Компания начнет тестировать свои продукты в 2021 году.

Маск хотел решить эту проблему, написав на коробке «не огнемёт».

Компания стала партнером футбольного клуба в России и СНГ.

Gumroad помогает авторам продавать, например, онлайн-курсы или книги. После того как основатель Сахил Лавиния выгорел, он решил не тягаться с крупными компаниями, а растить стабильный бизнес. Конспект колонки о том, как он организовал процессы.

Данные сайта размещаются не на едином сервере, а децентрализованы.

Общий стиль играет на ностальгии, простые элементы лучше смотрятся на экранах смартфонов, а яркие цвета помогают не растерять «душу».

С ростом конкуренции компании всё сложнее содержать убыточное подразделение.

Причинами стали рост числа безналичных платежей и комиссия за любые переводы на сумму более 50 тысяч рублей в месяц.

Стартап помогает удалённо следить за ходом работ, сокращать сроки строительства и общаться с бригадами.

Я работаю в Тинькофф и по долгу службы иногда хожу на собеседования, общаюсь с кандидатами, даю обратную связь. Не сказать, чтобы это очень сложно, но чтобы заинтересовать кандидата, надо постараться произвести приятное впечатление. Казалось бы, ничего хитрого здесь нет: всего лишь задать правильные вопросы, рассказать, какой у вас крутой и уникальный проект, упомянуть про печеньки и еще 100500 приятных мелочей, которые есть только у вас. Однажды, во время пробежки, я слушал передачу, где речь шла про подбор персонала, рынок труда и про то, как правильно искать нужного кандидата. Я невольно задумался, насколько правильно я себя веду во время интервью. Задумался и вспомнил эпизоды, в которых…

ARM-процессоры становятся все более мощными, а сфера их применения — расширяется. Сейчас над новым производительным ARM-чипом работает компания Qualcomm. Ее процессор для десктопных ПК и ноутбуков получил название SC8280, и его без проблем можно будет использовать в Windows-компьютерах. Snapdragon SC828 появится в продаже в середине этого года, более точная дата неизвестна. Насколько можно понять, чип будет прямым конкурентом процессора от Apple, который тоже базируется на архитектуре ARM. Читать дальше →

Если вы используете OllyDbg не для отладки собственных приложений, для которых у вас есть отладочная информация, а для реверс-инжиниринга или исследования сторонних, типичная ваша деятельность — это вникание в машинный код чужого продукта, осознание сути происходящих вещей и расстановка большого числа меток (labels) и комментариев по всему коду, а также по секциям данных. Вы планомерно разведываете суть процедур/функций и переменных и даёте им имена, отражающие ваше понимание их предназначения. И вот спустя несколько часов (а то и дней) работы, когда вы разобрались и подписали сотни, а то и тысячи процедур и переменных, OllyDbg внезапно зависает или вылетает, унося в небытие все ваши нарабо…

Итак, все фотографии разложены по папкам и находить фотографии Новых годов или дней рождения стало быстро и удобно. Фотографии из отпусков тоже можно найти относительно быстро, но хотелось большего. А именно, искать по людям и не просто по людям, а по набору людей, например, найти все совместные фотографии детей или фотографии с бабушкой и т.д.Поэтому я решил немного углубиться в так называемый Face Recognition. Поехали!

На волне хайпа про РЖД я заметил, что много людей, даже из тех, кто "в теме", имеют странное представление о ситуации.

А большая часть тех, кто с безопасностью не связан вообще, высказывает какие-то уж совсем фантастические мнения, граничащие с теорией заговора.

В данной статье я сделаю попытку разобраться, без упора на информационную безопасность и поделиться своими мыслями, так что надеюсь, воспринято это будет правильно.

Под катом — мой личный анализ и попытка расставить точки над "ё".

А также несколько эксклюзивных железнодорожных фоточек... Читать дальше →

Сейчас новые версии Java выходят раз в полгода. В них время от времени появляются новые возможности: var в Java 10, switch-выражения в Java 14, рекорды и паттерны в Java 16. Про это всё, конечно, написано множество статей, блог-постов, сделано множество докладов на конференциях. Оказалось, однако, что мы все пропустили один очень крутой апгрейд языка - апгрейд обычного цикла for по набору целых чисел. Дело в том, что этот апгрейд случился не в языке, а в виртуальной машине, но заметно поменял на то как мы можем программировать на Java.Вспомним старый добрый цикл for: Читать далее

Дело было в далеком 2015 году. В продаже только появились очки виртуальной реальности Oculus DK2, рынок VR игр быстро набирал популярность. Возможности игрока в таких играх были невелики. Отслеживалось всего 6 степеней свободы движений головы — вращение (инерциалкой в очках) и перемещение в маленьком объеме в зоне видимости инфракрасной камеры, закрепленной на мониторе. Процесс игры представлял собой сидение на стуле с геймпадом в руках, вращение головой в разные стороны и борьбу с тошнотой. Звучало не очень круто, но я увидел в этом возможность сделать что-то интересное, используя свой опыт в разработке электроники и жажду новых проектов. Как можно было эту систему улучшить? Конечно, избав…

Мы часто пишем о том, как найти вакансии с релокацией. Но такой вариант подходит не всем, и в комментариях обсуждают, стоит ли выбирать переезд любой ценой. Правда в том, что работать в крупных технологических компаниях можно и из России. Как сделать оптимальный выбор работодателя и зачем отказываться от хороших предложений?Мы нашли человека, который построил впечатляющую карьеру в IT, принимая нетипичные решения. Он уходил от инженерных задач в управленческие, его карьеру не назвать ни вертикальной, ни горизонтальной. Backend Engineering Manager в Reddit Максим Алексеев поделился опытом работы в PayPal и Alibaba.За 17 лет в IT Макс побывал тимлидом и техлидом, консультировал компании Кремн…

Конец восьмидесятых. Всего два года я отсутствовал на родном предприятии, а меня встретил уже меняющийся компьютерный мир. В отделах стали появляться персоналки: у кого IBM-PC/XT, у кого «Правец», а у кого ЕС-1840. Число пользователей БЭСМ-6 и даже ЕС и СМ-4 стало асимптотически приближаться к нулю. На фоне новых возможностей все их «фишки» сразу побледнели. Например, смешно, что еще недавно какая-нибудь замена терминала VT-340 на VT-52100 c памятью на 5 страниц, позволяющей вводить текст еще до включения БЭСМ, казалась важной. Расстаться со старыми заделами и навыками психологически мне было даже проще, чем многим, поскольку после двухлетнего отсутствия я вернулся на работу уже в другой от…

2020 оказался годом удаленки. В марте мы всей командой были вынуждены перейти на полностью дистанционный формат работы и все процессы пришлось настраивать заново.Отдельной болью для нас стали видеозвонки. И началось: «Ой, а давайте в Скайпе, Дискорде, Телеграме, Зуме». А потом то девайсы программное обеспечение криво поддерживают, то технические сбои, то аккаунты вне доступа, то обновление софта и еще вагон проблем. Уходила куча времени, чтобы просто связаться и провести совещание.В общем, уже через месяц подобных экзекуций мы психанули и стали разрабатывать свою собственную систему видеосвязи на базе CRM Мегаплан. Сразу многофункциональную, чтобы запустить ее и для клиентов. С какими трудн…

Пластиковые сцинтилляторы – это увлекательно. Они не особо эффективны для детекции гамма-излучения, но при этом дешевы, надежны и отлично подходят для обнаружения излучения частиц, при этом успешно различая альфа/бета/нейтронные волны и не только.Такие сцинтилляторы можно отливать в любую форму и легко обрабатывать механически, благодаря чему они успешно применяются для специализированных детекторов, счетчиков и во многих других сферах. Читать дальше →

Один из наших читателей обратил наше внимание на Espressif IoT Development Framework. Он нашёл ошибку в коде проекта и поинтересовался, смог бы её найти статический анализатор PVS-Studio. Именно эту ошибку анализатор пока найти не может, зато нашёл множество других. По мотивам этой истории и найденных ошибок, мы решили написать классическую статью про проверку открытого проекта. Приятного изучения того, из-за чего IoT устройства могут "выстрелить вам в ногу". Читать дальше →

За Loupedeck+ просят 239 евро, что не сравнится с профессиональными пультами.

И оказалось, что уже появилась консоль Loupedeck Live.

Ещё я бы охарактеризовал консоль Loupedeck Live как Touch Bar «на максималках»: если у вас компьютер на Windows или стационарный Mac, то это альтернатива сенсорной панели на новых макбуках.

Консоль Loupedeck Live стоит чуть дороже Loupedeck+ — 249 евро или 25 тысяч рублей в России.

Если нужно работать с цветом — пойдёт и Loupedeck Live, а вот если хотите заменить трекпад и клавиатуру другим устройством — это мимо.

Ведомство по патентам США опубликовало новую заявку Apple. В ней описан новый способ биометрической аутентификации, который может использоваться в следующей версии системы Face ID. Это распознавание тепловой карты лица. Сейчас система Face ID установлена в iPhone и iPad. Камера TrueDepth захватывает данные лица, проецирует на него более 30 тысяч невидимых точек и анализирует их. Таким […]

В конце прошлого года издание Reuters в очередной раз заявило, что Apple продолжает работу над собственным электромобилем, который могут показать в 2024 году.

Новости Reuters: Apple выпустит свой автомобиль в 2024 годуПозже стало известно, что автомобиль будут производить на мощностях Hyundai Motor Group.

Если компания согласится, то Apple Car будут производить на заводе в Джорджии.

Hyundai не особо заинтересована в производстве Apple Car, поскольку это может повлиять на бренд и его устои.

Если этим будет заниматься дочерняя компания, то все останутся довольны.

Компания Qualcomm представила новый чипсет для доступных флагманов — Snapdragon 870 с поддержкой сетей пятого поколения.

Это продолжение чипа Snapdragon 865, который вышел в прошлом году.

Самое мощное ядро Kryo 585 разогнали до 3,2 ГГц, что на 100 МГц больше, чем в Snapdragon 865+.

Ожидается, что смартфоны с чипом Snapdragon 870 появятся уже в первом квартале текущего года.

Если верить слухам, то первыми смартфонами с 870-м станут Motorola Edge S, один смартфон из линейки OnePlus 9 и один из Redmi K40.

Компания New Balance показала новые расцветки модели 327: хаки с оранжево-серой подошвой и чёрно-белыми вставками, а также вариант из джинсовой ткани.

Модель 327 — одна из лучших у компании.

За это время вышли интересные коллаборации и дополнительные базовые расцветки.

К сожалению, новые расцветки будут доступны исключительно в Японии, но никто не запрещает заказать кроссовки с доставкой.

Кроссовки доступны на сайте Atmos за 13 тысяч иен, что в пересчёте составляет 125 долларов или 9300 рублей.

Компания Apple запустила сервис TV+ с собственным контентом в ноябре 2019 года.

При покупке нового iPhone, iPad, Mac или Apple TV пользователь получал годовую подписку абсолютно бесплатно.

Если ваша подписка на Apple TV+ закончилась с февраля по июнь 2020 года, то она будет автоматически продлена с февраля до конца июня 2021-го.

Обзоры «Не с первой попытки» — трогательная комедия Apple TV+ о том, как стать приёмными родителямиВ сервисе огромное количество интересных проектов, но их по-прежнему очень мало.

Видимо, продлевая бесплатный доступ, Apple стимулирует пользователей ещё раз попробовать сервис, влюбиться в сериалы и ждать их продолжения.

Блюдо сытное, вкусное, прекрасно подойдёт и для перекуса в обеденное время, и для плотного завтрака.

Не то что бы я за такое питание или ем манакиши постоянно — Илюша Казаков заказал на весь офис, я попробовал, впечатлился, советую вам.

Имейте в виду: под таби надо особые носки, у MM такие есть в ассортименте, стоят в районе 6000-7000 рублей (за пару).

Обычно я здесь пишу о своих потаённых желаниях насчёт вещей, но с радостью и второй раз подарил бы «Пост» сам себе.

Главное, я не понимаю, какие могут быть вопросы у русского Твиттера к Ambush.

Несмотря на пандемию, остановку заводов и невозможность нормально и оперативно совершать всю коммуникацию, Apple в 2020 году порадовала нас множеством новинок.

Он заявил, что Apple Watch, которые покажут осенью 2021 года, получат «улучшенный форм-фактор» и «инновационные функции здоровья».

И Apple будет что сказать.

Судя по всему, она уже была готова к запуску, но в последний момент запуск отменяли — некому путешествовать в мире, объятом пандемией.

Однако Валя Wylsacom говорит, что видно, как A10X уже не справляется, и это особенно заметно в Apple Arcade.

Максим Ликсутов, руководитель Департамента транспорта и развития дорожно-транспортной инфраструктуры города Москвы, заявил, что карту «Тройка» можно будет привязать к любому RFID-чипу.

Например, к вашей банковской карте или рабочему пропуску.

Также в этом году виртуальная «Тройка» станет доступна для смартфонов, но пока только на Android:На Apple такое пока невозможно — протокол NFC закрыт самим производителем и работает только для приложений Apple, но мы работаем над тем, чтобы реализовать такую опцию как можно быстрее.

Максим Ликсутов Руководитель Департамента транспорта и развития дорожно-транспортной инфраструктуры города МосквыК тому же господин Ликсутов добавил, что турникеты в москов…

Не перестану повторять, что чехлы для беспроводных наушников — это не про защиту, а про индивидуальность.

На презентации Galaxy Unpacked 2021 представили TWS-наушники Buds Pro.

Про них рассказывал Сергей Кузьмин в полноценном обзоре:Аудио, Обзоры Обзор TWS-наушников Samsung Galaxy Buds ProНаушники получились замечательными, но их можно сделать ещё лучше: Samsung представила необычные чехлы в виде раскладушки Anycall, которая выходила в 2000-х.

Скорее всего, до продаж по всему миру этот чехол не дойдёт.

Сейчас чехол для Galaxy Buds Pro можно заказать в Южной Корее до 31 января.

Потери предприятий малого и среднего бизнеса за прошлый год составили 2,8 трлн рублей.

Выручка малых предприятий в сфере туризма упала на 70%, сильно досталось отрасли общественного питания, гостиничной деятельности и операций с недвижимостью, говорится в исследовании.

С апреля по ноябрь 2020 года бизнес получил около 290 млрд рублей в виде поддержки от государства.

В среднем МСП занимал по 3,98 млн рублей (в 2019 году средний размер ссуды был 7,29 млн рублей).

Эксперты НРА рассчитали, что по стрессовому сценарию в наступившем году оборот предприятий может сократиться еще на 1 трлн, по базовому — подрасти на 1,3 трлн рублей.

Медицинская компания BestDoctor полностью сменила фирменный стиль.

По замыслу сервиса, ребрендинг отражает трансформацию проекта из стартапа в крупную медицинскую компанию.

Отмечается, что через новое позиционирование BestDoctor намерен показать, что забота о здоровье сотрудников — это легкий процесс для работодателя.

BestDoctor — медицинская компания, которая разрабатывает технологичные страховые и сервисные продукты для людей и для бизнеса.

По собственным данным, сейчас компания оказывает помощь порядка 74 тысяч пользователей и сотрудничает более чем с 14 тысячами клиник в России.

Согласно отчетности Сбербанка по РСБУ, за 2020 год кредитная организация увеличила выручку от комиссий за переводы физлиц до рекордных 71,1 млрд рублей.

