Российские электросети могут не выдержать увеличения нагрузки, считают эксперты.

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Регулятор не смог возбудить дело, потому что нашёл нарушения только на территории одной страны, и передал материалы в ФАС.

В 2021 году Nescafe — крупнейшее подразделение Nestle и бренд, который оценивается больше чем в $20 млрд. По собственным данным компании, в мире каждую секунду выпивают более 5000 чашек напитка.

СМИ прозвали Кристофера Роканкура звёздным мошенником: его жертвами были голливудские знаменитости и американские предприниматели. Точная сумма ущерба от действий француза неизвестна, но сам он утверждает, что за свою жизнь «заработал» $40 млн.

Это перевод публикации Lenny Rachitsky (Ленни Рачицки) от создателя проекта GoPractice! и автора одноимённого Telegram-канала Олега Якубенкова.

Проект разработки «крупнейшего золотого месторождения» компанией Bre-X на острове Борнео оказался мошенничеством на миллиарды долларов, за которое так и не смогли никого наказать.

Продление льготы будет стимулировать российские компании проводить IPO, считают авторы обращения.

Компании готовятся обжаловать штраф.

Машину выставили во Франции, с 2022 года её начнут показывать в крупных городах США.

В ноябре Zoom предупредила о замедлении выручки — люди начали отказываться от онлайн-мероприятий.

Компания может готовиться к серийному производству, предполагает издание TNW.

-f "$REMMINA" ]] ; then REMMINA="${USRBIN}/remmina" else REMMINA="remmina" fi export GLADE_HOME="$USRBIN/../share/remmina/ui/" case "$@" in *rdp:*) "$REMMINA" "${@#rdp:\/\/}" ;; *spice:*) "$REMMINA" "${@#spice:\/\/}" ;; *vnc:*) "$REMMINA" "${@#vnc:\/\/}" ;; *remmina:*) "$REMMINA" "${@#remmina:\/\/}" ;; *) "$REMMINA" "${@}" ;; esacТаким образом, эти обработчики URL-адресов открывают большое пространство для атак, которые можно осуществить при минимальном взаимодействии с пользователем.

Поэтому есть смысл внимательнее изучить libvncclient, который используется Remmina для поддержки VNC.

Переполнение внутренней структуры в жёстком кодированииЕсли для обновления буфера кадра используется жёстко…

КДПВКак вам известно, в .NET 5 появился новый вид кучи — Pinned Object Heap (POH, Куча Закрепленных Объектов).

blittable types в Википедии и в MSDN), принадлежащий любому поколению сборщика мусора.

Если сборки мусора не происходит, куча не уплотняется и объекты не перемещаются, так что не имеет значения, присутствуют ли в ней закрепленные объекты.

Поскольку LOH и POH так похожи, создан новый термин — User Old Heap (UOH, Пользовательская Куча Старшего поколения), охватывающий и LOH, и POH, так как они обрабатываются вместе.

Поскольку POH в основном используется в библиотеках, например, для передачи данных по сети, эта куча используется только для небольшого количества объектов, действительно…

Свидетельствуют этому даже комментарии под статьями на хабре (статья 1, статья 2), которые были посвящены match/case.

В данной статье я хотел бы осветить тему производительности оператора match/case и сравнить его с обычным if/else.

Так как в match/case проверка типов данных происходит при помощи int, str, чтобы все проверки в if/else были эквиваленты проверкам match/case, то взамен str, int делаются проверки isinstance(..., str/int).

Хммм… В 3.8 раза скорость выполнения match/case оказалась медленнее, чем скорость if/else.

Но не будем загадывать наперед, может быть, match/case окажется быстрее при работе с более сложными структурами, например, при проверке словарей.

Нет я не считаю, что Хабр движется в правильном направлении в целом.

Но в современных реалиях я считаю, что по сравнению с прочими ресурсами с хоть какой-то похожей аудиторией Хабр не такой уж и токсичный.

Почему Хабр не такой уж и токсичныйНедавно я имел новый для себя опыт — пытался донести примерно одну и ту же информацию сразу до сразу четырех аудиторий:Хабра;VC.ru;Пикабу;Reddit-а;Разложим модели и ценности каждого ресурса на составляющие.

А вот Хабр, за годы кристаллизовался в виде многочисленных механизмов борьбы с токсичностью и совсем уж ярким бредом.

Но за годы с одной стороны Хабр так кристаллизовался со своими системами сдержек и противовесов, что он дает больше всего возможносте…

Запускаем HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller вне кластера для уменьшения сетевой задержки и числа хоповСодержание:В чем проблем запуска внутри кластераОбычно вы можете запустить HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller как под внутри Kubernetes-кластера.

Мы пошагово разберем, как запустить внешний HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller и как установить Kubernetes-кластер с Calico.

Ingress Controller и BIRDВ демо-проекте мы устанавливаем HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller и BIRD на одну и ту же виртуальную машину.

Эта VM существует вне Kubernetes-кластера, где BIRD получает IP-маршруты от Calico, и Ingress Controller использует их для передачи клиентского трафика на поды.

Вы запустили HAPr…

Предлагаем вашему вниманию подборку с ссылками на новые материалы из области фронтенда и около него.

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Кроме индустрии развлечений, дипфейки используются еще и для составления фальшивых видео с участием известных людей.

Комбинация ИИ-технологий с CGI-технологиями дает поистине потрясающий эффект и обширные возможности, использовать которые можно как во благо, так и в не самых законных целях.

Сейчас нам доступны технологии обработки голоса, объединения компьютерной графики с реальными видео и многое другое.

У дипфейков есть ряд хорошо заметных (не для человека, для специализированного ПО) признаков, которые пока еще позволяют отличить реальность от вымысла.

Дипфейки также поднимают множество вопросов о том, кому какой контент принадлежит, что делать с лицензиями и как наказывать нарушителей.

И кузнечики, и саранчи бывают зеленые, желтые, серые, коричневые, оливковые и даже красноватые и розовые.

В теплые годы отдельных кузнечиков можно найти и в Северо-Западном регионе (я ловила их этим летом в Санкт-Петербурге), и даже в Мурманской области.

Однако сейчас серые кузнечики в последнее время покидают места своего естественного обитания, и в некоторых регионах он занесен в список видов, находящихся под угрозой исчезновения.

Дело в том, что в древности люди верили в целебные свойства кузнечиков.

Порой целясь на саранчу, человек выносит популяцию и кузнечика не сильно запариваясь об этической стороне вопроса.

Например, цифровые водяные знаки могут использоваться для передачи секретной информации, проверки подлинности электронных документов и в ряде других приложений.

Пусть для определенности это будет , тогда заменим его на массив , такой что:Здесь , и как следствие , имеет тот же размер, что и .

Зная исходное изображение, можно проверить, помечено ли наше изображение, просто сравнивая разность коэффициентов и массив .

Тогда мы не можем точно сказать, использован ли тут ЦВЗ, но можем оценить вероятность его нахождения.

Соответственно массив , предположительно несущий в себе водяной знак и напрямую связанный с изображением, тоже являет собой некоторую упорядоченную структуру.

Проводимые исследования и результаты опытов показывают, что полномерным решением в том числе и представленных выше проблем является разработка системы управления поведением объекта.

На стадии разработки правильной системы управления поведением объекта, необходимо решить ряд вопросов, например, во-первых, откуда и какие данные берёт, созданная компьютерная модель?

Иными словами, данная правильная система управления поведением объекта обеспечит появление кастомизированного изделия.

Краеугольным методом проектирования, разработки «цифровой» модели физического объекта, а равно архитектуры системы управления поведением объекта наравне с не менее значимым методом масштабирования, должен выступать…

Это означает, что пора подвести итоги недели и собрать самые популярные тексты прошедших дней.

Начинаем, нарушив традицию, с важного включения:Новости В «М.Видео» поступила большая партия PlayStation 5А пока выстраивается новая очередь за «плойками», продолжим новостями о нашей любимой компании.

Речь не только об эппловских, просто этот пример слишком громкий:Новости Сканер отпечатков пальцев MacBook и iPad взломали с помощью фото, клея и плёнкиНеужели мы дождёмся запуска UWB в России?

Всё по просьбе Адель:Новости Spotify убрал из альбомов кнопку «Перемешать» по просьбе АдельЭто было слишком пошло и ужасно:Новости Из Telegram пропала странная анимация эмодзи баклажана и персикаРазные штукиO…

Собрали главные премьеры, трейлеры и ролики с канала Wylsacom за последнюю неделю, которые вы могли пропустить.

Премьеры«Соколиный Глаз»На Disney+ состоялась премьера первых двух серий нового сериала Marvel про Клинта Бартона.

Действия разворачиваются после событий фильма «Мстители: Финал», и супергерою предстоит обучить свою преемницу Кейт Бишоп:«Обитель зла: Раккун-Сити»Новая часть без Миллы Йовович в главной роли.

В главных ролях Кая Скоделарио, Эван Джогиа и Ханна Джон-Кэймен:Трейлеры«Мир Юрского периода: Господство»Премьера нового фильма состоится летом 2022 года.

В главных ролях Крис Прэтт, Брайс Даллас Ховард, а также актёры оригинального фильма — Сэм Нилл, Лора Дерн и Джефф Голдблюм.

Android-разработчик Джеймсон Уильямс решил проверить, как MacBook Pro (2021) с системой-на-чипе Apple M1 Max позволяет экономить время разработчиков и деньги компаний.

Новый MacBook Pro справляется одним проектом в два раза быстрее модели на Intel 2019 года выпуска — 5,45 минуты против 11,65 минуты соответственно.

Средняя стоимость часа работы программиста — 150 долларов, и это с учётом других затрат компании.

Получается, экономя на сборке 22 минуты ежедневно, компания потратит на каждого сотрудника на 55 долларов меньше, или на 495 долларов меньше на команду.

То есть приобретение новых MacBook Pro окупится через три-четыре месяца, а после начнёт работать на прибыль.

Концерн «Калашников» запатентовал две версии миниатюрных автомобилей.

Поскольку это просто патент с несколькими дополнительными изображениями, никакой информации о начале серийного производства и цене нет.

Предусмотрены места для двух человек и отсек для багажа.

Впервые мини-кары представили в 2018 году на международном форуме «Армия-2018».

Если запатентованные версии аналогичны представленным в 2018 году, то четырёхколёсный электрокар способен развивать скорость до 80 км/ч с запасом хода 150 км.

Глава Amazon Studios Дженнифер Салке прогнозирует большой спрос на фантастические фильмы и сериалы в будущем, в том числе и на сериал по Mass Effect.

Интересно, что в начале года Генри Кавилл (исполнитель роли Ведьмака) выкладывал фото, на котором умельцы обнаружили описание сюжета Mass Effect 3 из «Википедии».

Ремастеры Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End и The Lost Legacy выйдут на ПК и PlayStation 5 без мультиплеера.

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection должна выйти где-то в начале 2022 года сначала на PlayStation 5, а потом на ПК.

Помимо этого, у руля стильный дизайн, есть кнопки PlayStation и даже LED-дисплей.

Совсем недавно вышло обновление Telegram, в котором появилась странная анимация для эмодзи баклажана и персика.

Пользователи не оценили полноэкранную анимацию баклажана, выделяющего белое вещество, и жаловались на обновление в App Store.

Павел Дуров даже опубликовал опрос в своём канале:И самое интересное, что большинство пользователей проголосовало за полное прекращение работы мессенджера.

Теперь вместо анимированных эмодзи отображаются обычные — не только на устройствах Apple, но и на всех платформах.

А вот анимированные эмодзи какашки и рвоты оставили, хотя многим они также не нравятся.

Компания Apple впервые за шесть лет стала крупнейшим производителем смартфонов в Китае.

Согласно отчёту Counterpoint Research, в октябре 2021 года Apple сместила vivo и заняла лидирующую позицию.

Если говорить о мировой популярности, то четыре из пяти самых продаваемых смартфонов с начала года — это iPhone.

Новости Четыре iPhone и бюджетный Samsung: пять самых популярных смартфонов трёх кварталов 2021 годаРост популярности смартфонов Apple в Китае связан с линейкой iPhone 12.

Это и новый дизайн, который отличается от других смартфонов на рынке, и наличие четырёх версий на любой вкус, и, разумеется, поддержка сетей пятого поколения.

Согласно исследованию экспертов из Высшей школы экономики, рынок видеоигр в России — один из самых быстрорастущих.

В среднем они тратят на игры от 4 до 6 часов в неделю.

За 2020 год рынок вырос на 35–40 % и достиг объёма 2,3 млрд долларов.

Также отмечается, что российский рынок видеоигр входит в десятку крупнейших, а русский язык — в тройку.

Самая популярная платформа — ПК, но мобильные игры из года в год становятся всё популярнее: в 2020-м рынок составил 933 млн долларов, что на 25 % больше по сравнению с 2019-м.

В Турции кризис: курс лиры за год упал практически вдвое.

Например, когда мы ездили с Арсением Диамагнетиком снимать фотосравнение в Стамбул в январе, то покупали одну лиру за 11,5 рублей.

С оглядкой на эту ситуацию, Apple в прошедший вторник остановила продажи своей продукции, о чём я писал вчера:Новости Apple остановила продажи в Турции из-за обвалившегося курса лирыОстановка вызвана нонсенсом: из-за курса лиры продукты Apple в Турции стали стоить дешевле, чем в США!

Но теперь продажи возобновлены.

Правда, цены стали на 25 % выше тех, что были в начале недели.

Стартап TheArsenale по заказу Renault подготовил необычный рестомод легендарной Renault 4, которой в этом году исполнилось 60 лет.

Это летающий Air4.

И выглядит он как огроменный квадрокоптер с кузовом автомобиля поверх.

Однако сообщается, что Renault Air4 взлетает со скоростью в 4 м/с.

С помощью Air4 компания Renault завершает отмечать шестидесятилетие легендарной модели, продержавшейся на конвейере с 1961 по 1992 гг.

Группа «М.Видео – Эльдорадо» поделилась радостной новостью: в Россию приехала большая партия PlayStation 5.

«М.Видео – Эльдорадо»Если вы попадаете под описание, не занимаете перепродажей и очень ждёте консоль — проверяйте почту в конце ноября.

Минимальная стоимость комплекта с PS5 составит 56 979 рублей, а PS5 DE — 49 297 рублей.

Учитывая, что перекупщики продают консоли в несколько раз дороже, это в любом случае выгодно.

Клиенты, получившие письмо-предложение, смогут приобрести комплект и забрать его в одном из магазинов в течение ограниченного периода.

Правительство планирует внести правки в закон о предустановке российского ПО на смартфоны, планшеты, компьютеры и другие устройства продаваемые в России.

Планируется два нововведения: обязательный выбор поисковика по умолчанию, а также «явный отказ» от предустановке российского ПО при первом запуске устройства.

Ранее правительство утвердило «Яндекс» в качестве поисковой системы, которая с 1 января следующего года должна использоваться по умолчанию на всех продаваемых на территории России гаджетах.

Как показывает статистика, предложение о предустановке российского ПО никак не влияет на количество пользователей.

И дело не в том, что от приложений можно отказаться, а в том, что сервисами и так…

Выводы очень интересные, потому что в пятёрке самых популярных устройств оказался лишь один бюджетный Samsung и целых четыре айфона:Статистика выглядит, конечно, удивительно.

И это был единственный айфон, входящий в топ-5.

Помимо него туда входили два смартфона Redmi и два Samsung:Новости Самые популярные смартфоны — iPhone 11 и Redmi Note 8Большое количество айфонов в рейтинге – свидетельство доверия покупателей к к компании Apple.

С другой стороны, именно линейка iPhone 12 первой получила поддержку сетей пятого поколения.

Ведь 12 Pro и 12 Pro Max сейчас не найти — Apple сняла с производства эти два, как выяснилось, очень популярных смартфона.

В России грузоперевозки подорожали на 20% на фоне восстановления рынкаСредний чек грузоперевозки в этом году вырос на 20% по сравнению с прошлогодними показателями.

Это связано с дефицитом доступного транспорта, который возник из-за обеления рынка, подорожания запчастей, перехода водителей как рабочей силы в другие сектора, а также с уходом с рынка мелких игроков.

На маршруте Москва — Краснодарский край, «который традиционно является одним из самых нестабильных с точки зрения ценообразования логистических магистралей», средняя цена грузоперевозки выросла в среднем на 46%, на направлении Москва — Екатеринбург цены подорожали в 1,5 раза в третьем квартале 2020 года и не снижаются.

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Торговые сети обяжут выделять в магазинах полки для органической продукции.

