Власти хотят разрешить рейсы в страны с низким уровнем заболеваемости Covid-19.

И планах создать с супругой фонд.

На первом этапе выбрать, сравнить и удалённо оформить вклады смогут клиенты из 23 регионов.

Это также «идеальные помещения для деятельности, которая требует высочайших уровней безопасности».

Комплект средств разработки Facebook SDK объединяет приложения с соцсетью, например, для аналитики и таргетинга.

Критики проекта считают, что из-за базового дохода люди могут потерять мотивацию работать, а сторонники рассчитывают преодолеть нищету.

Андрей Кривенко рассказал проекту «Русские норм!», как компания переживает коронакризис, когда проведёт IPO и почему у неё нет KPI и спланированного бюджета.

Компания также может отказаться от покупки стартапа, если некоторые сотрудники не захотят работать на Amazon, пишет агентство.

Пока в нескольких округах.

С проблемами столкнулись пользователи в Москве, Санкт-Петербурге и других городах.

«Синема парк» задолжала 192 млн рублей, «Киномакс» — 83 млн рублей.

Так срок окупаемости дата-центров можно сократить в среднем до 7,5 года вместо 11 лет, говорят в «Ростелекоме».

В частности, выступили главы «Яндекса» и Mail.ru Group Аркадий Волож и Борис Добродеев, а также вице-президент Telegram Илья Перекопский.

Минкомсвязи предлагало отменить нулевой НДС для поставщиков ПО, чтобы компенсировать льготы для ИТ-отрасли.

Одним из участников панели стал Telegram, который в последние два года официально не работал в России.

Иск подали на фоне проходящего судебного процесса над четырьмя обвиняемыми по делу о крушении Boeing 777 авиакомпании Malaysia Airlines.

Запрет не распространяется на веб-версию приложения.

Только с теми странами, где число заражённых не выше 40 на 100 тыс жителей, а среднесуточный прирост заражений не выше 1%.

Бизнесмен с супругой планируют создать фонд, который будет заниматься вопросами донорства костного мозга в России.

Инициатива вернуть собору статус мечети принадлежит президенту Турции. Против его идеи выступили РПЦ, госсекретарь США и правительство Греции.

Местные власти давно обещают пресечь случаи травли и избиений в спорте, которые часто исходят от тренеров.

Это произошло в год 95-летия клуба.

А городские власти пообещали награду за информацию о злоумышленниках.

По версии следствия, он участвовал в покушении и организации убийств бизнесменов, совершённых в 2004-2005 годах.

me while my spotify is still not working even after turning my phone on and off again #SpotifyDown

Это заметили по видеозаписям, на которых видно, что вместо пожилой женщины протокол подписала молодая блондинка.

У родителей не всегда есть деньги, чтобы содержать детей, потому они договариваются о свадьбах.

Сейчас подлинность снимков проверяет специальная комиссия.

Проблемы наблюдаются у пользователей из нескольких городов.

Современные IDE — очень мощные инструменты, способные помогать разработчику в самых разных ситуациях. Но обратной стороной этой мощности является то, что большинство функций находится в тени — об их наличии мало кто подозревает. Простой пример одной такой функции

А вы знаете, что, если в IDEA нажать F2, курсор перескочит к ближайшей ошибке в файле? А если нет ошибки, то к замечанию? Как-то так получается, что об этом знают далеко не все. Одной такой функцией является Structural Search & Replace (SSR). Она может быть невероятно полезна в тех ситуациях, когда пасует всё богатое разнообразие других функций.

Несколько таких примеров я и приведу в данной статье. И чтобы не ограничиваться суррога…

После завершения интернет-голосования, которое закончилось удивительно хорошо, меня и многих людей долго не покидало чувство того, что в России просто не может что-то пройти так хорошо. Сейчас можно расслабиться — реальность не подкачала и мы увидели двойное безумие: как с точки зрения архитектуры решения, так с точки зрения криптографии. Кстати, Минкомсвязь до сих пор исключает ЛЮБУЮ возможность утечки паспортных данных избирателей Между тем распределение серий паспортов выглядит вот так: Давайте воспроизведем события и попробуем понять как всего этого можно было избежать Читать дальше →

В 2013 я пришел в Mail.ru Group, и я решал задачу, в которой мне нужна была очередь. Есть много разных инструментов для построения очередей, но я решил для начала узнать, что уже имеется в компании. Услышал, что есть такой продукт — Tarantool. Узнал, как он устроен, и мне показалось, что в него отлично может быть встроен брокер очередей. Я пошёл к главному по Tarantool — Косте Осипову — и постарался объяснить, что я хочу получить. Предполагалось, что код очереди будет написан на C, как и остальной код Tarantool, но… На следующий день Костя дал мне скрипт на 250 строк, который реализовывал почти всё, что я хотел.

С того момента я влюбился в Tarantool. Оказалось, что можно написать совсем нем…

Сегодня мы расскажем, что изучают магистры и чем занимаются выпускники факультета. Также поговорим об их знаковых работах вроде гиперболических плазмон-поляритонов. Читать дальше →

Последние полгода я наблюдал за развитием начинающих React-программистов. За это время они прошли просто невероятный путь. Скорость их обучения, их жажда знаний, их стремление к совершенству — всё это произвело на меня сильнейшее впечатление. Как им это удалось? Как они превратились из тех, кто не может без посторонней помощи открыть PR, в тех, к кому обращаются за помощью другие? Что сделало людей, просящих советов, людьми, охотно дающих советы другим? Как ученики превратились в учителей? Я задал им эти вопросы. Вот что они на них ответили. Читать дальше →

Физики НИТУ «МИСиС» совместно с коллегами из Политехнического университета Турина (Италия) и НТЦ УП РАН разработали технологию, позволяющую делать невидимыми различные вытянутые объекты, такие как антенны и различные датчики, шасси самолетов, мачты кораблей и вышки аэропортов. В основе изобретения — инновационный метаматериал, подавляющий рассеяние электрического типа объекта. Читать дальше →

Компания Western Digital анонсировала выход сразу нескольких моделей емких HDD для корпоративного использования. Обновление получили линейки Gold и Ultrastar. В первом случае диски уже можно купить, во втором речь идет об анонсе новых моделей, которые станут доступны не ранее следующего квартала. WD Gold — это носители для корпоративных систем хранения данных. Рядовой пользователь тоже может их приобрести, но позиционируются они как серверные. Линейка жестких дисков Gold поддерживает только интерфейс SATA. Производитель дает на них пятилетнюю гарантию. Читать дальше →

Kubernetes-операторы — удобный механизм для расширения возможностей этой контейнерной платформы, по праву снискавший широкое признание в среде инженеров эксплуатации и им сочувствующих. О том, как они устроены и работают, мы рассказывали в уже далёком 2017-м. А в апреле прошлого года мы представили Open Source-проект shell-operator, который значительно упростил процесс создания Kubernetes-операторов. Для этого был разработан фреймворк, позволяющий запускать произвольные скрипты (на Bash, Python и т.п.) в случае наступления определённых событий в K8s-кластере. За минувшее время shell-operator обрёл свою пользовательскую базу (см. подробности в конце статьи) и, конечно, новые возможности. По …

В этой статье я расскажу, что такое Лексоранги, как ими пользуются в Jira, и как ими воспользовались мы для эффективной сортировки списков и перетаскивания элементов в нашем мобильном приложении. Читать дальше →

У Nintendo Game Boy есть чип усилителя аудио, использующийся для звуков, которые издают динамик и наушники. В данной статье я опишу реверс-инжиниринг этого чипа и сравню его с более поздней версией от Game Boy Color (который я разбирал ранее). Неожиданно оказалось, что Game Boy Color использует совершенно другую схему усилителя – и это может объяснить, почему две эти системы звучат по-разному. На диаграмме ниже показано фото кремниевого кристалла Game Boy с подписями основных функциональных компонентов. На чипе усилителя есть надпись DMG-AMP, что означает Dot Matrix Game amplifier. Артикул этого 18-контактного чипа производства Sharp) — IR3R40. Читать дальше →

Илон Маск сделал школу Ad Astra «для своих», а недавно команда этой школы стартовала онлайн-школу за $7500 (занятия онлайн раз в неделю). Там я нашел несколько игр, которые показались мне очень интересными. А давайте всем Хабром поиграем? Пишите свои ответы в опросах и комментах. Подписывайтесь на канал @MetaLearning, где я делюсь своими самыми полезными находками про образование и роль ИТ/игр в образовании (а так же мыслями на эту тему Антона Макаренко, Сеймура Пейперта, Пола Грэма, Джозефа Ликлайдера, Алана Кея) Игра 1: A4A Вам предложены 101 произведение современного и авангардного искусства. Если бы вам пришлось собрать коллекцию, какие 15 произведений искусства вы бы выбрали? Пожалуйст…

«Я прихожу на работу, мне дают ноутбук, показывают рабочее место, выдают задачу, а дальше сиди и делай сам. Спустя пару месяцев я должен знать всё о компании, но, на самом деле, я помню только сделанные задачи. Кому задавать вопросы? А можно подойти к директору? Где туалет?». Таким выглядит мир новичков в компаниях, где нет онбординга. Когда-то и мы были такими. В статье расскажем о том, как создали с нуля инструмент для онбординга новичков и выстроили процессы за год. Читать дальше →

Привет! Я решил проверить парадокс дней рождений на данных, которые доступны из ВК. Что такое парадокс дней рождений?

Попробуйте ответить на вопрос: Какое количество людей в комнате необходимо, чтобы у двух людей были одинаковые дни рождения с вероятностью 0.5? (дата и месяц). Парадокс дней рождений отвечает на этот вопрос. Читать дальше →

Это короткая статья для новичков. Наверняка вы знаете, что в пайтоне для циклов for и while предусмотрен блок else. И с этим блоком возникает много путаницы, потому что его действие на первый взгляд не интуитивно. Приходится тратить немного времени или заглядывать в документацию каждый раз, когда он встречается:

for f in files: if f.uuid == match_uuid: break

else: raise FileNotFound()

Когда будет исключение: когда файл не найден? Когда найден? Когда список пуст? На этот вопрос сложно ответить, потому что блок else находится на одном уровне с блоком for и кажется, что это какое-то условие, относящиеся к самому списку; например, когда for не нашел ни одной записи. Но достаточно знать главный …

В этом пошаговом руководстве я расскажу, как настроить Mikrotik, чтобы запрещённые сайты автоматом открывались через этот VPN и вы могли избежать танцев с бубнами: один раз настроил и все работает. В качестве VPN я выбрал SoftEther: он настолько же прост в настройке как и RRAS и такой же быстрый. На стороне VPN сервера включил Secure NAT, других настроек не проводилось. В качестве альтернативы рассматривал RRAS, но Mikrotik не умеет с ним работать. Соединение устанавливается, VPN работает, но поддерживать соединение без постоянных реконнектов и ошибок в логе Mikrotik не умеет. Настройка производилась на примере RB3011UiAS-RM на прошивке версии 6.46.11.

Теперь по порядку, что и зачем. Читать…

15 июля пройдет демо-день участников акселерационной программы HRUP, организованной НИУ ВШЭ и акселератором HR&ED-tech.

Шесть выпускников за пятиминутный питч расскажут о своих проектах в сфере HR и образования.

Посмотреть питчи и пообщаться с командами онлайн могут инвесторы, представители корпораций, среднего бизнеса, а также журналисты.

Регистрация доступна на странице мероприятия на Timepad.

Фото на обложке: Bogomil Mihaylov/Unsplash

Исследование поисковой системы Trud.com показало, что за последние три месяца количество вакансий в поисковой системе выросло на 1,6 млн штук.

Самый ощутимый прирост произошел в сферах туризма, досуга, красоты и спорта.

Об этом Rusbase сообщила пресс-служба Trud.com.

Спрос на сотрудников в сферах красоты и досуга начал расти

Основатель «Тинькофф банка» Олег Тиньков рассказал в инстаграме о своем состоянии после перенесенной трансплантации костного мозга.

Тиньков рассказал, что пересадка костного мозга — это переливание крови, и призвал пользователей стать донорами.

Я оставил открытыми комментарии, уверен туда придут фонды и донорские сервисы и подробно напишут как это сделать», — говорится в сообщении.

В конце июня Тиньков сообщил подробности лечения диагностированной у него лейкемии, а также рассказал, что переболел коронавирусом.

Напомним, о заболевании лейкемией в острой форме предприниматель сообщил в марте.

Московская биржа планирует в октябре 2020 года запустить в 23 российских регионах платформу по удаленному приобретению финансовых продуктов — так называемый маркетплейс.

Об этом сообщает «РИА Новости» со ссылкой на управляющего директора по развитию электронных платформ Московской биржи Игоря Алутина.

Госдума в четверг приняла во втором и третьем чтении два закона о финансовых маркетплейсах, которые позволят россиянам дистанционно сравнивать и приобретать услуги банков, управляющих и страховых компаний.

По словам Алутина, на первом этапе клиентам маркетплейса будут доступны банковские вклады.

Если вы живете в районе Лос-Анджелеса, у Илона Маска есть для вас решение — это частная школа Ad Astra.

Ad Astra открылась в кампусе SpaceX в Хоторне в 2014 году — вскоре после того, как Маск забрал своих пятерых сыновей из школы Mirman для одаренных детей.

Практически все в Ad Astra устроено необычно — от оценок (которые полностью отсутствуют) до секретности, которая окружает процесс приема в школу.

В Ad Astra принимают детей в возрасте от 8 до 13 лет.

В Ad Astra есть недостатки: например, неизвестно, продолжит ли он развивать школу, когда его дети завершат обучение.

В июне продажи товаров с быстрой доставкой на AliExpress Plus выросли на 64%В середине апреля AliExpress в России запустил сервис с быстрой доставкой и упрощенным возвратом товаров AliExpress Plus.

В AliExpress видят позитивную динамику в развитии проекта.

Так, ассортимент товаров в AliExpress Plus увеличился с 1 млн до 3 млн, а количество продавцов — с 10 до 24 тысяч.

Порядка 10% всей нашей аудитории приобретают товары в рамках проекта Plus», — рассказал старший менеджер по развитию бизнеса AliExpress Россия Дмитрий Булычев.

В июне продажи через сервис Plus выросли на 64% по сравнению с маем.

В своей онлайн-лекции эксперт рассказал, как стартапу опубликоваться в СМИ и почему иногда не стоит этого делать.

Как понять, что новость заслуживает размещения в СМИСобытие, о котором вы хотите рассказать, должно уже произойти.

Эти планы волнуют вас, но не СМИ.

А, может быть, в вас вложился крупный фонд или знаменитость: если в ваш стартап инвестировал Ди Каприо, СМИ с удовольствием про это напишут.

Чаще всего упоминание в СМИ необходимо стартапам при поиске инвестора или работе с В2В-клиентом.

В приложениях на айфонах и айпадах произошел массовый сбой.

Пользователи по всему миру сообщают о неполадках в таких приложениях, как Viber, Spotify, Tinder, в работе сервисов «Яндекса» и многих других.

Пользователи айфонов по всему миру жалуются на сбои в приложениях

Производитель электроники Sony и разработчик игр и софта Epic Games объявили о расширении сотрудничества.

Sony приобретает миноритарную долю в Epic за $250 млн.

Указывается, что компании намерены совмещать развлекательные активы и технологии Sony и цифровую экосистему Epic для создания новых продуктов.

Сейчас компании работают над запуском игровой консоли Sony PlayStation 5, для которой Epic Games разрабатывает ПО Unreal Engine 5.

Epic управляет игрой Fortnite, в которой, по собственным данным, более 350 млн аккаунтов.

Глава «Татнефти» Наиль Маганов дал прогноз по нефти в интервью на телеканале «Россия 24».

Нефтяная компания также допускает падение цены на нефть до $10-15 за баррель и готова конкурировать на таких низких уровнях.

