У большинства издательств в стране основной код не входит в перечень пострадавших отраслей, говорят участники рынка.

Это 10% рыночной капитализации компании.

Заключению сделок помешали ограничения и проблемы стартапов из-за Covid-19, считают участники рынка.

В продаже с 9 октября.

Компания хочет привить интернет-аудитории лояльность к бренду.

Курс евро — около 90 рублей.

Компания входит в число 10 крупнейших брокеров России и Казахстана.

Президент США заявил, что нужно отказаться от голосования по почте, тогда «всё будет очень мирно».

Силовики пытались догнать и автомобиль, но безуспешно.

По словам адвоката, он согласился на госпитализацию под угрозой последующего ареста.

За полгода сервису пришлось убрать около 250 роликов.

Мнение редактора TJ о том, почему выводить все свои деньги из «Тинькофф банка» пока рановато.

Есть сообщения о раненых.

23 сентября прошла тайная инаугурация Лукашенко, после чего европейские страны напомнили о нелегитимности итогов выборов.

Авторы идеи утверждают, что такой офис «собрать проще, чем мебель из IKEA».

Его вывели из колледжа в наручниках и отобрали телефон.

Подход governance as a code обеспечивает контроль соблюдения архитектурных принципов как в части конфигураций инфраструктуры, так и в части программного кода. Правила проверки каждого артефакта, будь то конфигурация k8s, список библиотек или даже описание сценария CI/CD, описаны специальным кодом проверки правил, имеют свой жизненный цикл, могут тестироваться и ничем не отличаются от обычного программного продукта. Александр Токарев (Сбербанк) расскажет, как и что можно проверять в процессе разработки программного обеспечения, чтобы разрабатывать более безопасные и качественные приложения, и почему Сбербанк решил не использовать такие очевидные решения как SonarQube, а разработать собственн…

Перевод статьи подготовлен в преддверии старта курса «Нереляционные базы данных». Основные моменты: Крайне важно разработать схему несмотря на то, что в MongoDB она необязательна.

Аналогично, индексы должны соответствовать вашей схеме и шаблонами доступа. Избегайте использования больших объектов и больших массивов.

Будьте осторожны с настройками MongoDB, особенно если речь идет о безопасности и надежности.

В MongoDB нет оптимизатора запросов, поэтому вы должны быть осторожны при выполнении операций запроса. Я очень давно работаю с базами данных, но только недавно открыл для себя MongoDB. Есть несколько вещей, которые я хотел бы знать перед началом работы с ней. Когда у человека уже есть опы…

Год назад мы запустили пилотную версию промо проекта по децентрализованному прокату электроскутеров.

Изначально проект назывался Road-To-Barcelona, позже стал Road-To-Berlin (отсюда встречающиеся на скриншотах R2B), а в итоге и вовсе был назван xRide.

Основная идея проекта была в следующем: вместо того чтобы иметь централизованный сервис проката автомобилей или скутеров (речь пойдет о скутерах aka электро-мотоциклах, а не kickscooter/самокатах) мы хотели сделать платформу для децентрализованной аренды. О сложностях с которыми мы столкнулись уже писали ранее.

Изначально проект ориентировался на автомобили, но из-за сроков, крайне долгих общений с производителями и огромного количества ограни…

У моего друга Сереги была шикарная задумка – вместо обычных SATA-шных HDD Seagate емкостью 6 ТБ по 12 тыс. за штуку закупиться USB-шными накопителями по 8 тыс. с теми же HDD внутри. Затем вытащить их из USB-боксов и поставить в NAS, который затем использовать с минимальными нагрузками под бекапы. Разница на круг получалась хорошей – 16 тыс. Заказ был сделан. На следующий день курьер привез четыре коробки с голографическими стикерами. И с этого момента все пошло не по плану. Под катом краткая история про то, как все изящно было проделано мошенниками, и на что стоит обратить внимание, чтобы не попасть в аналогичную ситуацию. Читать дальше →

… или как я изобретал собственные велосипеды с преферансами и гейшами на свой вкус — писал с нуля прошивку для фотополимерного принтера. На данный момент прошивка уже вполне работоспособна. За основу была взята продающаяся на Алиэкспресс плата MKS DLP, для которой производитель дает схему и исходные коды прошивки, которые я отверг в пользу написания всего с нуля.

