Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Calling To Every User

Facebook’s head of messaging products David Marcus announced that the Messenger app will now support group calls for every user. This feature was announced on Wednesday and will be fully rolling out to every user today. You will need to update to the latest version of the Messenger app for the group calling feature to work.

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Shark Tank: Why Did The Sharks Trash A Smart Solution To The U.S. Obesity Crisis?

Remember that food journal you kept during the nutrition unit in health class? You had to jot down everything you ate and how much. Then you looked up the calories in a database and added them up. It was a tedious chore to merely confirm your unabated denial that you eat too much, especially when it comes to deep-fried foods and chocolate.

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What Law Schools Should Do To Combat Disruption

In our recent white paper for the Clayton Christensen Institute titled Disrupting Law School, Michele Pistone, a law professor at Villanova University, and I write that the forces of disruptive innovation have arrived firmly in the world of legal services and will likely only accelerate in the years ahead. Many law schools are under severe threat because of the resulting change in the labor market for lawyers. That threat is likely to accelerate when, not if, a disruptive innovator emerges in legal education (in this context, the news of 2U’s partnership with Syracuse to build an online juris doctor (JD) program is worth watching).

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Acer Liquid Zest Plus is official with a 5.5-inch display and a 5000mAh battery

Acer held a press event today in New York and announced a couple of laptops and a smartphone – the Acer Liquid Zest Plus. Acer shared some of the key specs of the Liquid Zest Plus on stage – a 5.5″ HD display, a 13MP camera with something they call tri-focus, and a massive 5,000 mAh battery capable of quick charging. Tri-focus means the snapper relies on all types of AF used today – laser, contrast and phase detection. We managed to find some more specs of the device – it runs on MediaTek’s MT6735 chip with a quad-core 1.3GHz Cortex-A53, Mali-T720 GPU and 2GB of RAM. There is 16GB…

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