«И так постепенно по мере возрастания спроса, по мере того, как будут ликвидироваться те сверхнормтаивные запасы, которые были созданы в период вот этого глубокого падения, мы будем возобновлять наше производство», — рассказал глава «Татнефти».

20 апреля цена на нефть впервые была отрицательной.

По мере снятия ограничений спрос и цена на нефть восстанавливаются.

Много пассионарных и умных людей несколько лет находятся в постоянном взаимодействии: это и сами студенты, и молодые учёные, и преподаватели.

Как мы запустили новый формат защиты дипломов в РАНХиГССейчас каждый вуз вынужден сам думать, как внедрить такой формат, какие внутренние документы нужно принять, в какие внести изменения и что в них учесть.

Она требует нагрузки и на административный персонал, и на преподавателей, на поиск новых научных руководителей.

Например, если там не поставлена теоретическая рамка и не используются научные статьи.

Третья проблема — это популяризация программы «Стартап как диплом» внутри вуза как среди студентов, так и среди преподавателей.

Лучше всего создать горизонтальное меню в шапке сайта — такой вариант привычнее для пользователя.

Крайне важно здесь избегать иконок, непривычных для пользователя и выбранной категории.

Курсор мыши и кнопки также должны участвовать в дизайн-концепции и подталкивать пользователя к целевому действию.

Попробуйте поставить себя на место пользователя и определить, как ему будет удобнее передвигаться по вашему ресурсу.

Как достичь максимумаВозьмите за основу краткость: не путайте пользователя и избегайте лишнего в навигационной панели.

Сервис экспресс-доставки «Самокат» расширил линейку товаров под собственном брендом.

В течение месяца ассортимент пополнится другими средствами бытовой химии: для мытья посуды и стирки.

Категорию товаров для дома открыли средства для чистки сантехники, мытья стекол и удаления жира.

Фото: «Самокат»До 20 августа ассортимент дополнится еще семью позициями: универсальный и детский стиральные порошки (стоимостью до 546 рублей за упаковку), два вида гелей для мытья посуды (по 125 рублей), два кондиционера для белья (по 210 рублей) и таблетки для посудомоечной посуды (523 рубля).

По словам основатель сервиса Вячеслава Бочарова, в ассортименте «Самоката» сейчас свыше 3 тысяч товаров, более 100 из н…

Постоянное тестирование идей: как мы создали кастдев-конвейер и отказались от ТЗСовременная компания — это не только умный менеджмент и принципы бережливого стартапа.

Глава студии мобильной разработки Mobi-Soft Дмитрий Простов рассказал, как принципы кастдева и отказ от ТЗ помогли ему построить компанию нового типа.

Из продукта для девушек появился Panda Money — детский мобильный банк для обучения финансовой грамотности, который привлек инвестиции от Qiwi и вышел на российский и японский рынки.

Отсев на этой стадии происходит редко — около 90% идей выдерживают проверку, а мы получаем ценные инсайты о продукте и бизнесе.

На подборе персонала подход тоже сказывается — мы не берем разработчико…

Опрос сервиса по поиску работы SuperJob показал , что 8 из 10 россиян не готовы отказаться от наличных средств.

В опросе приняли участие 1600 экономически активных россиян старше 18 лет из всех округов страны.

Из них 78% не хотят отказываться от наличных денег.

Самый высокий процент отрицательного ответа на вопрос ««Хотели бы вы полностью отказаться от наличных денег?» в группах старше 45 лет и с доходом от 80 тысяч рублей в месяц (по 83%).

Однако даже в этой возрастной группе процент неготовых отказаться от бумажных денег очень велик — 63%.

В нём пользователи предупреждаются об опасности закрытия крышки ноутбука, если на камере установлена специальная защитная накладка — это может привести к повреждению экрана.

Речь идёт о всех моделях ноутбуков в линейке Apple — MacBook, MacBook Air и MacBook Pro.

Вместо использования накладок на камеру компания предлагает ориентироваться на зеленый индикатор камеры, чтобы определить, работает ли камера.

Такие накладки на камеры пользователи устанавливают в качестве меры безопасности, чтобы подстраховаться от случайных срабатываний, а также шпионажа со стороны злоумышленников.

Судя по всему, новая инструкция была выпущена Apple после появления многочисленных жалоб со стороны пользователей Mac…

Она объявила, что Xiaomi Mi Band 4 стал самым продаваемым фитнес-браслетом в мире.

Отметим, что новая модель, Xiaomi Mi Band 5, пока официально представлена и продаётся только в Китае.

Для международного рынка Xiaomi представит Mi Band 5 только на следующей неделе, хотя новый браслет уже начал появляться у европейских онлайн-ритейлеров.

Умные браслеты Xiaomi с самого начала пользовались успехом и со временем спрос на них только растёт.

Оригинальный Mi Band был распродан миллионным тиражом за девять месяцев, Mi Band 2 в 2016 году преодолел миллионный рубеж всего за два месяца, Mi Band 3 достиг этой отметки за 17 дней, а у Mi Band 4 на такое же достижение ушло всего 8 дней.

Один предприимчивый инженер сумел на досуге создать электровелосипед, используя компоненты стиральной машины.

Об этом интересном проекте под названием Spin Cycle (фраза используется для стиральных машин, цикла стирки и тому подобного) рассказал сам создатель под ником Jimminecraftguy на социальном новостном ресурсе Reddit.

Он взял от стиральной машины вентильный электродвигатель мощностью 1100 Вт и подсоединил его к велосипеду.

В отличие от большинства электровелосипедов, которые лишь помогают вам крутить педали, Spin Cycle больше похож на электромопед, где педали играют второстепенную роль.

Сейчас создатель Spin Cycle сосредоточил усилия на увеличении пробега за счёт улучшенного аккумулято…

Компания Samsung Electronics близка к выпуску нового умного браслета, который придёт на смену прошлогоднего Galaxy Fit.

Среди всего прочего, там содержится схематичное изображение нового устройства.

И это, определённо, фитнес-браслет, напоминающий очертаниями Galaxy Fit.

Корейский производитель представил фитнес-браслет Samsung Galaxy Fit с цветным экраном (обзор) и его более доступную вариацию Galaxy Fit e (обзор) в феврале 2019 года.

Дебют новой модели может состояться на следующем мероприятии Samsung Galaxy Unpacked одновременно с анонсом флагманских смартфонов Samsung Galaxy Note20 и Galaxy Z Fold 2.

Компания Google запустит на популярном видеосервисе YouTube ещё больше рекламы в ближайшее время.

Сейчас в большинстве роликов на YouTube рекламное видео вставляется только в самом начале.

Однако реклама может быть размещена и в середине ролика.

«Рекламные паузы» будут включены как для новых, так и для старых роликов.

Более того, настройка будет активирована даже для тех роликов, в которых авторы ранее решили не включать «рекламные паузы».

Пока многострадальный Pixel 4a всё никак не выйдет, в Сети появились новые подробности на счёт смартфонов Google, и они весьма занятные.

И среди всего этого наиболее интересно одно — Pixel 4a 5G с кодовым именем Bramble.

Но ранее считалось, что это будет Pixel 4a XL, который в итоге якобы отменили, хотя теперь можно предположить, что его и не было.

То есть Google готовит обычный Pixel 4a с SoC Snadpragon 730 и более дорогой Pixel 4a 5G с SoC Snapdragon 765G.

В итоге получится занятная ситуация: и относительно доступный Pixel 4a 5G, и явно намного более дорогой Pixel 5 будут основаны на одной и той же платформе.

Компания AMD действительно готовится представить обновлённые модели своих монструозных процессоров Ryzen Threadripper.

В отличие от линейки Ryzen 3000XT, которая ограничилась прибавкой в 100-200 МГц к пиковой частоте, линейка обновлённых Ryzen Threadripper будет несколько интереснее.

Во-первых, в неё войдут CPU Ryzen Threadripper Pro.

Процессор Кол-во ядер/потоков Частоты, ГГц Кэш-память (L2+L3), МБ TDP, Вт Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3995WX 64/128 2,7-4,2 288 280 Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3975WX 32/64 3,5-4,2 144 280 Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX 16/32 3,9-4,3 72 280 Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3945WX 12/24 4,0-4,3 70 280Как видим, в линейке появятся модели с 12 и 16 ядрами, аналогов которым сейчас сре…

Компания Google, фактически, подтвердила ведущуюся подготовку большого обновления платформы Wear OS для носимых устройств, основанного на операционной системе Android 11.

Изначально сессия вопросов и ответов была посвящена Android 11, но разработчики приоткрыли завесу тайны и для других платформ.

Говоря о Wear OS, Google, практически, подтвердила, что Android 11 станет следующим крупным обновлением платформы для носимой электроники.

Теперь Google подтвердила, что платформа может сразу перейти к Android 11.

В другом ответе Google прямо утверждает, что разработчики получат доступ к большинству Android API, с выходом Wear OS на основе Android 11.

Компания Sony официально обещала для своей игровой приставки PlayStation 5 весьма ограниченную обратную поддержку игр консолей прошлых поколений.

Однако надежда на возможность поиграть на PlayStation 5 в игры, созданные под PS1, PS2 и PS3, ещё осталась.

На это указывает обнаруженный недавно патент компании.

Согласно приведённому описанию и иллюстрации в патенте, поддержка игр для PS1, PS2 и PS3 может быть реализована на PlayStation 5 с помощью облачного сервиса.

Sony заявила для PlayStation 5 совместимость с «большинством игр» под PS4, но ничего не упомянула про более ранние версии приставок.

Компания Microsoft объявила о запуске давно ожидаемой функции, расширяющей возможности компьютеров с Windows 10 по работе со смартфонами.

В приложении Your Phone (Ваш телефон) появилась поддержка работы с несколькими устройствами Android.

Для этого появилась новая кнопка Add a device (Добавить устройство) в настройках.

Приложение Your Phone даёт доступ с компьютера к данным на смартфоне, включая фотографии, а также мобильным приложениям.

На ПК можно просматривать и отвечать на текстовые сообщения, управлять оповещениями, совершать и принимать звонки, и так далее.

Компания Huawei начала распространение большого обновления фирменной оболочки для смартфонов Honor 20 и Honor 20 Pro (обзор) в Европе.

Европейские пользователи Honor 20 и Honor 20 Pro сообщают о получении прошивки с новой Magic UI 3.1.

Как и Magic UI 3.0/EMUI 10.0, обновлённая оболочка базируется на операционной системе Android 10.

Обновление распространяется поэтапно и будет появляться у пользователей в разных регионах постепенно.

Оболочка получила улучшенный графический интерфейс, доработанный режим «Мультискрин», функцию общего доступа к фотографиям и видеороликам на разных устройствах Huawei в одной сети, и многое другое.

Профессиональный фотограф и дизайнер Михаил Минков (Mihail Minkov) из Болгарии, увлекающийся съёмкой ночных пейзажей, решил поставить «быстрый эксперимент» и сделать снимок на бюджетный смартфон.

Для того он выбрал модель Redmi Note 9 Pro с четверной камерой на 64 Мп.

На впечатляющем снимке мы видим ночную дорогу, поле подсолнухов и Млечный Путь.

Минков снимал на главный модуль основной камеры на 64 Мп с диафрагмой f/1,9.

Также был сделан дополнительный снимок для качественного отображения подсолнухов.

Пользователи iPhone и iPad по всему миру в последние несколько часов жалуются на внезапное прекращение работы множества популярных приложений и сервисов.

Причиной сбоя оказалась Facebook и её инструмент Facebook SDK для авторизации пользователей.

Вот что говорит пресс-служба Яндекса по этому поводу:На стороне Facebook SDK произошёл масштабный сбой, из-за которого перестали работать многие популярные приложения на iOS.

Пресс-служба Viber также выступила с комментарием:Тысячи приложений по всему миру, включая Viber, Pinterest, Foursquare, Spotify, не работают на iOS.

Обновлено: работоспособность сервисов и приложений на мобильных устройствах Apple начала восстанавливаться примерно к 16:00 по …

Теперь в сети появился наглядный качественный рендер, демонстрирующий новую компактную коробку для iPhone 12 и её содержимое.

Ранее уже несколько аналитиков предсказали, что Apple «выкинет» из комплекта iPhone 12 наушники и зарядное устройство.

Отмечается, что причина в повышенной стоимости материалов и комплектующих iPhone 12 по сравнению с предшественниками.

Ожидается, что упаковка iPhone 12 станет заметно компактнее за счёт таких «сокращений».

Кстати, на днях в сети появилось изображение поддона, новый рендер использует эту утечку и более ранние.

В честности, были раскрыты функции, которые не стоит ждать в Android 11, но появятся в Android 12 в 2021 году или в следующих версиях ОС.

Также некоторые из изменений уже начали внедряться в Android 11, но в будущих версиях ОС работа над ними продолжится более активно.

Во-первых, в Android 11 мы так и не дождёмся функции скриншотов длинных страниц с прокруткой.

В ранних сборках бета-версий Android 11 намёки на эту функцию появлялись, однако Google разбила все надежды пользователей на её появление в стабильной версии Android 11.

По словам разработчиков, над её реализацией ведётся работа, но она появится не в Android 11 R.Во-вторых, в будущем появится усовершенствованная облачная система резе…

Комитет IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), занимающийся развитием протоколов и архитектуры Интернет, начал процесс стандартизации системы доменных имён GNS (GNU Name System), развиваемой проектом GNUnet в качестве полностью децентрализованной и недоступной для цензуры замены DNS. В настоящий момент опубликован первый черновой вариант стандарта, после стабилизации которого будет сформирован RFC, имеющий статус "Предложенного стандарта".

Компания Google учредила новую некоммерческую организацию "Open Usage Commons", призванную защищать идентичность открытых проектов и оказывать помощь по управлению торговыми марками (название проекта и логотип), формированию правил по использованию торговых марок и проверке их выполнения. Целью организации является расширение философии и определения Open Source на торговые марки.

Компании Google и Canonical выступили с совместной инициативой по обеспечению поддержки разработки графических приложений на основе фреймворка Flutter для настольных Linux-систем. Фреймворк построения интерфейса пользователя Flutter написан на языке Dart (runtime-движок для выполнения приложений написан на C++), позволяет создавать универсальные приложения, работающие на разных платформах, и рассматривается как альтернатива React Native.

Состоялся первый значительный выпуск сервера SFTPGo 1.0, позволяющего организовать удалённый доступ к файлам при помощи протоколов SFTP, SCP/SSH и Rsync. В том числе SFTPGo может использоваться для предоставления доступа к Git-репозиториям, используя протокол SSH. Данные могут отдаваться как с локальной файловой системы, так и из внешних хранилищ, совместимых с Amazon S3 и Google Cloud Storage. Для хранения пользовательской базы и метаданных используются СУБД с поддержкой SQL или формата ключ/значение, такие как PostgreSQL 9.4+, MySQL 5.6+, SQLite 3.x или bbolt 1.3.x. Имеется также режим хранения метаданных в оперативной памяти, не требующий подключения внешней БД. Код проекта написан на яз…

В кодовую базу мультимедийного проигрывателя MPV внесено изменение, выполняющие проверку на запуск в окружении GNOME и завершающее работу программы с выводом ошибки о невозможности использования программы в GNOME. Позднее данное изменение было заменено на более мягкий вариант, ограничивающийся выводом предупреждения. До этого, начиная с выпуска 0.32, уже выводилось похожее предупреждение о наличии известных проблем, проявляющихся при запуске в GNOME на базе Wayland.

Компания Mozilla временно приостановила работу сервиса обмена файлами Firefox Send из-за его вовлечения в распространение вредоносного ПО и жалоб на отсутствие средств для отправки abuse-уведомлений о ненадлежащем использовании сервиса (присутствовала только общая форма обратной связи). Работу планируется восстановить после реализации возможности отправки жалоб на размещение вредоносного или проблемного содержимого, а также налаживания службы для оперативного реагирования на подобные сообщения. Также планируется отключить возможности анонимной отправки файлов - при размещении файла в сервисе станет обязательной регистрация учётной записи через сервис Firefox Account.