Вместе с тем, комиссионная выручка банка от операций физлиц с наличными в 2020 году, наоборот, снизилась — на 42% год к году.

«Совокупный рост доходов от платежей и переводов физлиц, включая наличные операции, составил 20% в результате органического роста доли безналичных операций», — отметил представитель «Сбера».

В июне 2020 года Сбербанк ввел новую модель тарификации онлайн-переводов на сумму более 50 тысяч рублей в месяц.

Это либо комиссия в размере 1% от размера транзакции, но не более 1 тысячи рублей с перевода, либо ежемесячная подпи…

Расширяемся в СШАИз-за очередей в московское консульство США в последнее время документы подавались в Екатеринбурге и Владивостоке.

Есть два способа расширить свой бизнес на территорию в США:Делать это, находясь в Америке, самостоятельно или с помощью местных специалистов.

Израильским стартапам, как и российским, сложно продавать в другие страны, принимая деньги через родную банковскую систему не в национальной валюте.

Американским клиентам такой подход непривычен вплоть до отказа от покупки в момент, когда они видят списание со счета в рублях или в шекелях.

Это и Россия, и США, и Кипр.

Накануне стало известно , что Минэкономразвития не планирует продлевать мораторий на банкроства.

Многие предприниматели негативно отнеслись к данной мере и указали на различные отрицательные последствия.

Сегодня замглавы Минэкономразвития Илья Торосов подтвердил Business FM, что продление запрета на банкротство не обсуждается.

Это вызвало вопросы у российских экономистов и предпринимателей.

Так, экономист Юрий Пронько указал на то, что, возможно, кризис еще не кончился.

По его мнению, менеджеры слишком увлечены совещаниями и финансовыми вопросами, а на инновации у них не хватает ресурсов.

Предприятия нуждались в руководителях нового типа и новых методах управления, и перед ними стояли две главные задачи: повышение производительности и масштабирование бизнеса.

Сегодня руководителю нужно обладать не только прикладными навыками, но и soft skills, а также исследовать технологические тренды, расширять сеть контактов и постоянно экспериментировать.

Такой подход позволяет совмещать работу и учебу, а в случае с MBA многие студенты продолжают работать в штатном режиме.

Виртуальные симуляцииИммерсивные лекции и занятия в виртуальной реальности позволяют максимально …

Дружба с журналистами, свои площадки и близость к покупателям: как продвигать бренд с умомЧтобы PR-стратегия бренда удалась, важно не только заявить о продукте, но и оперативно направить информацию в нужные потоки.

Стало понятно, что компании могут самостоятельно производить контент и в меньшей степени зависеть от KPI по публикациям от сторонних изданий.

В 2008 году система «реклама — публикации в СМИ — собственные площадки» стала менее эффективной из-за появления цифрового маркетинга.

Сейчас и реклама, и социальные сети, и собственные медиа, и публикации в СМИ выпускают контент ради одной цели — разработать единый key-message и донести его до нужной целевой аудитории.

У любого бренда есть …

В пакете Dnsmasq, объединяющем кэширующий DNS-резолвер и сервер DHCP, выявлено 7 уязвимостей, которым присвоено кодовое имя DNSpooq. Проблемы позволяют осуществить атаки по подстановке фиктивных данных в кэш DNS или вызвать переполнение буфера, потенциально способное привести к удалённому выполнению кода атакующего. Уязвимости устранены в сегодняшнем обновлении Dnsmasq 2.83. В качестве обходных путей защиты рекомендуется отключить DNSSEC и кэширование запросов при помощи опций командной строки "--dnssec" и "--cache-size=0" или настроек "dnssec" (нужно закомментировать) и "cache-size=0" в файле конфигурации dnsmasq.conf.

Разработчики web-браузера Brave объявили об интеграции поддержки децентрализованной файловой системы IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), образующей глобальное версионированное хранилище файлов, функционирующее в форме P2P-сети, образованной из систем участников. Пользователи Brave теперь могут напрямую обращаться к ресурсам IPFS, используя схемы ipfs:// и ipns://. Новая возможность доступна в Brave для настольных систем (Linux, macOS и Windows), начиная с выпуска 1.19.

), 09:26, 20/01/2021 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – судя по "модному логу в json" - только для этого тебе придется уже громоздить жабье тормозилище elk.

3.5 , lockywolf ( ok ), 09:30, 20/01/2021 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – Ну, есть jq, его хвалят.

), 09:46, 20/01/2021 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – > Ну, есть jq, его хвалят.

вот это основательный релиз __update__новость дополнили деталями, всё как всегда1.3 , Аноним ( 3 ), 09:16, 20/01/2021 [ответить] + / – Обновился толстый торрент-клиент qBittorrent 4.3.3.

1.7 , Аноним ( - ), 09:55, 20/01/2021 [ответить] + / – >Взлом форума проекта OpenWRT>компания Cisco представила первый стабильный релиз полностью переработанной системы предотвращ…

Опубликован отчёт о развитии проекта FreeBSD с октября по декабрь 2020 года. Из изменений можно отметить.

В маршрутизаторах FiberHome, применяемых провайдерами для подключения абонентов к оптическим линиям связи GPON, выявлено 17 проблем с безопасностью, среди которых наличие бэкдоров с предопределёнными учётными данными, позволяющими удалённо управлять оборудованием.

Наличие уязвимостей подтверждено в устройствах FiberHome HG6245D и RP2602, а также частично в устройствах AN5506-04-*, но не исключено, что проблемы затрагивают и другие модели маршрутизаторов данной компании, которые не проверялись.

Кроме web-интерфейса, работающего через HTTP/HTTPS, на устройствах предусмотрена функция для удалённой активации интерфейса командной строки, к которому можно обращаться по протоколу telnet.

Бэкдор дл…

Состоялся первый значительный релиз goredo - реализации системы сборки redo, предложенной Дэниелем Бернштейном (DJB) в качестве замены утилите Make.

Goredo написан на языке Go и распространяются под лицензией GPLv3.

Redo решает фундаментальные проблемы и устраняет недостатки Make, такие как: отсутствие атомарной сборки целей из коробки;практическая неработоспособность (как минимум, при распараллеливании сборок) при использовании рекурсивных вызовов Make (Recursive Make Considered Harmful (by Peter Miller)), из-за отсутствия блокировок или глобального состояния;потенциальная неработоспособность определения устаревания зависимости при использовании технологий mmap, NFS, FUSE, VCS из-за исполь…

После полутора лет разработки сформирован новый значительный релиз свободной платформы цифровой обработки сигналов GNU Radio 3.9.

Код большей части компонентов GNU Radio написан на языке Python, части, критичные к производительности и времени задержки, написаны на языке С++, что позволяет использовать пакет при решении задач в режиме реального времени.

В состав также входит коллекция фильтров, канальных кодеков, модулей синхронизации, демодуляторов, эквалайзеров, голосовых кодеков, декодеров и других элементов, необходимых для создания радиосистем.

Для связывания кода на С/C++ и Python теперь применяется PyBind11, который требует написания дополнительного кода, но обеспечивает более предска…

Опубликована новая стабильная ветка инструментария Flatpak 1.10, который предоставляет систему для сборки самодостаточных пакетов, не привязанных к конкретным дистрибутивам Linux и выполняемых в специальном контейнере, изолирующем приложение от остальной системы. Поддержка выполнения Flatpak-пакетов обеспечена для Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mageia, Linux Mint, Alt Linux и Ubuntu. Пакеты с Flatpak включены в репозиторий Fedora и поддерживаются в штатной программе управления приложениями GNOME.

Опубликован выпуск пакетного фильтра nftables 0.9.8, развивающегося в качестве замены iptables, ip6table, arptables и ebtables за счёт унификации интерфейсов фильтрации пакетов для IPv4, IPv6, ARP и сетевых мостов. В пакет nftables входят компоненты пакетного фильтра, работающие в пространстве пользователя, в то время как на уровне ядра работу обеспечивает подсистема nf_tables, входящая в состав ядра Linux начиная с выпуска 3.13. Необходимые для работы выпуска nftables 0.9.8 изменения включены в состав ядра Linux 5.11-rc1.

ведь гнумо софт он же как нам говорили всю дорогу борщевики для мобилочек, т.к.

Что же тогда?

), 16:16, 16/01/2021 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] +1 + / – >> мессенджер Fractal>догадываюсь что там за месседжи Сишная дырень?

2.19 , mos87 ( ok ), 16:39, 16/01/2021 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – я гонял на десктопе - зотверждаю, такое же безблагодатное г))Впрочем, как и весь современный десктопный швабoдный хипсто софт, по правде сказать.

Что на Шапко-ГнОМО стэке что на Кутях.

Раскрыта информация об уязвимости в хранителе экрана cinnamon-screensaver, развиваемом дистрибутивом Linux Mint, которая позволяет войти в заблокированный сеанс пользователя без ввода пароля на системах с несколькими раскладками клавиатур. Проблема может использоваться для получения доступа к данным пользователя, на время оставившего свой компьютер без присмотра.

Компания Elasticsearch B.V. анонсировала изменение лицензии на платформу поиска, анализа и хранения данных Elasticsearch, а также на web-интерфейс Kibana. Начиная с выпуска Elasticsearch 7.11 проект будет переведён с лицензии Apache 2.0 на лицензию SSPL (Server Side Public License), в которой добавлены дополнительные требования по использованию для обеспечения работы облачных сервисов. Для тех, кого не устраивают условия лицензии SSPL, предоставлена коммерческая лицензия Elastic License. Клиентские библиотеки продолжат поставляться под лицензией Apache 2.0.

Разработчики Fedora представили новую атомарно обновляемую редакцию Fedora Kinoite, основанную на технологиях Fedora Silverblue, но отличающуюся использование KDE вместо GNOME в качестве рабочего стола. Монолитный образ Fedora Kinoite не разделяется на отдельные пакеты, обновляется атомарно и собирается из официальных RPM-пакетов Fedora при помощи инструментария rpm-ostree.

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By: John Blair, Netflix Partner EngineeringThe Netflix application runs on hundreds of smart TVs, streaming sticks and pay TV set top boxes.

The role of a Partner Engineer at Netflix is to help device manufacturers launch the Netflix application on their devices.

Figure 1: Device Playback Pipeline (simplified)Let’s take a moment to talk about the audio/video pipeline in the Netflix application.

There are an extra 40 ms between invocations, and there’s no way that can keep up with playback.

Threads in the background are assigned an extra 40 ms (40000000 ns) of wait time.

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It is an unfortunate fact of life that non-free firmware blobs are required to use some hardware, such as network devices (WiFi in particular), audio peripherals, and video cards.

But that image will not be terribly useful for systems that need non-free firmware to make the network adapter work.

Debian has a set of ideals about the kinds of software it distributes, enshrined in the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG); non-free licenses do not fit within those ideals.

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Of those, there were 56 container ships: 24 at berth and 32 at anchor.

Between Wednesday and Saturday, 19 more container ships will arrive, with the same number due to depart.

Container ship locations, Jan. 13 (Map: MarineTraffic)There were a few more container ships at anchor on Friday —37 in total.

Historical perspective on traffic jamAnchored container ships stretch off into the distance (Photo: Kip Louttit)Given the drift-box option, container ships are not about to hit any kind of maximum capacity offshore of California.

“Normally, if you want a baseline, there’d be a dozen and rarely are they container ships,” he said.

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The U.S. also experienced its most violent year in decades with an unprecedented rise in homicides.

He only focused on agencies where data was available and most of them had figures through November or December of 2020.

Elsewhere, Washington D.C. and Las Vegas saw growth in their murder offences, albeit at a slower pace of less than 20 percent.

The rise in homicide has not been confined to cities and Asher says that the problem is also increasingly rural.

He also said that the U.S. is on course for the largest one-year rise in its murder count ever recorded.

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It’s been a busy holiday and New Year’s season at Purism as we continue to ship out Librem 5s to backers each week.

The rest of this post will explain what is going into our shipping estimates, and why we can’t yet provide shipping estimates to every backer.

We estimate our shipping throughput and make slightly more Librem 5s than we think we can ship in a period of time.

While some components have relatively short lead times, others sometimes have lead times extending out multiple months.

As we secure more CPU supply, and feel confident about the supply chain for future manufacturing runs we will send out additional shipping estimates.

With every year, AI is beginning to bring more standardized levels of diagnostic accuracy in medicine. This is true of skin cancer detection, for example, and lung cancers. Now, a startup in Israel called Embryonics says its AI can improve the odds of successfully implanting a healthy embryo during in vitro fertilization. What the company […]

French startup Georges — or Georges.tech — is raising a new round of funding of $42.4 million (€35 million). The company is also getting a new name and will be called Indy going forward. The startup has been building an accounting automation application for freelancers and small companies. Singular is leading today’s funding round. You […]

When the two year-old Indian company Jetsons Robotics began searching for a partner to help design charging stations for their autonomous rooftop solar installation cleaning robots, the Israeli company Powermat was an obvious choice. While the company had made its name as the designer for wireless charging technologies for consumer electronics, over the past two […]

iSTOX, a digital securities platform that wants to make private equity investment more accessible, has added new investors from Japan to its Series A round, bringing its total to $50 million. Two of its new backers are the government-owned Development Bank of Japan and JIC Venture Growth Investments, the venture capital arm of Japan Investment […]

Indian stock exchanges approved the $3.4 billion deal between retail giants Reliance Retail and Future Group on late Wednesday in yet another setback for Amazon, which has invested over $6.5 billion in the world’s second largest internet market and sought to block the aforementioned deal. The Bombay Stock Exchange said in a notification that it […]

Genflow, a London an0d LA-based brand building agency that offers an e-commerce and mobile tech platform to let influencers start companies, has raised $11 million in funding. Leading the round is U.K. investor BGF. The injection of capital will be used by Genflow to further scale its offering and for international expansion. Founded in 2016 […]

On his way out the door, President Donald Trump pardons a former Googler, Jack Ma reappears and Wattpad gets acquired. This is your Daily Crunch for January 20, 2021. The big story: Trump pardons Anthony Levandowski Although Donald Trump is no longer president of the United States as I write this, he still held the […]

Curtsy, a clothing resale app and competitor to recently IPO’d Poshmark, announced today it has raised $11 million in Series A funding for its startup focused on the Gen Z market. The app, which evolved out of an earlier effort for renting dresses, now allows women to list their clothes, shoes and accessories for resale, […]

ULesson, an edtech startup based in Nigeria that sells digital curriculum to students through SD cards, has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. The round is led by Owl Ventures, which closed over half a billion in new fund money just months ago. Other participants include LocalGlobe and existing investors, including TLcom Capital and […]

Following Joseph Biden’s swearing in as the 46th President of the United States, Amazon is offering help in the administration’s stated goals for rolling out the Covid-19 vaccine. In a letter provided to TechCrunch, Worldwide Consumer CEO Dave Clark congratulates Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, while promising, “to assist you in reaching your goal […]

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TikTok is testing a new video Q&A feature that allows creators to more directly respond to their audience’s questions with either text or video answers, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The feature works across both video and livestreams (TikTok LIVE), but is currently only available to select creators who have opted into the test, we […]

Cryptocurrencies could come under renewed regulatory attack over the next four years if Janet Yellen, Joe Biden's pick to lead the Treasury Department, gets her way.

During Yellen's Tuesday confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) asked Yellen about the use of cryptocurrency by terrorists and other criminals.

Blockchain-based financial networks are attractive to criminals because they do not require users to identify themselves—as the law requires most conventional financial networks to do.

