into one of those STEM areas is absolutely the right thing to do. There’s a clearly a huge demand for that kind of capability.”



However, Pring also says there will still be opportunities for workers in the future even if they don’t have these in-demand STEM skills. The key, he says using technology competently and mastering uniquely human characteristics.



“The notion that every kind of person, whether or not you’re maths-based or STEM-based, needs to be in a technical job, that doesn’t make sense. A lot of jobs will be STEM-based, tech-based jobs, but loads wont be. They’ll have a tech component within them, but they wouldn’t be tech jobs, per se,” he explains. “You have to double-down on the things that differentiate a human being from software, or from a machine, and they are those human qualities — the ability to be empathetic, to care, to be creative, to sell, to help, to support — all of those things that machines are not going to do any time soon.”



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These are the fastest-growing jobs of the future

By Disrupt Africa



African tech startups smashed
funding records in 2018 as 210 startups secured US$334.5 million worth of
investment, with Nigeria emerging as the premier investment destination on the
continent.



This is according to the annual <a href="http://disrupt-africa.com/funding-report/">African Tech Startups
Funding Report 2018</a> released by startup news and research portal Disrupt Africa,
which is now in its fourth year.



The report, which tracks the
total amount of funding raised by African tech startups each year, found 210
startups raised a total of US$334,520,500 in funding in 2018. This represented
the best year since records began, and a substantial leap on 2017. The number
of startups that raised grew by 32.1 per cent, and total funding jumped by an
impressive 71.5 per cent.



A key finding of the report was
the emergence of Nigeria as Africa’s startup funding hub, after years of
playing second fiddle to South Africa. With 58 startups raising a total of
US$94,912,000 in investment, the country was clearly top dog; while South
Africa fell behind with 40 businesses raising US$59,971,000. Kenya ranked third
in terms of the number of startups that raised.



However, other African countries
are emerging as more than viable alternative destinations for funding as
investors increasingly look beyond the traditional “big three” startup
ecosystems. This has been a trend that has been slowly developing over the last
few years. Whereas in 2015, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya accounted for more
than 80 per cent of total funding raised, in 2018 that had fallen to 61.8 per
cent.



Much of that is attributable to
the rise of Egypt as a destination for funding, with the country’s startups
raising US$58.9 million in 2018, clearly establishing Egypt as a leading startup
hub on the continent. Companies in 16 other African countries secured
investment.



In terms of sectors, the fintech
space continued to dominate, remaining a clear favourite among investors and,
at US$132.75 million, accounting for 39.7 per cent of total funds raised. This
was an increase on previous years, but nonetheless there are strong signs of
progress in other sectors, with multiple ed-tech, e-commerce, e-health,
transport, logistics and agri-tech startups raising funding as investors saw
opportunities in a large number of areas.



“It has been an incredible year
for tech startups in Africa &#8211; and it’s a real pleasure to release this report
and the impressive figures it contains.&nbsp; The continent’s entrepreneurs
have grabbed the attention of investors, accelerators, and media both locally
and globally this year with their innovative solutions and business models, and
it’s great to be able to report on such strong results across our ecosystem,”
said Gabriella Mulligan, co-founder of Disrupt Africa.



“The African tech space continues
on its upward trajectory, with more startups than ever before securing record
levels of funding in 2018. Investment levels are not the only way of gauging
the health of local ecosystems, but they are a valuable way of following the
sector’s progress and demonstrate that, increasingly, if you have an innovative
tech solution to a problem, with a strong business model, there are pathways to
funding should you require it to scale,” said Tom Jackson, co-founder of
Disrupt Africa.



About Disrupt Africa



Launched in November 2014, <a href="http://disrupt-africa.com/">Disrupt Africa</a> is a
one-stop-shop for all news, information and commentary pertaining to the
continent’s tech startup – and investment – ecosystem.

