Например, публикует переписку Стива Джобса с Биллом Гейтсом, письмо сотрудника Windows, мечтающего о Mac и другие.

Компания пошла на мировое соглашение после коллективного иска.

Человек в кабине будет «вмешиваться только в аварийной ситуации».

Перевод издания «Идеономика».

Организация Quiet Parks International открывает «тихие парки» по всему миру, пытается защитить леса от шума, привлечь туристов и инвестиции.

Разбираемся, из каких слагаемых состоит здоровый сон. Материал издания Reminder.

Кто участвовал в финансовой цепочке, какими способами выводили деньги и как власти планируют регулировать рынок — в материале.

За 30 лет он успел основать пять авиакомпаний, одну из которых запустил в пандемию, несколько раз прогорел и даже был уволен из собственной фирмы. В 2021 году он развивает Breeze, лоукостера с высококлассным обслуживанием, а как он это делает — в пересказе Inc.

Сколько времени занимает перевод, какие есть сценарии работы и как не платить комиссию.

При этом 74% опрошенных регулярно испытывают боль или дискомфорт во время работы.

Основатели стартапов спорят в Facebook и, кажется, не готовы к примирению.

Сделка обошлась в $75 млн.

К тому времени, как Эйнштейн в 1905 году вывел свою специальную теорию относительности (СТО), прошло уже больше 200 лет с тех пор, как Ньютон записал свои законы движения.

Были уравнения Ньютона XVII века, описывавшие, как силы заставляют объекты изменять своё движение (ускоряться), и уравнения XIX века, управлявшие электричеством, магнетизмом и светом.

Ньютон с последователями не знали об энергии массы – её предложил Эйнштейн (как и, по меньшей мере, ещё один его коллега – но Эйнштейн точнее описал все детали).

Посмотрите на уравнения Ньютона.

И для таких частиц уравнения Ньютона и Эйнштейна очень сильно расходятся.

MMT для UBI: что такое современная теория денег и как из неё следует, что России по карману всеобщий базовый доход

Ну а под катом — история создания архитектуры IA-64 и причины закрытия масштабного проекта.Принято считать, что эпоха Itanium началась в 2001 году — с момента выхода первого процессора новой архитектуры.

Тем не менее, о совместной работе Intel и HP над новой 64-разрядной архитектурой стало известно еще в 1994 году.

В 1999 году были готовы тестовые образцы процессора, тогда же компания Intel рассказала об этом проекте, плюс партнеры ввели термины IPF (Itanium Processor Family) и Itanium Architecture.

Intel пришлось бросить значительные ресурсы на создание собственной 64-битной версии x86, а вот Itanium на время стал вторым по значимости проекта.

Например, в 2011 году Oracle анонсировала прек…

Все выше сказанное относится к ситуации, когда атомная бомба находится в «транспортной» конфигурации, а не в боевой.

Но руководство ВВС США приняло все эти риски, и полеты с ядерным оружием стали обыденными и массовыми.

Звучало бы смешно, если бы следом не вышло из строя еще три двигателя и не будь на борту атомной бомбы.

Во-вторых, в 1959 была построена, а в 1961 вступила в строй BMEWS — система раннего предупреждения о ракетном ударе, т.е.

Обследование дна с помощью глубоководных аппаратов позволило обнаружить и поднять обломки трех бомб - но четвертая так и не была обнаружена.

MMT для UBI: что такое современная теория денег и как из неё следует, что России по карману всеобщий базовый доход

Продолжаем дайджесты новостей и других материалов о свободном и открытом ПО и немного о железе.

Теперь в Open Source и для всех.

В дополнение и с помощью всего этого планируется более глубоко прорабатывать главные материалы и делать их описание интереснее, а также улучшить качество блока «Короткой строкой».

И первый, и второй, и десятый.

Михаил Грачёв, тимлид из Evrone, расскажет, как в компании выстроили работу с Open Source и превратили это в культуру».

Статистические модели против MLКажется, сходство методов статистического моделирования и ML заставило людей предполагать, что это синонимы.

Точно так же машинное обучение — не то же самое, что искусственный интеллект, на самом деле ML — подмножество ИИ.

ML основано на статистикеПрежде чем мы обсудим, чем различаются статистика и ML, поговорим об их сходстве.

Термодинамика строится не только на статистике, но и на многих других элементах; ML опирается на большое количество областей математики и компьютерных наук:Теория ML из математики и статистики.

Что касается статистики и ML, то машинное обучение не существовало бы без статистики, но оно полезно в современную эпоху.

Давайте представим, что нам пришла задача построения уравнения регрессии, но с одним уточнением - нам точно известно, что зависимая переменная находится в интервале [0;1].

Что изменится?

То есть, например, для интервала [0;1) вводится новая переменнаяИ на первом шаге мы строим логистическую регрессию для переменной y*, на втором шаге - уже обычную бета-регрессию для переменной y из интервала (0;1)Предложено также семейство статистических тестов (GOFF1, GOFF2, GGOFF) для проверки правильности спецификации данных моделей.

Отличия тестов - в рисунке нижеЦитируется по: Ramalho, E. A., Ramalho, J. J. S., Murteira.

J. M. R. A GENERALIZED GOODNESS-OF FUNCTIONAL FORM TEST FOR BINARY AND FRACTIONAL …

Собственно, как и с Галлюциногенией, здесь была похожая «галлюциногенная история» с не правильной интерпретацией древнего зверя.

Фронтальный придаток AnomalocarisЭти образцы он определил, как отложения средне кембрийского возраста и позже всех их описывал, хотя и не все правильно.

Первоначальные лобные придатки, которые интерпретировали как Лагганию и Сиднейю, как выяснилось позднее, принадлежали более крупным видам, отличных от Peytoia и Laggania.

Таким образом передняя часть тела была значительно твёрже и быстро окаменела, а все остальные части были слишком нежные и не смогли сохраниться в должной мере.

Вообще о поведении и жизни Аномалокариса подробно рассказал в своём видео мой друг и с…

Так случилось что захотелось снести MacOS на Macbook'е Air и поставить что то более свободное и линуксовое.

Проблема 1Вот тут и появился первый подводный камень: Debian поддерживает не все wifi устройства из коробки.

Проблема 2Теперь появляется второй подводный камень: а как мы установим прошивку для wifi устройства если у нас не работает сеть после установки?

Таким образом интернет соединение для установки драйверов на wifi и первоначальных пакетов, мы себе обеспечили.

Действия после установкиСам процесс инсталяции я описывать не буду так как все индивидуально, и это тема для отдельной статьи.

И тут я понял, чем я в дальнейшем хочу заниматься в вопросе развлечения народа, да и себя любимого.

Буквально за пару недель нарисовал всю схему, и на протяжении 2016 и 2017 года публиковал видосы про релейный компьютер.

А зритель на YouTube бывает разный.Взять, например, других мейкеров – что у них по зрителям, что у них по направленности канала.

Он нашел своего зрителя – людей, которым интересно посмотреть что-то ревуще-гудяще-горящее, их оказалось много и в русскоязычном, и в англоязычном сегменте YouTube.

Альбомы схем элементов серии «Волга» — 92-го года, кстати, но я не могу найти их вживую.

В этом дайджесте читайте про фоновые задачи в Android 12 и однократные замыкания в Swift, про первый стабильный релиз Jetpack Compose и ускорение я сборок, музыку для инди, различия в покупках на iOS и Android, форменный UX и многое другое!

Предыдущий дайджест .

Если у вас есть другие интересные материалы или вы нашли ошибку — пришлите, пожалуйста, в почту

Уже несколько лет подряд New Balance анонсирует новую модель сначала в сотрудничестве с Casablanca, а уже потом запускает свободные продажи.

Модель этого года — XC-72, поговорим о новой расцветке.

Многоцветные XC-72 поступят в продажу 6 августа.

Одна половина с серой подошвой, фиолетовой вставкой и чёрным логотипом, вторая с песчаной подошвой, розовой вставкой и серо-бордовой буквой N.Очень необычная, красивая и долгожданная модель.

Обязательно приобрету кроссовки, как только они поступят в продажу.

В этом году ассортимент Sonos пополнился портативной колонкой Roam для путешествий.

У нас есть обзор, если пропустили:Обзоры Обзор Sonos Roam: маленькая «умная» колонкаВ честь запуска компания решила объединиться с The North Face и запустила эксклюзивную радиостанцию Never Stop Exploring на стриминговом сервисе Sonos Radio HD.

Творчество Микаэля Йоргенсена в сочетании с уникальным опытом спортсменов, запечатлённым на звуковой дорожке, позволило нам создать нечто авантюрное и новое.

Мы предлагаем поклонникам и любителям активного отдыха открыть для себя совершенно новый формат путешествий.

К сожалению, пока радиостанция недоступна в России, но заценить подборку могут все желающие на сервисе …

Компания Adidas в сотрудничестве с брендом Marcolin разработала и представила солнцезащитные очки, напечатанные на 3D-принтере.

Сама структура гибкая, нейлоновая и с прорезиненным покрытием.

Весят очки всего 20 грамм.

В продажу очки поступят 23 августа.

Самые инновационные — 4DFWD, они поступили в продажу несколько месяцев назад.

Всё началось с иска в суд, в котором компанию обвинили в мужланской атмосфере, неравенстве зарплат, неуважении и сексуальных домогательствах в отношении женщин.

Заявители из DFEH изучали культуру в Blizzard около двух лет и пришли к ужасающим итогам: сотрудники-мужчины могли в рабочее время напиться, играть в игры, скидывая работу на женщин, а потом ходить по офису и приставать к ним.

Руководство Activision Blizzard поспешило обвинить DFEH в искажении фактов и некомпетентности расследования, да и вообще — это события далёкого прошлого и сейчас в их компании всё хорошо.

Так же, игроков на PlayStation 5 больше и они проводят больше времени в играх, чем на PlayStation 4.

Какое именно количеств…

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

Премьеры«Последний наемник»История про тайного агента, осужденного правительством, который вынужден вернуться во Францию ради спасения сына.

Мир, в котором люди после вируса ничего не видят:«Армия воров»Тизер приквела «Армии мертвецов» от Netflix.

«Король Ричард»18 ноября состоится премьера биографического фильма про отца знаменитых теннисисток Винус и Серены Ульямс.

Главная роль досталась Уиллу Смиту:Если вы пропустили ролики на канале WylsacomДостали и протестировали Apple MagSafe Battery Pack:Sam — нелегальный ассистент Samsung:Второй тур Кубка Фиферов 2021:Напишите, что интере…

На iOS и Android вышло обновление мессенджера Telegram, где добавили много полезного: видеозвонки теперь поддерживают до 1000 зрителей, повышено качество видеосообщений и многое другое.

ВидеосообщенияПовысили качество видеосообщений, а если нажать на него, оно развернется на всю ширину часа.

Если записываете сообщение и играет музыка на устройстве, она не будет останавливаться, а если записываете на основную камеру, изображение можно приблизить, просто потянув двумя пальцами.

Трансляция экранаНаконец-то экран можно транслировать как в групповых видеозвонках, так и в личных чатах.

Загрузить обновление можно в App Store и Google Play.

Компания Casio представила модель A100WEPC, дизайн которой разрабатывался в коллаборации с PAC-MAN.

Циферблат и ремешок стилизованы под лабиринт из игры.

Есть и знакомые гером, а надпись «ILLUMINATOR» выполнена шрифтов в стиле PAC-MAN.

Корпус полимерный, а ремешок ремешок металлический с гравировкой.

Если вы фанат, то такие часики в коллекции просто обязаны быть.

На форуме Reddit и сайте поддержки Apple начали появляться сообщения от владельцев MacBook Air и Pro с системой-на-чипе M1, которые жалуются на внезапно трескающиеся стёкла дисплеев.

Кому-то устройства заменили на новые в сервисном центре, а кому-то пришлось за это заплатить, поскольку повреждение записали на механическое воздействие.

Если бы проблема была массовой, то жалобы на трескающиеся дисплеи появились ещё на старте продаж.

Нет, специально на крышку ноутбука может пользователи и не давили, но что-то могло попасть и раздавить стекло в момент закрытия крышки.

Переживать за трескающиеся дисплеи не стоит, а вот следить за тем, чтобы ничего лишнего на клавиатуре не оставалось — это да, ну…

Мэр Москвы Сергей Собянин выпустил указ, который освобождает от ношения перчаток в общественных местах.

Смягчение мер Собянин объяснил улучшением ситуации с коронавирусом в городе, к тому же снизилось ежедневное количество заболевших.

Неоднократные исследования доказывают, что перчатки не снижают риска заразиться коронавирусом.

Перчатки защищают от бактерий и вирусов на очень короткое время, отчего бесполезны, если ехать на метро из одного конца города в другой.

Сняли перчатки и почесали глаз — бактерии проникли в организм.

Компания Motorola представила серию смартфонов: Edge 20 Pro, Edge 20 и Edge 20 Lite.

Все три модели поддерживают 5G с частотой до 6 ГГц, оснащены 6,7-дюймовыми OLED-экранами с повышенной частотой обновления и 108-Мп камерой Samsung ISOCELL HM2.

Motorola Edge 20 Pro10-битный OLED-дисплей с частотой обновления 144 Гц, частота отклика тач-сенсора — 576 Гц.

Помимо основного 108-Мп датчика, предусмотрен ультраширик на 16 Мп с функцией макросъёмки, зум-перископ на 8 Мп с поддержкой оптической стабилизации и пятикратным оптическим зумом.

Помимо 108-Мп основного сенсора камеры, есть 16-Мп сенсор для макросъёмки и телеобъектив с разрешением 8 Мп и поддержкой трёхкратного оптического зума.

Существует ещё и microLED.

Несмотря на близкое по звучанию название, дисплеи miniLED и microLED довольно сильно отличаются.

Если на ней нужно подсветить один пиксель, вам придётся потратить столько же энергии, как и на подсветку всей матрицы.

Несмотря на созвучное название, у microLED и miniLED мало общего.

Вместе с этим матрица с miniLED лишена недостатков OLED: нет эффекта выгорания, нет PenTile, нет ШИМ.

Компания Huawei провела масштабную презентацию, на которой показала флагманские смартфоны P50 и P50 Pro.

Основной модуль на 50 Мп со светосилой f/1.8 и оптической стабилизацией, ультраширокоугольный на 13 Мп и телефото на 12 Мп с увеличенным до 125 мм эквивалентным фокусным расстоянием, что даёт пятикратный оптический зум.

Цена за версию с хранилищем на 128 ГБ — 4488 юаней (примерно 50 900 рублей), с хранилищем на 256 ГБ — 4988 юаней (примерно 56 500 рублей).

Версии и цены:Snapdragon 8/128 ГБ — 5988 юаней (примерно 67 900 рублей);Kirin/Snapdragon 8/256 ГБ — 6488 юаней (примерно 73 500 рублей);Kirin/Snapdragon 8/512 ГБ — 7488 юаней (примерно 84 500 рублей);Kirin 12/512 ГБ — 7988 юаней (приме…

Согласно постановлению Арбитражного суда Москвы, сервис Samsung Pay может перестать работать в России с 27 августа.

Патент был зарегистрирован в декабре 2013 года, а Samsung Pay появился только в 2015 году.

Компания дала комментарий изданию «КоммерсантЪ»:Никаких изменений в оперативной деятельности Samsung в настоящий момент не планирует.

Примечательно, что компания «Сквин СА» уже пыталась добиться запрета Samsung Pay в начале 2020 года, но из-за ряда ошибок, допущенных автором, в оборот дело не приняли.

Новости Крупные компании жалуются на «патентных троллей» и просят ЕС принять мерыПоэтому переживать за Samsung Pay не стоит: патент действительно ни о чём.

В сети появились первые фотографии коллаборации бренда Crocs и известного дизайнера Салехе Бембери.

Салехе работал над дизайном Yeezy с Канье Уэстом, а сейчас возглавляет направление кроссовок бренда Versace.

Это одна из визуальных особенностей дизайна Салехе, по которой можно отличить его продукты.