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In essence, it merges memory and physical changes.

This particular implementation doesn't seem to be especially useful—it's much too big to be a practical form of memory, and the physical changes are fairly limited.

On the gridThe researchers built a six-by-six array of these devices and showed that the devices could be individually addressed using other, magnetic devices positioned above and below it.

But in addition to measuring the state of the devices via force, however, the researchers found they could also read their magnetic state, much like bits on a hard drive.

Because of the change in the location of the magnetic part of the device, they found a five-fold difference in its magneti…

On Wednesday, an automated alert about Twitch account bans included a somewhat surprising account name: "@DonaldTrump."

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Following this Wednesday alert, Twitch confirmed to Ars Technica that this was no accident: Trump's account is indeed outright banned.

In Trump's case, Twitch cited "the ongoing risk of further incitement of violence" as a primary reason for the ban.

Trump's Twitch account had been in hot water previously due to its rebroadcasts of rule-breaking speeches.

Amazon is one of the country's largest businesses—and despite its faults and flaws, the company overall excels at logistics and distribution at scale.

Therefore, the company suggests, the brand-new Biden administration should give it a call to help ramp up COVID-19 distribution nationwide.

A week after the Pfizer vaccine became available, state leaders complained they were not receiving the doses they had been promised by the federal government.

"The vaccine rollout in the United States has been a dismal failure thus far,” President Joe Biden said in a speech five days before he was sworn in.

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Sega The familiar flat horizon of Emerald Hill Zone ends up repeating multiple times at this resolution.

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These QOL updates were beloved upon their launch, as built by indie developer Christian Whitehead, so it's nice to get them outside the mobile-only universe (without having to, say, play Sonic Mania instead).

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Microsoft identified the network compromise through suspicious activity from a third-party application in Malwarebytes’ Microsoft Office 365 tenant.

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The decision was announced yesterday in the FCC's annual broadband-deployment report, released one day before Pai's departure from the FCC.

Pai's report said:We find that the current speed benchmark of 25/3Mbps remains an appropriate measure by which to assess whether a fixed service is providing advanced telecommunications capability.

Overall, there are about 65 million people in the rural areas in FCC data and about 4 million people in tribal areas.

Pai's broadband legacy is one of "haste and waste," the group said.

Americans “need an FCC that fights for them”Advocates for stricter regulation of broadband providers are happy to see Pai leave.

LG The LG Velvet is LG's closest thing to a normal flagship right now.

LG The LG Velvet is LG's closest thing to a normal flagship right now.

LG One of LG's many "gimmick phones," the LG Wing takes the Velvet and adds a crazy swiveling screen.

Today you won't find LG on a "Global smartphone market share" chart; instead, it will be buried down in the "other" category.

At the high end of the market, LG has always seemed to be overshadowed by its bigger Korean rival, Samsung.

ViacomCBS has announced that Paramount+ will launch on March 4, but it's more of an evolution than a wholly new service, as it replaces and expands upon the company's previous service, CBS All Access.

The move to replace CBS All Access was announced several months ago.

It did not, however, have the Star Trek movies at first, as those were owned by Paramount.

The merger brought all Star Trek TV and movie content under one corporate roof.

CBS All Access also aired live TV, sports programming, and some additional shows like the critically acclaimed The Good Fight.

On his final full day in office, Donald Trump pardoned Anthony Levandowski, the engineer at the center of Waymo's epic 2017 trade secret battle with Uber.

Last year, Levandowski pleaded guilty to stealing a single confidential Google document; prosecutors agreed to drop other pending charges against him.

Levandowski was a key early member of Google's self-driving car project, but he quit Google in early 2016 to found his own self-driving startup.

According to Waymo, Levandowski had downloaded thousands of confidential documents from Google in his final days as a Google employee.

According to the White House announcement of the pardon, Levandowski had a number of well-connected supporters.

Porsche As we expected, Porsche has introduced a single-motor, rear-wheel drive version of the Taycan electric vehicle to its lineup.

Porsche As we expected, Porsche has introduced a single-motor, rear-wheel drive version of the Taycan electric vehicle to its lineup.

Porsche At $79,900 before tax credits or incentives, it's nearly $24,000 cheaper than the Taycan 4S, which has two motors and all-wheel drive.

On Tuesday, Porsche filled out its Taycan electric vehicle lineup with a cheaper, lighter variant.

I must admit, I'm more than a little curious to get behind the wheel of a standard Taycan.

Various cells present pieces of protein to immune cells to alert them to the identity of the invader.

B cells produce antibodies, while different types of T cells perform functions like coordinating the response and eliminating infected cells.

A specialized subset that interacts with antibody-producing B cells seemed to be the relatively stable, with almost everyone still having memory cells at over six months.

The B sideLike T cells, antibody-producing B cells can adopt a specialized memory fate; cells can also specialize in producing a variety of antibody subtypes.

But when the team looked at antibody-producing memory cells, they noticed that the antibodies were changing over time.

I think they’ve been muzzled, that science hasn’t been heard,” Walensky said in a brief, but wide-ranging interview with JAMA Tuesday.

“This top-tier agency—world renowned—hasn’t really been appreciated over the last four years and really markedly over the last year.

According to CDC data as of January 19, the government has distributed more than 31 million doses, but less than 16 million have been administered.

But we have yet to see evidence that variants are increasing disease and death or that they’re evading vaccines and therapies.

“I just want to remind people: almost no vaccine we have is 95 percent effective” like the COVID-19 vaccines, she added.

Last month, Red Hat caused a lot of consternation in the enthusiast and small business Linux world when it announced the discontinuation of CentOS Linux.

Red Hat's early termination of CentOS 8 in 2021 cut eight of those 10 years away, leaving thousands of users stranded.

CentOS StreamRed Hat's December announcement of CentOS Stream—which it initially billed as a "replacement" for CentOS Linux—left many users confused about its role in the updated Red Hat ecosystem.

CentOS Stream is the continuously delivered platform that becomes the next minor version of RHEL.

New no-cost, low-cost, and simplified RHEL accessAs of February 1, 2021, Red Hat will make RHEL available at no cost for small-pro…

Qualcomm is repackaging a chip from last year into the "Snapdragon 870."

Last year's flagship SoC was the Snapdragon 865, and then Qualcomm released the slightly up-clocked Snapdragon 865+.

The Snapdragon 870 isn't just similar in spec to the 865—Qualcomm describes it as "building upon the success of Snapdragon 865 and 865 Plus" indicating it's another plain clock bump with no design changes.

If these are the exact same chip, this is an odd decision since the Snapdragon 865 SoC design was a stopgap design.

As for timing, Qualcomm says "Commercial devices based on Snapdragon 870 are expected to be announced in the first quarter of 2021."

IO Interactive released Hitman 3 yesterday, and while it was supposed to be a triumphant close to a story arc that began with the 2016 Hitman game, players have been tripped up by server issues.

In order to continue progress from the first two games, players could carry over data (within the same platform family) by syncing progress from Hitman 2 via the IOI Profile website, as detailed in the pre-launch guide.

There’s a separate process for accessing levels from previous games that’s a bit too involved to address here/However, the progression carryover site has been slow or unavailable (as of this writing it appears to be completely unresponsive) as every day one purchaser tried to use it …

The Poly Effects Digit and Beebo are two of the more interesting guitar pedals to come out in the last few years.

They’re basically virtual modular synths in a pedal format.

While Digit and Beebo have different strengths, they are built on the exact same hardware platform and their firmware are completely interchangeable.

Now the company is taking the next logical step, and simply combining them into a single firmware and single pedal under the Beebo name.

There was an option in the settings menu to switch firmware — you didn’t even have to power off the pedal.

If you occasionally need access to your calendar when you’re not connected to the internet, then Google Calendar’s web interface is getting a bit more useful.

When Google rolled out a new UI for the app in 2018, that meant removing the ability to access the data in your browser without an internet connection.

Now Google’s Workspace Updates blog notes the feature is coming back, however individual users will need to enable it — the instructions are available here.

If you don’t see the option yet, check back later, it’s rolling out over the next 15 days or so, or it may have been disabled by your admin.

The blog post only mentions access for Workspace accounts (formerly known as G Suite), but…

With the third executive order of his new administration, President Joe Biden said the US will rejoin the Paris Agreement.

Initially finalized in 2015, the climate change accord saw 143 countries, including the US, agree to limit global temperature increases to less than 2 degrees Celsius.

The US, under then President Obama, joined the agreement without a vote from Congress, which left the door open for his successor to abandon the treaty in the same way.

In 2019, the administration began the formal process of leaving the agreement.

The timing of everything worked out such that the process wouldn’t be complete until the day after the 2020 election, allowing another president, if elected, to…

TikTok has started a new feature that makes it easier for some of its most popular creators to host Q&A sessions with their fans.

The feature was first spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra, who shared images of it to their Twitter account.

TikTok’s got a Q&A feature!

The feature simplifies the Q&A process since they can see all the questions their fans have sent in through one part of the app’s interface.

As an added bonus, it also works with Live, TikTok’s livestreaming feature.

With Joe Biden now the 46th president of the United States, the official White House website has gone live with an eye-catching new design.

It’s fully responsive and even comes with a snazzy dark mode to match.

And like all good websites, it also comes with a fun Easter egg.

woahhh DARK MODE pic.twitter.com/NegMJ8b0n2 — Mike Murphy (@mcwm) January 20, 2021Dig into the HTML code and you’ll find a message from the White House’s internal tech team, the US Digital Service.

“If you’re reading this, we need your help building back better,” the agency says, with a link to its own website.

On Tuesday, Mitchell criticized Google CEO Sundar Pichai's upcoming meeting with leaders of historically Black colleges and universities.

You could:A) try to undo that damageB) try to find more Black people to like you (the tokenism approach).

Good luck.....https://t.co/rrhL8AQDIF — MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai) January 19, 2021Gebru, who is Black and worked with Mitchell on the Ethical AI team, claims Google fired her.

Thousands of Googlers, academics and others signed an open letter in support of Gebru.

Google employees formed a union soon afterwards.

Fast on the heels of now-President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday morning, Amazon Consumer CEO Dave Clark sent a letter on behalf of his employer to the incoming administration pledging its help with Federal government’s ongoing COVID pandemic response, per NBC News.

“Amazon stands ready to assist you,” the statement reads.

Amazon ConsumerIn his letter, Clark notes that Amazon and its subsidiary Whole Foods, have already partnered with a third-party company to rapidly inoculate its 800,000-person workforce and will do so “once vaccines are available.” From there, Clark pledges to “leverage our operations, IT, & communications capabilities and expertise to assist your administration’s…

We gave August’s latest smart lock a score of 80 when we reviewed it last year.

Like other products in the category, the August smart lock allows you to open your door by using a companion mobile app.

The August smart lock works with both Android and iOS devices, as well as Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant.

That means you can use one of those voice assistants to open the door.

Best of all, you can still use your existing key with the August smart lock in case your phone runs out of battery or you lose it.

It is, at its heart, a sample-based groovebox -- you can trigger samples of drums, synths or whatever.

A sequencer, a sample player and a sample slicer alone would make the Tracker capable of creating perfectly compelling compositions.

In addition to all these more straightforward ways of handling samples, the Tracker has wavetable and granular synth engines built in.

Terrence O'Brien / EngadgetMore impressive is the wavetable synth.

It took months for me to even start to build a bond with the tracker workflow.

You won’t have to fire up a mobile device (or spend a fortune on the real thing) to use Moog’s Model 15 for music creation.

The company has updated its Model 15 app to introduce support for Mac users running Big Sur, bringing the modular synthesizer to much larger screens.

You’ll still have control over filter, oscillators and other features, including the abundance of patch cords.

However, the Mac upgrade helps you integrate the Model 15 into creative apps like Logic Pro X.You’ll also find seven new tutorials to explain the nuances of modular synths, and a free expansion pack (available to every user) adds 80 patches for a range of styles.

It ‘s native to both Apple Silicon Macs and Intel …

Many Airbnb users link their accounts to Facebook, which could make it easier to kick out those with connections to hate groups.

In 2019, Airbnb banned more than 60 users after cross-referencing leaked email addresses from a neo-Nazi forum.

As such, Airbnb may find it more difficult to use social media to monitor those people.

"When signals suggest a hate group member may be using Airbnb, we investigate and take appropriate action," Airbnb spokesperson Ben Breit told Engadget.

"This information can come to us in many ways— including flags from members of our community, social media users or news articles."

It’s not often that a browser company acquires a game development platform.

But that’s exactly what Opera has done with YoYo Games, a British team best known for GameMaker Studio 2.

GameMaker supports every major platform including PC, mobile and Nintendo Switch.

Opera has bought the company for a simple reason: Opera GX.

Opera says it will create a new division, sensibly called Opera Gaming, by combining the Opera GX and GameMaker teams.

Facebook has long been using AI to describe photos for the visually impaired, but it’s stepping up its efforts in 2021.

The social media giant has detailed a new version of automatic alternative text (AAT) that promises much more information.

Instead of relying on heavily supervised AI learning, Facebook is now using weak supervision based on “billions” of Instagram photos and hashtags.

The method lets Facebook expand beyond just 100 concept descriptions to include over 1,200, such as different kinds of food and national monuments.

It’s also more culturally inclusive — it can recognize weddings that don’t involve white wedding dresses, for example.

Image : Screenshot: YouTube/ Sling Pilot AcademyBizarre, ongoing sightings of what appears to be a man flying a jetpack at high altitudes have understandably baffled the public.

The documents come from The Black Vault, typically a home base for weird de-classified military documents and UFO news.

Following the first jetpack incident last August, the Vault FOIA-ed the Federal Aviation Administration for details.

One particular bit stands out: According to the papers, a pilot involved in the August incident told the FBI that the “jetpack man” looked identical to a dummy-carrying drone he’d seen on Youtube.

Indeed, Jetpack Aviation—which has a product can take you 15,000 feet in the air—can on…

Photo : Philippe Lopez/AFP ( Getty Images )Jack Ma, the billionaire co-founder and former chairman of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has re-emerged from wherever he’s been since late October 2020, when he ceased public appearances amid a government crackdown on tech firms.

Per CNN, Ma was present in a video released by Tianmu News, a subsidiary of the official state media apparatus of Zhenjiang province, where Alibaba is based in Hangzhou.

Ma appeared via video link to address attendees at an event thrown by his philanthropic foundation’s Rural Teacher Initiative; Tianmu wrote it was filmed on Wednesday local time.

It didn’t specify when Mr. Ma, who was shown wearing a black cap and padd…

Photo : MARTIN BUREAU / Contributor ( Getty Images )Former President Donald Trump’s part in egging on the riotous mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6 has now earned him permanent bans from Twitter, Snapchat, Shopify and, most recently, Twitch.

Twitch has clear rules that prohibit hateful conduct, harassment, or incitement of violence on our service, and we consider off-service events when making enforcement decisions.

However, the events of the past weeks have highlighted a gap with respect to rhetoric that encourages violence, regardless of whether or not it was directly streamed on Twitch.

We will be updating our policies as a result of our consideration of this situation.Advertis…

Photo : Joe Raedle ( Getty Images )A common treatment for chronic back pain may not provide much soothing after all.

Chronic pain can be an emotionally draining experience, so antidepressants are sometimes prescribed by doctors to help sufferers with their mental distress.

At least one antidepressant—the drug duloxetine, also known as Cymbalta—has been approved in the U.S. to treat chronic nerve pain and back pain.

