Ритейлер связывает рост с расширением ассортимента, развитием логистики и запуском сервисов для пользователей.

Среди 3000 клиентов компании — Danone, Heineken и другие.

Дамьен Риль и Ной Рубин хотят, чтобы музыканты перестали судиться из-за авторских прав на произведения.

«Отисифарм» запустил рекламу в январе 2020 года на радио — регулятор считает, что она могла ввести потребителей в заблуждение.

Упаковку из водорослей уже покупают производитель виски Glenlivet и британский сервис доставки еды Just Eat.

Это позволит банкам установить нулевую комиссию для клиентов, рассчитывает регулятор.

Калининградский предприниматель — о том, почему работать можно откуда угодно, а все ограничения только в голове, о стиле руководства, первых заработках и показателях своей компании.

Оборот компании за год вырос в восемь раз — до 1,6 млрд рублей.

Партнёры планируют искать технологии в России и за рубежом и делиться опытом работы с ними.

Созданная в США в 1870-е годы для охраны частной собственности, колючая проволока стала причиной конфликтов на Диком Западе и быстро выросла до миллионного бизнеса.

Такси-сервис договорился о сотрудничестве с рекламной компанией Adomni.

«Яндекс» также покинет руководитель «Яндекс.Шефа» Михаил Перегудов.

Это в три раза больше оценки во время последнего раунда в апреле 2018 года.

Компания объяснила решение высокой заинтересованностью партнёров и ростом аудитории сервиса.

fly out to milan to watch inter @ the san siro before it’s knocked down, to then find the night before it’s cancelled due to an outbreak of coronavirus.

a story in 3 stages.

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Партия хочет избавиться от негативного образа, который сформировался у россиян.

По данным ведомства, рекламу можно было услышать на четырёх радиостанциях.

Сначала Денис Коновалов отрицал обвинения, но после задержания признался.

Алгоритм создал 68 миллиардов комбинаций — и всё для того, чтобы музыканты перестали судиться друг с другом из-за авторских прав.

Чиновник отвергал информацию СМИ о 50 погибших от коронавируса в городе Кум.

Ему уже назначали подобный штраф в сентябре 2019 года, но его отменил Мосгорсуд.

Его жертвами могли стать 27 человек.

Дети сняли этот урок на телефон.

This is the VOD that Kurt got banned for, I am all for freedom of speech but this is disgusting behaviour.

How are you going to spit on the logo of a company that you want to be a professional esports athlete for.

I know I am going to get stick for this but he deserves the ban.

https://t.co/oJmlifBFLU

Он отказался признавать проблемы с водоснабжением в одном из посёлков.

Тело Дмитрия Фёдорова нашли обезглавленным через неделю после его заявления о подброшенных веществах.

Breaking: At least 15 injured, including children, after a car rams into a crowd at a Carnival Parade in Volkmarsen, Germany.

Witnesses say the driver still was on the gas during the incident.

A suspect has been arrested.

https://t.co/7gK37aAcZp

Тот обратился в полицию, чтобы заявить о краже.

Наверное не будет уж очень удивительным если я тут, на IT площадке Хабра, скажу что я иногда балую себя программированием.

Основная OS у меня Linux, но иногда приходится собирать исполняемые файлы и для Windows. И естественно что перегружаться в Windows только для сборки exe не особо хочется. С языками C и C++ проблем нет, давно существует кросскомпилятор MinGW, который прекрасно с этим справляется. Про Python и Java даже упоминать не стоит, кроссплатформенность в них изначально. Но в прошлом году я решил попробовать такой пока что новомодный язык, как Rust. При сборке исполняемого файла при помощи включённого в дистрибутив Rust пакетного менеджера cargo вроде как достаточно задать ключ --t…

Elasticsearch, вероятно, самая популярная поисковая система на данный момент с развитым сообществом, поддержкой и горой информации в сети. Однако эта информация поступает непоследовательно и дробно.

Самое первое и главное заблуждение — "нужен поиск, так бери эластик!". Но в действительности, если вам нужен шустрый поиск для небольшого или даже вполне себе крупного проекта, вам стоит разобраться в теме поподробней и вы откажетесь от использования именно этой системы. Читать дальше →

Всем добрый день.

Недавно на Хабре появилась статья Побеждая C двадцатью строками Haskell: пишем свой wc от @0xd34df00d. Автор, известный своей симпатией к функциональному программированию, реализовал на Хаскеле аналог утилиты wc, и подверг его оптимизации, получив в результате вариант, работающий более чем в 7 раз быстрее стандартной юниксовой утилиты. Читать дальше →

Совсем недавно вышла статья про новый инструмент Playwright, одним из авторов которого является Андрей Лушников. Нам выпала возможность пообщаться с Андреем и задать все вопросы, которые внимательные читатели написали в комментариях. Думаю, в этом лонгриде они смогут найти ответы. Немного спойлеров: Андрей рассказал историю развития Playwright и Puppeteer; ответил на вопросы про протоколы, которые используют для работы с браузерами; рассказал про сложности браузерных движков и планируемые интеграции Playwright. Андрей Лушников приедет в Санкт-Петербург 8-9 апреля на конференцию Heisenbug, где и у вас будет возможность задать ему вопросы. Задать вопросы

Вряд ли среди наших читателей есть школьники, которые размышляют над карьерой, но скорее всего, есть дети-племянники, которые уже спрашивают: «Куда пойти учиться после школы, чтобы стать, как ты?»

В ряде интервью, как с отечественными CTO, так и с западными разработчиками из Google и Tungsten Labs, я раз за разом встречался с мнением, что при приёме на работу высшее образование не является необходимым фактором, а его отсутствие не считается «стоп-флагом» на собеседованиях в западных компаниях. Больше внимания уделяется знаниям и навыкам, которые порой человек получил и изучил самостоятельно. И тогда мы в Southbridge решили провести небольшое исследование среди знакомых CTO, СEO и руководите…

Меня не может не радовать возрождение интереса к ламповой электронике. Однако, есть над чем задуматься! В одном из комментариев я как-то написал, что «растет уже третье поколение электронщиков, не битых анодным напряжением». Несколько недавних публикаций с конструкциями на электронных лампах меня в этой уверенности только укрепили. Я начинал ещё в те времена, когда конструкции на лампах не были экзотикой, и первое чему учили юных радиолюбителей старшие товарищи — приёмам безопасного проведения работ под напряжением. Этими «лайфхаками для гиков» я и хочу поделиться в публикации. Читать дальше →

Генераторы псевдослучайных чисел выдают числа детерминировано, но обычно такие числа выглядят непериодическими (случайными). По крайней мере, в большинстве случаев применения подобных чисел так обычно и происходит. Генератор принимает начальное значение (в идеале — истинное случайное число) и порождает последовательность чисел, работая как функция от начального значения и (или) от предыдущего числа последовательности. Подобные числа являются псевдослучайными (а не истинными случайными числами) из-за того, что если известно начальное значение, переданное генератору, эти числа можно сгенерировать снова алгоритмическим путём. Истинные случайные числа генерируют, используя специальное аппаратно…

Привет, Хаброжители! В новой книге Тим Рафгарден рассказывает о жадных алгоритмах (задача планирования, минимальные остовные деревья, кластеризация, коды Хаффмана) и динамическом программировании (задача о рюкзаке, выравнивание последовательностей, кратчайшие пути, оптимальные деревья поиска). В данном посте представлен отрывок «Разработка жадного алгоритма» Жадные алгоритмы, по всей видимости, хорошо подходят для задачи планирования работ, минимизируя взвешенную сумму сроков завершения. Выход имеет итеративную структуру, где работы обрабатываются по одной. Почему бы не использовать жадный алгоритм, который итеративно решает, какая работа будет следующей? Читать дальше →

Долгожданное продолжение поста про автоматизацию квартиры. В этой части я расскажу об освещении, мультимедиа-системе и датчиках безопасности. Читать дальше →

С 16 по 20 марта 2020 года в Сан-Франциско пройдёт ежегодная конференция разработчиков игр — GDC. Основная миссия мероприятия направлена на обмен опытом, идеями и интересными кейсами различных компаний, вовлечённых в геймдев-индустрию: от небольших инди-студий до AAA-гигантов. Мы составили свой гайд по программе конференции и ниже рассмотрим, кто из разработчиков заявлен среди спикеров и какие темы будут затронуты в рамках выставки в этом году. Читать дальше →

Привет, меня зовут Костя Крамлих, я ведущий разработчик подразделения Virtual Private Cloud в Яндекс.Облаке. Я занимаюсь виртуальной сетью, и, как можно догадаться, в этой статье расскажу об устройстве Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) в целом и виртуальной сети в частности. А ещё вы узнаете, почему мы, разработчики сервиса, ценим обратную связь от наших пользователей. Но обо всём по порядку. Читать дальше →

Хотите посчитать, во что на самом деле обойдётся вам квартира именно с вашим сложным графиком оплаты страховки, ремонтом и тем, что вы планируете платить коммуналку лишь несколько месяцев пока не сдадите квартиру жильцу? Здесь можно скачать файл excel с калькулятором, здесь — посмотреть в Google Sheets (скопируйте себе для модифицирования).

Смело добавляйте колонки для типов платежей, которые хотите учитывать, меняйте цифры под ваши условия и получайте результат. Читать дальше →

В последнее время автоматизацию тестирования называют «серебряной пулей» от всех проблем проекта. Многие приступают к автоматизации очень спонтанно и лайтово, не просчитав все «за» и «против», плюсы и минусы, сопровождение и окупаемость. А вообще автоматизация тестирования – очень дорогой и специфический инструмент. Поэтому к ней нужно подходить с должным уровнем зрелости кода и самого проекта. Иначе можно потратить миллионы часов и денег, а эффект получить микроскопический или не получить его вообще. В этой статье я постарался: осветить «детские болячки» тест-менеджмента, стремящегося автоматизировать все, что не приколочено,

пояснить, какую пользу может нанести бюджету проекта автоматизац…

Когда Facebook «лежит», люди думают, что это из-за хакеров или DDoS-атак, но это не так. Все «падения» за последние несколько лет были вызваны внутренними изменениями или поломками. Чтобы учить новых сотрудников не ломать Facebook на примерах, всем большим инцидентам дают имена, например, «Call the Cops» или «CAPSLOCK». Первый так назвали из-за того, что когда однажды соцсеть упала, в полицию Лос-Анджелеса звонили пользователи и просили его починить, а шериф в отчаянии в Твиттере просил не беспокоить их по этому поводу. Во время второго инцидента на кэш-машинах опустился и не поднялся сетевой интерфейс, и все машины перезапускали руками. Элина Лобанова работает в Facebook последние 4 года в…

Любопытный физик обнаружил неожиданную связь между теорией о столкновении блоков и знаменитым квантовым алгоритмом поиска Что общего у цифр числа π, сталкивающихся блоков и квантовых алгоритмов поиска? Больше, чем вы могли бы подумать. Эту связь обеспечивают две шутливых научных работы – одна от 2003 года, а вторая – от декабря 2019. Совместно они объединяют миры динамики, геометрии и квантовых вычислений, показывая, как даже самые абстрактные математические загадки могут удивительным образом обнаруживать связь с физикой. Блокировка

Чтобы начать понимать эти связи, представьте себе два металлических блока, каждый из которых весит по 1 кг. Они находятся на поверхности без трения, справа от н…

Совет директоров Центробанка (ЦБ, Банк России) решил обнулить свои тарифы для банков в Системе быстрых платежей (СБП) по переводам между физическими лицами.

Эта мера позволит банкам предоставлять физлицам услуги по переводам в СБП бесплатно либо по минимальным тарифам.

Нулевой тариф будет действовать два года — с 1 апреля 2020 года до 30 июня 2022 года.

При этом Банк России продолжит отслеживать комиссии банков для клиентов в СБП.

Кроме того, с 1 апреля регулятор установит предельные ставки комиссий и межбанковских вознаграждений по переводам в пользу юрлиц за товары/услуги.

Ссылки, с помощью которых можно присоединиться к частной группе в WhatsApp, были доступны в поисковике Google.

Об этом написал журналист Deutsche Welle Джордан Уилдон в своем твиттере.

Также ее можно было обнаружить в поисковике, введя chat.whatsapp.com и ключевые слова.

Пользователи Twitter сообщали под постом, что таким же образом можно обнаружить ссылки с через другие браузеры — DuckDuckGo, «Яндекс».

Несколько комментаторов заявили, что ранее отправляли в Facebook, которой принадлежит WhatsApp, отчеты об этой проблеме, но получали разные ответы.

Группа «М.Видео-Эльдорадо», входящая в САФМАР Михаила Гуцериева, X5 Retail Group, «Билайн» и Hoff объявили о создании нового альянса.

Для России RITA позже выберет отечественного оператора для отбора стартапов.

Для скаутинга в Европе рассматривают акселератор Lafayette Plug&Play, для поиска стартапов в Израиле — компанию Axis.

В пресс-службе «Билайна» отметили, что вместе с RITA для стартапов откроются широкие возможности сотрудничества с крупными компаниями на стыке разных индустрий.

Для «Билайна» интересны решения в 5G, AdTech/MarTech, FinTech, AR/VR, домашних и мобильных развлечениях, новых продуктах для бизнеса, IoT и т.д.

Московский «Спартак» присоединился к международной игре в фэнтези-футбол Sorare.

На платформе можно обменивать и торговать коллекционные цифровые блокчейн-изображения футболистов.

В сообщении говорится, что «Спартак» стал первым российским клубом, присоединившимся к Sorare.

«Фэнтези-менеджеры» ранжируются в зависимости от выступлений их игроков на поле и бонусных очков, связанных с ценностью их блокчейн-изображений.

Она финансируется американскими и европейскими венчурными компаниями (UbiSoft, Seedcamp, Kima Ventures и ConsenSys) и бизнес-ангелами.

Стартап Intelligence Retail привлек $1,5 млн в раунде А от венчурных фондов Finsight Ventures, ExpoCapital, Aii Сorporation и группы бизнес-ангелов.

Об этом Rusbase рассказали в пресс-службе Intelligence Retail.

Intelligence Retail был основан в 2016 году Максимом Морозовым.

Это, в свою очередь, снижает трудозатраты персонала в торговом зале.

По собственным данным, сейчас Intelligence Retail применяют более 3 тысяч пользователей.

Портал по поиску работы Superjob составил список самых высокооплачиваемых вакансий февраля в Москве.

На первом месте — вакансия ведущего врача стоматолога-ортопеда с зарплатой от 378 тысяч рублей.

На второй строчке вакансия руководителя службы разработки ПО с доходом от 350 тысяч рублей в месяц.

По 250 тысяч рублей предлагается на следующих должностях: юрист первичного приема и консультации и системный архитектор.

Главному разработчику программ на Java-скрипте готовы заплатить 230 тысяч рублей.

Moscow Seed Fund предоставил инвестиционный заем в размере 3 млн рублей проекту LoyaltyLab.

Компания разработала платформу автоматизации взаимоотношений с клиентами.

LoyaltyLab — платформа для управления отношениями с клиентами в сегменте ритейла с помощью ИИ и предиктивной аналитики.

Как говорят в Moscow Seed Fund, платформа позволяет эффективно выполнять задачи маркетологов и аналитиков, лежащие в области взаимодействия с клиентами, прогнозирования и увеличения бизнес-метрик.

В основе решения лежит работа с данными о продажах, системы лояльности, а также данными из внешних источников, которые LoyaltyLab коллекционирует самостоятельно.

Mail.ru Group запустила курс по digital-профессиям для студентовMail.ru Group открыла набор на четыре бесплатных образовательных трека: digital-маркетинг, нестандартная реклама и спецпроекты, UX-исследования и IT-рекрутмент.