Что бы я подарил сам себе Что бы я себе подарил в маеСколько будут стоить Crocs в дизайне Салехе Бембери и когда поступят в продажу, неизвестно.

Ну а пока можно приобрести не менее интересные Crocs в коллаборации с Little Big.

Coca-Cola представила свою первую коллекцию NFT-предметов, которые будут проданы в рамках аукциона, а все вырученные средства пойдут на поддержку Специальной Олимпиады для лиц с умственными отклонениями.

Часть предметов покажут только с запуском аукциона.

Можно оценить виртуальные предметы, а можно побороться за физические футболки Coca-Cola.

Ставки и платежи осуществляются только с помощью криптовалюты Ethereum.

В формате NFT можно продать музыку, видео, изображение, код и что угодно ещё в цифровом формате.

Федеральная налоговая служба запустит с 2022 года аналитический комплекс «Налоговый потенциал».

В частности, «Налоговый потенциал» будет отслеживать отклонения уровня рентабельности, налоговой нагрузки, зарплат в организации от средней по региону, рассказал федеральный чиновник «Ведомостям».

Под контроль комплекса попадут индивидуальные предприниматели как на общей системе налогообложения, так и на спецрежимах, а также самозанятые.

Анализировать финансовое состояние и налоговые риски бизнеса будут более чем по 50 показателям.

По утверждению источника издания, отклонения от нормы не будет означать, что компания применяет незаконные схемы минимизации налогов и недоплачивает их, но она попадут…

Платежная компания Square Джека Дорси объвила о выкупе всех акций австралийского сервиса рассрочки Afterpay в обмен на собственные акции оценочной стоимостью в $29 млрд.

Акционеры получат 0,375 акций Square в обмен на одну акцию Afterpay.

Square в рамках сделки проведет вторичное размещение акций на Австралийской фондовой бирже.

Компания планирует интегрировать подобную возможность в эквайринг и платежное приложение Cash App.

Сейчас сервис доступен в Австралии, США, Канаде, Новой Зеландии, а также в Великобритании, Франции, Италии и Испании, где он известен как Clearpay.

Как живет город, который находится рядом с полигоном SpaceXВ марте Илон Маск сообщил, что создаст город Starbase вблизи испытательного полигона SpaceX в районе деревни Бока-Чика.

Однако далеко не все довольны переменами: местные жители рассказали интернет-изданию Protocol, что SpaceX может угрожать культуре и окружающей среде.

Интернет-издание Protocol неоднократно обращалось к SpaceX за комментарием к этому материалу, но так и не получило ответа.

Для округа Камерон и Браунсвилла деньги Маска — примерно то же самое, что и его ракеты.

— У него удачное расположение для того, чтобы заниматься ракетами и запусками, и в наших силах выгодно представить город, с пользой для сообщества».

В колонке эксперт по доходной недвижимости и сооснователь сети апарт-отелей Sokroma Дарья Ковалевская рассказывает, как развитие соцсетей поможет сделать компанию более прибыльной.

участников в группе в VK и 3900 подписчиков в TikTok.

На 2021 год мы имеем 35 действующих объектов в Петербурге, Владимире и Анапе – а это более 500 студий и номеров.

Май 2021Поговорим о сотрудничестве с блогерамиВ самом начале ведения Инстаграма мы заказали рекламу у бьюти-блогера с аудиторией в 180 тыс.

Рекомендуем формировать контент-план как для постов, так и для сторис.

Компания monqlab, которая развивает решения для обнаружения и предотвращения IT-сбоев, в июле 2021 года привлекла первый инвестиционный раунд в размере $350 тысяч от европейского венчурного фонда New Nordic Ventures.

Головная компания monqlab зарегистрирована в Латвии, в России действует дочернее предприятие ООО «Монк Диджитал Лаб».

Примеры интерфейсов monqТакже 26 июля компания выпустила бесплатный продукт monq Collector, который можно скачать на сайте monqlab.

Продукт предназначен для инженеров поддержки, DevOps и SRE-инженеров для аудита логов и расследования ошибок, а также для специалистов информационной безопасности для аудита и расследования инцидентов безопасности.

«Мы видели, что к…

Леонид Елецких, директор по продажам Adjust в Восточной Европе, рассказал, что для маркетологов означает взрывной рост финтех-приложений, а также как им успешно воспользоваться.

Сейчас большую часть новых установок в США составляют приложения для трейдинга (Robinhood, Acorns, Gatsby), а в России — инвестиционные приложения крупных банков (Tinkoff, ВТБ, Альфа-банк).

Это привело к тому, что рост количества сессий финтех-приложений в 2020 году составил 85% по сравнению с 2019, а за 2021 год этот показатель прибавил еще 49%.

Нужно понять, достаточно ли контента для того, чтобы заинтересовать пользователей, и проверить, как будут работать предложения или акции для новых клиентов.

Способы привлеч…

Разработчики электронной компонентной базы (ЭКБ) и модулей на ее основе получат субсидии от федерального правительства.

Российские разработчики электроники могут подать заявку на получение государственной субсидии до 1 сентября, пишет ТАСС со ссылкой на пресс-службу правительства.

Речь идет об электронике широкого спектра применения (например, модулей для автомобилей и бытовой техники), а также нейропроцессорах для искусственного интеллекта.

При этом разработчики ЭКБ обязаны будут обеспечить выручку размером не менее половины выданной субсидии.

Уже в этом году разработчикам ЭКБ, чьи заявки одобрят, выделят 3 млрд рублей из бюджета по программе «Развитие электронной и радиоэлектронной промыш…

Disney, WarnerMedia и NBCUniversal пытаются найти баланс между распределением контента для кабельных сетей и стриминговых сервисов, пишет CNBS.

Издание отмечает, что тенденция на рынке связана с изменениями форматов трансляций, которые вводят медиакомпании на фоне растущей конкуренции.

Разнообразие вариантов для распределения между стримингом и традиционным форматом привело к созданию сложной экосистемы для NBCUniversal.

Для трансляции Олимпийских игр компания решила предложить выбор: прямая трансляция, предварительно записанные сюжеты, просмотр в кабельных сетях NBC, приложения с аутентификацией NBC для кабельных абонентов, бесплатные приложениях NBC и другие платформы.

CNN+ и NBC News Now…

Как понять, что ваш код украли, и можно ли этого избежатьЕсли ваша компания занимается созданием или использованием программных продуктов, ваш код в любой момент может быть украден или вас внезапно могут обвинить в плагиате.

Программный код — как песняЧто такое ПО с юридической точки зрения?

Права на ПО появляются с момента его создания, и по желанию автора в России их можно зарегистрировать в Федеральной службе интеллектуальной собственности (Роспатент) — ст.

Делать все это можно как в системах для постановки задач (в той же Trello) или любым другим удобным способом.

Нужно оформить отдельный гражданско-правовой договор или в рамках трудового договора предусмотреть отдельные выплаты — едино…

Агентство по борьбе с отмыванием денег Индии инициировало расследование против крупнейшей в мире криптовалютной биржи Binance.

Ее подозревают в отмывании денег.

Под подозрение в сотрудничестве с ними попала и криптовалютная биржа Binance, сообщает Bloomberg со ссылкой на источники.

В последнее время биржа Binance попала во внимание регуляторов во многих странах.

В Великобритании ее деятельность ограничили, Таиланд и Гонконг предъявили ей обвинения в работе без лицензии, в Малайзии ее постановили закрыть, а Каймановы острова начали проверку финансовых активов биржи.

Суд встал на их сторону и согласился, что компания действительно нарушила закон штата о конфиденциальности личных данных, пишет Bloomberg.

Утверждается, что Zoom делился информацией о своих пользователях с Facebook, не предупредив их об этом.

В общем счете Zoom заплатит свои пользователям $85 млн: по $25 владельцам платных аккаунтов и по $15 людям, которые не подпадают под групповой иск.

Это уже не первый подобный скандал, связанный с Zoom, сервисом, который стал популярным во время пандемии из-за возросшего запроса на удобные групповые видеозвонки.

Год назад, например, в сеть утекли тысячи записей видеоразговоров пользователей Zoom и данные сотен тысяч взломанных аккаунтов платформы.

Председатель совета директоров краудлендинговой платформы Co-Fi и директор Российского авторского общества Александр Сухотин рассказывает, почему стоит обратить внимание на музыкальную индустрию и как инвестировать с выгодой.

Вероятно, поэтому Spotify пришел в страны с промежутком в полгода.

Сложность в том, что возможность брать кредиты в банках ограничена даже у крупных музыкальных издательств, поскольку им часто нечего предложить в залог.

В долгосрочной перспективе акции этого лейбла не самые надежные, так как он зависит от одной, пусть и суперуспешной, группы.

Чтобы получить максимум от инвестиций в музыкальную индустрию, подходите к ним, как и к любым другим вложениям — спокойно и расс…

Хакеры, стоящие за масштабной кибератакой на SolarWinds, в 2020 году также взломали учетные записи электронной почты некоторых сотрудников федеральных прокуратур США, сообщает Associated Press со ссылкой на заявление Министерства юстиции страны.

«Я не помню, чтобы кто-нибудь приносил мне документ вместо того, чтобы отправить его по электронной почте из соображений безопасности», — сказала Роджерс, отметив что это не распространялось на секретные материалы.

Десятки частных компаний и аналитических центров, а также по крайней мере девять правительственных агентств США впервые обнаружили атаку на свои сервисы и сообщили об этом в середине декабря.

В ответ на взлом SolarWinds и сообщения о вмеш…

Компании NVIDIA и Mozilla представили обновление наборов голосовых данных, собранных в результате инициативы Common Voice и включающих примеры произношения 182 тысяч людей, что на 25% больше, чем 6 месяцев назад. Данные опубликованы как общественное достояние (CC0). Предложенные наборы можно использовать в системах машинного обучения для построения моделей распознавания и синтеза речи.

При обсуждении на днях опубликованной 27 редакции набора патчей с реализацией файловой системы NTFS от компании Paragon Software, Линус Торвальдс сообщил, что не видит препятствий для приёма данного набора патчей в следующее окно приёма изменений. Если не будет выявлено непредвиденных проблем, то поддержка NTFS от Paragon Software будет включена в состав ядра 5.15, релиз которого ожидается в ноябре.

В пыхе оно не так часто встречается.

Но да, она губительна.

> If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the>>Rasmus Lerdorf Отключить её через конфиг не выйдет, ведь это не функция, а языковая конструкция.

), 10:07, 30/07/2021 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] +1 + / – The only available in the nearest future martian rocket works on android.

So better kill yourself by any other way.

Опубликован релиз языка системного программирования Rust 1.54, основанного проектом Mozilla, но ныне развиваемого под покровительством независимой некоммерческой организации Rust Foundation. Язык сфокусирован на безопасной работе с памятью, обеспечивает автоматическое управление памятью и предоставляет средства для достижения высокого параллелизма выполнения заданий, при этом обходясь без использования сборщика мусора и runtime (runtime сводится к базовой инициализации и сопровождению стандартной библиотеки).

Но при этом: "CQL offers a model similar to SQL.

The data is stored in tables containing rows of columns.

For that reason, when used in this document, these terms (tables, rows and columns) have the same definition that they have in SQL."

То есть те же таблицы, ряды, запросы аля "SELECT name, occupation FROM users WHERE userid IN (199, 200, 207);" но нет же.

Трансгендерный рынок любит NoSQL, значит для маркетинга нужно втулить этот базворд :)))

1.1 , Аноним ( 1 ), 08:05, 28/07/2021 [ответить] +4 + / – один из важнейших для мира открытого ПО проектов, наряду с прекрасным systemd!

2.3 , Zenitur ( ok ), 08:20, 28/07/2021 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – Да, так и есть, пульсаудио - неотъемлемая чясть линукса как дистрибутива!

1.2 , Аноним ( 2 ), 08:12, 28/07/2021 [ответить] + / – А почему кодеками дщя Bluetooth PulseAudio занимается, а не реализация Bluetooth?

Но оба продолжают обновляться2.6 , Diozan ( ok ), 08:24, 28/07/2021 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – Это долгий процесс.

И не однозначный.

GitHub объявил о создании службы для оказания бесплатной юридической помощи разработчикам открытого программного обеспечения, необоснованно обвинённых в нарушении 1201 статьи DMCA, которая запрещает обход технических мер защиты, таких как DRM. Работу службы будут курировать юристы из Стэнфордской юридической школы, а финансирование обеспечиваться новым фондом Developer Defense Fund, на работу которого выделен миллион долларов.

Зачем там столько зависимостей?

Calculating dependencies... done!

У меня нет столько места ни диске -- это придётся либо куду удалить (что я сделать не могу), либо исходники ядра и потом некуда будет скачать новые это очень неудобно.

Ужасно, ужасно.

Зачем мне мускули какие-то?

Состоялся релиз эталонной реализации криптографической хеш-функции 1.0, примечательной очень высокой производительностью вычисления хеша при обеспечении надёжности на уровне SHA-3. В тесте на генерацию хеша для файла, размером 16 КБ, BLAKE3 с 256-битным ключом опережает SHA3-256 в 15 раз, SHA-256 - в 12 раз, SHA-512 - в 8 раз, SHA-1 - в 6 раз, а BLAKE2b - в 4 раза. Значительный отрыв сохраняется и при обработке очень больших объёмов данных, например, BLAKE3 оказался быстрее SHA-256 в 8 раз при вычислении хеша для 1ГБ случайных данных. Код эталонной реализация BLAKE3 поставляется в вариантах на языках Си и Rust под двойной лицензией - общественное достояние (CC0) и Apache 2.0.

https://gist.github.com/benjaminoakes/e58a9ddb0ead8eefbbae40476d87cdf0Errors have occurred.

We won't tell you where or why.

Lazy programmers.

Rather than a beepOr a rude error message,These words: 'Site not found.'

Состоялся выпуск децентрализованной платформы для организации видеохостинга и видеовещания PeerTube 3.3. PeerTube предлагает независимую от отдельных поставщиков альтернативу YouTube, Dailymotion и Vimeo, использующую сеть распространения контента на базе P2P-коммуникаций и связывания между собой браузеров посетителей. Наработки проекта распространяются под лицензией AGPLv3.

Подготовлен обновлённый отчёт с результатом исследования влияния на производительность браузера и комфорт работы пользователя тысячи наиболее популярных дополнений к Chrome.

Особый интерес представляет исследование влияния применения блокировщиков рекламы на скорость открытия страниц.

В комбинированном тесте, учитывающем нагрузку на CPU при открытии страницы и в фоне, наибольшую эффективность демонстрируют Ghostery и uBlock Origin.

При тестировании производительности дополнений, если рассматривать 100 самых популярных дополнений, при открытии страницы-заглушки наибольшее потребление ресурсов наблюдается в Evernote Web Clipper (потребляет 368 мс процессорного времени).

При тестировании 1000 …

Компания Google выпустила обновление Chrome OS 91.0.4472.165, в котором была допущена ошибка, приведшая к невозможности входа в систему после перезагрузки. Некоторые пользователи столкнулись с зацикливанием во время загрузки, в результате которого экран входа в систему не появлялся, а если появлялся, то не позволял подключиться под своей учётной записью. По горячим следам выпущено исправление Chrome OS 91.0.4472.167 с устранением проблемы.

Представлен релиз динамическии управляемого межсетевого экрана firewalld 1.0, реализованного в форме обвязки над пакетным фильтром nftables или iptables. Firewalld запускается в виде фонового процесса, позволяющего динамически изменять правила пакетного фильтра через D-Bus, без необходимости перезагрузки правил пакетного фильтра и без разрыва установленных соединений. Проект уже применяется во многих дистрибутивах Linux, включая RHEL 7+, Fedora 18+ и SUSE/openSUSE 15+. Код проекта написан на языке Python и распространяется под лицензией GPLv2.

Should the proposed settlement be approved, subscribers included in the class action would be eligible for 15% refunds on their subscriptions or $25, whichever is larger, while others could receive up to $15.

A first thing to keep in mind is that content tracing is not really a natural feature for messaging system.