Организация The Document Foundation, курирующая разработку свободного пакета LibreOffice, объявила о грядущих изменениях, касающихся брендинга и позиционирования проекта на рынке. Ожидаемый в начале августа выпуск LibreOffice 7.0, в настоящее время доступный для тестирования в форме кандидата в релизы, планируют распространять как "LibreOffice Personal Edition". При этом код и условия распространения останутся прежними, офисный пакет, как и раньше, без ограничений будет доступен бесплатно и всем без исключения, в том числе корпоративным пользователям.

Эдуард Шишкин реализовал поддержку выборочной миграции файлов в Reiser5. В рамках проекта Reiser5 развивается существенно переработанный вариант файловой системы ReiserFS, в котором на уровне файловой системы, а не блочного устройства, реализована поддержка параллельно масштабируемых логических томов, позволяющая эффективно распределять данные по логическому тому.

После почти пяти лет разработки утверждён новый стандарт кодирования видео H.266, так же известный под именем VVC (Versatile Video Coding). H.266 преподносится как преемник стандарта H.265 (HEVC), разработанный совместно рабочими группами MPEG (ISO/IEC JTC 1) и VCEG (ITU-T), при участии таких компаний, как Apple, Ericsson, Intel, Huawei, Microsoft, Qualcomm и Sony. Публикация эталонной реализации кодировщика и декодировщика для H.266/VVC ожидается осенью.

На прошедшей на прошлой неделе виртуальной конференции "Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux" Линус Торвальдс.

Для включения в ядро Linux предложен новый документ, предписывающий использование инклюзивной терминологии в ядре. Для используемых в ядре идентификаторов предлагается отказаться от использования слов 'slave' и 'blacklist', вместо которых рекомендуется применять слова secondary, subordinate, replica, responder, follower, proxy и performer. Blacklist рекомендовано заменять на blocklist или denylist.

В SSH-клиентах OpenSSH и PuTTY выявлена уязвимость (CVE-2020-14002 в PuTTY и CVE-2020-14145 в OpenSSH), приводящая к утечке сведений в алгоритме согласования соединения. Уязвимость позволяет атакующему, способному перехватить трафик клиента (например, при подключении пользователя через контролируемую атакующим точку беспроводного доступа), определить попытку первоначального подключения клиента к хосту, когда клиентом ещё не прокэширован ключ хоста.

Дэн Бук (Dan Book), поддерживающий более 70 модулей в CPAN, провёл анализ рисков при воплощении предложенного плана внедрения Perl 7.

Кроме того упоминаются такие возможные проблемы: Путаница у новичков из-за неработоспособности в Perl 7 некоторых примеров и рекомендаций из руководств, написанных для Perl 5.

У дистрибутивов возникает проблема одновременной поставки исполняемых файлов для запуска скиптов Perl 7 и Perl 5 (ожидается повторение истории с Python 2 и 3).

Код написанный для Perl 7 не обязан особо отмечать, что он не сможет работать в Perl 5, многие разработчики не будет указывать минимально поддерживаемую версию.

Сигналом по использованию в коде новых элементов Perl 7 и для раздел…

2.7 , Sluggard ( ok ), 15:54, 02/07/2020 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – Всё так.

Это ошибка у автора новости, в оригинале просто POWER («supports workloads on x86-64, ARM64 and POWER systems»).

3.9 , ryoken ( ok ), 15:57, 02/07/2020 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – О, пофиксили, эт хорошо :).

NEW DELHI/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Foxconn (2317.TW) plans to invest up to $1 billion to expand a factory in southern India where the Taiwanese contract manufacturer assembles Apple (AAPL.O) iPhones, two sources said.

Foxconn said it does not comment on matters related to customers, while Apple did not respond to a request for comment.

Foxconn Chairman Liu Young-way last month said it would ramp up its investment in India, without giving details.

Building more phones in India will also help Apple save on import taxes that further push up its prices.

Wistron is also set to open a new plant, where it plans to make more Apple devices, Reuters previously reported.

← →Seemingly impossible functional programsMartin Escardo, ,Andrej has invited me to write about certain surprising functional programs.

In the following definition this is not necessary, because (\a -> p a) = p by the $\eta$ rule.

Let’s run an example, replacing the above definition of find by find = find_iii :*Main> equal f h True (0.00 secs, 522668 bytes) *Main> equal (proj 1000) (proj 1000) True (0.00 secs, 0 bytes) *Main> equal (proj 1000) (proj 4000) False (0.03 secs, 1422680 bytes) *Main> equal (proj 1000) (proj(2^20)) False (7.02 secs, 336290704 bytes)As you can see, the bigger the projection functions we try, the longer the comparison gets.

Let’s see what we get (you need to replac…

IntroductionThis blog is now running on solar power.

I've put a solar panel on my balcony, which is connected to a solar charge controller.

I've just performed a lift-and-shift of my blog from the cloud to a Raspberry Pi 3b+.

The solar panel and solar charge controller were purchased new.

The Solar ChargerIt's a standard solar charger made by Victron, for small solar setups (to power a shed or mobile home).

When you search for courses on how to learn software development, there are tons of resources, meanwhile when you search for courses on how to stock trade and invest, only investopedia comes up.

What are some good resources (preferably video) which are not books, to learn these subjects?

By Torio Risianto, Bhargavi Reddy, Tanvi Sahni, Andrew ParkBackground on data efficiencyAt Netflix, we invest heavily in our data infrastructure which is composed of dozens of data platforms, hundreds of data producers and consumers, and petabytes of data.

Netflix’s data platform landscapeNetflix’s data platforms can be broadly classified as data at rest and data in motion systems.

Data at rest stores such as S3 Data Warehouse, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, etc.

We then translate storage bytes per data resource to cost based on S3 storage prices from AWS billing data.

To that regard, we invested in email push notifications to increase data cost awareness among teams with significant data usage.

One mpv developer who has had enough of GNOME nonsense made mpv print a "no support" message and exit if it was running under GNOME earlier today.

mpv developer wm4 removed GNOME support from mpv earlier today with a commit titled "Stop supporting GNOME" which explained that:"On GNOME, you're supposed to use native GNOME software anyway."

mpv developer wm4The code in the commit added these lines to mpv:const char *xdg_current_desktop = getenv("XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP"); if (xdg_current_desktop && strstr(xdg_current_desktop, "GNOME")) { struct mp_log *log = mp_log_new(NULL, global->log, "vo"); mp_fatal(log, "This player does not support GNOME.

"); talloc_free(log); return NULL; }Those paying att…

People like Chomsky, Steinem, and even Pinker came of age during the sixties liberation movements, which shaped academia and popular culture for generations.

Long before the term “intersectionality” was coined in 1989, post-sixties liberals understood the interlocking nature of political and intellectual repression.

The question isn’t whether or not “cancel culture” exists.

The question is, without canceling, what would this culture be?

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I've been thinking quite some time now about making the move of quitting my fulltime job as a software engineer, and pursue my dream of founding a startup.

I'm 23 y/o and don't have much to lose really (except rent), and yet I'm still STRUGGLING to just make that move and start.

I'd love to hear your stories about when and how did you decide to do it?

How did you start?

How was it going to sleep knowing that you probably not going to have an income in the next upcoming weeks/months?

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We design Apple products to protect your privacy and give you control over your information.

Our products and features include innovative privacy technologies and techniques designed to minimize how much of your data we — or anyone else — can access.

And powerful security features help prevent anyone except you from being able to access your information.

The FaceTime HD camera built into your Mac computer is designed with your privacy in mind and uses a camera indicator light that glows green when the camera is active.

The camera is engineered so that it can’t activate without the camera indicator light also turning on.

What Does 1GB of Mobile Data Cost in Every Country?

Discrepancies in Mobile Data CostsResearchers have identified several key elements that help explain the cost variation for mobile data between countries:Existing infrastructure (or lack thereof): This might seem counterintuitive, but most mobile networks rely on a fixed-line connection.

Reliance on mobile data: When mobile data is the primary source of internet in a particular region, adoption can become nearly universal.

The Cheapest Countries for 1 GB of DataEven among the cheapest countries for mobile data, the cost variation is significant.

It helps demonstrate the stark contrast in the cost of mobile data between the most expensive a…

Vanilla recurrent neural networks (RNNs) form the basis of more sophisticated models, such as LSTMs and GRUs.

If your variable-length input record is a timeseries like sensor or stock quote data, then yes t represents time.

If your variable-length input record is a timeseries like sensor or stock quote data, then yes represents time.

Minibatching is a small subset of the input records split between records, leaving all input records intact.

However, in the situation where the input records are very big, minibatching can even involve splitting individual records, rather than just between records.

Hindley-Milner Type InferenceRobin Milner's type system with parametric polymorphism was a significant advance over the systems of Russell and Church.

The algorithm, the type system, and some of the logical background are explained in this tutorial, along with an implementation in standard ML.

Standard ML is Milner's language which uses this parametric polymorphic type system.

The core of the implementation of the type inference algorithm consists in some 250 lines of code.

The source code is available as a plain text SML source file and as html formatted standard ML.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has admitted that there is no practical way for Americans to avoid having their movements tracked by its license plate readers, according to its latest privacy assessment. CBP published its new assessment — three years after its first — to notify the public that it plans to tap into a […]

We look at Rackspace’s finances, a Facebook code change causes numerous app issues and electric vehicle company Rivian raises $2.5 billion. Here’s your Daily Crunch for July 10, 2020. The big story: Rackspace is going public again The cloud computing company first went public in 2008, before accepting a $4.3 billion offer to go private […]

Google announced its plans to acquire Fitbit for $2.1 billion back in November. As of this writing, the deal has yet to go through, courtesy of all the usual regulatory scrutiny that occurs any time one large company buys another. EU regulators are often a key hurdle for these sorts of deals, and this time […]

In its first few weeks of release, the latest game from QuizUp founder Thor Fridriksson took the top spot in the Games Section of Apple’s App Store and was the top app (for a brief time) in the App Store at large. Since its launch on June 17, Trivia Royale has been downloaded more than […]

Replicated, the Los Angeles-based company pitching monitoring and management services for Kubernetes-based applications, has managed to bring on the former head of product of the $2.75 billion-valued programming giant, GitLab, as its new chief product officer. Mark Pundsack is joining the company as it moves to scale its business. At GitLab Pundsack saw the company […]

HBO Max, the WarnerMedia-owned streaming service that launched in May, announced today that it has made a series commitment to an untitled TV show tied to the movie “The Batman” (currently scheduled for release in 2021). The show will be set in the Gotham City police department, with a creative team that includes Matt Reeves, […]

Hey, ya’ll. I’m experimenting with a bi-weekly roundup that looks at the state of labor in tech. We’ll use this space to explore topics related to diversity, equity and inclusion, the future of work, issues relating to pay equality, notable personnel changes and much more. This week, we’re looking at Facebook’s civil rights audit, a […]

If you’re an angel who invested in a startup that was meant to go public in 2014, you might be getting a little bit impatient. High-risk, high-reward investing has lost its shine in this environment: the stock market is a mess these days, and you want your cash back. Enter recapitalization events, where startups restructure […]

After going private in 2016 after accepting a $32 per share, or $4.3 billion, price from Apollo Global Management, Rackspace is looking once again to the public markets. First going public in 2008, Rackspace is taking second aim at a public offering around 12 years after its initial debut. The company describes its business as […]

When Mallun Yen started Operator Collective last year, she wanted to build an investment firm for people who didn’t have a voice in Silicon Valley. That meant connecting women and people of color with operators who have been intimately involved in building companies from the ground up, then providing early-stage investment. She then brought in […]

Fringe is a new company pitching employers on a service offering lifestyle benefits for their employees in addition to, or instead of, more traditional benefits packages. “We didn’t think it made sense that employees need to be sick, disabled, dead or 65+ to benefit from their benefits,” wrote Fringe chief executive Jordan Peace, in an […]

As expected, fintech company nCino has raised its IPO price range. The North Carolina-based banking software firm now expects to sell its shares for between $28 and $29 per share, far more than its initial price range of $22 to $24 per share. At its $28 to $29 per-share price interval, nCino is worth $2.50 […]

How should society address the scenario where the AI algorithm got it right but from an ethical standpoint, we're uncomfortable with the results?

Nanoleaf essentially created a new smart lighting category with its connected light panels, and since then it has iterated with its pixel-like Canvas, and most recently, its new Shapes Hexagons. The Hexagons already seem to be proving popular with customers, since they’re currently waitlisted, but I got the chance to spend some time with them […]

If you’re an iPhone user, odds are fairly good you spent a frustrating portion of the morning attempting to reopen apps. I know my morning walk was dampened by the inability to fire up Spotify. Plenty of other users reported similar issues with reported similar issues with a number of apps, including Pinterest and Waze. […]

Netflix Andy (Charlize Theron) and her right-hand man Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts), aka Sebastian le Livre.

Netflix A former CIA agent named Copley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) has a job for the Old Guard.

But in this case, The Old Guard is a solid, entertaining action thriller whose individual parts, while strong, don't quite add up to a compelling whole.

So it's hard to put a finger on precisely why, in the end, The Old Guard doesn't quite rise to meet its ambitious goals.

That said, The Old Guard is still plenty entertaining, even if it isn't likely to stick with you for long after the credits roll.

After years of fumbling with game launches, mostly in the mobile and free-to-play sector, Amazon Game Studios seemed poised to make a splash in 2020 with two major new games with heavy online components.

New World, a fantasy MMO that revolves around colonizing a new continent, has seen its public launch pushed back from August 25 to "Spring 2021."

The news came in a Friday update at the game's blog from studio director Richard Lawrence, who cited the current game's lack of "middle and endgame experiences" as a reason for the multi-month delay.

But Amazon Games is now 0-for-2 with game launches this year, as its May launch of the action-MOBA Crucible was summarily delisted from Steam less th…

This Wednesday, Google announced a new open source initiative—the Open Usage Commons, a sort of stewardship project for open source trademarks.

What is the Open Usage Commons?

From its own FAQ:The Open Usage Commons gives open source projects a neutral, independent home for their project trademarks, and provides assistance with conformance testing, establishing mark usage guidelines, and handling issues around trademark usage that projects encounter.

The Open Usage Commons does not provide services that are outside the realm of usage, such as technical mentorship, community management, project events, or project marketing.

IBM sees the Open Usage Commons as tied directly to Google, rather t…

Google The new Google Nest smart speaker.

Google The new Google Nest smart speaker.

Say hello to Google's next smart speaker, which is expected to be a replacement for the original Google Home.

For the new Nest stuff, you have the "Nest Mini" (an upgrade to the Google Home Mini), the Nest Hub (formerly the Google Home Hub smart display), and the Nest Hub Max (a bigger Home Hub).

Nothing really matches with the smaller "Nest Mini" speaker, which sounds like a tiny thermostat.

Charter Communications is raising the "Broadcast TV" fee it imposes on cable plans from $13.50 to $16.45 a month starting in August, Stop the Cap reported.

Charter says the Broadcast TV fee covers the amount it pays broadcast television stations (e.g.

Charter confirms increaseA Charter spokesperson confirmed the Broadcast TV and TV Select price increases when contacted by Ars today.

Comcast's Broadcast TV fee is $14.95 a month.

Charter faces another lawsuit over hidden feeCharter has faced lawsuits alleging that the Broadcast TV fee is misleading.

The NOAA statement in turn prompted formal complaints, which set off several investigations into the matter.

A report released last month by NOAA’s Scientific Integrity Officer reinforced that picture, faulting NOAA leadership for playing along, but noting that Commerce staff had run the show.

The panel behind that report had no access to the Commerce staff, but Commerce Inspector General Peggy Gustafson did.

NOAA leadership apparently pushed back on this move, with Jacobs calling it “just a bad idea.” But Commerce staff overruled them.

And the report is not kind to the Commerce staff involved, saying, “Mr.

Federal prosecutors in Miami allege that the men have been selling their industrial bleach product—called “Miracle Mineral Solution” or MMS—as a treatment for COVID-19 and other conditions.