Обучение пройдет в формате интенсива с середины марта по май в московском офисе Mail.ru Group.

На направлении «Digital-маркетинг» расскажут, как устроен глобальный и российский рынок рекламы, основы трафик-менеджмента и мобильные digital-стратегии.

На «Нестандартной рекламе и спецпроектах» студенты разберут цикл создания креативной кампании — от получения брифа и разработки креативной идеи до оценки эффективности.

Эксперты направления «UX-исследования» расскажут, как пл…

Сервис экспресс-доставки продуктов «Яндекс.Лавка» выделен в отдельное направление внутри фудтех-бизнеса.

Обновленная структура позволит компании сфокусировать на этом направлении ресурсы, необходимые для быстрого масштабирования "Яндекс.Лавки"», — уточнили в компании.

Создатели компании Foodfox, на базе которой был создан сервис «Яндекс.Еда», Максим Фирсов и Сергей Полиссар, а также основатель «Яндекс.Шефа» Михаил Перегудов покидают компанию.

Фирсов и Полиссар продолжат консультировать команду фудтех-направления в качестве советников гендиректора «Яндекс.Такси».

Сервис «Яндекс.Еда» продолжит развиваться параллельно с «Лавкой», его возглавит Дмитрий Масюк.

Эволюция понятия и фокус на бизнес-задачахИзначально под RetailTech и в мире, и в России рассматривали именно технологии ведения бизнеса в отрасли.

Крупные мировые ритейлеры уже инвестируют миллиарды долларов в технологии.

В России процесс идет несколько медленнее, но и к отечественным ритейлерам уже приходит понимание, насколько значимо использование новых технологических решений.

И в этом случае как никогда актуально будет создание уютной и персонализированной обстановки в торговом пространстве.

Также с увеличением количества используемых ИТ-решений и средств автоматизации бизнес-операций растет риск потери согласованности и в итоге управляемости бизнеса.

Самый влиятельный человек в руководящей команде отказался от партнерства, потому что решил, что я причиняю себе большой вред.

«Коллеги начали спрашивать, все ли у меня в порядке»Кара Кронин, главный комьюнити-менеджер в ShineКритическая точка.

Мне было не по себе, но на пристальный взгляд в зеркало я решилась только после того, как коллеги начали спрашивать, все ли у меня в порядке.

Когда я попала в отделение скорой помощи с болями в груди, то поняла, что мне нужно внести в жизнь серьезные изменения.

Я работала в финтех-компании, и мне поручили запустить две мобильные платформы в дополнение к контролю за генерацией лидов для ICO.

Ученые создали робота-змею, умеющую передвигаться по сложной местности — например, по обломкам зданий после землетрясения — они надеются, что роботы будут помогать людям в спасательных миссиях.

Предыдущие исследования изучали только то, как змеи двигаются по плоской поверхности — мало кто наблюдал, как они ползают по 3D-поверхностям (разве что только по деревьям).

Ученые смотрели, как различные королевские змеи — рептилии, которых часто можно встретить в пустынях и лесах — взбираются по ступенькам в лаборатории Ли.

При подъеме по ступеням передняя и задняя часть змеиного тела двигаются вперед и назад словно волны, а средняя часть остается неподвижной.

Середина тела при этом останется пример…

«Суши Мастер» — сеть японских ресторанов формата take away с годовым оборотом в 1,2 млрд рублей.

Позже мы с другом поехали на машине в Анапу и на обратном пути проезжали через Казань.

По приезде в Омск я каждый день думал об этом и в итоге вернулся в Казань посмотреть, как все работает.

Он рассказал мне, как строится работа сети и в дальнейшем помог с технической документацией и регламентами.

Это были простые люди, и я не мог их подвести.

Target Global запустил Early Stage Fund II объемом €120 млн.

Новый фонд будет инвестировать в технологические компании из Европы и Израиля на ранней стадии развития.

Инвестиции могут получить стартапы, специализирующиеся на e-commerce, SaaS, AI, а также работающие в сфере финансов и здравоохранения.

У Target Global также есть фонд для инвестиций в стартапы на более поздних стадиях и фонд Target Mobility 2.0, фокус которого — технологии в сфере автомобилестроения, персонального и общественного транспорта, а также логистики.

В совокупности под управлением Target Global находится более €800 млн.

Сегодня в продажу в Китае поступает новый бесконтактный инфракрасный термометр Xiaomi Barcon, который измеряет температуру практически мгновенно.

Бесконтактный инфракрасный термометр Barcon оснащен датчиком температуры и датчиком компенсации температуры окружающей среды для более точного контроля в режиме реального времени.

Новый гаджет поддерживает автоматическое сохранение сделанных замеров для облегчения наблюдения за изменениями температуры тела.

При замере температуры вы получаете результат всего за секунду, достаточно просто навести устройство на тело и нажать на кнопку.

Цена инфракрасного термометра Xiaomi Barcon составляет 24 доллара.

На сегодняшний день, несмотря на безусловное доминирование смартфонов, рынок обычных кнопочных телефонов всё ещё весьма велик.

Особенно, если это один из богатейших людей на планете.

Для начала напомним, что Баффет — один из крупнейших инвесторов в мире, в прошлом году какое-то время бывший самым богатым человеком в мире.

Как рассказал Баффет в интервью источнику, недавно он приобрёл себе iPhone 11.

А до этого он много лет пользовался 20-долларовой раскладушкой Samsung SCH-U320, вышедшей ещё в 2010 году!

Мы знаем, что смартфон Xiaomi Mi 10 фотографирует весьма неплохо, а видео снимает и вовсе отлично.

Но, как мы знаем, для флагманских смартфонов, где программному обеспечению уделено немало внимания, установка GCam далеко не всегда даёт сколько-нибудь видимый эффект.

Стоковое приложение камеры делает намного более красочные и контрастные снимки, на фоне которых фотографии с GCam выглядят совершенно блеклыми.

Для большинства пользователей смысла ставить GCam явно нет, так как фотографии выходят слишком уж обесцвеченными на фоне снимков с родного приложения.

Правда, тут ещё вопрос в том, какой порт GCam использовался автором и как хорошо он адаптирован к новому смартфону.

Стоило одному из производителей, а это была Lenovo, заявить о том, что её грядущий геймерский смартфон будет набирать в AnTuTu 600 000 баллов, как другие игроки бросились заявлять о ещё больших показателях.

Пару дней назад об очередном рекорде рассказала Realme, заявив, что модель X50 Pro набирает в тесте 603 871 балл.

Генеральный директор бренда Black Shark продемонстрировал скриншот AnTuTu, где видно, что смартфон набирает 620 952 балла!

Во-первых, уже вышедшие смартфоны с SoC Snapdragon 865 набирают существенно меньше.

Во-вторых, ранее мы уже видели подобные заявления с демонстрацией рекордных результатов в AnTuTu, а когда такие смартфоны поступали в продажу, они демонстрировали существе…

Компания Xiaomi запустила на фирменной платформе коллективного финансирования Youpin клавиатуру и мышь Miyu Elite Keyboard и Miyu Elite Mouse.

По словам производителя, мышь Elite Mouse получила специальный дизайн кнопок со сниженной громкостью звука срабатывания.

Клавиатура Miyu Elite Keyboard оснащена 85 клавишами с ножничным механизмом.

Главной изюминкой Miyu Elite Keyboard стала поддержка голосовых команд.

Комплект из мыши и клавиатуры Miyu Elite Keyboard и Miyu Elite Mouse оценен в 53 долларов, отдельно они стоят по 28 долларов.

Компания Sony представила светосильный широкоугольный полнокадровый объектив с креплением Sony E. Модель Sony FE 20mm F1.8 G весит 373 г, а по размерам она немного меньше модели Sony FE 24mm F1.4 GM.

По словам производителя, два «усовершенствованных асферических» элемента и три элемента с очень низкой дисперсией обеспечивают исключительную резкость по всему кадру.

Диафрагма, образованная девятью лепестками, обеспечивает круглые блики вне зоны резкости и плавное размытие, даже будучи прикрытой.

Также есть кольцо управления диафрагмой, которое может вращаться без щелчков, переключатель AF/MF и программируемая пользователем кнопка сохранения фокуса.

Объектив должен поступить в продажу в марте …

Компания Qualys выявила ещё одну удалённую критическую уязвимость (CVE-2020-8794) в почтовом сервере OpenSMTPD, развиваемом проектом OpenBSD. Как и выявленная в конце января уязвимость, новая проблема даёт возможность удалённо выполнить произвольные команды shell на сервере с правами пользователя root. Уязвимость устранена в выпуске OpenSMTPD 6.6.4p1.

Некоммерческий удостоверяющий центр Let’s Encrypt, контролируемый сообществом и предоставляющий сертификаты безвозмездно всем желающим, объявил о внедрении новой схемы подтверждение полномочий на получение сертификата для домена. Обращение к серверу, на котором размещён используемый в проверки каталог "/.well-known/acme-challenge/", теперь будет осуществляться с использованием нескольких HTTP-запросов, отправляемых с 4 разных IP-адресов, размещённых в разных датацентрах и принадлежащих к разным автономным системам. Проверка признаётся успешной только, если как минимум 3 из 4 запросов с разных IP оказались успешными.

Сформированный при организации Linux Foundation фонд Core Infrastructure Initiative, в рамках которого ведущие корпорации объединили свои усилия в направлении обеспечения поддержки открытых проектов, задействованных в ключевых областях компьютерной индустрии, провёл второе исследование в рамках программы Census, нацеленной на выявление открытых проектов, нуждающихся в первоочередном аудите безопасности.

GitHub опубликовал ежегодный отчёт, в котором отражены поступившие за 2019 год уведомления о нарушении интеллектуальной собственности и публикации незаконного содержимого. В соответствии с действующим в США Законом об авторском праве в цифровую эпоху (DMCA, Digital Millennium Copyright Act), в 2019 году GitHub получил 1762 требований о блокировке и 37 опровержений от владельцев репозиториев.

Опубликован значительный выпуск проекта PipeWire 0.3.0, развивающего мультимедийный сервер нового поколения, идущий на замену PulseAudio. PipeWire расширяет возможности PulseAudio средствами для работы с потоками видео, обработкой звука с минимальными задержками и новой моделью безопасности для управления доступом на уровне отдельных устройств и потоков. Проект поддерживается в GNOME и уже активно применяется в Fedora Linux для обработки видео и совместного доступа к экрану в окружениях на базе Wayland. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией LGPLv2.1.

После 11 месяцев разработки консорциум ISC представил первый стабильный релиз новой значительной ветки DNS-сервера BIND 9.16.

Данная директива позволяет настроить генерацию для DNS-зон необходимых новых ключей и автоматическое применение ключей ZSK и KSK.

В утилиты dig, mdig и delv добавлена опция "+yaml" для вывода в формате YAML.

В утилиту dig добавлена опция "+[no]expandaaaa", при указании которой IPv6-адреса в записях AAAA показываются в полном 128-битном представлении, а не в формате RFC 5952.

В скрипте configure больше не выставляется по умолчанию параметр "--sysconfdir" в /etc, а "--localstatedir" в /var, если не указан параметр "--prefix".

Компания Google представила тестовую версию открытой мобильной платформы Android 11. Релиз Android 11 ожидается в третьем квартале 2020 года. Для оценки новых возможностей платформы предложена программа предварительного тестирования. Сборки прошивки подготовлены для устройств Pixel 2 / 2 XL, Pixel 3 / 3 XL, Pixel 3a / 3a XL и Pixel 4 / 4 XL. Перепрошивка производятся вручную, возможность установки Android 11 через систему OTA-обновлений появится в мае.

Представлен релиз свободной реализации API OpenGL и Vulkan - Mesa 20.0.0. Первый выпуск ветки Mesa 20.0.0 имеет экспериментальный статус - после проведения окончательной стабилизации кода будет выпущена стабильная версия 20.0.1. В Mesa 20.0 реализована полная поддержка OpenGL 4.6 для GPU Intel (драйверы i965, iris) и AMD (radeonsi), поддержка OpenGL 4.5 для GPU AMD (r600) и NVIDIA (nvc0), а также поддержка Vulkan 1.2 для карт Intel и AMD.

3.12 , suffix ( ok ), 23:02, 19/02/2020 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] –1 + / – Ну у меня модуль "Проактивная защита" в Битрикс удалён.

), 23:08, 19/02/2020 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] +2 + / – Если бы мне достался в наследство сайт на вротпрессе - я бы может и ненавидел вротпресс.

5.19 , suffix ( ok ), 23:26, 19/02/2020 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / –> Но, к сожалению, мне достался - битриксный.

Это судьба :)))4.32 , Tifereth ( ok ), 05:50, 20/02/2020 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – За что его ненавидеть-то?

Если у заказчика (или себя любимого) стоит Битрикс - ну либо менять на что полегче и не такое мутное-дорогое, либо сопровождать и не жаловаться.

Жюстин Гаупт (Justine Haupt) подготовила открытый сотовый телефон, оснащённый дисковым номеронабирателем. Для загрузки доступны схемы печатной платы для САПР KiCad, STL-модели для 3D-печати корпуса, спецификации используемых компонентов и код прошивки, дающие возможность любому энтузиасту собрать устройство самостоятельно.

Компания Mozilla опубликовала новый выпуск продукта WebThings Gateway 0.11, который в сочетании с библиотеками WebThings Framework образует платформу WebThings для обеспечения доступа к различным категориям потребительских устройств и использования универсального Web Things API для организации взаимодействия с ними. Код проекта написан на языке JavaScript с использованием серверной платформы Node.js и распространяется под лицензией MPL 2.0. Прошивки с шлюзом подготовлены для различных моделей Raspberry Pi. Также доступны пакеты для OpenWrt, Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu, Raspbian и Debian, а на базе OpenWrt развивается готовый дистрибутив с интегрированной поддержкой Things Gateway, предоставляющий …

A sex drive-in or sex box is a car garage (or similarly shielded location) that is designed to allow prostitution to take place using cars, and can be found in a few countries in Europe.

Generally the facilities are created by local authorities to put some control on where prostitution occurs and to provide increased safety.

[2][3] It was later adopted in Germany (Verrichtungsbox in German, which translates somewhat as "effectuation box" but with a hint of banality and mundaneness), where the Utrecht model was first used in Cologne in 2001.

[4][5]Generally facilities are designed so that the driver cannot exit the vehicle after pulling into the structure, but the prostitute can.

[6] In 2008…

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has declared a state of emergency in the city.

San Francisco’s mayor has declared a state of emergency in the city over the coronavirus outbreak.

The San Francisco Chronicle was the first to report the news.

The Global Marketing Summit was expected to bring 5,000 people to San Francisco.

Verizon, AT&T, and IBM have all pulled out of the trade show, which was expected to draw more than 40,000 people to San Francisco.

Along with reading this, examine primary sources in my Negative Emissions Reading List, as well as the links throughout.

In the 90s, negative emissions were not mainstream apart from early research by David Keith, Klaus Lackner, and others.

Direct air capture (DAC) + sequestrationClimeworks DAC facility outside of Zurich, SwitzerlandTraditional direct air capture facilities pass atmospheric air through a “sorbent” that absorbs, concentrates, and then controls release of CO2.

SequestrationSequestering it means permanently removing the CO2 from the carbon cycle, and literally reducing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Hence BECCS, as generally proposed, takes the “get the capture fo…

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NestDrop allows you to perform with high-resolution high-fps visuals which react in realtime to the music and then broadcasts the video via Spout.

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Alex Rakoczy25 February 2020Today the Go team is very happy to announce the release of Go 1.14.

Some of the highlights include:For the complete list of changes and more information about the improvements above, see the Go 1.14 release notes.