What’s important is that even with this technology, the obvious approach to content tracing requires the provider to have plaintext access to (at least the hashes of) user content.

In this post I’m going to consider the following simple question: is traceability in end-to-end encrypted systems actually possible?

What is “traceability” in an end-to-end encrypted system?

By passing these laws, police are tacitly admitting that voluntary content tracing is not sufficient to met their investigative needs.

In 2018, however, we saw the end of the Red Delicious apple’s long reign.

PixabayRed Delicious Apples Weren’t Always HorribleI rant about Red Delicious apples fairly frequently.

Imagine my frustration, then, when I learned that Red Delicious apples were actually engineered to be bad.

The Genetic Downfall of the Red Delicious AppleThe Red Delicious boomed in popularity.

When Red Delicious apples mutated toward more consistent coloring — i.e., brighter reds, less striping — farmers favored them, because this was a marketable quality.

Ask HN: How to Do Accent Reduction?

7 points by acquiremoney 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 20 comments I am brown guy.I have been in usa for 2 years.One problem I have is that i got this thick south asian accent and also get fluent speaking english because during internship at the end thats only feedback i got from my manager that you are techinaclly sound but you do lack communication skills.So reason for asking the question here is to get advice and resources to solve my problem:)

The software engineer, based in Indiana, US, had been seeking a new role after losing his job during the pandemic.

Five companies told him they had to delay hiring because of Covid-19 – but only after he’d done the final round of interviews.

Another three invited him for several rounds of interviews until it was time to make an offer, at which point they decided to promote internally.

“When I responded to the internal HR, I even asked, ‘Are these the final rounds?’,” he says.

This means conducting multiple interviews to gather valuable information to help them more clearly determine which candidate has the most potential.

Behold:Qbix Compensation ModelSo you’ve got a product that’s already generating $X / week in profit after expenses.

The FormulaSo say your project was bringing $X / week in revenue before you accepted the contribution, and now thanks to this change it’s generating $Y / week.

Use this model to fairly compensate people for their contributions, instead of always thinking in terms of “bringing them on board” permanently.

Instead, just start a “product line” inside your company, and say that it’s making $1 / week.

If you sit back and do nothing except attract people to your project, your company will still get 90% of the revenue from that product line.

Square plans to integrate Afterpay into its existing Seller and Cash App business units, enable even the smallest of merchants to offer BNPL at checkout, give Afterpay consumers the ability to manage their installment payments directly in Cash App, and give Cash App customers the ability to discover merchants and BNPL offers directly within the app.

Combined, Square and Afterpay’s complementary businesses present an opportunity to drive growth across multiple strategic levers, including:Enhance both the Seller and Cash App ecosystems.

Afterpay will expand Cash App’s growing product offering, enable customers to manage their repayments, and help customers discover new merchants when the Afte…

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In short, Apple not only survived, it’s once again shattering records (see “Apple’s Q3 2021: Still Making Money Hand Over Fist,” 27 July 2021).

Tim Cook has transformed Apple into a truly antifragile company that actually improves under adversity.

You can walk into an Apple store right now and pick up an iPhone 12 or an M1-based Mac.

But those downturns were more than offset by a boom in the entertainment aspects of the Services segment (Apple Music, Apple TV+, etc.)

It’s not as though Apple cratered in Q3 2020 and Q3 2021 only looked good by comparison.

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In my lifetime I’ve tried a dozen todo apps.

Also there are people leaving long 5 star reviews on every major todo list app, they discuss them on forums, recommend them to friends.

All popular todo apps out there have the same problems:Willpower needed to make decisions is a limited resource.

And most TODO apps are lazy and don’t consider the impact on your willpower.

Sophisticated TODO apps have the flexibility to do this, but they require a lot of investment in configurationI now see all TODO apps as a shallow copy-pasta of the same rigid, inhuman, anxiety-inducing template.

Unacademy has raised $440 million in a new financing round as the Indian online learning startup looks to expand into multiple additional categories. Temasek led the Bangalore-based startup’s new financing round while Mirae Asset and existing investors including SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Tiger Global as well as Zomato co-founder and chief executive Deepinder […]

In a blockbuster deal that rocks the fintech world, Square announced today that it is acquiring Australian buy now, pay later giant Afterpay in a $29 billion all-stock deal. The purchase price is based on the closing price of Square common stock on July 30, which was $247.26. The transaction is expected to close in […]

The digitization of your haircut may not have been on your 2020 bucket list, but 2021 has an even more surprising line item: Tech-powered barbershops are now a business proposition valued at nearly a billion dollars. Squire is a back-end barbershop management tool for independent businesses. I first covered it in the early months of […]

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Duolingo landed onto the public markets this week, rallying excitement and attention for the edtech sector and its founder cohort. The language learning business’ stock price soared when it began to trade, even after the unicorn raised its IPO price range, and priced above the raised interval. Duolingo’s IPO proves that public market investors can […]

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The tech industry in China has had quite a turbulent week. The government is upending its $100 billion private education sector, wiping billions from the […]

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. […]

A few years from now, the organizations that succeed will be the ones that resisted the urge to race everyone back to the office and instead rethought how their workforce operates.

TuSimple, the self-driving truck company that went public earlier this year, has partnered with Ryder as part of its plan to build out a freight network that will support its autonomous trucking operations. Under the deal announced this week, Ryder’s fleet maintenance facilities will act as terminals for TuSimple’s freight network. TuSimple’s so-called AFN, or […]

Nearly two years ago, contractors for Google’s Pittsburgh operations voted to join the United Steelworkers union in a bid to secure more labor rights representation. It was an early example of a building union movement for tech workers across the spectrum. But as other hard-fought battles have been waged among blue and white collar workers […]

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Argo AI, the autonomous vehicle technology startup backed by Ford and VW, has landed a permit in California that will allow the company to give people free rides in its self-driving vehicles on the state’s public roads. The California Public Utilities Commission issued the so-called Drivered AV pilot permit earlier this month, according to the […]

Deliveroo said it is considering leaving the Spanish market, citing limited market share and a long road of investment with 'highly uncertain long-term potential returns' on the horizon.

A change of command is one of the most delicate moments in the life cycle of any organization. If mishandled, the transition from one CEO to the next can result in massive downsides.

They enacted permanent or semipermanent changes to their companies' policies to make partial or even full-time remote work the norm.

There is no apparent justification for resisting remote work besides a sort of management control-freak insecurity, proponents argue.

Studies also debunk the assumption that productivity is always lower when remote work is the norm.

The involuntary revolutionCompanies whose leaders long claimed remote work would never function were left with no other options.

The threats may be legitimate because some other tech companies (like Twitter) have taken a much more permissive approach.

In 2021, there is a real buzz building in the world of sports car racing.

But sports car racing—which often involves multiple classes of cars racing at the same time—is nothing if not overly complicated.

Prepare for acronyms: IMSA, ACO, FIA, WTFTo start with, there are three different organizations involved in the regulations and decision-making.

As we reported recently, Peugeot is set to return next year with its 9X8 hybrid, and Ferrari has confirmed it will enter LMH in 2023 with a hybrid car.

But DPi proved pretty successful, and so in 2023 IMSA is evolving that category into a new one called LMDh.

A mysterious Green Knight disrupts the festivities and proposes a different kind of exchange: any one of the knights may strike him with one blow with his axe; in return, the Green Knight will come back in a year to return the blow.

Sir Gawain, the youngest of the knights and nephew to Arthur, accepts the challenge and beheads the Green Knight.

Everyone is shocked when the Green Knight picks up his severed head.

The next day, Gawain rides off to meet the Green Knight, who delivers the return blow.

She entreats him to retrieve her severed head from a lake and, in exchange, tells him the Green Knight is someone he knows.

]com, a name that when displayed in browsers address bars is confusingly similar to brave.com, where people download the Brave browser.

From Google to malware in 10 seconds flatTo drive traffic to the fake site, the scammers bought ads on Google that were displayed when people searched for things involving browsers.

Using a Silent Push product, he searched for other punycode domains registered through NameCheap and using the same web host.

Because the attacker has complete control over the punycode domain, the impostor site will have a valid TLS certificate.

When that domain hosts an exact replica of the spoofed website, even security-aware people can be fooled.

Today, if you live in California, you can enable the global privacy control by using a privacy browser like Brave or downloading a privacy extension, like DuckDuckGo or Privacy Badger, in whatever browser you already use.

But California’s government has begun making clear that it intends to enforce the global privacy control requirement.

(The more recently passed California Privacy Rights Act, which goes into full effect in 2023, makes this requirement more explicit.)

That’s why one absence from the list of companies supporting the global privacy control is so conspicuous.

It’s basically an arms race,” says Ashkan Soltani, a privacy researcher who helped develop the global privacy control.

Wells was promoting a Permanent World Encyclopedia to collate, standardize, assess, and continually revise the bulk of human knowledge.

Wells vs. OrwellThe notion that granting everyone access to the same teachings could save society was not idle speculation on Wells’ part.

But it was run by a “criminal lunatic,” so that didn’t work out quite as Wells thought it would.

Orwell also noted that patriotism, which Wells thought of as civilization-destroying, was the primary force inducing Russians and Britons to fight against Hitler.

Thirty-eight-year-old Orwell saw, in a way that 75-year-old Wells couldn’t, that technology and information would hardly lead directly to world peace and harmony.

Today in the US market, a medium-sized battery EV already has 60–68 percent lower lifetime carbon emissions than a comparable car with an internal combustion engine.

According to the study, the life cycle emissions of a BEV driving around in Europe today are 66–69 percent lower than a comparable gasoline-powered car.

China is at 37–45 percent fewer emissions for BEVs, and India shows 19–34 percent.

But Bieker's analysis says that there is no future for internal combustion engine vehicles if we are to actually decarbonize.

Even the introduction of biofuels will not help the internal combustion engine stay relevant, and Bieker writes that "the registration of new combustion engine vehicles sh…

This Wednesday, Amazon sent a notification email to customers who bought early Kindle e-readers.

First-gen Kindle owners can get a free 10th-gen Kindle Oasis and cover, and second-gen Kindle and Kindle DX owners are eligible for $70 off a new Kindle Paperwhite or Kindle Oasis, plus $25 in e-book credits—but you'll need to use a promo code from the email Amazon sent in order to qualify.

Without the promo code, Amazon only offers first-generation Kindle owners a $5.00 Amazon gift card.

Although only first- and second-generation Kindles lose all connectivity when 3G sunsets, devices up to and including 8th-generation Kindle Oasis (released in May 2016) will be restricted to Wi-Fi connectivity …

The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) today rejected Blue Origin's attempt to block the lunar-landing contract that NASA awarded to SpaceX.

NASA in April 2020 selected SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics to design and build human landing systems.

"The cost of SpaceX's bid was about half that of Dynetics, and one-fourth the amount received by Blue Origin," as our coverage at the time said.

“NASA did not violate procurement law”NASA's choice didn't sit well with Blue Origin, which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

In reaching its award decision, NASA concluded that it only had sufficient funding for one contract award.

Thursday's edition of Science included a description of a three-way fight between butterflies, the wasps that parasitize them, and the viruses that can infect both species.

Since they often strike during the larval/caterpillar stages, the viruses need other hosts to transfer the viruses to other victims.

Some of the species that perform this transport service are parasitic wasps, which have their own designs on the butterflies.

Some strains also appear to be able to resist the invasion by wasp larvae.

Or rather, something from the caterpillar induced the cells of the wasp larvae to commit an orderly form of suicide, called apoptosis.

Scarlett Johansson sued the Walt Disney Company yesterday, alleging that it breached her contract by releasing Black Widow on Disney+ the same day it was released in theaters.

As Ms. Johansson, Disney, Marvel, and most everyone else in Hollywood knows, a "theatrical release" is a release that is exclusive to movie theaters.

In the months leading up to this lawsuit, Ms. Johansson gave Disney and Marvel every opportunity to right their wrong and make good on Marvel's promise.

Defining “wide theatrical release”The case may come down to how the phrase "wide theatrical release" is defined.

Disney executives benefitThe Disney+ release thus "save[d] Marvel (and by extension, Disney) 'very large' a…

The Huawei P50 Pro, in several colors.

The Huawei P50 Pro, in several colors.

Despite facing down a global chip shortage, a US export ban, and plummeting market share, Huawei is still plowing ahead and announcing its next flagship smartphone, the Huawei P50 Pro.

The phone, which was teased back in June, is the company's first smartphone launching with HarmonyOS, Huawei's in-house operating system (though it's just a fork of Android).

There's also the issue of the operating system, as this is the first smartphone Huawei is launching with HarmonyOS.

Valve has issued a scathing response to Wolfire's April lawsuit alleging anticompetitive monopoly practices on the Steam storefront.

There’s no right to free Steam keysWolfire's case centers in part on the fact that Valve requires free Steam Keys generated by developers using Valve's platform to be sold on other platforms at prices no lower than those offered on Steam.

But Valve argues multiple times in its filing that it has "no obligation to distribute Steam Keys, let alone to allow developers to use Steam Keys to undercut their Steam prices in other stores."

Wolfire's lawsuit also alleges that Valve tries to enforce pricing parity not just for generated Steam keys but for non-Steam versi…

According to an internal CDC document first obtained by The Washington Post, data on the Provincetown, Massachusetts, cluster showed that vaccinated people carried surprisingly high levels of the delta coronavirus in their noses and throats.

More importantly, vaccinated people were found to be spreading the dangerous virus variant to other vaccinated people.

Nationwide, the CDC estimated that there are 35,000 symptomatic breakthrough infections per week among 162 million fully vaccinated Americans.

The CDC document overall highlights that delta is extremely contagious—much more so than previous versions of the virus, as well as the common cold or even the seasonal flu.

Delta is more in line…

Eric Bangeman The way the bottom of the front window dips down is a nice touch.

Eric Bangeman Power tailgate is optional, as is the $595 Bedliner spray-in liner.

Those numbers put the F-150 hybrid at the top of Ford's pickup range when it comes to pure power and torque.

The F-150 hybrid is all about power.

Maximum payload for the F-150 hybrid is 7,350 lb (3,340 kg), which is 500 lb (227 kg) shy of the max in Ford's F-150 lineup.

The game developer has revealed a "Rift Tour" concert series that will star none other than pop songstress Ariana Grande.

The Rift Tour playlist will go live 30 minutes beforehand.

You can pick up an Ariana outfit to play as the pop star, and Piggy Smallz Back Bling adds a cute touch while you take down your battle royale rivals.

It's also notable that Epic is widening the range of artists to include female stars (recently unearthed plans for a Lady Gaga concert never panned out).

In theory, Grande could help reel in people who wouldn't otherwise play Fortnite — even if only a fraction of them stick around once the "7 Rings" singer has moved on.

YouTube is no stranger to temporarily banning media outlets for spreading COVID-19 misinformation, but its latest crackdown might be its largest yet.

The Guardian and BBC News say the video service has banned Sky News Australia from uploading new videos for a week over accusations it spread COVID-19 misinformation.

Multiple Sky videos reportedly violated rules denying the existence of the new coronavirus or claiming that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were effective treatments.

The broadcaster's digital editor alleged that YouTube was threatening free thought, although YouTube is notably focusing on demonstrable facts, not opinions.

The move also sends a signal — large outlets can't coun…

Zoom is facing more consequences for its earlier privacy and security lapses.

Reuters reports that Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the video chat giant of violating privacy and enabling "zoombombing" (that is, trolls dropping into others' chats).

The preliminary settlement also requires tougher security measures, such as warning about participants with third-party apps and offering special privacy-oriented training to Zoom staff.

In a statement, Zoom denied doing anything wrong and said that privacy and security were "top priorities."

The company previously agreed to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint over similar privacy issues, including the perman…

Reddit users and 91mobiles have learned that Google will no longer let you sign into the company's apps on devices running Android 2.3.7 (Gingerbread) or lower from September 27th onward.

You can still sign in on the web, but you'll have to update to at least the tablet-only Android 3.0 (realistically, Android 4.0) if you want to avoid major hassles while checking Gmail or navigating with Google Maps.