African tech startups smashed funding records in 2018, this country received the most funding…

By Lee Naik, CEO, TransUnion Africa



In 2019, it’s not the technology that matters – it’s the thinking behind it. Disruptive technologies that once seemed revolutionary are fast becoming ordinary parts of our lives and we are reaching the point where digital stops being a thing and becomes everything. 



My take on the trends presents a view of how we as humans can consider some of these technological advances that are intrinsically part of our world and our lives and apply purpose to them.



Technologies
Converge as 5G Lands



Biometrics, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI),
IOT, augmented and mixed reality: none of these technologies are new &#8211; NASA has
been using a digital twin framework as far back as the Apollo 13 mission. What
is new is the way in which they are maturing and converging at more or less the
same time, allowing them to build on each other and enable new applications.
Many potentially game-changing technologies are expected to be embedded in our
core processes within the next few years.



Smart cities, for example, are exploring the use of
real-time machine learning and EDGE computing to better deliver existing
connected services. As IOT sensors become cheaper and more ubiquitous, we are
now are gaining access to the sensory information needed to build applications that
solve problems in novel, hyper-contextualized ways.



At the same time, the catalyst that will allow these technologies to become accessible to the average African consumer is finally within reach. Last year saw the first commercially available 5G service launch in Lesotho, with more rollouts planned throughout 2019. With 5G offering speeds up to 1000 times faster than what we’re used to, digital connectivity is about to take a quantum leap forward in Africa. Assuming that South Africa sorts out its spectrum issues &#8211; and both government and telcos have shown great progress here over the last few months &#8211; 5G has the potential to solve a persistent barrier to digital growth &#8211; that of last mile connectivity. When even the most rural and remote areas have access to reliable, high-speed connectivity, the infrastructure will finally be in place for us to re-imagine service delivery for government and business and take us closer to an egalitarian digital society for citizens.



AI
Goes Mainstream



In 2019, machine learning and AI are no longer the
sole domain of the “Big Four” multinational tech companies (Google, Amazon,
Facebook, and Apple – GAFA) and major tech organisations. We’ve already seen
chatbots flourish as the tools to build them have become available to the
Average Joe. Now, we’re seeing the same happening with more advanced AI
analytics as <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/industry/technology/technology-media-and-telecom-predictions/cloud-based-artificial-intelligence.html">DevOps embraces end-to-end
automation</a>. The more complex, labour-intensive tasks associated with AI are now being
packaged into simple, easy-to-deploy applications, and accessibility is opening
up in a big way.



This means that anyone with enough development
knowledge can theoretically build their own mini-Watson, not just major
enterprises with full data science teams at their disposal. Start-ups,
entrepreneurs, small businesses and NGOs alike will be able to leverage
existing tools to create their own AI-driven platforms and ecosystems.
According to <a href="https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartner-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2019/">Gartner</a>, citizen data scientists
are expected to grow at five times the rate of their professional
counterparts.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 



African organisations and entrepreneurs in
particular stand to benefit as they can more easily access game-changing data
analytics that would’ve been unthinkable a few years ago. On the flipside, the
competitive landscape is about to get a lot hotter as sophisticated AI becomes
not just a nice-to-have but a key competitive differentiator. Organisations are
going to need to take a serious look at their business intelligence
capabilities going into 2019 and see whether they can keep up in a market where
AI is everywhere.&nbsp; Finally, we will see
the move from a gut feel to analytics lead organisations. 



The
Digital Identity Question Takes Centre Stage



With the meeting of the digital and physical
worlds, having a fully formed digital identity is increasingly important in being
able to access real-world services. From banking to travel to hospitals,
industries are embracing the use of biometrics, digital onboarding, and
connected devices to serve consumers. Anyone who lacks a digital footprint
stands to be left out.