We want to thank everyone who contributed to this release by writing code, filing bugs, providing feedback, and/or testing the beta and release candidate.

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Alphabet’s Waymo still hasn’t perfected a self-driving car.

Waymo nearly doubled its headcount to 1,500 employees, known as “Waymonauts,” from 800 about a year ago, said a person with knowledge of the figure.

Much of the expansion came from the hiring of hundreds of engineers Waymo hopes will help it achieve a technological breakthrough in developing a reliable self-driving vehicle.

The workforce expansion suggests Waymo’s annual cost is nearing $1 billion, while its brand-new automated taxi business is yielding just hundreds of thousand dollars a year in revenue.

One signal that Waymo is a long way from developing into a business was the departure last fall of Waymo’s first chief commercia…

Alphabet’s Waymo still hasn’t perfected a self-driving car.

Much of the expansion came from the hiring of hundreds of engineers Waymo hopes will help it achieve a technological breakthrough in developing a reliable self-driving vehicle.

The workforce expansion suggests Waymo’s annual cost is nearing $1 billion, while its brand-new automated taxi business is yielding just hundreds of thousand dollars a year in revenue.

One signal that Waymo is a long way from developing into a business was the departure last fall of Waymo’s first chief commercial officer, Amee Chande, after just 10 months on the job.

The Takeaway• Updated Waymo org chart identifying 100 top managers• Many newly hired enginee…

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Let’s talk about money. More specifically, let’s talk about how much things cost. A few years back, the price of flagship smartphones leapt above the $1,000 threshold, owing largely to the cost of screen technology. It’s a tough calculus, but that’s the price of innovation. The rising cost of smartphones is largely regarded as a […]

Salesforce today announced that Keith Block, the company’s co-CEO, is stepping down. This leaves company founder Marc Benioff as the sole CEO and chair of the CRM juggernaut. Block’s bio has already been wiped from Salesforce’s leadership page. Block stepped into the co-CEO role in 2018, after a long career at the company that saw […]

The Walt Disney Company announced this afternoon that Robert Iger, the company’s long-time CEO who ushered in the company’s lush franchise and entertainment platform profits, will step down immediately as chief executive. Bob Chapek, a long-time senior exec at the company who most recently held the position of Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, […]

Facebook is aiming to build on its VR hardware launches of 2019 with an investment in virtual reality software. Facebook announced today that it has acquired Bay Area VR studio Sanzaru Games, the developer of “Asgard’s Wrath,” considered by many enthusiasts to be one of the Oculus Rift’s best games. Terms of the deal weren’t […]

A significant majority of Americans have lost faith in tech companies’ ability to prevent the misuse of their platforms to influence the 2020 presidential election, according to a new study from Pew Research Center, released today. The study found that nearly three-quarters of Americans (74%) don’t believe platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Google will be […]

Comcast has acquired Xumo, a free, ad-supported streaming service with more than 190 different channels. The service has a complicated ownership history — it began in 2011 as a joint venture between Panasonic and Myspace parent company Viant, which was acquired by Time Inc. in 2016, and then Time Inc. was later acquired by Meredith. The […]

Security is all too often focused on keeping hackers out and breaches at bay. But in the case of Remine, a real estate intelligence startup, it left its doors wide open for anyone to run rampant. Remine is a little-known but major player in the real estate analytics and intelligence market. It works by collecting […]

Just under a month ago Facebook switched on global availability of a tool which affords users a glimpse into the murky world of tracking that its business relies upon to profile users of the wider web for ad targeting purposes. Facebook is not going boldly into transparent daylight — but rather offering what privacy rights […]

Vimeo signaled last year its plans to move further into the social video creation and editing space with its acquisition of short-form video editor Magisto. Today, the company is unveiling the results of its work in the months following the deal’s close with the debut of Vimeo Create. The new app includes a set of […]

Silicon Valley air purifier startup Molekule was born out of an idea Dr. Yogi Goswami had back in the ’90s using photo-voltaic technology to kill air pollutants. His son, a young boy at the time, suffered from severe allergies and Dr. Goswami wanted to build something those like him could use in their home to […]

The launch industry is undergoing a number of major changes, among them the shift from traditional manufacturing to 3D printing — which Relativity Space is spearheading. The company plans to build 95% of its rocket using the world’s biggest 3D printers, and could launch as early as next year. Co-founder and CEO Tim Ellis will […]

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That chip had an integrated 4G modem—needed in every single market—and had a separate 5G modem as an optional extra.

4G connectivity would be more power-efficient than 5G on the Snapdragon 855, because the 4G modem was integrated and the 5G modem was not.

India is the world's second-largest smartphone market (behind China) and is a major battleground for the smartphone manufacturers.

Another BBK brand, Realme, also took the odd step of launching a 5G phone (the Realme X50 Pro) in India this week.

Then, the researchers set about quantifying how different the patterns were across different pairs of jeans.

Based on these measurements, Nightingale and Farid worked out the range of similarity between the "barcode" patterns on different pairs of jeans.

So the researchers took 10 pairs of jeans and took 10 photos of each, using different cameras, in different lighting, and with different draping.

False alarmsSo, if one pair of jeans can look noticeably different in different photos, is denim-pattern analysis actually a useful forensic technique?

Given that the FBI has reported using photographic pattern analysis in hundreds of cases each year, that’s a meaningful possibility.

There's also a fascinating behind-the-scenes standalone episode, "Shot in the Dark," that details everything that went into several highlighted shoots.

"We wanted to show the color and magic of the night," series producer Bill Markham told Ars.

Markham shot the Zimbabwe segment, filming elephants being hunted by lions and hyenas, the latter targeting a baby elephant.

YouTube/Netflix Capturing footage of killer whales on a nighttime swim in the Arctic fjords.

"But because we were going beyond the dark frontier, we were exploring a new world where we didn't always know what to expect."

Today's Dealmaster is headlined by a new one-day Amazon Gold Box sale with a number of deals on PC gaming gear.

More specifically, our favorite discount of the bunch is a $50 drop on ViewSonic's XG2402 monitor.

We deemed the ViewSonic XG2402 our top budget pick in our gaming monitor buying guide last August, and at this price, it remains an excellent value for anyone looking for smooth PC gaming on a budget.

It's a particularly strong option for budget buyers who often play competitive shooters like Overwatch or Counter-Strike.

If you don't need a new gaming monitor, though, we also have deals on Amazon's Fire TV lineup, Xbox Live Gold subscriptions, wireless noise-cancelling headphones fro…

Platform: PlayStation VR (additional platforms "at a later date")Release Date: Feb. 25, 2020Price: $40ESRB Rating: E for EveryoneLinks: PlayStation.com | Official websiteFor anybody in the tiny Venn diagram of users who have heard of and are anticipating this week's Space Channel 5 VR, I have very bad news: it's the worst value proposition of any PlayStation VR game ever made.

The best thing I can say about Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash!, which is currently a PlayStation VR exclusive, is that it neatly translates the original game's formula to a version with motion controls.

(The closest is the Hatsune Miku VR dancing game, which is best left ignored.)

These four songs are a fa…

Electronic Arts has banned controversial 25-year-old Maltese FIFA esports player Kurt "Kurt0411" Fenech from all EA games and services.

The move is an unprecedented escalation in punishment for a player EA has been struggling to deal with publicly for well over a year.

EA says Fenech has "continued to post abusive and threatening messages and videos about EA employees and competitive players on social media and he has encouraged others to do the same.

An Important message regarding FIFA player Kurt0411.

"The above violations go beyond acceptable 'smack talk' as the consistent harassment targeting fellow competitors, EA employees, and a previous on-air talent during the live broadcast, are u…

However, serious questions were raised about the viability of the lander's complicated parachute systems last year and ongoing problems in testing them.

The issue was found in both the rover test model and the actual flight model during the process of thermal vacuum chamber testing.

No space agency other than NASA has ever successfully soft landed and operated spacecraft on Mars for longer than a few seconds.

In October 2016, the European Space Agency failed to successfully land its Schiaparelli lander after the spacecraft jettisoned its parachute earlier than expected.

Finally, the United Arab Emirates will attempt to fly its Hope Mars Mission orbiter during the July window.

“We are too slow,” Mr Diess admitted.

However, Mr Diess, who has already identified some candidates for the role, said he wanted a climate activist to report directly to him, and dismissed suggestions that their recommendations would ultimately hurt VW’s bottom line.

“I think this transition [to electric vehicles] is a chance for growth,” Mr Diess said.

“Electric cars will change people’s priorities in body styles.

Luisa Neubauer, a prominent activist in Germany’s Fridays for Future movement, an environmental pressure group, rebuffed the request, suggesting that Siemens appoint a climate scientist instead.

But any rock deposits that formed prior to that would have had magnetic materials that were aligned with the planetary magnetic field.

Orbiters have detected this residual magnetic field, but InSight is giving us the opportunity to study a local field for the first time.

Based on the seismic data, these rocks have to be at least 200 meters deep and may be as much as 10km down.

InSight also detected daily variations in the magnetic field, induced by the activities of the solar wind interacting with Mars' magnetic field.

Another set occurred in late afternoon and may represent variations in the altitude at which Mars' magnetic field pushes back against the solar wind.

Its sender asked if I was interested in hearing about a peanut butter producer's interest in "setting the record straight on how to pronounce GIF."

The company does this in order to support its latest advertising campaign that says—wouldn't you know it—the soft-G version has already existed for decades in the form of a massive peanut butter brand.

In this format, it's fair to conclude that GIF is pronounced like the peanut butter.

Compounding the above issue, this is a limited-edition jar of peanut butter, as opposed to a nationwide supermarket launch.

That's where we might have otherwise seen a popular pop-culture icon settle the GIF pronunciation debate in its infancy.

Chevrolet Chevrolet has designed plenty of mid-engined Corvettes over the past six decades, but this is the first time it's put one into production.

Chevrolet Chevrolet has designed plenty of mid-engined Corvettes over the past six decades, but this is the first time it's put one into production.

Chevrolet Chevrolet calls the square steering wheel a "squircle."

Chevrolet Corvette purists lost the round taillight argument when the C7 replaced the C6.

InteriorOur premium trim package road car (3LT, $77,230 as tested) with GT2 semi-aggressive seats uses leather on most inside surfaces.

Today, the recent Pentagon drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani and his entourage at a Baghdad airport is a timely reminder of the power of the push-button force that is dominating military warfare in the 21st century.

And games are illuminating the horror of this new kind of warfare in a unique and modern way.

Joseph Delappe’s Killbox (2015) and Palao Pedrici’s Unmanned (2012) both use the interactive format to give players a new appreciation of the issues surrounding drone warfare.

That growing “horror” also explains why he chose to focus his work on drone warfare, starting with the digital imagery of Cowardly Drones in 2013 and installation pieces like Drone Strike Visualization in 2…

"Today, Firefox began the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users," Firefox maker Mozilla said in an announcement scheduled to go live at this link Tuesday morning.

ISPs protested encrypted-DNS plansMozilla has not been deterred by a broadband-industry lobbying campaign against encrypted DNS.

While Firefox's encrypted DNS uses Cloudflare by default, users can change that to NextDNS in the Firefox settings or manually enter the address of another encrypted-DNS service.

Google's plan for encrypted DNS in Chrome—which is still in the experimental phase and hasn't been deployed to everyone—is a little different from Mozilla's.

If the user-selected DNS provider of…

"We are excited for this team to join Comcast and look forward to supporting them as they continue to innovate and develop their offerings," the spokesperson said.

Xumo will be operating as an independent business within Comcast, though it will be overseen by the cable giant's senior VP Rebecca Heap.

While the terms of the acquisition weren't revealed, CNBC says Comcast paid at least 100 million for Xumo.

Whatever its reason is, Comcast is merely one of the media giants snapping up free ad-supported streaming services to tack onto their businesses.

And even the Comcast-owned NBCUniversal is reportedly in the midst of negotiations with Walmart to purchase Vudu even as it prepares for the lau…

The Union suggests that these services will not only want to electrify their fleets, but increase the rates of carpooling beyond the 15 percent seen today.

If carpooling jumps to 50 percent, the scientists estimate EV trips could generate about half the emissions of the trips they're displacing.

It said in a statement to Engadget that the study made "misleading claims about rideshare" and pointed to its own EV, shared ride and mass transit initiatives.

Whether or not those claims hold up, the study does raise questions as to whether or not Uber, Lyft and others are doing enough to minimize their impact.

'Traditional' Uber and Lyft rides could remain popular so long as people are in a hurry …

Grimes (aka Claire Boucher) said she plays Lizzy Wizzy, a pop star who killed herself on stage -- doctors performed "emergency surgery" to replace her whole body with cybernetics, and she went on to continue the gig and her career as a cyborg.

It's one of the "greatest pieces of performance art ever made," Grimes said.

It's unclear if other celebrities will have a substantial presence in the game.

However, Grimes' appearance suggests that CD Projekt Red's move to recruit Keanu was really just part of a larger strategy to put well-known faces into the game.

We wouldn't expect to see a deluge of actors and artists, but we wouldn't be surprised, either.

YouTubers have had a range of complaints, ranging from unexpected changes to suggestions that tank viewership through to mistaken demonetization and inconsistent policy enforcement.

At the same time, YouTube hasn't always had the best time communicating its intentions, leading to creators inadvertently breaking the rules or worrying about crackdowns.

This probably won't solve all of the disagreements between YouTube and the video producers that are its bread and butter.

Kovalakides is just one person and won't have a complete view of every siutation.

He might help YouTube address problems before they reach crisis levels, though, and ensure that creators know where they stand before they pub…

After guiding Disney through the acquisition of Fox and launching its direct-to-consumer efforts that center around Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu, CEO Bob Iger is stepping down from his post.

"Effective immediately," former Disney Parks Chairman Bob Chapek is taking over and will report to Iger while he serves as executive chairman and leads "creative endeavors" through the end of his contract next year.

In a statement announcing the move, Iger said ""With the successful launch of Disney's direct-to-consumer businesses and the integration of Twenty-First Century Fox well underway, I believe this is the optimal time to transition to a new CEO."

With Chapek continuing to report to Iger, it doesn't …

The Smithsonian is encouraging the public to view, use and reuse the content however they see fit.

Wells to images of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B, 3D models of the miniscule, like the Eulaema bee, and models of the gargantuan, like Cassiopeia A supernova remnant.

The material represents almost two centuries of scientific data, and the Smithsonian says this is just the beginning.

Throughout the rest of 2020, it will be adding another 200,00 images, with more to come as it digitizes the 155 million items in its collection.

If you're not sure where to dive in, you might enjoy the 3D model of the space shuttle Discovery.

Half of the series were produced by Crunchyroll Studios, with production duties on the remaining four handled by a couple of other high-profile studios in Japan, including Production I.G.

As The Verge notes, Crunchyroll is the first anime streamer to found its own animation studio.

Over the last couple of years, it has helped fund the creation of shows like A Place Further Than the Universe.

That said, it's easy to see why Crunchyroll is now taking on a more direct role.

Crunchyroll likely hopes the new series will both attract new subscribers and keep current ones from jumping ship.

"Government regulators have provided scant oversight" over the semi-autonomous driving systems that are quickly becoming standard features on modern automobiles, NTSB chair Robert Sumwalt declared.

While the NTSB does not have the authority to enforce safety measures, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration can issue recalls for unsafe vehicle tech.

The NTSB also determined via cellphone records and device data that Huang's phone was running a mobile game at the time of the crash.

This reportedly wasn't the first time that Huang's vehicle had swerved towards a median divider.

"Sadly, one manufacturer has ignored us, and that manufacturer is Tesla," Sumwalt said.

It also serves as a USB audio interface whether or not you intend to apply effects, and there's bidirectional MIDI you can assign specifically or to an aggregator.