We've asked Google if can elaborate on its reasoning.

However, it does mark a rare instance of Google cutting off basic functionality for older Android versions, not just OS updates or Play Services features.

Think of this as Google setting a baseline — you'll need a device updated within the …

Paramount+ effectively revolves around Alex Kurtzman given its continued dependence on Star Trek, and it's clear CBS will do whatever it takes to keep the director and producer aboard.

CBS Studios has signed a deal that will have Kurtzman and his Secret Hideout unit exclusvely producing shows for Paramount+ and other platforms through 2026.

He'll continue to lead Star Trek efforts for the "next six years," CBS said.

Kurtzman has no less than six Star Trek shows underway, including existing productions Discovery, Picard and Lower Decks as well as upcoming efforts like Strange New Worlds, Prodigy and the currently unnamed Section 31 spinoff.

While he's not the only one creating well-known sho…

We hope you weren't planning to festoon your wrist with a titanium Apple Watch Series 6.

As Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and Mac Rumors note, the titanium Apple Watch is largely unavailable through the company's online stores in the US and other countries, whether you try for delivery or pick-up.

While we wouldn't classify the titanium Series 6 as a runaway hit if that's true, Apple's luxury wristwear might have fared better than expected.

Whether or not Apple offers a titanium Series 7 is uncertain.

The tech giant has frequently shaken up its Watch Edition strategy, ditching its solid gold originals in favor of more affordable ceramic and, eventually, titanium.

According to Wired, SkyWatch and Global Fishing Watch have conducted studies showing that over 100 warship locations have been faked since August 2020, including the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth and the US destroyer Roosevelt.

In some cases, the false data showed the vessels entering disputed waters or nearing other countries' naval bases — movements that could spark international incidents.

The research team found the fakes by comparing uses of the automatic identification system (AIS, a GPS-based system to help prevent collisions) with verifiable position data by using an identifying pattern.

All of the false info came from shore-based AIS receivers while satellites showed the…

The New York Times noted that July 31st, 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the Lunar Roving Vehicle's first outing — and the first time people drove on the Moon.

Scott and Irwin would eventually drive the rover two more times (for a total of three hours) before returning to Earth.

We wouldn't count on humans driving on the Moon any time soon, although that reflects the progress made in the 50 years since.

NASA and other space agencies are now focused on robotic rovers that can explore the Moon without worries about crew safety.

Think of this anniversary as celebrating a first step toward the technology you see today.

Sky News sources claim the EV designer is in talks with the British government to build a manufacturing plant near Bristol.

If the UK plant did go ahead, though, the government could supposedly invest "well over" £1 billion (about $1.39 billion).

This could help Rivian scale to counter rivals like Tesla and Volkswagen, both of which are rapidly growing their EV manufacturing bases.

The UK intends to ban sales of combustion engine cars in 2035, and that means switching local production to EVs.

A Rivian factory could help the country transition to EV manufacturing, not to mention encourage sales that would make public acceptance that much stronger.

Mobile app shops are cracking down on one of the higher-profile communities spreading anti-vax misnformation.

Bloomberg reports that Apple has removed Unjected, a hybrid social and dating app for the unvaccinated, for "inappropriately" referencing the COVID-19 pandemic's concept and themes.

The app founders are also embroiled in a fight over their Android app.

The developers responded by pulling the social feed.

Unjected is small compared to mainstream social networks, with roughly 18,000 app downloads (according to Apptopia).

The perpetrators of the SolarWinds hacks apparently targeted key parts of the American legal system.

According to the AP, the Justice Department says hackers targeted federal prosecutors between May 2020 and December 2020.

The victims included some of the more prominent federal offices, including those in the Eastern and Souther Districts of New York as well as Miami, Los Angeles and Washington.

The DOJ said it had alerted all victims and was taking steps to blunt the risks resulting from the hack.

The Department previously said there was no evidence the SolarWinds hackers broke into classified systems, but federal attorneys frequently exchange sensitive case details.

In the mid-sixties, the Air Force assigned Whitsett to NASA to supervise development of the Air Force’s Astronaut Maneuvering Unit.

McCandless, Whitsett, and a NASA engineer named Dave Schultz worked quietly but assiduously to keep the dream alive.

“McCandless,” said the article, “has helped develop the M509 experimental maneuvering unit.

The Skylab astronauts strap it on like a backpack and propel themselves Buck Rogers — like around the Skylab interior.

American astronauts remained on Earth, as NASA struggled to produce its next-generation orbital workhorse, the space shuttle.

Telegram has expanded the group video calling feature it launched in June to be able to accommodate more participants — a lot more.

The latest version of the messaging app now allows up to 1,000 people to join a group video call.

In addition, Telegram has updated the video messaging feature so users can watch them at a higher resolution.

Telegram's updated media editor makes the brush width smaller upon zooming in, allowing users to draw finer details on photos and videos.

For the Android app, the latest version also includes support for 0.5x, 1.5x and 2x playback speeds, as well as new sending animations.

PlayStation fans will have to wait until 2022 to play Horizon Forbidden West, according to Bloomberg.

The outlet reports the company has delayed its next big PS5 and PS4 exclusive to next year, pushing it back from its current 2021 holiday season release timeframe.

"For Horizon, we think we are on track to release this holiday season," Hulst said at the time.

Earlier in the year, the company delayed both Gran Turismo 7 and the next God of War entry to 2022.

Just last week, Bethesda also delayed Ghostwire: Tokyo, its upcoming PlayStation 5 and PC horror game from Tango Gameworks, to early 2022.

Fintech company Square, led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, announced on Sunday that it plans to acquire the “buy now, pay later” platform Afterpay for $29 billion.

Square will integrate Afterpay, an Australian company that allows customers to pay for their purchases in installments without interest, into its seller and Cash App platforms.

Square will pay for the deal in all stock and Afterpay’s co-CEOs, Anthony Eisen and Nick Molnar, will join Square.

In addition, Square will also appoint one Afterpay director to its board of directors after the transaction is finalized.

Square reported that its gross profit grew 91% year over year to $1.14 billion, with its seller division accounting for $585…

AdvertisementCanadian authorities announced that they recently busted two idiots traveling from the U.S. to Toronto for failing to comply with entry requirements.

According to a news release from the Public Health Agency of Canada, the travelers provided false information related to proof of vaccination credentials and pre-departure tests.

The travelers, who arrived in Toronto the week of July 18, received eight fines and will have to pay $19,720 each.

However, to be able to opt out of quarantine, travelers must present documents that prove their vaccination status and upload them to the ArriveCAN app.

Advertisement“All travell ers arriving in Canada are obligated by Canadian law to respond…

David Ayer, director of the 2016 Suicide Squad, has taken to Twitter to discuss his experience shooting the film.

AdvertisementThe upcoming release of James Gunn’s Suicide Squad film has drummed up old feelings that Ayer needs to get off his chest officially.

“Many times while watching the new movie, I thought, ‘Yeah, David Ayer should just abandon the idea of that director’s cut.’”As a writer/director David Ayer is hit (End of Watch, Training Day) or miss (Sabotage, Bright).

However, all his films have a signature tone and style that I can admit is missing from his version of the Suicide Squad.

The Suicide Squad is set for release in theaters in the U.S. and on the HBO Max streaming platfo…

AdvertisementWhile talking with CinemaBlend about Jungle Cruise, Edgar Ramirez did provide some information about his work on the Borderlands film.

Now, I haven’t played the game, but from what I do know, the story and characters are wacky af.

With the crazy antics that happen in the game, how does the film translate for movie fans?

Thankfully, Ramirez provides some reassurance on what to expect with the tone of the movie.

Any Borderlands fans out there that can provide some insight?

Production has wrapped on DC’s Black Adam movie, and it’s about damn time we get to see Dwayne Johnson as the titular anti-hero.

“This is part of his arsenal.”With Warner Bros. releasing several R-rated films in the DCEU, Black Adam is rated PG-13.

“There are lots of people that may start alive in a Black Adam movie and may not be there at the end of the movie.”As for the film, Black Adam does exist in the same world as Shazam!

does exist in the same universe as Black Adam, and there are some other crossover elements you might feel in our movie.

Black Adam is slated for release in theaters July 29, 2022For more, make sure you’re following us on our Instagram @io9dotcom

Jon Favreau directs an all-star cast of actors in the 2011 film Cowboys & Aliens including, Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, and many others.

At the cost of $160 million, the movie only grossed $175 million worldwide, thus losing money for the studio.

AdvertisementTen years after the release of Cowboys & Aliens, Scott Mitchell, creator of the comic of the same name, spoke to Yahoo Entertainment to discuss what he thinks killed the film’s success.

“Universal announced the release date for the movie without going over it with DreamWorks,” he recalls.

Rosenberg once again has the Cowboys & Aliens movie rights and has big plans for the story’s future.

As if there weren’t enough services with a “+” in their name, here’s another for your list: Pearson+, the wannabe Netflix for college textbooks.

AdvertisementPearson recently unveiled Pearson+, a desktop and mobile app that will offer digital textbooks from the company’s catalogue via a two-tiered subscription model.

The $9.99 per month single tier gives students access to one Pearson textbook, while the $14.99 multi-tier provides access to more than 1,500 textbooks.

In a news release, the company said Pearson+ would offer students the “most flexible and budget friendly” way to access digital textbooks and study tools.

“Students are clear that they prefer the convenience and affordability o…

Apple has yanked Unjected, an app that bills itself as “a safe space for the unvaccinated to come together uncensored through business, friendship, or love,” from the App Store.

The company said that Unjected violated its covid-19 policies and tried to get around the App Store review process, which in itself is against Apple guidelines.

In response to actions by Apple and Google, Unjected sent Gizmodo the following response via email.

It even allows people to find businesses and services that agree with its users’ views against covid-19 vaccines.

Apple said that this is a violation of its guidelines, which warns developers that if they try to cheat the system, their app will be yanked from …

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train movie was a huge box office hit for the entertainment company and streaming service Funimation.

Riding high on the success of that , the company is set to release another animated film, Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars, based on the manga from Tsutomu Nihei.

However, according to Deadline, Funimation has acquired the rights to the property and will begin streaming seasons one and two on its platform starting August 3.

“Knights of Sidonia is a kick-ass adventure tale in the truest sense, with epic battles and romance woven in.

“And what better way to prepare for the final battle coming to theaters than reliving where it all began with the anime series str…

Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander opens up about the status of Tomb Raider 2.

However, in January 2021, Lovecraft Country showrunner Misha Green took over for Wheatley and is currently working on a new version of the script.

So I’m very excited to sort of read something very soon.”This is the second time Tomb Raider has been on the big screen.

Angelina Jolie held the Lara Croft mantle from 2001 to 2003 with films Tomb Raider and the sequel Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life.

Since the Tomb Raider video games saw a reboot, the recent movie is closer to the newer version of the Croft character and her archaeological journeys.

Bruce is the new musical from the Seattle Repertory Theater based on Jaws’ screenwriter Carl Gottlieb’s memoir The Jaws Log.

AdvertisementBruce is about 26-year old director Steven Spielberg who sets out to adapt the best-selling novel, Jaws.

Previews of the show begin May 27, 2022, at Seattle Repertory Bagley Wright Theater, with opening night set for June 1, 2022.

The show instantly became a hit and eventually moved on to an off-Broadway run in 2006 at the New World Stages.

Will Bruce see the same success as The Evil Dead musical?

Netflix dropped the official trailer for the supernatural horror limited series Brand New Cherry Flavor which premieres on the streamer August 13.

AdvertisementThe series takes place in the 1990’s LA—Hollywood, to be specific.

Filmmaker Lisa N. Nova (Salazar) is a wide-eyed young woman looking to break into the movie industry.

Here is the official synopsis of the film, which describes it better than I ever could.

“Lisa N. Nova (Rosa Salazar) comes to LA dead set on directing her first movie.

“I’ve been more into linen the past couple of years, and I think the heat is a part of that,” she said.

Gina Stovall, a climate scientist who is also the designer behind Two Days Off, also uses a lot of linen and other natural fabrics in her designs.

“With the kinds of natural fabrics I use ...

If you bought a lot of linen this summer, you’re clearly not alone.

Advertisement“With linen, everyone kind of thinks it’s a summer fabric.

Unfortunately, if you’re a Google Fi user, that might not be possible right now.

AdvertisementAccording to a report by 9to5Google, some Google Fi users reportedly aren’t able to get their calls through to the Poison Control hotline—officially referred to as the Poison help line—and receive a message that says, “Your call cannot be completed as dialed.” Users then receive instructions on how to get in touch with Google Fi’s customer support.

Nonetheless, not all users on Reddit expressed having trouble getting through to the Poison help line.

The Poison help line is a free federal service that connects U.S. residents to local poison centers in case of an emergency and allows them to talk to …

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round-up of the coolest toys we’ve seen on the internet this week.

We’ve got Lego heading back to The Mandalorian, old favorites heading back to Ghostbusters, some very pretty Uno cards, and Hasbro taking another crack at the “build-your-own lightsaber” toy.

AdvertisementHasbro Ghostbusters: Afterlife Ghostbusters Plasma Series FiguresWith the recent trailer drumming up more excitement for the sequel, Hasbro has finally released the floodgates of Ghostbusters: Afterlife toys.

The lineup will include six figures including the new additions: Trevor, Podcast, and Lucky, as well as three returning favorites: Winston, Peter, and Ray.

The Shepard Fairey x …

Hardware manufacturers know this, which is why they've locked on to "virtual surround sound" headsets, claiming that their solution provides a more immersive experience (à la surround sound in a home theater).

Instead, most gaming headsets use software processing to try and mimic the more spacious feeling of surround sound.

First, let's talk about how gaming headsets create this virtual effect.

That's why, after years of testing headsets and experimenting with different games, I generally don't recommend the virtual surround feature built into gaming headsets.

None of this is to say you need to avoid headsets with virtual surround built in.

And the theoretical fracton landscape has unfurled beyond what anyone anticipated, with new models popping up every month.

Quantum field theory depicts discrete particles as excitations in continuous fields that stretch across space and time.

There are other good reasons for thinking that quantum field theory is incomplete—for one thing, it so far fails to account for the force of gravity.

If they can figure out how to describe fractons in the quantum field theory framework, Seiberg and other theorists foresee new clues toward a viable quantum gravity theory.

“Quantum field theory is a very delicate structure, so we would like to change the rules as little as possible,” he said.

There are few things as polarizing as PC keyboards.

You probably spend a good deal of time on your keyboard, along with a comfortable mouse.

You might as well make those hours as pleasant as possible, especially now that so many of us are working from home.

Whether you own a great laptop or game-ready desktop PC, we've tested dozens of keyboards from all ends of the price spectrum.

Updated July 2021: We added the Filco Majestouch and the Logitech G413.

Next year Verizon will join AT&T and T-Mobile in preloading Android phones with Messages by Google as the default texting app.

The short version: It's an upgrade on the standard SMS/MMS texting standards that smartphones have been using from the beginning.

Google actually abandoned work on its short-lived Google Allo messaging app in favor of RCS working through Messages.

With that, you're good to go: You can use RCS with anyone else who's using RCS.

If you're texting someone who hasn't enabled the feature on their Android device, you'll revert back to the standard SMS/MMS system.

But they aren't cheap, so you don't need to spend the money on anything if you aren't already struggling with your indoor air quality.

Room to Breathe: My Quest to Clean Up My Home's Filthy Air Poor indoor air quality causes serious health issues.

“Poor indoor air quality can affect even the healthiest lungs,” says Kenneth Mendez, president of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

An indoor air quality device should show you this in real time, which can teach you better habits.

“Unfortunately there is no silver bullet solution regarding indoor air quality," Heaney says.

This week, WIRED reported on an alarming phenomenon of real warships having their locations faked by some unknown miscreant.

The misinformation has come in the form of simulated AIS tracking data, which shows up on aggregation sites like MarineTraffic and AISHub.