The prosecutors say the men willfully violated a federal order made in April that they stop selling and distributing the product.

However, such covert work was apparently unnecessary as the Grenons wrote letters and emails directly to Judge Williams saying they were not complying.

In an April 21 letter to Judge Williams, the Grenons wrote, “We are practicing ‘civil disobedience’ against this unjust order!

They also accused Judge Williams of committing treason and said, “You think we’re afraid of some Oba…

Upstart electric vehicle maker Rivian has added $2.5 billion to its war chest, the company announced on Friday.

This gives Rivian more than $5 billion to spend on manufacturing capacity for its forthcoming electric trucks and SUVs.

We named Rivian's truck the star of the New York Auto Show in 2019.

The next couple of years will be big ones for startups making electric trucks.

Rivian is due to introduce the R1T next year, where it will compete head-to-head with Tesla's Cybertruck and another truck from electric vehicle startup Bollinger.

Today's Dealmaster is headlined by a return of the best price we've seen on Apple's AirPods and Qi wireless charging case combo, which is now down to $150 on Amazon.

The wireless charging case, meanwhile, usually costs around $70 on its own.

Either way, while we've seen this price a few times before, we haven't seen this config drop any lower.

This model comes with Apple's H1 wireless chip for steadier wireless connectivity and hands-free Siri support.

But if you're an iPhone owner who wants a new set of wireless charging headphones today, this is a good deal.

The French parliament has agreed to pass a new law requiring age verification on pornographic websites to prevent access by children under 18, Politico reports.

The French law gives sites discretion to decide how to perform age verification.

According to Politico, the law gives French regulators the power to create a blacklist for overseas sites that don't comply with the new rules.

In the United Kingdom, the government has been trying for several years to establish a system for age-verifying porn sites.

It's not clear what privacy protections will be offered to consumers under the French law.

Perhaps it wishes it had, as it's going to be beaten to the punch by its deadly rival Mercedes-Benz.

When the 2021 S-Class debuts in September, the brand's flagship sedan will offer an AR HUD, among other tech upgrades.

It uses a digital mirror device from Texas Instruments—perhaps no surprise given that TI has been developing automotive AR tech for a while now.

The augmented reality head-up display (AR-HUD) of the new #SClass provides loads of #augmentedreality content for #drivingassistance systems and navigation information.

That tech was considered unworkable a few years ago, and early practical demos of AR driver assists used goggles instead.

Facial recognition tech was used in Oliver’s case before new rules came into force.

Wayne County’s top persecutor will also review all facial recognition cases when an assistant prosecuting attorney and supervisor agree that charges should be laid.

Several cities, including Boston and San Francisco, have banned or limited the use of facial recognition.

IBM says it’ll no longer develop “general purpose” facial recognition due to human rights concerns.

Amazon has paused police use of Rekognition, while Microsoft won’t sell its facial recognition tech to police departments until there are federal rules “grounded in human rights.”

Amazon is once delaying its upcoming colonial online RPG New World (via PCGamer).

The company's Amazon Games studio says it now plans to release the game sometime in the spring of 2021.

It's also delaying the title's final beta test to that same time frame.

The decision comes on the back of player feedback, with Amazon Games studio director Rich Lawrence saying the developer wants to spend the extra time adding more mid and endgame content to the title.

"We want our players to feel completely immersed in the game, and know that our studio stands for quality and lasting gameplay you can trust -- and that means added time to get things where we want them before we fully release," he said.

Getting help on your school work can be tough under normal circumstances and it won't be any easier if you're attending Zoom classes.

If you need assistance on an assignment or a general topic you're studying, reach out to your teacher or professor as soon as you think you might need help.

By contacting instructors when they first realize they need help, students can avoid becoming too overwhelmed with the material as the class progresses.”McClurg also recommends using the method of contact that your instructor prefers.

You should also consider using your instructor’s office hours (if they still have them).

According to McClurg, office hours have often gone underutilized even when students …

Facebook could make a major change to its advertising policies in an effort to fight election-related misinformation.

The social network is considering a ban on political advertising in the U.S. in the days before the 2020 election, Bloomberg reports.

Unlike Twitter, which banned political ads entirely last year, Facebook’s plan would only limit ads for a few days.

The proposed policy would create a “blackout” period that would bar political ads from the platform in the lead-up to Election Day, according to Bloomberg.

Many countries, including the U.K, have laws that bar political ads on election day or in the days immediately before.

Starting August 11th, Google is banning advertisements for “stalkerware” apps and hardware, which enable someone to track the phone activity or movement of another person.

These apps and hardware tend to be used for “intimate partner surveillance,” according to an update on Google’s advertising policies change log.

The apps are already banned in Google and Apple’s app stores, however some still slip through while others are available directly on developers’ websites.

The update further specifies that affected products include, “spyware/malware that can be used to monitor texts, phone calls, or browsing history; GPS trackers specifically marketed to spy or track someone without their consent…

HBO Max is working on a police drama set in the same universe as the upcoming Batman movie, which stars Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader.

Matt Reeves, the director of The Batman, is developing the show with Warner Bros. Television, Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter (who'll act as writer and executive producer) and The Batman producer Dylan Clark.

The streaming service has given the untitled show a series commitment.

According to a press release, it’ll be "set in the world Reeves is creating for The Batman feature film and will build upon the motion picture’s examination of the anatomy of corruption in Gotham City, ultimately launching a new Batman universe across multiple platfo…

Instagram will no longer allow any kind of post that promotes conversion therapy.

The app is expanding its policy, which already banned the promotion of conversion therapy in paid ads, to include organic posts as well.

The move comes after users in the UK called on the company to ban a widely criticized UK-based organization that promotes gay conversion therapy.

Instagram told CNN that it had removed some of the group’s posts as part of its new policy.

TikTok itself also pulled out of the Hong Kong market on Monday, citing a new Chinese national security law that would make it impossible to use.

Despite TikTok being based in China, the country itself does not have access to the app.

The company has even decided to stop employing Chinese moderators and claimed that none of its data is stored in China.

Amazon has reportedly said in the email that employees can still check TikTok on their laptop browsers.

Engadget has asked Amazon for comment and will update this story when we hear back.

Buy AirPods with wireless charging case at Amazon - $150GameStop Nintendo Switch game saleNintendoGameStop’s latest sale remains ongoing, so you can grab some first-party Nintendo Switch games for less.

That’s $18 off its normal price and the lowest price we’ve seen it.

Buy Arctis 1 (PS4) at Amazon - $80Amazon Music Unlimited (3 months)Prime members can try out Amazon Music Unlimited for free for three months with this offer.

It offers most of the same features as other music subscription services: unlimited music listening, an ad-free experience, unlimited offline listening and convenient voice control with Alexa.

Get Amazon Music Unlimited (3 months)

This morning, a listing for Far Cry 6 leaked on the Hong Kong version of the PlayStation Store, Polygon reports.

Ubisoft hasn’t officially announced the game, a sequel to Far Cry New Dawn, but following the leak, the company tweeted a teaser that confirms it.

Far Cry 6 page just show up on PS HK Store.

🧐 pic.twitter.com/LXZ1EhGykG — anjohn0422 (@anjohn0422) July 10, 2020Screenshots from the leak show Giancarlo Esposito (aka Gus Fring of Breaking Bad) as the game’s lead.

Ubisoft’s tweet reads, “Anton would not be pleased,” and it shows a seven-second clip of Esposito taking a deep drag of a cigar.

Sometimes that show is only available on a Prime Video Channel that I haven’t subscribed to.

According to a study done last year by analyst firm MoffetNathanson, almost 30 percent of the most popular titles on Amazon Prime Video aren’t actually included in a Prime subscription.

In a way, it isn’t surprising that Amazon has treated its Prime Video offering like yet another storefront.

At the very least, it should make it clear that its Prime Video subscription, video store and Prime Video Channels are separate from each other.

After all, it has over 150 million Prime members, which is second only to Netflix, which has nearly 183 million subscribers.

The Echo Plus levels-up the standard Echo by including a Zigee home hub inside of it.

That means you don’t need to buy any extra connecting hubs when you purchase other IoT devices like light bulbs, door locks, security cameras and others.

The Philips Hue light bulb that comes in the Echo Plus bundle, which normally costs $30 on its own, can connected directly to the smart speaker.

The Echo Plus also improves on the original Echo’s sound quality — that’s one of the reasons why we gave it a score of 86.

Among the other Echo devices on sale, the Echo Show 5 for $60 and the Echo Show 8 for $90 are decent sales.

A few weeks ago we asked you to review Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip, one of the few foldable smartphones on the market.

Now we want to know if any of you early adopters opted for the Motorola Razr instead — it’s an updated version of the much loved V3 from 2004.

This year's model has two displays, 128GB of storage, a 16-megapixel main camera and a hefty price tag of $1500.

Do you feel the device was worth its high cost?

As usual, we want to hear all about your purchase on our Motorola Razr product page.

Espiritu is behind Epic Gardening, the hugely popular, multiplatform gardening social media presence.

We need someone to speak to us in plain English, on a platform that we actually consume, not the county extension office website or a Master Gardener website.” (The Master Gardener program is a national system for basic horticulture training.)

Yet gardening influencers also present a specific irony: Tending to soil requires deep patience while social media is a factory of instant, aggressive gratification.

Contrast this with the Master Gardener program -- also known as Extension Master Gardener, or EMG.

He started bigcitygardener in April 2017 “to try and make gardening accessible and relat…

NASA is in the midst of upgrading Deep Space Station 43 — one of its Deep Space Network’s largest antennas located in Canberra, Australia — to prepare for future missions.

The agency’s Deep Space Network is a collection of dishes that make communication with robotic spacecraft possible, and DSS 43 is the only one capable of sending commands to Voyager 2.

If you’ll recall, Voyager 2 left the region of space called the “heliosphere” where solar wind is still present back in 2018.

NASA expects the upgrade to be completed by January 2021, in time for the dish to receive telemetry and science data back from future missions.

It will also play a critical role in ensuring NASA scientists can commun…

Fitbit’s devices, like the Versa 2 smartwatch, collect a ton of health data.

Photo : Victoria SongEuropean regulators are examining Google’s deal to acquire Fitbit, even seeking perspective from healthcare providers and the company’s rival wearable device makers.

This appears to be making Google sweat a little bit, according to a Reuters report, because the company may be planning to offer a binding pledge not to use Fitbit health data to target ads.

Google has said since announcing the acquisition that it wouldn’t use Fitbit data in its ad business.

It’s another thing entirely for that company to make a legally binding pledge to that effect to avoid an antitrust investigation.

An inmate cleans a jail cell at Las Colinas Women’s Detention Facility in Santee, California, on April 22, 2020.

Photo : SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP ( Getty Images )Thousands of inmates in California state prisons could be released as early as August in an attempt to curb the spread of covid-19, a potentially deadly disease caused by the novel coronavirus strain SARS-CoV-2.

CDCR said it’s also reviewing potential release for inmates with less than a year left to serve and for those in populations with a considerable number of high-risk individuals.

Eligibility for potential release extends to all of California’s 35 adult correctional facilities and institutions, CDCR said.

As of this week, at least …

The elements: home furnishing e-commerce platform Wayfair, exorbitantly-priced cabinets, a human trafficking theory, and a string of letters you should never type into Yandex.

AdvertisementYesterday, redditor PrincessPeach1987 posted a screenshot of four creepy, poorly-photographed cabinets by asking:Is it possible Wayfair involved in Human trafficking with their WFX Utility collection?

According to Redditor Forsaken-Clock, who claims to have been onto the conspiracy earlier, the cabinets disappeared from Wayfair.com shortly after they reported them to the human trafficking hotline.

The Wayfair cabinets only show up under the Wayfair-trademarked store WFX Utility.

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Photo : Andrei Pungovsch ( Getty Images )As any high school senior can probably attest, prepping for college sucks.

AdvertisementAccording to Wired, an algorithm designed by the International Baccalaureate (IB) program—a college prep course designed for students planning to study abroad—abandoned its normal end-of-year exams in favor of letting an algorithm determine what students’ scores should be.

And while an AP grade is typically judged alone, an IB grade is calculated by taking classwork and exam grades into account.

About 15,000 students even signed a petition asking the IB to rethink their algorithms, after many had their offers and scholarships revoked.

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Take, for instance, this incredible post: A distressed woman’s fiancé spent all $8,000 of their honeymoon savings on a gaming PC, and she’s looking for advice on what to do.

Let’s move onto the GPU: At $1,280, the RTX 2080 Ti would likely be the priciest item on his shopping list.

However, build fees can add on anywhere from $100-$300 to the total price.

Taking into account all the PC components, build fees, shipping fees, taxes, and the fact that this dude also threw down on three 4K monitors and new peripherals...yeah, I can see how he could easily spend $8,000.

AdvertisementBut this woman should not only dump this guy for spending all their honeymoon money.

But for anyone pays for cable from Spectrum, things are about to get even worse, thanks to an increase in the company’s hidden “B roadcast TV” fee.

At this price, Spectrum’s B roadcast TV fee is one of the highest in the industry, and higher than the $14.95 per month charged by competitors like Comcast.

So whatever you’re paying for a cable TV or streaming TV package, Spectrum’s $16.45 Broadcast TV fee gets added on top.

While the increased costs are certainly a bummer, there are people trying to put a stop to sneaky Broadcast TV fees, as evidenced by a class-action lawsuit filed in May.

The suit claims that “Charter does not fully or accurately disclose” its Broadcast TV surcharges despite…

Medical personnel administer tests at a “drive-through” testing center in West Palm Beach, 75 miles north of Miami, in March 2020.

Photo : Chandan Khanna/AFP ( Getty Images )One-third of coronavirus tests came back positive for the novel virus in Miami-Dade County, Florida on Thursday, with a 14-day average of 24.87 percent, according to CBS News.

In Miami-Dade County, one of the many cities which rushed to reopen shuttered businesses, government institutions, and other spaces in recent weeks, county stats show that 1,987 of 5,923 total individuals screened for the virus received positive results on Thursday.

In Miami-Dade some hospitals have reached intensive care unit capacity, with just …

DETROIT, MI - MAY 29: Detroit police detain and arrest protesters during a series of confrontations on May 29, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan.

Photo : Matthew Hatcher ( Getty Images )For more than a year, people opposed to giving police access to face recognition technology have pointed to criminal cases such as that of Willie Lynch.

A Florida appellate court ruled last year that Lynch, a Jacksonville man convicted of selling drugs worth $50 to an undercover agent, had no right to view the photos of other suspects face recognition software had identified next to his.

AdvertisementIn an article Friday, the Detroit Free Press wrote about the case of a 25-year-old Black man, Michael Oliver, who was…

AdvertisementBut, bless their hearts , that doesn’t stop Uber from trying.

As NBC reported Friday , Uber is expanding a limited pilot program it rolled out in January that allow drivers to set their own rates* to every driver in the state.

Again, the entire purpose of the experiment is to dodge a state S upreme C ourt ruling, a state law, and several lawsuits all of which unequivocally seek to reclassify Uber drivers as employees.

Is it possible Uber learned something valuable about this pricing system between January and now ?

A larger cell doesn’t make one less of a prisoner, and the freedom to earn less money isn’t freedom at all.

However, if you have a GoPro HERO8 Black, that’s no longer a problem, because you there’s a way to use it as a webcam instead.

How to use your GoPro HERO8 Black as a webcamBefore you get started, you’ll need to gather a few materials, and then install some preliminary software.

Download and run the GoPro Webcam app installer.

(Note: You cannot use GoPro Webcam app if the GoPro Labs app is also open).

At this point, the GoPro Webcam app is pretty slim on additional settings and features, though you can swap between two video resolution options:Click the GoPro Webcam icon from the status bar, then click “Preferences.” Select the video quality you want.

Image : PixabayThe French Parliament this week approved legislation for requiring age-verification protocols for pornography websites, a system approved and later abandoned by the U.K. following technical setbacks and privacy concerns.