Его могут закрепить в стратегии развития производства органической продукции до 2030, созданием которого занимается ведомство, сообщили «Известия» со ссылкой на источники.

Глава Национального органического союза Олег Мироненко отметил, что организация разработала проект структуры такой стратегии и направила его в министерство.

Источник издания на рынке рассказал, что Минсельхоз поручил торговым сетям представить свою позицию — насколько рационально выделять отдельную полку в магазинах для такой продукции.

АКОРТ, по его словам, рассматривает различные варианты поддержки продвижения отечественной продукции.

В январе—июне трафик в заведениях быстрого питания поток посетителей оказался на 1% ниже, чем в аналогичный период 2019 года.

По словам основателя сети ресторанов «Мясо & рыба» Сергея Миронова, те, кто раньше питался в недорогих ресторанах и кафе, теперь предпочитают делать это в заведениях фастфуда.

Россияне еще стараются сократить походы в заведения общепита, поэтому посещаемость не очень высокая, отметил Гончаров.

К тому же, по словам исполнительного директора RestCon Андрей Петраков, часть населения все еще боится заразиться и старается не посещать общественные места.

Поэтому фастфуд снова в выигрыше: здесь не нужно долго ждать заказ, а поесть можно и за пределами заведения.

Цифровыми кочевниками называют тех, кто работает удаленно, периодически переезжая из города в город, из страны в страну.

100 Мбит/с обойдутся в $155 в месяц, 100 Мбит/с — в $255 в месяц.

Необходимый доход: €1500 в месяц для отдельного лица, €2700 в месяц для семьи€1500 в месяц для отдельного лица, €2700 в месяц для семьи Индекс стоимости жизни: недостаточно данных.

Скорость фиксированного интернета: 156,1 Мбит/с, скорость мобильного интернета: 77,19 Мбит/сСледующие страны занимаются разработкой виз для цифровых кочевников.

ВьетнамВьетнам — еще одно любимое место цифровых кочевников, а Хошимин — это оживленное место с низкими расходами на проживание и отличной едой.

Продажа компании как продажа продуктаИ так, с чего же начать?

Поэтому на технологические компании можно смотреть как на уникальный продукт и использовать те же подходы, что и для создания стратегии продуктов и сервисов.

Product: компания как продуктПосмотрите на компанию как на продукт, который несет в себе ценности и возможности для покупателя, которые необходимо явно сформулировать перед началом процесса продажи.

Сам рассказ о компании стоит оформить в виде одностраничного описания компании и меморандума.

G. Process: ПроцессПроцесс продажи компании, как вы уже догадались из лейтмотива всего текста, схож с процессом продажи продукта или сервиса.

IKEA будет выпускать аксессуары для геймеровКомпании IKEA и ASUS договорились выпускать фирменные аксессуары для геймеров.

Среди них — игровые столы, кресла, подушка для шеи, эластичный коврик для мыши, кольцевая подсветка и многое другое.

Для этого проекта будут созданы шесть семейств — Uppspel, Lanespelare, Matchspel, Gruppspel, Utespelare, Huvudspelar.

Товары линейки Uppspel созданы совместно с ASUS и брендом Republic of Gamers (ROG), а пять остальных — полностью разработаны специалистами IKEA.

В продаже аксессуары ASUS и ROG появятся во всех фирменных магазинах IKEA с октября этого года.

В то же время, предлагая клиенту продукцию по более низкой цене, компания рискует потерять не только долю прибыли, но и репутацию.

Однако девятилетний опыт нашей компании показывает, что отказ клиентам в бонусах и скидках не только удерживает их, но и повышает доверие и лояльность.

Итог: Продавец боится потерять клиента и соглашается на максимально возможную скидку, чтобы удержать его.

Последние 4 года мы наиболее активно придерживались нашей стратегии отказа в скидке и бонусах независимо от уровня доходности клиента.

Но такой подход не только вредит компании, с точки зрения потери прибыли, но и снижает эффективность работы менеджера и его стремление к саморазвитию, т.к.

Привычные стратегии масштабирования, рано или поздно, могут терять эффективность, и бизнес встает перед вопросом: как развиваться дальше? Сооснователь сети автосервисов «Вилгуд» Барно Турсунова рассказывает, как и почему в компании реализовали продуктовую стратегию.

Генеральный директор Apple Тим Кук рассказал о своем отношении к искусственному интеллекту и поделился надеждами относительно дальнейшего развития AI-технологий в мире.

«Я верю, что эта технология может принести очень много пользы в мире.

Но, конечно, это зависит от создателя и от того, продумали ли способы ее правильного и неправильного использования», — сказал Тим Кук.

По мнению главы Apple, ИИ уже присутствует в ряде продуктов, о которых «вы на самом деле не думаете».

На неделе компания Apple провела онлайн-презентацию California Streaming, на которой анонсировала выход новых моделей телефонов iPhone 13 и iPhone 13 mini, а также iPhone 13 PRO, Watch Series 7, новую версию iPad и iPad min…

ВОЗ: ежегодно на рабочих местах гибнут почти 2 млн человекВсемирная организация здравоохранения (ВОЗ) и Международная организация труда (МОТ) опубликовали доклад с информацией о том, сколько людей в мире погибает на рабочих местах.

Согласно опубликованному совместному отчету ВОЗ и МОТ, в мире на рабочем месте в 2016 году погиб 1,9 млн человек, сообщает Reuters.

«Шокирует, скольких людей каждый год буквально убивает их работа», — заявил глава ВОЗ Тедрос Аданом Гебреисус.

И все-таки это на 14% меньше, чем в 2000 году.

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Есть простая мысль: человек не может организовать команду, если он не в состоянии организовать себя.

Помимо этих формальных факторов, обращайте внимание и на то, как происходит человеческое взаимодействие.

Если он в состоянии управлять одним человеком, с большой вероятностью он справится и с небольшой командой.

Мне пришлось честно сказать сотруднику, что мне не понравился его стиль работы и что я боюсь доверить ему руководство командой разработки.

Поручите человеку выполнение задачи и оставьте его с командой в покое, проверяйте только результат работы, хорошо или плохо они справились.

Facebook ответил на обвинения в особом внимании к знаменитостям и токсичности InstagramРуководство Facebook остро отреагировало на недавние обвинения в адрес компании: ее заподозрили, например, в более лояльном отношении к знаменитостям, чем к рядовым пользователям.

«Эти статьи содержат намеренные искажения сути нашей работы и возмутительно ошибочную интерпретацию мотивов действий руководства и сотрудников Facebook», — утверждает Клегг.

Проблемы эти, по его словам, сложные и требуют комплексного подхода, и Facebook, осознавая свою ответственность перед пользователями, делает все, чтобы решить их.

Ранее издание The Wall Street Journal опубликовало серию статей о Facebook.

По словам Клегга, в…

Tesla Motors выпустила версию Beta 9.3 автопилота Full Self-Driving (FSD), которая, по словам генерального директора Илона Маска, «кажется настолько хорошей, что может дать водителям ложное чувство безопасности».

Если поведение водителя за рулем будет оставаться хорошим на протяжении 7 дней, бета-доступ будет предоставлен», — написал Маск в своем Twitter-аккаунте.

Член совета директоров компании Хиромити Мидзуно следующим образом прокомментировал заявление генерального директора Tesla:«Вы должны стать хорошим водителем, чтобы не садиться за руль — это может стать новой нормой».

Премиум-пакет автопилота от Tesla «полный автопилот» (Full Self-Driving) доступен пользователям за $10 тысяч.

В по…

Время машин: как понять, что вашей компании нужен робот для общения с клиентами?

Только для массового рынка с серьезной конкуренциейУ компании, работающей на рынке с массовым продуктом или услугой, главное конкурентным преимущество — скорость и качество сервисного обслуживания клиента.

Это характерно не только для потребительских рынков, но и для некоторых промышленных.

И решать, что с ними делать, когда пик спроса пройдет.

Более того, оператору для живого общения голосом или в чате передается уже теплый лид, выразивший интерес к получению дополнительной информации или готовый сделать заказ.

Однако текущее руководство придерживается совершенно иной стратегии — согласно сайту Spotify, в 2021 году компания стремится «раскрыть потенциал человеческого творчества».

Рядом указан список обязательств, которые берет на себя Spotify, — от предоставления артистам необходимых данных до обучения, которое позволит им улучшить доходы.

Другими словами, компания хочет не только распространить их музыку, но и вознаградить их.

Однако опытным основателям известно, что на каждую решенную проблему может возникнуть еще бесконечное множество.

Чтобы определить бренд, важно не только выбрать логотип, но и установить четкие и согласованные принципы, которыми будет руководствоваться бизнес как сейчас, так…

Представлен новый легковесный формат сжатия изображений без потерь - QOI (Quite OK Image), позволяющий очень быстро сжимать изображения в цветовых пространствах RGB и RGBA.

По эффективности сжатия QOI в большинстве тестов близок к libpng (в каких-то тестах немного опережает, а в каких-то проигрывает), но в целом заметно опережает stb_image (выигрыш вплоть до 20%).

Эталонная реализация QOI на языке Си насчитывает всего 300 строк кода.

При помощи формата QOI автор хотел показать, что возможно создание эффективной и простой альтернативы переусложнённым современным форматам кодирования изображений.

Производительность QOI не зависит от размера и характера кодируемого изображения (O(1)).

Опубликован релиз SQLite 3.37, легковесной СУБД, оформленной в виде подключаемой библиотеки. Код SQLite распространяется как общественное достояние (public domain), т.е. может использоваться без ограничений и безвозмездно в любых целях. Финансовую поддержку разработчиков SQLite осуществляет специально созданный консорциум, в который входят такие компании, как Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley и Bloomberg.

Исследователи из компании Сheckpoint выявили три уязвимости (CVE-2021-0661, CVE-2021-0662, CVE-2021-0663) в прошивках DSP-чипов компании MediaTek, а также уязвимость в прослойке для обработки звука MediaTek Audio HAL (CVE-2021-0673). В случае успешной эксплуатации уязвимостей атакующий может организовать подслушивание за пользователем из непривилегированного приложения для платформы Android.

После года разработки представлен релиз языка программирования PHP 8.1.

Например, рассматривается возможность запрета записи в $GLOBALS и передачи $GLOBALS по указателю.

Например, в случае одобрения предложения в 8.1 будет прекращена поддержка таких выражений, как: $GLOBALS = []; $GLOBALS += []; $GLOBALS =& $x; $x =& $GLOBALS; unset($GLOBALS); by_ref($GLOBALS);Внутренние методы теперь должны возвращать корректный тип.

В PHP 8.1 при возвращении типа, не соответствующего объявлению функции, будут выводиться предупреждение, но в PHP 9.0 предупреждение будет заменено на ошибку.

В PHP 8.1 использование конструкций вида str_contains("string", null) будет приводить к предупреждению, а в PHP 9 к ош…

Доступен первый бета-выпуск операционной системы Airyx, предлагающей окружение в стиле macOS и нацеленной на предоставление определённого уровня совместимости с приложениями для macOS. Airyx базируется на FreeBSD и используется графический стек на основе X-сервера. Наработки проекта распространяются под лицензией BSD. Размер загрузочного iso-образа - 1.9 ГБ (x86_64).

После года разработки опубликован выпуск дистрибутива Endless OS 4.0, нацеленного на создание простой в работе системы, в которой можно быстро подобрать приложения на свой вкус.

Идентичные с Endless OS идеи в последнее время пытаются повторить разработчики Fedora в рамках проекта Silverblue по созданию атомарно обновляемого варианта Fedora Workstation.

Инсталлятор и система обновления Endless OS, как и планировалось, теперь используются в GNOME OS.

Рабочее окружение в Endless OS основано на значительно переработанном форке GNOME.

Компоненты дистрибутива синхронизированы с веткой Debian 11 (Endless OS 3.x базировался на Debian 10).

Компания Amazon начала тестирование нового дистрибутива общего назначения Amazon Linux 2022, оптимизированного для облачных окружений и поддерживающего интеграцию с инструментами и расширенными возможностями сервиса Amazon EC2. Дистрибутив придёт на смену продукту Amazon Linux 2 и примечателен уходом от использования в качестве основы пакетной базы CentOS в пользу дистрибутива Fedora Linux. Сборки формируются для архитектур x86_64 и ARM64 (Aarch64).

После года разработки состоялся релиз новой стабильной ветки сетевого анализатора Wireshark 3.6.

Ключевые новшества Wireshark 3.6.0: Внесены изменения в синтаксис правил фильтрации трафика: Добавлена поддержка синтаксиса "a ~= b" или "a any_ne b" для выбора любых значений кроме одного.

Существенно переработан проигрыватель RTP-потоков (Telephony > RTP > RTP Player), который может применяться для воспроизведения VoIP-вызовов.

В анализаторе RTP-потоков изменён диалог экспорта в формате CSVНачалось формирование пакетов для систем на базе macOS, укомплектованных ARM-чипом Apple M1.

Добавлена поддержка декодирования и захвата данных в формате BLF ( Informatik Binary Log File).

Исследователи безопасности из криптовалютной биржи Kraken продемонстрировали простой и дешёвый способ для создания клона отпечатка пальца по фотографии при помощи обычного лазерного принтера, столярного клея и подручных средств. Отмечается, что полученный слепок позволил обойти защиту биометрической аутентификации по отпечатку пальца и разблокировать имеющиеся у исследователей планшет iPad, ноутбук MacBook Pro и аппаратный криптовалютный кошелёк.

Код проекта распространяется под лицензией MIT.

Основной целью развития проекта Emscripten является создание инструмента, позволяющего выполнять в Web код независимо от языка программирования, на котором данный код написан.

В компилируемых приложениях могут использоваться вызовы стандартных библиотек C и С++ (libc, libcxx), расширения C++, многопоточность на базе pthreads, API POSIX и многие мультимедийные библиотеки.

Основные изменения в Emscripten 3.0: Задействованная в emscripten Си-библиотека musl обновлена до версии 1.2.2 (в ветке Emscripten 2.x использовалась версия 1.1.15).

В шаблонах shell.html и shell_minimal.html вывод сообщений об ошибках, возникающих в процессе работы emscripten…

Сообщество разработчиков языка PHP учредило новую некоммерческую организацию PHP Foundation, которая будет отвечать за организацию финансирования проекта, поддержку сообщества и обеспечение процесса разработки. При помощи организации PHP Foundation планируется привлечь заинтересованные компании и индивидуальных участников для совместного финансирования работы над PHP.

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GSM-модуль можно сделать открытый?

Сим-карту можно сделать открытой?

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То что можно сделать в открытой части, теоритически будет работать, но на практике использовать не выйдет - оборудование у опсосов хочет полный стандарт.

После года разработки доступен релиз десктоп-движка Arcan 0.6.1, который объединяет в себе дисплейный сервер, мультимедийный фреймворк и игровой движок для обработки 3D-графики. Arcan может использоваться для создания различных графических систем, от пользовательских интерфейсов для встраиваемых приложений до самодостаточных десктоп-окружений. В том числе на базе Arcan развивается трёхмерный рабочий стол Safespaces для систем виртуальной реальности и десктоп-окружение Durden. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией BSD (некоторые компоненты под GPLv2+ и LGPL).

PureOS признан Фондом Свободного ПО в качестве полностью свободного и помещён в список рекомендованных дистрибутивов.

Ключевой целью разработки является предоставление возможности работать с одними и теми же GNOME-приложениями как на сенсорном экране смартфона, так и на больших экранах ноутбуков и ПК в сочетании с клавиатурой и мышью.

Например, при использовании PureOS на смартфоне, при подключении устройства к монитору можно превратить смартфон в портативную рабочую станцию.

Новый выпуск поставляется по умолчанию на всех продуктах Purism, включая смартфон Librem 5, ноутбук Librem 14 и миниатюрный ПК Librem Mini.

В менеджере приложений PureOS store задействованы метаданные AppStream для соз…

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After months of negotiation you're usually left with a bunch of legal fees and no deal.

If you're really lucky and your deal closes, your bank balance gets a whole lot bigger... then you get to watch the new owners wreck the business you spent your life building.

After going through it way too many times ourselves, we started Tiny to become the buyer we wish we could have sold to.

That means fair, fast, and founder friendly deals.

Read more about why we started Tiny

It all started with the Whole Earth Catalog.

The Whole Earth Catalog was created in 1968 by futurist Stewart Brand, who noticed that many of his friends were moving out of the city to join communes in “wild” places like New Mexico and Northern California.

Instead, they sought “to change the world by establishing new, exemplary communities from which a corrupt mainstream might draw inspiration,” writes Turner.