You can assign "everything" to controllers on the device, too.

If MOD meets its funding target and all goes well, you'll pay $277 ($369 if you miss the early pricing).

That's less than half the price of MOD's Duo and yet-to-ship Duo X, and puts it more within range of gear like Digitech's or Zoom's higher-end hardware than extremely capable gear like the Empress Effects ZOIA.

Beta tester versions are expected to ship in October, while everyone else will have to wait until December.

This won't be the first time PC gamers will be able to play Black Mesa -- the majority of the game has been available as an Early Access title on Steam since 2015.

The team released the sections of the game set on Xen piecemeal, with the final entry released in December.

Finalizing Black Mesa probably feels like a major feat to the dev team.

With smooth gameplay, improved visuals, expanded story elements and a redesigned Xen chapter, Black Mesa may become the definitive way to play Half-Life.

Those who have never played a Half-Life game can download free copies of the games on Steam for the rest of the month.

Apple, Fitbit, Garmin and many third-party apps already offer period tracking.

As Engadget's Nicole Lee has pointed out, how effective period-tracking and fertility apps are depends on what you're using them for.

For simply predicting when your next period will start, the apps use past cycle data and can be helpful.

The addition of period tracking is part of Samsung's attempt to make Samsung Health more comprehensive, allowing it to do more than simply track activity.

Last year, Samsung Health added Calm's meditation, relaxation and sleep services.

If you live outside the US, you can enable the feature by visiting Firefox's settings menu and toggling the appropriate option.

Protecting domain name requests is something Firefox has been working on for the last number of years; in recent months, several other companies have started to think about doing the same.

As with most security and privacy-related features, not everyone is a fan of DNS over HTTPS.

Some experts, meanwhile, say the protocol won't prevent ISPs from tracking users -- since they can extrapolate your browser history using other data.

Despite those objections, Firefox plans to continue rolling out DNS over HTTPS, with the company planning to enable the protocol in other c…

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Batman: The Animated Series as a whole is unquestionably one of the best Batman interpretations out there, and when that version got brought to the big screen the results were awesome.

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It goes on sale Thursday, February 27 starting at 1:00 p.m. EST on Grey Matter Art’s website.

The report did not, however, disclose what the single “significant investigation” was about, nor did it provide any information about the results.

AdvertisementIn total, the Times notes that the Freedom Act iteration of the program resulted in 15 intelligence reports for the NSA.

Before the act, the controversial program resulted in the NSA collecting billions of phone and text records per day.

In 2018, the NSA collected 434 million call records from 19 million phone numbers.

AdvertisementDespite the abysmal numbers, the Trump administration has requested that Congress reauthorize the Freedom Act.

TechCrunch reported that the show typically becomes available early on Tuesday mornings on Hotstar, which syndicates Last Week Tonight in India.

A spokesperson for the Information and Broadcasting Ministry told TechCrunch it was not part of discussions to censor the segment.

AdvertisementRepresentatives for HBO, Disney, and Hotstar did not immediately return requests for comment.

This week’s controversial censorship comes as Disney is gearing up to launch its Disney+ streaming service at the end of March—also on Hotstar.

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Stone tools from Dhaba locality , India.

Photo : Chris ClarksonHumans may have continued to thrive in spite of a supervolcano eruption 74,000 year s ago, according to a new study.

Researchers in based in Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and India found evidence of stone tools and other artifacts in the Dhaba locality on norther n India’s Son River.

AdvertisementThe Toba eruption is at the center of a debate surrounding human history.

One thing is for sure: H owever catastrophic the Toba event was, human beings survived it and are still around today.

Activists protest Rebekah Mercer’s board seat at the American Natural History Museum.

The museum should also stop taking money that’s tainted by the fossil fuel industry and climate denial.

Accepting funding from people like the Mercers or fossil fuel interests can affect what goes into a museum’s exhibits.

AdvertisementI know it won’t be easy for museums to reject funding that’s tied up in fossil fuel interests.

But ultimately, the fossil fuel industry—propped up by the climate deniers that the Mercer Foundation funds—could bring about the end of natural history as we know it.

Director Colin Trevorrow took to his Twitter account today to mark the first day of filming the third Jurassic World film and subsequently revealed its title: Jurassic World: Dominion.

Since the second film, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, ended with the genetically-engineered dinosaurs being let out into the wilds of America, we’d guess it refers to North America being the dinosaurs’ dominion.

Star Chris Pratt weighed in with an equally measured take:AdvertisementAlso of note is that the red logo is the logo from the original Jurassic Park, not the stone or grey logo from the previous two Jurassic World films.

That’s likely some kind of a wink to the fact the main cast from that film— Sam …

The answer to whether you should cancel existing travel plans, however, is complicated.

Late last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a level 3 travel warning (its highest), recommending that anyone with nonessential travel plans to mainland China avoid going there; the State Department issued its own equivalent warning advising the same.

AdvertisementSo unless the CDC issues a travel advisory for the area you are planning to visit, there is no reason to cancel any plans at this time.

Interestingly, the World Health Organization advises against implementing travel restrictions in general during an outbreak, including during this one.

AdvertisementAnother major probl…

Photo : Ted S. Warren ( AP )After years of prototyping, and more years still experimenting with surveillance-based convenience stores, Amazon has officially opened its first cashierless grocery location in its home city of Seattle.

“Amazon represents a clear and present danger to millions of good jobs,” United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) President Marc Perrone wrote in a statement Tuesday .

According to Perrone, Amazon’s pivot away from human labor “is designed to destroy millions of grocery worker jobs.” Walmart, 7-11, and others are pursuing similar strategies that could drastically reduce the workforces of this sector.

To those skeptical that Amazon Go represen…

He also flagged a “company update” regarding the way Reddit thinks about “quarantined” communities (emphasis ours):When we expanded our quarantine policy, we created an appeals process for sanctioned communities.

Today, we’re making an update to address this gap: Users who consistently upvote policy-breaking content within quarantined communities will receive automated warnings, followed by further consequences like a temporary or permanent suspension.

Content posted to those communities won’t appear in a user’s Reddit feed unless they actively subscribe to the quarantined community and have a verified email linked to their user account .

Reddit also displays a warning screen before users c…

It’s only a matter of time before the virus will start to spread locally, if it isn’t doing so already.

AdvertisementBut COVID-19 has clearly spread beyond mainland China in recent weeks, setting off local outbreaks in countries including South Korea, Italy, and Iran.

Ideally, it’s possible that any outbreaks within the U.S. could be reasonably managed and stopped from spreading too far.

But make no mistakes, a far-reaching outbreak of COVID-19 in the U.S. would undoubtedly be a disaster, even with a relatively low fatality rate.

“Public health and healthcare systems may become overloaded, with elevated rates of hospitalizations and deaths.

Demonstrators showed up at the Oregon State Capitol to protest the latest cap-and-trade bill.

AdvertisementOn Monday, Oregon’s state senate passed a cap-and-trade bill—known as SB 1530—out of committee.

With supermajorities in the Oregon House and Senate chambers, Democrats should be able to pass the bill with relative ease.

But there’s a catch: There has to be a quorum of two-thirds of state senators (or in the case of the House side, representatives) present to vote on legislation.

The state Senate ultimately dropped the bill.

“Quite frankly, they’re not racist at all and they don’t care about how much money you have,” Brooks said.

“They’re bloodsuckers.” Brooks’ has a unique mobile business, one that focuses on burning out bed bugs with high heat.

As Brooks said, bugs don’t care about your race or income level or if you’re considered an independent contractor or not.

AdvertisementOf course, with bed bugs being found on planes and on buses, it was only a matter of time before they came for our beloved cars.

If you suspect you’ve been in a ride-sharing car infested with bed bugs, Brooks suggests throwing your clothes into a dryer and setting it on high heat for 50 minutes.

Meredith Averill at the Locke & Key world premiere.

It’s also something that’s shaping what might be in store for a potential Locke & Key season two.

The Haunting of Hill House is not about a haunted house, it’s about these haunted people.

Obviously, Locke & Key and Hill House are very different beasts, but what were the ideas you wanted to drive the story?

Locke & Key is now streaming on Netflix.

It's not just a theoretical risk—real attackers use malicious documents to infect targets all the time.

Google says that 63 percent of the malicious documents it blocks each day are different than the ones its systems flagged the day before.

In the months that it's been active, the new scanner has increased its daily malicious Office document detection by 10 percent.

The volume of malicious documents that attackers send out varies widely day to day.

The prevalence of malicious document attacks varies around the world, but for attackers the approach is always an option.

Amazon has alerted merchants about face masks that are “not in compliance” with its pricing policies, according to an email provided to WIRED.

One consultant who works with Amazon sellers said that listings for overpriced face masks had been deleted from the site.

The topic of “coronavirus and price gouging” has also been hotly debated among users on Amazon’s official selling forum over the last week.

“If sellers change their prices too much, or worse yet, change the list price on their items so that they can move up their selling price, Amazon notices and may intervene,” he says.

Shoppers have complained about skyrocketing prices for supplies on Amazon during other public emergencies.

Yes, the new iPhone 11 is a little faster, gets an extra hour of battery life, and has a second rear camera for wide-angle shots, but are those features worth $100 to you?

If you want a great iPhone for a little less cash, I recommend the 2018 iPhone XR (8/10, WIRED Recommends).

The iPhone is not changing a ton from year to year these days, so if you don't need those advanced features, don't pay for them.

A small note: If you're upgrading from an iPhone, you can trade it to Apple to get a small discount.

Before you do that though, check to see if you can sell it elsewhere for more money—we have a guide that can help.

Would your cat eat you?

While conducting a study on body decomposition, in separate incidents, forensic researchers unintentionally captured footage of two feral cats feasting on human corpses.

While there’s no genetic difference between feral cats and domestic cats, Delgado believes it’s much less likely that a well-fed housecat would engage in this behavior.

“As a cat behaviorist, I think what's really interesting about this study in particular is that we primarily think of cats as predators—as animals who hunt, kill, and then eat what they've killed,” Delgado says.

“And the other thing that's important to recognize is that just because animals will eat part of a corpse does not mean that…

(Example: Netflix tweeting “hello i’m drunk.”) Social media arguments and digital marketing are bad enough as separate blights upon society.

With that in mind, it seems almost impossible to endorse a twee, self-aware marketing gimmick seemingly designed to whip up debate on social media.

Today, Giphy and the peanut butter brand Jif released limited-edition jars of spread sure to reignite the discourse of how to pronounce GIF all over again.

This is the exact type of conversation that turns social media into a mildly engaging distraction rather than a horror show.

The GIF pronunciation debate has been squabbled over ad infinitum, but bringing it back up again provides an excuse to engage in …

Gigantamax Machamp, the megasized version of the body-builder Pokémon, was slated to appear in the then-unreleased games Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield.

The leaker Zippo told WIRED that they will no longer be leaking Nintendo games.

Finally, in February, the FBI caught one of the most connected Nintendo leakers of all time: a hacker who went by the name RyanRocks.

“Nintendo has been increasingly aggressive when it comes to combating leaks,” says one longtime member of the Nintendo leaking community who asked to remain anonymous for fear of repercussions.

Over the last several years, no one has embraced Nintendo leaking quite like Ryan Hernandez.

On February 26, 2016, pop star Kesha texted Lady Gaga seven words that ended up costing her dearly.

Defamation, a false statement of fact that damages the reputation of someone else, can come in myriad forms of communication.

As the #MeToo movement has grown, alleged victims and assailants alike have filed suits for defamatory social media postings.

Last month, Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig sued The New York Times for what he calls “clickbait defamation.”The fog of digital defamation law isn’t likely to lift soon.

And the less context you put in your communication, the more likely it is that a judge is going to say it’s defamatory.”

Within a minute of walking through the doors of the American International Toy Fair, I felt like a kid walking through Toys "R" Us.

It's the largest toy trade show in the Western hemisphere, held in New York City, and everything on display was fresh and exciting.

Strolling down the countless rows of booths, I saw big companies like Lego rub floor space with small ones, with CEOs overflowing with enthusiasm over how they invented whole new categories of toys.

Augmented reality, blending digital and physical worlds, is among the most popular tech powering new toys this year, but I was struck at how much emphasis there still is on physical play, encouraging kids to unplug from the digital worl…

For years, North Korea's Lazarus Group hackers have plundered and pillaged the global internet, scamming and infecting digital devices around the world for espionage, profit, and sabotage.

The NSA reportedly reuses malware, as do state sponsored hackers from China, Russia, North Korea, and elsewhere.

"When I was analyzing the Lazarus Group loader I found basically an exact match.

It's interesting that the Lazarus Group programmers either googled this or saw the presentation about it at the Infiltrate conference in 2017 or something."

This reuse illustrates the benefits to attackers of recycling sophisticated malware tools—whether they come from intelligence agencies or open source research.

Office productivity tools are great for office productivity, but they're also great for personal productivity.

Airtable for Wedding PlanningSome people have fairy-tale dreams about getting married, but let's be clear: Planning the Big Day is a job like any other.

It let me tabulate my budget; track my to-do list, guests, and vendors; and map out rehearsal and wedding day timelines, plus plan the honeymoon.

Airtable empowered me to delegate (read: relinquish control) to my now-husband, bridesmaids, and day-of coordinator.

Unlike Airtable, which allows you to plug in a huge amount of data that you can sort ad infinitum, Trello boards are deliberately simple.

John Oliver's revealing (and scathing) look at India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the latest Last Week Tonight is now a bit harder to watch if you're in India, thanks to — in an unexpected twist — Disney.

Hotstar, the Disney-owned streaming platform that carries HBO programming in India, didn't make the latest episode of John Oliver's weekly series available, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Further, the Modi package specifically appears to still be available on YouTube India's Last Week Tonight page.

To be clear: We tested this ourselves by accessing YouTube India from inside the U.S., and we don't know if the channel lineup would look different if viewed from within India.

Oli…

Then there's this: Ride-hailing trips are 69 percent more polluting as the trips they displace.

With more Uber and Lyft drivers out there, the amount of time driving around without getting someone somewhere goes up.

The analysis determined electric ride-hailing cuts emissions by more than 50 percent compared to a private car trip.

Both Lyft and Uber have robust carpooling options including options to walk to a shared ride.

All of which is to say: If you are going to order that Lyft or Uber, at least make it a carpool.

The images streaming out of China as the country struggles to contain the coronavirus outbreak depict masses donning protective medical face masks.

According to Google Trends, searches for "face mask" reached an all-time high in February.

Searches for face masks have been climbing over time, but have remained fairly steady with slight spikes and dips over the last five years.

Hospitals have also seen shortages of medical face masks, which some are attributing to purchases made by private citizens.

Image: screenshot: rachel kraus / mashableKnowledge is power, but face masks are no guarantee for health.

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With that in mind, we’ve pulled together some of the absolute best camping hammocks you can buy.

With nearly 3,000 positive reviews on Amazon, the MalloMe Hammock is well-loved to say the least.

This is going to be my go to hammock for camping even though it is a little heavier and larger than my other camping hammock.

Honest Outfitters camping hammock Comfortable, lightweight, and about the same price as a few cases of campsite beers.

Gold Armour Camping Hammock Ideal for novice users, its assembly kit is extremely straightforward and intuitive.

It's not every day a person captures footage of a javelina sprinting down a civilian street, so when someone does it rightfully creates quite the stir online.

A video recently shared to Facebook by Damion Alexander shows a javelina running at high speeds in Tucson, Arizona, and it's the perfect combination of mesmerizing, hilarious, and utterly terrifying.

For those who aren't familiar with javelina, though the beasts resemble pigs and boars they're technically neither.

Per the Arizona Game and Fish Department, javelina are collared peccary and reside in Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico.