AdvertisementThe age verification in France was approved unanimously this week after being introduced as an amendment last month to a law on domestic violence, Politico reported Thursday.

According to Politico, the bill still requires a final vote in the Senate but is expected to pass.

Politico reported that a method of age verification being explored by lawmakers is credit card verification.

Plans were killed for the U.K. system over technical problems and p…

While the platform has condemned ads for conversion therapy services for a while and has community guidelines calling out any posts that attack Instagrammers based on their “sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation,” until now, some posts promoting conversion therapy weren’t seen as falling under that umbrella.

But as of today, any content linked to the practice is getting a blanket ban across the platform.

If you look for hashtags and posts related to conversion therapy, some of the most popular results are from #conversiontherapysurvivors and #conversiontherapydropouts.

But it’s a step in the right direction, following the lead of countries like Germany Albania and more than a doz…

New research suggests we can detect such encounters from Earth, pointing to the presence of this hypothesized black hole.

New research outlines a potential strategy for detecting this supposed black hole, in a search that could begin as early as next year.

The reason for thinking a black hole might be lurking out there has to do with an unexplained set of astronomical observations.

AdvertisementThat we could have an ancient black hole inside our solar system is not as outlandish as it might sound.

Changes to their sensitive clocks would signal the presence of a strong gravitational field produced by a tiny black hole.

AdvertisementThe good news is that troubleshooting browser problems isn’t too difficult—the process is similar for a lot of the issues you’re going to come across.

Here are some of the most common problems you might come across in your browser, and what you should do to fix them.

And in Safari, open the Safari menu and pick Preferences, Privacy, and Manage Website Data.

There are also various other configuration settings that can affect how webpages appear on screen, though these vary from browser to browser.

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Around midday Friday, some employees at Amazon began posting on Twitter about another beloved, but increasingly embattled, online platform: TikTok.

“We're proud that tens of millions of Americans turn to TikTok for entertainment, inspiration, and connection, including many of the Amazon employees and contractors who have been on the frontlines of this pandemic."

India, which is currently embroiled in a border dispute with China, recently blocked a number of Chinese apps including TikTok.

And TikTok recently pulled out of Hong Kong, where a controversial national security law imposed by China went into effect late last month.

But Amazon also previously placed paid advertisements on TikTok, a…

Steve Alpert spent 15 years at Studio Ghibli, working to get films such as Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away distributed outside of Japan.

In particular he remembers a phone call from a pushy New York Times reporter who demanded an interview with Miyazaki.

“Miyazaki wasn’t going to be in the country, and it wouldn’t have been possible to do the interview,” Alpert says.

Fortunately she knew the work of Hayao Miyazaki, so it was a little bit easier.

That’s how a lot of the interviews go.”Steve Alpert on Hayao Miyazaki:“All the [Disney] animators had pirated versions of Ghibli’s art books on their desks and little Totoros on their desks, and they were very willing to talk about Hayao Miyazak…

Lorenz defended herself and called out what she characterized as previous harassment by Srinivasan and others on a variety of platforms, including Clubhouse.

The controversy moved to Clubhouse that night, when a roomful of VCs and others continued the discussion.

Lorenz was called to the stage, but before she could speak, the moderator called Srinivasan to the stage.

This very public episode exposed that Clubhouse, at least in this nascent state, had given little thought to policing the discussions that occur on its platform.

For people learning about Clubhouse for the first time, it was a disastrous introduction.

Even the best unlimited plans have a lot of limits.

For instance, an unlimited plan might get greatly throttled (slowed down) tethering speeds or downgraded streaming video quality after using a certain amount of data each month.

And we've done the hard work of finding out which unlimited plan is the best bang for your buck.

The carrier has three unlimited plans: Essentials, Magenta, and Magenta Plus.

Other perks we like include international texting and data (the latter is only available on Magenta plans), but you get unlimited talk, text, and data in Mexico and Canada on all plans (2G data speeds on Essentials, 5 gigabytes of 4G LTE on the Magenta plans).

Microsoft has neutered a large-scale fraud campaign that used knock-off domains and malicious apps to scam customers in 62 countries around the world.

An earlier so-called BEC, or business email compromise, that the same group of attackers carried out in December used phishing attacks to obtain unauthorized access.

Microsoft used technical means to shut it down.

Microsoft’s Burt didn’t explicitly say the apps used in the more recent case connected through OAuth.

In a separate post published on Wednesday, however, Microsoft warned of “Consent phishing,” in which attackers use the same OAuth method.

But to Buggert, who studies T cells—part of an orchestra of cells that perform in the body’s immune response—the symphony appeared incomplete.

Research from SARS offered hints that, even if antibodies faded, some people retained immune cells that recognized the virus.

For SARS-CoV-2, similar dimensions of the immune response could have bearing on how immunity works and how to design a vaccine.

There are B cells, which help coax those virus-specific antibodies into existence, plus killer T cells, which can learn to obliterate infected cells.

That’s because T cell responses are much harder to measure than antibody levels, requiring a lot of blood and fine-tuned instrumentation to wrangle the …

Add displays of collective grief over racial injustice to the mix, and it can be even harder to look away.

This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior editor Angela Watercutter joins us to talk about our shifting relationships with social media and how we’re dialing back the doomscrolling.

Show NotesRead Angela’s story about how doomscrolling is eroding your mental health here.

Mike recommends the music of Ennio Morricone and that you read John Zorn’s obituary of Morricone in The New York Times.

If you use Android, you can find us in the Google Play Music app just by tapping here.

That starts with banning facial recognition, a technology perfectly designed for the automation of racism.

Numerous studies have shown that facial recognition algorithms exhibit systemic racial and gender bias.

To be blunt, facial recognition software thinks all Black people look the same.

(Though the company has placed a moratorium on police use of its facial recognition technology, it’s difficult to see this as anything other than a publicity stunt.)

Facial recognition is the tool that allows police to weaponize those surveillance cameras.

Last weekend was the Fourth of July, a cause for socially distanced picnics and (even more) fireworks (than usual).

Hamilton, a musical that debuted at the Public Theater in New York in 2015, shouldn’t be such a topic of conversation five years later.

It was a phenomenon when it premiered, but in the intervening years it has been analyzed and think-pieced ad infinitum.

It also called into question the legacy of Alexander Hamilton himself, and the liberties Miranda took with history.

I study history.”The reexamination of Hamilton is instructive of two things: One, that art can, and should, always be subject to re-examination and criticism.

You have to watch to find out her answer to the age-old rivalry of which is better to fly: Boeing or Airbus.

Folks like the 8-Bit Guy help show us rare old tech, like digital cameras that used full-size floppy disks.

He's a relaxed natural in front of the camera, and you can tell he's always having a good time.

Baumgartner Restoration shows a wide variety of methods on healing wooden split-panels, torn canvas, and masterpieces from the old masters.

And he will be the first to tell you he has a different definition of high-end audio equipment.

Above our heads, a “heat dome” of high pressure could blast 80 percent of the continental US with temperatures over 90 degrees for the next few weeks.

But as the heat dome persists, it blasts away the soil’s moisture, and that solar energy now goes full-tilt into heating the air.

“And so those super dry land surfaces are going to amplify the heat and the persistence of this heat dome,” says Swain.

This won’t be the last heat dome, or the most severe one.

And thanks to climate change, those air temperatures will be hotter even before a heat dome arrives.

The workings of the IB diploma—and the timing of the results—proved particularly harmful for IB students applying to US colleges.

Unlike AP tests, which are typically separate from high school grades, the IB results are intended to reflect a student’s work for the year.

IB students are often granted college admission based on predicted grades, and they submit their final results when they become available over the summer.

Some colleges, including NYU and Northeastern, warn on their admissions pages that students whose IB results don’t get close enough to those predictions may lose their place.

In March, IB canceled all tests and said it would calculate each student’s final grades using a me…

Percival Lowell wasn’t the first to think he’d discovered life on Mars, but he was among the last.

On July 30, NASA is expected to launch its new rover, Perseverance, on a one-way journey to Mars.

The car-sized robotic geologist will spend its first year on the planet drilling core samples in search of signs of ancient life.

If Perseverance discovers life on Mars, it will be less like encountering a stranger in the woods and more like discovering their footprints.

When she’s not hunting for ancient life on other planets, Bosak studies the earliest life on our own, a process she says is analogous to what Perseverance will be doing on Mars.

Let's say it together: Facial-recognition technology is a dangerous, biased mess.

We are reminded of this obvious fact again with the news Friday that an innocent man, despite not looking like the perpetrator at all, was arrested last year after being falsely identified by faulty facial-recognition tech.

This is the second known case of facial recognition software directly leading to the arrest of an innocent man.

Dan Korobkin, legal director of the ACLU of Michigan, released a statement condemning both the arrest and Detroit police's use of facial-recognition technology.

Late last month we learned that Detroit police arrested a (yes) Black man by the name of Robert Julian-Borchak Williams …

And they spent that money on Super Mario Bros. for the original Nintendo Entertainment System.

A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. just sold at auction for $114,000, which is a new record for the sale of a single game.

The original Super Mario Bros. has sold more than 40 million copies throughout its long history.

From what we witnessed in our May Signature Auction just a few months ago, Super Mario Bros. is no exception.

A Wata 8.0 A Sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. with a cardboard hangtab sold for a record-breaking $40,200.

Also, child trafficking is a horrific crime and conspiracy theories like this one turn a dangerous issue into a joke, distracting from the real reasons child trafficking flourishes.

Annnnnnnnnd this insane conspiracy theory already made it to TikTok and was the third video on my For You page just now 🙃 pic.twitter.com/kcUJE4LgUz — Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) July 10, 2020While this conspiracy theory is unfounded, Wayfair is no stranger to internet controversy.

As with most conspiracies, the Wayfair theory morphed with time on Friday, growing all sorts of tentacles.

this conspiracy theory has also merged with the "ICE is sex trafficking the kids in cages" theory.

Again, the internet has chu…

Morphe announced that it's cutting ties with Jeffree Star after weeks of backlash following an explosive video by makeup vlogger Tati Westbrook.

As we look to the future, we will continue to share updates on what lies ahead for the Morphe brand."

Today we’ve made the decision to cease all commercial activity related to Jeffree Star and affiliated products.

Star remains the CEO of Jeffree Star Cosmetics, which he founded in 2014.

Mashable has reached out to Jeffree Star for comment and we'll update this post if we hear back.

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Just how easy is it to keep up with 'Joy of Painting' master Bob Ross?

We asked these comedians to try their hand at following along with the simple steps and soothing sounds of the boss himself.

Will they have their brush with greatness?

It's been the week of leaks for Samsung — there was the Note 20 Ultra, the Galaxy Tab S7+, these weird Samsung Galaxy earbuds, and now the Galaxy Z Flip 5G.

Well-known leaker Max Weinbach posted the video on Twitter, giving us a closer look at the latest version of the foldable phone.

Z Flip 5G pic.twitter.com/CGvXa4yZyO — Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach) July 10, 2020Judging by the video, it looks like the 5G variant will only be offered in one color — which likely goes by "Mystic Bronze" to match the Note 20 Ultra.

The standard Z Flip is available in Mirror Purple, Mirror Black, and Mirror Gold.

While the standard Z Flip features Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 Plus processor, the Z Flip might inste…

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NEXT STORY:If you're not sure quite where to begin, we've created a helpful beginner's guide to composting for getting started.

Ideally, it's best not to position your compost heap or container somewhere that's subject to a lot of changes in temperature and moisture.

Image: Getty ImagesWhat type of composting bin should you use?

Here's a useful guide on which type of compost bin is best.

Simon Akeroyd, author of Perfect Compost, told me the simplest type of compost container is a small cardboard box.

If Dolly Parton was spurned by a man in 1374, here's what "Jolene" would have sounded like.

Singer Hildegard von Blingin', a YouTuber who covers pop songs in the style of a medieval bard, covered Dolly Parton's haunting love song with some lyrical twists.

Sure Jolene was doing Dolly dirty, but to do all that in the midst of a plague, the crusades, and feudal oppression?

Hildegard von Blingin's other medieval bangers include Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie," Radiohead's "Creep," and Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance."

And all of them, unsurprisingly, pop off.

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Having your iPhone battery drain by over 50 percent in 24 hours with minimal use is not normal, but it seems to be happening to a growing number of iPhone owners over the past week.

The Apple Music app is reportedly the culprit—more specifically, the background activity of the app even when it's not in use.

Even if you've never used the Music app, background activity can apparently appear for it on your phone and last several hours.

Although users think the Music app is to blame, comments on the MacRumors article suggest there's a wider problem regarding background activity in iOS.

In other words, this isn't an Apple Music problem but a more general iOS background activity problem.

Anyway, we've done it again: collected the best tweets of the week .

OK, here they are, the 14 best tweets from this week.

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We knew a 5G variant of Samsung’s vertically folding Galaxy Z Flip clamshell was on the way, after the first images leaked earlier this month.

Now, we have an entire leaked video and a set of rumors about the new “Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G” that seems to leave nothing to the imagination — and suggest it might be ready for Samsung’s upcoming August 5th Galaxy Unpacked event.

Basically, it looks like it’ll be practically the same folding phone but with a faster processor and 5G.

So for the Z Flip 5G, the ONLY part that changes is the SoC.

While 5G might be the flagship feature here, 5G phones still have a ways to go before they are the new normal.

It was a tidy solution to generating content, especially as social media took off.

Opinions were written quickly about whatever the writer had seen on social media the other day.

In some ways, the fall of the opinion class mirrors the rise of the democratized, secular press at the expense of the church.

Does this rule also apply to prominent figures who have been either formally or informally designated as representatives of public opinion?

But this general incoherence about the problem of “cancel culture” isn’t entirely the fault of the anti-woke commentariat.

Tesla has finally settled on a date for its delayed annual shareholder meeting and “battery day” for investors: September 22nd.

The meeting will be held in person at the company’s vehicle factory in Fremont, California, though it will presumably also be live-streamed.

The annual shareholder meeting was originally scheduled for July 7th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

At the meeting, shareholders are slated to vote and voice opinions on a number of matters, like whether the company should start paying for traditional advertisement.

The battery day event was originally supposed to take place earlier this year, but was also delayed because of the pandemic.

Amazon has delayed its upcoming open-world MMO New World, one of two tentpole games from its burgeoning games studio, from August 25th to an undefined spring 2021 date.

The announcement comes less than two weeks after Amazon brought its other tentpole game, the free-to-play shooter Crucible, back into closed beta following barely a month of wide availability.

It sounds like Amazon may be taking a more cautious approach to game development after early feedback from testers that the games weren’t quite what they hoped.

But in early June, Amazon pulled two of the game’s three modes, leaving only its MOBA-inspired mode, and then returned the released game to closed beta on July 1st to make more…

Though it might strike some people as obvious advice, Apple has published a support page that warns MacBook owners not to close their laptop with a camera cover in place.

Instead of using a cover, Apple says that customers can trust the green LED beside the camera on a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air that illuminates whenever the camera is active.

“The camera is engineered so that it can’t activate without the camera indicator light also turning on,” Apple’s support document says.

Apple does acknowledge that some people have no choice in the matter and might be required to use a camera cover by their employer.

As MacRumors notes, there have been cases of a MacBook Pro’s screen breaking even when…

Instagram on Thursday announced a new ban on all forms of content, including posts and videos, promoting the widely discredited practice known as conversion therapy, which attempts to forcefully change an individual's sexual orientation.

The spokesperson confirmed the ban applies both to Instagram and the company’s main social network, which share hate speech policies.

Facebook and Instagram are banning conversion therapy content under hate speech guidelines“We don’t allow attacks against people based on sexual orientation or gender identity and are updating our policies to ban the promotion of conversion therapy services,” Tara Hopkins, Instagram’s public policy director for Europe, the Mi…

Facebook is reportedly considering a ban on political ads before the US elections this year.

Bloomberg reported the news this afternoon, saying that the idea is being discussed internally but is not yet a firm policy.