Shifting to a digital identity model isn’t easy,
not when identity fraud, spoofed information, and even deepfakes are
everywhere. It’s never been more important to have the tools and processes in
place to be able to distinguish real from fake. The other defining question
around digital identities is how you integrate an individual’s online and
offline behaviours to form a unified picture of who they are. Expect to see a
major focus in 2019 on data protection technologies as organisations struggle
with how to deliver more relevant experiences to their customers, without
exposing themselves to risk. 



Identity inclusion stands to be the next great
frontier in digitising society, especially in the developing world where the
standard identity markers – ID numbers, addresses, utility bills, sources of
income &#8211; don’t always work. Thankfully, Africa has a head start in looking
beyond traditional ways of creating verifying digital identities to drive
service delivery. Using AI to establish digital identities as well as
alternative data models, will be key drivers in mapping digital identities and creating
more secure access to products and services.



Time
To Clean Up Your Data Act



Over the past few years, we’ve seen increased awareness
among consumers around their personal data and what it is used for. Even major
players that previously seemed untouchable are not immune to scrutiny of their
data and security policies. This year there will be less tolerance for bad data
practices.



The implementation of various consumer protection
policies around the world &#8211; GDPR and PoPIA in particular &#8211; put organisations
even under greater pressure to secure and utilise personal data ethically. With
great power doesn’t just come great responsibility but also a greater chance of
legal and financial consequences if you don’t follow through. 



Data protection technologies and services should
thrive as a result, but we’ll also see companies wrestling with just how to
implement analytics and make use of personal data without falling foul of
privacy laws. Thankfully, even as AI poses a challenge, it also provides a
potential solution &#8211; already, we are seeing sophisticated automated compliance
solutions powered by machine learning and natural language processing. 



Rediscovering
Purpose in a Changing World



We’ve seen a societal shift towards not only to more
ethical consumption of products and services, but also trying to live a more
purposeful life. Faced with more choices and information than they&#8217;ve ever had
access to, consumers are striving to make more meaningful choices whether it&#8217;s
who they work for, what they spend their time doing, or how they spend their
money. 



Similarly, organisations are wrestling with their
own purpose in a world with nearly unlimited data and powerful technology. How
do you make the right choices to grow and deliver meaningful outcomes to
shareholders, consumers and society at large? 



As the hype dies down on disruptive technologies
and they become an accepted part of our everyday lives, 2019 provides an
opportunity to seriously consider how they can be used purposefully. If every
choice we make is capable of being enhanced with data, and every object a
potential source of rich insights, then the limits on what we can and can’t do
to create better businesses and societies fall away. Expect the concept of
‘information for good’ to reach into even the most unexpected places as we
explore what it means to exist in the midst of the fourth industrial
revolution. 



I’ll be expanding on each of these trends in the months
to come, providing use cases and practical advice on how to navigate each of
them. In the meantime, I’d love to hear your thoughts. What trends do you think
will have the biggest impact on your industry? What predictions would you add
to the list above?

5 tech predictions for 2019

MTN has the fastest internet speed among South Africa&#8217;s mobile operators, according to MyBroadband Insights Q4 2018 Mobile Network Quality Report. In Africa Madagascar does, according to UK analytics firm Cable&#8217;s Worldwide broadband speed league 2018, which is based on over 163m speed tests in 200 countries. 



By MyBroadband 



The report is based on 383,479 speed tests which were performed by thousands
of MyBroadband Android Speed Test App users across South Africa between 1
October 2018 and 31 December 2018.



The research shows that South Africa had an average mobile download speed of
22.18Mbps during the period.



MTN had the highest average download speed at 26.95Mbps, followed by Vodacom on 26.78Mbps, Rain on 21.67Mbps, Telkom on 19.83Mbps, and Cell C on 15.56Mbps.



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MyBroadband Insights director Marius Hollenbach said the results were in
line with expectations and closely tracked the network investments by mobile
operators.



MTN has invested R43.6 billion over the last four years to expand its 3G and
LTE network footprint across South Africa.



This investment helped MTN to launch 11,000 LTE sites which brought its 4G
population coverage in the country up to 90%.