The javelina in the video can be heard grunting and seen absolutely darting along the side of the road, ju…

Being taken for a ride by scammers isn't fun, but getting money from the government is.

The FTC announced its latest refund program for scam victims on Tuesday.

The refunds will average about $30 and go out to a little less than 58,000 people.

The original FTC lawsuit from 2015 accused the group of running pop-up ads that looked like they were from established tech brands designed to make credulous viewers call them for tech support.

Seeing as these refunds will probably average out to $30, it stands to reason some people will probably get less from the government than they gave to the scammers.

The downside of milk is getting harder to ignore as dairy and meat industry cattle use 83 percent of the world's farmland.

When it comes to securing the vote, officials keep pushing for the latest and supposedly greatest in election technology.

This argument, that paper ballots are a strong method to ensure the integrity of the vote, is not new.

In other words: Yes, paper ballots are important, but they're only one important part of a complicated whole.

"Blockchain is the wrong security technology for voting," insisted Rivest.

Hopefully, those who set the nation's election security policies and priorities are listening.

Here's what's coming to Amazon Prime Video.

Prime Video is also streaming movies like Night of the Living Dead, Going the Distance, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, and Man on a Ledge.

Uncut Gems and Jumanji: The Next Level are available for purchase, and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is available on Prime Video's STARZ Channel.

Check out everything coming to Prime Video in March 2020 below.

20 on Prime Video.

A whole new generation is about to fall in love with The Office thanks to a delightful new children's book.

The Office: A Day at Dunder Mifflin Elementary, written by Robb Pearlman and gorgeously illustrated by Melanie Demmer, follows a young, suit-clad Michael Scott on his journey to become the "World's Best Line Leader."

Amidst adorable depictions of the Dunder Mifflin characters fans know and love, the story sets out to teach kids the importance of teamwork and that it's always OK to ask for help.

A first look at "The Office: A Day at Dunder Mifflin Elementary."

The Office: A Day at Dunder Mifflin Elementary is set to publish on Oct. 6, 2020, but you can pre-order your copy today for $17…

So when you’re buzzed on G&Ts and talking about how you really, really, really want that British guy to text you back, is it OK — in these increasingly sex positive times — to talk about how horny you are?

Where do you draw the line between general talk about sex and talk about your personal sex life and desires?

Learning to tell your friends directly that you’re just really fucking horny is something I am still figuring out.

The nuts and bolts of chatting about sexFirst off, let’s revisit the limits of sexual talk in the office.

“Is it appropriate to talk about feeling horny if they've just poured their heart out about the person that dumped them?

A typical PC has just 8GB of RAM, just half of the memory the new Androids are planned to have.

Finn, the Labrador Retriever, is the official bat dog of the Las Vegas Aviators, and he’s clearly a valued member of the team.

The trend of gadgets that rethink the physical ways we make music is continuing with a little wearable device called Music Fingers.

The clip then connects to the Music Fingers app on your smartphone via Bluetooth, where sounds or loops can be assigned to the clip’s two buttons.

There’s multiple companies making MIDI rings for performing effects like vibrato with hand gestures.

Music Fingers falls into camp one.

It could be wild to see a finger drummer go ham on a track using several Music Fingers.

Keeping up to speed with the galactic firehouse of daily internet detritus that gets blasted at our eyeballs every minute of every day can be a taxing endeavor.

It often involves using RSS readers, Twitter lists, YouTube and Twitch channel notifications, and all-too-frequent email inbox refreshing, among dozens of other methods for staying on top of your favorite internet oddities and sifting through all the junk to find them.

It bundles together all of your favorite internet stuff into one easy-to-read page, much like a super-powered RSS reader.

The best part is that it’s not algorithmic like the Social Network That Shall Not Be Named.

You can check out the Fraidycat code on Github here, a…

The Smithsonian Institution is releasing 2.8 million high-res images from its massive collection into the public domain, putting them online for anyone to use and download for free.

The open-access online platform will include 2D and 3D images from its 19 museums, nine research centers, archives, libraries, and the National Zoo, Smithsonian Magazine reports.

Over the next few months, the Smithsonian will add another 200,000 images to the access platform, and it will continue digitizing its massive database of more than 155 million items.

Even media company Getty Images made the vast majority of its photo collection available for free, opening up a potential new revenue stream for its embedd…

Valve is adding new features to its Steam storefront’s search system, letting users filter out games they already own, set a maximum price, and avoid seeing VR-only games if they don’t have a virtual reality headset.

The updates are part of its ongoing Steam Labs experiments, and they’re a small but potentially positive tweak to the gaming storefront.

As Valve explains in a blog post, the new options are supposed to winnow down results and leave only games users really find helpful.

And you can hide games that require a VR headset without removing VR games that also run on a normal screen.

Valve also touts the fact that Steam autoloads the next page of results when you scroll, rather than m…

The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance system was one of the probable causes of a fatal 2018 crash into a concrete barrier.

In addition, the safety board said the driver was playing a mobile game while using Autopilot before the crash, and investigators also determined he was overly confident in Autopilot’s capabilities.

The safety board arrived at those probable causes after a nearly two-year investigation into the crash.

Had the crash attenuator been replaced, NTSB investigators said Tuesday that the driver, Walter Huang, likely would have survived.

“We urge Tesla to continue to work on improving their Autopilot technology and for NH…

Disney CEO Bob Iger will be replaced by Disney Parks, Experiences and Products chairman Bob Chapek as CEO effective immediately.

Iger noted that, over the last 27 years with the company, Chapek has proven that he has the “visionary leadership” to lead the company.

On March 15th, 2005, Disney announced that Iger would succeed longtime CEO Michael Eisner as the company’s sixth CEO.

In his first year as CEO, Iger repaired broken relationships with visionaries like former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and acquired Pixar for just over $7 billion.

Under Iger, and Mayer, Disney has amassed more than 28 million subscribers to its Disney Plus platform in just over three months.

If you have a habit of misplacing your AirPods, this new Kickstarter campaign might have the answer: stick them on your Apple Watch band.

The AirBand is a new silicon band for the Apple Watch that doubles as a holder for your AirPods, with two loops located below the Apple Watch screen.

AirPods also come with a pocket-sized charging case, meaning AirPods owners already have something portable in which to store their earbuds.

A note on crowdfunding: Crowdfunding is a chaotic field by nature: companies looking for funding tend to make big promises.

He’s turning to Kickstarter to secure funding for the materials needed to begin production on the product.

Amazon is warning third-party sellers on its Marketplace platform against exorbitant price hikes to face masks amid the coronavirus outbreak that continues to expand across the globe, Wired reports.

Wired reports that prices for some of the most popular options for medical face masks have tripled and, in some cases, even quadrupled.

Wired says that’s four times what the product cost a few weeks ago, citing data from Amazon price tracker Keepa.

Some face mask sellers are jacking up prices to four times the original amountsMore expensive and effective face masks, like N95 respirator masks, are also getting price gouged, Wired reports.

Yet, the company did become the center of a price gouging …

Better Call Saul was always going to be a show about a man dying in slow motion.

Jimmy McGill is a different, more earnest person than Saul Goodman, someone who does not exist in Breaking Bad.

Unlike Walter White, we know exactly what’s going to happen to Jimmy, and Better Call Saul is a better show for it.

It’s all so very sad, even if Bob Odenkirk’s carnival barker performance as Jimmy / Saul is as entertaining and funny as it’s always been.

Bit by bit, Jimmy McGill is being buried alive, and Saul Goodman is holding the shovel.

It’s already been a few years since Instagram allowed you to post multiple photos simultaneously in a single post.

First, about the sizing: no matter which photo you upload, Instagram will automatically resize and compress your images.

For example, square photos will always end up being 1080 x 1080 and vertical ones will always be 1080 (w) x 1350 (h).

So if you want to create a panorama made out of two vertical photos, you’ll need to duplicate the pixels lengthwise, while the height stays the same: 1080 x 1350 becomes 2160 x 1350.

Or if you want to create a panorama made out of three images, you’ll use 3240 x 1350.

For instance, Comcast announced on Tuesday that it’s acquired Xumo, an over-the-top streaming service with a paid and ad-supported free tier for both live and on-demand programming.

It did, however, report more than 5 million users in April of last year, so it’s not totally unheard of.

How could a company like Xumo possibly help Comcast win in the streaming wars?

“The talented team at XUMO has created a successful, growing, and best-in-class set of streaming capabilities.

We are excited for this team to join Comcast and look forward to supporting them as they continue to innovate and develop their offerings,” Comcast said in a statement.

The latest victim was Yorkshire Tea, a black tea blend 14 years older than the net and the current bestselling black tea in the United Kingdom.

— Yorkshire Tea (@YorkshireTea) February 24, 2020It's been pretty shocking to see the determination some have had to drag us into a political mudfight.

— Yorkshire Tea (@YorkshireTea) February 24, 2020Speaking directly now, as the person who's been answering these tweets, I know it could have been much worse.

— Yorkshire Tea (@YorkshireTea) February 24, 2020It’s a very nice sentiment from a tea brand: don’t forget that there are people behind the usernames, and those people have feelings, too.

The problem with public shaming on Twitter — the kind th…

Tesla ignored safety recommendations made by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) about its Autopilot driver assistance system, the board’s chairman Robert Sumwalt said on Tuesday.

The board also recommended that automakers should place limits on where and when systems like Autopilot can be used.

But while Tesla did increase the frequency of alerts when drivers take their hands off the steering wheel while using Autopilot, Tesla never officially responded to the recommendations.

Five other automakers answered within the 90-day window, but Tesla hasn’t answered in 881 days“One manufacturer ignored us.

And that manufacturer is Tesla,” Sumwalt said on Tuesday during the beginning of…

Fry’s Electronics announced that it will close its store in Anaheim, California.

pic.twitter.com/bss9nVKdvh — Fry's Electronics (@fryselectronics) February 25, 2020Under the consignment model, vendors take the risk of shipping goods to Fry’s.

But in this model, Fry’s does not buy the goods from the vendor.

Under consignment, Fry’s has no responsibility to maintain the merchandise in a sellable condition or even keep track of it at all.

You could buy everything from potato chips to computer chips at Fry’s Electronics.

In a reflection of investors’ ravenous appetite for the market, it today announced that it’s raised $250 million in series C funding.

Leveraging a combination of algorithmic optimizations and custom board-based hardware, SambaNova claims it’s able to dramatically improve the performance and capability of most AI-imbued apps.

According to Olukotun, SambaNova’s platform is designed to scale from tiny electronic devices to enormous remote datacenters.

“SambaNova’s innovations in machine learning algorithms and software-defined hardware will dramatically improve the performance and capability of intelligent applications,” he added.

The AI chip market is anticipated to be worth $91.18 billion by…

Microsoft is planning to launch both the next-gen Xbox Series X and the Project xCloud gaming service this year.

Well, that’s not how Xbox boss Phil Spencer sees it.

The Xbox console isn’t going anywhereWhile Spencer expects more streaming-only boxes and TVs to show up in people’s homes, he knows that the console is sometimes best.

I think I’m going to have a game console plugged into my television for the next decade-plus.

“And if you want to play on your television, we’re going to go build a great console for people to play on.

I love Mega Man, but even I only had a small amount of experience with the Mega Man Zero and Mega Man ZX series.

They just don’t seem to get as much love or appreciation as the classic Mega Man or Mega Man X games.

What you’ll likeSix great action-platformersThe collection comes with six games, Mega Man Zero through Mega Man Zero 4, Mega Man ZX, and Mega Man ZX Advent.

The musicThe Mega Man franchise has a lot of the best music in gaming, and a lot of its fans know songs like the stage theme for Metal Man from Mega Man 2 or for Boomer Kuwanger from Mega Man X by heart.

If you love Mega Man, especially the Mega Man X series, but haven’t played these games, you’re going be thrilled.

Grinding Gear Games announced Path of Exile 2 and Path of Exile Mobile in December, and it turns out players were already excited about the online action-role-playing game before any of these details.

Grinding Gear Games general manager Chris Wilson [no relation to the writer — Ed.]

Many of the updates address player requests; for Delirium, Grinding Gear is working on improvements to skills and wands, for example.

“There is a recipe to Path of Exile content that includes something for everyone.

Carrying overAnother way Grinding Gear hopes to keep players — and increase those player hours — is by enabling folks to bring their characters and microtransactions from Path of Exile to Path of Exi…

McAfee’s chief technology officer warned that it’s time for companies to start worrying about quantum computing attacks that can break common forms of encryption available today, even if quantum computing isn’t going to be practical for a while.

He noted that National Archives files related to national security from the Kennedy assassination nearly 60 years ago still have redactions for current national security risks today.

Cloud computing is sweeping through the industry, and it will enable the use of quantum computing.

But it may take years before the improvements take hold and give quantum computing a chance to beat classical computers.

Image Credit: RSAGrobman noted that the federal bu…

Securiti.ai, a company that uses AI to help companies comply with privacy laws like GDPR in the European Union and CCPA in California, today was named winner of the RSA Sandbox Innovation award.

It uses natural language for data requests and other forms of AI to allow those companies to assess vendors or internal systems.

This is the 15th year a panel of entrepreneurs and security professionals chose a most innovative startup at RSA, a security conference happening this week in San Francisco.

Top 10 finalists in the contest have seen 56 acquisitions and more than $6.2 billion in investments since the award started, RSA said in a statement.

“Privacy is a basic human right, and companies want…

Register now for real world case studies from big players like Urban Outfitters, BarkBox, and Output, and learn how to reduce churn, maximize revenue growth and brand value, leverage subscription data, and more.

“Subscription models are what enable this customer choice, because it’s an ongoing relationship,” Clark says.

The second big benefit, Clark says, and the reason why we’re seeing, in particular, a lot more of these customer-forward, direct-to-customer businesses utilizing subscriptions, is that the subscription model simply delivers deeper customer relationships and customer brand loyalty.

An example of that is Uber and Lyft, which have both started testing out subscriptions.

If you …

Today, Qualcomm and ZeroLight are announcing a complete end-to-end solution that will use the XR2 and 5G for Boundless XR in enterprise settings.

The broad premise of “Boundless XR” is to replace the wires typically needed for mixed reality headsets with high-bandwidth wireless connections, giving the lightweight, low-power headset access to the photorealistic rendering power of a 300-Watt computer.

For this end-to-end solution, Qualcomm provides the reference design for XR2-based headsets and chips for 5G network hardware, while ZeroLight delivers the mixed reality application and edge cloud rendering server for the private 5G network.

Rather than waiting for carrier-provided 5G infrastruc…

In an effort to streamline the search, researchers at Salesforce developed what they call a graph-based trainable retriever-reader framework, which sequentially retrieves paragraphs from English Wikipedia articles to answer complex open-domain questions.

The Salesforce researchers instead propose a graph-based recurrent retriever-reader framework that learns to retrieve reasoning paths over the Wikipedia graph.

The graph-based recurrent retriever retrieves paragraphs for a given question using the graphical structure by conditioning on the previously retrieved paragraphs.

Together, these techniques enable the framework to field both single- and multi-hop open-domain problems more robustly t…

Electronic Arts is not going to officially participate in the Games Developers Conference in San Francisco in March.

This comes amid growing concern over the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) to more countries in Europe and Asia.

EA has over 9,000 employees with some located in countries that are actively fighting the spread of the virus.

Here is the note that EA chief people officer Mala Singh sent out to EA employees last night:“We will be limiting our presence at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, March 16-20.

And employees should not travel to San Francisco for the conference.

Dota Underlords is officially out of Early Access.

This content drop introduces a new Battle Pass and modes.

These new modes all relate to the ongoing narrative for Dota Underlords Season One.

Image Credit: Valve SoftwareDota Underlords Season One is also getting a Battle Pass.