Facebook has previously allowed users to “turn off” political ads and added disclosure requirements, and it’s attempting to provide reliable information with a voting hub.

But it’s stopped short of banning the ads themselves, in contrast with its rival Twitter, which announced a political ad ban last year.

However, a ban would also protect Facebook from bad publicity from inflammatory ads — like a Trump ad that it removed due to Nazi imagery.

By creating and saving email templates, you can insert them the next time you compose a message and save yourself some time.

You can store up to 50 templates at a time, so it’s easy to create different templates for different situations.

Create an email template:Click on the cog icon in the top right corner of your screen.

To delete a template, click on “Delete template” under the “Templates” options.

Send templates automaticallyYou can set up filters that automatically send out a specific template as a reply when certain emails come in.

Super Mario Bros. keeps breaking records three and a half decades after release.

A mint copy of a US version of the 1985 game just sold for $114,000 at Heritage Auctions, breaking the previous record set by a copy of Super Mario Bros. in similar condition that sold for $100,150 at an auction last year.

That makes it, according to game collector and journalist Chris Kohler, the most expensive game ever sold to date.

A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. just sold at auction for $114,000, which is a new record for the sale of a single game.

There are four sub-variants of the plastic sealed cardboard hangtab box (this particular copy of Super Mario Bros. being the “3 Code” variant) that were prod…

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Facebook’s defense after an appeals court determined it violated anti-robocalling rules.

The court will examine whether Facebook’s automated alert texts count as an “automatic telephone dialing system,” establishing a clearer definition of illegal phone spam.

The Supreme Court will settle the question for good.

This case will complement another recent Supreme Court robocalling decision.

If Facebook ultimately loses its case, it could be required to pay damages to any user who received unwanted messages within a period of several years.

They’re also tracking whether you’ve opened the email, when you opened it, and where you were at the time by embedding tracking software into the message.

Just type “email tracking” into your search engine and watch all the software apps appear.

A single tracking pixel is embedded into the email, usually (but not always) hidden within an image or a link.

When the email is opened, code within the pixel sends the info back to the company’s server.

There is also a simple step you can take to avoid most trackers: stop your email from automatically loading images, since images are where the majority of these pixels hide.

Amazon asked employees to remove the popular social video-sharing app TikTok from their mobile devices on Friday, as first reported by The New York Times.

“Due to security risks, the TikTok app is no longer permitted on mobile devices that access Amazon email,” the company said in an email to employees Friday morning.

“If you have TikTok on your device, you must remove it by 10-Jul to retain mobile access to Amazon email.

At this time, using TikTok from your Amazon laptop browser is allowed.” The email was obtained and independently published by multiple reporters on Twitter.

Earlier this week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News that the Trump administration is “looking at” ban…

HBO Max has announced a new TV series focused on the Gotham City Police Department, which will be a spinoff of Matt Reeves’ upcoming The Batman film (which is set to star Robert Pattinson at Bruce Wayne / Batman).

The Batman isn’t the only property that WarnerMedia is looking to expand to HBO Max.

The company is also set to try a similar experiment with its upcoming Dune adaptation.

It’s already announced a spinoff for HBO Max, Dune: The Sisterhood, which will explore the larger world of Dune and the characters in it.

There’s no release date yet for the upcoming Gotham PD HBO Max series; The Batman is scheduled to release on October 1st, 2021.

Google’s 2020 Pixel lineup may look a bit different than usual if the latest product names found in the company’s Google search app are any indication.

Instead of the expected Pixel 5 and Pixel 5 XL monikers, Google is apparently working on a “Pixel 4a (5G)” and a “Pixel 5,” via 9to5Google.

Notably missing: a Pixel 5 XLWhat all of this means for the shape of Google’s 2020 phone lineup is still unclear.

Is the Pixel 4A (5G) the new smaller “flagship” Pixel, while the Pixel 5 will be the larger “XL” phone?

But what’s clear from today’s leak is that this year’s Pixel lineup will almost certainly look very different from Google’s past offerings.

On this episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcastt, hosts Jeff Grubb and Mike Minotti have Bakugan-fever.

They also discuss the upcoming Xbox Games Showcase and Ubisoft Forward events.

Then Mike talks about playing CrossCode, which is catching on with new audiences now that it is on console.

Finally, Jeff talks about his preview of Paper Mario: The Origami King.

He likes it a lot so far even if it is missing some key elements.

But one platform it’s not headed to any time soon is Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass.

During a conversation on Twitter, I used Cyberpunk 2077 as an example of a big-name game that Microsoft could potentially try to get on Game Pass soon after release.

Anticipation for Cyberpunk 2077 is sky-high, and that is likely going to mean blockbuster sales for the open-world sci-fi role-playing adventure.

Agreeing to put Cyberpunk 2077 on Game Pass could eat into some of those sales.

But if a marquee, third-party release ends up on Game Pass near its release, it’s not Cyberpunk.

After rumors surfaced that Sony was considering acquiring Hong Kong gaming company Leyou Technologies, the focus is now shifting to Tencent.

In a note to investors, Leyou confirmed that it is in talks with Tencent about an acquisition.

The two companies agreed to terms on a three-month exclusive window for talks about Tencent taking Leyou private.

And it’s that capability to build modern service games for PC that makes Leyou so attractive.

While Leyou’s teams can bring deep insights into best-practices for live-service PC games, Tencent can also capitalize on Warframe and other properties on mobile.

Google is investigating ways AI might be used to ground natural language instructions to smartphone app actions.

In their paper, the researchers describe a two-step solution comprising an action-phrase extraction step and a grounding step.

Action-phrase extraction identifies the operation, object, and argument descriptions from multi-step instructions using a Transformer model.

The third contains 295,000 single-step commands to UI actions covering 178,000 UI objects across 25,000 mobile UI screens from a public Android UI corpus.

“This research, and language grounding in general, is an important step for translating multi-stage instructions into actions on a graphical user interface.

Over the span of a full quarter, over 50% of VC firms did not do a remote deal.

Other interesting takeaways include:More than two-thirds (69%) of respondents say their firm is giving fully remote deals the green light.

Early-stage firms are 11% more likely to have already closed a remote deal than later stage firms, with 47% already having done a fully remote deal.

42% of those who plan to do remote deals agree that it will require changes to their existing process.

“Portfolio triage” is not over, with over 64% of VCs reporting spending more time on their portfolio companies.

Loosely, PCAST — which lives in the Office of Science and Technology — provides advice to the president on science and technology policy.

PCAST suggests a remedy in stronger collaboration with “key U.S. allies,” including formal international partnerships in AI research and development.

The EU Commission has committed to increasing investment in AI from $565 million (€500 million) in 2017 to $1.69 billion (€1.5 billion) by the end of 2020.

France recently took the wraps off a $1.69 billion (€1.5 billion) initiative aimed at transforming the country into a “global leader” in AI research and training.

(The White House earlier this year proposed setting aside an additional $1 billion for a tot…

The company said today it is delaying its New World massively multiplayer online game until the spring of 2021, based on feedback it’s received from testers and players.

This delay comes after the company was set to release the game in August.

New World was originally set to debut in May, but it pushed that date to August.

“In particular, we want to ensure that the most dedicated players have plenty of middle and endgame experiences as they venture through Aeternum.

Players will get to play the game for a limited time on August 25, but that will be a limited-time beta test, rather than a full launch.

As engineers and data scientists unlock more of the potential of AI and machine learning, ever-more innovative solutions continue to advance the goals of business leaders.

At Transform 2020 next week, you’ll have a chance to see those solutions for yourself.

Transform 2020 Expo (July 15-17) will showcase some of the most cutting edge AI companies, from large tech giants like Intel and Dell to some of the most innovative growth companies and startups like Dataiku, Cloudera, and Modzy.

Once the event begins, just click on the Expo Booths icon in the menu displayed on the event platform.

From there, you’ll be able to earmark and select all those you’d like to follow up with.

VentureBeat readers likely noticed this week that our site looks different.

There are readers who care about our AI and transformative tech coverage, and there are others who ardently follow GamesBeat.

We want to give our AI coverage the same treatment, which is why we created The Machine.

We chose to take a long and winding path to selecting The Machine as the name for our AI sub brand.

And it frames our AI team as a formidable, well-oiled content machine, punching well above our weight with a tiny roster of writers.

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Who does a Twitter subscription platform appeal to?

Never mind that the listings offer no concrete details about the mythical Twitter subscription platform.

Many Twitter users claim they would gladly pay Twitter if they could skip the cesspool part.

A user without a Twitter subscription can’t have a more toxic experience simply because they don’t want to, or cannot, subscribe.

After all, a Twitter subscription platform is not a fresh idea.

One thing’s for certain, though: Back to School shopping is going to be different for a lot of people.

Here are some of the options we’ve settled on as we head into the upcoming school season.

Skip the new computer, update the monitorThis is an unusually challenging time to recommend the purchase of a brand new computer.

Last Christmas, I sang the praises of LG’s 27UK850-W, which at that point was around $400 and turned a smaller USB-C laptop or desktop into a very large 27-inch viewing experience with 4K resolution.

The headphones or stylus you pick today could be step one towards a big holiday gift or early 2021 purchase.

Separating speech from conversations is a crucial step toward improving communication across a range of applications, like voice messaging and video tools.

Beyond this, speech separation techniques like those proposed by researchers can be applied to the problem of background noise suppression, for example in recordings of musical instruments.

A voice separation network then transforms these representations into an estimated audio signal for each speaker.

This “encoder” model needs foreknowledge of the total number of speakers, but a subsystem can automatically detect the speakers and select the speech model accordingly.

The coauthors claimed that approach requires only single-channel (e.g.…

Valve remained small at just a few hundred people, but it hasn’t shipped a major Half-Life game since Half-Life 2: Episode Two appeared in 2007.

Keighley said that Half-Life: Alyx made it out the door, but it was Valve’s sixth attempt to do something with the Half-Life property since 13 years ago.

He said that Half-Life: Alyx is ambitious but is also “bordering on absurd” because the audience is so limited.

That turned out to be Half-Life: Alyx, a limited-scope VR project set in the Half-Life universe.

In January 2019, the Alyx team had reached its peak of 80 people, compared to four in February 2016.

Aryballe, a startup developing biochemical sensors, optics, and AI to collect and analyze odor data, today announced it has raised €7 million ($7.9 million).

Automotive manufacturers, food and beverage producers, and personal care and cosmetics companies are increasingly piloting aroma sensors to improve their customer experience.

Called the NeOse Pro, it mimics the human brain’s process for identifying aromas and differentiating between them.

Investor Hyundai is using NeOse Pro technology to let drivers monitor their car’s interior.

This latest funding round brings Aryballe’s total raised to date to €17 million ($19.2 million) and comes after a year in which the company’s headcount grew 30…

Online retail giant Amazon has told employees this week to uninstall the TikTok mobile app from the smartphones they use to access Amazon's internal email servers.

According to an email sent to employees today, and seen by ZDNet, workers have until July 10 to remove the TikTok app from their devices.

The email cited a "security risk" to using the TikTok app, but didn't go into details.

The email's full text is available below:"Due to security risk, the TikTok app is no longer permitted on mobile devices that access Amazon email.

If you have TikTok on your device, you must remove it by 10-Jul to retain mobile access to Amazon email.

Rackspace is making a return to the public market.

The company announced Friday that it has filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed Initial Public Offering of its common stock.

The company intends to list under the ticker symbol "RXT" on the NASDAQ.

Rackspace left the public market in 2016 following a $4.3 billion deal with the private equity firm Apollo Global Management.

The company started as a hosting firm known for customer service, helped launch OpenStack, briefly tried to compete with public cloud giants and then retooled under a series of management changes.

Apparently, there are still some other issues, which is resulting in Microsoft continuing to block the 2004 update on certain Surface devices, including Surface Pro 7, and Surface Laptop 3.

Microsoft officials are not commenting on what "other safeguards" still are keeping Surface users from being able to install the Windows 10 2004 update.

Also, it's not just Surface Laptop 3 and Surface Pro 7 that are being blocked.

But since then, devices like the Surface Pro 7 and Surface Laptop 3 have remained blocked.

Will that be the magical date when Microsoft unblocks the 2004 update for Surface devices?

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Elon Musk: Super thin "threads" inserted in the brain will let us monitor cell activity Watch NowElon Musk has said an update on the progress of his Neuralink implant devices, which connects a computer directly in to the brain, is coming next month.

Neuralink aims to develop ultra-high bandwidth brain-computer interfaces, and in a tweet Musk said 28 August will see the first update to Neuralink since announcing the brain-machine interface project in 2017.

When Musk revealed Neuralink, he hyped the technology as an answer to the threat of artificial intelligence, which he said presented an "existential risk" to humans.

Musk thinks his direct brain-to-machine interface — or "neural lace" — wo…

Two security researchers said this week that they found severe vulnerabilities and what appears to be intentional backdoors in the firmware of 29 FTTH OLT devices from popular vendor C-Data.

The term FTTH OLT refers to networking equipment that allows internet service providers to bring fiber optics cables as close to the end-users as possible.

The accounts allow attackers to connect to the device via a Telnet server running on the device's WAN (internet-side) interface.

The fourth bug was discovered in the same Telnet server running on the WAN interface.

Below is the list of vulnerable C-Data FTTH OLT models:

The International Federation of Robotics cites worldwide robotics installations surpassing 400,000 in 2018, the latest year for which data has been released.

There are lots of reasons a company might entertain automating processes with robots.

The first branch on our decision tree deals with what the robot does.

Move up to Level 4 and you jump in sophistication: "Robot arms can pick various objects never seen before and/or in an unexpected pickup location or orientation."

And finally, at Level 5, "Robot arms can pick objects in extremely unstructured environments; some may be able to intentionally manipulate the orientation of objects."

Analyst firm Gartner said Q1 was the worst quarter on record for PC shipments since 2013.

SEE: Windows 10 Start menu hacks (TechRepublic Premium)"Notebooks have singlehandedly pulled the PC market out of depression," said Rushabh Doshi, a research director at Canalys.

Lenovo shipped 17.4 million units, up 7% year on year, leaving it with a 23.9% share of the worldwide market.

Dell shipments grew 3.4% to 12 million units, while Apple shipments grew 13.1% to 5.35 million units.

Overall, the industry shipped 72.9 million units in Q2 2020, up from 66.9 million units a year ago.

According to Pen Test Partners, the first major security issue was the discovery of an unrestricted server to server API.

Server-side code, MySQL passwords, email, SMS, and Redis credentials, and a hard-coded password in the source code -- 123456 -- were available to view.

"The source code indicated that this bucket was where ALL the pictures taken by devices are sent.

We have not confirmed that," Pen Test Partners says.

Pen Test Partners disclosed its findings to 3G Electronics on January 22.

The offer to educators includes enhanced Develop in Swift and Everyone Can Code curricula, and a new professional learning course for Develop in Swift, which is available to educators for free.

The Develop in Swift course also teaches educators and students how to use Xcode on a Mac, Apple's integrated development environment for building Swift projects.

The Develop in Swift curriculum comprises four free books available in the Apple Books app.

These include "Develop in Swift Explorations", "Develop in Swift AP CS Principles", and "Develop in Swift Fundamentals".

Over 9,000 K-12 and higher education institutions worldwide are using the Everyone Can Code and Develop in Swift, according to Ap…

Cybersecurity: Hacking attacks cost victims more than just cash Watch NowA reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability impacting 100,000 websites has been patched in the KingComposer WordPress plugin.

See also: Researchers connect Evilnum hacking group to cyberattacks against Fintech firmsThe Wordfence Threat Intelligence team discovered the XSS bug on June 25.

"As such, if an attacker used base64-encoding on a malicious payload, and tricked a victim into sending a request containing this payload in the kc-online-preset-data parameter, the malicious payload would be decoded and executed in the victim's browser," the researchers say.

However, there was no response, leading to the team…

Netgear expands its Gigabit Wi-Fi 6 offering with a new, lower-priced, Orbi RBK752 mesh system.