The Catalog “established a relationship between information technology, economic activity, and alternative forms of community that would outlast the counterculture itself and become a key feature of the digital world,” writes Turner.

“Like the Catalog, the WELL became a forum within wh…

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More From ForbesIf you’re one of Facebook Messenger’s 1.3 billion users, you have just been given some seriously bad news.

WhatsApp and Messenger are the two most popular cross-platform services, with 2 billion and 1.3 billion users, and there’s also Instagram DMs added into the mix.

The intent is that Facebook Messenger and Instagram DMs will come under the same level of default end-to-end encryption that now protects WhatsApp.

But I’m not an advocate for adding such security to social media platforms where adults share a vast public space with children.

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Apple is set to announce new hardware today. The company is holding a (virtual) keynote at 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 6 PM in London, 7 PM in Paris). And you’ll be able to watch the event right here as the company is streaming it live.Rumor has it that the company is set to announce some new Macs. Over the past year, Apple has updated its entry-level computers with new custom-designed M1 chips. And now, the company could bring its own chips to higher-end computers, such as a 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, a new Mac Mini and a 27-inch iMac.Apple could use this opportunity to redesign its laptops from the ground up with new display technologies, a new array of ports and a new form factor i…

To access the data of unsuspecting users, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could take advantage of a universal authentication process that is believed to be secure but may not actually be, cybersecurity experts warned, although encryption is still the preferred method of protecting digital data and Protection of computers - in some cases, the same digital certificates used for internet authentication allow the Chinese regime to infiltrate and wreak havoc on various computer networks, they said. Digital certificates that verify the identity of a digital entity on the Internet. A digital certificate can be compared to a passport or driver's license, according to Andrew Jenkinson, CEO of cybe…

Sony’s upcoming Sinister Six movie should take some inspiration from Spider-Man: No Way Home and introduce a new version of Miles Morales. Sony has had plans for a Sinister Six film since The Amazing Spider-Man film franchise was in progress. The second film, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, ended with a clear setup for the villain team, with the Green Goblin (Harry Osborn) and The Gentleman (Gustav Fiers) equipping allies (and possibly members) of Oscorp with advanced weapons and devices. The plans, unfortunately, never came to fruition, but Sony’s new villain-focused Spider-Man universe, which began with 2018’s Venom, has led to new plans for the iconic team.Miles Morales - whose comic debut was…

Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Supergirl season 6, episode 15, "Hope For Tomorrow."The Supergirl season 6 episode "Hope For Tomorrow" enhanced the story of the Superman movie Superman 4: The Quest For Peace in every respect. The final movie to star Christopher Reeve as Kal-El of Krypton, Superman 4 is widely considered to be the worst of the classic Superman films. Given that, it would be all but impossible for Supergirl to revamp The Quest For Peace and not improve it, but the episode "Hope For Tomorrow" successfully addressed nearly every common complaint about the movie.The central storyline of the second half of Supergirl season 6 found Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist) compet…

The latest The Flash trailer suggests that Michael Keaton's Batman has a bigger role in the film than many initially assumed. Ezra Miller makes his DCEU return as the Scarlet Speedster after starring in Zack Snyder's Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League. Directed by Andy Muschietti, The Flash's first trailer was released at DC FanDome 2021, offering a sneak peek at what to expect from the standalone flick.It's no secret that The Flash was in production limbo for quite some time with a few director changes. But, the movie finally kicked into production in 2021 and is currently filming. Specific plot details are still scant at the moment, although a few pertinent details have…

Robert Pattinson’s Batman takes multiple bullets to the chest in the latest trailer for The Batman, indicating how bulletproof his version of the Batsuit is. Although he lacks superpowers, Batman fights crime in Gotham City with superlative fighting skills, a genius-level intellect, and state-of-the-art gadgetry. A common piece of equipment for live-action Batman adaptations is a Batsuit made of bulletproof material. Not all the Dark Knight's costumes have the same level of protection, so how does Pattinson’s suit compare to the others and the comic source material?In his first comic book appearances, Batman wore no armor, using a simple, lightweight, and flexible costume with an intimidati…

Katey Sagal played one of the most important characters in Sons of Anarchy, but what has she done since the show came to an end? In 2008, Kurt Sutter took the audience to a small town in California to meet a motorcycle club and all the drama in their daily lives in the TV series Sons of Anarchy. The series premiered on FX in 2008 and lived on for a total of seven seasons, coming to an end in 2014. Sons of Anarchy got positive reviews throughout its whole run, with most praise going towards the themes it addressed (such as corruption and racism) and the performances of the main cast.Sons of Anarchy tells the story of Jackson “Jax” Teller (Charlie Hunnam), VP of the motorcycle club Sons of An…

Using a combination of moves and items, players can maximize Pikachu's build in Pokémon Unite. Players will need to fight both wild Pokémon and those on the opposing team to score points and win. As an Attacker Pokémon, a well-built Pikachu can work great for an offensive, ranged strategy.With 5-on-5 matches between trainers, and wild Pokémon in each stage, a well-rounded, carefully built team will be vital for success. Players just getting started in Pokémon Unite may need to test different skills in order to find the best build. Having a strong offensive Pokémon will help players knock out their opponents and collect their Aeos energy to score points. As Pikachu gains experience, more mov…

A new mod for Dark Souls 3 pits the final boss of the game's last DLC against the final DLC boss from fellow FromSoftware title Bloodborne. FromSoftware has developed a reputation for challenging bosses over the past decade and seems to be continuing that trend with the upcoming Elden Ring, which fans have been awaiting eagerly for some time now following its initial reveal at E3 2019. A more in-depth trailer released at Summer Games Fest earlier this year revealed many of the hallmarks fans have come to expect from the upcoming title.Another unique aspect FromSoftware titles have cultivated over the years is a dedicated modding community that still puts out content for installments as far …

Mon-El actor Chris Wood recalls the silly "stunt" that resulted in him breaking his jaw while filming Supergirl. The Arrowverse series has enjoyed a long run, but it will be coming to an end very soon. Supergirl, which stars Melissa Benoist as Kara Danvers, started out on CBS before moving to The CW for season 2. During the show's 6-season run, Supergirl has faced countless enemies and teamed up with fellow Arrowverse heroes like The Flash (Grant Gustin) and Batwoman (Ruby Rose). The sixth and final season is currently airing and will conclude in November. Supergirl has featured a wide and eclectic group of characters over the years, but some are more memorable than others. One of the most …

The Sith are the primary antagonists of the Star Wars saga, but they’re largely absent from the sequel trilogy, having been seemingly replaced by a different dark side religion: The Knights of Ren. All conflicts in the Skywalker Saga lead back to the Sith sooner or later, specifically their deadliest and most brilliant Dark Lord, Darth Sidious, aka Palpatine. The Sith seemingly died with Palpatine in Return of the Jedi, but The Emperor survived, and, thus, the Sith Order did, too. With Sith influence remaining behind the scenes yet again, the Knights of Ren became the new face of the galaxy’s dark side menaces, with their leader, Kylo Ren, being second in command of the Galactic Empire’s su…

Dolph Lundgren shared a photo of his reunion with Sylvester Stallone from the set of The Expendables 4. The new film in the ensemble action franchise comes almost a decade after The Expendables 3, which was released in 2014. The film is being directed by former stunt coordinator Scott Waugh with an eye toward a 2022 release. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, and Randy Couture are all reprising their franchise roles along with Expendables newbies Andy Garcia, 50 Cent, Tony Jaa, and Megan Fox.In the Expendables franchise, Dolph Lundgren plays Gunner Jensen, a chemical engineer with a wild streak, a reference to the fact that the Swedish actor has a degree in chemical engineer…

Even though SpongeBob SquarePants is aimed at children, it hasn’t been safe from all types of theories, of which many don’t make much sense, such as one that says the reason why Squidward is always sad is that he misses his wife. Nickelodeon has been home to a variety of cartoons that have become very popular with viewers, but the most successful Nicktoon to date is SpongeBob SquarePants, created by Stephen Hillenburg. The show made its debut in 1999 and has since become one of the longest-running animated series, allowing it to branch out to other media as well. SpongeBob SquarePants takes viewers to the bottom of the ocean to visit the underwater city of Bikini Bottom, where the title cha…

The celebrity formerly known as Cupcake on The Masked Singer opened up about competing on the show. In the latest episode, the Cupcake was revealed to be Ruth Pointer of the Pointer Sisters. The show recently returned for season 6, with Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, Ken Jeong and Nicole Scherzinger all returning to the panel. Nick Cannon is back as host. The Cupcake was first introduced as a member of Group B and got to perform twice before being unmasked. Prior to the Cupcake's unmasking, the identities of Octopus, Mother Nature, Pufferfish and Baby were revealed. The stars under those masks, respectively, were Dwight Howard, Vivica A. Fox, Toni Braxton and Larry the Cable Guy.One…

The Breakfast Club star Anthony Michael Hall says the so-called teenage friendship group, The Brat Pack, never existed. Currently celebrating his debut as Tommy Doyle in the slasher sequel Halloween Kills, some of Hall's most iconic roles hail back to his adolescence. The now 53-year-old actor formerly starred in the likes of National Lampoon's Vacation, Sixteen Candles, and Johnny Be Good.Though he has since broken free of his more satirical roles, Hall is undoubtedly best known for his portrayal of Brian Johnson in The Breakfast Club. It was a role that kept him in close quarters with co-stars Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, and Sheedy, all of whom became synonymous with the …

Thousands of years ago, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt surrounded themselves with the stuff, even in death, leaving stunning specimens for archaeologists to uncover.

His funerary mask sports blue glass inlays that alternate with gold to frame the king's face.

In a hierarchy of materials, glass would have sat slightly beneath silver and gold and would have been valued as much as precious stones were.

How was it worked and colored and passed around the ancient world?

Ancient glassmakers also added materials that impart color to glass, such as cobalt for dark blue or lead antimonate for yellow.

However, in the UK—as in many countries across the world—traveling by car remains the dominant social norm.

To test this, we set up a gamification initiative called Beat the Street to see whether it could encourage people in the London borough of Hounslow to travel actively.

(Male participant, aged 60-69)Over the course of the game, 28,219 people took part (9.6 percent of the population of Hounslow).

Once they got into it, they wanted to walk everywhere and started to refuse to go to school in the car.

We assessed the number of vehicles traveling in both directions along the often-congested Cambridge Road, between 07:00-09:30 and between 14:00-16:30.

Even if you aren't a fan of science fiction, if you go into someone's library or home office, the one piece of science fiction that you will see on any serious person's bookshelf is Foundation.

But also, is this a planet that's going to be in the show for the long haul?

The tropes of science fiction allow us to explore time in ways that we couldn't do in a contemporary drama.

He was a fan of science fiction and he said it was the greatest science fiction work ever created.

I think Asimov was onto something, not just with Foundation, but in its approach to history.

The pendant, unearthed at Stajnia Cave in Poland, was recently radiocarbon dated to around 41,500 years old.

An ancient ivory pendantArchaeologists excavating the cave found the ivory pendant broken into two pieces.

Archaeologists found the ivory pendant in the same layer of sediment as a broken awl made of horse bone, which dated to 42,200 years old; mass spectrometry helped identify the species of bone in each artifact.

Ivory beads and a baton from a site east of Moscow were decorated with similar patterns of puncture marks between 34,800 and 33,500 years ago.

The Stajnia pendant is the oldest example so far of ivory decorated with dotted curves, by about 2,000 years.

On Friday, the World Health Organization officially named a new version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus a variant of concern, and attached the Greek letter omicron to the designation.

The Omicron variant is notable for the sheer number of mutations in the spike protein of the virus.

Many changesWhile the Delta variant's version of spike has nine changes compared to the virus that started the pandemic, Omicron has 30 differences.

Changes here can mean that an immune response generated to vaccines or earlier versions of the virus are less able to target Omicron.

While we remain uncertain how much protection vaccines provide against Omicron, it's quite certain that their effectiveness against it is co…

Almost from the beginning of the COVID pandemic, reports have accumulated of persistent, weird, disabling symptoms in survivors, a syndrome that's come to be known as long COVID.

What makes long COVID research urgent is also what makes it, at this point, so challenging.

Their findings: the thing that most predicted whether patients developed long COVID symptoms was whether they believed they had been infected, not whether their infection could be lab-confirmed.

"A medical evaluation of these patients may be needed to prevent symptoms due to another disease being erroneously attributed to 'long COVID.'"

This study hasn't upended research into long COVID: the field is too new for that.

Humans should consider ourselves lucky that they don't have to constantly worry about fungal infections.

"If you were a tree, you'd be terrified of fungi," says Dr. Arturo Casadevall, a microbiologist at Johns Hopkins university who studies fungal diseases.

(Fungal infections are known to wipe out snakes, fish, corals, insects, and more.)

One of the reasons fungal infections are so common in so many creatures is that fungi themselves are ubiquitous.

Humans can and do get fungal infections (athlete's foot, for starters, and fungal diseases are one of the leading causes of death for immunocompromised people with HIV).

The article claims this makes it possible to circumnavigate the world in 80 days.

It's a significant wager, too, amounting to half of Fogg's fortune, with the other half required to finance his journey.

Monty Python alum Michael Palin made the charming TV travelogue, Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin, in 1988, detailing his recreation of Fogg's journey, without resorting to airplanes.

We also see Fogg announce his ambitious goal of circumventing the globe in 80 days, drawing laughter from the stodgy men in his private club.

Around the World in 80 Days premieres on BBC1 in the UK and on Masterpiece PBS in the US on January 2, 2022.

Tesla has been forced to turn down more than 1.1 billion euros in European subsidies for its planned battery plant near Berlin after delays to the flagship project breached a key condition of the funding.

The EU requires any sites in receipt of the funds to be the “first industrial deployment” of the technology, according to official documents, meaning the batteries cannot already be made at another Tesla plant.

The German government confirmed on Friday that Tesla was no longer seeking the subsidies but declined to comment further.

Musk told Tesla’s investors last month that the Shanghai site already produced more vehicles than its flagship facility in Fremont, California.

The China site ma…

This year, Apple itself is dipping a toe in the deal pool itself by offering Apple Gift Cards with select devices on its own online store.

Our Black Friday Coverageor receive a $50 Apple Gift Card with purchase of AirPods Pro from AppleWe've recommended the AirPods Pro a number of times in past buying guides.

or receive a $50 Apple Gift Card with purchase of Apple Watch SE from AppleThe Apple Watch Series 7 tops our list as the best smartwatch you can buy, but the Apple Watch SE is the next best option.

This deal brings the best price we've seen for the SE outright, while Apple's gift card deal brings effectively the same discount.

Some Apple accessories, like Apple Pencils and iPad keyboar…

These recaps won't cover every element of every episode, but they will contain major spoilers for the show and the book series.

New episodes of The Wheel of Time will be posted to Amazon Prime subscribers every Friday.

Andrew: If I had to come up with a Friends-style episode title for this week's Wheel of Time episode, it would be "The One With The Dragon Reborn Misdirects."

We don't have the luxury in the show of getting into each character's head and knowing their internal landscape, so playing "Who's the Dragon?!"

And the show uses this encampment to give us our first big dose of how Aes Sedai society is structured.

The research vessel was embarking on what many of the marine scientists on board thought of as the last great, uncharted oceanic voyage: the first complete circumnavigation of the Americas.

Sheldon thought this rule might govern all life in the ocean, from the smallest bacterium to the largest whales.

The Sheldon spectrum, as it became known, has been observed in plankton, fish, and in freshwater ecosystems, too.

And basically, for a cell, it doesn’t really matter what body size you’re in, you just kind of tend to do the same thing.”But now, humans seem to have broken this fundamental law of the ocean.

Thanks to industrial fishing, the total ocean biomass of larger fish and marine mammals i…

So, I was intrigued when a company called SWFT got in touch about two models it was introducing, both at extremely competitive prices.

A handful of bikes sell for cheaper than that, but only a handful.

The SWFT components have no label at all.

The steel frame is more robust than a typical road bike, but without the all-terrain niceties of a mountain bike.

But of course, the main point of the VOLT is the "e" side of the e-bike equation.

The turkey has been consumed and the football games are over, which means the avalanche of Black Friday deals has begun.

Table of ContentsFeatured Black Friday 2021 dealsMore Black Friday CoverageAll deals in this guide were handpicked by us.

The former is $10 off the best price we've tracked, while the latter is a new low.

This deal has been live for much of the past month, but it matches the best price we've tracked.

This deal is a dollar off the best price we've tracked.

Cryptocurrency mining consumes a massive amount of energy, and that's prompting a crisis in Kazakhstan.