It's unclear who's responsible, or how exactly they're pulling it off—but it holds a match dangerously close to powder kegs in Crimea and elsewhere.

Apple advertises itself as the most privacy-friendly major tech company out there, and it has done plenty to back that reputation up.

A joint advisory from law enforcement agencies in the US, UK, and Australia this week tallied the 30 most-exploited vulnerabilities.

There are three unlimited plans: Unlimited Starter, Unlimited Extra, and Unlimited Elite.

TIRED: For the base Starter plan, data throttling could kick in any time there's network congestion, no matter how little data you've already used.

The carrier finally got rid of its confusingly named double unlimited plans, GoUnlimited and BeyondUnlimited, only to replace them with four unlimited plans and a kids plan.

You can choose between Start Unlimited, Play More Unlimited, Do More Unlimited, Get More Unlimited, and Just Kids.

The top-tier Play More Unlimited and Get More Unlimited plans now include access to Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+.

“Tapirs!” Campos Hernandez says in a whisper, barely containing his excitement.

“It’s the true king of the forest,” Campos Hernandez says as we walk back to camp to prepare for the next day’s predawn search.

Back at our camp as night falls and the air is thick with mosquitoes, Campos Hernandez pours me a shot of tequila.

Campos Hernandez notes that the Maya Train project will destroy less forest than illegal loggers do each year.

By the time he tries again to capture and collar a Calakmul jaguar, the Maya Train will be four months closer to completion.

It's all indoor tech this weekend with deals on smartphones, earbuds, and things with screens.

Senior product reviewer Scott Gilbertson called it the best all-around model in his Guide to the Best Chromebooks.

Julian gave it an 8/10 and WIRED Recommends award, and now it's cheaper than ever.

He awarded them an 8/10 and a WIRED Recommends label, although their high price and 20-hour battery life aren't great.

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However, practicing mindfulness requires more than a meditation app and some free time.

Deciding what you want to get from meditation determines what type of meditation you should do (which then dictates which app is the best for you).

How to Choose and Use Your Meditation AppWhether your goal is to reduce anxiety, become more mindful in your daily life, or develop a daily meditation practice, research has found that online meditation can work; you just have to know what you should be working with.

The issue is finding something that you resonate with.”Find an App That Resonates With YouIf you don’t have a connection to your meditation app, it will be near impossible to have a connection to…

William Gibson published his classic novel Neuromancer almost 40 years ago, but it still feels fresh today.

Neuromancer helped crystallize an alternative view of the future, one dominated by hackers, drugs, and mega-corporations.

“More than any other science fiction book that I can think of, Neuromancer conveys what the future is going to feel like,” says Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley.

Science fiction author Sam J. Miller constantly finds himself discarding story ideas because he realizes that Neuromancer beat him to the punch.

So William Gibson definitely had a big cult of personality there, which I think he would really laugh at, because you’re never going to find Wil…

On June 24 Champlain Towers South collapsed, and 98 people died.

Those same leaders who are pounding on Big Tech are even worse practitioners of Champlain South syndrome themselves.

When it comes to our response to climate change, Champlain Towers looks like a model of responsibility.

At the Champlain Towers, seeing the damage led to actually making the painful assessment, however belatedly.

We are all living in Champlain Towers South.

Based on new CT scans of shark intestines, scientists have concluded that the intestines are naturally occurring Tesla valves.

And because it achieves this with no moving parts, a Tesla valve is much more resistant to the wear and tear of frequent operation.

"CT scanning is one of the only ways to understand the shape of shark intestines in three dimensions," said Summers.

This is in keeping with the findings of last year's NYU experiments with a Tesla valve.

"The vast majority of shark species, and the majority of their physiology, are completely unknown," Summers said.

On the new season of Ted Lasso, though, Sarah Niles’ Dr. Sharon Fieldstone is thoughtful and calm, and she rides a collapsible bike to work—proof that Ted Lasso is the kind of show where people have honest conversations about mental health.

Of course, this doesn’t mean everyone on Ted Lasso is readily having these conversations all the time—Dr.

But it does show a willingness to talk about mental health at a time that’s sorely needed.

“Mental health over the last 18 months is something people are talking about,” retired Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps told the AP.

Online, particularly on social media like TikTok and Twitter, people have been talking more openly than ever about their emotional…

If you've been on Twitter, then you've been on Black Twitter.

No other subsection of social media has produced ideas and movements as influential or as dynamic as those that have come from Black voices on Twitter.

ContentThis week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior writer Jason Parham joins us to talk about his three-part oral history called “A People’s History of Black Twitter,” what it means to be Black online, and how Black Twitter has changed society.

Show NotesRead Jason’s oral history of Black Twitter (Part I, Part II, Part III).

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

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If you still have a device running Android 2.3.7 (the final version of Gingerbread) or older, Google won’t let you sign in to your Google account on that device starting September 27th, according to a support document (via Liliputing).

“As part of our ongoing efforts to keep our users safe, Google will no longer allow sign-in on Android devices that run Android 2.3.7 or lower starting September 27, 2021,” the company says.

But given that there are more than three billion active Android devices in the wild right now, this change will likely affect more than a few people who might still be holding on to older tech.

If you’re on Android 2.3.7 or older after that September 27th deadline, you’ll…

Square plans to acquire Australian company Afterpay, which offers a “buy now, pay later” service that lets you pay for purchases in installments interest-free, for $29 billion in stock, the two companies announced Sunday.

“Buy now, pay later” services like those offered by Afterpay, Affirm, and Klarna have become increasingly prevalent across the web.

Square and Afterpay expect the transaction to close in the first quarter of 2022.

Once the acquisition is completed, Square will appoint an Afterpay director to join Square’s board.

“Square and Afterpay have a shared purpose.

We’re a little over a week away from Samsung’s next Unpacked event, but new photos from 91mobiles may have revealed our first in-person look at two things we could see at the show: the rumored Galaxy Watch 4 Classic and the new smartwatch OS from Samsung and Google.

Perhaps more significantly, the photos show the new smartwatch OS (currently referred to as Wear) on actual devices for the first time.

But disappointingly, there isn’t much to see — just an initial setup screen and a screen asking the user to set the time.

Google and Samsung announced they would be essentially merging Wear OS and Tizen at Google I/O in May, promising improvements to battery life, faster app loading times, and o…

Last week, Epic Games teased that a “record-breaking superstar” would be performing in Fortnite’s upcoming Rift Tour concert series, and now we know that the mystery performer is none other than Ariana Grande.

The first concert takes place August 6th at 6PM ET.

Grande’s performance was rumored in July, and documents unearthed as part of Epic’s case against Apple also revealed that Epic was planning a concert with the megastar.

The event seems to have been in the works for quite some time — according to a June 2020 document from the case, a Grande concert was in the works for that October.

The Rift Tour will run from August 6th through 8th, with five showtimes happening over the three days.

Disney’s Jungle Cruise debuted in theaters and as a Disney Plus Premier Access title this weekend, and early revenue totals from the entertainment giant show that streaming accounted for a third of the film’s revenues, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Sunday’s Jungle Cruise numbers mark the second time Disney has released figures for a movie offered as part of the Premier Access program, which lets Disney Plus subscribers pay $30 to stream certain films the same day they hit theaters.

Jungle Cruise’s $30 million is half of the $60 million Black Widow earned on Disney Plus over the same period following its early July debut, but Jungle Cruise’s Disney Plus revenue represented a bigger sl…

So far, the app has attracted a young community that’s eloquent, outspoken, and passionate about the app’s stated philosophy.

The other tool reining in the discourse is the questions users are asked to respond to, which set the tone for the conversations that follow.

So far, Polemix has mostly avoided the right-wing lurch many might expect from a platform focused on quick-twitch debating.

“I’ve very rarely, if at all, seen any content that’s reminiscent of hate speech.” Sielecki and Emelien say they’ve had very few issues with trolls so far.

Among Leaders and members, there are some doubts about whether Polemix will be able to court non-debaters as it grows.

And now IDC is out with its latest worldwide shipment figures that underline Apple’s commanding lead over the tablet competition.

IDC estimates that Apple shipped 12.9 million iPads in the second quarter.

Its nearest competition is Samsung, which hit 8 million shipments.

Both PC and tablet shipments have surged over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic as people have adapted to working from home and remote education.

“While this wasn’t a record quarter for Chromebooks, it wasn’t far off the prior two quarters, which shattered previous highs,” IDC wrote.

Google has recently been selling a combo-package of the Stadia Controller and 2020 Chromecast as a limited-time promotion.

In an effort to clear out inventory of the old, puck-shaped Chromecast Ultra, Google is discounting its Stadia Premiere Edition bundle yet again to $79.99.

I’d definitely recommend the newer Chromecast with Google TV over the older one.

Remember that Google’s game streaming service now supports select Android TV products as well.

So if you’ve got a TV running that software, all you really need to get going is Google’s controller or a compatible third-party Bluetooth gamepad.

The official video for Rick Astley’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” has surpassed 1 billion plays on YouTube.

The song became a lasting part of internet culture thanks to the Rickroll meme and reached the impressive milestone a couple days ago.

But the achievement goes to show the staying power of the Rickroll prank.

The video hit daily views of 2.3 million on April Fools Day, according to Billboard.

Astley celebrated joining the billion plays club by releasing a limited, already-sold-out run of 7-inch blue vinyl pressings of the quintessential ‘80s jam.

If you like your lighting to be on the adventurous side, rest assured that Nanoleaf’s canvas light panels aren’t made to be subtle.

Right now, Costco members can purchase Nanoleaf’s Canvas Light Panel smarter pack with nine panels and everything needed to get started for $50, one of the better prices we’ve seen on the intuitive lighting system.

$150 at Costco (members only)The Razer Nari Essential is by no means a groundbreaking headset, yet, for the price, it’s an admirable entry-level model that will appease most gamers, especially on the PC side.

If Razer’s budget-friendly Nari Essential doesn’t offer what you’re looking for, however, we’ve also rounded up the best gaming headsets overal…

Telegram has announced the latest new features and improvements making their way to the popular messaging app.

After launching group video calls last month, those sessions are now able to tally up to 1,000 viewers.

Video messages will also now come through at a higher resolution, and you can tap them for a larger view of the clip.

Other additions include screen sharing for one-on-one video calls (with audio from the device of whoever’s broadcasting), the option to auto-delete messages after a month — the longest option was previously a week — and more precise drawing.

For the full list of changes, head over to Telegram’s blog.

They’ve developed online platforms to help K-pop fans feel as though they have direct access to their idol favorites.

That access helps shape the way these fans interact with the idol as a form of friendship and how they engage with other fans.

If an idol’s fan base is small or poorly organized outside of the company-run platform, they may have fewer translation accounts.

These platforms offer an entirely new way for celebrities and their fans to interact, building on conventional social media platforms but increasingly distinct from them.

And for better or worse, it’s changing what it means to be a fan — or an idol — online.

Halo Infinite creative director Joseph Staten confirmed on Twitter that Microsoft accidentally leaked “a small number of Halo Infinite campaign files” when it launched the game’s first multiplayer beta yesterday on July 29th, saying they “can ruin the campaign experience for everyone.”Leaks like this are painful for the dev team and can ruin the campaign experience for everyone.

They seem to describe both your in-game objectives, and basic descriptions of the plot, all the way through the end of the story.

We’re not linking to the strings, though they’re not terribly hard to find if you really want to spoil the campaign.

But if, instead, you’re trying to keep spoilers away, might we suggest…

On Thursday, The New York Times posted a story of extremely distressing accounts of Activision Blizzard’s culture.

One of the Blizzard employees first asked if she was lost, another one asked if she was at the conference with her boyfriend, and another one asked if she even knew what pentesting was.

IGN posted a big feature Friday detailing enormous challenges women have faced at Activision Blizzard.

On Wednesday, Activision Blizzard employees walked out in protest of the company’s handling of the lawsuit.

A day later, CEO Bobby Kotick attempted to address the allegations and concerns ahead of the planned walkout, calling Activision Blizzard’s response “tone deaf” in a public letter.

Webinar Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.

And I want to give a big shout out to Latinx in Gaming, an organization improving Latinx representation in the game industry.

I just want to clarify that I don’t use the word “slag.” I don’t know what I was on.

In 2015, there were literally zero women of color employed in the South African games industry.

I didn’t even know that Thomas Was Alone had audio the first time I played that game, because I didn’t know how video games worked.

Nintendo flat-out dominated video game national TV advertising for the first half of 2021.

Overall, the industry drove 3.73 billion TV ad impressions, with an estimated $32.4 million spent, according to TV ad measurement and attribution company iSpot.tv.

Nintendo rules the year so far, with 68% of total ad impressions.

According to iSpot data, Nintendo is solely responsible for nearly half (47.7%) of gaming’s overall TV ad spend for the year.

Watch On DemandIt’s worth noting that the three diverge dramatically in how they targeted their respective TV ad activities.

As a product leader with more than 25 years experience in software development and product management in both technology and analytics, I believe there are some big takeaways for product innovators and business leaders in this exciting technology milestone.

By following agile, data-informed methods, product leaders can test and iterate while keeping management informed with a high-level road map.

By moving fast, with analytics at speed and reduced time to insights, product leaders can innovate to stay ahead of the competition.

Product innovation is arguably rocket science.

And product leaders must aim beyond the stars to create visionary products with long-lasting and universal impact.

So, clearly, broader AI adoption inside companies isn’t a matter of if but when.

If that doesn’t happen, I expect boards of directors to increasingly push company leaders to show momentum in their AI initiatives.

Cross-functional and executive involvement in the oversight of reputational, operational, and financial risk associated with AI is crucial for successfully deploying AI.

Whatever a company does with AI has to meet its own business and ethical standards.

Though AI governance is still in its infancy, as a KPMG report put it, “leading organizations are addressing AI ethics and governance proactively rather than waiting for requirements to be enforced upon them.”Another core issue is s…

So let’s take a look at what aspects would have to evolve in the world of mobile games for the metaverse to become more of a reality.

Mobile and VR have not come together yet, although AR is the dominant reality on mobile.

Although no longer available on mobile, Fortnite added a Party Royale mode and Island social space in early 2020.

ConclusionThe mobile metaverse is truly the sum of its parts, relying on many different things coming good for it to be truly realized.

Erno Kiiski has analyzed hundreds of mobile games as the chief game analyst for the U.S. at analytics company GameRefinery by Vungle, providing feature level analytics, market insights, and benchmarks for the mobile gaming ind…

A new study released this week from PledgeLA — a coalition of hundreds of venture capital (VC) and tech leaders in Los Angeles working to increase equity, community engagement, and accountability around corporate diversity efforts — shows Los Angeles VCs outpacing national funding for women and people of color-led businesses.

The investments made by PledgeLA VCs in Black founders increased by 71% since last year.

Given that one out of every 10 VC dollars flows through Los Angeles — a 39 percent increase from 2019 — these trends have national implications.

The survey showed that women and people of color still face persistent pay gaps, however.

PledgeLA is a coalition of hundreds of venture …

You do.” The current version is called a “data dividend,” which lets users collect points by giving Invisibly access to their web usage.

If businesses have all your data, then they can figure you out and do as they wish with your attention.

Vaughn: Right now people generally think that their data is worth a lot, and I wish it were.

It’s also acting when you have to find everything that’s worth your time and attention to negotiate prices for you in the future.

All that should be AI for people, and that’s where Invisibly is really going.

Most AI vendors develop solutions that target broad use cases with large markets.

The reason investors focus on broad-reach solutions is that niche solutions are very costly to produce.

In such cases they may have to go to the local, state, or central government to navigate laws about deploying AI solutions.

In order to handle the data-collection challenge I outlined above, AI vendors should aim to find friendly customers who can help.

For example, AWS Panorama and Microsoft Percept have launched various solutions for edge deployments to help build AI solutions using existing or smart cameras.

Ninety-seven percent of cloud-native security practitioners are broadly unaware of essential container security principles, according to a report from Aqua Security.

Runtime security is critical in protecting against attackers evading static analysis or otherwise getting around more popular, and better understood, shift-left controls.