Designed to handle the demands being placed on Wi-Fi by video conferencing, streaming 4K/8K UHD content, and the myriad of IoT devices that litter out homes and offices, the Orbi RBK752 joins the Orbi RBK852.

Supporting internet speeds up to internet speeds of up to 1 Gigabit, this mesh pack is perfect for those who want to make the most of their internet pipe without breaking the bank.

Netgear Orbi Whole Home Tri-Band Mesh Wi-Fi Orbi RBK752 tech specs Configuration : 1 Router + 1 Satellite: 1 Router + 1 Satellite Wi-Fi speed : WIFI 6 - AX4200 (Up to 4.2 Gbps): WIFI 6 - AX4200 (Up to 4.2 Gbps) Wi…

Image: GoogleThe uptake of Android 10 is blitzing the rate at which prior versions of Android were adopted, but it is far from the world's best practice.

On Thursday, Google said in a blog post that Android 10 was getting onto devices faster than its predecessor named Pie.

"Android 10 was running on 100 million devices 5 months post launch -- 28% faster than Android Pie," it said.

In both cases, the version of Android with the largest install base remains Android 9 Pie.

"Most OS updates are not delivered via Google Play.

The Australian Department of Finance has boasted how its Drupal-based Government Content Management System (GovCMS) withstood a record number of visitors on the platform during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

At the peak of the pandemic, the GovCMS platform saw 2 billion hits in a month, recorded 100,000 page views per minute, and 187,000 concurrent users on the platform.

Smart Traveller, Safe Work Australia, the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, and the South Australian Department of Education also saw visitor increases during the pandemic, Finance added.

Dubbed as "one of the quiet achievers in government IT" by Finance, GovCMS currently hosts 327 websites for 96 …

While personal protective equipment -- or PPE for short -- is no longer in short supply, some people enjoy making their own gear to keep them safe during the coronavirus pandemic. Here are tutorials and inspiration for how you can make high-tech gadgets to keep you safe.

Here's how LabCorp's Pixel test lets you check your COVID-19 status and how much it costs.

Here's what you need to know about the political backlash against TikTok:Why does the Trump administration want to ban TikTok?

President Donald Trump cited a different reason for a potential TikTok ban: punishing China for its response to the coronavirus.

Asked about Pompeo's remarks in an interview with Gray Television, Trump confirmed the US is considering a TikTok ban.

"The tech community will be very hesitant to go along with this app ban," said Wayne Lam, an independent technology analyst.

Some TikTok users in India also started seeing alerts that said TikTok is working with the government to comply with its order.

In today's top stories, the Galaxy Note 20 and Fold 2 are expected to be unveiled at Samsung's Aug. 5 Unpacked event. Meanwhile, Microsoft Teams puts people together in virtual rooms for a more natural experience.

The founder of Yes, 1 Billion Kids Can Code and CEO of a board game company called CoderBunnyz wants to get 1 billion kids into coding by the time she graduates from college around 2030.

Now, the company also offers free AI and coding curriculum online all around the world.

As part of her mission, Mehta has led more than 150 coding workshops for kids at companies like Google, Microsoft and Intel.

With in-person workshops and conferences out of the question this year, Mehta has had to rethink how to reach kids interested in STEM.

The cost of attendance is $10, which goes toward Yes, One Billion Kids Can Code.

Today's major tech headlines include an independent audit slamming Facebook's impact on civil rights, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 Plus chip and Amazon's requiring of its sellers to disclose their business addresses moving forward.

Angela Lang/CNETAmazon sellers in the US will soon be required to show their business name and address on their profile page, the e-commerce giant said Wednesday.

The move goes into effect Sept. 1, and has already been in place in Europe, Japan and Mexico, Amazon noted.

"We are making this change to ensure there is a consistent baseline of seller information to help customers make informed shopping decisions," Amazon said in a notice to sellers.

The online marketplace has faced criticism for how it handles the sale of counterfeit goods on its platform.

This latest measure could also provide more seller accountability and transparency for people looking to purchase items on the site.

Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty ImagesUber's latest move to make itself indispensable to London commuters is a new partnership with the British capital's Thames Clipper boat service.

The ride-hailing company announced on Wednesday that it has bought naming rights for the iconic riverboats that ferry people up and down the River Thames.

Starting later this summer, the Thames Clipper, which has served Londoners and tourists since 1999, will be renamed Uber Boat and will be bookable through the Uber app.

The company is currently battling to regain its license to operate its ride-hailing service in the city after its request to renew was denied in September 2017, and then again in Novembe…

Angela Lang/CNETTwitter is building a subscription platform under a new team codenamed Gryphon, according to a job posting for a senior full-stack software engineer that appeared on the social media site in late June.

"We are building a subscription platform, one that can be reused by other teams in the future.

The full-stack engineer would be based in New York, and would lead the payment and subscription client work, according to the post.

It's unclear if the subscription will be for Twitter itself, or some kind of new product.

This isn't the first time the name Gryphon has appeared: Twitter posted a contract position for a frontend software engineer for the team about three months ago.

Screenshot by CNETA San Francisco tech CEO was caught on video this weekend unleashing a racist tirade against an Asian family at a restaurant in Carmel Valley, California.

"Trump's going to fuck you," Michael Lofthouse, CEO of the cloud computing company Solid8, said in the video.

He also told the family they "need to leave" and called one of them an "Asian piece of shit."

The video was captured by Jordan Chan, who said she was at the restaurant celebrating a family member's birthday.

I would like to deeply apologize to the Chan family.

Today's top tech stories include the Facebook ad boycott organizers unhappy with their meeting with Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft's suing over trademarks to stop a Covid-19 scam and Instagram now letting all users pin selected comments.

Activists met with executives, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, and members of the policy team virtually on Tuesday morning.

Despite Facebook's vow, civil rights activists say they haven't seen enough meaningful change especially in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said during a press conference that Facebook didn't provide specific commitments, time frames or clear outcomes.

Participants include a variety of businesses including outdoor clothing brand The North Face, consumer goods giant Unilever and telecom leader Verizon.

Facebook is expected to release a finalized independent civil rights audit, which is a two-yea…

LoonLoon, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, said Tuesday that it's launched a fleet of high-flying balloons over Kenya to beam internet signals down to the country's population.

The deployment is also the first in Africa, the most underserved region in the world when it comes to internet access.

For the launch, Loon partnered with the wireless company Telkom Kenya to provide connectivity to its subscribers.

Loon doesn't want to replace the existing infrastructure for wireless connections, but instead add to it, says CEO Allistair Westgarth.

"What we're seeing in Kenya today is the laying of the foundation for a third layer of connectivity," Westgarth wrote in a blog post.

Today's major tech headlines include Uber's intent to acquire Postmates, Hamilton's major Disney Plus bump and Microsoft's plan for an Xbox Game Showcase on July 23.

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What does this SEO trend mean for businesses?

The quality content created for the user plays the roleThe “circulatory system” of SEO was and remains content.

How site content requirements are changingSet a goal to publish the best content that can be found on the Internet on your topic.

What does this SEO trend mean for businesses?

What does this SEO trend mean for businesses?

Real estate technology, or proptech, is one of the industries that has produced the most unicorns in the last few years.

Despite being slow to adopt new technologies, real estate contributes 13% of US GDP, making it the country’s largest industry.

How automation can improve the real estate processAutomated real estate transactions will soon be the norm.

For agencies with multiple agents, automation tools sync any updated information or documents, keeping everyone on the same page, and increasing transparency.

This period will likely be a turning point, marking the start of large-scale adoption of real estate technology throughout the sector.

Here are the top COVI-19 cybersecurity scams to watch for, and how to mitigate them.

Given the reality that business data is more vulnerable than ever, what precautions should all companies be taking to mitigate these unique risks?

COVID-19 has forced an essential point: If cybersecurity wasn’t a 2020 business priority before, it needs to be now.

Start deploying password management tools Insist on the deployment of password management tools for both personal and business apps.

Insist on the deployment of password management tools for both personal and business apps.

A clearance search or trademark search determines whether there’s an existing mark.

Here is how to conduct a trademark search for a business startup in UAE.

Similar to a trademark in the US — a Trademark search in UAE is also referred to as due diligence search.

If the trademark incorporates a logo or design, the trademark search should include a search for designs that are confusingly similar.

You can also conduct a combined mark search using the mark and the products or service terms.

You can see one pen testing company giving way to a whole new industry of penetration testing.

Penetration Testing in the BeginningBusinesses always had a reason to opt for penetration testing to stay at a great distance from malware and other viruses.

Although every pen testing company felt it was a good idea to use manual testing for this new category of tech, IoT, they failed most of the time.

Better ReportingThe last stage of penetration testing followed by every pen testing company (kualitatem dot com) is the reporting stage.

Here is the whole list of the ways AI-powered pen testing is much better than manual testing.

Here are effective tips to ensure project management success.

Manage Potential RisksWhen it comes to successful project management, you cannot overlook the role of risk handling.

Invest in a Project Management AppYou may have all the traits of a successful project manager.

A project management software application (zepth dot com) acts as a one-stop platform for all the relevant information that relates to the project.

The project manager will analyze each project on a granular level by reviewing various project components in detail.

It is now time to build robots for humans, not to replace them.

A new generation of companies is turning their attention to bringing the two together, building robots to work for humans, not replace them, and reinventing several industries in the process.

Where the probability of unforeseen situations and ‘rules’ are low, robots can work miraculously better than any human can.

Applications such as driverless cars, last-mile delivery robots, warehouse robots, robots making pizza, cleaning floors, and more, can operate in the real world thanks to ‘humans in the loop’ monitoring their operations.

Expert-in-the-Loop roboticsTo accelerate what robots are capable of doing, we need to shift focus …

Are you using CRM software to manage your customers?

Here is: customer relationships — the benefits of using CRM software for startups.

What is CRM software?

Choosing a CRMThere are a number of different CRM software applications available for you to choose from with different features and benefits.

48% of sales teams rely heavily on their CRM software to manage their clients and improve business operations.

One gift company that is attracting more attention is Giftsuite for its uniquely curated and themed gift boxes.

The regular price for this special edition gift box is $441.

This limited edition gift box focuses on wellness and combines a wide range of gift items designed to prioritize health and wellness.

The Video Conference-Ready Gift Box However, there is one more gift box I want to feature that is so relevant for all of us who work from home.

The Ultimate FaceTime/Zoom/Meet Kit is another Special Edition Box available for pre-order now.

One of the latest robotic vacuums to hit the market is Roborock’s newest model, the S6 MaxV.

About the Roborock S6 MaxVThe Roborock S6 MaxV is one of the largest robotic cleaners available.

The S6 MaxV has a 5,200mAh battery that gives you up to three hours of continuous cleaning in Quiet mode and without the mop system.

Where to BuyThe Roborock S6 MaxV is available on Amazon for $749.

Overall ThoughtsThe Roborock S6 MaxV cleans better than any other robotic vacuum/mop combo I have tried.

Here is what the future of SMS marketing is all about.

SMS marketing, on the other hand, offers equally valuable yet unsung benefits for marketing communications.

Development of RegulationsIn the early days of SMS marketing, there were barely any regulations to guide marketers in using it appropriately.

The Benefits of SMS MarketingAdvancements in the digital marketing landscape have definitely paved the way for SMS to be a valuable marketing platform.

SMS Marketing is Bound to Become More ValuableThough SMS has undoubtedly proven its worth as a marketing channel, changes and improvements that will inevitably come will make it an even more effective channel.

Here are four questions product managers should ask to ensure a stellar CX.

Product managers are the driving force to guarantee quality and consistency in products and services.

Below are four questions product managers should ask themselves to make sure they’re delivering a solid customer experience and a product that meets users’ needs.

Product managers always think they understand their customers: their goals, expectations, and the problems they’re seeking to solve.

By keeping in mind these four crucial questions, product managers can keep their projects on the path to delivering a product that is tightly aligned with customer needs.

Below, therefore, are tips for hiring and retaining the right cybersecurity professionals.

If the answer is yes then that might be who is needed to be at the position to hold tight to your business cybersecurity.

Use Job Sharing and Rotation Programs to Broaden their SkillsThere are many reasons for job rotation programs when it comes to cybersecurity in your business.

Because one way to support employees’ desire to learn and grow is with job rotation programs.

However, implementing a job rotation strategy will help you retain the talent you really need in your organization.

Here is how to avoid chaos at scale and prevent your robots from running amok.

Organizations can prevent chaos by putting in a strong governance program.

Invest in Robot Lifecycle Management Tools and AnalyticsGovernance is easy to accomplish when RPA tools include management and oversight capabilities like version control.

More sophisticated capabilities, such as Robot Lifecycle Management, help teams manage enterprise RPA robot deployments from hundreds to thousands of RPA robots.

When it’s supported by Robot Lifecycle Management and digital workforce analytics, you reduce the risk your robots will run amok.

Apple has some ambitious plans in India, as the company has already confirmed that it will open the first Apple Store there by 2021.

And now Foxconn is allegedly investing $1 billion in its India facility, where the Taiwanese factory already assembles some iPhone models.

The expansion plan is expected to be finished in three years, and it will allow other iPhone models to be made in India.

The country has high import taxes, which makes Apple’s product prices too high when compared to the competition.

If the plans succeed, Apple might use Foxconn facilities in India to export iPhone models to other countries.

A really useful new feature included in iOS 14 is the ability to favorite conversations for easy access at the top of the Messages app.

Follow along for how to pin text messages on iPhone and iPad.

The pin message feature is quick and easy to use and places your favorited conversations at the top of the Messages app with large icons.

iOS 14: How to pin text messages on iPhone and iPadOpen the Messages app Find a conversation you want to pin, long-press on it Tap Pin ____________ Now you’ll see the pinned message at the top of the app To undo a pin, long-press on a message or the pinned icon and tap Unpin ___________Here’s how the process looks:You can add up to 9 pinned messages, including …

The new deal offers previous customers another free month of Apple News+ as the new audio stories are set to launch with the upcoming release of iOS 13.6.

Now, Apple is offering a second free month to those who have given it a try but canceled the subscription.

The promotion comes as Apple News+ Audio is set to launch with iOS 13.6 in the near future.

We first got a look at the new Apple News+ Audio feature with the iOS 13.5.5 beta (renamed to iOS 13.6).

Does another free month interest you at all in trying Apple News+ again?

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Even though Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has a relatively small salary, bonuses and large stock awards launched him to being the second-highest-paid CEO after Tesla’s Elon Musk.

Bloomberg‘s data shows that Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk handily earned the most of any US executive in 2019 thanks to options vesting.

That number two spot, held by Apple’s CEO Tim Cook was earned with an annual income of $133.7 million.

We first learned about Cook’s 2019 compensation back in January as Apple released the data but today’s report from Bloomberg is an interesting comparison against all US CEOs.

Cook took a relatively small $3 million salary with $7.7 million being made up from bonuses, and the large $122.2 million …

But what do you get if you only want a door sensor for HomeKit automations or want an unmonitored alarm for entry?

The VOCOlinc door sensor will fit your needs nicely if that is what you’re looking for.

Since I already have my doors covered with abode door sensors, they are also exposed to HomeKit.

VOCOlinc door sensor installationThe installation process for the VOCOlinc door sensors was painless even though I was putting it on a window.

Door/Window sensor automationsI love HomeKit automations, and a window sensor is a perfect place to use them.

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break offers the Apple Watch Series 3 for $169, plus 13-inch MacBook Pro from $1,150, and you can save on Belkin charging products.

Apple Watch Series 3 returns to $169Amazon is dropping the prices on Apple Watch Series 3 models back to $169 for the 38mm configuration.

Apple Watch Series 3 features a built-in GPS sensor, swimproof design, and more.

Today only, Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro is on saleToday only, as part of its Gold Box Deals of the Day, Woot via Amazon offers certified refurbished previous-generation 13-inch MacBook Pro models from $1,150.