The energy ministry estimated that electricity demand has jumped by eight percent so far in 2021 versus the more typical one or two percent.

Officials and observers have pinned the power cuts on climbing numbers of unregistered crypto miners illegally generating currency from their homes or even factories.

Energy demand started climbing when mining firms moved from China in early 2021, and it jumped again when China made mining illegal this May.

Whether or not that's true, it's safe to say the mining demand hints at the potential problems for other countries if their local crypto producti…

AMC is extending its fondness for the blockchain to the freebies you get with ticket pre-orders.

Redeem a code through a special website and you'll get one of 100 designs available through the more eco-friendly Wax blockchain.

You'll need to order your tickets through the AMC Theatres website or mobile app when pre-orders launch on November 29th.

This could also be considered an experiment — AMC and Sony will find out how many viewers are eager to own a purely digital collectible.

There are no guarantees the promo will translate to stronger ticket sales, but this might become relatively commonplace if there's enough interest.

You might get a surprise boost in computing power if you buy a Tesla Model Y, at least in China.

Electrek has learned Tesla is shipping the electric crossover in China with an AMD Ryzen processor running the infotainment system instead of the usual Intel CPU.

It's not certain if this is the exact same Ryzen APU as in the latest Model S and X.

It's also unclear if Tesla is limiting the AMD switch to China or will make this change elsewhere in the world.

This could also represent a transition to Ryzen chips across the Tesla lineup, although we wouldn't count on any ubiquity in the near future.

Australia could soon make life difficult for internet trolls — if at a significant cost.

Reuters reports Prime Minister Scott Morrison has unveiled plans for legislation that, in some cases, could force social networks to reveal the identities of trolls and others making defamatory comments.

If that can't happen in real life, there's "no case" for it happening online, the Prime Minister said.

The proposed laws come weeks after Australia's High Court ruled media companies could be held liable for comments on Facebook posts.

Anonymity might help trolls, but it also protects political dissenters and other innocuous critics — will Australia make sure any identity disclosure laws aren't used to …

Black Friday online sales tend to climb ever higher each year as people grow comfortable with shopping from home, but not this time around.

Adobe estimates combined Black Friday and Thanksgiving Day internet sales saw their first ever overall year-over-year decline in 2021, dipping from $9 billion in 2020 to $8.9 billion.

That's not a calamitous drop, but Adobe saw it as a sign of shifting trends.

Black Friday sales were dominated by Instant Pots, air fryers and toys, but Saturday sales were led by tech that included AirPods, entry-level iPads, the Meta Quest 2 and TVs from the likes of Samsung, TCL and Vizio.

While some Black Friday shoppers were merely browsing on their phones before buyi…

It's one thing to produce nanoscale devices, but it's another to study and improve on them — they're so small they can't reflect enough light to get a good look.

UC Riverside researchers have built technology that squeezes tungsten lamp light into a 6-nanometer spot at the end of a silver nanowire.

That lets scientists produce color imaging at an "unprecedented" level, rather than having to settle for molecular vibrations.

This ability to compress light is notable by itself, but the inventors see it playing an important role in nanotechnology.

The squeezed light could also improve humanity's understanding of nanoelectronics, quantum optics and other scientific fields where this resolution h…

Phys.org reports scientists have developed a "living ink" you could use to print equally alive materials usable for creating 3D structures.

The team genetically engineered cells for E. Coli and other microbes to create living nanofibers, bundled those fibers and added other materials to produce an ink you could use in a standard 3D printer.

Researchers have tried producing living material before, but it has been difficult to get those substances to fit intended 3D structures.

The creators envisioned buildings that repair themselves, or self-assembling materials for Moon and Mars buildings that could reduce the need for resources from Earth.

The ink could even manufacture itself in the right…

HBO Max has uploaded another alternative DC Comics movie cut, but it won't brag about this one.

As CBR and The Verge note, WarnerMedia comms executive Johanna Fuentes has confirmed HBO Max accidentally uploaded the censored TV version of the 2020 movie Birds of Prey.

While it's listed as the R-rated version from theaters, play it and you'll get the same 'family-friendly' edit you'd see on TNT.

Fuentes promised that HBO Max would upload the R-rated movie, although she didn't provide a timeline.

With that said, HBO Max certainly isn't averse to foul language or violence.

SpaceX doesn't always get a warm reception when it expands Starlink.

Reuters reports the Indian government has told Starlink to immediately stop "booking/rendering" satellite internet service in the country until it has a license to operate.

The SpaceX division registered as a business in India on November 1st and has started pre-orders, but doesn't yet have permission to run the service.

However, SpaceX has a particularly strong incentive to serve India as soon as possible.

It's a prime market for satellite broadband, and the Starlink team hopes 80 percent of devices sold in India by late 2022 will serve rural areas.

Pluto PressThis is an excerpt from The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon by Alessandro Delfanti, available now from Pluto Press.

This myth of digital capitalism is based on a number of elements, including magical origins, heroes, and stories of redemption.

Indeed, digital capitalism updates industrial capitalism’s promise of economic and social emancipation with some novel elements of its own.

Rather than simply swapping out the assembly line with the robot or the algorithm, the culture of digital capitalism mixes libertarian ideology with entrepreneurial elements.

The myth of digital capitalism itself is not simply fictitious, but instead has very concrete effects.

Xiaomi only announced its electric car plans in March, but it already has grand ambitions.

According to Reuters, the economic development agency Beijing E-Town has confirmed that Xiaomi will build an EV factory in the city capable of producing up to 300,000 vehicles per year.

The company will also set up its EV headquarters, research and sales divisions in Beijing, the agency said.

There are still many unknowns for Xiaomi's car strategy, including the initial models and international expansion.

The Beijing factory says more — it suggests Xiaomi intends to become a mainstream (if initially small) EV manufacturer that competes not just with Chinese rivals like Nio and Xpeng, but significant f…

NASA's Mars InSight lander provided researchers with the data needed to give us our first detailed look at the red planet's crust, mantle and core.

More precisely, they analyzed the ambient noise (in the absence of marsquakes) collected by the seismometer that was installed by the InSight lander.

On Earth, that kind of ambient seismic noise is generated by the ocean, human activity and winds, but only the last one is present on Mars.

Over the past years, SED was able to develop ways to analyze ambient noise data to define geological structures here on Earth, and those are the techniques they used on the data from InSight.

Other methods used to know more about Earth could also give us more i…

When Spotify announced its stripped down Car View mode in 2019, it seemed like a smart way to prevent drivers from being distracted on the road.

They added that removing car view is necessary to "make way for new innovations."

It could be that Spotify is de-prioritizing Car View simply because there are so many other ways to handle music playback in cars.

If you've got a modern car with CarPlay or Android Auto support, you'll only be interacting with your in-dash display and will never see Car View in action.

Without Car View mode, though, that strange gadget all of a sudden seems more helpful.

Regardless of if you prefer a smartwatch, fitness tracker or another kind of wearable, it's best to wait until a big sale — like Black Friday — to get one for the best price possible.

Apple Watch SEThe Apple Watch SE has been knocked down to $219, which is $60 cheaper than usual.

This is the best Watch for wearable newbies as well as those with tight budgets.

Apple Watch Series 7The latest Apple Watch Series 7 is $20 cheaper right now, bringing it down to $380.

Apple Watch Series 6Valentina Palladino / EngadgetThe previous-gen Apple Watch is $50 off, bringing it down to $350.

Earlier this month, the movie theater chain announced it would begin accepting payments in cryptocurrency, and now it’s giving out NFTs as ticket pre-orders freebies for the new Spider-Man movie.

These shareholders now own more than 80% of the company, announced AMC CEO and outspoken crypto fanboy Adam Aron earlier this year.

We quickly implemented AMC taking crypto, and now one of your very best ideas,” Aron tweeted on Sunday in reference to the Spider-Man NFT promotion.

Save up to 50% at AmazonThis likely won’t be the last time AMC bundles NFTs as a pre-order goodie.

In a post-earnings call earlier this month, Aron said the company was in talks with multiple Hollywood studios to launch NF…

Canada’s government-sanctioned maple syrup cartel has a message for the world: Never fear, there will be syrup.

The 50 million pounds of syrup the group is draining represent about half of its stockpile.

This was fueled by the pandemic, the maple cartel maintains, as more people have been cooking at home and using local products.

AdvertisementWeather and demand aren’t the only things maple syrup producers have to worry about, though.

This year, the maple syrup cartel will guarantee you have your sugary pancake topping.

In the third quarter of this year, the company produced 237,823 cars and made 241,300 deliveries.

Musk emphasized that this was the right time to “start reducing the size of the wave” and focus on obtaining a more steady and efficient pace of deliveries.

While Musk’s email makes perfect business sense, Tesla customers that are expecting deliveries over the next few weeks may not be too happy about it.

Many Tesla customers have been waiting for their new cars for months and have seen expected delivery dates changed again and again, CNBC reported.

At that time, the company acknowledged its delivery delays, which it attributed to global supply chain and logistics challenges.

While I’m all for cracking down on trolls and eliminating hate speech from online platforms, this sounds like a privacy nightmare waiting to happen.

AdvertisementHere’s how it would work: If someone suspects they are being defamed, bullied, or attacked on online platforms, a newly established complaint mechanism would require these platforms to take the offending posts down.

More so than penalizing social media companies that fail to sufficiently moderate their platforms, Morrison wants to take the fight to the trolls themselves.

And if online platforms refuse to play ball, he seems more than ready to get the courts to compel them to do so.

Save up to 50% at Amazon“These online companies mu…

There’ve been a lot of things happening in the pages of My Hero Academia over the last year.

This was referenced again in Chapter 83 after the attack at the summer camp, which was allllllll the way back in 2016.

And the chapter ends on the reveal that Toru Hagakure, Class 1-A’s resident invisible girl, is another one of his agents.

Save up to 50% at AmazonThe League of Villains’ mole in UA is finally revealed.

AdvertisementMy Hero Academia can be read for free at Shonen Jump.

When Train to Busan hit theaters in 2016, it took off in the way several high profile projects from South Korea tend to do these days.

Fortunately, creator Yeon Sang-Ho knows and recognizes that there’s more to do with the world he created after last year’s fairly solid follow up Peninsula.

He’s also pretty sure that it’ll have more of the spirit of that original movie.

“There are a lot of productions that I’m working on currently,” he reminded.

Either way, he knows that he’ll also have to change the way he handles all of his projects going forward.

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure is such an amazingly weird anime that it’s hard to not root for it.

It’s also got a history of having pretty good music, and that trend thankfully continues with the upcoming sixth season, Stone Ocean.

A lot of that can be owed to its song “Stone Ocean,” performed by Kishida Kyoudan and the Akebochi Rockets’ vocalist Ichigo.

If you like the song, good news, it’ll be available to stream on December 1, same day as Stone Ocean premieres.

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean will arrive globally on Netflix on December 1, with episodes later being broadcast to Japan in January 2022.

The last few years have seen a successful streak of films and shows based on video games, primarily from Netflix.

Live action is a different beast entirely.

There have been a lot of video games that have made the jump to live action, and even more that have tried and gotten stuck in development hell.

The stigma against animation, at least in the west, means that live action versions debatably carry a greater sense of legitimacy and prestige, and AAA games have been more than happy to present themselves as interactive films.

Normally, the question would be what game should be next to be adapted, but we want to mix things up, so: do you prefer the live action adaptations of video games, or do…

The Indian government didn’t mince words in a recent message to Elon Musk’s Starlink: Get a license before offering satellite internet services in the country.

AdvertisementIn a press release on Friday, India’s Department of Telecommunications, which is part of the Ministry of Communications, asked Starlink to stop selling satellite internet services in the country “with immediate effect” until it gets the required licenses to do.

The entire Starlink starter kit, which includes a stand, power supply, and a wifi router, costs $499.

“For rendering satellite based services in India, requisite license(s) from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India are required.

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If you got in your car and suddenly found that Spotify’s Car View feature had mysteriously disappeared, I’m sorry to say that no, it’s not a bug.

“We can confirm that we’re retiring the car view feature,” the moderator wrote.

Although Spotify didn’t offer alternatives for Car View, one of the company’s moderators suggested that users use Google Assistant for hands-free music control.

I don’t understand why Spotify couldn’t maintain Car View while it went off “exploring” new and better features.

It also just seems downright rude to take away a feature your users are accustomed to and not offering them an alternative.

When people worry about robots coming to take their jobs, I don’t think “poet” is what they had in mind.

Enter Ai-Da, a highly realistic, AI-driven robot firmly rooted in the uncanny valley that can paint, draw, sculpt, and, yes, write its own poetry.

AdvertisementIn a first for robot-kind, Ai-Da gave a public performance of poetry “she” created in commemoration of famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri.

Gallerist Aidan Meller created Ai-Da in collaboration with Engineered Arts, a U.K.-based robotics company, and scientists at the universities of Oxford and Leeds.

While her human handlers do engage in some “restrictive editing” of her content, overwhelmingly the words and sentence structure in …

The second season of Netflix’s The Witcher is almost upon us, and that means more of Henry Cavill’s brooding (and not quite eternally grunting) Geralt of Rivia and his new, youthful charge Ciri.

And if you played The Witcher 3, you likely recognize this ugly thing from 2016's much beloved expansion (and farewell to Geralt) Blood and Wine.

The CG for the thing isn’t great, but it still looks like a pretty gnarly thing that’ll give Geralt a run for his money.

If that’s the case, it’s possible that he had some more things to say about the other monsters Geralt and Ciri will surely face throughout the season.

The Witcher will release its second season on Netflix on December 17.

Authorities worldwide have started taking steps to contain the spread of the new coronavirus variant Omicron as the holiday season enters full swing.

AdvertisementNew York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency on Friday amid mounting concerns about the Omicron variant and surging coronavirus infection rates in the state due to the already circulating Delta variant.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says no cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in the United States so far.

Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna anticipate data to become available within the next few weeks regarding the effectiveness of their respective vaccines against the Omicron variant, Reuters r…

We’re now a month away from The Book of Boba Fett, the first spinoff to The Mandalorian that sees the return of Temuera Morrison’s helmeted bounty hunter.

AdvertisementThe new trailer, short as it is, does a good job of getting you ready for the series when it hits at the end of the year.

With the aim of taking over the Hutt’s former business and building a name out of respect, the new series may see a blend of everything that’s come before it in Star Wars television.

These are elements that haven’t been really explored onscreen since the first run of the Clone Wars series all the way back when Cartoon Network was airing the series, so it should be interesting to see how they play out with …

Perhaps you decided to spend the holiday weekend watching some good old fashioned superhero violence in the form of last year’s pretty good (and perhaps poorly named) Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) on HBO Max.

(Basically, the same version they’ve been playing on TNT every other weekend for about a month or so.)

From raunchy visual gags and swears to Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn flashing her middle fingers, the things that partially make the movie what it is are currently absent in the streaming version .

A spokesperson for Warner Bros. confirmed to IGN that Birds’ broadcast version was added on accident, and the R-rated film will be “available on HBO Ma…

Target, Amazon, Best BuyWe're still testing this petite soundbar, but we like it enough to include it in our guide to the Best Soundbars.

We highlighted it as the best TV for gamers in our guide and sang its praises in our review (8/10, WIRED Recommends).

Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, Walmart, Best BuyThis is one of the best mid-sized smart speakers if you use Google Assistant (8/10, WIRED Recommends).

Target, Amazon, Best BuyIf you're not so much a VR fan, consider It Takes Two.

Target, Amazon, Best BuyFor most people who aren't trying to beat a personal record or free-climb a mountain, Fitbits hit a magic sweet spot of attractiveness, affordability, and functionality.

Amazon Device DealsWe've gathered a ton of Amazon Device Deals for Cyber Monday, but here's a small sampling of the best.

We'd like to see a bit better noise cancelation, but at the current deal price it's not a major concern.

We've already seen this monitor go on sale for the holidays, but now it's down to the lowest price we've tracked.

Best Buy, Amazon ($340)It never hurts to make sure your files are backed up.

Eero 6 Mesh Wi-Fi System Photograph: EeroTarget ($168), Best Buy ($168)Note: We previously featured this deal on Amazon, but it's now even lower at Target and Best Buy.

Amazon, Best BuyThis is our favorite Alexa speaker for the bedroom as it has a digital clock beneath the fabric finish.

Target, Amazon, Best BuyWhile couples therapy might sound like an odd basis for a game, this clever, split-screen, co-op adventure is one of our favorites.

Amazon, Best BuyThis is the Best Value Fire Tablet, and one of the best values you can get for a tablet in general.