Valve first popularized the Battle Pass with its annual Compendium content for Dota 2.

That’s the service Zaslansky’s startup, Flock Freight (previously AuptiX), provides, and it’s attracted the attention of investors including Google Ventures.

Flock Freight today announced that it’s raised $50 million in series B funding, bringing its total raised to over $70 million following an $18 million series A round and $2.5 million seed round.

“Flock Freight is pioneering the hubless shipping market, benefiting both the shipper and the carrier,” said Zaslansky.

Flock Freight says its driver network in the U.S. and Canada numbers in the thousands, each individual driver within which can be tracked in real time via a dashboard or email notifications.

For its part, Convoy raised $400 mi…

New York City-based NewsGuard Technologies, which hosts a subscription service that rates the credibility of online content sources using a multi-point check system, has launched a Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center for the purposes of disseminating information about websites that are willfully spreading false information about the COVID-19 disease and the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself.

NewsGuard and its accompanying browser extension provide its users the ability to make informed determinations about the quality of where they obtain their news -- particularly as it relates to a content source's political biases.

The company is extending this methodology to its coverage of content sources…

Cisco on Tuesday announced a series of new software and hardware products aimed at helping service providers get the most out of their 5G infrastructure investments.

Read MoreThe introduction of 5G services puts pressure on service providers to prepare for significant increases in mobile traffic, Cisco noted.

First, Cisco is introducing the Cisco Cloud Services Stack for Mobility, a cloud-based mobile packet core solution.

With this stack, Cisco is also offering a revenue-sharing model between Cisco and its customers.

Meanwhile, the new Cisco Cloud Services Stack for Residential is designed to improve network operations and performance across residential access networks.

Australia's radiation safety agency reinforces that 5G is safe Double blind trials have debunked any health concerns about 5G and radiation, ARPANSA has said.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has opened consultation on whether any competition issues are likely to appear with the upcoming allocation of licences in the millimetre wave 26GHz and 28GHz spectrum band set that will be used for 5G deployments.

"The 26GHz band is the first high-band spectrum earmarked internationally for 5G deployment to be allocated in Australia," the ACCC said.

Spectrum licences will have a 15-year term, with the auction pencilled in for early 2021.

"I have the power to direct ACMA to imp…

Woolworths has announced through WooliesX, the digital arm of its business, online growth remained "very strong" during the first half to 5 January 2020.

Total group online sales reached AU$1.65 billion, up 31.6% with online penetration for the half at 5.1%, up 100 basis points on the prior year.

"Across the group, we will continue to scale-up the X businesses to keep pace with customers' demands and expectations," Woolworths Group CEO Brad Banducci said.

As a result, this impacted the bottom line with net profit after tax coming in at AU$887 million, down 7.7%.

For the half-year period to January 5, Coles recorded net profit after tax of AU$489 million, and earnings before interest and tax…

Read MoreBanks and other organizations from the Australian financial sector have been the targets of an extensive extortion campaign over the past week.

The Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has sent out a security threat advice today about this ongoing campaign.

As ZDNet reported at the time, initial extortion attempts targeted banks and other companies in the financial sector.

However, ZDNet can confirm that several attacks have taken place against companies targeted part of this ransom campaign.

In a threat alert it sent last year, DDoS mitigation service Radware advised victims who received these types of DDoS extortion emails not to pay, but conta…

Co-CEO Keith Block is stepping down, Salesforce said, leaving Marc Benioff to serve as chair and CEO of the company.

Block joined Salesforce in 2013 and became operating chief in 2016.

Prior to joining Salesforce, Block had a 26-year career at Oracle that ended in acrimony.

"It is important for our customers to have products that speak the language of their industries," Salesforce said in a statement.

Patterson joined Salesforce in September as Chair of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

PyGame is a laboratory used by machine learning scientists to train their programs to solve "reinforcement learning" problems.

While Flappy Bird is nowhere near as complex as Go, it's a good starting place for any AI project in reinforcement learning.

It's as if DeepMind's AlphaZero processed game data but didn't play any games of Go.

Reinforcement learning is harder because the computer has to compute "credit assignment," finding the critical series of moves.

"Decision problems typically are not huge simply because humans cannot handle very large problems," he observed.

Amazon on Tuesday announced it's releasing in preview Amazon Common Software for Devices (ACS), an optimized software that makes it easier to launch devices that support Amazon Device SDKs.

Yet the API integration layers vary by SDK -- so a developer using multiple Amazon Device SDKs would have to run separate development and test efforts for each SDK.

With ACS, developers can use a single API integration layer for multiple Amazon Device SDKs.

It currently supports two SDKs -- the Frustration-Free Setup (FFS) and AWS IoT Device SDKs --with support for the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) Device SDK coming later this year.

In addition to a unifiied API integration layer, ACS provides pre-validated,…

Image: KasperskyThe number of users infected with stalkerware went up by almost 60% in 2019, from 40,386 in 2018, to 67,500 this year, Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky said today in its yearly mobile malware threats report.

The antivirus vendor only began detecting and marking stalkerware apps in the spring of 2018, after pressure from Eva Galperin, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's director of cybersecurity.

In a typical scenario, abusers install these "stalkerware" apps on the personal devices of their loved ones, such as wives, husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, children, work colleagues, secret crushes, and so on.

In many cases, the use of stalkerware is often followed by physical o…

First thing is first, the new beta Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is not an antiviral program for Linux desktops.

Microsoft is showing up the first version of Defender ATP at the RSA Conference 2020 in San Francisco.

This program will be available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7+, CentOS Linux 7+, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or higher LTS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12+, Debian 9+, and Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.

To run it, you'll need a Microsoft Defender ATP subscription.

Your server must also have network access to the Microsoft Defender ATP portal.

Microsoft is planning to open a datacenter region in Spain at some point in the future, its first in that country.

Microsoft officials said today they will be delivering Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform from new datacenter regions in Spain.

In February 2019, Telefonica and Microsoft announced a partnership via which Telefonica would use Azure and Microsoft AI services as a base for its own AI-powered networking technology.

Telefonica also pledged to using Microsoft cloud technologies for its own internal operations.

Telefonica already has deployed Microsoft 365 to some of its employees, according to today's press release.

Or, even better, take a look at your own mobile device and wonder: when did I last clean it?

A whopping 60% of you admitted you never cleaned your mobile device.

The cloth won't kill bacteria but will shift it away from your mobile device.

The cloth won't kill bacteria but will shift it away from your mobile device.

: You would be forgiven to think glass and window cleaners would be fine on a smartphone screen, but you would be wrong.

5G wide-area technology: Demo models are being designed to test new 5G systems, including full-duplex MIMOs and new IoT data management architectures.

5G mobile mmWave: New models designed for network simplification and to enhance device efficiency, upcoming in Release 16+.

5G smart factories: Qualcomm is currently developing an industrial 5G test network for the purposes of industrial automation, time-sensitive networking (TSN) and enhanced ultra-reliable low latency communication (eURLLC).

Qualcomm is currently developing an industrial 5G test network for the purposes of industrial automation, time-sensitive networking (TSN) and enhanced ultra-reliable low latency communication (eURLLC).

…

Qualcomm announces its new Snapdragon X60 chip. The new chip is designed to unlock performance of 5G across spectrum bands.

Trust in technology fell globally by 4%, with declines of 7% in the US and 6% in Australia, says the report, published Tuesday.

In its report, Edelman said the declines in trust underline the importance for technology companies to be transparent about the possible downsides of technologies.

Some 54 percent of the study's respondents said their trust would increase in technology companies if those companies communicated potential downsides.

"The trend of eroding trust in the technology sector continues," Edelman technology chair Sanjay Nair said in a release.

"The trust decline may be small, but it is reflective of consistent concerns that technology companies are not adequately preparing so…

In today's top news, Xbox promises more graphics power and backward compatibility on its new console, reviews roll in for Samsung's new Galaxy S20 Ultra camera and NASA says goodbye to one of its 'Hidden Figure' trailblazers.

amana images/Getty Images PlusFacebook's mission to connect the world has been part of the company's message at MWC in Barcelona for many years now.

Already in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Facebook together with Airtel and Vodacom has created the country's first privately led long-haul fiber route.

"We're just seeing more and more interest in being able to use this technology as an augmentation or expansion of fiber," said Rabinovitsj.

Facebook says it's making great strides with using satellite operator partners to beam Wi-Fi to remote areas in Latin America using its Express Wi-Fi platform.

With new pilot programs and trials popping up all the time, it seems like the deployment of ma…

Amazon Go Grocery lets you shop for fresh produce and just walk out, no checkout required.

Celso Bulgatti/CNETAmazon has unveiled its latest physical retail concept -- a cashier-free Amazon Go store that sells fresh groceries.

The Amazon Go Grocery store, which opens in downtown Seattle on Tuesday, allows shoppers to buy groceries without running items through a checkout or even swiping a card.

That means new products like fresh produce, bread and baked goods, meat and liquor -- the kinds of things you'd buy in your weekly grocery shop.

Video: Inside Amazon's brand-new cashierless grocery storeThe basic technology behind Amazon Go hasn't changed with the launch of the grocery concept.

According to Amazon, the Seattle store is also a different concept to the grocery store the comp…

Sony Xperia Pro combines 5G and video camera connectivity for... by Eli Blumenthal

In today's top tech stories, Samsung Z Flip factory closes due to coronavirus fears, Twitter polices election coverage and a NASA satellite catches an Antarctic island melting.

It's presidential primary season, which gave us a bounty of election-related stories this week including a handy breakdown of where the Democratic candidates stand on key tech issues.

Here are the week's stories you don't want to miss:When one letter off leads you to malicious advertisements rather than the website of the former cybersecurity czar.

Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesCommentary: Epic Games' runaway freight train is finally slowing down.

Fine Arts Museum of San FranciscoIncredible feats of genetic engineering and frozen biobanks could prevent Australia's iconic marsupials from disappearing for good.

Getty ImagesMeet the season 12 drag queen waltzing f…

This week's major tech headlines include Jeff Bezos' $10B climate fund, Apple's considering changes to iOS mail apps and Samsung's Z Flip appearing to be a hit.

Getty ImagesConcerns over a novel coronavirus, now called SARS-CoV-2, have led more corporate sponsors and attendees to pull out of the RSA Conference, event organizers said on Friday.

Verizon has now joined AT&T Cybersecurity and IBM in ending its participation in the event, scheduled to kick off Monday evening in San Francisco.

"We understand and respect their decision," the event organizers said about Verizon's cancellation.

Its decision also follows Facebook calling off a marketing summit in San Francisco that was expected to draw 4,000 people in March, also over coronavirus fears.

In Barcelona, the Mobile World Conference scheduled for earlier in February was also fully cancelled.

Whether you're worried about package theft from your porch or just want to keep an eye on your house while on vacation, a security camera is a simple investment that can give you peace of mind. Here's how to choose the right one for you.

Social media companies such as Facebook don't consider political posts from influencers as ads, allowing candidates to skirt certain rules.

Politicians want to get their message out, and social media is an effective way to do so.

Knowing that a campaign paid for a post might make users think twice about the message an influencer is promoting and, in turn, affect their votes.

Sponsored political posts from the Bloomberg campaign look different than conventional political ads on Facebook and Instagram, appearing more like everyday banter.

Sabrina Singh, a spokeswoman for the Bloomberg campaign, said the sponsored posts were clearly marked, adding the campaign "went above and beyond to follow …

More than 34 million Americans have diabetes, approximately 10% of the population according to the American Diabetes Association.

Building on that research, the same team may have found a cure: at least in lab mice.

When converting the stem cells into another type of cell, there are always mistakes and random cells enter into the mix along with the insulin-producing ones.

“You need about a billion beta cells to cure a person of diabetes.

But if a quarter of the cells you make are actually liver cells or other pancreas cells, instead of needing a billion cells, you’ll need 1.25 billion.

I’ll bet money that you’re logged into your social media platforms on multiple devices.

So here’s where you can find your logged-in sessions on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram — and how you can log out of them.

Each session should ideally tell you what type of device you’re logged in, and the location.

InstagramDespite being in many ways similar to Facebook, Instagram keeps its login information in a separate menu option.

Good luck, and may you find no mystery devices logged into your account from Chicago.

Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, said that it’s important to have a team of people with a diverse background to reduce bias in AI models.

For example, a solution to remove bias(in models), would be to have diversity (in teams building it).

This time around apart from numerous mentions of the Azure cloud, AI and inclusivity with technology were at the center.

With keynotes by experts from companies like Spotify and RSA, our Neural track will take a deep dive into new innovations, ethical problems, and how AI can transform businesses.

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If you've ever called a GIF a JIF…we forgive you!!!!

Giphy’s side, the “Gif,” says it’s a hard g, or a “guh” sound, while the Jif side is a soft g or “juh” pronunciation.

Credit: JifNeedless to say, I’m sure the definitive pronunciation is influenced at least somewhat by Jif not wanting their product to be confused with the staple of internet humor.

While I’m sure it wouldn’t exactly hurt the peanut butter company — which has existed by that name for over fifty years — there is such a thing as brand confusion.

A burning question answered at last by GIF inventor Steve Wilhite accepting Webby Lifetime Achievement Award #webbys pic.twitter.com/WLrvQVJbVP — Time Out New York (@TimeOutNewYork) M…

A new system that uses sensors and AI to quickly detect tumors can screen women for breast cancer without exposure to radiation.

The device invented by researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada analyzes microwaves to detect even small, early-stage tumors within minutes.

[Read: Google’s new AI detects breast cancer just by scanning X-rays]The software then analyses the breast’s tissue composition to detect any anomalies that could be a sign of cancer.

It could also remove radiation exposure from cancer screening by using harmless microwaves data to detect tumors.

Get your early bird ticket and check out the full Neural track.AI helps eliminate radiation exposure in breast cancer …

Last year, Elon Musk came on stage to talk about his ambitious brain-interface company Neuralink, and sold people dreams of controlling an iPhone using only your brain.

Now, the company has a new competitor in a New York-based company called Neurosity, which released its own device called Notion today for developers.

Last year, the company showed off its Notion device for the first time.

Just like the Musk-backed company, Neurosity wants to enable actions through brain waves.

However, startups such as Neuralink, Neurosity, and Paradromics are trying to convert brainwaves into a programmable entity to open up many possibilities.

While we’re celebrating the culmination of years of hard work from our behind-the-scenes staff, I’m taking the day to quietly contemplate the future of AI journalism.

Dozens of headlines popped up declaring that Facebook’s AI had “created its own language that humans can’t understand in order to communicate with itself” and other nonsense.

While it’s true that there’s a resource gap between AI journalists and the researchers and developers we cover, there’s also, typically, an education gap too.

And, let’s face it, even the smartest AI experts don’t always agree.

The point is: I believe a large portion of tech news readers are ready for smarter, more reasonable, human-centric AI coverage.

WhatsApp wants you to have a consistent experience across platforms — so it’s bringing dark mode to desktop.

The Facebook-owned messenger appears to be working on a dark theme for the Web version of its app, serial WhatsApp leaker WABetaInfo has noticed.

You’ll notice dark mode messes up the emoji keyboard, leaving a white background behind the icons.

WhatsApp has already rolled out dark mode to Android (and working on launching it on iOS), so adding desktop to the mix makes perfect sense.

Yep, there’s an unofficial dark mode for WhatsApp Web already.

It’s clear that any ‘thinking’ being done by today’s machine intelligence is very different from the kind of ‘thinking’ that we humans do,” Mitchell explained.

Turing’s classic 1950 paper on “Can Machines Think?” is a great read on this topic.”This same principle applies to future predictions of achieving humanlike intelligence in machines.

“It’s very hard to define [humanlike intelligence] except by using behavioral measures, such as the “Turing Test”.