Belkin iPhone and Apple Watch Charging DockAmazon is currently offering the Belkin Boost Up iPhone and Apple Watch W…

Apple has allegedly seen some notable progress recently with its AR headset and Apple Glasses efforts.

A new report from The Information says that the company’s semitransparent lenses, one of the most important components of the upcoming wearable devices have passed the prototyping stage and moved into trial production.

Additionally, the report includes new details on the thickness of the lenses, integrated technology, and more.

The report is careful to note that the lenses are for Apple’s upcoming “AR devices” meaning it’s unclear if they will be for the AR headset that’s expected to launch first (likely in 2022) or the eventual AR Apple Glasses that could arrive by 2023.

The Information r…

I wouldn’t have predicted I’d be giving my first impressions of iOS 14 on the first day of the public beta.

However, iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 are such huge deals that I couldn’t wait to try those.

Music appThe Music app gets quite a notable refresh in iOS 14.

First impressions of iOS 14My first impressions of iOS 14 are good.

I’ll play with iOS 14 more over the weekend, but what I’m really looking forward to trying is iPadOS 14 on my iPad.

Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly.

If you haven’t signed up yet, Apple Arcade is available free for the first month, then $5/month for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and Apple TV.

6/12: A new side-scrolling adventure game has arrived today on Apple Arcade called Little Orpheus.

5/1: The latest addition to Apple Arcade is the adventure title Neversong.

2/27: The makers of the highly popular Crossy Road are back with Crossy Road Castle as an Apple Arcade exclusive.

We noted earlier that we’re again seeing a number of iOS apps crashing as soon as they open, thanks to a bug in the Facebook SDK.

Even if you don’t have the Facebook app installed, apps which use this SDK access it when they open, and then promptly crash.

Fortunately, there is an easy fix for now …The secret is to block apps from accessing the Facebook domain.

Lockdown Apps, a firewall and privacy protection app on iOS, uses a VPN to block trackers and things like Facebook’s iOS SDK from loading in third-party apps.

It will allow apps like Spotify, Pinterest, and Tinder to launch during a Facebook iOS SDK outage, and it’s completely free to use.

Apple is rolling into the weekend with a new movie sale focused on historical titles, war films, and more.

All of our top picks from this weekend’s promotion are on sale at $5, but you’ll also find additional notable deals under $10.

That’s on top of Tuesday’s sale, which is still on-going with the usual selection of $1 rentals and more.

Hit the jump for all of our favorite price drops from this weekend’s sale.

$5 movie sale focuses on history titlesThis weekend’s sale offers a number of historical movies on sale at $5, down the regular $10 to $20 going rate.

In almost the exact same circumstances as we saw in May, a bug in the Facebook SDK is once again causing major third-party iOS apps like TikTok and Spotify to crash on launch.

Third-party apps integrate with the Facebook SDK to enable things like account login, analytics, and ads platform integration.

Any issue that crops up in the logic of the underlying Facebook SDK will reflect in any apps that use it.

Just like the May situation, improper handling of unexpected invalid data on Facebook part is resulting in the crashes.

The Facebook SDK is very popular and widely used in the iOS app ecosystem, which exacerbates the issue dramatically.

It’s not the first time the company has run an Apple Pay promo with Snapfish: an offer last year gave a massive 75% off cards.

Apple also promotes Etsy, Zazzle, Ray-Ban and Oakley as other apps which accept Apple Pay.

Earlier this week, the company added Apple Pay support for Catalyst apps in macOS Big Sur.

We also exclusively revealed that Apple is working on QR code payment support within Apple Pay.

Users will point the iPhone camera at a QR Code or traditional barcode to pay bills and other things with a card registered with Apple Pay.

Amazon.com Inc. is requiring its hundreds of thousands of employees to remove the TikTok app from mobile devices that can access the company’s email system due to unspecified security risks, the latest high-profile instance in which the app has faced backlash in the U.S.Amazon said in a staff memo Friday that employees must delete TikTok by Friday to be able to continue accessing their email from their phones.

The e-commerce giant said that at this time employees can still use TikTok from an Amazon laptop browser.

Rent the Runway co-founder Jenn Hyman is one of those chief executives who believes her company will come out of the pandemic stronger for experiencing it.

She repositioned her popular rental and subscription service for clothes to capitalize on her belief that post-lockdown consumers will demand sustainable and affordable clothing options.

Rivian Automotive LLC, an electric pickup-truck startup backed in part by Ford Motor Co. and Amazon.com Inc., said Friday it had secured another $2.5 billion in funding from private investors, providing it with extra cash to help navigate growing economic uncertainty and release new vehicles next year.

Asset-management firm T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. led the investment round, which in addition to raising more money from existing investors also attracted new backers, including the Soros Fund Management LLC and Fidelity Investments,...

A number of popular apps such as Spotify and Tinder experienced outages on Friday because of what Facebook Inc. said was a bug in its software for iPhone users.

The issue relates to Facebook’s software development kit, or SDK, which many developers embed into their apps to allow people to use certain services connected to Facebook.

Some apps, such as Spotify, allow users to log into their services using Facebook accounts.

And a good bit of help from the kids.

Market research firms Gartner and IDC reported second-quarter PC sales data on Thursday, and this time there was quite a spread in the numbers.

IDC reported nearly 72.3 million PC units shipped globally in the quarter—a jump of 11.2% from the same period last year.

Gartner reported PC shipments of 64.8 million units, up just 2.8%.

The nearly 12% spread between the two firms’ tallies compares with an average difference...

A type of digital currency that aims to maintain a stable value relative to that of an underlying asset or benchmark has the potential for mass adoption, but that potential also makes it more vulnerable to criminal abuse, a global standard setter for anti-money-laundering laws said.

The Financial Action Task Force, in a report to the G-20 finance ministers, identified illicit finance vulnerabilities specifically with so-called stablecoins and said risks should be analyzed and mitigated before such digital currencies are launched, particularly if they have the potential for mass adoption.

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Personal-computer sales rebounded in the June quarter, driven by higher demand from workers and students forced to study and work from home amid the coronavirus, according to preliminary data from two industry-research firms.

Global PC shipments rose 11% to 72.3 million in the quarter, with the U.S. posting its highest quarterly-shipment volume in more than a decade, according to preliminary data from International Data Corp.

Meanwhile,...

Tesla Inc.’s strong performance during the pandemic has sent its stock soaring, dealing a blow to investors betting against the Silicon Valley auto maker.

And Chief Executive Elon Musk is having a blast rubbing their noses in it.

The 17-year-old electric-car company’s market value has risen almost 25%—or about $50 billion—to more than $250 billion in little over a week, and now roughly equals the combined values of Toyota Motor Corp., General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV.

Tesla shares hit a...

SPRINGDALE, Ark.––Deboning livestock and slicing up chickens has long been hands-on labor.

Low-paid workers using knives and saws work on carcasses moving steadily down production lines.

Those factory floors have been especially conducive to spreading coronavirus.

In April and May, more than 17,300 meat and poultry processing workers in 29 states were infected and 91 died, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Plant shutdowns reduced U.S. beef and pork production...

German prosecutors are looking into possible money laundering by executives at Wirecard AG, adding to ongoing probes related to potential fraud and fake accounting at the insolvent payments firm.

A spokeswoman for the Munich public prosecutor said it was conducting several legal cases related to possible money laundering at Wirecard, the oldest dating as far back as 2010.

Some investigations are ongoing.

ByteDance Ltd. is considering changing the corporate structure of its popular short-video app TikTok, as it comes under increasing scrutiny in its biggest markets over its Chinese ties.

Senior executives are discussing options such as creating a new management board for TikTok or establishing a headquarters for the app outside of China to distance the app’s operations from China, said a person familiar with the company’s thinking.

The messaging platform WhatsApp said it has more than 50 million users of its business app world-wide each month, a milestone showing steep growth since the app’s 2018 launch and progress in Facebook Inc.’s efforts to generate revenue from the service.

Its current pool of WhatsApp Business users, primarily small to medium-size businesses, reflects 10-fold growth from early 2019, the last time similar data were released.

WhatsApp...

Twitter shares soared as much as 12% on Wednesday after a job posting surfaced suggesting the company is building a subscription platform.

Amid the growing threat of politically-driven ad boycotts in the industry, investors were quick to fall in love with the idea that Twitter might be working to differentiate its business model.

Last year, about 87% of the company’s revenue came from advertising.

Twitter hardly seems married to the idea, though.

While the company declined to comment on the job posting, a person familiar...

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The U.S. government participated in discussions about the cybersecurity regulation, but didn’t vote.

The U.S. is party to a different U.N. agreement on road transportation rules, but not one that allows members to pass regulations such as the new cybersecurity rules.

“A court judgment can destroy trust in certain car companies,” Mr. Kipker said.

Car manufacturers will likely review procurement agreements to make sure companies in their supply chain follow the new cybersecurity regulation, said Mr. Scherf at McKinsey.

The $50 million plan has been funded by philanthropic donations, the Chicago public school system and city funds.

Chicago Connected will begin contacting households that can benefit from the program this week before supplying wired broadband connections through RCN Corp. and Comcast Corp.

In New York City, for instance, around 40% of households don’t have both home and mobile broadband access, and 18% lack either, according to a digital equity plan released in January by the Mayor’s office.

Studies show that internet access is linked closely with socioeconomic factors such as poverty and racial demographics.

Lawmakers say there is bipartisan support for addressing the problem of unequal acc…

Longtime San Francisco residents and the tech workers have not historically seen eye-to-eye on many things.

The natives resent the private tech shuttle buses and the spiraling cost of living brought on by the new arrivals.

Around a quarter of San Francisco parents send their children to private school, a higher percentage than many large cities, including New York.

His father worked the night shift as a mechanic at the San Francisco airport.

His apartment on Russian Hill has a trophy view of San Francisco Bay and the tight curves of Lombard Street.

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The words “crisis” and “Facebook” are practically joined at the hip.

Facebook has dealt with an employee protest over how it handled inflammatory posts by President Trump, an advertiser boycott over hate speech in its online hangouts, and a scathing civil-rights audit that faulted Facebook for potentially deepening social polarization and fueling the harassment of vulnerable communities.

I spoke to Mike Isaac, who reports on Facebook for The New York Times, about the company’s decisions that helped set off the most recent drama, and what this crisis reveals about Facebook’s role in our lives.

Mike: Beginning last fall, Facebook — and its chief…

When Tyler Blevins, who is better known in the video gaming world as Ninja, posted a cryptic tweet on Wednesday that seemed to hint at some sort of announcement, his ardent fans thought he might reveal the kind of big-dollar contract one would expect from baseball or basketball stars.

Mr. Blevins has said in interviews he would like to be as well known as the basketball star LeBron James.

On Wednesday, the 10th anniversary of the day Mr. James decided to sign with the Miami Heat, Mr. Blevins did the first livestream on his own YouTube channel.

He appeared with electric blue hair alongside friends and played the popular game Fortnite.

At its peak, more than 160,000 people tuned into Mr. Blev…

Facebook on Wednesday said it was removing the personal accounts of Roger J.

Stone Jr., President Trump’s friend and ally, because they had ties to numerous fake accounts that were active around the 2016 presidential election.

Mr. Stone’s personal accounts on Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, were entwined with the U.S.-based network that had links to the Proud Boys, a group that promotes white supremacy, the company said.

The social network banned the Proud Boys group in 2018.

“Our investigation linked this network to Roger Stone and his associates.”Mr. Stone, 67, is set to go to prison this month.

Millions of young Americans have begun investing in recent years through Robinhood, which was founded in 2013 with a sales pitch of no trading fees or account minimums.

The ease of trading has turned it into a cultural phenomenon and a Silicon Valley darling, with the start-up climbing to an $8.3 billion valuation.

It has been one of the tech industry’s biggest growth stories in the recent market turmoil.

And the more that customers engaged in such behavior, the better it was for the company, the data shows.

They also bought and sold 88 times as many risky options contracts as Schwab customers, relative to the average account size, according to the analysis.

My friends, I vow to make you care about internet cables and metal poles in the ground.

The magic of the internet requires a lot of very boring stuff behind the scenes.

But one of the underappreciated ways that today’s technology superpowers like Google and Amazon stay superpowers is their mastery of all the boring stuff that makes the internet possible.

This is the kind of advantage the tech superpowers have that is hard for governments to break apart or for rivals to compete with.

The tech giants’ fingerprints, brain power and dollars are all over the invisible backbone of the global internet.

In April, Norway released a smartphone app, Smittestopp or “stop infection,” that records users who come into close contact for more than 15 minutes and sends alerts if they have been exposed to the coronavirus.

“We can all help stop the spread of infection and save lives,” Prime Minister Erna Solberg said in a statement at the time.

“If many people download the Smittestopp app, we can open up society more and get our freedom back.”Within two weeks, nearly 900,000 people — or about one out of five Norwegians older than 16 — had started using the app.

But by mid-June, the government had temporarily turned off the service after data protection regulators there said Norway had so few coronavir…

How to have a fashion show during a pandemic is one of the immediate questions facing designers this week, as what would have been the couture runway season is replaced with three days of digital mini-films.

A pioneer of the form suggests the answer might not be no.

“Everyone knows her,” said Anifa Mvuemba, the founder of Hanifa, who debuted a clothing collection in May called Pink Label Congo with a digitally rendered model called Imani.

Imani is a graceful and curvaceous avatar, though her form was known at the brand’s recent digital runway show, on May 22, solely by the movements of the clothes.

The effect was to see garments, with designs based on African sewing techniques and tradition…

For decades, the entertainment industry has relied on the ratings giant to measure the value of everything from “All in the Family” to “Young Sheldon.”But how do you prove a show’s worth in the age of streaming?

A little-known start-up, Parrot Analytics, says it has come up with a metric that can measure what a program means to a streamer like Netflix.

From there, Parrot says, it can anticipate what matters most to a streaming network: how many subscribers a show is likely to attract.

“We could each be watching different shows, on different platforms, at different times,” Mr. Seger, 32, said.

“You need a new standard.”Parrot tracks what Mr. Seger calls “demand expressions” — a twitchy metri…

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has not done enough to fight discrimination on its platform and has made some decisions that were “significant setbacks for civil rights,” according to a new independent audit of the company’s policies and practices.

In some decisions, Facebook did not seek civil rights expertise, the auditors said, potentially setting a “terrible” precedent that could affect the November general election and other speech issues.

“Many in the civil rights community have become disheartened, frustrated and angry after years of engagement where they implored the company to do more to advance equality and fight discrimination, while also safeguarding free expression,” wrote the auditor…

But that lack of knowledge meant that NASA did not fully understand how Boeing was designing the Starliner’s software and the testing process for verifying that it would work as intended.

NASA is now overseeing software development more closely at both SpaceX and Boeing.

The Starliner spacecraft, launched on top of an Atlas 5 rocket on Dec. 20, encountered two major software problems during its flight.

That caused the spacecraft to squander its propellant, and a planned docking at the International Space Station was called off.

As Boeing engineers hastily combed through the Starliner software in the aftermath of the clock problem, they found that problem and fixed it.

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s two top executives, met with civil rights groups on Tuesday in an attempt to mollify them over how the social network treats hate speech on its site.

But Mr. Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, and Ms. Sandberg, the chief operating officer, failed to win its critics over.

For more than an hour, Mr. Zuckerberg, Ms. Sandberg and other Facebook executives discussed the company’s handling of hate speech over Zoom with representatives from the Anti-Defamation League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Color of Change.

Those groups have helped push hundreds of companies, such as Unilever and Best B…

After a countdown and a yell of “go!” they bolted across the line.

Virtual races weren’t supposed to be the most exciting competition for runners in the summer of 2020.

But with the coronavirus pandemic making large-scale gatherings difficult, runners are turning to technology as they search for ways to train, stay connected with teammates and compete.

Some have kept it simple, logging workouts and training plans in shareable Google documents or spreadsheets to stay in touch with their coaches.

Other runners are using popular social fitness apps like MapMyRun and Strava, which saw a record 3.4 million downloads in May.

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