This is the Best Google Speaker for basic use.

This price is one of the best WIRED has tracked.

If you need a new chef's knife, an instant-read thermometer, or a stand mixer, there's a deal for every kitchen this Cyber Monday.

We've sifted through a metric ton of deals to bring you the best prices on these kitchen tools.

This isn't the best deal we've ever seen for it, but it's the best we've seen this year.

Ooni's pizza ovens are the best we've tried.

They're all on sale, so it's worth browsing the site on your own, but we think the best deal is the Karu 12 multi-fuel oven.

Fire TV DealsFire TV Stick Lite Photograph: AmazonAmazon, Target, Best BuyThis is one of the Best TV Streaming Devices.

Echo Speaker DealsEcho Photograph: AmazonAmazon, Target, Best BuyAmazon's fourth-generation Echo (8/10, WIRED Recommends) holds the title of Best Overall in our roundup of Best Amazon Echo and Alexa Speakers.

Amazon, Best BuyWhile we prefer Google's smart displays, the second-generation Echo Show 8 is the best alternative for Alexa fans.

Amazon, Target, Best BuyWe've crowned the Fire HD 10 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) the best Fire tablet and our favorite budget tablet.

Amazon, Best BuyAmazon's Halo isn't our top choice for tracking health and fitness, but it is useful for voi…

Read our many buying guides, including the Best Wireless Headphones, Best Cheap Headphones, Best Noise-Canceling Headphones, and Best Wirefree Earbuds, for more.

Amazon, Target, Best BuyThe newest Amazon Echo (8/10, WIRED Recommends) delivers more robust sound in all directions thanks to its 360-degree shape.

Amazon, Target, Best BuyThe Fire HD 10 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is the best cheap tablet for most people.

Check out our Work-From-Home Gear guide, as well as our Best Laptops, Best Chromebooks, and Best Webcams guides for more.

Amazon, Best BuyThe Upright Go 2 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is one of the best ways to annoy you into sitting up straight.

Earbud DealsRead our guides to Best Wirefree Earbuds and Best Workout Earbuds to learn more.

Amazon, Best Buy, WalmartJabra makes some of our favorite earbuds for working out, and the Elite 85T are no exception.

AmazonThe Echo Buds (8/10, WIRED Recommends) are a quality pair of wireless in-ears, especially if you like Amazon's Alexa voice assistant.

Headphone DealsBe sure to check out our complete lists of the Best Wireless Headphones and Best Noise-Canceling Headphones.

If you're looking for the best headphones for work and travel, these are them.

Variety is the spice of life, they say, so spice up your life with our guides to the Best Snack Boxes and Best Meal Kit Subscriptions.

Daily Harvest was named the best meal kit for solo snackers because, unlike many meal plans, they're given as single-product servings.

Just sit back and watch the pre-picked goods arrive month after month with the Best Kids' Subscription Boxes and non-kid-specific Subscription Boxes.

Senior associate reviews editor Adrienne So calls the Sago Mini Box the best subscription box for youngsters, particularly for those aged two to five years old.

This one's only for new customers, but you can get 40 percent off your first subscription box.

This Cyber Monday has steep discounts on many of our favorite TVs, from massive OLED displays to simple and affordable options with built-in Roku.

Be sure to check out our guides to the Best TVs and Best Soundbars for more information about our favorite models right now.

TV Deals Under $1,000Read our Best TVs guide for all our top TV picks, many of which are on this list!

High-End TV DealsLG C1 OLED Photograph: LGTarget, AmazonLG's C1 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is the best TV we have tested this year.

Streaming Devices and ServicesRead our guide to the Best TV Streaming Devices.

Instead of sending you a bag of coffee that you then need to put into a coffee maker, the company sends you pour-over packets that you can set atop your mug.

Coffee Maker DealsDeLonghi La Specialista Prestigio Espresso Machine.

This isn't your father's coffee maker, but it follows in that venerable and likely weathered machine's footsteps.

This coffee maker (9/10, WIRED Recommends) can make eight cups of coffee.

This is our favorite cold brew coffee maker.

Laptops, monitors, keyboards, desks, and other essentials are on sale, and we found the very best discounts of them all.

Be sure to read our guide to the Best Laptops, Best Cheap Laptops, Best MacBooks, Best Chromebooks, and Best Surface PCs for more recommendations.

Photograph: AppleThis deal is just $50 higher than the best price we've seen on our favorite MacBook.

We haven't tested this specific model, but Razor's Viper Ultimate, which is similar, ranks high in our guide to the best gaming mice.

Photograph: Best BuyAmazon, SamsungSamsung's T7 portable drives are some of our favorites.

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is introducing new defamation laws that would force online platforms to reveal the identities of trolls, or else pay the price of defamation.

As ABC News Australia explains, the laws would hold social platforms, like Facebook or Twitter, accountable for defamatory comments made against users.

If the platforms can’t identify the troll for any reason — or if the platforms flat-out refuse — the company will have to pay for the troll’s defamatory comments.

The proposed legislation is part of a larger effort to overhaul Australia’s defamation laws.

However, the ruling potentially poses implications for individuals running social pages, as the ruling impli…

The Backbone One is the best mobile gaming controller for the iPhone and you can get it from Amazon today for $70, $30 off of its regular price.

In addition, it includes a month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which lets you play over a hundred Xbox games right on your iPhone.

Backbone One iPhone controller $70$10030% off The Backbone One mobile controller can connect to iPhones as far back as the 6S generation through the Lightning port.

$70 at Amazon$85 at BackboneSimilar to other gaming controllers, the Backbone One slots an iPhone in between two hand grips, complete with analog sticks, multiple buttons, and shoulder triggers.

It’s compatible with any iPhone that can run iOS 13 or later, and…

Online sales during Black Friday took a bit of a tumble this year, marking the first time that spending has dipped lower than the previous year, as noted in a holiday shopping report by Adobe Analytics.

Online shoppers reportedly spent a total of $8.9 billion this year, falling a little short of the $9 billion that was spent in 2020.

And when shoppers did make online purchases during Black Friday, Adobe found that 44.4 percent of those sales were made from a smartphone, a 10.6 percent increase from last year.

So far, shoppers spent over $3 billion on 19 days throughout this holiday season.

Last year around this time, Adobe only counted five days where spending exceeded $3 billion.

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 3 is the company’s lowest-priced foldable yet at its normal $999.99, but today you can get the trendy phone for way, way less than that.

In an early Cyber Monday 2021 deal, the unlocked Z Flip 3 is available from Best Buy for $599.99 if you activate service on the device with your purchase.

That’s a colossal $400 discount from the Flip 3’s regular price and brings it on par with something like the Pixel 6.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 $600$1,00041% off Samsung’s sleek, stylish Galaxy Flip 3 can be folded in half for easy carrying in your pocket and has a useful outer display for checking your notifications when it’s closed.

Activating a new line of service on T-Mobile / S…

Related The best deals on 4K TVsThe best deals still available on streaming devices and servicesThe latest Roku Streaming Stick 4K, which just launched in September, is selling at Amazon, Target, and Best Buy at a record low.

Related The best laptop you can buy in 2021The best deals still available on noise-canceling headphonesRegularly $300, the Bose QuietComfort 35 Noise Canceling Wireless Headphones II are currently selling for around $180 at Target and Best Buy.

Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus $79$15048% off The Galaxy Buds Plus are the last-gen successor to the Galaxy Buds.

$380 at AmazonThe Fitbit Inspire 2 is just $60 at Amazon and Best Buy, matching the best price we’ve seen on the budget-…

Cryptocurrency miners in Kazakhstan are facing widespread electricity shortages amid a surge in mining, as reported by the Financial Times.

The Financial Times’ research also estimates that over 87,849 “power-intensive” mining rigs have made their way from China to Kazakhstan.

Experts estimate that these miners are responsible for consuming 1200 megawatts (MW) from the country’s strained power grid (via Financial Times).

Didar Bekbau, the co-founder of the company tweeted a video of mining rigs loaded in the back of a truck.

Meanwhile, crypto miners are migrating en masse to Texas, thanks to its cheap power costs and relaxed regulations.

Microsoft-owned GitHub is down, affecting thousands or potentially millions of developers that rely on its many services.

GitHub started experiencing issues at around 3:45PM ET, with Git operations, API requests, GitHub actions, packages, pages, and pull requests all affected.

“We’re investigating errors affecting most GitHub services,” says an incident update on the GitHub status page.

“We’re actively investigating and will provide an update as soon as possible.” The status page lists problems with Git operations, API requests, webhooks, pull requests, GitHub actions, GitHub packages, and GitHub pages.

GitHub is now home to more than 73 million developers that rely on the service for versi…

India has instructed the public not to preorder Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite-based internet service, according to a report from Reuters.

Accordingly, the Government of India has asked the company to comply with Indian regulatory framework for rendering the satellite based communication services and refrain from booking/rendering the satellite internet services in India with immediate effect.

— DoT India (@DoT_India) November 26, 2021“Public is advised not to subscribe to Starlink services being advertised,” a tweet from India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) reads.

Reuters states that since Starlink officially registered its business in India on November 1st, it has already seen ove…

Update November 27th, 2:20PM ET: Amazon has sold out of PlayStation 5 consoles.

Sony’s latest gaming console, the PS5, is one of many gaming gadgets that are hard to find in stock right now due to mostly online-only sales.

If you are trying to get your hands on one, Amazon has restocked PS5 consoles right now, while supplies last (these links will help you add it directly to your cart — Disc, Digital).

The consoles are only available for Amazon Prime subscribers, continuing a trend of retailers restricting access to consoles for paying subscribers only.

We will update this post once Amazon confirms it’s out of stock.

“The Owlet Sock family of products is currently unavailable,” the Smart Socks’ product page reads.

Owlet Smart Socks will still be available for purchase outside of the US.

Smart baby monitors, like Owlet’s Smart Socks, have been criticized in the past.

“The Smart Sock’s safety has been validated by third parties, in which it was shown to be safe,” Owlet asserts in its post.

“In addition, the letter we received from the agency [the FDA] did not identify any safety concern about the Smart Sock.”

Fuentes notes that the Birds of Prey will be “updated on Max,” and that only the uncensored version will be shown on the platform.

As for when exactly that will happen, a tweet from HBO Max reveals that the platform has “no information” on when it will get the unedited version back.

As CBR notes, the uncensored version was previously available on HBO Max until it briefly left the platform on November 14th.

Some fans quickly jumped to the conclusion that HBO Max deliberately censored the flick, despite HBO being long considered a network for edgier content.

More recently, HBO Max quietly altered the poster for the classic horror movie The Evil Dead.

Latest deal highlights:The best deals still available on 4K TVsAmazon still has a sizeable discount on all sizes of one of the best TVs for gaming, the LG C1.

Related The best deals on 4K TVsThe best deals still available on streaming devicesThe latest Roku Streaming Stick 4K, which just launched in September, is selling at Amazon, Target, and Best Buy at a record low.

$850 at Best BuyMicrosoft’s Surface Pro X that supports Wi-Fi only (with 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD) is $120 off at Best Buy for Black Friday.

Related The best laptop you can buy in 2021The best deals still available on noise-canceling headphonesNormally $249, the Microsoft Surface Headphones 2 are available at Amazon for jus…

Years after its failed Steam Machines, Valve is slowly but surely improving the state of Linux gaming.

The company’s upcoming Steam Deck handheld runs atop Linux, and its Proton compatibility layer lets it — and other computers — play Windows games as well.

Now, Valve has officially added support for Nvidia’s DLSS machine learning temporal upscaling technique to Proton, potentially bringing big FPS boosts and less flicker in games that support the technology.

DLSS won’t come to the AMD-powered Steam Deck, of course, since it requires proprietary Nvidia machine learning silicon, but we recently learned the Steam Deck will support AMD’s arguably much less capable FSR.

Nvidia originally announ…

Spotify says it’s retiring its Car View feature, which was introduced at the beginning of 2019 as a way to make the app less distracting and easier to control while driving (via 9to5Google).

The moderator wrote:We can confirm that we’re retiring the car view feature.

At the moment, Car View still works on my iPhone, but not on my Android device.

You can run the latter on your phone’s screen as well, which will give you a similar interface to Car View.

Spotify’s moderators haven’t responded in the thread (which has over 108 comments) with any estimate on when users can expect a replacement for Car View, or what that replacement will look like.

Good gaming GPUs are still selling for ridiculous sums on eBay, because they’re practically impossible to find at retail — particularly for anything close to their MSRP.

But if you’re willing to buy an entire prebuilt gaming PC instead, there are four specific Black Friday deals I think are worthy of bringing to your attention.

You won’t see that GPU or that price when you first click the link; you’ll need to add the $40 premium for the case with the 800W power supply first, then select the RTX 3080 graphics card.

Related The best Black Friday deals you can get right nowWe saw the RTX 3080 fetching an average of $1,773 on eBay last week — just for the graphics card by itself.

RTX 3060 TiTwo…

Without good games, the original Xbox would have crumbled in defeat before the gaming might of Sony and Nintendo.

The task of building a portfolio of console games fell to Ed Fries, who was head of Microsoft Game Studios from 1995 to 2004.

I was definitely ready to fall back on my PC game business, to not walk away from that.

Maybe not at Nintendo, because they’re really good at making games really cheaply.

Really, really hard.

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022.

CD Projekt Red wants to keep expanding.

In an interview with Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, CD Projekt Red chief executive officer Adam Kiciński explained that recent efforts to grow fit into a long-term strategy for the studio.

Plagued with bugs and technical issues, Cyberpunk 2077 and CDPR took somewhat of a beating from the press and its fanbase.

The patch for the latest generation of consoles is now due out in Q1 2022.

The report surveyed the views of startups in the U.S. and U.K. to see how they have responded more than a year and a half after the pandemic first hit.

It’s particularly underscored by the fact that 62% of U.S. startups and 59% of U.K. startups reported seeing business growth negatively impacted.

However, while activity is solidly re-emerging, the report also analyzes what can help create a better startup ecosystem in the future.

Raising investment remains the biggest challenge, according to 85% of all startups surveyed.

Read the full report by Angel Investment Network.

The San Francisco company is creating a blockchain game platform which will enable game companies to create blockchain games that are both compliant and interoperable.

Forte’s job is offloading this work from the game companies themselves and helping them make the transition to blockchain games.

We’re seeing more and more triple-A talent leave traditional publishers and studios to focus on blockchain games.

They see the future of how that’s going to allow the platform, the network, the ecosystems to grow big.

You’re going to see the same thing now with blockchain games.

Meeting venture capitalists and raising venture capital isn’t something you should do on a whim, you should be as prepared as possible to maximize your chances of success.

Here are the four things you should do before approaching any venture capitalists.

When you’re ready to start approaching and meeting with venture capitalists, you’ll know your story so well that you can articulate it into a simple solution sentence.

If you can do these two things, you’re well on your way to being ready to contact VCs.

Make a teaser deckSome founders try to have their entire pitch deck ready before they even think about meeting venture capitalists, but in reality, things change so fast that your deck will…

Learn moreAccording to a report by Synopsys, 97% of software and systems targets tested during 2020 were found to contain a vulnerability.

Insecure data storage and communication vulnerabilities plague mobile applications.

Eighty percent of the discovered vulnerabilities in the mobile tests were related to insecure data storage.

Of the tested targets, 83% were web applications and systems, 12% were mobile apps, and the remainder were either source code or network systems or applications.

Considering that these industries are heavily reliant on software, it’s crucial to prevent identified software vulnerabilities from severely impacting business.

Cyber physical systems securityThe concept of cyber physical systems security recognizes that cyber threats and vulnerabilities now extend outside of IT infrastructure alone, and can impact the increasingly IT- and IoT-connected physical infrastructure, as well.

Cyber physical systems security ultimately spans IoT, industrial IoT, and OT, as well as concepts such as smart cities.

How it works: Digital risk protection services can provide brand protection, data leakage protection, and services to protect against account takeover and fraud campaigns.

To keep in mind: Digital risk protection services are starting to converge with other technologies such as external attack surface management.

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Learn moreAs 2022 quickly approaches, Symmetry Systems and Osterman Research have released a report detailing how organizations plan to deploy zero-trust architecture, with 53% of respondents citing high-profile ransomware attacks as their primary motivator.

Incorporating zero-trust principles into modern data security ensures no one point of failure when systems are breached.

According to the report, a zero-trust architecture is expected to increase cybersecurity protections’ efficacy to stop data breaches by 144%.