While static analysis plays an important role in container security, it is by no means a silver bullet.

Forty-seven percent had at least five years of cloud-native security business experience.

View the full Aqua Security 2021 Cloud Native Security report.

While the relationship between movies and games clearly has mutual benefits, gaming has one significant benefit over film — that of lasting appeal.

Blockchain, gamification, and the movie industryFrom the perspective of the movie industry, there are vast opportunities in blockchain, gamification, and the benefits of combining both.

In the area of movie financing, blockchain’s capability to connect peers who wish to exchange value directly can also be of service.

Now, what could be the first blockchain-based film financing round is already underway.

Applying gamification principles to a blockchain-based movie crowdfunding platform is the only way to reach a crucial mass of users needed to ma…

Eight out of ten IT professionals reported that their company’s usage of cloud technology increased during the pandemic, according to a new global research survey by ManageEngine.

The survey focused on trends related to artificial intelligence (AI), business analytics, and technology.

Across the globe, 64% of respondents said that they currently use business analytics to improve their decision-making.

This number was even higher in India, where 91% reported increased confidence in AI solutions.

With more people than ever working remotely, companies are increasingly reliant on tools that can facilitate artificial intelligence and business analytics initiatives.

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now.

Horizon: Forbidden West isn’t coming out this year.

That’s according to a GamesBeat source and corroborated by a source for Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier.

Well, PlayStation probably isn’t worried, as PlayStation 5 hardware and software continue to sell well.

GamesBeat editors Jeff Grubb and Mike Minotti discuss all of that and more on this week’s episode of GamesBeat Decides.

But I also can’t stop thinking about Blizzard’s past … or maybe its legacy, rather.

I don’t necessarily believe that a boycott of Blizzard games is a righteous thing.

But I also can’t blame people for having a hard time enjoying any Blizzard games right now.

It’s hard to start Overwatch or World of Warcraft without thinking about some of these awful stories that we’ve been hearing.

Now, again, I’m much less interested in the future of Blizzard’s games than I am in the wellbeing of its employees.

Pharma cybersecurity, like other segments, faces new challenges as remote work takes over and proliferating security endpoints become more vulnerable.

Zero trust security frameworks need to become the new standard to enforce least privileged access to accounts and resources.

Absolute Software’s acquisition of NetMotion reflects how zero trust frameworks are becoming a leading priority across organizations today and strengthens Absolute’s competitive position in the zero trust and zero trust network access (ZTNA) markets with a unique endpoint-led offering.

Meanwhile, Ivanti Neurons for Zero Trust Access shows the potential to help pharma manufacturers mature their adoption of the zero trust…

According to the newest report from Canalys, in Q2 2021, companies spent $5 billion more on cloud infrastructure services compared to the previous quarter.

In a recent survey, 80% of U.S. enterprises said they accelerated their AI adoption over the past two years.

Organizations were projected to invest more than $50 billion in AI systems globally in 2020, according to IDC, up from $37.5 billion in 2019.

And the American Cancer Society uses Google’s machine learning cloud services for automated tissue image analysis.

Technology market research firm Tractica forecasts that AI will account for as much as 50% of total public cloud services revenue by 2025: AI adoption means that, ‘essentially, …

From March to May last year, 14 lawsuits were filed against Zoom, which then became a consolidated class action.

Zoombombings are unwanted and unauthorised interruptions of Zoom meetings by outsider participants.

While Zoom earned $1.3 billion in subscriptions from class members, the plaintiff's lawyers said the $85 million settlement was reasonable in light of the significant risks of litigation.

Along with paying the $85 million payment, Zoom has also agreed to implement various changes focused on improving security, bolstering privacy, and safeguarding consumer data.

Zoom will also not reintegrate the Facebook software development kit (SDK) for iOS into Zoom meetings for a year and reque…

The ACCC advised that if such an approach were to be taken, the label should not limit consumer guarantees.

Lindwall pointed out that such a labelling scheme exists in France and could work in Australia, particularly as the cost to replace a product is often less expensive than to repair.

Rather, it insisted that its "ongoing processes" to address any "emerging" Australian Consumer Law issues was adequate.

A product labelling scheme specifically for smart devices is something that the Department of Home Affairs has considered introducing as part of its commitment under the Cyber Security Strategy 2020.

It further added that the Productivity Commission could consider other options beyond lab…

Image: GAC MotorChinese automaker GAC Group and Huawei have joined forces to work towards producing a smart SUV that is planned to hit the market in 2023.

Labelled as the "first joint product of the two enterprises", the electric vehicle will have level 4 autonomy and "exciting new energy capabilities".

While GAC will be providing the chassis, Huawei will be bringing the computing and communication aspects, with the pair planning "eight models and multiple series" of electric vehicles.

In June, GAC, Huawei, and Didi said they would be "pooling resources, data, and scientific research".

"Combining resources from the three parties, intelligent L4 vehicles are planned to be mass-produced by 20…

Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNetThe company behind TPG and Vodafone said on Monday it has picked up some contiguous 5G spectrum in the 3.6GHz band from Dense Air.

The deal, which sees TPG purchase a local Dense Air subsidiary, will take TPG Telecom's spectrum holdings up to 95MHz in Brisbane, Canberra, and Perth; 90MHz in Adelaide, and 65MHz in Sydney and Melbourne.

"As this spectrum is immediately adjacent to our existing 5G spectrum holdings, it can be deployed quickly and without significant cost."

At the same time, Dense Air will be acquiring TPG's licences in the 2.6GHz band.

Telstra said in June it had hit 75% population coverage, had 1.5 million 5G devices on its network, and its 4G networ…

The transaction has an implied value of approximately $29 billion -- AU$39 billion -- based on the closing price of Square common stock on 30 July 2021 and is expected to be paid in all stock.

Based on Square's closing price of $247.26 per share, this represents an implied transaction price of approximately AU$126.21 per Afterpay share, a premium of approximately 30.6% to Afterpay's latest closing price of AU$96.66.

Following completion of the transaction, Afterpay shareholders are expected to own approximately 18.5% of the combined company on a fully diluted basis.

"Square and Afterpay have a shared purpose," said Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Square, and also CEO of Twitter.

Austrac gives…

There has always been a tech skills crisis, pretty much ever since the days when computers filled entire rooms and were fed instructions on punch cards.

Exhausted developers, thoughtless employers and a major tech skills shortage?

No wonder many are talking about the 'great resignation', as workers gear up to quit: half of tech staff are considering leaving their jobs.

The end result is a significant realignment going on in the tech skills market.

Right now, tech workers are in high demand and have a strong negotiating position.

Why, it decides to run a question-and-answer session entitled "Windows 11 upgrade and deployment tools."

Something like "Why is Windows 11 a lot like Windows 10X?"?

This did, however, drift toward teacher-tells-you-off, which may not have been the ideal tone given the disquiet around important aspects of Windows 11.

It's looking like Windows 11 will be another Windows 8."

As Windows 11 begins to roll out, there will be more kvetching.

You see, he'd become so frustrated with Google that he'd penned what he called a confession.

I immediately received an email stating that my claim was approved, and I would be notified when the replacement device was shipped.

On July 12, I still had not received an email stating that my replacement device was shipped.

Google sets all the terms and the conditions of the insurance, Google sends the replacement device from a Google facility, and Google receives the broken device and repairs the device in the house.

As for Grace, he's still stunned that all his evangelism for Google has come to this.

Twitter has announced its first algorithmic bias bounty challenge, offering cash prices ranging from $500 to $3,500 for those who can help the social media giant identify a range of issues.

Multiple Twitter users proved this fact using pictures of themselves or of famous figures, like former President Barack Obama.

On Friday, Chowdhury and Twitter META product manager Jutta Williams unveiled the algorithmic bias bounty competition, which they said was part of this year's DEF CON AI Village.

"With this challenge we aim to set a precedent at Twitter, and in the industry, for proactive and collective identification of algorithmic harms," Chowdhury and Williams wrote.

Williams noted that there …

Here's a really cool hardware hack for your iPhone XR, iPhone 11, or iPhone 12 that adds built-in dual nano-SIM support.

Dual nano-SIM support is not available on iPhones outside of China.

Instead, those markets offer a single physical SIM with support for a second eSIM.

What if you changed the SIM reader and tray in a regular iPhone for one from a Chinese iPhone.

The process is quite involved and requires removing the display, but once you're inside, it's all pretty plain sailing.

AT&T AT&T is best for customer service and bundling options.

Power Rating 5/5 3/5 Bundles with Satellite TV, Phone Cable TV, Phone # of states serviced 21 43 Speed range 5 Mbps to 940 Mbps.

Spectrum internet, AT&T fares better, but Spectrum follows closely behind and is improving.

Power Rating 5/5 3/5 Bundles with Satellite TV, Phone Cable TV, Phone # of states serviced 21 43 Speed range 5 Mbps to 940 Mbps.

If your current internet is feeling sluggish lately, you may want to try some of our tips to increase your internet speed.

Those random-seeming website error numbers like 404, 503 and 301 you sometimes see after typing a URL can throw you off your groove or worse, ruin an urgent task (like buying Beyoncé tickets).

Nowadays, some sites will design its error code pages with cute puppies, links to other pages or a funny illustration to lighten your no doubt frustrated mood.

It's a permanent move, and even if you use the old URL, you'll still be automatically routed to the new one.

Usually, if there's an error, you'll need to do one of these things.

Try contacting the website's support to let them know you're getting a server error.

Fortnite maker Epic Games sued Apple after the game was was removed from the iOS App Store in August.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO on Friday posted a tweet reading, "Apple app store fees are a de facto global tax on the Internet.

Apple app store fees are a de facto global tax on the Internet.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 30, 2021He added: "Normally, competitive pressure would force Apple to lower fees, but Apple & Android have a duopoly on phones.

The effective 30% sales tax Apple charges is hidden from users or there would be an outcry."

SOPA Images/GettyAmazon quietly took a big hit earlier this month, as the company was issued the largest ever fine for data protection violations in Europe.

On July 16, Luxembourg's data protection authority told Amazon it would have to pay a penalty of 746 million euros ($888 million) for violating the EU's strict data protection laws, known as the GDPR.

The fine came from Luxembourg's CNPD following an investigation into the way Amazon processes customer data, and was revealed in a regulatory filing by the company on Friday, according to Bloomberg.

Amazon is under growing scrutiny both at home and abroad over the way it uses customer data.

"There has been no data breach, and no customer d…

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Angela Lang/CNETAmazon's revenues continued to climb this year in the second quarter, but not quite at the rate the company or analysts expected.

The company said Thursday that net sales in the April-June quarter climbed to $113.1 billion, up 27% from $88.9 billion in the same period last year.

That missed forecasts of roughly $115 billion in sales from analysts, but landed comfortably within the range of $110 billion and $116 billion, which Amazon predicted for its second quarter in April.

The results follow record sales in the first quarter of 2021, when retailers normally expect to see a slump in sales after the holidays.

In April, the company said it would move its annual Prime Day shop…

Sarah Tew/CNETFacebook's vice president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, says the social network is trying to balance concerns about free expression even as it faces more political pressure to combat misinformation about the coronavirus vaccines.

But he also said that he doesn't think anyone would want a Silicon Valley company to be the "absolute truth police."

Facebook has faced more backlash because it's struggled to stop coronavirus misinformation from spreading online.

Facebook said it will remove coronavirus vaccine information when public health authorities conclude it's likely to contribute to imminent harm.

While Clegg acknowledged Facebook can do more, he also pointed out the downsid…

Angela Lang/CNETAirbnb introduced a new speed testing feature on Thursday, allowing anyone who lists their home with the short-term rental service to share their Wi-Fi speeds.

"As the growing flexibility to work and live from anywhere continues, being able to determine a listing's Wi-Fi speed before booking is a must-have for digital nomads, remote workers, roadschoolers, traveling families, gamers, and creatives alike," the company's announcement reads.

AirbnbAirbnb listings already allow owners to cite their property's Wi-Fi speed, but the new, built-in speed test -- powered by M-Lab, the group behind one of CNET's top speed testing picks -- will add an extra layer of certification for th…

Sarah Tew/CNETTwitter is closing its San Francisco and New York offices amid rising cases of the coronavirus.

"After careful consideration of the CDC's updated guidelines, and in light of current conditions, Twitter has made the decision to close our opened offices in New York and San Francisco as well as pause future office reopenings, effective immediately," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement, Wednesday.

The move comes the same month as some Twitter employees returned to the office.

On Wednesday, Google said it would require vaccinations for for on-campus work, and delayed its mandatory return to the office until October.

Apple also reportedly said it would postpone its return dat…

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The social network said Wednesday that 2.9 billion people visit Facebook every month, a rise of 7% from the second quarter last year.

The steady stream of users pushed the company's revenue and earnings for the April-June quarter above Wall Street's expectations.

Facebook raked in $29.07 billion in revenue, a 56% rise from the same quarter a year earlier.

The social network says it directs people to authoritative sources of information, labels posts and works with fact-checkers.

The spread of misinformation has been an ongoing problem for the social network, including during the US presidential election.

Pichai also delayed the company's mandatory return to office to October 18, pushing back the date from an earlier goal of September.

Google's decision to push back its return to office date follows a similar move by Apple, which announced last week that it would also postpone its date by a month.

Pichai said Google employees would be given at least 30 days notice before they were expected to show up to the office in person.

Google's return to office policies have caused major tension among the tech giant's employees, who have complained the rules have been applied unevenly.

Earlier this month, CNET reported that Urs Hölzle, one of Google's most senior and longest tenured executives, told em…

TwitterThe social network, famous as a place where people share their thoughts in bite-size posts, said Wednesday that it's testing a feature in the US that lets users shop and purchase products through an in-app browser.

Called Shop Module, the tool lets businesses highlight their products at the top of their Twitter profiles.

US Twitter users on Apple devices will be able to see the products for sale.

Twitter isn't charging businesses to use Shop Module, but the feature could increase the amount of time people spend engaging with brands on the site.

Twitter said it's also creating a new merchant advisory board to learn more about what brands need from the site.

Alexa has a new name and voice, Bezos tells NASA to take his money

Mix all that with a global years-long chip shortage, and you have the recipe for Apple to repeat its iPhone delay from last year.

On Tuesday, Apple executives avoided repeating last year's statement that the iPhone would be delayed "a few weeks" from its typical September launch.

Instead, they discussed their efforts to mitigate the component shortage's impact.

Read more: Apple iPhone sales jump 50% despite chip shortage ahead of fall iPhone 13 launchThere's good reason to believe that Apple's silence means the company's all-important typical fall iPhone launch will follow the typical pattern of a September announcement.

The component shortages also appear to have forced companies to spend …

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Perfect Your Online PresenceTo be their first preference, or be in the top-of-mind awareness for a specific industry or category, maintaining a consistent and engaging online presence of your business is essential.

In addition to that, let’s explore some other effective ways you can strengthen your online presence in 2021.

Make the Most of Google My BusinessGoogle My Business (GMB) is a free tool offered by Google to help business owners manage their branded online presence.

Engage in Real-time on Social MediaTo engage with your followers on social media platforms, talk about what you know: your industry.

It could be through email newsletters, app notifications (if you have an app), social …

However, it can also store the history of cryptocurrency transactions, legally binding contracts, and inventories of various products.

How a DDoS attack can Cripple BlockchainRelated to the DDoS attacks on EXMO, blockchain has some vulnerabilities regarding DDoS attacks.

What is a DDoS Attack, and How Does it Target Blockchain and Make it Prone to Hacking?

Often, after a DDoS attack, the blockchain development may change focus or utilize new techniques that decrease the possibility of vulnerabilities.

Another trend to guard against DDoS attacks identifying IP addresses commonly associated with DDoS attacks and blocking them.

The CEO of and founder of digital marketing agency Hennessey Digital knows that online marketing isn’t a “set it and forget it” kind of deal.

Digital Marketing Tips From Marketing Master Jason HennesseyTruly successful digital marketing requires consistent improvement in multiple areas.

Now, it’s time to tinker with the formula to see what helps and what hinders your ongoing digital marketing efforts.