Hollenbach highlighted that MTN’s network investment over the past few years
was significantly higher than Vodacom’s, and the results now show the impact of
this investment.



Best mobile network in South Africa



To determine the best mobile network in South Africa, a “Network Quality Score”
was calculated for each network using download speed, upload speed, and
latency.



The Network Quality Score out of 10 shows how the network performed in
relation to other networks.



MTN reigned supreme with a Network Quality Score of 10.00, followed by Vodacom
on 9.68, Rain on 8.04, Telkom on 6.88, and Cell C on 6.16.



The table below provides an overview of the mobile network rankings in South
Africa.



<table class="wp-block-table"><tbody><tr><td>
 Operator 
 </td><td>
 Latency
 (ms) 
 </td><td>
 Download
 Speed (Mbps)
 
 </td><td>
 Upload
 Speed (Mbps)
 
 </td><td>
 Network
 Score
 
 </td></tr><tr><td>
 MTN
 
 </td><td>
 37
 
 </td><td>
 26.95
 
 </td><td>
 12.15
 
 </td><td>
 10.00 
 </td></tr><tr><td>
 Vodacom
 
 </td><td>
 39
 
 </td><td>
 26.78
 
 </td><td>
 11.08
 
 </td><td>
 9.68 
 </td></tr><tr><td>
 Rain
 
 </td><td>
 44
 
 </td><td>
 21.67
 
 </td><td>
 9.26
 
 </td><td>
 8.04 
 </td></tr><tr><td>
 Telkom
 
 </td><td>
 44
 
 </td><td>
 19.83
 
 </td><td>
 4.79
 
 </td><td>
 6.88 
 </td></tr><tr><td>
 Cell
 C 
 </td><td>
 53
 
 </td><td>
 15.56
 
 </td><td>
 7.87
 
 </td><td>
 6.16 
 </td></tr></tbody></table>

This SA mobile operator has the fastest internet speed

By Tom Huddleston Jr.*



MacKenzie Bezos could soon be one of the wealthiest women in the world after she and husband Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO and the world’s richest person, announced their decision to divorce after 25 years of marriage.



The couple announced the decision in a joint statement that Jeff Bezos posted on Twitter on Wednesday morning. The decision to divorce comes after “a long period of loving exploration and trial separation,” the couple says in the statement.<a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/1083004911380393985/photo/1">View image on Twitter</a>



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Any divorce settlement they reach could be one of the largest ever, considering Bezos’ massive wealth. Jeff Bezos boasts a net worth of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/jeffrey-p-bezos/" class="">roughly $137 billion</a>, according to Bloomberg’s most recent estimate. CNBC Make It’s most recent&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/13/jeff-bezos-launches-day-one-fund-charity-how-he-spends-his-billions.html" class="">look at Bezos’ assets</a>&nbsp;reveals multimillion-dollar homes across the U.S. (including in Medina, Washington and Beverly Hills, California, each worth $25 million, according to WealthX). But, as of October, more than 90 percent of Bezos’ wealth was tied up in Amazon stock, of which he owns about 80 million shares.



Since Jeff and MacKenzie were married before he founded Amazon in 1994 — and because the laws in the state of Washington say that all assets acquired during a marriage can be split equally — it’s possible that MacKenzie could walk away from their divorce with half of her husband’s net worth, or about $66 billion, based on Amazon’s current value,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/09/how-much-could-mackenzie-bezos-get-in-a-divorce.html" class="">CNBC reported</a>&nbsp;today. (The world’s richest woman is currently Walmart heiress Alice Walton, whose net worth was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferwang/2018/03/06/richest-women/#7610735481f1" class="">$46 billion</a>&nbsp;in 2018, according to Forbes.)