Other key highlights from respondents include barriers encountered when deploying a zero-trust architecture, their confidence level in existing cybersecurity protections, the to…

The recommendation[s] on the ethics of AI is a major answer,” UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay said in a press release.

Facial recognition bans had been introduced in at least 16 states including Washington, Massachusetts, and New Jersey as of July.

Regardless of their impact, the UNESCO recommendations signal growing recognition on the part of policymakers of the need for AI ethics guidelines.

Regulation with an emphasis on accountability and transparency could go a long way toward restoring trust in AI systems.

For AI coverage, send news tips to Kyle Wiggers — and be sure to subscribe to the AI Weekly newsletter and bookmark our AI channel, The Machine.

Learn moreAs AI-powered technologies proliferate in the enterprise, the term “explainable AI” (XAI) has entered mainstream vernacular.

A FICO report found that 65% of employees can’t interpret how AI model decisions or predictions are made — exacerbating the challenge.

What is explainable AI (XAI)?

Local explanations provide a detailed description of how the model came up with a specific prediction.

As the Brookings Institute writes: “Consider, for example, the different needs of developers and users in making an AI system explainable.

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is an odd duck, with one foot in its point-and-click adventure game roots and the other in action-oriented open-world modernity.

At its best, it’s a fun detective simulator with investigation, deduction, and all the things you want when you play Sherlock Holmes.

Chapter One is ostensibly a prequel about a youthful Sherlock Holmes investigating his mother’s mysterious death on the fictional island of Cordona.

I get it — Holmes has training in martial arts and freely uses a pistol, but that’s not the gameplay I want when I boot up a Sherlock Holmes game.

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is out now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

To fast-track their data and analytics strategies and ultimately compete with leading data-powered enterprises, organizations must modernize their data estates.

To begin such a transition, you should map relevant transactional and historical data with the new data systems.

Does my company have a thorough process of connecting multiple data sources, cleansing and preparing the data, sharing the data throughout the organization, and performing analysis to gain insights into business processes?

Accelerate innovation with DataOpsTo continuously modernize data estates, organizations should begin looking to the future of data-driven innovation — data operations.

As enterprises rapidly transform t…

While a typical breach, on average, costs around $4 million, Target’s infamous holiday season data breach cost the corporation $300 million — a number that is far from jolly.

But, to be successful, continuous focus on cyberhealth, months before the holiday season, is essential.

Here are three tips to help protect your business this holiday season and beyond.

Education and awareness measures take time and cannot be prioritized just as the busy holiday season approaches.

Without him, the holiday season and beyond would have been assuredly way less enjoyable and Marv and Harry would have made out like bandits.

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022.

It’s my favorite time of the year again, which means I’m ready to recommend some more retro gaming-themed gifts.

Mega Man X: Maverick Hunter’s Field GuidePrice:$23.65Where to buy: AmazonImage Credit: AmazonAnyone who knows me knows that I love Mega Man.

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I’m pointing out their Tron machine here because it’s new and, look, I love Tron.

And then I thought, “Wait, we should do an Elric game.” I said that kind of half-jokingly at the time.

Hillborg: “Dark fantasy,” that’s generally how the Elric saga is described, an originating or perhaps the originating dark fantasy story.

It’s fantastic that we’re actually making Michael Moorcock’s Elric game.

There are a lot of different inspirations, pools of inspiration that he drew from to create the Elric saga.

It would be close to impossible to develop an Elric game without real resources.

The federal government has been blasted by a Senate committee for the lack of progress made towards auditing its IT capability.

The Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration said progress on an "urgent audit" that government agreed to undertake has been lagging, which has resulted in delays for its IT advancement.

"The committee is extremely disappointed by the apparent lack of progress made on the 'urgent audit' of ICT capability, risks, and needs committed to by the government in December 2019," the committee said [PDF].

The audit, currently being conducted by the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) under the moniker of a digital review, only commenced in March 2021.

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Image: Getty ImagesThe Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has announced it will commence a follow-up audit into the effectiveness of the controversial Cashless Debit Card (CDC) program.

Under the audit, ANAO said it would examine whether the Department of Social Services has effective risk management, contract management and procurement processes in place to support the administration of the Cashless Debit Card program.

As part of the audit, ANAO is also seeking audit evidence and input from members of the public.

In ANAO's first audit into the CDC program, it found that Social Services largely established appropriate arrangements to implement the program's trial.

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Image: StarlinkThe India Department of Telecommunications has warned its citizens on Friday evening not to purchase Starlink services as SpaceX is not licensed to sell satellite internet on the subcontinent.

The warning was issued after the department noted that SpaceX was pre-selling Starlink services in India on its site.

"Accordingly, the government has asked the company to comply with the Indian regulatory framework for rendering the satellite based communication services and refrain from booking/rendering the satellite internet services in India with immediate effect," it said.

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Westpac said more than 800,000 customers with a mobile running Android 10+ will be upgraded to the newest version of its app over the coming weeks.

The rollout follows the app being introduced to the bank's 1.7 million iPhone customers earlier in the year.

"Mobile has become the channel of choice for customers, with more than 84% of consumer and business digital banking taking place on a smartphone or tablet," said Westpac consumer and business banking chief executive Chris de Bruin.

Westpac's announcement follows Bendigo and Adelaide Bank outlining how it plans to leverage the digital capabilities it gained from its recent acquisition of Melbourne-based fintech Ferocia to scale its mobile-…

The federal government has announced it will amend telecommunications legislation to provide telcos with the ability to block scam SMS messages.

"The regulatory amendment we have enacted provides the telecommunications sector with the authority they need to block malicious SMS messages at scale and protect the Australian public from scammers," Minister for Home Affairs Karen Andrews said.

The changes entail amending the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (TIA Act) so that telcos can intercept malicious SMS messages to be able to block them.

The capability is currently being run as a pilot inside Telstra so that any scam SMS messages sent to its staff can help "train" the …

Sydney's Tech Central has welcomed Q-Ctrl, Sydney Quantum Academy, and Quantum Brilliance as the first tenants of its newest precinct known as the quantum terminal.

"From December, businesses can apply for rebates on rental and fit-out costs of up to AU$600,000 a year through the Tech Central Scaleup Accommodation Rebate," Ayres said.

Meanwhile, Stone and Chalk has been appointed by the state government as the operator of the new scaleup hub at Tech Central, following a tender process.

The Scaleup Hub will be located at 477 Pitt Street, spanning across six levels and 8,000 square metres.

A national space industry hub and semiconductor hub are also set to be established and form part of Tech…

The Australian government will look to introduce laws that force social media platforms to "unmask" online trolls despite experts saying it will do little to reduce online abuse.

Under the legislation, the proposed laws would also make it mandatory for social media platforms to have a standardised complaints system that allows defamatory remarks to be removed and trolls identified with their consent.

The laws, if passed, would also redirect the liability for potential defamation from organisations running a social media page to social media platforms instead.

Social media services, they need to step up and they need to understand that they have a responsibility in this regard," Cash said.

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The impact of cloud computing on skills is more complex.

Tech staff will need to shift from maintaining systems to developing new ones, most likely by tying cloud services together.

Dell Technologies has appointed Leanne Buer as the company's New Zealand country manager, effective as of Monday.

With over 25 years' experience in the New Zealand tech sector, Buer has also held senior roles at Spark New Zealand, Microsoft, and Telecom New Zealand.

"I'm excited to join Dell Technologies -- its purpose to create technologies that drive human progress really resonates with me.

Every person I have met in the company is proud of their contribution and the culture that is Dell Technologies.

This 'service' orientation really drives behaviour and in turn great outcomes for customers," Buer said.

"This is going to make El Salvador the financial centre of the world," Blockstream chief strategy officer Samson Mow said on stage beside Bukele, as reported by Reuters.

Mow talked up the "game theory" surrounding the bond issuance, and said bitcoin would hit the $1 million mark, allowing El Salvador to easily repay the 10-year bonds issued at 6.5%.

That's a pretty sweet deal -- though not so sweet for El Salvador.

"Note that real-world usage of Bitcoin by the populace of El Salvador doesn't seem to matter for this plan.

Little wonder that bitcoin holders would be pleased if El Salvador did indeed lock up its volcano bitcoin for at least five years, as planned.

In the seventy-three years since the United Nations ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the world has been unable to agree what rights, exactly, should be accorded human beings.

That's an important achievement because the impending arrival of virtual worlds threatens to compromise human autonomy in the most basic sense.

The good news is, there is a solution to all of that, an approach that will promote individual autonomy and form the basis of human rights and civil rights.

Societies around the world need to continue the unfinished business of the Internet and institute personal protocols in order to assure human and civil rights.

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The Journal offers that corded headphones "wall you off from others" more successfully than do AirPods.

Some, it seems, now associate Apple's precious wireless buds with "that whole tech-finance-bro look where they always have their Patagonia vest on and their AirPods in."

I fear there may be one other aspect embraced by AirPods refuseniks: They're simply a pain.

Why, some AirPods owners openly confess they have nightmares -- real, frightening events during sleep time -- about losing an AirPod.

Or, perhaps, not wearing headphones at all and instead of taking in the sights and people around you?

Usually, an iPhone gives you some advanced warnings before it dies.

Problem is, most of the time people ignore these warnings until the iphone actually stops working.

Here are five warning signs that your iPhone is is about to die.

Don't try to squeeze the iPhone back together as this could damage the display or puncture the battery.

Do not underestimate how dangerous a defective battery can be.

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The retailers he worked with were aware of gift card scams even back then, Roberts added, but it was small enough that "they mostly didn't really care."

Read more: Gift card scams are growing, and retailers aren't doing much about itNow the fraud has gotten so big that some people's righteous anger has boiled over into action.

"As a retailer, you don't know if you're accepting a fraudulent gift card versus a real gift card," said Julie Fergerson, head of the Merchant Risk Council, a nonprofit that helps educate and train online fraud and payments professionals.

"The gift card industry as a whole -- including retailers -- wants consumers to have positive experiences with our brands," the Ret…

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Make Amazon Pay is a coalition of workers and labor organizations calling for a labor strike by Amazon employees across the company's operations, such as data centers, factories and warehouses.

It is time to Make Amazon Pay."

Respecting workers' rights focuses primarily on allowing employees to form a union and for Amazon to not conduct union-busting tactics.

Last year, there was a similar call for a workers' strike on Black Friday after Amazon's sales rose sharply during the COVID pandemic.

In April, Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, voted against forming a union at that facility.

Getty ImagesFrom gift to fraudThe gift card industry is already larger than the gross domestic product of all but a handful of countries.

You can find all manner of gift cards for all sorts of things at drug stores, convenience shops and grocery chains.

Which is maybe why she trusted Kevin, who was begging her to buy gift cards.

"Have you been asked to buy gift cards to pay a fine, taxes, fees or to help someone?"

Fletcher himself became a victim when scammers emptied a $100 gift card his mother had bought for the fishing store Bass Pro Shops.

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Jung Yeon-Je/Getty ImagesSamsung on Tuesday announced plans to build a $17 billion semiconductor factory in central Texas, a massive investment that comes amid a global chip shortage.

The facility will be located in Taylor, where Samsung already has a production facility.

The electronics giant will break ground next year, and chip production is expected to begin in 2024.

The 2.5 million-square-foot facility in Taylor will be larger than the sizable presence Samsung already has in Austin.

In 2012, the company announced a $4 billion investment in a Texas plant to boost chip production to meet the increasing demand for mobile devices including smartphones and tablets.

Some Amazon shoppers accept refunds and gift cards in exchange for positive reviews, despite the company's ban on the activity.

Amazon also says it puts resources into removing fake reviews and the accounts that post them, adding that it blocked 200 million suspected fake reviews before they were posted in 2020.

Amazon also struggles to identify fake reviews that come from real customers who've bought and used a product.

Another major challenge to Amazon is that the fake reviews are often coordinated on social media sites the company doesn't control.

Since positive reviews are so central to sellers' successes, Amazon's ban on reviews in exchange for refunds aims to keep these reviews trustw…

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Spurred by concerns about consumer waste and climate change, attitudes about secondhand goods have been shifting for years.

The reevaluation has created a booming business for everything from auction sites to online consignment stores.

The popularity of used items has prompted many consumers to consider a practice that was once unthinkable: giving secondhand goods as gifts.

Nearly 40% of respondents to a survey conducted on behalf of resale site Mercari said they're planning to buy at least one secondhand gift this year.

Buying used items online has been around since Web 1.0.

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And as the effects of the climate crisis -- fires, floods, hurricanes and droughts -- are being more keenly felt, technology companies have been increasingly vocal in the conversation about how to tackle the climate crisis.

"Why does he have more voice than young people that are suffering, or will suffer the consequences of the climate crisis?"

Our efforts are stronger together in our work to find lasting solutions to the urgent climate crisis.

The space also provided a platform for smaller companies to showcase their climate tech.

Other tech companies also focused their COP26 efforts on trying to use their reach to broaden access to the summit.

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The iPhone maker sent a memo to staff saying it plans to reopen offices in February, as opposed to earlier plans for January.

The move marks a key moment for Apple as it charts plans for employees to return to the office.

The tech giant has faced unusually public pushback from some employees who've asked it to consider more-flexible work options.

"We continue to be concerned that this one-size-fits-all solution is causing many of our colleagues to question their future at Apple," the employees said in a joint letter sent to Apple CEO Tim Cook this summer.

Apple did tell employees that it'll allow up to four weeks of remote work each year, offering more opportunity for travel or change in ro…

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How PPC Affects After BERT Update; Impact on PromotersNot to mention, this update has left the advertisers curious as to what exactly BERT is and how PPC affects after the BERT update.

What Is BERT Update?

Let’s discuss how the BERT algorithm update will affect the PPC or paid search advertisers.

While most digital marketers are discussing the impact of the BERT update on SEO, some are concerned about the effects of BERT on PPC.

As BERT will affect content marketing and SEO, it is likely to impact PPC marketing too.

Conversational AI solutions are one of the most effective applications of AI and machine learning.

7 Mistakes to Avoid While Implementing Conversational AI SolutionsLet’s explore the 7 common mistakes while implementing conversational AI solutions:Starting a Conversational AI Project Without a Proper Strategy and PlanningThe objective of implementing the conversational AI project shapes the process of developing the solutions like chatbots, smart bots, and virtual assistants.

This leads to optimized targeting and appropriate segmentation of the audience for conversational AI solutions.

Poor Conversation DesigningThe backend algorithm for text generation and speech processing is the foundati…

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A Cloud Computing Service Platform (PaaS) enables clients to build, secure, operate, and manage online applications.

How to Secure Platform as a Service (PaaS) EnvironmentsA PaaS is frequently not secured the same way an on-premises data center is.

Additionally, PaaS users may utilize the platform’s security features or third-party solutions.

The combination of built-in platform security features, add-ons, third-party solutions, and security methods substantially improves account, app, and data protection.

Security teams in an ideal world would target risks and vulnerabilities before attackers were aware of them.

Blockchain technology appears to have the potential of mitigating common issues that make people wary of popular social platforms.

So, stick around till the end to see if blockchain-based social networks are the next big thing.

Blockchain and social media: The inception of decentralized social networks.

By decentralizing social platforms, blockchain technology eliminates censorship bias and advocates for freedom of speech and rights of expression.

At this stage we can assume, from the above factors, that decentralized, blockchain-based social platforms have a bright future from the social media sector.

As CEO of JumpCrew, we recently celebrated an amazing growth milestone that culminated in hiring an astounding 100 people in only 100 days amidst a labor shortage and the pandemic.

How We Hired 100 People in 100 DaysI wanted to take a moment to share our experience with the process and provide some valuable insights into what it entailed.

Instead, co-workers want great compensation packages, and ones that stand out can help secure great talent.

Prepare yourself and your existing team for the new hiresHiring 100 people in 100 days is no small task, and it requires an all-hands-on-deck approach.

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For payment processing, 5G will affect its latency, scalability, and efficiency.

This article will cover how 5G relates to payment processing and discuss four of the major impacts we expect to see.

4 Key Impacts of 5G on Payment ProcessingUnderstanding how 5G will affect payment processing is crucial, whether you are a merchant, business owner, or consumer.

Benefits of blockchain IoT for payment processing include:Accelerated Transactions: 5G IoT systems on their own may struggle to reduce latency.

Conclusion: When to Expect Widespread Adoption of 5G for PaymentsAs 5G becomes more widely adopted, the payment processing industry will undergo an equally significant evolution.

The Function of Programming LanguagesBefore we delve into speculative territory, what’s established the real function of programming languages.

Because of this, programming languages also make programming much more accessible to a larger number of people.

Key Elements for Future Programming LanguagesWhat are future programmers going to need from their programming languages?

