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Entrepreneur sleeping habits aren’t different from any other person’s. While, ideally, I think we’re all trying to pin down the perfect sleep pattern that will maximize our opportunities at success, it seems that there’s no one “right” way to sleep. In the infographic below, each of the 21 entrepreneurs share how much sleep they get each night, what hours of the day they spend in bed, and even provide a little insight on ways they get perk themselves up throughout the day (whether that’s taking a nap or exercising for X amount of time)....

The business buzzword of the moment is to be the Uber of X, where X has become whatever concierge service or frustrating connection is needed in that moment. There are a variety of companies operating in major metropolitan areas, aiming to take our most pedestrian and frustrating tasks and either make them much more convenient, or remove them from our lives entirely. Here are a few companies that, like Uber, are changing how we go about our daily lives....

FlirtAR is a mobile app for Apple and Android that uses augmented reality to find you a match. By utilizing a wide range of innovative solutions, the app will be able to recognize nearby daters, measure compatibility, and match accordingly with a simple point of your smartphone. While this tech might some far too innovative to be launched on a dating app, it’s fairly simply. Through facial recognition technology, users will be able to spot nearby users in a crowded room....

Created by a group of students from the India Institute of Technology, evive is an open-source prototyping module that can make creating projects easier than ever. It has a power module, plug and play hardware interface, user interface, data acquisition module, shield stack space and more. It’s even IoT ready so it can connect to more devices than you can count. Plus, it works across multiple platforms like LabVIEW, MATLAB, Scratch, Eclipse, ROS, Python, Arduino IDE and many more....

Failory is a new startup that aims to turn failure into a learning experience. By interviewing entrepreneurs that have run companies that are defunct, they’re providing an invaluable asset to budding startup founders that could be in the middle of making the exact same mistake. As a comedian, I know the value of failure more than most. I know that for every joke that doesn’t work, I’m gleaning integral knowledge about how to succeed in the future....

In the past three months, they’ve seen over 43,000 searches on the platform coming from users in 120 countries and 600 cities. All of these are filtered by location, which gives us some interesting insight into where entrepreneurs want to meet up. You could measure a startup scene by how much funding is pumped into it, or how many exits there have been, or how business-friendly the regulations are. But connections between the entrepreneurs are another big factor....

XQual If you need better tools to improve the efficiency of your software testing, XQual can help. They offer a comprehensive solution that’s powerful, flexible, and best of all, affordable. XQual’s software testing suite can handle a wide variety of tasks, including risk management, specifications, testing documentation, campaign recording, bug tracking, and version histories. XQual’s tools work with any standard continuous integration platform. The package of programs can be used through any one of five manual interfaces....

The problem has been well documented. From Leslie Jones leaving the platform because of sexist critics of the all-female reboot of Ghostbusters to faux-patriots badgering Gabby Douglas to the point of crying after an Olympics press conference, the problem seems like an overflowing pot that can’t be settled. And while it may seem like Twitter is ignoring the problem, how do you fix something that is a specific byproduct of the free-speech website in the first place?...

If trimming the company down by half wasn’t bold enough, Axios has recently reported that remaining workers will be forced to work from the office full-time, with out-of-towners only being given 60 days to relocate. Elon Musk has never been a stranger to controversy. But his complete overhaul of the social media platform, which includes other striking actions like commodifying the blue tick and segmenting the site into user-rated sections, is already proving to be a step too far for some users....

Nokia has been building and improving their mapping technology for twenty years. Their ultimate goal was to create the most accurate digital maps in the world. However, their goals have seemingly shifted (due to a company-wide restructuring), and now they’re looking to sell Here to the highest bidder. An in-house mapping technology would play right into Uber’s list of future plans, one of which is self-driving cars (they’re currently working with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to create the Uber Advanced Technologies Center....

Upguard, a company that helps assess website security and the potential for a breach, has completed an evaluation – using their Upguard Website Risk Grader – on the security of the top dating sites. The Grader looks at externally accessible security factors such as whether SSL is enabled, whether cookies are secure, and a other data points to determine the relative security of a site from an external viewpoint. UpGuard scores sites on a scale of 0-950, with 950 being the most secure (similar to credit card scores)....

While brands like Oculus and HTC have done everything they can to make virtual reality a viable consumer tech trend, everyday citizens are still wary about widely adopting the technology in their everyday lives. Sure, VR headsets are fun to show off at parties, but the average gamer is still opting for consoles and controllers over headsets and wired gloves. And there’s not much convincing them to make the switch, particularly with esports making a global push in popularity....

The news comes from CNET, which reports that Verizon’s chief information and technology architect, Roger Gurnani, said in an interview last week that the company will lead the telecom industry in the adoption of 5G. By 2020, the company hopes to achieve full consumer availability of a 5G network. The move seems similar to that of South Korea’s which last year announced a $1.5 billion investment in 5G infrastructure upgrades for trial network testing in 2017 and full availability by 2020....

And Wall Street is going nuts already. Here’s the Rumor Bloomberg has the admittedly very rudimentary news: According to them, the Walt Disney Co. is “working with a financial adviser to evaluate a possible bid for Twitter Inc.,” but this information is only offered by “people familiar with the matter.” They continue: And Here’s the Response Slate Writer Will Oremus has compiled the stock responses to this rumor: — Will Oremus (@WillOremus) September 26, 2016 Yup....

Video chat was originally proposed by the company back in April of 2020, so it’s been a long time coming. While it’s easy to think that Telegram may have missed the peak of video chat fever, as the pandemic is (hopefully) dying down, video calling software is actually still on the climb, with Zoom’s Q1 2021 figures being higher than ever before. So, could this be your new video calling service of choice?...

Weejay.fm is a rewards-based application that gives users the capability to change the music at whichever venue they find themselves in. Targeted to help people control their experiences at bars, restaurants, and special events, Weejay.fm allows users to actively affect their audio experiences with taps of their fingers. Prior to Weejay.fm, there really was no efficient way to control, change, or influence the music being played at your favorite restaurant or bar....

The Cupertino company launched the iPhone 11 series yesterday with three models: the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max. Clearly Tim Cook, the other Apple head honchos, and all of the whooping spectators in the Steve Jobs Theatre were delighted. Here at Tech.co, though, we were thoroughly underwhelmed (as were most other tech media outlets). While there will still be wall-to-wall coverage of the new iPhones — Apple stories attract traffic like nothing else — it seems as though both the press and the public are running out of patience with Apple....

Here’s what to know about the high-end smartphone, which offers a great array of specs at a $1000 price tag, and which is available May 14th, exclusive to Verizon. Motorola also today revealed the Motorola Edge, a device in the same family but with slightly more limited abilities and no price yet set: We’ll discuss it, too. Rounding out the list of everything needed to impress a smartphone buff in 2020, the Edge Plus is Motorola’s first 5G phone, supporting mmWave 5G in the US and Sub-6GHz 5G globally....

It doesn’t matter if you’re first to market with an idea, there’s always going to be competition – even if it’s with yourself. It’s never a bad thing, this being competitive, and in my experiences most all entrepreneurs love it. Believe it or not, October is only four months away. That means that our third annual Celebrate Conference is only four months away, a conference that features a massive, global competition for entrepreneurs....