Whether or not Jeff and MacKenzie actually do split his fortune down the middle — a divorce attorney told CNBC’s Robert Frank that’s unlikely because so much of Bezos’ wealth is tied to him continuing to control his Amazon share, plus it is not clear if the couple has any sort of pre-nuptial agreement — their divorce still makes it likely that MacKenzie will soon have a substantial fortune of her own. (MacKenzie&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/09/reuters-america-update-5-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-and-wife-mackenzie-to-divorce.html" class="">reportedly</a>&nbsp;does not currently own any shares of Amazon.)



So who is MacKenzie Bezos?



MacKenzie grew up in San Francisco, where her father worked as a financial planner. She earned an English degree at Princeton University in 1992 (roughly six years after Jeff graduated from the same school), and she first met her future husband later that same year. She’d moved to New York City in search of a job and she met Jeff when he interviewed her for a job at the hedge fund where he was working, D.E. Shaw.



The two ended up with offices next to one another and MacKenzie soon became enamored with Bezos and his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.recode.net/2017/4/20/15358878/neil-gaiman-vr-virtual-reality-sandman-recode-podcast" class="">loud, distinctive laugh</a>. “My office was next door to his, and all day long I listened to that fabulous laugh,”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/a-novel-perspective-mackenzie-bezos" class="">she told Vogue</a>&nbsp;in a 2013 interview. “How could you not fall in love with that laugh?”



MacKenzie kicked things off with Bezos by asking him out to lunch and, after dating for only three months, they were engaged. Another three months later, they got married. That was 1993 and MacKenzie was only 23, while Jeff was 29.



Not long after, Jeff&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/27/amazons-jeff-bezos-son-of-a-teen-mom-to-richest-person-in-the-world.html" class="">had the idea that would become Amazon.com</a>. “I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most startups don’t, and I wasn’t sure what would happen after that,” Jeff said in a 2010 address at his alma mater, Princeton.



MacKenzie told him to go for it and in 1994 the couple moved from New York to Seattle, with&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090204204126/http://www.portfolio.com/resources/executive-profiles/Jeffrey-P-Bezos-1984" class="">Jeff writing a business plan</a>&nbsp;for his online bookstore on the cross-country drive. He launched the company out of their garage that summer.



When Vogue asked Jeff in 2013 about what drew him to MacKenzie, the billionaire listed a few of her attributes while also joking about the added insight he gained from interviewing her for a job. “I think my wife is resourceful, smart, brainy, and hot, but I had the good fortune of having seen her résumé before I met her, so I knew exactly what her SATs were,” he said.



While Jeff built Amazon into an e-commerce behemoth that briefly reached a $1 trillion valuation in 2018, MacKenzie rediscovered a passion for writing that she had developed in college, where she studied fiction under Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. (Morrison&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/a-novel-perspective-mackenzie-bezos" class="">told Vogue</a>that MacKenzie was “one of the best students I’ve ever had in my creative-writing classes.”)



MacKenzie is the author of two novels: “The Testing of Luther Albright,” published in 2005, and 2013′s “Traps.”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/books/review/the-testing-of-luther-albright-home-improvement.html" class="">The New York Times called</a>&nbsp;the first of those two novels, which won an American Book Award in 2006, a “quietly absorbing first novel” about “an emotionally repressed husband and father.” (Though Amazon has its own book publishing imprint, MacKenzie’s novels were published by Fourth Estate and Knopf, respectively. They are among the titles sold on Amazon.)



MacKenzie took roughly a decade to write her first book, she told Vogue in 2013, partially because she wanted to spend more time with her children (she gave birth to the first of the couple’s four children in 2000), which took time out of her writing schedule. In 2013, she said she had gone as far as renting a one-bedroom apartment near the Bezos’ Washington home where she could spend time writing uninterrupted.



In addition to her writing career, MacKenzie also founded the anti-bullying organization Bystander Revolution in 2014. She serves as executive director of the organization,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bystanderrevolution.org/about" class="">which says</a>&nbsp;it’s “ultimate goal is the discussion and spread of simple habits of kindness, courage, and inclusion.” The organization’s website aims to offer solutions to bullying along with suggestions for how the average person can defuse situations involving bullying.