In the future, programming languages may take this abstraction to an even higher level – grouping functions and simplifying commands to be even more intuitive.

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For example, hackers used a phone spear-phishing attack on Twitter employees to obtain their credentials.

All these big companies were affected by data security failure, both at rest and in transit.

With strong data hygiene and strong employee risk profiles, companies can rebuff these ransomware attacks.

With a patch management program, you can mitigate and avoid ransomware attacks and similar situations.

IoT Security : Edge devices such as thermostats and routers are increasingly being used by hackers to gain access to overall systems.

For most startups, lead generation is indispensable.

So what is it that most startups get so wrong about lead generation?

Some Startups See Lead Generation as Indistinguishable from Sales and MarketingFirst, they see lead generation as another name for sales or marketing (or both).

In line with this, you should be working with a genuine lead generation expert, not just a salesperson or marketer.

ConclusionUnfortunately, there’s no “one size fits all” lead generation strategy, and there’s no clear-cut advice that can make any startup successful with lead generation.

The use of artificial intelligence in everyday life allows technology to reproduce some of the user’s tasks at an automatic level.

In addition, the technology allows devices to assess the situation and draw conclusions without human consent.

Let’s take a look at several devices that can be used in the “Smart Home” system, equipped with AI and IoT technologies, their capabilities, and functions.

Smart speakersSmart speakers were one of the earliest devices to incorporate AI and IoT technologies.

AI and IoT are improving, and over time their capabilities in the “Smart Home” system will become limitless.

Strategies to Achieve Process ExcellenceAccording to recent statistics, the process mining software market will grow by an incredible 42% to almost $7 billion by 2028.

Here, we provide strategies for success with process mining and its next-generation approach: process intelligence.

Success Strategy #1: Create a Digital Twin to Understand Process BehaviorAn underused capability of process intelligence in process behavior.

Process behaviors can be defined as steps occurring or not occurring during any procedure or where steps are repeated.

The Process BehaviorWhen business analysts or process excellence experts can define any process behavior of interest to them and see how metric results va…

There’s been a lot of talk in the news and social media about smart homes.

You don’t hear much about smart homes in Great Britain, Russia, Indonesia, or Bolivia.

Smart Home vs. Dumb HomeNow, the opposite of a smart home is the dumb home.

The chances of these older traditional homes becoming smart homes is dismal.

Whether you live in a smart home or a dumb home — just make it a good one.

Even though many European companies already had some experience navigating remote work, the fact remained that most companies, both in Europe and around the world, faced serious difficulties in organizing effective remote work strategies.

Many countries are beginning to return to a “new normal.”However, remote work is something that is here to stay.

In the case of remote work, finding the proper project management tools is critical to the success and effectiveness of your employees’ work.

Manage Successful Remote Work With These Project Management Software for the Best ResultsThe most popular project management software options are Trello and Jira.

Understanding that some employees work bes…

Open Banking for BusinessesFor businesses, open banking will offer efficient and effective financial tools that will reduce manual tasks.

Today, many countries have launched open banking regulations, which have helped banks and fintech to initiate open banking.

Open Banking and the Payments IndustryWhile open banking has a huge impact on the banking industry, other related industries are expected to undergo a huge change as well.

There is no doubt that the open banking trend will transform the payments industry with all this said.

Future of Open BankingOpen banking is not only disrupting the local payment industry but the cross-border payments industry as well.

According to the report, the same thing that happened with the original iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch could happen with this rumored headset.

As Gurman recalls, the original Apple Watch took 227 days to actually launch.

He writes:Around the time of the Apple Watch debut, Cook—three years into his tenure as CEO—was under pressure from investors and customers to deliver a new product category.

According to Kuo, Apple’s AR headset will have a processor “with the same computing power level as the Mac” and its chip design will be the most significant difference between the Apple AR headset and its competitors.

I could see Apple announcing the headset at its 2022 Worldwide Developers Conference a…

Apple CEO Tim Cook paid a visit to Alabama this weekend to attend the college football matchup between his alma mater Auburn University and the University of Alabama.

While in town, Cook was also presented with the “Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Captains of Industry Award” from Auburn University’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

As a refresher, Cook graduated from Auburn University with a degree in industrial engineering before attending Duke University for his MBA.

In a post on LinkedIn, the school wrote:Welcome back Tim Cook, ‘82 industrial engineering and Apple CEO.

Also while in Auburn, Cook made an appearance on the Friday episode of The Paul Finebaum Show on ESPN.

Despite its failed AirPower experiment a few years ago, Apple is reportedly still working on a multi-device charger for its products.

In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes that Apple is still working on this multi-device charger.

This sort of technology is truly wireless charging, unlike the current inductive “wireless” charging technology available today.

For instance, an iPhone could eventually charge AirPods or an Apple Watch:I do think Apple is still working on some sort of multi-device charger that it intends to eventually release.

I also believe Apple is working on short and long distance wireless charging devices and that it imagines a futur…

It’s been a few months since WhatsApp started working on a new Reactions feature.

As for a release date, WABetaInfo says that this feature is still under development and there isn’t a clear release date for this feature.

Recently, the publication was able to discover another feature WhatsApp is readying: the ability to play audio messages at different speeds.

This is a preview of message reactions, from the 2.21.22.17 beta update.

pic.twitter.com/T3ACGivhAK — WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) October 29, 2021FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

There are plenty of folks out there authoring gift guides of the best Apple products to buy this holiday season.

We’ve compiled a list of some lesser known Apple products that will truly change the life of the loved one you give them to.

Get in on the action early with Apple’s Mac Pro wheels kit.

Mac Pro Security Lock Adapter | $49.00Know someone who is trying to hold down their extremely coveted 2013 trash can Mac Pro?

Apple Lightning to Micro USB Adapter | $17.50Did you love the Apple lightning to 3.5mm headphone adapter?

Well, that’s just where WD’s My Passport SSD comes into play.

Designed to store data for the long haul, WD’s My Passport SSD comes in four storage options, including 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB3.

Well, either way the WD’s My Passport SSD will work natively thanks to its USB 3.2 Gen 1 USB-C connection.

With speeds of up to 1,000MB/s1, data moves quickSince there’s a USB 3.2 Gen 1 interface, the WD’s My Passport SSD brings some blazing-fast speeds to the party.

Compare that to old traditional hard drives or even some other SSDs, and the WD’s My Passport SSD stands out from the pack with blazing-fast speeds.

According to reverse engineer Nima Owji, we might be close to the release date of Reactions.

Twitter has even added a new tab explaining how downvotes work:Tap to downvote: See a reply that doesn’t seem relevant to the conversation?

As it seems, the downvote on Twitter will also be tied with the Sort Replies feature.

The company explains:Relevant to you : Replies from people you follow and other replies likely to be most interesting to you;: Replies from people you follow and other replies likely to be most interesting to you; All Replies: All replies, including those that may be potentially smappy, harmful, or offensive.

pic.twitter.com/21G3SdsU2i — Nima Owji (@nima_owji) November 23, 2021…

Apple @ Work is brought to you by Mosyle, the leader in modern mobile device management (MDM) and security for Apple enterprise and education customers.

Over 22,000 organizations leverage Mosyle solutions to automate the management and security of millions of Apple devices daily.

A significant shift in recent years in the enterprise IT industry is how fast new versions of major operating systems are implemented.

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Apple does continue to update older operating systems for essential security updates, but it’s recommended to get current as soon as possible.

That’s not even to mention that the company still treats AirPods like any other bluetooth device in the settings menu.

An AirPods companion app would probably look something like the Watch app.

One of our biggest gripes with AirPods is the way that Apple seeds software updates to users.

Discover new thingsLike the Watch app and Tips app, the discover tab could teach users about features that they may not know about.

What do you think about the idea of Apple building a dedicated AirPods app for managing settings and downloading software updates?

The popular gamer-focused messaging platform “Discord” is finally working on an update for its macOS app that brings full support to Macs with M1 chip and later.

Although the update is not yet officially available to the public, it can be downloaded as a beta app for now.

When apps are updated to run natively on the Apple Silicon platform, they not only perform better but are also more energy efficient as native ARM apps can take full advantage of the M1, M1 Pro, or M1 Max chip.

However, it’s worth noting that Discord for macOS is still an Electron app, so the performance gains may not be that noticeable.

Discord Canary with M1 support can be downloaded on the platform’s official website.

The official BLUETTI Black Friday sale is now here, delivering some of the largest discounts the company has ever offered.

That’s where the BLUETTI PV120 and PV200 portable solar panel systems come to play.

With their improved shading performance, the PV120 and PV200 solar panel systems are made to work in just about every condition.

BLUETTI’s PV120 and PV200 portable solar panels are up to 20% off for Black FridayMore Bluetti Black Friday DealsRounding out Bluetti’s Black Friday deals, you can score hundreds of dollars off the company’s more compact and portable batteries.

Bluetti’s EB55 and EB70 deliver 700W of output while the AC50S, one of the brand’s most affordable offerings, can deli…

Even so, there are still plenty of notable deals out there and up for the taking.

Below, you’ll find our list of the top 10 Black Friday deals still available as of now.

6) Fashion deals abound from every major playerNearly every fashion brand is offering some sort of discount for Black Friday this year.

Ali has rounded up all of the best deals in our guide to help you find a new style this winter.

3) Black Friday delivers the best TV deals of the yearYou’re likely tired of hearing about it, but Black Friday is the best time of year to buy a TV.

Note: Fi is $100 off at $50 for Black Friday9to5Mac‘s Zac Hall reviewed the Fi collar last year, and for the safety of our pup, it seemed like a no-brainer.

From a hardware perspective, Fi uses GPS Tracking and LTE data and sends location data to your iPhone or Android app.

Fi will also track sleeping patterns, and you can compare the activity of your dog vs. similar dogs that use the Fi app in a sort of anonymized pet social network.

When your dog is in your yard, the Fi collar will connect to your Wi-Fi network and it uses extremely low power.

Since the original Fi collar was released and we reviewed it, the company has released a Series 2.

Read on for a closer look at the Mujjo iPhone 13 Leather Wallet Case and why it still offers a compelling experience.

Apple Leather Case + MagSafe Wallet on left, Mujjo Leather Wallet Case on rightAs far as thickness, Mujjo is notably slimmer when compared to Apple’s leather case plus the MagSafe Leather Wallet.

I’ve been using Apple’s Leather Case and MagSafe Leather Wallet for about a year.

Mujjo Leather Wallet Case for iPhone 13 wrap-upWhile at first, it might seem like a hassle that the Mujjo Leather Wallet Case doesn’t have MagSafe support, when you stop to think about Apple’s MagSafe Wallet experience (and really any other iPhone wallet) there’s some give and take involved.

I think if…

Following the announcement of the new M1 Pro and M1 Max-powered MacBook Pros last month, a trend quickly emerged with multiple big tech companies rolling out the new machines to their engineering teams.

Now, Reddit staff engineer Jameson Williams has shared a detailed breakdown of the improvements the company expects to see with the new MacBook Pro models.

In a post on Reddit this week, Williams elaborated on his initial claims about the effectiveness of the M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pros.

In today’s post, Williams says that Reddit has observed that a 2021 M1 Max MacBook Pro can finish a clean build of the Reddit app for Android in around half the time as an Intel i9 MacBook Pro from 2019.

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Минг-Чи Куо, который славен своими довольно точными прогнозами по Эппл, утверждает что мы увидим очки Apple VR уже в 2022. По его представлениям в шлеме будет основной процессор такой же как в макбуках, и дополнительный для работы с сенсорами, видимо как в мобильных устройствах. Два микроэкрана от Сони, разрешением 4к каждый кажутся не очень убедительными даже сегодня.Все это, конечно, слухи, однако они показывают уровень напряженности и ожидания рынка. Видимо область VR будет расти уже в любом случае, можно начинать занимать лучшие места и располагаться на этом рынке поудобнее https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/25/kuo-apple-ar-headset-mac-level-computing/

Муниципалитет Пекина выдал разрешение для проекта Apollo Go, теперь этим роботакси можно взимать плату за проезд, для начала только в одной части города. Другие крупные города, такие как Шанхай, скорее всего, последуют этому примеру к началу следующего года. Компания-разработчик уже заявила, что будет взимать плату за проезд на уровне премиум-класса за роботакси, не раскрывая точную цену.Мне вдвойне интересно за этим наблюдать потому, что это проект компании Baidu, поисковой компании в последние годы растерявшей свою аудиторию. В штатах автоматические такси уже полнофукнциональны в небольшой части Финикса, Аризона и их тоже делает поисковая компания, Waymo, т.е. Гугл https://www.cnbc.com/20…

А тем временем в штатах Pinterest обьявил, что урегулировал иск от своих акционеров и обещает потратить 50 миллионов долларов на перестроение корпоративной культуры и поощрение разнообразия. Для тех кто не следил - акционеры компании требовали, чтобы в компании перестали дискриминировать женщин и цветных. Обвинения появились, когда две чернокожие женщины из группы по общественной политике Pinterest, Ифеома Озома и Аэрика Симидзу Бэнкс, публично раскритиковали обращение компании с дискриминируемыми сотрудниками, согласно судебным документам.Если вы меня читаете давно - вы знаете, я всегда за разнообразие и отсутствие дискриминации. Но иногда мне кажется, что в части американских компаний поя…

В Китае происходит что-то непонятное, там как минимум 9 государственных компаний, включая China Mobile ограничили для сотрудников использование WeChat. Основная причина - потенциальная угроза для безопасности.Если вы не знаете, в Китае WeChat это для многих и есть интернет. Там блоги, сообщения, видео, новости, доставка еды, такси, оплата и т.д. Думаю сотрудники China Mobile будут просто заводить себе по два телефона, другого варианта у них нет. https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-state-run-firms-limit-use-of-tencents-messaging-app-11637837474?mod=djemalertNEWS

Помните у меня был канал @now_ka - про новости науки? Я его перезапустил, можете снова подписываться (или отписываться). Там будет мало сообщений, 1-2 в день с самыми интересными научными статьями.

Если вы помните, Meta (тогда еще Facebook) активно обещали внедрить сквозное шифрование во всех своих продуктах как можно быстрее. Позавчера глава безопасности фейсбука и инстаграмма обьявил, что к сожалению полное внедрение не планируется раньше конца 2022 года. Причина не называется, но судя по всему это опять давление государства и той самой NSPCC, которая заботится о контроле за распространением детского порно.По этому поводу всплыл очень интересный твиттерный тред от выходца из фейсбука, который рассказывает как на самом деле обстоит дело. Полистайте, крайне любопытно узнать, что в гигантской корпорации такой же хаос и неумение принимать решения, как и в маленьких компаниях.