Altogether, the review found that the average pain reduction for SNRIs in treating lower back pain three months into treatment was only around five points.

For osteoarthritis, the average reduction from SNRIs was just under 10 points, so more likely to be a meaningful improvement.

Joe Biden up the nation’s Paris Agreement commitments challenge.

As the second-largest current greenhouse gas emitter and largest historical polluter, it bears a huge share of responsibility for addressing the climate crisis.

If Biden is serious about his stated goals, we can expect he will enshrine them in the nation’s Paris pledges.

AdvertisementIn addition to these federal actions, under the Paris Agreement, the Biden administration could up the country’s commitments to helping poorer countries finance their transitions away from dirty energy.

Officials should prioritize these projects in areas most vulnerable to the climate crisis.

QAnon-affiliated message boards like Great Awakening and Telegram channels went into a full-on meltdown.

AdvertisementEarly in the day, on Great Awakening, some Q aficionados said they were sleep-deprived over excitement for the big day.

Screenshot : Great AwakeningScreenshot : Great AwakeningAdvertisementScreenshot : Great AwakeningScreenshot : Great AwakeningAdvertisementScreenshot : Great AwakeningScreenshot : Great AwakeningAdvertisementScreenshot : Great AwakeningScreenshot : Great AwakeningAdvertisementScreenshot : Great AwakeningScreenshot : Great AwakeningAdvertisementThings started getting a little more alarming for the Q crowd when they noticed Trump did not pretend to fly to Flor…

Screenshot : Whitehouse.govLike many Americans, I’m processing some unfamiliar emotions today, but I believe that I’m genuinely thrilled about the new White House website.

And, perhaps most thrillingly, it supports dark mode.

A few reasons White House dot gov dark mode is objectively exciting.

Number one: It’s reassuring to know that the executive branch has a competent web developer.

Are you seeing things on the internet and feeling happy today, rather than temporarily relieved of dread, whatever the topic?

A giant plume emerges from the core stage of the SLS during the hotfire test on January 16.

Image : NASAThe recent hotfire test of NASA’s next-gen megarocket was supposed to go for eight minutes, but it lasted just 67 seconds.

The space agency has an explanation for the premature shutdown, saying everything’s swell, but a second test remains a distinct possibility.

The hotfire test of the core stage, conducted on January 16 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

AdvertisementAs noted, a second hotfire test is not out of the question.

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Tyler Bower just demonstrated the potential with a 7.5- foot- tall functional pinball machine that even keeps score.

To keep the pinball machine as pure as possible, a Makey Makey circuit board is used to track scoring as well as the location of the balls in play.

The custom code powering the pinball machine then decodes these button presses to tally points or end the game when all three balls have fallen out of play.

A tilt sensor.

The pinball machine shakes and wiggles like a giant bowl of Jell-O as it’s being played, which would trigger a tilt sensor the moment a player started activating the paddles.

From the moment the rover crunches down, its microphones will be recording sound.

Illustration : NASA/JPL-CaltechNothing on the hills seems to be alive, so the rocky terrain of Mars will be filled with the sounds of solitude when the NASA’s Perseverance rover lands in Jezero Crater next month.

Perseverance is scheduled to land in Jezero Crater on February 18 and will be outfitted with two microphones.

On Mars, sound would travel at a lower speed through much more absorptive gas.

The same could be said for sound on Mars .

Among his first official acts, Biden is expected to issue executive orders rescinding the Keystone XL pipeline permits and putting a moratorium on drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, both green-lighted by Donald Trump.

The protests over Keystone XL and Arctic Refuge drilling have been led by Indigenous groups.

“We are very, very, very grateful for the recognition of the decades-long fight against Keystone XL and the reaffirmation of our treaty rights and environmental law,” Dallas Goldtooth, an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network, said.

The project involves abandoning an already-laid pipeline and creating a new route through a large swath of land that Ind…

Two of the CDT’s three filed FOIA’s stemmed from a so-called “Privacy Impact Assessment” on CBP’s social media monitoring initiatives that discussed the sorts of safeguards that agency officials take when handling user data.

By that rationale, when the CDT filed its initial FOIA request in mid-August 2019, it should have heard a response sometime in mid-September.

In the 13 months since its self-set deadline, the CDT alleges the agency hasn’t returned any of the records requested.

“The public deserves to know how the government scrutinizes social media data when deciding who can enter or stay in the country,” said CDT General Counsel Avery Gardiner in a statement.

In 2019, we saw the DHS ex…

Co-written and directed by Roseanne Liang, Shadow in the Cloud stars Chloë Grace Moretz as Maude, a pilot who hitches a plane ride to transport mysterious cargo.

Shadow in the Cloud goes from constricted and hard to watch to wide open, exciting and a story you very much want to ingest.

Shadow in the Cloud reveals itself as a more-than-obvious metaphor for the rights of women, especially during the war.

And, in the case of Shadow in the Cloud, does the fact that the second half is charged with catharsis, action, and meaning make it okay?

AdvertisementWhat I will say is as awful and uncomfortable as the first half of Shadow in the Cloud is, the second half is exhilarating and entertaining.

Apple and Google removed the Parler app from their digital stores, and Amazon Web Services cut the platform’s hosting services.

To get even this far, Parler has hired DDoS-Guard, a Russian digital infrastructure company, to defend it against the endless barrage of attacks that virtually all sites face online—particularly those as controversial as Parler.

Employing Russian infrastructure services could expose a site's users to the country's surveillance schemes, says Alp Toker, director of the nonpartisan connectivity tracking group NetBlocks.

Regardless of where Parler ultimately lands, it seems likely to find a home somewhere.

Even repressive governments in countries like Iran and China ha…

Inauguration Day usually includes at least a few hundred thousand people watching from the National Mall in Washington, DC, all crammed, shoulder-to-shoulder, trying to glimpse history IRL.

But in 2021, as the United States swore in its 46th president, Joe Biden, and his vice president, Kamala Harris, attendance was sparse.

Most Americans had to stay at home, tuned in on TV or watching online.

Trained eyes, with the microscope of social media, know how to spot significance, how to see what’s there—and what isn’t.

What Americans saw on Wednesday was different from Inauguration Day four years ago in other ways.

But the videos uploaded to Parler also contain an equally sensitive bounty of data sitting in plain sight: Thousands of images of unmasked faces, many of whom participated in the Capitol riot.

Now one website has done the work of cataloging and publishing every one of those faces in a single, easy-to-browse lineup.

"It's entirely possible that a lot of people who were on this website now will face real-life consequences for their actions."

The Faces of the Riot creator, who says he's a college student in the "greater DC area," intends that added feature to help contextualize every face's inclusion on the site and differentiate between bystanders, peaceful protestors, and violent insurrectio…

The bans have also raised concerns that the companies had gone too far in exercising their power to shape what users see.

Yelp (where I have done consulting in the past), for example, has gathered hundreds of millions of local business reviews, and it has been shown to impact business outcomes.

Tripadvisor and other review platforms also invest in removing reviews that seem likely to be fake.

Ultimately, removing content can be valuable for users.

And, it can be hard to trust review websites riddled with fake reviews, housing rental websites rife with racial discrimination, and social media platforms that are megaphones of misinformation.

by Mateo AskaripourAvailable NowThe polysemic title of Mateo Askaripour’s debut, Black Buck, is meant as an obvious wink to anyone who’s endured the absurdities of corporate culture as The Only Black Employee.

Buck is the name of 22-year-old Darren Vender, or rather, the name he assumes after quitting his job at Starbucks and joining Sumwun, a trendy online startup that provides virtual therapy services.

Before long, he’s a top sales associate and the envy of coworkers, but success comes at a cost.

Askaripour suggests that to engage racism in the workplace, where it can be especially noxious, one must also engage privilege and the systems of power that prop people up while holding others do…

Instead of saving to my iMac, my document saved to the bootable clone on my external backup drive.

I provide creative services and marketing consultation to hospitals, and my tech needs are fairly straightforward.

Once he connected, he entered my backup drive which was mounted on my desktop.

If you work from home, having go-to tech support is valuable.

After I left and started my home-based business, I called his company whenever I needed tech support, paying corporate rates for the comfort of his familiar face.

When e-cigarettes (also known as vapes) appeared in the mid-2000s, some researchers in the tobacco control community thought young smokers in the US might make a similar choice, causing overall smoking rates to decline.

Instead, young people who experiment with e-cigarettes are three times more likely than ones who have never tried vaping to become daily cigarette smokers a few years later.

And the more tobacco products young people experiment with, the greater that likelihood becomes.

And teenagers who experimented with e-cigarettes before age 18 were more likely to become daily smokers than those who tried vaping later in life.

In other words, the theory that this new product would dissua…

In a steel container inside an American outpost in southern Afghanistan, an aerostat operator named Kevin was watching a man defecate in a farmer’s field.

Whenever one of these platoons stepped off base to conduct a patrol, the PGSS team “covered down” on the soldiers, keeping an eye out for indicators of a pending attack.

Palantir’s software could sift through volumes of raw, or unstructured, data, then organize and structure it in a way that made search and discovery features possible.

“I could see everything,” Kevin says, referring to the aerostat’s technology-enabled omniscience, sometimes called the God’s-eye view.

The PGSS aerostat that Kevin was in charge of was a 72-foot-long balloo…

On Day Zero of the presidential administration of Joe Biden, the single priority of the federal government must be Covid-19.

Like any big machine, the federal government’s public health system takes time and energy to come up to speed.

So, the new plan: Last week, Biden laid out a new, more aggressive approach, part of a promise to let science lead policy during his term.

The US public health system, broken and underfunded, hasn’t been able to cope with the pandemic, leaving vaccines as the best and only hope, for now, of controlling it.

That’s one of the only public health efforts that could have some real effect, but the politicization of mask use has hampered its effectiveness.

Wireless charging isn't nearly as cool as it sounds.

It's not exactly wireless—a cord runs from an outlet to the charging pad—and it won't charge your smartphone faster than plugging it in with a good ol' cord.

We have a varied pool ranging from stands to pads to wireless battery packs and one that even doubles as a headphone stand.

Be sure to check out our many other buying guides, including the Best Android Phones, Best iPhones, and Best Work-From-Home Gear.

A Note on Charging Speed and CompatibilityUnless marked, all of the chargers below have a standard charging speed of 7.5 watts for iPhones or 10 watts for Android phones (including Samsung Galaxy).

A booming agricultural industry in the state’s San Joaquin Valley, combined with punishing droughts, led to the over-extraction of water from aquifers.

Like huge, empty water bottles, the aquifers crumpled, a phenomenon geologists call subsidence.

More punishing droughts mean the increased draining of aquifers, and rising seas make sinking land all the more vulnerable to flooding.

You don't recognize it until you start seeing damage,” says Michelle Sneed, a land subsidence specialist at the U.S. Geological Survey and coauthor on the paper.

But if you start extracting water from an aquifer, those spaces collapse and the grains draw closer together.

The SolarWinds hackers used their access in many cases to infiltrate their victims' Microsoft 365 email services and Microsoft Azure Cloud infrastructure—both treasure troves of potentially sensitive and valuable data.

The challenge of preventing these types of intrusions into Microsoft 365 and Azure is that they don't depend on specific vulnerabilities that can simply be patched.

Instead hackers use an initial attack that positions them to manipulate Microsoft 365 and Azure in a way that appears legitimate.

From there, the attackers could use their newfound privileges on victim systems to take control of certificates and keys used to generate system authentication tokens, known as SAML tok…

A towering neo-Gothic landmark, the Royal York is renowned for its luxury and celebrity clientele.

On Instagram, Laura had scrolled by posts extolling the mastery of a plastic surgeon named Martin Jugenburg, whose clinic, the Toronto Cosmetic Surgery Institute, was located on two floors of the Royal York.

On that day in December, Laura took the elevator to the clinic on the second floor of the Royal York.

Under the warm lights, the reception area glowed: white wood, white armchairs, white floors, and white couches.

Laura had seen Dr. 6ix’s Instagram videos of patient procedures, so she could imagine what her own surgery would look like.

For the past 15 years, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been doing laps around the Red Planet studying its climate and geology.

Late last year, researchers at NASA used a machine-learning algorithm to discover fresh Martian craters for the first time.

The AI discovered dozens of them hiding in image data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and revealed a promising new way to study planets throughout our solar system.

First, the AI was fed nearly 7,000 orbiter photos of Mars—some with previously discovered craters and others without any—to teach the algorithm how to detect a fresh strike.

“We used a pretty standard convolutional network to analyze the image data, but being able to app…

When winter made its second pandemic appearance here in Montana, I found myself pining to relive my first experience with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Between biweekly ultrasounds and the long wait for amniocentesis and fetal MRI test results, I turned to my old friend, Link.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, re-released on the WiiU, became my safe space.

I sailed across the Great Sea, charting the waters of a flooded Hyrule as I whiled away the growing-a-person hours, trying not to worry, worry, worry.

Her test results had shown none of the genetic or chromosomal disorders often linked with ventriculomegaly.

TSAVE 67%: A three-year subscription to TunnelBear is on sale for £2.43 per month as of Jan. 21, saving you 67% on list price.

It's one of the few services that offers a genuinely free plan, and for that reason it's one of the most popular options for boosting online security.

The free plan is a solid option, but you really should consider upgrading to an unlimited plan if you want to browse, shop, and stream securely.

An unlimited plan provides users with apps for every device, five simultaneous connections, fast speeds, and AES 256-bit encryption.

There is no money-back guarantee with this plan, so it's worth checking out the free version first before fully committing.

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TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to the Ableton Music Production Mastery Bundle is on sale for £21.32 as of Jan. 21, saving you 97% on list price.

Often holed up in her garage, Grimes makes and masters her music with the help of Ableton Live, a music production software that allows for unbridled creativity while remaining user-friendly.

Such training can be found in the form of a subscription to the Ableton Music Production Mastery Bundle, an expert-taught education in music production that won't break the bank.

The bundle includes seven different courses with varying degrees of difficulty that walk you through DJ and production techniques with Ableton.

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TL;DR: The Learn to Play the Piano and Music Composition Bundle is on sale for £25.69 as of Jan. 21, saving you 95% on list price.

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And last, but not least, best-selling Udemy instructor and music producer Tomas George leads you through music theory, producing, and songwriting basics.

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We have lined up all the best wireless outdoor speakers so you always keep the tunes going, including popular models from top brands like JBL and Ultimate Ears.

We have checked out a wide range of wireless outdoor speakers, and come up with a shortlist of things you should care about.

What is the best wireless outdoor speaker?

To make things easier for you, we have lined up a selection of the best wireless outdoor speakers, including popular models from top brands like JBL and Ultimate Ears.

These are the best wireless outdoor speakers in 2021.

YouTube demonetized Onision for violating its Creator Responsibility policies off the platform, the company confirmed to Mashable.

In a video uploaded on Tuesday, he bid farewell to the YouTube community following his removal from the YouTube Partner Program.

More -> https://t.co/hGiJ3jUb3j — YouTube (@YouTube) January 20, 2021A YouTube spokesperson further confirmed to Mashable that the removal from the YouTube Partner Program includes Onision's side channels, UhOhBro and Onision Speaks, as well as his main one.

YouTube creators and their viewers have been calling on YouTube to deplatform Onision for years.

When Chris Hansen began interviewing survivors who accused Onision of grooming and …

Make way for the Porsche Taycan, the latest version of the German automaker's first electric sports car.