In fact, this was exactly Turing’s point — we don’t have a good definition of “humanlike intelligence” in humans, so it’s going to be hard to define it rigorously for machines,” Mitchell said.

In Mitchell’s latest book “Artificial Intelligen…

We’re excited to officially launch Neural today, a blog dedicated to highlighting the impact artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies have on humanity.

The global market value for AI technologies is now estimated to be in the trillions and there’s no ceiling in sight.

We understand there’s a lot of noise out there in mainstream media, especially when it comes to AI reporting.

And on the research front, there’s incredible progress being made at the intersection of AI and quantum computing.

Fun facts: the Neural font was developed with the help of an artificial neural network and the color scheme was chosen because it’s just awesome.

Researchers have developed an algorithm that could stop self-driving vehicles from getting in crashes and traffic jams.

The team from Northwestern University (NU) claims their invention is “the first decentralized algorithm with a collision-free, deadlock-free guarantee.”The algorithm divides the ground beneath the machines into a grid.

But Rubenstein believes it could also cut traffic and collisions for self-driving vehicles on the road.

With keynotes by experts from companies like Spotify and RSA, our Neural track will take a deep dive into new innovations, ethical problems, and how AI can transform businesses.

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So, a logical offset to holding Bitcoin would be shorting suitcases — betting that Big Suitcase fails as money launderers opt to move illicit funds with Bitcoin rather than cash in suitcases, because Scorsese movies are documentaries.

JP Morgan Chase:$4.02 billion invested in JP Morgan, with an average share price of $112.60.

JP Morgan share price today: $132.16 — up 17.37% $4.02 billion * 1.1737 = $4,718,274,000 Total earnings: $698,274,000.

If Buffett did opt for holding Bitcoin instead of building a major position in JP Morgan in 2018, he would’ve earned an additional $1,103,892,000.

It should also be noted that Berkshire has increased its JP Morgan Chase position to 60 million shares, w…

Originally discovered by the Kepler space telescope, G 9–40b has just been confirmed as an exoplanet by a team of Penn State researchers using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF) located in Texas.

This world, G 9–40b, is at least twice as large as Earth, and is likely significantly larger — possibly closer to the size of Neptune.

A simulation showing G 9–40b orbiting its parent star.

“G 9–40b is amongst the top twenty closest transiting planets known, which makes this discovery really exciting.

An artist’s concept of G 9–40b, which may be a rocky world twice as large as Earth.

The 34th rule of the internet says: “If it exists, there is porn for it,” and the hottest internet trend right now is arguably TikTok.

So, it makes sense that, a major adult entertainment site has developed a porno version of the video-centric social media platform.

YouPorn, a site owned by porn giant Mindgeek, announced a new site called SWYP.

So, it makes sense that, a major adult entertainment site has developed a porno version of the video-centric social media platform.

The company noted it launched the site to provide a distraction-free experience to users instead of serving them with several category tabs.

Measuring website conversion is actually a very simple formula.

Growth-hacking your company takes place as you learn to read your website conversion rates and optimize for the growth.

Practice these five practical tactics for improving your website conversion rates.

Website Conversion Rate Formula Total Visitors: 1000Total Form Completions: 1010 / 1000 = 0.10.1 x 100 = 1% Total Website Conversions = 1%Website conversion rate — what does it mean?

We are sharing some of the top tips to improving website conversions for your site that will enhance your business.

Here are the top investment banking trends to watch out for.

Nowhere has this combination been as powerful as in the investment banking industry.

What do these developments bode for investment banking professionals and the markets of the future?

Significant 2020 Trends to watch out for, that are changing the Investment Industry landscape.

Investment banking professionals will be required to understand and know the technology behind algorithms, as more operations shift toward that.

Microsoft Azure IoT continues to release enhancements designed to reduce complexity, enable repeatable solutions, and simplify provisioning at scale.

The three waves of IoT evolutionRobyn Dunn, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft IoT, says that over the next three to five years, we’ll be seeing three waves of IoT evolution.

AI at the edgeOne of the biggest trends right now is AI at the edge.

Learn more at IoT in Action and join the Microsoft AI@Edge communityAre you ready to embrace the competitive benefits of IoT and AI at the edge?

You’ll learn about the latest trends and future direction of IoT solutions.

As such, it doesn’t surprise anyone that the Oil and Gas industry is interested in leveraging IoT?

Why use IoT in the oil and gas industry?

In the Oil and Gas industry, the advantages of oil and gas IoT applications lie in creating value through an integrated deployment strategy.

For oil and gas companies, IoT run software tells the manager when to repair the machinery, and alerts them when something is likely to break.

It is essential in the Oil and Gas industry to protect all equipment — including watching out of any leaks and even minor breaks.

Lean and Six Sigma can benefit the manufacturing companies, but you’ll want to understand each of the tools individually.

Lean helps in achieving small yet incremental changes that positively change the speed, quality, and efficiency.

As Lean helps in reducing all these wastage’s, it helps you establish refined goals for your business.

Lean Six Sigma also ensures that the manufacturing process has minimum defects, thus ensuring the quality of the produced goods.

Speeds up turnaround times – The amount of time taken for the manufacturing process as a whole known as cycle time can be reduced with the help of Lean Six Sigma.

It seems that 2020 has no intention of slowing down based on all the recent happenings of the blockchain, DApps & DLT landscapes.

Beginning with Steemit announcing a shift (blockchain and token) to the Tron Network.

I even found room to cram in plenty of research (Q4 2019 Blockchain Landscape & DApps Landscape — UPDATE coming February 27th, 2020) & books (on Digital Assets & Enterprise Blockchain) along with insights on venture capital (new funds + M&A activity!!

The strategic partnership will enable the company to shift the old Steem (STEEM) token to a new STEEM token based on the Tron blockchain.

China’s foreign exchange regulator launched the “cross-border finance blockchain services pla…

Here are some off-page SEO techniques you should stop doing today.

Below are six SEO techniques that you should stop doing.

Basically, off-page SEO techniques are those actions that we do outside of our website in order to increase rankings in the Google SERP.

and Bing Here is what GoogleWorst Off-page SEO techniquesDirectory submissions.

For best success follow the rules, and proper off-page SEO techniques suggested here — and skip using the tactics that can negatively impact your site and company.

There are about 26.66 billion connected devices on the planet right now, and forecasts predict around seven connected devices per person in 2020.

Here is connected devices in the workplace, and what you need to know to avoid the risk.

Of those devices on the network, identify which are corporate devices and which are personal devices.

This designation includes personal IoT devices that may have limited band or security protocols support.

As the number of IoT devices continues to grow, this practice will be more necessary than ever.

About the Coway Airmega AP-1512HHS Air PurifierCoway uses a four-stage filtration to clean and purify the air in areas that are approximately 325 square feet or smaller.

The air purifier also works with Amazon’s Dash replenishment services to ensure you have air filters when needed.

The air purifier worked well each time it was used, which was on a daily basis for about a month.

This is a powerful air purifier because it cleared the air of dog hair and dander as well as dust and other particulate matter.

Overall ThoughtsIf you have allergies or asthma or you just want to enjoy purer air in your home or office, then the Coway Airmega air purifier can help minimize those issues and provide pu…

And the travel industry is no exception to many business verticals affected by AI.

Here is information about the travel industry building its immunity with artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence is associated with extensive enhancement of the business processes and customer services in all dominant industries.

Constant progress in the travel industry seems unstoppable giving it a new transformation as a “Travel AI.”The impressive uses of AI for all travelers, including business travel.

The merits of AI technology overrides these minor loopholes to penetrate into the travel industry and deliver highly personalized travel services to the voyagers.

Here is how we are improving customer service using AI.

Using the data, AI is being used to minimize the chances of errors while providing extremely accurate analysis and solutions.

In order to have your customer permanently engaged, customer service agents should be equipped with AI tools.

Artificial Intelligence can provide agents with the best possible responses based on the intelligence of the product and customer.

Customer Service AnalyticsThe best use of AI in business is customer service analytics.

iPhone XR shipments were reportedly 9 million units higher than the next-best-selling iPhone model, which was the iPhone 11.

The iPhone 11 Pro Max was the sixth most popular smartphone with 17.6 million shipments, followed by the iPhone 8 at 17.4 million.

Apple shipped 46.3 million iPhone XR smartphones last year, more than doubling the 23.1 million units in 2018, according to Omdia’s Smartphone Model Market Tracker report.

iPhone XR shipments in 2019 were 9 million units higher than the second-most popular model, Apple’s iPhone 11, which achieved shipments of 37.3 million units for the year.

In 2019, Samsung accounted for 49 percent of the global 5G smartphone market, while Huawei ranked s…

Apple continues to expand the availability of its contactless student IDs feature in the Wallet app.

Santa Clara University announced today that its students, faculty, and staff can now add their ACCESS ID cards to the Wallet app on their iPhone and Apple Watch.

The process for adding a Santa Clara University ACCESS card is as follows:For a technologically savvy generation of students, setting up ACCESS student ID on iPhone and Apple Watch is easy.

Apple first added support for student cards in Apple Wallet with iOS 12 and watchOS 5, with launch partners including Temple University, Duke University, and more.

You can read the full Santa Clara University announcement post here.

Disney has announced that CEO Bob Iger is stepping down from his role, effective immediately.

Bob Chapek, who served as chairman of Disney parks, will take over as CEO, while Iger will transition to the executive chairman role through 2021.

Iger had previously announced his plans to step down as Disney CEO in 2021, and today’s announcement serves as official confirmation of that change.

He will now be able to focus on creative projects and help transition Chapek into the CEO role.

Iger said he would be able to help transition Chapek into the role while serving as executive chairman.

Tesla, and even Apple, are receiving some harsh criticism from the NTSB regarding a fatal crash on Autopilot in 2018.

At the time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hit back at NTSB’s critique of Tesla releasing data of the fatal Autopilot accident.

During the hearing today, NTSB chairman Robert Sumwalt put some of the blame on both Tesla and Apple, the employer of the driver.

Sumwalt said about Apple:The crash driver’s employer, Apple, is a tech leader, but like most employers, has yet to develop a distracted driving policy.

Again, it sounds like NTSB is involving Apple here as an employer, not as the manufacturer of the phone involved.

Apple has updated its Research app for iPhone and Apple Watch with a few notable additions today.

With Apple Research version 1.1.2, the app now supports AirPods Pro for the Apple Hearing Study and more.

Today’s update for the Apple Research app includes AirPods Pro support for the Hearing Study.

The Hearing Study examines the impact of sound exposure on hearing health and stress levels, and now AirPods Pro users can partake.

Elsewhere, today’s update for the Apple Research app improves VoiceOver support and battery life performance on watchOS.

However, this afternoon, a new report suggests the timeline for the iPhone 12 is becoming more unclear.

While a full production ramp for the flagship iPhones usually starts in the summer, the report notes that the early part of the iPhone production validation process being delayed could postpone device availability.

One of Reuters’ sources that was a former Apple employee said:Are Apple’s engineers with the Foxconn engineers?

A New York Times report today on the status of the coronavirus highlighted US officials warning that we could see an outbreak in the United States.

As for the iPhone 9, production of that is also said to be delayed, although it’s reported that Apple will still launch …

The Federal Trade Commission has announced today that it has started sending $1.7 million in refunds to customers who fell victim to a tech support scheme.

According to the FTC, the perpetrators of the scam tricked people by claiming to be representatives of large tech companies such as Apple.

In a press release this afternoon, the FTC explained that it will provide 57,960 refunds averaging about $30 each to victims of the scheme.

Most people will get refunds via PayPal, but some will receive their refunds via checks, the FTC says.

The FTC has also new interactive dashboards for refund data, where you can see a breakdown of state-by-state refunds.

Apple Watch Activity Challenges are continuing with the next challenge set to kick off on March 8th.

The challenge is meant to encourage Apple Watch customers to be more active while honoring International Women’s Day.

The rules for the upcoming Apple Watch Activity Challenge simply require users to complete a 20 minute walk, run, or wheelchair workout on March 8th.

Apple Watch customers will be notified about the upcoming challenge on their devices ahead of time.

This marks the third annual Activity Challenge for Women’s Day since Apple started honoring the day with the Apple Watch feature in 2018.

At the event, the company announced its 3rd-gen 5G X60 modem with the capacity for super-fast download and upload speeds.

Qualcomm is testing the X60 with partners this quarter and it’s possible the iPhone 12 lineup could feature the new chips.

Today at Qualcomm’s “What’s Next in 5G” CEO Steve Mollenkopf described 5G as “the beginning of a multi-decade opportunity.”The first major announcement is Qualcomm’s new X60 5G chip.

Qualcomm also highlighted that this is the first 5G chip to aggregate mmWave and all sub-6GHz spectrum, including 4G bands.

While Qualcomm’s specs for greater than 7 Gbps speeds with the X60 5G modem are exciting, real world use will certainly be at much lower speeds as …

Apple is scheduled to hold its annual shareholder meeting tomorrow, February 26, at Steve Jobs Theater.

Ahead of the event, Apple is warning attendees to take extra health and safety precautions amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

What can you expect from Apple’s shareholder meeting tomorrow?

Instead, Apple uses the shareholder’s meeting as a way to update investors on its business.

At this year’s shareholder’s meeting, it’s likely that Apple will touch on its Q2 2020 guidance.

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Apple tries to improve iPad’s multitasking capabilities every year, making the system more powerful to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.

But this has also raised questions about the usability of multitasking on the iPad, which has become increasingly complicated for some users.

Now, if you open an app, you can only use it in Split View with another app that’s showing up in the Dock.

One of these people is designer student Tommy, who created a concept to show how Apple could improve the multitasking experience on the iPad.

In the concept, each app in Split View can be controlled by the home indicator, so you can close and change only one of them.

Tuesday’s best deals include $200 off Apple’s latest 27-inch 5K iMac, an Anker iPhone accessory sale from $8, and a rare discount on the official Milanese Loop Apple Watch Band.

Save $200 on Apple’s 27-inch 5K iMacAmazon is currently offering the latest Apple 27-inch Retina 5K iMac 3.7GHz/8GB/2TB Fusion HDD for $2,099.

Apple Milanese Loop Watch Band is $85Amazon currently offers Apple’s official Milanese Loop Apple Watch Band in both 40 and 40mm sizes for $85.

Milanese Loop elevates the look of your Apple Watch with a woven stainless steel design and a magnetic clasp that allows for an adjustable fit.

Best trade-in deals9to5Mac also keeps tabs on all the best trade-in deals on iPhone, iPad,…

Different from all the existing vintage apps we made RTRO simpler, easier to use, and limited to this season’s looks.

Plus, we included advanced features with real-time subject tracking, retro frame rates, and the ability to remove the water mark.

RTRO is a free download with 3 vintage looks included.

Real-time subject tracking to keep your subject properly exposed and in focus.

Learn more here about RTRO and the filmmakers who designed the vintage looks.

Recorded-music sales in the U.S. grew 13% last year to $11.1 billion—their highest point in more than a decade—as revenue continued to surge from streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music.

Streaming accounted for 80% of overall revenue in 2019, the industry’s fourth consecutive year of growth, according to a report from the Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group for record companies.

PONNAGYUN, Myanmar—Last June, the Myanmar subsidiary of telecom Telenor Group received an urgent government order it was told it must not disclose.

Turn off the internet in nine townships.

Hans Martin, a senior executive at the Norwegian company, saw red flags.

He said Myanmar’s justification—that people were using the internet to “coordinate illegal activities”—was vague, and no end-date was given.

The telecom said it had little legal basis to refuse the order, and complied.

Facebook Inc. in recent weeks investigated suspicious content supporting Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, said people familiar with the matter.