Когда запустился Apple AirTag я вам рассказывал, что практически все в этом устройстве скопировано из продукта компании Tile (кстати из солнечной Санта-Барбары). Так вот после выхода эйртега компания пала духом и была продана довольно большой в Штатах компании Life360. Последние производят очень полезный мобильный апп - в нем родственники и друзья могут постоянно смотреть где кто находится, и при этом не терять постоянно заряд батареи.История поучительная: очень сложно тягаться с гигантом, даже если твой продукт вышел на 6 лет раньше https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/22/life360-tile-acquisition/

В GoDaddy опять нашли дыру в их решиении для WordPress, но писать об этом уже не интересно. Интересно оценить, что публикация об этом инциденте и многих других теперь официально должна быть на sec.gov. Сам GoDaddy о проблеме молчит, на их сайте такую информацию не найти.Получается что хотели как лучше - заставили всех публиковать информацию о проблемах в безопасности на государственном сайте. Но теперь компании могут игнорировать правила хорошего тона и не публиковать информацию об уязвимостях у себя. Надеюсь, что это не станет общей практикой. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1609711/000160971121000122/gddyblogpostnov222021.htm

Совсем некогда было сегодня писать, но тут ребята в блоге криптобиржи Kraken показали, как очень легко они обходят работу сканера отпечатка пальцев. Причем в качестве примера устройства используется тач айди в макбуке, все максимально просто.Вывод в конце статьи максимально точный: в лучшем случае вам следует рассматривать отпечаток пальца только в качестве второго фактора аутентификации https://blog.kraken.com/post/11905/your-fingerprint-can-be-hacked-for-5-heres-how/

Очень приятный лонгрид в честь двадцатилетия со дня выхода GameCube, провалившейся приставки от Nintendo. Бывшие сотрудники вспоминают как происходил запуск, и рассказывают разное, в том числе самое важное - как выбрали вот этот фиолетовый цвет.Если у вас был геймкуб или вы фанат Энимал Кроссинг (а игра впервые вышла именно для этой приставки) - надо читать https://www.videogameschronicle.com/features/gamecube-at-20/

Вышла очень интересная статья “Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero” и я вам рекомендую ее почитать, у нее огромный потенциал изменить наше восприятие возможностей уже существующих систем ИИ. Вывод в статье такой: “Изучение эволюции человеческих концепций с помощью зондирования показало, что многие человеческие концепции могут быть точно регрессированы из сети AlphaZero после обучения, даже если AlphaZero никогда не видел человеческой игры в шахматы, и нет никакой целевой функции, способствующей человеческой игре / … / Факт, что человеческие концепции могут быть локализованы даже в сверхчеловеческой системе, обученной самостоятельной игрой, расширяет диапазон системы, в которых мы мо…

Сервисы GPT-3 от OpenAI теперь доступны для всех, правда в избранных странах. Список странный - Армения и Болгария есть, России или Украины нет.Раньше чтобы получить доступ к GPT-3 надо было отстоять большую очередь. Сейчас просто можно зарегистрироваться и вперед, главное чтобы хватало денег платить за использование. Ждем все новых и новых сервисов, которые обманчиво хорошо имитируют работу человека https://openai.com/blog/api-no-waitlist/

Спотифай обещает, что в приложение вернётся функция «прочитать текст» для песен. До 2018 года эта функция была для части треков, однако потом произошёл развод с Genius и сейчас тексты нормально видны только в Apple Music. Тексты в спотифай появятся через партнёрство с musixmatch - сейчас это самостоятельное приложение которое показывает текст в режиме караоке, строчку за строчкой. Судя по описаниям в спотифай будет так же.Кажется причиной такой высокой востребованности текстов стал хип-хоп - там текст перенасыщен смыслами и иногда подаётся с таким темпом, что невозможно ничего понять. Особенно в мамбл-рэпе:) https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/18/spotify-finally-rolls-out-real-time-lyrics-to-glo…

Spotify запустил платную подписку на подкасты во всем мире. Теперь платные подкасты есть почти повсеместно, но если честно никто этим не пользуется - время упущено. Хорошие шоу теперь выходят с поддержкой через патреон или на ютубе, где давно было известно как зарабатывать.Хороший урок о том, что все надо делать вовремя https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/spotifys-new-podcast-subscriptions-expand-to-global-markets/

Розыгрыш трёх TWS-наушников с ANCУчастников: 1886 чел.Продлится до 07.12.2021 16:00

Давненько у нас в Telegram розыгрышей не было — исправляем ситуацию!На кону три приза — TWS-наушники с активным шумоподавлением:1. Huawei FreeBuds 42. Panasonic RZ S500W3. Honor Earbuds 2 LiteУсловия прежние:1. Подписаться на канал @rozetked2. Нажать на кнопку «Участвовать» в посте ниже.Победителей выберет бот 7 декабря в 16:00 по МСК. Ники будут указан в посте ниже (это обновляемый пост). Доставка приза по территории РФ за наш счёт, в другие страны — за счёт победителя.От победителей ждём фотоотчёт о получении, который мы опубликуем в комментариях к этому посту.

В последний месяц 2021-го года любителям сериалов будет, на что потратить своё время.Новые проекты Дэвида Финчера и Даррена Аронофски, корейская научная фантастика, спин-офф «Мандалорца», продолжение «Секса в большом городе»,новые приключения Геральта и многое другое.Последний раз в этом году рассказываем вам про главные сериалы в нашей традиционной рубрике.rozetked.me/articles/20565

Обновлённая модель GeForce RTX 2060 окажется интереснее, чем предполагалось ранее.Она получит не только 12 ГБ памяти, но и увеличенное количество ядер CUDA — 2176 против 1920 у базовой RTX 2060.Представить новинку должны в декабре или январе. Официальная цена ожидается на уровне 300 долларов (~22 600 рублей).rozetked.me/news/20570

Субботний обзор — снова говорим про ноутбукиВ этот раз топовая модель Huawei MateBook 14s. Стильный и лёгкий бизнес-лэптоп с сенсорным экраном, быстрой зарядкой и не только. Подробнее — по ссылке.rozetked.me/reviews/20299

Собрали в нашей традиционной рубрике главные кинопремьеры декабря. Все релизы как на подбор. Естественно, новыми частями «Матрицы», «Человека паука» и «Охотников за привидениями» всё не ограничится.rozetked.me/articles/20556

Суперпремьера в Okko: «Веном 2»🔥Продолжение приключений жадного до сенсаций журналиста и несмышленого пришельца-убийцы, взявшего под контроль его человеческое тело. Эдди Брок как может старается установить со своим симбионтом Веномом добрососедские отношения. Но сосед из инопланетного монстра так себе: то и дело протестует против курицы и шоколада, грозится начать есть человеческие мозги, крушит дом и хрупкие отношения Эдди с бывшей.До конца недели в Okko идёт «Чёрная пятница», в течение которой вы сможете обменять бонусы «Спасибо» на «Веном 2»: vk.cc/c8q6zY 👈🏻#промо

Курсанты Военно-воздушной академии в Воронеже разработали роботизированный комплекс на гусеницах, замаскированный под булыжник.«Камень-шпион» оснащён камерой и микрофоном и может передавать картинку на расстояние до 2 км. Устройство проработает в режиме ожидания до суток.Говорят, что «аналогов такому дрону в Вооруженных силах нет».rozetked.me/news/20562

Telegram для iOS и macOS теперь умеет распознавать текст на изображениях из чатов и каналов — вероятно, это реализация функции «Онлайн-текст» от Apple.Пока только в бета-версии и без русского языка.rozetked.me/news/20559

В Telegram пропали анимированные эмодзи персика и баклажанаApple потребовала удалить анимации. Павел Дуров в своём Telegram-канале запустил опрос: «Полное прекращение работы Telegram на устройствах Apple» или «Удаление фонтанирующего баклажана».На Android анимации также удалили.rozetked.me/news/20555

Как сделать поддержку MagSafe на любом Android + обзор MagDart — первый официальный аналог MagSafe на Androidyoutu.be/crJu8tloss0

В Ростехе разработали «самоуничтожающуюся флешку»По нажатию кнопки встроенный источник питания активирует электродетонатор, который прожигает печатную плату кумулятивной струей. Для пользователя это безопасно, так как в процессе целостность корпуса не нарушается, говорят в компании.rozetked.me/news/20551

«Капсула Мини» с «Марусей» теперь доступна в трёх новых цветахПомимо чёрного и серого варианта, появились зелёный, синий и терракотовый. Оттенки создало британское дизайнерское бюро LAYER, которое участвовало в создании колонки.К «Чёрной пятнице» запущена акция — до конца ноября на колонку можно получить скидку до 90%. Для этого нужно поучаствовать в викторине на официальном сайте и получить промокод на скидку. #промо

Renault представила аэромобиль Air4, который сделан в честь 60-летия модели Renault 4.Прототип оборудован четырьмя винтами и способен подниматься на высоту 700 метров, а его максимальная скорость составляет 93 км/ч.Аэромобиль существует в одном экземпляре. Увидеть его можно будет в парижском музее Renault.rozetked.me/news/20547

Дорогие мои читатели! Сейчас мое окружение выглядит примерно так, и интернета в нем чаще всего нет; да и со временем на чтение новостей как-то не очень: первый за долгое время отпуск хочется провести насыщенно ;) Так что простите за нерегулярность постов тут в ближайшее время; я ещё вернусь ;))

👟 Пятничное под метапротеиновый коктейль: Nike-то, оказывается, вовсю осваивает Roblox! Внутри этой игровой платформы появился виртуальный мир NIKELAND, созданный по мотивам реальной штаб-квартиры Nike. — Пользователи могут создавать свои спортивные мини-игры;— Игроки получат виртуальную одежду бренда серий Air Force 1, Nike Blazer, ACG и Nike Tech Pack, включая свежие дропы Air Force 1 Fontanka и Air Max 2021;— Смартфоны и фитнес-браслеты будут передавать реальные движения в игру, благодаря чему игроки смогут совершать особенно крутые действия в виртуале, вроде длинных прыжков или спринтов;— И ещё одно смешение двух миров: в нью-йоркском Доме инноваций Nike с помощью дополненной реальности…

При публикации большинства ссылок здесь в каналах и чатиках телега подтягивает картинки из статей — и отлично видно, что очень редко это оригинальный график или документальная фотка. Гораздо чаще — купленное на фотостоках изображение примерно в тему. Nvidia делает не первую — зато вполне серьезную — заявку на то, чтоб за такими картинками не надо было ходить на фотостоки. Генерация фотореалистичной графики по краткому словесному описанию все больше становится реальностью, скоро работа бильд-редактора заметно изменится ;)https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-gaugan2-text-to-art-tool-shows-ai-could-replace-stock-photos

Наиболее популярный форм-фактор любительских (и многих профессиональных) дронов — квадрокоптер: тушка, из которой торчат четыре штанги с пропеллерами на концах. У этого формата есть проблемы с работой в тесных пространствах и вблизи людей: несмотря на разные защиты, которыми обвешивают винты, в итоге они часто задевают кого-то или что-то. Иногда даже целиком заключают квадрокоптер в коробку, делая его похожим на кирпич.Но вот появилось работоспособное решение, на вид словно из фантастического фильма: дрон под названием Dronut X1 (не случайно созвучно doughnut — пончик). Это футуристичного вида цилиндр с роторами внутри, несущий 4К камеру с возможностью стриминга картинки в реальном времени.…

«Нет инструмента, который позволил бы мерить уровень богатства языка. Если считать по объему словаря, то язык постоянно, каждый день пополняется новыми словами, но и старые медленно, но верно выходят из употребления.» — комментарий лингвиста по итогам любопытного количественного исследования эволюции языка за 100 лет. Попутно — ответ тем, кто любит сокрушаться, как все плохо и хужеет дальше:)Сравнивались дневниковые записи первых десятилетий прошлого века — и современные блоги, и любопытно посмотреть на слова, частотности которых сильно различаются.https://daily.afisha.ru/brain/21751-kak-yazyk-sovremennyh-blogov-otlichaetsya-ot-yazyka-staryh-dnevnikov-obyasnyaet-lingvist/А это исходный текс…

Пицца прямо полигон высоких технологий в фастфуде :) Наша ДоДо превращает пиццу в ИТ продукт, а тут команда инженеров трансформирует пиццерию в роботизированное производство по сборке… ой, пардон, приготовлению пиццы. Причём роботизированность никто не прячет стеснительно в невидимой кухне: наоборот, шоу роботов есть часть образа пиццерии. Выглядит и впрямь заманчиво, но хочется попробовать на вкус :)https://dornob.com/pazzi-pizzeria-staffed-by-robot-chefs-opens-second-paris-restaurant/

Вот и еще про материальную сторону цифровых умностей, раз уж статьи в тему косяком пошли: Подробный и с картинками рассказ про то, как Hyundai Sonata превращается в яндексовыкй беспилотник. Автор — инженер Яндекса, а не журналист, так что масса любопытных подробностей, внятные фотки и картинки — и совсем нет технических ляпов:)https://habr.com/ru/company/yandex/blog/585444/

Хорошая статья про то, сколько всего материального/инженерного под капотом техногигантов. Лидерство Netflix на рынке стриминга — это не только крутой контент, хорошее приложение и умный маркетинг. Это еще и уникальная собственная CDN для глобальной дистрибуции видео-контента, Open Connect. Больше миллиарда долларов и десять лет работы и организации партнерств вложены в 17 000 специально разработанных серверов, которые стоят в сетях крупных интернет-провайдеров в 158 странах мира. Правило “Anyone who wants to improve performance is going to try to put a server as close to the end user as possible” звучит просто, но требует колоссальной работы и массы придумок, когда дело доходит до реализаци…

Автономные легковушки Waymo не просто накатали миллионы тренировочных миль, но уже и возят реальных пассажиров в пилотных проектах в Фениксе и Сан-Франциско. Не так сильно на слуху усилия компании по созданию беспилотных грузовиков разной грузоподъемности — проект Waymo Via. Небольшие фургончики для последней мили внутригородской доставки уже местами тестируются, но вот сейчас компания выведет на дороги для начала испытаний магистральные фуры с автономностью Level 4: способность обходиться без водителя, но в определенных условиях. В рамках испытаний фуры будут перевозить почтовые отправления для почтовой службы UPS в Техасе. https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1134209_waymo-to-transport-goo…

Вторая на этой неделе интересна новость от Яндекса; интересная, в частности, тем, что она далеко не только про софт и программы:) Пока одни лезут из кожи вон, чтобы добавить реалистичности цифровым мирам, другие давно уже живут в модели, где цифра и физический мир тесно переплетены и неотделимы: для могучих цифровых алгоритмов нужны очень материальные вычислительные мощности, а беспилотные роверы-доставщики работают во вполне физическом окружении, и для их успеха инженерные решения в железе не менее важны, чем изощренные алгоритмы автономности.Поэтому интересно взглянуть, как вполне земная любовь потребителей к пицце заставляет переделывать аппараты, и как тестировщики в ИТ-компании учатся …

Неистовое желание Цукерберга подавать себя как строителя метавселенной начинает играть с ним злые шутки. Последние дни ленты забиты рассказами (и фотками Марка, конечно же) про прототип перчатки, которую они семь лет разрабатывали и которая добавит тактильности мирам Меты. Прототип выглядит так себе, а описания туманны, но это полбеды. Тут стартап HaptX, который уже не первый год разрабатывает аналогичные печатки, собрал на свои разработки $31 млн и еще в 2016 году публично демонстрировал свои прототипы журналистам, мягко заметил:Today, Meta announced their own prototype microfluidic haptic feedback glove. The core components of this prototype, including the silicone-based microfluidic tact…

Круглая дата: 50 лет с момента выхода первого коммерчески доступного микропроцессора. Вроде бы недавно: пятьдесят лет назад я радовался, что можно паять свой уселок на транзисторах, а не лампах, и миниатюрность транзистора казалось офигенным рывком на фоне ламповых устройств. Мысль, что через полвека в кармане любого прохожего на улице будет камушек с миллиардами транзисторов внутри в голову не закрадывалась. Но те, кто создал и запустил на рынок 4004, наверное, о чем-то догадывались. И слегка жаль, что фамилию Цукерберга знает весь мир, а инженеров Intel, создавших 4004 назовут очень немногие.https://wccftech.com/intel-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-4004-the-worlds-first-commercial-micropr…

Вышла из печати книга Жени Черешнева “Форма жизни №4” — не то, чтоб я был с автором во всем согласен, но тем книга и прекрасна: она достаточно содержательна, чтоб с ней хотелось спорить. Просто приведу тот текст, который и после прочтения рукописи писал на обложку издания:“Вопросы важнее ответов. Мы уже живем в метавселенной, в суперпозиции физического и цифрового миров, где процессами и решениями в привычном физическом мире управляют не только люди, но и интеллектуальные алгоритмы. Современные алгоритмы искусственного интеллекта способны учиться и делают это очень быстро. Поэтому нам, людям, необходимо хорошо понимать происходящее, возможности и ограничения ИИ, чтобы оставаться творцами со…

Про суперкомпьютеры Яндекса, которые, строго говоря, представляют собой вычислительные кластеры в наших датацентрах, сегодня уже многие написали. Три из них попали в первые полсотни глобального рейтинга суперкомпьютеров TOP500. Огромные поздравления всем тем, кто проектировал, налаживал и оптимизировал эти кластеры!Но и мне хочется: это история красивая и решением, и именами кластеров; а ещё внимательное чтение списка мировых суперкомпьютеров даёт много пищи для размышлений ;))https://nplus1.ru/news/2021/11/15/chervonenkis(Кому интересны чуть более технические подробности про кластеры, попавшие в рейтинг и про их тесты — вот текст на Хабре https://habr.com/ru/company/yandex/blog/589363/ )А …

Самые интересные проявления метавселенной как раз не сопровождаются использованием этого слова ;) Напомню, что на мой взгляд, метавселенная не про переселение всего в VR, а про суперпозицию, переплетение физического и цифрового миров в хороших продуктах сегодня и в почти любых продуктах — в скором будущем. Вот красивый пример: появился оригинальный мод игры Skyrim, в котором игроку понадобится не только шлем VR, но и простенький нейроинтерфейс: надеваемый на лоб обруч Muse, который снимает куцый вариант электроэнцефалограммы. Разработчики используют эти сигналы, чтобы оценить степень концентрации или расслабленности человека и, например, улучшить качество медитации. Но автор мода элегантно …