Announced this week, the "standard" Taycan comes with the simple name "Taycan" as opposed to the 4S or the Turbo S. It will come out later this year in the U.S. as the most basic option of the electric Taycan lineup.

Previously the Taycan 4S was the "budget" Taycan with a starting price of more than $103,000.

The ‎Taycan Turbo and ‎Turbo S cost $150,000 and $185,000 respectively.

Previous Taycan models have a battery range of about 200 miles, but the estimated range for this new standard Taycan hasn't been announced yet.

Hours after Joe Biden’s inauguration, conservative personalities are rehashing an old disinformation campaign surrounding the antifa.com website.

If you go to antifa.com right now, you’ll find that the URL now takes you to the White House’s official .gov website.

A domain name owner does not need any sort of affiliation, connection, or permission from a website owner to do so.

According to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, the antifa.com domain name started forwarding to Joe Biden’s official transition website, BuildBackBetter.gov sometime earlier this month.

But, even more important to note, there is no official antifa organization, meaning there is no entity to even create an "offic…

"There is truth and there are lies, lies told for power and for profit," he said, later adding, "I give you my word, I will always level with you."

Still, 70 percent of Republicans said they do not believe President Biden was legitimately elected, according to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll.

When Tubbs lost his reelection campaign in November, he cited a "four-year misinformation campaign" that played out on social media.

Disagree with friends and family in person versus over social media.

President Biden may have promised to deliver the truth, but Americans play an essential part in that bargain.

Things aren't looking pretty in the QAnon group chat pic.twitter.com/jvVM8td2s9 — Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) January 20, 2021Since 2017, QAnon believers have followed the vague online posts of an anonymous internet user called Q.

And on those sites, QAnon believers appeared to be in total disarray.

"It's over and nothing makes sense... absolutely nothing..." pic.twitter.com/I2k8C7708m — Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 20, 2021Anger, disappointment, confusion — QAnon followers feelings on Biden’s inauguration ran the gamut.

The QAnon influencer who was moving the goalposts earlier this morning is now claiming Biden has been part of QAnon all along.

Extremists on the far right and white …

A sneak peek at the innovations that will change our everyday lives in the future.

The brand-new Biden administration has its work cut out for it in its efforts to undue the damage of the Trump years, but it wasted no time making one small but meaningful change to the official White House website.

As of Jan. 20, Joe Biden's first day in office, the White House contact page now asks for the pronouns of people writing in.

The @WhiteHouse website contact form now asks for your pronouns.

pic.twitter.com/W5S36efo1d — GLAAD (@glaad) January 20, 2021And no, thanks to the Internet Archive we can see that the official White House website contact form under the Trump administration had no such option.

SEE ALSO: The new White House website includes a hidden messageIt's almost like D…

If you've looked at what Elon Musk has been tweeting lately, you've probably heard of Signal, the communication app known for end-to-end encryption.

Here's what you need to know.

You can read the full story here.

Northern California should not support these fires during the winter, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research .

It's unlikely that clusters of winter wildfires will become the winter norm, said the climate scientist Swain.

So, perhaps we'll see similar winter fires during some drier years.

"Winter wildfires is an oxymoron."

"Winter wildfires is an oxymoron," said Balch, referencing Western fires.

Volvo Penta launched the first-ever fully assisted docking system, which will give the boat's captain more control of the docking process.

In one of his first actions in office, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on a broad range of environmental protections that included stopping construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

830,000 barrels of crude oil were expected to flow through the $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline every day.

Keystone XL developer TC Energy suspended work on the pipeline today and said in a statement that it is “disappointed” with Biden’s decision.

Biden also recommitted the US to the Paris climate agreement today, a global pact to avoid that tipping point.

“The Biden administration can uphold their climate justice claims by acting to Stop Line 3, Stop Keystone XL, and Stop Dakota Access Pipeline, n…

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In a blog posted yesterday, developer Innersloth discussed how it has adapted in response to the game’s enormous popularity and why new features are taking a while to be released.

“Among Us gained incredible traction pretty late into 2020 that we weren’t expecting, and that meant A LOT of change for us,” the developers said.

“It’s all behind-the-scenes work, and while it meant time away from the game, it’ll make it easier for current and future us to develop the game better,” Innersloth said.

Innersloth aims to launch the account system “ASAP” with a focus on moderation.

And the studio plans to share a public feature roadmap at some point.

If you want a Metroid Lego set, you have the power to bring the idea closer to reality.

Lego Ideas is an official site for users to submit their concepts and designs for the Lego company to consider, and where Lego fans can vote for their favorites.

If a submission gets 10,000 votes, the Lego Group may turn it into a real product.

It’s worth noting, however, that many of the submissions that do get 10,000 votes don’t actually end up hitting store shelves.

If Metroid isn't your preferred Nintendo franchise, there’s an Animal Crossing set that’s just under the 10,000 vote line.

In one of his first acts as president, Joe Biden walked back the former administration’s plan to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

Donald Trump announced plans to cut ties with the WHO in late May, claiming that China had “total control” over the global health organization.

At the time the withdrawal was announced, then-presidential candidate Biden tweeted that he would rejoin the WHO on his first day as president.

On my first day as President, I will rejoin the @WHO and restore our leadership on the world stage.

https://t.co/8uazVIgPZB — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 7, 2020Members of the United Nations have to give 12 months’ notice for this step, so the withdraw…

President Joe Biden recommitted the US to the Paris climate accord during his first day in office, fulfilling one of his earliest campaign promises.

Now, the US needs to regain the world’s trust and show that it means business when it comes to taking on climate change.

The US is now expected to bring an updated commitment to the global table before a United Nations Climate Conference planned for November.

The US getting serious about climate change again also puts more pressure on governments that have dragged their feet when it comes to ratcheting up climate commitments.

The US has only fulfilled $1 billion out of a $3 billion commitment to the Green Climate Fund, which supports developing…

It’s just the start of the Biden administration’s immigration reform efforts.

“We welcome President Biden’s commitment to pursuing comprehensive immigration reform that reflects the American values of justice, fairness and dignity.

— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) January 20, 2021Google CEO Sundar Pichai also put out a statement in support of the Biden administration’s new immigration effort.

After this proclamation was issued, tech companies, from Apple to Google, put out statements admonishing the Trump administration’s guest worker ban.

TechNet, a technology trade group, signed onto a National Immigration Forum letter to Congress Wednesday encouraging members to quickly approve the Biden …

My request for an adaptation may have been ridiculous, but this script seriously vindicates me.

Crew’s script, “Muppets Present ‘The Great Gatsby,’” may be a silly mashup of a novel you’re forced to read in high school and a puppet comedy variety show, but he said it became a meaningful project when January’s news cycle became too much to bear.

The script also leans frequently into the meta-humor The Muppets is known for and, of course, features plenty of musical numbers.

You can read an excerpt from the full script below:NICK CARRAWAY (CONT’D) I wonder what kind of a man Mr. Gatsby is.

There’s a script written, a poster made, and a new subreddit (r/muppetgreatgatsby) devoted to the project.

Firefighter Andrea Hall put accessible communication front and center at the presidential inauguration today when she led the Pledge of Allegiance in both spoken English and Signed English.

But despite those efforts, many deaf and hard of hearing viewers still found the inauguration inaccessible.

Most broadcast stations didn’t have an ASL interpreter on-screen and used automated captions, which are notoriously inaccurate.

There were several stretches of time when the picture-in-picture of the ASL interpreter disappeared from the screen, leaving chunks of speech inaccessible.

But there’s still work to be done to ensure accessible options are reliable and easily available across all platforms.

While its original price was $300, this smart display has been slowly getting cheaper since it debuted in 2018.

The JBL Link View smart display features an 8-inch touchscreen display with a webcam built into the device.

Although it has been on the market for several years, time has been kind to this smart display.

And Reddit users have pointed out that the Link View recently received an update, which includes a new user interface.

$80 at eBayFor the price, JBL’s smart display seems like a great value that delivers more features (and likely better sound performance) than Google’s 7-inch Nest Hub.

Twitch has “indefinitely” banned former President Donald Trump from its platform.

The action comes two weeks after the site disabled Trump’s account, preventing him from streaming but leaving the account page live, in light of the mob attack on the Capitol.

“We have indefinitely suspended President Trump’s Twitch channel due to the ongoing risk of further incitement of violence,” a Twitch spokesperson wrote in an email to The Verge.

Twitch’s action follows others taken by social media platforms like Twitter — which permanently banned Trump for inciting violence after the Capitol attack — though it is the first platform to take action against Trump since his term ended today.

Twitch initiall…

Today’s US presidential inauguration brought many good things, but the thing Twitter seems most excited about is a new crop of Bernie memes.

The meme started with a wire photo of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), sitting on a folding chair watching President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

pic.twitter.com/2erdoutaOg — LAVO (@LexLavo) January 20, 2021I made this Bernie sitting meme to contribute to the cause pic.twitter.com/kvHADLRFJI — DJ-KIMchi (@djjkim) January 20, 2021who put Bernie on an icy moon in Destiny 2?

Snap has a Inaugural Bernie Filter LOL https://t.co/Mdgv2faWXk pic.twitter.com/Nmnql5nUMD — Yashar Ali (@yashar) January 20, 2021Of course, memes become more powerful when they’re put togethe…

Amazon has offered to help the Biden administration meet its goal of completing 100 million coronavirus vaccinations within the next 100 days.

Clark writes that Amazon has “an agreement in place” with a health care provider to administer vaccinations on site, though he did not say which Amazon facilities were being considered.

Clark said Amazon could “move quickly once vaccines are available.”“We are prepared to move quickly once vaccines are available.”Amazon could also provide technology and communications resources to help the new administration, Clark said.

“We are prepared to leverage our operations, information technology, and communications capabilities and expertise to assist your a…

At 12PM ET today, Jim Bridenstine officially stepped down from his role as NASA administrator.

The $850 million for NASA marks the first time Congress agreed to fund a human lunar lander since the Apollo program.

It has been my great honor to serve as your @NASA Administrator.

President Biden is expected to pick a woman to fill the NASA administrator role, which has only been occupied by men since the agency’s founding in 1958.

I’ve never been so happy to not be in politics.”In the Twitter video, where he choked up thanking NASA employees, Bridenstine ended with a simple message: “Go get ‘em.

The game-like interactive reality show Rival Peak has turned into a hit on Facebook, with more than 22 million views of the first six episodes of the weekly show.

Genvid Technologies and Pipeworks Studios created Rival Peak, a new kind of interactive experience that is partly a game and partly a reality show.

But Rival Peak tapped the notion of getting the audience to participate in a bigger way.

The whole thing was a big experiment.”All told, Facebook users have consumed more than 25 million minutes of the Rival Peak franchise.

Fans pieced together that the mysterious Tangram Labs, the so-called “sponsors” of Rival Peak, might have sinister motives.

The challenge the university has encountered as it deployed AI is that machine learning and deep learning algorithms tend to make more frequent I/O requests to a larger number of smaller files than traditional HPC applications, said University of Pisa CTO Maurizio Davini.

As the number of AI models that organizations build and maintain starts to grow, legacy storage systems can’t keep pace.

The University of Pisa deployed Excelero to make sure the overall IT experience of its AI researchers remains satisfactory, said Davini.

Cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) offer products such as Amazon SageMaker to automate the construction of AI models, increasing the rate at whic…

But the adoption of leaderboards has thus far been limited to setups with automatic evaluation, like classification and knowledge retrieval.

Open-ended tasks requiring natural language generation such as language translation, where there are often many correct solutions, lack techniques that can reliably automatically evaluate a model’s quality.

Today we're announcing GENIE🧞‍♂️, a human-in-the-loop leaderboard for streamlining text evaluation.

“It frees model developers from the burden of designing, building, and running crowdsourced human model evaluations.

“This is a novel deviation from how text generation is currently evaluated, and we hope that GENIE contributes to further development …

Hitman 3 is the excellent culmination of developer IO Interactive’s modern trilogy of assassination simulators, but fans should probably hold off on playing it for now.

That’s because IO’s website that carries the data over from the previous games is crashing due to a crunch of players.

This prevents anyone with Hitman 1 or 2 save data from using the items they have unlocked during their playthrough of Hitman 3.

Even worse, if you start a Hitman 3 save and then later transfer your Hitman 2 data, the latter will overwrite the former.

“We’re processing thousands of players and getting more of you playing,” reads the IO tweet.

Swapp, a company that leverages AI for construction planning, today announced that it raised $7 million in venture capital.

But construction, including various conception, architectural design, and engineering processes, requires consulting with experts including architects, engineers, and land surveyors.

“For the first time in the history of construction, real estate developers and construction companies can use a single platform to build their entire construction planning project and begin work within weeks instead of 9-12 months.

We are already working … to replace the slow, tedious, and inflexible construction planning process with our smart, efficient, and flexible, planning solution.

…

As the researchers point out, voices are important elements of interaction to many trans people because of how deeply gendered different styles of speaking can be.

An incongruence in voice can serve as a source of pain for a trans and/or nonbinary person’s sense of self.

Moreover, voice can serve as a way in which trans people are identified as trans, potentially leading to discrimination and violence.

Thirteen out of the 15 participants were negative about the representativeness of VAIs’ voices, with 11 stating that VAIs were not designed for them.

Several had mixed feelings about the idea of a system featuring trans representation in voice and gender-affirming design, expressing privacy c…

As for federated learning, it entails training algorithms across decentralized devices holding data samples without exchanging those samples.

Local algorithms are trained on local data samples and the weights, or the learnable parameters of the algorithms, are exchanged between the algorithms at some frequency to generate a global model.

They also tested FELICIA in a federated learning setting with medical imagery using a popular skin lesion image dataset.

According to the researchers, the results of the experiments show that FELICIA has potentially wide application in health care research settings.

“The data from one research center is often biased towards the dominating population of the …

Should Google fire Mitchell, it will mean the company has effectively chosen to behead its own AI ethics team in under two months.

In an interview with VentureBeat last month, former Google AI ethics co-lead Timnit Gebru said she had worked with Mitchell since 2018 to create one of the most diverse teams within Google Research.

Mitchell has publicly criticized actions taken by Google leaders like AI chief Jeff Dean following the ousting of Gebru.

Members of Congress interested in regulating AI and more than 2,000 Google employees have joined prominent figures in the AI research community in questioning Gebru’s dismissal.

A research paper published in late 2020 compared the way Big Tech fund…

Web browser maker Opera has acquired YoYo Games, maker of the GameMaker Studio 2 game engine, for $10 million, and it has also launched its Opera Gaming division.

The deal underscores Opera‘s efforts to differentiate its web browser, Opera GX, through a gaming community.

Publicly traded Opera is based in Oslo, Norway, while YoYo Games is based in Dundee, Scotland.

Opera GX, YoYo Games, and GameMaker will unite under Opera Gaming, focusing on innovating across the gaming, game development, and browser experience.

Opera launched its Opera GX gaming browser in 2019.

The global pandemic has proved a catalyst for reshaping health care as venture capitalists reached deep into their pockets to deliver a record level of funding to medical-related startups in 2020.

According to the latest State of Healthcare report from research firm CB Insights, health care startups raised $80.6 billion in 2020, up from $53.7 billion in 2019.

While an aging population has already been putting pressure on health care systems, the pandemic seems to have finally created fertile terrain to allow investors to believe that widespread disruption is within startups’ grasp.

CB Insights counted a record 187 health care venture capital rounds that topped $100 million in 2020.