The organization has worked with celebrities like Monica Lewinsky, actress Lily Collins, and NFL star Tom Brady to produce anti-bullying videos.



“A lot of the conventional wisdom about bullying is that it is a cultural norm that can’t be overcome,”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2015/0508/Bystander-Revolution-stands-up-to-bullying" class="">MacKenzie said in 2015</a>. “But there are so many small things an individual can do to help that have a huge impact.”



Meanwhile, in 2018, Jeff and MacKenzie announced their&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/technology/jeff-and-mackenzie-bezos-pledge-2-billion-for-homeless-and-preschoolers.html" class="">pledge</a>&nbsp;to donate $2 billion to a new philanthropic fund that will go toward helping homeless families and funding preschools in underserved communities. The move&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/jeff-bezoss-new-2-billion-philanthropic-fund-faces-many-unanswered-questions.html" class="">followed criticism</a>&nbsp;of Jeff Bezos for what had been a lack of philanthropic activities. And, while Jeff and MacKenzie are splitting up, their announcement still left room for them to work together in the future on projects like the philanthropic fund.



The couple described their relationship going forward this way: “We also see wonderful futures ahead as parents, friends, partners in ventures and projects, and as individuals pursuing ventures and adventures.”



This article first appeared on CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/09/mackenzie-bezos-could-become-one-of-the-richest-women-in-the-world.html and is republished with its permission

Meet MacKenzie Bezos. She could soon be the wealthiest women in the world

By <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/courtney-connley/">Courtney Connley*</a>



Almost everyone has had this experience: You hear that your friend got a great new job, and they didn’t even have to apply — they were contacted by a headhunter.&nbsp;



“It’s completely human to get a twinge of envy when you hear a friend is being recruited,” says bestselling management author and CNBC contributor Suzy Welch.&nbsp;It’s easy to hear that it’s happening for others and wonder, “Why aren’t headhunters calling me?”



Welch tells&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/make-it/" class="">CNBC Make It</a>&nbsp;that if you find yourself pondering this dilemma, there are four simple steps you should take to increase your chances of catching a recruiter’s eye:



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CNBC Contributor Suzy Welch



1. Update your LinkedIn profile



Welch says it’s absolutely imperative that you have a stellar LinkedIn profile.



“In fact, it needs to be so complete and descriptive that it achieves ‘all-star’ status on the site,” she says. “Don’t worry if you don’t know what that means, LinkedIn will guide you there with tips.”



In addition to building your “all-star” profile, Welch says you need to make it known to recruiters that you’re interested in being looked at. You can do this by going to the jobs menu on the platform and clicking the box that indicates you’re “open to offers.”



“Have no fear about your current employer,” she emphasizes. “This selection is private.”



2. Boost your industry profile



Headhunters often go after professionals whose work is seen and known in their industry. That’s why, Welch says, it’s important that you raise your profile, not just by attending conferences or networking, but also by pitching yourself to speak on panels. That way, you’re able to bring greater awareness to the expertise you have to offer.



Additionally, she says, you should also “write for or get quoted in industry publications — or better yet, do both.”



3. Maintain a mature online presence



Outside of LinkedIn, Welch says you want to be sure that your other social media accounts “demonstrate a vibrant, mature presence.” You want to show “that you care about trends and events in your industry, and you have intelligent, constructive views about them.”



Doing this, she says, will show that “you’re part of the conversation.”



“I’m not saying you have to eliminate the cute dog pics, but your social feeds should be curated as if a headhunter is looking at them, and when she does, she’s thinking, ‘Here’s a smart grown-up.’”



4. Contact a headhunter directly



If you’re really interested in making a connection with a headhunter, Welch says “there’s no reason not to contact them by email, with a concise, persuasive letter about your skills and career interests&nbsp;— and of course a link to your profile on LinkedIn or elsewhere.”