If you’re trying to improve your digital marketing efforts, consider reviewing your continuity.

Instead, take the time to revisit and improve your digital marketing efforts.

Our journey in experimenting with machine vision and image recognition accelerated when we were developing an application, BooksPlus, to change a reader’s experience.

BooksPlus uses image recognition to bring printed pages to life.

Hence, we decided to experiment to develop our own image recognition solution.

Choosing an Image Recognition ToolkitThe first step of our journey was to zero down on an image recognition toolkit.

Therefore, an image recognition library was written in C, and two SDKs were produced using the same codebase.

Building a (Big) Data Pipeline the Right WayUnless you’re in the data-as-a-service (DaaS) business, simply collecting data doesn’t bring any benefit.

Combining Data SourcesLuckily, with the advent of Big Data, businesses have been thinking through information management processes in great detail.

Data WarehousesA commonly used principle of data management is building a warehouse for data gathered from numerous sources.

Data enrichment processes might help with intradepartmental efficiency.

After creating robust systems for data management, we can move on to gathering complex data.

I got the Zeno Gym a little over a month ago.

So that’s why I added the title: The Zeno Gym — Just Right Even for the Health Nuts.

Those two guys are health nuts — I just want to get stronger.

It really does feel like Zeno Gym is helping you every step of the way.

In-Page Image Credit: from the zeno gym product page; thank you!

SMBs Can Utilize Video Marketing to Boost Their RevenueAn average individual will spend 100 minutes of online videos every day in 2021.

However, the questions that pop up in mind after reading about the advantages of video marketing are: How video marketing is being conducted to yield positive results and what type of businesses are utilizing the video marketing medium?

A popular developer of the marketing software product “Hubspot” wrote an article on video marketing.

HubSpot: What Marketers Should Know In 2021The study provides a deep analysis of the video marketing statistics for marketers and SMBs.

Moreover, as a small business owner, you should understand video marketing and the channe…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us got a glimpse of the potential future of telehealth.

But what does the future of telehealth look like?

This can avert medical disasters and ultimately provide better care to the people who need it most.

How Telehealth Will EvolveSo how will telehealth evolve in the future?

For starters, we’re going to see more demand for custom solutions – both for individuals and for healthcare providers.

Meet Nanci, your new financial friend.

Nanci is a mobile app that makes money simple.

Nanci will guide you through a simple process to help you create a budget that will work for you.

Nanci goes wherever you doWith a FREE mobile app for iOS and Android, Nanci goes where you do.

Nanci helps you stay on the same page by allowing access to your Nanci account on multiple devices.

Lessons to Learn from the Fastly and Akamai OutagesIn light of these recent outages, it’s important to remember that failures will happen, but the vital attribute of failure is the opportunity to learn.

Although the scope and magnitude of the Fastly and Akamai outages drew headlines, the reality is that the internet experiences failures all the time.

For example, for the week of June 14 – 20, 2021, there were: 427 network outages, 352 internet service provider outages, and 23 outages in the public cloud.

The CDN is at this layer where our high-profile failures (Fastly and Akamai) took place.

How about a full offline error site.

For over 30 years, these domain extensions have been used to house some of the internet’s most recognized websites.

As a result, these domain extensions can no longer do what they once did so effortlessly: establish a memorable address on the web.

The sales pitch encouraging the choosing of new domain extensions as opposed to a traditional extension is centered around these points:AvailabilityThese new domain extensions are still just that, new.

ProtectabilityNew domain extensions are the future, and large corporations like Google know that.

And while the big-three domain extensions are still alive and well, they’re getting closer to their digital transience.

Is it legal to pay employees with crypto?

Crypto compensation is a complicated process, but it can have several benefits, too.

Employees may want crypto payments because they can help them make more money without extra work.

For example, instead of immediately converting their crypto, workers could wait for its value to rise, then sell it and make a profit.

Challenges With Crypto CompensationFor all of its benefits, crypto compensation still has some considerable obstacles in its way.

What is a Non-Fungible Token (NFT)?

What has contributed to the increasing popularity of Non-Fungible Token Development?

The step-by-step process to create a Non-Fungible Token (NFT)Ideally, the artists and designers should develop their NFTs – on the robust Ethereum blockchain network.

The content creators have to follow the guidelines – and rules of the ERC-721 and ERC-1155 Non-Fungible Token standards.

Hence, progressive entrepreneurs can move forward in the industry by initiating Non-Fungible Token development.

Venture capital (VC) firms are continuing to pour money into tech firms even as startups consider alternative funding mechanisms.

Will Venture Capital Firms Investment Spree in Tech Continue?

Wave Capital Partners, an investment banking consultancy that advises tech companies on raising capital, believes the trend will continue into the near future.

Diverse tech endeavorsThe tech VC space serves a major, perpetual, and holistic role for funding diverse tech endeavors.

Today’s tech VC investments will create new supply to meet tomorrow’s new demand in the industry.

In this article, we will share six LinkedIn algorithm tips and insights and 11 actionable content tips.

11 LinkedIn Posting Tips to Get Viral on LinkedInWe’re going to start with some algorithm tips first because algorithm tips are super important.

LinkedIn Algorithm Tips and Insights[1.TIP] personal connectionsThe first tip, you should have a lot of personal connections on LinkedIn because whenever you post anything on LinkedIn, it will be visible to your contacts first.

Those were my tips, my very simple tips to increase the way you post on LinkedIn if you’re thinking about the LinkedIn algorithm.

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As a matter of fact, ‘Laundry Lens’ can help you every time you need to do your laundry.

Created by Brazilian developer Alan Pégoli, ‘Laundry Lens’ launched a year ago and it’s really simple to use.

Thanks to a tweet from developer Ryan McLeod, I discovered ‘Laundry Lens’ and have found it to be very useful.

By swiping up, you can also look up the laundry symbols manually and discover many others.

‘Laundry Lens’ requires iOS 14.1 or newer and it’s available in English, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

There are many Pokémon games on the iPhone and the iPad.

Although people are always trying to turn their iPhone into a GameBoy, here are all the official Pokémon games you can play on mobile right now.

Pokémon Masters EX: Explore the Pokémon world as never seen before.

Collect Pokémon trainers on Pasio Island and get to know more about beloved characters in the main series and games.

More Pokémon games to comePokémon Sleep is a game announced in 2019 but it has not launched yet.

Some users are getting increasingly frustrated with the Apple TV app as they are paying money to buy or rent movies from the store, only to find that when they go to play the content, there is no sound at all.

This appears to be happening across platforms where Apple offers the TV app, including on tvOS, smart TVs, and third-party streaming sticks like Roku.

There is some common problem where — sometimes — purchased Apple TV app content has missing sound.

To make matters worse, customers are having mixed results when contacting Apple Support about the problems.

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In this week’s top stories: Apple releases iOS 14.7.1 and watchOS 7.6.1 with important fixes, beta testing for iOS 15 continues, AAPL reports Q3 2021 earnings, and more.. Read on for all of this week’s top stories and more.

iOS 14.7.1 fixes an issue where iPhone models with Touch ID cannot unlock a paired Apple Watch using the Unlock with iPhone feature.

iOS 15 beta 4For developers and public beta testers, Apple this week rolled out iOS 15 beta 4 as well as iPad OS 14 beta 4 and new betas of watchOS 8, tvOS 15, and macOS Monterey.

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The Apple TV app is not just available on Apple devices like the Apple TV 4K, it’s also available to download on other platforms including Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Sony PlayStation, Xbox and many brands of smart TVs … but the process of enabling subtitles is not so obvious.

The Apple TV app can be used to watch Apple TV+ original TV shows and movies, as well as the catalog of iTunes Store TV shows and movies to buy and rent, including access to the user’s purchased library.

The steps for doing the same on the Apple TV app on other platforms are not as intuitive.

How to enable subtitles on Apple TV appWhilst viewing a video, press the down arrow button on your remote or game controller.

If you …

Now, a new report from Bloomberg details the Apple Silicon roadmap and what to expect over the next 12 months.

Thus far, we’ve seen the M1 chip come to the entry-level MacBook Pro, Mac mini, MacBook Air, and 24-inch iMac.

The Apple Silicon-powered Mac Pro is expected to feature a smaller form factor, around half the size of the current Mac Pro, but with a similar design language.

Bloomberg has previously reported that Apple is developing chips with 20-core and 40-core configurations for use in the smaller Mac Pro.

What do you think about the roadmap ahead for Apple Silicon in the Mac?

Today, we want to know: which of the products the company has already released this year is your favorite so far?

Both the models have the M1 chip, 50% faster than the A12Z Bionic in the fourth-generation iPad Pro, a new Thunderbolt port, and 5G support.

Although it’s just a color update, the iPhone 12 is now available in purple.

Although our video review didn’t praise the Smart Battery Case replacement for the newer iPhones, it’s still the only new MagSafe accessory launched by Apple in 2021 so far.

Which is your favorite Apple product from 2021 so far?

Apple has removed an app called “Unjected” from the App Store for violating its guidelines around COVID-19 and misinformation, according to a new report from Bloomberg.

The app, which billed itself as a place for “like-minded people that support medical autonomy and free speech,” was available in the App Store until Bloomberg reached out of comment.

Google told Unjected on July 16 it had two weeks to remove the posts from its app store or get booted off.

Bloomberg reports that the application was removed after it reached out to Apple for comment on the app being available in the App Store.

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Who could have predicted that the unsubstantiated report of the week would be Elon Musk once vying for control of Apple?

My first reaction to the claim was that Tim Cook probably actually said ‘F you’ and not the actual swear word.

The case is closed and Apple’s next CEO will be Elon Musk, right?

Teslapple CEO Elon Musk could have given a proper demo Cybertruck-meets-Elon’s-hammer style.

Sure, Elon may be an eccentric billionaire compared to Tim Cook who is a more buttoned-up multi-millionaire, but Cook can’t say he’s ever hosted SNL.

This morning, eero customers running the eero 6 or eero Pro 6 were notified of a software update for eeroOS 6.4.

The headline feature in this software update was Thread support, which improves smart home device compatibility.

Thread support will be an important part of HomeKit and the HomePod Mini ecosystem in the future.

Thread support is one of the key features of the HomePod Mini over the original HomePod.

Thread support is enabled under Settings > Wireless > Thread.

Apple @ Work is brought to you by Mosyle, the leader in modern mobile device management (MDM) and security for Apple enterprise and education customers.

Apple’s design for enterprise security strategy has done a lot to quell the frustration with enterprise security.

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This week on 9to5Mac Happy Hour Zac and Benjamin discuss the latest Apple hardware rumors including a new smart Apple external display, an always-on iPhone 13, and the proliferation of Face ID across Apple’s product line.

This week also saw the latest round of changes to Safari in iOS 15 beta 4, and Apple’s quarterly earning results give some insight on the planned fall release cycle.

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Apple today told developers they must update their games that feature integration with Game Center, Apple’s gaming platform that lets users add and challenge friends online.

In a new post on the Apple Developer website, Apple mentioned that the new certificate is used for server-based Game Center verification.

If you’re a developer and your game offers Game Center functionalities, make sure it uses the current “publicKeyUrl” which redirects to the latest certificate available.

Starting August 4, 2021, a new certificate for server-based Game Center verification will be available via the publicKeyUrl .

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak teamed up with singer Lance Bass in a new series of investments called “Unicorn Hunters” which, as the name suggests, is a competition with startup companies that reach $1 billion valuation.

Following an online premiere with a few episodes, the producers now want to expand the show to TV.

As reported by Variety, producers are now licensing new episodes for TV in the United States and also for international distribution.

In its early episodes, “Unicorn Hunters” highlighted companies like Far UV Technologies, fitness company Forte, Starton Therapeutics, Intrommune Therapeutics and Carbon Connect.

The idea of this series is somewhat reminiscent of “Planet of the …

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По данным аналитики SkyTruth за последний год более 100 боевых кораблей фиктивным образом “побывали” в других регионах, т.к. их идентификаторы через систему AIS подделывались.Чтобы вы понимали масштаб трагедии - AIS используется всем миром для оценки реального положения судов, транспондеры установлены на всех кораблях крупнее деревянного яла. И до недавного времени этой системе доверяли https://www.wired.com/story/fake-warships-ais-signals-russia-crimea/

А SEC в штатах прекратил принимать документы на IPO от китайских компаний, если в них прямо не указаны страновые риски. Причина не в экономической войне между США и Китаем, а в том что китайские регуляторы придумывают все новые требования по безопасности и пользовательским данным, в таких условиях невозможно аккуратно работать с IPO https://t.me/blognot/2454

А нет, оказывается пока я спал, Амазону выписали штраф за нарушение GDPR на очень удобную сумму - $888m. Я очень надеюсь, что эти штрафы реально начнут собирать, чтобы все побыстрее поняли абсурдность некоторых частей GDPR и что-то поменялось. Для амазона этот миллиард не очень большие, но все же деньги, думаю он будет за них бороться. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-30/amazon-given-record-888-million-eu-fine-for-data-privacy-breach

Важнейшая новость пятницы: по статистике из опросов 38% людей, перешедших на удаленную работу из дома, работают прямо из кровати.Я кстати вам не рекомендую так делать - грозит неприятными проблемами со сном потом. Но безусловно приятно 🙂 https://www.axios.com/38-percent-remote-workers-work-bed-f8708125-a068-47ff-9519-bb7870011cd5.html

Судя по листингу предложений о работе, Гугл Стадию разворачивают в сторону внутреннего решения для сторонних игр. Это скорее правильно, чем нет: если не удалось создать свою игровую платформу - предложи ее другим для создания платформ https://9to5google.com/2021/07/29/stadia-white-label-job-listing/

Google внезапно выпустил релиз Jetpack Compose, первый анонс которого был больше двух лет назад. В мире андроида jetpack compose это аналог SwiftUI (на самом деле порядок запуска был обратный, но кто сейчас вспомнит). Для тех кто не программирует - обе эти системы позволяют программисту удобным образом описывать интерфейсы программ, тратя сильно меньше времени на разработку и сопровождение https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/07/28/googles-vision-of-android-development-is-finally-realized-with-jetpack-compose-1-0/

А вот это может быть мини-сенсация: Synchron Inc получили разрешение на тестирование на людях своих мозговых имплантов. Такими темпами еще 5-10 лет и мы действительно войдем в эру прямого соединения компьютера и человека.Все эти инвазивные штуки не более страшные, чем стоматологические процедуры, но почему-то все равно пугают https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-28/elon-musk-neuralink-competitor-announces-fda-trial-for-brain-device

Гугл начал показывать в Гугл Плей информацию о том, какие данные собирает и как использует приложение. По сути это ровно то же решение, что раньше показали Эппл и уже тогда было понятно - остальным игрокам рынка придётся сделать так же.Интересно, что внешний вид этого раздела о безопасности очень сильно похож у эппла и гугла. Правда это не потому, что Гугл скопировал у эппла. Просто оба они стилизовались под наклейку с составом жбу на банках продуктов. https://www.engadget.com/google-safety-section-play-android-apps-150052244.html

---=== реклама ===---Я слежу за eBay уже больше 20 лет, с момента их выхода на NASDAQ, а за российским их отделенеием с момента прихода туда Долгова, т.е. тоже уже больше 10 лет. А уж когда началась нынешняя короновирусная эпидемия - eBay точно входит в топ компаний, которые больше всего выросли за это время чистого онлайна.По официальной статистике за 2020 российский сегмент eBay, экспортирующий товары за переделы страны вырос на треть по количеству продавцов и на 70% по обороту. Цифры прям впечатляют. Если вы целевая аудитория и хотите получать новую информацию о том, как работает экспортный eBay, понять как лучше обустроить там свою работу, да и просто задать вопросы опытным продавцам и …