This fas…

Tilting Point has become one of the most prolific dealmakers in the industry.

As part of the acquisition of FTX Games earlier this year, Tilting Point established a foothold in St. Petersburg.

Tilting Point provides marketing services for games, and it also makes games or manages third-party studios making games.

Tilting Point Russia joins a global network of studios around the world including Tilting Point studios in Kyiv, Seoul, Barcelona, San Diego, and New York.

Additional acquisitions for Tilting Point in 2020 include hit titles such as Star Trek: Timelines and TerraGenesis.

AlphaICs has raised $8 million in funding for artificial intelligence processors for edge computing.

Market researcher Omdia forecasts that global AI edge chipset revenue will grow from $7.7 billion in 2019 to $51.9 billion by 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37.5%.

AlphaICs’ Real AI ProcessorImage Credit: AlphaICsAlphaIC’s chips are based on a proprietary highly modular and scalable architecture, enabling AI acceleration for low power edge applications, as well as high-performance edge data centers.

AlphaICs’ architecture provides inference performance, and it is equally suited for edge learning.

The rapidly developing field of edge learning promotes privacy, enables automat…

(Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had given a full pardon to a former Google engineer sentenced for stealing a trade secret on self-driving cars months before he briefly headed Uber’s rival unit.

Anthony Levandowski, 40, was sentenced in August to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in March.

He was not in custody but a judge had said he could enter custody once the COVID-19 pandemic subsided.

The White House said Levandowski had “paid a significant price for his actions and plans to devote his talents to advance the public good.”Alphabet’s Waymo, a self-driving auto technology unit spun out of Google, declined to comment.

Levandowski transferred more than 1…

The Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment has signed DXC Technology to deliver a digital platform to support job-ready candidates with their employment search.

The platform will also give job seekers access to an online job board, job matching, and training modules.

The new model is due to be rolled out nationally from July 2022, following trials in Adelaide South, South Australia, and mid-north New South Wales.

A New Employment Services trial was previously testing key aspects of the New Employment Services Model, including the new Digital and Enhanced Services offerings, new payment structures, and a new IT system.

Australian government to build AU$4.3 million online m…

Western Australia has announced it will invest AU$1 million into nine initiatives that are aimed at reducing e-waste.

The AU$1 million investment will come out of the state's AU$16.7 million New Industries Fund, and is expected to divert approximately 1,000 tonnes of e-waste annually from landfill.

According to Dawson, the 10 grant recipients were selected from over 50 applicants and indicated a "growing interest in Western Australia's recycling industry".

According to a United Nations University study, Oceania -- the region comprising Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Australasia -- generated 900,000 tonnes of e-waste as of 2014 and 15.2kg of e-waste per capita.

Asia, meanwhile, genera…

Blockchain Australia, the industry body representing local businesses and individuals participating in the nascent technology, has asked for government and regulatory support in building a thriving blockchain ecosystem.

According to the organisation, regulatory uncertainty is a "persistent and recurring theme" in blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) discussions.

The body said the development and application of blockchain technology must include recognition that regulatory bodies will participate.

It said the foundations of regulatory support for the blockchain industry "must be links that will lift up the Australian economy, and not become the chains that bind".

"It is our str…

A new study has revealed that while the top 100 richest people in tech share similar views to other wealthy people, they are also more focused on meritocracy.

As part of the study, the researchers analysed 49,790 tweets from 30 verified Twitter account holders within the tech elite subject group and 60 mission statements from tech elite-run philanthropic websites, plus 17 statements from tech elites and other wealthy individuals not associated with the tech world for comparison purposes.

The Twitter text analyses, according to the research, revealed tech elites used Twitter to tweet about subjects that placed emphasis on disruption, positivity, and temporality compared with the average user…

As a child, I used to go to Catholic confession and tell the priest I'd sworn and stepped on a spider.

So when I heard that former President Donald Trump had pardoned former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski, my thoughts were only religious.

This was followed by: "Top 10 Best Sewing Machines for 2020."

That there was a deity in digital cameras, fidget cubes, and sewing machines?

Of course, it could be that the church of AI is currently closed, but always ready for resurrection.

The Brazilian government estimates that more than 60% of the country's connected population - about 84 million people - is using digital citizen services.

DGS is the government department responsible for the improvement efforts around Brazil's digital citizen offerings.

The UK approach to digital citizen services delivery has served as inspiration for the Brazilian model.

In December 2020, an agreement was signed between Brazil and the UK to accelerate digital transformation and innovation in public services delivery.

The portal went live in September of that same year, with hundreds of digital citizen offerings.

Equipped with ever-larger datasets about each individual's preferences and behavior, businesses widely use algorithms to make sure that those choices are as optimal as possible.

Behind the scenes, said the CMA, examples abound of algorithms influencing customers' behavior, and indirectly leading them to pay higher prices.

A major sticking point that was identified by the competition watchdog is that of rankings.

There is still little understanding of the algorithms that determine what comes out, and in which order, when a consumer types in a search query.

"Algorithms play an important role online but, if not used responsibly, can potentially do a tremendous amount of harm to consumers and b…

Image: kt000545 on RedditThe US National Security Agency has issued a security advisory [PDF] this month urging system administrators in federal agencies and beyond to stop using old and obsolete TLS protocols.

"NSA recommends that only TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3 be used; and that SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, and TLS 1.1 not be used," the agency said.

Also: Best VPNs • Best security keys • Best antivirusEven if TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 are deployed, the NSA warns against configuring these two protocols with weak cryptographic parameters and cipher suites.

"TLS 1.3 removes these cipher suites, but implementations that support both TLS 1.3 and TLS 1.2 should be checked for obsolete cipher suites."

The US cy…

Last year, we identified blockchain, cloud, open-source, artificial intelligence, and knowledge graphs as the five key technological drivers for the 2020s.

AI, Knowledge, and GraphsWe did say "bigger and more resource-hungry AI models," and this bill fits perfectly another one of 2020's defining moments for AI: Language models.

Marcus himself identified the important role knowledge graphs can play in bridging the two worlds.

Knowledge graphs are arguably the best widely available and understood technology we have today for knowledge representation and reasoning, except language.

Graph machine learning also goes by the name of geometrical machine learning, because of its ability to learn fro…

The vast majority of AWS software is already open source, and AWS isn't likely to ever agree to open source all the rest of it.

Eliot Horowitz, MongoDB's CTO and co-founder, argued for this in the Open Source Initiative (OSI) discussion on whether the SSPL was truly an open-source license.

In a statement, the OSI stated flatly: The SSPL is Not an Open Source License.

Further:Open source licenses are the foundation for the open-source software ecosystem, a system that fosters and facilitates the collaborative development of software.

Moving forward, this new non-open "open-source" license will be another matter.

The variety of techniques used by the SolarWinds hackers was sophisticated yet in many ways also ordinary and preventable, according to Microsoft.

That is, organizations should assume breach and explicitly verify the security of user accounts, endpoint devices, the network and other resources.

As Microsoft's director of identity security, Alex Weinert, notes in a blogpost, the three main attack vectors were compromised user accounts, compromised vendor accounts, and compromised vendor software.

Microsoft has found that 99.9% of the compromised accounts it tracks every month don't use MFA.

This attack technique could be thwarted too if there were stricter permissions on user accounts and dev…

The new button appears to the right of the Firefox bookmarks toolbar.

The button reduces the width of the bookmarks toolbar, meaning users can fit fewer items on their bookmarks toolbar, which is crucial browser real estate.

Making matters worse, the button appeared on Firefox instances where Firefox Studies, a feature that lets Mozilla run experiments in Firefox stable releases, is disabled.

@firefox for some odd reason my firefox updated and now there's a "Other Bookmarks" section on the right side of my bookmarks toolbar.

The Firefox 85 version is scheduled to include an option that would allow users to remove the "Other Bookmarks" button, but this is not available yet for Firefox 84.x u…

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I've fitted (or recommended) this RAM into dozens of gaming system, and never had a word of complaint.

Highly rated RAM, and a firm favorite of mine for gaming systems.

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Kaspersky Total Security 2021 Near-perfect malware detection score There's a lot to like about Kaspersky Total Security.

Kaspersky Total Security sits in the background discreetly until you need its help.

Then there's the five-device license that you get with a yearly subscription that covers Windows, Mac, iPhone and iPad, and Android devices.

View Now at AvastChoosing the right antivirus product for youChoosing the right antivirus software package for you means knowing your needs.

Packages such as Kaspersky Total Security 2021 and Bitdefender Total Security are great for those with multiple devices running different platforms, and who want a one-stop-shop that covers everything with a sing…

How ransomware could get even more disruptive in 2021 Watch NowSome organisations which fall victim to ransomware attacks are paying ransoms to cyber criminal gangs despite being able to restore their own networks from backups, in order to prevent hackers publishing stolen data.

Over the course of the last year, many of the most successful ransomware gangs have added an additional technique in an effort to coerce victims into paying ransoms after compromising their networks – publishing stolen data if a payment isn't received.

As 2020 started, only Maze ransomware gang was using this tactic but as it ended, an additional 17 ransomware crews had taken to publishing stolen data of victims if …

"Additionally, we are prepared to leverage our operations, information technology, and communications capabilities and expertise to assist your administration's vaccination efforts."

That October, Amazon publicly reported its total number of coronavirus cases in its front-line US workforce was close to 20,000.

Biden also plans to activate the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Guard to help get COVID-19 vaccines to millions of Americans.

The information contained in this article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as health or medical advice.

Always consult a physician or other qualified health provider regarding any questions you may hav…

Angela Lang/CNETGoogle has locked the corporate account of artificial intelligence researcher Margaret Mitchell, the leader of its Ethical AI unit.

Mitchell had criticized the search giant after the controversial departure of another prominent AI researcher at the company, Timnit Gebru.

Gebru also emailed a group of Google employees, criticizing the company's diversity and equity programs.

Google said it's investigating the situation involving Mitchell.

Members of Gebru's former team at Google also sent a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding she be reinstated.

Angela Lang/CNETWhen Joe Biden gets sworn in on Wednesday as the 46th US president, his team will get the digital keys to several White House Twitter accounts.

Here's what you need to know about the social media transfer of power:What happens to the current White House accounts used by the Trump administration?

Those usernames will change during Inauguration Day on Jan. 20 when Biden officially takes over the White House.

Will these new White House accounts automatically retain followers from the prior administration?

Why isn't Twitter automatically transferring followers of the White House accounts to Biden?

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Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump pardoned Anthony Levandowski, a former Google and Uber engineer and a pioneer of self-driving car tech who plead guilty last year to stealing trade secrets from the internet giant.

Levandowski first worked at Google but left the company in 2016 to start his own self-driving truck company, which was quickly acquired by Uber for $680 million.

That led to Google's autonomous vehicle unit, Waymo, suing Uber over alleged theft of self-driving car trade secrets.

Prosecutors also charged Levandowski with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from Google.

Hours after the multimillion-dollar award to Google was finalized, Levandows…

Angela Lang/CNETYouTube on Tuesday said it's extending its suspension of President Donald Trump's channel for another week over "ongoing potential for violence," a day before Joe Biden is set to be sworn in as the next US president.

The move extends the punishment the Google-owned platform imposed on Trump last week, prohibiting him from uploading new content and disabling comments on his videos indefinitely.

The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

This is a developing story...

One of the Smile-listed Oath Keepers charities uses some of the same logos and art that are used by the Oath Keepers group that is associated with the Capitol riots.

Indiana Oath Keepers, the other group shown in the Amazon charity search function, didn't respond to a request for comment.

Its website lays out specific instructions for how supporters can choose Indiana Oath Keepers as a charity to support on Amazon Smile.

CNET couldn't confirm that shoppers can donate to Indiana Oath Keepers through Kroger's, and Kroger's didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Indiana Oath Keepers website says the organization brings together active military personnel, police and emergency …

Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe US State Department on Tuesday declared that the Chinese government is committing genocide against Uighur people and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in the country's northwestern Xinjiang region.

The State Department on Tuesday said China's ruling Communist Party is committing crimes against humanity against the Uighur people, including arbitrary imprisonment, forced sterilization, forced labor and restrictions on religion, expression and movement.

Tech companies and their suppliers have also come under scrutiny over accusations of benefiting from forced Uighur labor.

Lens Technology is also reportedly a supplier to Tesla and Amazon.

Apple at th…

Andrew Hoyle/CNETFacebook on Tuesday rolled out an update to its Automatic Alt Text (AAT) feature that improves the detail of photo descriptions for blind and visually impaired users.

Updates are available when using a screen reader, an assistive technology that converts text to speech.

This means more photos will have descriptions, Facebook says.

AAT is available for Facebook photos in News Feed, profiles and groups.

Because alt text descriptions are phrased simply, they can be translated into 45 languages, Facebook says.

Angela Lang/CNETFor the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO websiteMicrosoft is partnering with Washington state hospitals to turn a building on its campus into a COVID-19 vaccination site in February, company president Brad Smith said Monday.

"This is not going to be a site for Microsoft employees, this is going to be a site for people in the community," Smith said in a livestreamed conference with Gov.

The software giant is one of several companies partnering with the state health department.

The information contained in this article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as health or medical advice.

Always con…

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The move is the latest way Apple's worked to support community, education and social justice organizations over the past couple years.

As part of that announcement, Apple also donated to The King Center in Atlanta, which acts as a memorial for MLK.

In the past, it has donated to other civil rights nonprofits including the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama.

Apple's dedicated its homepage, one of the most popular destinations on the internet, to MLK in the past.

And when Congressman John Lewis died last summer, Apple changed its homepage to honor his civil rights leadership too.

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At the stage of conceptualizing, you would run across three types of mobile apps – Native, Hybrid, and Web.

This blog aims at demystifying the terms and making you acquainted with the pros and cons of each type of mobile apps.

Most of the apps that you use are Native apps.

On the whole, a mobile app looks very similar to a Native app.

Advantages of Hybrid AppsThe reason Hybrid app development has become popular is the reduced cost of development.

Non-Mindful Technology UseIt’s perhaps easiest to understand what constitutes “mindful” technology use when we illustrate “non-mindful” technology use.

Mindlessly using technology leads to bad technology habits, which can follow us for years if not addressed.

Principles of Mindful Technology UseMindful technology use sounds great.

The principles of mindful technology use include:Simply learning more about the effects of technology can make you a more mindful technology user.

Toward a More Mindful FutureAlmost anyone can benefit from practicing more mindful technology use.

This startup culture has led to ingenious developments, widespread economic growth, and accessible new technologies for millions of other businesses.

Will startup culture grow even stronger from here?

Factors for Startup CultureLet’s start by looking at the factors responsible for the development of this hot startup culture.

The Case for Stronger Startup CultureSo is it possible that startup culture could continue growing stronger in the coming years?

No matter how you look at it, the strong startup culture in the United States seems poised to stay.

COVID-19 has accelerated the rate of remote work adoption globally, but what have we found out?

Without reliable methods to assess its employees’ work, it is difficult for any organization to achieve growth and development.

This article addresses the concerns of managers who are hesitant about remote work and those who have already implemented remote work but have trouble with tracking performance for workplace productivity and office growth.

The rules also apply in remote work, where managers (out of fear of losing control) begin acting intrusively by implementing extreme corporate surveillance.

The rise of remote work has promoted the importance of analytics of everyday work data to ensur…

Democratized entrepreneurship means it’s easy for people to start businesses of their own, regardless of their background, their current income level, their previous knowledge and experience, and other factors.

