Secretary of Education Arne Duncan talked about the importance of closing the diversity gap in technology careers by closing the technology gap in South Texas on Tuesday, as part of the annual Hispanic Engineering, Science, and Technology (HESTEC) week for area middle and high school students.
If you haven't heard of the MiTú network yet, you will. Starting as a collection of YouTube lifestyle channels aimed at Latino viewers in 2012, MiTúhas grown its reach across new and old media, as well as its audience and its influence, to become the largest Latino entertainment network worldwide.
On Monday, Twitter finally made its long anticipated announcement that Jack Dorsey, co-founder of the company and currently interim CEO, was indeed to become Twitter's next full CEO. The 38 year-old is currently also CEO of mobile payments company Square, a position that he will not vacate.
This week in social media, another privacy hoax took over Facebook. Meanwhile, it looks like interim CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey will be taking over Twitter and Snapchat's new feature is an ad that costs almost a million dollars for one day.
"Saturday Night Live" alums Horatio Sanz and Fred Armisen are teaming up to launch "Más Mejor," a Latino comedy hub designed to meet the millennial generation where they live: online.
On Tuesday, Google unveiled the new Nexus phones at a press event. It also revealed a new, updated and redesigned Chromecast for video, as well as a new stand-alone Chromecast Audio for streaming music to your sound system. Here are the details.
On Tuesday, Google held a press conference to unveil its new Nexus phones, give more details on Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and reveal a couple of surprises. Here's a recap of everything new from Google's September 2015 event.
A couple years ago, Google introduced the Chromebook Pixel, an addition to its usually affordable, usually-barebones Chrome OS-running Chromebook laptop series that packed a super-high resolution screen, and a price to match.
This week in social media, Facebook renamed its free Internet service to create some separation from its charity offerings, and redesigned a long-forgotten feature of its flagship platform. Meanwhile, Instagram hit a milestone of 400 million users, surpassing continually troubled Twitter.
As the release date of Android 6.0 M, (now known to be Android 6.0 Marshmallow) approaches, users of Google's mobile operating systems may be wondering what's coming in the update that's different from the last operating system it released, Android 5.0 Lollipop.
This week, we present a special OS-edition of Tap That App, with our favorite new features to help you explore and get the most out of the new iOS 9. We'll be talking about apps, too.
"I think people focus on entrepreneurship just -- because." Alexander Torrenegra, co-founder of Bunny Inc., is a lifelong serial entrepreneur, and not just "because."
This week in social media, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he's actually decided to create a "dislike" button, but it's not what you think. Meanwhile, Snapchat added a replay feature for snaps you might have missed (for a price) and in Facebook's new "Signal" feature, Twitter has something big to worry about from the top social media platform on the planet.
In this week's Tap That App, we test drive the alternative to tapping your iPhone at the cash register: doing the same thing with your Android smartphone with Android Pay.
"In a nutshell, my life's work is really about creating access." Silicon Valley has a diversity problem, and judging from the small annual increase in the number of women and minority hires at tech giants like Apple, Google, and Facebook, progress has been slow.
The 2015 Motorola Moto X, alternately known as the "Style" or "Pure Edition" depending on which country you live in, hit its release date on Tuesday, and Latin Post got a handset to review on day one.
Besides dropping his beauty pageants from the air and creating custom piñatas, Latinos are finding new cathartic ways to bash GOP presidential front-runner and celebrity real estate mogul Donald Trump in the digital space.
Home button: The (new) iPhone's vestigial organ. As expected, on Wednesday Sept. 9, Apple unveiled the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus and, as expected, it features the variable-pressure sensitivity known as "Force Touch" to most, until today.
This week in social media, two Facebook-owned messenger services hit major milestones. Meanwhile, Twitter is still on the hunt for a leader with a possible announcement soon, Snapchat (maybe?) hit a Facebook-style milestone in video, and Tumblr cleaned up its act -- on mobile.
Here's what YouTube Gaming for Android and iOS offers, how it hopes to replace Twitch in the burgeoning online world of live video game streaming, and how it may be the first test for a YouTube live streaming empire.
It's probably a little of both. Late last week, Twitter published an announcement on its blog regarding the company's diversity goals. Depending on your perspective, they are either modest and realistic, or just disappointing.
This week in social media, Facebook had a full billion on the site at one time, while planning to add intelligence to Messenger. Meanwhile, Instagram dropped the square box, and Vine now adds perfectly looping music behind your videos.