В прошлом году довольно много говорили об научных исследованиях, которые делаются с помощью данных от Apple Watch, в частности вариабельность сердечного ритма и поведение человека, собранные синхронно казались очень перспективной темой.Однако ученые (в частности в этой статье Onnell=a из Гарварда) начали от этого метода исследований отказываться, причина - эппл не отдает сырые данные с датчиков, а после обработки они непредсказуемо меняются, что создает понятные проблемы. Мало того, в разные моменты времени эппл по разному обрабатывает данные. https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22594178/apple-watch-data-research-heart-rate-reliability

На мероприятии Samsung Unpacked не покажут новые телефоны Galaxy Note :( будут новые Galaxy Z и приблуды для складывающихся телефонов.Какой-то опять застой в телефонном рынке, нужна революция https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22594685/samsung-z-fold-3-stylus-support-note-durability?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

Судя по слухам, FaceID станет основой авторизации пользователя для всей техники Эппл. Всей - это включая настольные компьютеры и ноутбуки. И это крутая новость, хотя если честно, мне комфортнее с отпечатком пальца. Но вообще логика понятна - лицо действительно более удобно среднестатистическому пользователю https://www.macrumors.com/2021/07/25/face-id-for-mac-couple-of-years/

В штатах заметили неожиданный рост парковочных приложений. Причина простая - все больше людей стараются избегать общественного транспорта, а ездить на работу некоторым уже приходится. Вот и получается, что потребность в автомобиле (и как следствие аудитория парковочных приложений) выросла. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-22/parking-startups-cash-in-on-america-s-post-pandemic-traffic-surge-with-apps

В даркнете продают "полную базу телефонов из клабхауса", там 3.8 миллиарда телефонных номеров. Т.е. это не телефоны пользователей клабхауса, а список их контактов, что в некотором приближении превращается в "полный список телефонных номеров мира". Удивительный случай, когда "больше данных" означает "бесполезность данных".Строго говоря, из-за того что номеров так много - мы их даже проверить не можем, потому что практический любой телефонный номер будет в этой базе. Кто и зачем так сделал - не ясно, новички какие-то, я думаю https://twitter.com/mruef/status/1418693478574346242

Чуть не пропустил главную пятничную новость недели: Vidme, который когда-то был просто видеохостингом не продлил свой домен, его купили и превратили в обычный порносайт. Но фокус не в этом, а в том, что видео с vidme были вставлены во многие приличные сайты (например в Washington Post и New York Mag), и теперь на страницах этих сайтов было просто отборное жесткое порно.А дальше пошло-поехало, например ссылки на WP забанили в твиттере, потому что они "содержат непристойные изображения". Короче весело https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xz3/a-defunct-video-hosting-site-is-flooding-normal-websites-with-hardcore-porn

Полиция Варшавы раскрыла ферму по добыче криптовалюты, которую организовали... в Главном полицейском управлении Варшавы.Майнинговую ферму содержал гражданский сотрудник. Его уже уволили, а уголовное дело передано в окружную прокуратуру Варшавы.rozetked.me/news/18271

Продолжаем знакомство с электронными книгами Onyx Boox.В этот раз к нам приехала новинка Lomonosov с экраном 10 дюймов, Snapdragon 636 и USB-C. rozetked.me/reviews/18224

В последний месяц лета сериалы будут сыпаться как из рога изобилия.Среди новинок анимационный сборник Marvel «Что, если…?», «Чепелуэйт» по рассказу Стивена Кинга и трагикомедия с Джозефом Гордоном-Левиттом.А среди продолжений — новые сезоны сериалов по комиксам DC, первая часть финала «Ходячих мертвецов» и второй сезон «Видеть» с Джейсоном Момоа.Все подробности о новинках месяца в нашем традиционном материале.rozetked.me/articles/18260

В начале июня Microsoft сообщила, что выпустит портативный медиаплеер для своей подписки Xbox Game Pass.Теперь в сети оказались якобы рендеры этого устройства, а также описание некоторых его возможностей. По словам источника, приставка называется Xbox Stream Box и ожидается в продаже до конца года.rozetked.me/news/18265

Сегодня говорим о второй умной колонке от Mail.Ru Group — «Капсуле Мини».Дизайн устройства разработало лондонское дизайнерское бюро Layer.rozetked.me/reviews/18191

Если вы пропустилиВ iOS 15 всё-таки не будет поддержки русского языка для функции ввода свайпом.Apple убрала с сайта упоминание русского языка. Теперь среди новых языков QuickPath значатся только голландский, шведский и вьетнамский.rozetked.me/news/18246

В московском метро начали тестировать Face Pay — систему для оплаты проезда с помощью лиц.Пока она будет доступна для 1000 человек и только на Филевской линии. Принять участие в тестировании можно, оставив заявку.На всех станциях такая система станет доступна до конца этого года.rozetked.me/news/18256

Скарлетт Йоханссон, сама того не ведая, запустила флешмоб После её иска к Disney, об иске к компании задумалась и Эмма Стоун — из-за «Круэллы»Теперь же, Джерард Батлер подал в суд на студии, снявшие фильм «Падение Олимпа». Актёр утверждает, что от него скрыли доходы от проката и недоплатили 10 млн долларов гонорара.rozetked.me/news/18255

У некоторых владельцев MacBook с процессором M1 без каких-либо причин начали появляться трещины в экранах. Достаточно закрыть и открыть крышку.Не всегда пострадавшим удаётся починить такие MacBook в сервисном центре бесплатно — многим попросту отказывают.rozetked.me/news/18249

Уже посмотрели наше видео о вкладышах с ANC — FreeBuds 4?Много обзоров не бывает, поэтому подготовили ещё и текстовую версию на сайте.Кстати, в 2019 году мы рассказывали и о третьем поколении гарнитуры.rozetked.me/reviews/18169

Telegram выпустил обновление, в рамках которого в видеозвонках теперь могут принимать участие аж 1000 зрителей.Также обновлены видеосообщения, видеозаписи, трансляция экрана в видеозвонках и добавлены новые анимированные эмодзи.Рассказываем о нововведениях подробнее.rozetked.me/news/18247

Xiaomi выпустила новый внешний аккумулятор Mi HyperSonic Power Bank на 20 000 мАч.Два порта USB-A, один USB-C, быстрая зарядка смартфонов 50 Вт, ноутбуков — 45 Вт, защита от короткого замыкания. Всё это за 3499 индийских рупий (~3450 рублей).rozetked.me/news/18244

Топ трейлеров и премьер недели• Дуэйн Джонсон попытается снова собрать кассу• Странный артхаус с Нуми Рапас• Триллер с Оскаром Айзеком• Сатирический мультсериал о королевской семье• Заключительная часть «Последнего богатыря»Четыре премьеры и 13 трейлеров по ссылке.rozetked.me/articles/18237

Disney считает иск Скарлетт Йоханссон по поводу одновременного выпуска «Чёрной вдовы» в онлайне и офлайне неправомерным.Компания даже назвала сумму гонорара, которую уже получила актриса.rozetked.me/news/18235

AMD представила Radeon RX 6600 XT — видеокарту начального уровня для «ультиматийного» гейминга в 1080p.Компания утверждает, что чип мощнее RTX 3060. Рекомендованная цена — 379 долларов (~27 800 рублей).rozetked.me/news/18233

🇨🇦 Строительные роботы. Роботизация строительстваКанадский стартап Promise Robotics, Торонто, готовит экосистему, состоящую из строительных роботов, облачных технологий и ПО с элементами ИИ, позволяющего автоматике “учиться на своих ошибках”. Запуск первой версии фабрики намечен на 2021 год, как ожидается, роботизация ускорит производство модулей деревянного каркасного дома для одной семьи с 3-4 недель до 1-2 дней и обеспечит как минимум сорокапроцентное снижение издержек.Подробнее: RoboTrends.ru , см. также Каталог роботов для строительства.

Недавно писал здесь, что по следам катастрофических наводнений в Германии некоторые возлагают вину на учёных, которые не создали надежных моделей. Но при этом именно от научных служб за несколько суток поступали предупреждения о грядущих небывало высоких уровнях осадков — вот только принимать экстренные меры в совершенно спокойной ещё ситуации — это дело властей, полномочия и инструменты есть только у них, а им боязно.Ситуация похожим образом повторилась в Китае: разрекламированные системы «умных городов» не сработали, но вот традиционные метеорологи опять же за несколько суток предупредили о приближающейся опасности самого высшего уровня. И снова власти ничего не предприняли. Это очень хор…

Очень прикольно наблюдать, как ИИ учится экспериментировать ;) Неутомимые ребята из DeepMind создали искусственную среду, описание которой должно заставить вспотеть разнообразных тревожных алармистов: XLand is a 3D video-game-like world that the AI players sense in color. The playground is managed by a central AI that sets the players billions of different tasks by changing the environment, game rules and the number of players.Самые прилежные из ИИ-учащихся сыграли 700 000 разных игр в 4 000 разных миров, столкнувшись с миллионами разных задач в процессе. И в итоге научились быстро разбираться с задачами, которые видят впервые: навык экспериментатора — великая вещь в любом мире ;) https://w…

Язык — живая и подвижная штука; не случайно каждый год обновляются словари, и филологи выбирают новые слова года. Изменения в окружающем мире, хоть цифровом, хоть физическом, хоть социальном как раз и ответственны за изменения в языке. Многие слова интернациональны и становятся понятны без перевода — мы понимаем, что такое чатик и кто такие тиктокеры ;) Но вот наткнулся на статью про слова, которые возникли в английском из-за изменений климата, и с интересом обнаружил, что кроме сухих гроз на русском нет аналогов (а сами сухие грозы — отнюдь не новое для нас явление), а какой-нибудь файрнадо останется непонятным без разъяснений. Что, видимо, намекает на важность географии: мы тут все-таки н…

О, я как-то пропустил, что Цукерберг не только пообещал в перспективе построить метавселенную для мегаочков с глубокой VR, но и совершенно конкретно собирается в ближайшем будущем зайти туда, где обломался Google со своими Glasses:“the next product release will be the launch of our first smart glasses from Ray-Ban in partnership with EssilorLuxottica” Обещается модный красивый аксессуар с крутыми штучками, хотя про штучки ничего не уточняется. Ну что ж, ещё одна диковина из метавселенной Цукерберга в течение года может появиться на переносицах модников и модниц — заинтриговал, однако ;) https://mashable.com/article/facebook-zuckerberg-ray-ban-smart-glasses-coming-soon-2021

Большая часть статей с разнообразным визионерством и прогнозами в области ИИ цитирует американских персонажей — хоть и известно, что китайцы в этой области тон задают уже не меньше. Поэтому ценно почитать, о чем говорит Робин Ли, гендиректор Байду. Как и у любой компании, построенной вокруг поиска, ядро собственных технологий там — вокруг машинного обучения, и разрабатывается давно, и команда сильнейшая. Среди направлений, которые в недавнем выступлении выделил Ли, помимо очевидных и общепризнанных (персональные ассистенты, автономный транспорт) есть и менее раскрученные (хотя не то чтоб неожиданные): умные города и управление знаниями, например. Особенно интересно про города в случае Китая…

В нашем мире онлайнового интерактива на все случаи жизни (ну, почти) есть странные аббревиатуры. Среди них есть AMA — Ask Me Anything. Яндекс.Кью старается этот формат общения раскрутить, в том числе для тех, у кого в каналах Телеграма каменты не подключены. Вот я такой — дискутировать под каждым постом не готов, но если хочется о чем-то спросить, завтра (29 июля) с 19:30 мск буду на такой “прямой линии” в Кью.Заходите, спрашивайте. Если правильно понимаю, вопрос можно и заранее задать:)https://yandex.ru/q/article/a_5e12ff36/?utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=article

Опытные продюсеры из N+1 сумели меня распросить, а потом еще и так смонтировать, что в шестиминутном ролике сформулировалось то, что делает для меня таким интересным и драйвовым занятие технологическими образовательными проектами. Ну, и отчасти это аннотация грядущего YAC/e, он как раз про разнообразие выборов образовательных — да и жизненных — траекторий.https://zen.yandex.ru/media/nplus1/novoe-bez-straha--andrei-sebrant--udalennoe-obrazovanie-60ffa2e6a057a25ac27887de

Про Neuralink Маска слышали, наверное, все кто интересуется технологиями — трудно не быть на слуху, если твоим восторженным и активным пиарщиком выступает Илон Маск. Но вот первой получила разрешение на проведение клинических испытаний на людях другая компания, занимающаяся подобными вещами — Synchron. Там разрабатывается (и был уже протестирован на нескольких пациентах в Австралии) миниатюрный вживляемый интерфейс Stentrode, цель которого — помочь парализованным больным управлять какими-то устройствами, например, управлять курсором и таким образом дать им возможность активной коммуникации с внешним миром. Есть и еще стартапы, разрабатывающие свои версии нейроинтерфейсов, и они получают всё…

Недавно тут ссылался на большое программное интервью Цукерберга, который заявлял, что хочет превратить компанию, занятую социальными сетями, в компанию, строящую метавселенную. Интервью вызвало в прессе слабую реакцию, как всегда ругательную: мол, опять какой-то фигней страдает вместо того, чтоб с фейками бороться и детей охранять от лишнего. На мой взгляд, зря этот текст игнорируют: у ФБ есть ресурсы, чтоб менять мир, а не только улучшать свой кривенький продукт. И видно, что от идеи metaverse Цукерберга прет, как Безоса от подскока в космос. Вот только у Цукерберга это не разовый проект, а длинная дорога; и вот на ней очередная метка: объявлено о создании новой продуктовой группы Metavers…

В одном из моих любимых каналов “Don’t panic!” @psycholetters нашёл сегодня прекрасную ссылку на тему data science в литературоведении https://www.pnas.org/content/118/30/e2102061118Проанализировав тексты 14 млн. книг за последние 125 лет (на английском, немецком и испанском языках) на предмет присутствия в них явных признаков когнитивных искажений, характерных для депрессивных расстройств, авторы обнаружили отчетливо наблюдающиеся «хоккейные клюшки»: после примерно постоянного многолетнего уровня с 80-х годов прошлого века начался подъем, и теперь эти искажения присутствуют в количествах, которых не было ни во времена Великой депрессии, ни в периоды I и II Мировых войн. Автор канала так су…

Обычно в новостях о попытках построить город будущего упоминаются техногиганты (и у них не всегда что-то получается). Но вот в Японии умный город будущего, с богатой информационной инфраструктурой, роботами, автономными чудесами и прочими умностями собралась строить Тойота в том районе, где недавно закрылся громадный завод. Кажется, автогиганты наконец освоились в мире ИТ и гаджетов, научились жить короткими циклами и с гибкой стратегией — и совершенно не собираются уходить со сцены. Городок, конечно, планируется небольшой, на 2000 жителей, но может стать новой японской достопримечательностью.https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2021/07/26/toyotas-city-of-the-future/?sh=7139c113654f

Основным недостатком систем генерации текстов на основе машинного обучения называют отсутствие у них здравого смысла (поскольку у них нет понимания мира). Зато они очень хорошо умеют воспроизводить то, что мы называем стилем текста, при этом не цитируя оригинал, служащий образчиком стиля. А ещё они, как раз благодаря отсутствию ограничений про здравый смысл, отлично фантазируют.А теперь представьте, что несколько лет назад у вас умерла любимая девушка, взбалмошная фантазерка, верившая во всякие странные вещи и как раз не поклонница здравого смысла. У вас сохранилась переписка с ней в разных местах, и — как она сама говорила — «случайностей не бывает»: вы натыкаетесь на ссылку на эксперимент…

Сегодня стартовала Олимпиада в Токио; а в современном мире знаменитые слова «быстрее, выше, сильнее» означают, что достижения спортсменов должны регистрироваться все более совершенной измерительной техникой. Компания Omega традиционно обслуживает большие соревнования, вот и в этот раз они гордятся далеко не только точностью хронометража. Теперь в ходу детекторы поз тела в гимнастике, компьютерное зрение, позволяющее измерять кучу параметров пловцов, изощренные датчики на велосипедах и стартовых колодках легкоатлетов… Олимпиада нынче это и парад технологий, и мы ещё почитаем не только про технологии измерений, но и про технологии визуализации и трансляции для максимальной зрелищности, про вы…