For individuals, it means more freedom and flexibility when it comes to starting businesses.

More accessible entrepreneurship means more people are going to be interested in starting businesses.

So what is it that spurred this great age of democratized entrepreneurship?

With more people starting businesses, more people investing in businesses, and more people interested in entrepreneurship in general, we could see marked economic benefits for decades to come.

Over the next several years, we’ll likely see the emergence of multiple new forms of interactive content, and the transformation of classical or traditional online content to a more interactive format.

Interactive content is a broad term that includes any type of content that allows users to actively engage with the material.

The Benefits of Interactive ContentSo why is interactive content about to become more popular?

The Future of Interactive ContentAny brand can start developing interactive content right now—at least with some rudimentary versions.

In many ways, interactive content represents the future of content marketing.

Every landlord dreams of having long-term, reliable, trustworthy tenants who pay rent on time and in full.

Don’t set your tenants up to be lax about anything.

However, most landlords don’t reward their tenants, so even small efforts will be greatly appreciated.

Let your tenants know you won’t use smart devices against themThere have been landlords who have used smart locks to lock tenants out of their house for not paying rent.

Create good communication with your tenantsThe ultimate way to attract and retain reliable and trustworthy tenants is to maintain good communication.

The average employee uses between 10 and 20 individual software applications throughout the course of their day.

The ideal solution is to find software applications that provide multiple functions.

For example, many popular CRM software applications provide email marketing, sales process management, a shopping cart system, and more.

An intranet will reduce your operating costsHow many different software applications are you paying a monthly fee to use?

While an intranet will combine many disparate software applications for you, it won’t replace every subscription software you need.

To IoT’s great benefit, edge computing is about to take the spotlight.

Use the Edge to Avoid Costly Cloud BillsThe edge also can save you tons of money.

Edge computing and the broader concept of distributed architecture offers a far better solution.

The Edge Environment and Its BenefitsIn that sort of edge environment, we can easily imagine a distributed systems architecture where some parts of the system are deployed to the edge.

With this kind of edge environment, we can expect lower latencies.

Do you know that one element you need to convert more website visitors into paying customers is credibility?

Your website is the central online hub, your business’s digital portrayal, and often the first stop for potential customers.

Other trustworthy, independent, and authoritative websitesEven if your company is credible, it does not necessarily mean that your website conveys it.

Because people tend to believe the opinions of those they trust, social proof has become a powerful marketing tool.

If your website visitors must jump through hoops to find what they are looking for, your navigation is too complicated.

Only one year ago, I shared how the trend was moving to remote work.

Here is what I have learned over the year leading a marketing org and company that previously was not remote.

Day 1 of remote work.

In remote work, those meetings are gone.

1:1s and team meetings can provide opportunities to give pass downs from other teams and stay connected as a team.

Your business or your personal brand may be focused on creating a popular website or application.

Here is how to start monetizing a popular website or appIn any case, making an app or website popular is a challenging, multi-step process.

This is an ambiguous term, but it’s ambiguous for a reason; there are dozens, if not hundreds, of ways to monetize a popular website, app, or other online service.

Monetization OptionsLet’s take a closer look at some of the most popular monetization options available to websites and apps today:First, you could consider displaying advertisements on your website or app.

ConclusionMonetization strategies can help you make money from any app, website, or other …

Marketers have been using the virtues of video content on their email campaigns for a while now, and the results speak for themselves:Including the word “video” in email subject lines has been found to increase open rates by 19% and reduce unsubscribes by 25%.

Choosing the Right Type of Video for Your MessageThere’s at least one type of video for each of your marketing needs.

This comes in the form of a product video or demo that showcases your creation’s most important features and characteristics.

Just as the product video centers around the features of your product, the explainer video focuses on the benefits of your product and how it can better the lives of your customers.

This is beca…

Tim Cook invited Donald Trump to announce that the new generation Mac Pro would also be assembled in the US — but it seems that Trump got more than just an invitation that day.

His final financial report revealed that Trump also received a Mac Pro as a gift.

The document briefly describes the gift as a “Mac Pro Computer, the first created at the Flex Factory in Austin, Texas,” priced at $5,999.

It also states that the gift was offered by Tim Cook himself.

It’s unclear whether it refers to the first Mac Pro 2019 unit assembled there or to the 2019 Mac Pro being the first model to be assembled in the United States.

What Kuo doesn’t forecast is a future for the Touch Bar, the strip of touchscreen panel Apple added to the MacBook Pro in 2016.

I really think that Touch Bar is proof of it.”Now the Touch Bar appears to be dead, and the Mac couldn’t be more alive.

When Touch Bar debuted, I compared the utility of the Touch Bar to physical function keys — most of which I never use — and Touch Bar still wins for me.

Today, I’m an M1 MacBook Air user because I rank the lack of a fan over the inclusion of the Touch Bar, but I would opt for a MacBook Air with Touch Bar hands-down.

The Touch Bar is considered just OK to lackluster four years later because it’s bizarrely still a 1.0 product.

Although Apple has been investing in new movies and shows for its streaming service Apple TV+, the platform is still far from being considered a huge success.

Apple TV+ was even behind Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service introduced in July last year, which registered a 6% market share during the quarter.

As Apple TV+ has only original movies and shows, the catalog is remarkably small compared to its competitors.

Apple last week extended the Apple TV+ trial period to subscribers who already had the 1-year free trial.

Apple TV+ is available for $4.99 per month or included with the Apple One subscription, but you can get it for free by purchasing a new iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV.

But what about more engaging digital experiences that encourage creative and fun learning?

Follow along for a look at some of the best apps for young kids.

For my wife and I, finding engaging, fun apps that naturally encourage creativity and learning with game-like qualities has been super helpful.

Your milage may vary, but I think the apps below will be great for kids in the 2-10 range.

Speaking of LEGO, if you haven’t checked out the LEGO Building Instructions app, it’s a really neat experience.

Since the new M1 Macs were announced, developers have been working to run different operating systems on the Apple Silicon platform, including Windows and Linux.

Now, thanks to Corellium, it’s possible to run Ubuntu — a popular Linux distro — on new Macs with M1 chip.

This time, the Corellium team brought Linux to the M1 Macs with a modified version of Ubuntu that supports the full user interface, in addition to USB, I2C, and DART — that was not supported in previous Linux ports for the new Macs.

According to Wade, this makes the Linux experience “completely usable” on Macs with M1 chip.

Even so, it’s very interesting to see that they managed to run a full version of Linux on the new Macs w…

Most recently, a Bloomberg report detailed that this year’s iPhone is expected to feature minor upgrades compared to the iPhone 12.

Leaker Jon Prosser has also indicated that this year’s iPhone could bet the iPhone 12S rather than the iPhone 13.

That being said, there are still some potentially notable improvements on the table for the iPhone 12S.

A recent supply chain report also indicated that the iPhone 12S will feature a smaller notch.

Will this year’s iPhone be the iPhone 12S or the iPhone 13?

Today, we’re taking a look at the elago MS2 Charging Stand for MagSafe, which has a familiar HomePod mini kind of design that won’t take up too much space on your nightstand.

elago MS2 Charging Stand for MagSafe delivers a HomePod mini designelago has brought a number of new products for Apple’s latest iPhones to market this month.

One of the first designs to be CREATED FROM SCRATCH is the MS2 Stand – the PERFECT ADDITION TO YOUR NIGHTSTAND, COUNTER, or DESK.

The MS2 Charging Stand sports a familiar HomePod mini-style design, which will look great on your nightstand.

Overall, I give elago high marks for its MS2 Charging Stand.

Agenda for iPhone, iPad, and Mac is a date-focused notes/productivity app and it has received some new features today in the latest update.

Headlining the changes is support for tables, inline styles, and horizontal rules.

Agenda 12.0 is out today for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

New for version 12 is inserting tables in notes, support for inline styles in table cells, horizontal rules, and for premium users, the ability to adjust the text alignment of columns in tables.

Agenda is a free download with the premium subscription running $35/year for Mac/iOS or $15/year for iOS only.

If AirPods and AirPods Pro feature a similar design, what differentiates them and helps Apple justify the higher-price of AirPods Pro?

AirPods Pro 2Meanwhile, Apple is also reportedly planning a new version of AirPods Pro in 2021, again with a completely new design.

AirPods Pro 2 are expected to be priced at the same $249 price point as the current AirPods Pro, and reports have suggested a release could come as soon as April.

What’s interesting is that we haven’t yet heard any details about new features for AirPods or AirPods Pro.

What do you think of the AirPods 3 and AirPods Pro 2 rumors?

After a decade, Apple’s Joint Venture support program for small and medium-size businesses appears to be coming to an end.

Apple launched Joint Venture back in 2011 as an IT solution for small and medium-size businesses.

Shared by 9to5Mac reader Ben, Apple is sending out emails to Joint Venture customers about the program ending on February 22.

The Joint Venture Program will be ending on 22/2/21 11:59 pm PST.

To learn more about AppleCare Help Desk Support, call your Apple Business Team to get started.

Today’s top deals include the latest MacBook Pro, Apple’s iPad Pro, and G-Technology storage.

Take up to $100 off Apple’s M1-powered MacBook ProAmazon is offering Apple’s new M1-powered 13-inch MacBook Pro from $1,219.

Apple’s latest 12.9-inch iPad Pro gets $100 discountAmazon is offering Apple’s latest 12.9-inch iPad Pro Wi-Fi 256GB for $999.

Best trade-in deals9to5Mac also keeps tabs on all the best trade-in deals on iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Apple Watch, and more every month.

Be sure to check out this month’s best trade-in deals when you decide it’s time to upgrade your device.

Shuffle options for media have been around for a long time, and Netflix has confirmed that it will be the latest to adopt the functionality.

Called “Shuffle Play,” Netflix customers will be able to roll the dice on something to watch starting sometime in the first half of 2021.

Reported by Variety, Netflix has been testing its Shuffle Play feature since last summer (and even earlier with Android).

For example, when I recently clicked “Play Something,” Netflix started streaming “The Crown” Season 1 (explaining that it was a drama similar to “The Queen’s Gambit,” which I binge-watched last month).

In testing so far, the Shuffle Play button appears on the profile screen that you see when the a…

Apple has reportedly switched two million units of Q1 production from the iPhone 12 mini to the iPhone 12 Pro, as the company struggles to keep up with demand for the flagship models …The Morgan Stanley investment note seen by PED30 further corroborates reports that sales of the iPhone 12 lineup as a whole were higher than expected, while those of the mini specifically have been disappointing.

We continue to believe that the iPhone will outperform expectations in the December quarter, as the mix shift to higher-end iPhone 12 models is a tailwind to ASPs and revenue growth.

iPhone 12 Pro lead times remain extended far beyond any model launched in the past 4 years at 10 days.

Lead times decre…

MindNode is one of the most popular Mac/iOS apps for visual brainstorming and mind mapping and the Mac version has received nice update today with new outline features.

The new capabilities make it easy add, edit, and remove nodes right from the hierarchical view.

MindNode version 2021.1 for Mac brings side by side outlining and mind mapping for a more versatile experience.

For outlining, you can now add, remove, indent, and outdent nodes directly as well as dragging and dropping to reorganize in the hierarchical view.

The new outline features on MindNode for Mac are part of the Plus subscription that runs $2.49/month or $19.99/year.

Following yesterday’s big movie sale, Apple’s iTunes storefront is back this morning with a selection of TV shows discounted from HBO and more.

Notable titles down below include the Chernobyl mini-series, Westworld, Person of Interest, and more.

Notable TV show deals today include:Headlining today’s sale is Chernobyl, the popular mini-series that details the nuclear explosion in Ukraine back in the 1980s.

This title is down to $9.99 from the usual $20 going rate and matching the best we’ve seen at iTunes.

Other deals today:Make sure you check out this week’s movie bundle sale at Apple for more deals on Disney films and other iconic titles from $5.

Старик разошелся. В последний день Трамп сделал два резких движения: 1. подписал указ, позволяющий прекратить иностранное использование продуктов или услуг облачных вычислений для злонамеренных киберопераций против США https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-cyber-cloud-computing-idUKKBN29P0172. помиловал Антони Левандовского, который доказанно продал секреты Гугла Уберу. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grants-clemency-012021/Осталось понять, что из этого синонимично "покрасить мавзолей в зеленый цвет".

Brave стал первым из популярных браузеров, поддержавших протокол IPFS, и это большое дело, потому что это система децентрализации, по которой невозможно заблокировать контент.Думайте об этом, как о торренте для каждой страницы, можно сделать целые сайты, которые никак невозможно заблокировать, потому что все это забирается не с единого сервера, а из совершенно разных частей интернета. Очень хочется надеяться, что IPFS или любой другой протокол децентрализации подержат и другие браузеры. https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-becomes-first-browser-to-add-native-support-for-the-ipfs-protocol/

У Амазона есть такая милая привычка: брать открытые решения, делать из них облачный сервис и продавать всем на своем AWS. Некоторым создателям открытых систем это не нравится, особенно в шоке Elasticsearch, потому что Амазон использует не только их код, но даже их название - Amazon Elasticsearch. Большой программный пост о том, что это все не ОК https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-AWS

Турция ввела бан на рекламу в Twitter (включая перископ) и Pinterest, т.к. эти две сети не выполни требование завести локальные представительства. Интересно, что так же будет введено правило о замедлении трафика сначала вдвое с апреля, а потом в 10 раз с мая, если компании не прореагируют на предупреждение.Google, Facebook и другие уже соблюдают этот закон и назначили своих представителей. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-twitter-idUSKBN29O0CT

Раз с утра никаких интересных новостей - вот вам забавная история. Как вы знаете, в Великобритании если вы смотрите телевизор - вы должны купить на него лицензию. По сути именно из этих лицензионных отчислений и проистекает BBC. И есть своеобразные тв-пираты - это пользователи, которые купили телевизор но вообще не хотят платить за лицензию. Раньши их ловили специальными автомобилями, которые ездят по городам и весям и улавливают характерные электромагнитные волны от старых ламповых телевизоров. Но что делать сейчас? Вы же можете купить телевизор, но не смореть на нем обычые телепрограммы - использовать его просто как экран для нетфликса или плейстейшн. Гипотез много, самая понятная: улавли…

Между тем, прокурор во Флориде требует лишить гражданку Ребеку Джонс права на интернет, точнее буквально "забанить в интернете". Прокуратура утверждает, что Джонс незаконно получила доступ к системам, которые позволяют послать сообщение через государственную систему оповещения . Но, похоже, нет никаких свидетельств того, что это произошло. Вместо этого они собрали доказательства того, что она якобы скачивала некоторые данные из государственных баз данных с информацией о гражданах. Джонс говорит, что ее попросили подделывать данные о COVID в рамках ее работы по запуску дашборда FL COVID, она отказалась это делать. Когда ее уволили, она запустила свой собственный дашборд и раскритиковала прав…

---=== реклама ===---Редкий случай - реклама телеграм-канала: «Марзаганов вещает» это канал для тех, кто хочет следить за трендами и разбираться в маркетинге, SMM, рекламе и медиа. Прямая цитата - "Избегать тренды невозможно: в лучшем случае, вы выпадете из жизни и начнете заниматься массфоловингом или накручивать подписчиков в Инстаграм. В худшем — потеряете работу и станете профнепригодным", и с этим конечно сложно не согласиться.Канал уже огромный, и по контенту и по аудитории, формат вещания свободный - я пролистал вверх сообщений 50 и подписался сам. На мой взгляд единственное к чему можно придраться - слишком много политики и личного мнения. Но ведь если нет личного мнения, то и читат…