She warns, though, that recruiters usually don’t like to be contacted by phone. In order to avoid seeming desperate, she says you should “keep all communication digital until they call you.”



“Being headhunted is not just for top execs or superstars anymore,” Welch says. “Plenty of companies are looking for talent. Use these four strategies to make sure you’re on their radar.”



Suzy Welch is the co-founder of the <a class="" href="http://jwmi.com/?mcv=jdg469">Jack Welch Management Institute</a> and a noted business journalist, TV commentator and public speaker. Think you need Suzy to fix your career? Email her at gettowork@cnbc.com.



This article first appeared on CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/07/suzy-welch-4-simple-ways-to-get-recruiters-to-come-to-you.html and is republished with its permission

Four ways to get recruiters to come to you

By <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/j-t-odonnell/">J.T. O’Donnell*</a> 



With over 500 million profiles and counting, LinkedIn is currently the largest online professional networking website. An <a class="" href="https://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/outside-voices-careers/articles/2017-05-05/how-headhunters-use-linkedin-to-find-talented-candidates">estimated 95 percent of recruiters use LinkedIn to find candidates</a>, so a strong profile is a must-have if you’re looking to add more <a class="" href="https://www.workitdaily.com/whats-an-interview-bucket-list/">job interviews to your 2019 bucket list</a>.



Over the past few years, job seekers have grown increasingly sophisticated in their efforts to land a dream job. Instead of being at the mercy of job boards and reading through hundreds of boring descriptions, smart job seekers are identifying employers that match a very specific&nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/wj-TckhdbrU" class="">set of criteria</a>&nbsp;that perfectly aligns with their interests.



Luckily, this has been easier to do thanks to a new LinkedIn feature, which is going to be every job seeker’s secret weapon.The new hastagging tool



Just recently, LinkedIn has quietly been rolling out “LinkedIn Hashtags,” a new feature that allows users to add relevant hashtags to the content they post. This may seem like no big deal, especially because Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and even Youtube have that very same feature. But in today’s world of transparency, employers are starting to realize that posting content about what it’s like to work at their companies is an effective technique for attracting the top talent.1:36‘Bar Rescue’s’ Jon Taffer: How to nail a job interview



Hashtagging content on LinkedIn also allows job seekers to find their dream employers much faster.



READ: <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/02/this-1-new-linkedin-feature-can-help-you-find-your-dream-job.html">These 7 top-rated apps will make you smarter, calmer and healthier in 2019</a>



Let’s say you’re looking for a company that will allow you to bring your dog to work. Instead of Googling “dog-friendly workplaces” (where you’ll mostly find companies that have only been written about), you can search for perks like ”#dogfriendly” or ”#freelunch” in LinkedIn’s content feed and find ones you wouldn’t have otherwise known existed.



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(Image via LinkedIn)



What’s important to note about this technique is that it allows you to look beyond the traditional factors like salary and healthcare benefits. After all, job seekers today — millennials, especially — have expressed that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gallup.com/workplace/236477/millennials-work-life.aspx" class="">there is more to a dream job than a big paycheck</a>.How to best optimize your search



To get the most out of&nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/wj-TckhdbrU" class="">LinkedIn Hashtags</a>, there are a few things to keep in mind.



First, understand that it’s a relatively new feature that companies are just starting to utilize, so be patient. The search results will get more robust over time. Second, don’t use too many hashtags at once. Narrow them down to two or three tops. Lastly, try creating a set of searches that you can do consistently. Running the searches a few times each week will give you fresh content to look at.



Finding your dream employer <a class="" href="https://youtu.be/-1umUFfIicY">requires a very proactive approach</a>. It’s not going to fall into your lap overnight! Luckily, LinkedIn’s new tool can make it easier for you to be much more strategic in your 2019 job hunt.



*This article first appeared on CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/02/this-1-new-linkedin-feature-can-help-you-find-your-dream-job.html and is republished with its permission

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