But the company was unable to substantiate claims that Trump supporters or Russian actors were involved in any inauthentic activity.

Some in Facebook’s leadership were briefed recently on the investigation, some of the people said.

It couldn’t be learned whether the probe is continuing.

Should Government Halt the Use of Facial-Recognition Technology?

Critics say false positives are far higher for some groups of people than for others, but supporters of the technology says the actual numbers involved are tiny

Intuit Inc. is nearing a deal to buy personal-finance portal Credit Karma Inc. for about $7 billion in cash and stock, in a move that would push the bookkeeping-software giant further into consumer finance, according to people familiar with the matter.

The maker of TurboTax could announce a deal to buy privately held Credit Karma by Monday, assuming talks don’t fall apart, the people said.

Credit Karma was valued at roughly $4 billion in a private share sale about two years ago.

Google’s decision to cut jobs at its cloud-computing division is the latest move in a yearlong effort by Thomas Kurian to shake up the unit and put greater focus on delivering growth to parent Alphabet Inc.Mr. Kurian, after joining from Oracle Corp. in November 2018, imposed hard project deadlines, riling some workers used to looser execution targets, according to former Google employees, some of whom left because of the move.

The job cuts that Google disclosed last week to The Wall Street Journal were part of a restructuring...

Fox Corp. and Comcast Corp. are each in discussions to acquire advertising-supported video services, as entertainment giants increasingly look to offer free or low-cost alternatives for consumers who don’t want to pay for streaming subscriptions.

Fox has expressed interest in acquiring Tubi, an ad-supported streaming service that carries reruns of television shows and movies, according to people familiar with the matter.

The companies are discussing a deal that could be valued at north of $500 million, the people said.

Technology has steadily worked its way into classrooms around the world, from kindergarten to graduate school.

Its use in schools has been strongly supported by the U.S. Education Department, among others, and it is widely viewed as a valuable tool—even a necessity—in education.

But its use has critics, as well.

They worry about digital devices taking time away from teacher-student interaction, especially in the early school years.

And they question how effective technology is in helping students from lower-income families...

WASHINGTON—Google is resisting efforts to surrender emails, text messages and other documents sought by state investigators probing possible anticompetitive practices, according to records and interviews.

Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., also hasn’t agreed to a waiver that would give the coalition of state attorneys general access to documents obtained by the Justice Department for its own probe, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Warren Buffett has lamented his failure in recent years to find an “elephant-sized acquisition.”But, his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has amassed a $78.5 billion stake in Apple Inc. since early 2016, based on Berkshire’s latest reported holdings as of the end of 2019.

Apple accounted for about 14% of Berkshire’s market capitalization as of Thursday,...

Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. have agreed on new terms for their merger, as the wireless carriers race to close the deal after overcoming a federal court challenge.

The parties will improve the exchange ratio in the all-stock deal for T-Mobile’s parent, Deutsche Telekom AG, the companies said in a written statement confirming an earlier Wall Street Journal report.

The Nevada State Democratic Party is dialing back on technology for its presidential caucuses to avoid a repeat of the meltdown that befell Iowa’s nominating contest.

The party handled a four-day early-voting period that ended this week without major hitches, said campaign aides, voters and volunteers, though a shortage of iPads meant volunteers sometimes resorted to paper records to check voter rolls.

For Saturday’s caucuses, the party is letting volunteers ditch the tablets and digital Google form calculators and stick to...

New Mexico sued Alphabet Inc.’s Google, alleging that the internet giant knowingly spies on students and their families through its Google Education platform.

The state says Google has used the platform to circumvent privacy laws and gain access to children’s personal data and movements online, according to a complaint filed Thursday in federal court in Albuquerque.

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Together, these manufacturers are on pace to spend more than $2.5 billion annually on simulation software by 2025, the report said.

Simulation software, on the other hand, re-creates and tests an entire production line or process before it starts, aimed at identifying design weaknesses.

Applied Intuition Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup launched in 2017, makes simulation software to test the on-road performance of self-driving vehicles.

Qasar Younis, Applied Intuition’s chief executive, said in a phone interview that demand for simulation software is expanding across industries.

“Simulation software allows us to improve our capabilities and optimize spend, enabling faster problem-sol…

More workers are questioning the promises from start-ups, Kate Bratskeir said.

She knows — she lost her job at a start-up twice in 12 months.

Last month, Café X, which operates robot coffee shops and raised $14.5 million in venture funding, closed three stores in San Francisco.

When Casper — which raised more than $300 million in venture capital — went public this month, its stock promptly plummeted.

That served as a warning to other high-profile start-ups that are expected to go public this year, including Airbnb and DoorDash, the food delivery company.

It’s more surprising just how much the town’s leaders want him to stay.

There Kanye West is at the McDonald’s, the Best Western and the Boot Barn.

He hangs out at the Cody Steakhouse on the main drag, where he met one of his intern videographers, a student at Cody High School.

His ranch is close to town, and to get where he needs to go, Kanye drives around town in a fleet of blacked-out Ford Raptors, the exact number of which is a topic of local speculation.

Gina Mummery, the saleswoman at the Fremont Motor Company dealership, would only say that she sold him between two and six.

SAN FRANCISCO — In the first few months of his presidential campaign, Michael R. Bloomberg has been as aggressive on social media as President Trump was four years ago.

Mr. Bloomberg has hired popular online personalities to create videos and images promoting his candidacy on social media.

Through his money and his willingness to experiment, the billionaire former mayor of New York has poked holes in the already slapdash rules for political campaigns on social media.

“The Bloomberg campaign is destroying norms that we will never get back,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies disinformation.

The campaign, he said, ha…

Vine, the short-form video app introduced in 2012, died as it lived: confusing people who didn’t use it, even as evidence of its influence surrounded them.

It was imitated by much larger competitors and, in death, served as a template for a new, similarly puzzling and even more powerful generation of short-form video apps.

Twitter euthanized Vine before other services had time to kill it, leaving Viners, and their fans, to disperse.

As much as apps like TikTok owe to Vine, none provided anything like continuity, leaving some Vine users with the feeling that something was still missing from the internet.

“The idea was to bring back what people remember about Vine, even if it isn’t necessaril…

SAN FRANCISCO — Google reached an agreement with a group of state attorneys general on Thursday over how officials will handle information it provides during their antitrust investigation into the company.

As part of their inquiry, the states, led by Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, asked Google for information related to its digital ads business.

In October, Google asked a court to issue a protective order over information furnished to Mr. Paxton.

Google also asked for certain restrictions on advisers to the states who work for its competitors, including the media giant News Corp and the Russian search engine Yandex.

Specifically, Google said there should be a “cooling off” perio…

“Amazon’s Offensive Products policies apply to all products except books, music, video and DVD,” the retailer’s guidelines state.

In recent months, it has removed several titles by George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party.

Some third-party booksellers that sell titles on Amazon told The Times earlier this year that they would welcome more clarity about why some texts are prohibited and not others.

They also urged the company to publish a list of prohibited books.

She said that Amazon had told the trust that it was investigating the matter and would get back to her in three days.

About a year and a half ago, longtime patrons of the pioneering grocery delivery service FreshDirect started complaining that orders were arriving hours late.

One customer reported that she had paid $200 for groceries — only to receive nothing but seltzer and a loaf of bread.

A complex automated system was creating confusion on the floor of the new warehouse, resulting in canceled orders, missing items and long wait times.

Over the following months, FreshDirect made logistical fixes that gradually eliminated the distribution problems.

“We had so much trust, we could’ve built a bank of trust,” Mr. McInerney said in a recent interview.

An article by Karen Weise and Michael Corkery outlined the measures the company is taking to hedge against the potential that the impact of the virus gets worse.

The Everything Store is “making larger and more frequent orders of Chinese-made products that had already been shipped to the United States,” they wrote.

But at the same time, some suppliers are trying to lower demand, cutting back on advertising and promotions so they don’t run out of stuff.

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That has left countries in the region increasingly dependent on companies that many leaders distrust.” Now it is trying to change that and reclaim “tec…

New Mexico’s attorney general sued Google on Thursday, saying the tech giant used its educational products to spy on the state’s children and families.

Google collected a trove of students’ personal information, including data on their physical locations, websites they visited, YouTube videos they watched and their voice recordings, Hector Balderas, New Mexico’s attorney general, said in a federal lawsuit.

“The consequences of Google’s tracking cannot be overstated: Children are being monitored by one of the largest data mining companies in the world, at school, at home, on mobile devices, without their knowledge and without the permission of their parents,” the lawsuit said.

Over the last …

Lawrence Tesler, a pioneering computer scientist who, in his work at Xerox and with Steve Jobs at Apple, devoted himself to making it easier for users to interact with computers, died on Sunday at his home in Portola Valley, Calif.

But at in recent years Mr. Tesler had suffered the effects of an earlier bicycle accident.

During his career Mr. Tesler worked at a number of Silicon Valley’s most important companies.

Early in his Xerox career (he began there in 1973), working with another researcher, Tim Mott, Mr. Tesler developed a program known as Gypsy, which did away with the restrictive modes that had made text editing complicated.

For example, until Gypsy, most text-editing software had o…

LONDON — For years, Russia has tormented neighboring countries with targeted cyberattacks, including blackouts in Ukraine and broad online assaults on Estonian institutions.

The United States has rarely publicly attributed blame, though experts found the fingerprints of the Kremlin on those intrusions abroad.

In a break from past practice, the State Department said publicly on Thursday that Russia had been behind a sweeping cyberattack last fall in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

It affected more than 2,000 government and privately run websites, disrupted government operations, and interrupted television broadcasts, including that of the national television station.

Secretary of Stat…

This article is part of our latest Learning special report.

We’re focusing on Generation Z, which is facing challenges from changing curriculums and new technology to financial aid gaps and homelessness.

It looks like science fiction, an impression reinforced by the fact that it is being demonstrated in virtual reality in an ultramodern space with overstuffed pillows for seats.

But this scenario is based on technology already in development.

The setting is the Sandbox ColLABorative, the innovation arm of Southern New Hampshire University, on the fifth floor of a downtown building with panoramic views of the sprawling red brick mills that date from this city’s 19th-century industrial heyday.

MGM Resorts International, the casino and hotel giant, acknowledged on Wednesday that it was the victim of a data breach last year, the latest company to have the personal information of its customers exposed.

MGM did not disclose the number of customers affected, but Under the Breach, a firm that monitors cybercrimes and provides intelligence about potential data breaches to companies, said 10.6 million people were affected.

Under the Breach said several high-profile guests at MGM properties had their email addresses, phone numbers and physical addresses exposed, including one guest with the same name as Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive.

MGM Resorts said the vast majority of those af…

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. vehicle safety regulators on Tuesday said they had ordered a suspension of passenger operations for 16 autonomous shuttles operated by Toulouse, France-based EasyMile after a passenger was injured in an unexplained braking incident.

FILE PHOTO: An EasyMile EZ10 shared autonomous vehicle is seen during a deployment demonstration at Bishop Ranch in San Ramon, California March 6, 2017.

This month, the city of Columbus, Ohio, announced what EasyMile called the deployment of the first public self-driving shuttle in a residential area.

Two EasyMile shuttles had been servicing a 2.9-mile (4.7 km )route at speeds of up to 25 miles (40 km) per hour, the company said.

Priv…

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Billionaire Richard Branson’s space tourism company, Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (SPCE.N), said on Tuesday its fourth-quarter net loss widened to $73 million from a year-ago loss of $46 million as it reported its first results as a publicly traded company.

FILE PHOTO: Sir Richard Branson stands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) ahead of Virgin Galactic (SPCE) trading in New York, U.S., October 28, 2019.

Shares of Virgin Galactic were volatile in after-hours trading and were last down 6.4%.

Virgin Galactic has invested $1 billion in its reusable mid-air launch technology and said on Tuesday it was in talks with Italy and United Arab Emirates for potentia…

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Billionaire Richard Branson’s space tourism company, Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (SPCE.N), said on Tuesday its fourth-quarter net loss widened to $73 million from a year-ago loss of $46 million as it reported its first results as a publicly traded company.

FILE PHOTO: Sir Richard Branson stands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) ahead of Virgin Galactic (SPCE) trading in New York, U.S., October 28, 2019.

Shares of Virgin Galactic were volatile in after-hours trading and were last down 6.4%.

Virgin Galactic has so far invested $1 billion in its reusable mid-air launch technology.

Virgin Galactic went public through a merger with Social Capital Hedosophia …

REUTERS/Yana PaskovaThe Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropped 3.2%, bringing the decline from its Feb 19 record high to almost 12%, the worst four-day drop for the index since 2008.

Many investors consider a correction in a security or index to be a drop of 10% or more from its recent peak.

Nvidia dropped 3.7% after Nomura Instinet downgraded the graphics chipmaker to “reduce” from “neutral” due to concerns about the coronavirus’ impact on demand.

It and Nvidia provided the strongest downward pressure on the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index.

Twenty-nine out of 30 stocks in the index fell, with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co the only stock in positive territory, up 0.6%.

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File PhotoThe S&P 500 information technology sector has fallen 9.3% since Thursday’s close, outpacing a drop of 7.3% for the broader index.

“Everyone just got a full helping of tech stocks up at the high.

(GRAPHIC: Roller coaster 2020 for market's big names - here)Stanton rode shares of Amazon and other big technology names higher last year.

And while technology stocks have tended to outperform during good times, they can also fall further than broader markets when risk appetite dries up.

When the S&P 500 tumbled nearly 20% from its high in late 2018, the tech sector suffered a steeper 23% drop over that period.

FILE PHOTO: An EasyMile EZ10 shared autonomous vehicle is seen during a deployment demonstration at Bishop Ranch in San Ramon, California March 6, 2017.

In July, several news outlets in Utah reported a 76-year-old state employee was injured and required medical assistance at a local hospital when the EasyMile shuttle he was in came to an abrupt stop.

Also this month, the city of Columbus, Ohio, announced what EasyMile called the deployment of the first public self-driving shuttle in a residential area.

The two EasyMile shuttles have been servicing a 2.9-mile route at speeds of up to 25 mph and arriving at each of four stops roughly every 12 minutes, the company said.

EasyMile said a human o…

FILE PHOTO: The company logo for Salesforce.com is displayed on the Salesforce Tower in New York City, U.S., March 7, 2019.

Block was widely seen as a potential successor to Benioff, who founded the company in 1999, and will continue as the chairman.

Salesforce forecast first-quarter revenue between $4.88 billion and $4.89 billion, compared with analysts’ estimates of $4.84 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

On an adjusted basis, the company earned 66 cents per share, beating estimates of 56 cents per share.

The company’s total revenue rose 34.6% to $4.85 billion, above estimates of $4.75 billion.

FILE PHOTO: The company logo for Salesforce.com is displayed on the Salesforce Tower in New York City, U.S., March 7, 2019.

REUTERS/Brendan McDermid(Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc (CRM.N) said on Tuesday that Keith Block has stepped down as co-chief executive officer of the company and Marc Benioff is the chair and CEO.

The company also reported quarterly revenue that beat Wall Street estimates as it signed on more customers for its business software.

Salesforce.com reported quarterly revenue of $4.85 billion, above the average analyst estimate of $4.75 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

FILE PHOTO: Sir Richard Branson stands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) ahead of Virgin Galactic (SPCE) trading in New York, U.S., October 28, 2019.

REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File PhotoSEATTLE (Reuters) - Billionaire Richard Branson’s space tourism company, Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (SPCE.N), said on Tuesday its fourth-quarter net loss widened to $73 million from a year-ago loss of $46 million as it reported its first results as a publicly traded company.

Shares had rallied in recent days, driven by investor interest in the first space tourism company to hit public markets.

The company, which went public last year, reported fourth-quarter revenue of $529,000, and $3.8 mi…