Coindesk: Картографический сервис Maps.me привлек $50 млн– Главным инвестором стал фонд Alameda Research– Среди инвесторов также: Genesis Capital и CMS Holdings– Инвестиции пойдут на запуск мультивалютного кошелька внутри сервиса– Сервис хочет создать экосистему децентрализованных финансов (DeFi)– Пользователи получат доступ к ряду платежных и инвестиционных инструментов– Пользователи смогут отправлять и тратить деньги в нескольких валютах

Джея Ли, который по факту является практическим владельцем и управляющим Samsung Electronics приговорен к 2.5 годам в тюрьме за подкуп. Такое ощущение что в Корее решили посадить половину руководителей Самсунга https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-18/samsung-s-billionaire-heir-ordered-back-to-prison-for-bribery

И кстати, проект GPT-Neo это попытка полностью повторить и бесплатно раздать людям знаменитый GPT-3 от openAI. Как верно замечают авторы проекта, довольно странно, что проект с платным API и закрытыми исходными текстами называется "open AI" 🙂 Но вообще пока-что GPT-Neo далеки от полного повторения GPT-3, думаю там еще работы на 3-4 месяца. https://www.eleuther.ai/gpt-neo

Судя по коммитам в исходный код signal причина его падения оказалась анекдотической: из-за роста числа пользователей часть серверов начала отвечать внутренней ошибкой 508. Это сообщение не обрабатывалось клиентом, и поэтому сразу после его получения клиент снова обращался к серверу (и так по кругу, без возможности выода). Сами себе устроили DDoS. https://twitter.com/NovakDaniel/status/1350471722034745348

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WhatsApp пока отложил ввод в действие новых правил конфиденциальности, объявление о которых взбудоражило всех пользователей и вызвало переток в другие мессенджеры. Пока ориентировочно изменения вступят в силу с середины мая этого года, хотя уведомление в приложении пока продолжает сообщать о 8 февраля.Вообще, я смотрю, Facebook своими инициативами в области privacy успешно конкурирует за звание слона в лавке с Google в части отношений с персоналом. Умудриться совершенно самостоятельно (мелкие конкуренты подключились далеко не сразу) создать у пользователей впечатление, что теперь их сообщения будут полностью доступны Facebook для таргетирования рекламы, в то время как сообщения никому досту…

Мессенджер Signal, на который перебирались с whatsapp некоторые фанаты безопасности, и который прорекламировал Илон Маск испытывает серьезные трудности последние полтора часа. Очень обидно, ведь реально многие вложились своим временем и уговорили друзей и родственников воспользоваться этим мессенджером.Причины падения не известны, но наиболее вероятная банальна - не справились с нагрузкой https://status.signal.org/

Пятничное чтиво: автономная навигация воздушных шаров с использованием нейронных сетей и обучения с подкреплением. Да, самоуправляемые воздушные шары в стратосфере движущиеся в потоках воздуха и управляемые нейроночкой.Такое ощущение, что люди ищут "какая еще область не покрыта использованием машинного обучения"! Статья вышла в прошлом году, заметил я ее тлько сейчас. Повторюсь, очень люблю статьи гуглеров, хотябы из-за качества оформления https://psc-g.github.io/posts/research/rl/loon/

21 января в российских кинотеатрах в прокат наконец-то выходит мультфильм «Душа» от Disney и Pixar.Если вы его ещё не видели, но планируете посмотреть, можете почитать нашу рецензию.rozetked.me/articles/14964-otzyv-na-mul-tfil-m-dusha-zastavlyaet-zadumat-sya-o-smysle-zhizni

Есть два формата изображений — со сжатием и без.В этом материале вы узнаете: что такое RAW-файл, как происходит получение фотографии, почему и как сжимают изображения. А ещё небольшой эксперимент: что случится с фотографией, если загрузить её в Instagram 1000 раз?rozetked.me/articles/14424-kak-ustroen-raw-i-jpeg-v-chem-luchshe-snimat-i-chto-budet-esli-zagruzit-v-instagram-1000-fotografiy

В Microsoft Flight Simulator можно полетать над так называемым «дворцом Путина»Энтузиаст решил с помощью авиасимулятора оценить то, что скрыто с общедоступных карт.Магия процедурной генерации, с помощью которой создавались карты в игре, впечатляет результатом.rozetked.me/news/15005-igrok-microsoft-flight-simulator-proletel-nad-dvorcom-putina

Аниме-сериалы под запретом? Как бы не так!Суд Петербурга признал неприемлемыми некоторые сцены в аниме-сериале «Тетрадь смерти», «Токийский гуль» и третьем эпизоде «Инуяшики».Их точно заблокируют на одном сайте. В суде обозначили, что сами аниме в России запрещены не будут.rozetked.me/news/15004-zhestokie-anime-serialy-pod-zapretom-sud-peterburga-zapretil-tetrad-smerti-i-inuyashiki

Мобильное подразделение LG — всё?Глава компании Квон Бонг Сок в обращении к сотрудникам намекнул о возможной продаже, закрытии или сокращении мобильного бизнеса. Всё из-за миллиардных убытков и не пользующихся спросом смартфонов с уникальными фишками.rozetked.me/news/15001-lg-posle-pyati-let-ubytkov-mozhet-perestat-delat-smartfony

Крупнейшей в России киносети «Формула кино» и «Синема Парк» грозит банкротство.Банк «Траст» списал со счетов компании 450 млн рублей выручки за новогодние сеансы в счёт долга. Также банк подал иск к владельцу сети на 1 млрд рублей.rozetked.me/news/14996-so-schetov-sinema-park-i-formula-kino-spisali-450-mln-rubley-seti-grozit-bankrotstvo

Netflix растёт как на дрожжах!Онлайн-кинотеатр первый в мире преодолел отметку в 200 млн подписчиков. Выручка достигла 25 млрд долларов.Благодаря росту доходов, сервис теперь может сам выпускать фильмы и сериалы без привлечения сторонних средств.rozetked.me/news/14990-otchet-chislo-podpischikov-netflix-perevalilo-za-200-mln

Apple опубликовала подборку фотографий, сделанных на iPhone 12В неё вошла работа российского фотографа Андрея Глазунова, сделанная на iPhone 12 mini.Также компания сопроводила подборку напоминанием особенностей камер актуальной линейки iPhone.rozetked.me/news/14988-apple-vypustila-podborku-snyato-na-iphone-12

Рекорд «Хода королевы» будет побит?Netflix сообщил, что сериал «Люпен» с Омаром Си («1+1») в главной роли стал «крупнейшим французским хитом» сервиса. По прогнозам, за 28 дней шоу могут посмотреть 70 млн подписчиков.rozetked.me/news/14984-lyupen-novyy-hit-netflix-serial-za-mesyac-posmotryat-70-millionov-podpischikov

Соцсеть Parler для восстановления своей работы внезапно перешла на российский хостинг.Да, речь о той самой «соцсети без цензуры», которая популярна среди сторонников Дональда Трампа. После событий в Капитолии, её удалили из App Store, Google Play и Amazon Web Services.Обновлено: российская компания подтвердила, что Parler с ней сотрудничает, однако соцсеть её хостинг не использует.rozetked.me/news/14983-parler-vosstanavlivaet-svoyu-rabotu-s-pomosch-yu-rossiyskogo-hostinga

«Бизнесмен из 90-х» прокомментировал прощальный пост «Рокетбанка»Так Олег Тиньков представился в послании банку, в котором заявил, что «облизывать клиента и постить мемы на конкурентов — это ещё не бизнес».Предприниматель пожелал удачи «Кухне на районе» и пригласил клиентов «Рокета» в свой банк.rozetked.me/news/14979-oleg-tin-kov-prokommentiroval-proschal-nyy-post-zakryvshegosya-roketbanka

Минцифры собирается потратить почти 20 млрд рублей на развитие российской OC «Аврора».Средства собираются потратить на закупку планшетов на OC для врачей и учителей, а также на обеспечение их мобильной связью и интернетом. Часть денег также выделят на разработку софта для «полупустого магазина» приложений.rozetked.me/news/14977-mincifry-zakupit-planshety-na-rossiyskoy-os-avrora-dlya-vrachey-i-uchiteley

На Apple оказывают давление, заставляя удалить Telegram из App Store, пишет The Washington Post. «Коалиция за более безопасный интернет» подала иск против компании в Федеральный суд с требованием удалить мессенджер из App Store за неспособность пресечь экстремистские…

Недавно тут писал про впечатляющие масштабы собственного кинопроизводства Netflix - и вот появились цифры про рост базы подписчиков: преодолён рубеж в 200 млн, причём за 2020 добавилось 37 млн. Это означает, что финансовая модель компании работоспобна (назанимать денег и вложить их в производство, чтобы захватить рынок). Акции растут, зрители предвкушают;)https://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-tops-200-million-subscribers-for-the-first-time-11611090902

Приложение, которое во всем мире известно как TikTok (и ошеломительно набирает популярность везде и в том числе у нас), у себя на родине в Китае называется Douyin и отличается рядом особенностей, ибо в Китае экосистема интернета достаточно своеобразна. На днях в Douyin появилась своя платежная система Douyin Pay - в дополнение к используемым популярным Alipay и WeChat Pay. И это полноценная заявка на превращение Douyin в отдельную самостоятельную платформу.Очень интересно, появится ли своя платёжная система в TikTok по миру и как отреагируют конкуренты и государства, если она таки появится ;) Опыт США показал, что ТикТока там боятся и безо всяких платежей.https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/19/d…

Я даже не писал, что огневые испытания сверхтяжелой ракеты NASA пошли не совсем по плану, и этот проект, и так уже давно не выдерживающий сроки, имеет шанс ещё затянуться. А вот что Virgin Orbit, частная компания, использующая технологию air launch (это когда ракета стартует не со стола на земле, а из-под самолета-носителя высоко в атмосфере), впервые успешно вывела на орбиту полезную нагрузку NASA, напишу.Потому что это еще одна частная компания, с еще одной нетрадиционной технологией вывода грузов на орбиту — и у нее получилось. И это еще один пример бурного роста инноваций в программах космических запусков и уже явного превосходства частных компаний в этой области. https://virginorbit.co…

Вот и на Телеграм накатали телегу по итогам вашингтонских событий. Группа НКО подала в Федеральный суд жалобу, что характерно, не на сам Телеграм, а на Apple: от Apple требуют убрать Телеграм из стора, ибо он не хуже пресловутого Parler способствует разжиганию ненависти и вражды. Прецедент блокировок и банов со стороны платформ показал, как можно эффективно бороться с приложениями в эпоху платформ, и этот опыт пошёл в дело очень быстро.https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/17/apple-capitol-siege-telegram/

Сегодня круглый юбилей Википедии: ей исполняется 20 лет. И она как раз относится к тем вещам, которые изменили мир. Как самим фактом наличия, так и неведомым до того способом создания. Цифры про Википедию можно почитать в статье, а я просто хочу поздравить всех, кто приложил руку и голову к ее созданию — и Джимми персонально, мне посчастливилось модерировать дискуссию с ним в Яндексе много лет назад и потом поболтать. Совершенно офигенный мужик! ;) https://www.24matins.uk/topnews/int/as-wikipedia-turns-20-it-aims-to-reach-more-readers-263085

Люблю повторять, что пандемия среди прочих трендов мощно разогнала тренд бесконтактности: недавно так ещё всеми любимые тачскрины и сенсорные панели очень быстро выходят из моды. Мало кто хочет касаться поверхностей, которые неизвестно кто до этого трогал. Поэтому неудивительно, что на CES-2021 можно наблюдать целый спектр продуктов с бесконтактным управлением: тут и холодильник, который открывает дверь по голосовой команде, и широкий выбор сенсорно-управляемой сантехники, и бесконтактные дверные замки. Но, кажется, кроме этих довольно ожидаемых вариантов, ничего и нет, никаких сенсаций. Впрочем, для преобразования общественных мест и пространств хватит и того, что перечислено :)https://www…

Люблю, года постановка научного эксперимента выглядит как хорошая фантастика:) В экспериментах по квантовым сетям чистые квантовые состояния переносятся фотонами. На практике это означает, что для передачи фотонов чаще всего используются волоконно-оптические линии. Но в Китае решили добавить изящества к постановке: не везде есть волокно, поэтому если мы хотим иметь защищённую квантовую связь между любыми точками, нужно что-то другое. И они решили поднять в воздух над точками связи дроны, обменивающиеся оптическими импульсами. Согласитесь, распределённая квантовая сеть, поддерживаемая роем дронов — очень кинематографичная картинка будущего;)В статье, опубликованной в престижнейшем Physical R…

На CES-2021 в Лас-Вегасе пока не объявили каких-то неожиданных и крутых гаджетов, так что даже жаль, что пока туда не добрался питерский стартап WARMR (отдельно мне нравится, что в ИТМО нынче хороший стартап засчитывают за дипломную работу). Куртка, которая хорошо держит тепло в течение 6 часов при -70 С — правильное применение технологий гибкой печатной электроники, очень по сезону. Причем отдельно радует, что стартаперы оказались достаточно взрослыми, чтобы сосредоточиться на технологии обработки ткани, а саму задачу создания куртки арктического класса оставили профессионалам, заключив разумное партнерство с Red Foxhttps://www.popmech.ru/technologies/news-660033-sogreet-v-minus-70-v-rossi…

Масштабы, в которых Netflix генерирует собственный контент, а не просто предоставляет стриминговую платформу для чужого, каждый год заново поражают :)Вот сейчас они объявили, что в наступившем году будут выпускать каждую неделю минимум по одному новому фильму, и будут недели с несколькими премьерами, поскольку всего новинок будет более 70. Актерский состав во многих вполне голливудский, ДиКаприо, например, обещан. Впрочем, обещают и талантливых новичков;) А в статье по ссылке есть задорный трейлер этого сезона премьер, растянутого на целый год.И это пока речь только про полный метр, не про сериалы :)https://winteriscoming.net/2021/01/12/netflix-reveals-insane-number-original-movies-coming-2…

Уже лет десять, как аналитики предрекают смерть персональных компьютеров под натиском планшетов, смартфонов и прочих более компактных и современных форматов персональной вычислительной техники. Но вот впервые за десятилетие 2020-й показал рост рынка. Разные аналитические компании дают слегка разные цифры, но они сходятся, что в ушедшем году было отгружено около 300 млн. штук, рост при этом превысил 10%; мощный перелом тренда после десятилетия минусов.И, конечно, очевидна причина — всё та же удалёнка, необходимость работать и учиться из дома. Не факт, что этот драйвер окажется долгоиграющим.https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/11/22225356/pc-sales-shipments-2020-growth-idc-canalys-remote-work

Только мы привыкли любоваться точными посадками возвращаемых ступеней ракет SpaceX, как команда Маска предложила ещё одно решение, позволяющее не просто многократно использовать ступени, но и избавиться от лишней массы выдвигаемых «ног». Предполагается, что Super Heavy Booster будет возвращаться непосредственно на стартовую площадку — и там ее будет ловить (подхватывая за стабилизаторы) сама стартовая мачта новой конструкции. Выглядит фантастично, но и насчет уже работающих многократно используемых ступеней хватало скепсиса ;)Зато если получится, частоту повторных запусков можно будет сильно увеличить, а при амбициях Маска это важно. https://www.universetoday.com/149526/spacexs-next-idea-to…