Статья получается очень уж большой, поэтому я решил разбить ее на две части. В этой части будет предыстория и описание самодельного GUI для сенсорного дисплея. В конце будут ссылки на сам предмет издевательств и на репозитории Гитхаба. Читать дальше →

Профессиональных секретов и инструментов достаточно у любого системного администратора или инженера. Сегодня мы расскажем об одном крайне полезном девайсе, Zalman ZM-VE500, которым пользуются системные инженеры дата-центров Selectel. Несколько лет назад основным запросом пользователей была установка операционной системы. Когда клиенты заказывали у нас выделенный сервер, то в большинстве случаев установка и базовая настройка ОС ложилась на плечи системных инженеров. Мы тогда запрашивали, какую именно версию операционной системы установить, а также желаемую разметку дисков. Спустя непродолжительное время клиент получал от нас реквизиты доступа в ОС. Читать дальше →

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Преимущества использования универсального бизнес-процесса

Недостатки использования универсального бизнес-процесса

Мониторинг сети узлов Эволюция использования различных технических компонентов

Опыт исследования и эксплуатации корпоративных платформ и их дальнейшее развитие Привет тем, кто следит за развитием применения децентрализованных платформ в корпоративных и межкорпоративных процессах. Наши публикации на эту тему прервались в начале 2018 года. Нет, Райффайзенбанк не прекратил работать в данном направлении: настало время переходить …

Вторая ежегодная конференция Yandex Scale начнётся сегодня, 23 сентября, в 18.00 по Москве. В этот раз она пройдёт онлайн, а мы проведем текстовую трансляцию на Хабре. Развитие облачных технологий в этом году позволило компаниям и разработчикам стать мобильнее, быстрее реагировать на изменения и создавать новые качественные продукты. Мы в Yandex.Cloud, в свою очередь, проделали большую работу по развитию платформы, реализовали крупные проекты и сегодня представим новые возможности и сервисы нашего облака. Вести трансляцию будет редактор Yandex.Cloud Евгений Левашов levashove и руководитель направления архитектуры облачных решений Григорий Атрепьев farlol. Читать дальше →

Во время пандемии я, честно говоря, не собиралась изучать Linux, не думала, что умение работать в этой ОС сделает меня продуктивнее. Но, как оказалось, Linux-навыки, и правда, помогают мне быстрее справляться с делами. Всё началось с того, что мне посоветовали «взглянуть на Linux». Я тогда подумала, что делать мне, всё равно, нечего, да ещё и сентябрьский выпуск #IBelieveinDoing оказался как раз о Linux. Я почувствовала, что всё у меня получится, и отправилась в путешествие по миру Linux. В том выпуске #IBelieveinDoing были уроки не только по Linux, но и по Git. Между этими системами можно провести некоторые параллели. Linux — это опенсорсная ОС, которой пользуются программисты, а Git — это…

Друзья из ВШБИ НИУ ВШЭ в рамках курса "Менеджмент игровых проектов" целую лекцию этой теме выделили, чтобы точно не осталось "белых пятен". Сегодня мы говорим о такой теме, а что такое, собственно, работа и карьера гемдизайнера. Как найти свой путь в игровую индустрию, что здесь делать, чем здесь заниматься. Конечно, все могут сказать сразу: «Очень легко, окей, я хочу делать то, что мне нравится». Прекрасно. Я тоже хочу делать то, что мне нравится. Но попутно всегда стоит вопрос «А есть ли у вас деньги на это? Или вам еще нужно что-то зарабатывать?» Когда вы хотите попасть в игровую индустрию, вы так или иначе, как и любой сотрудник, который хочет попасть куда угодно, соизмеряют две вещи эт…

Разработчики Puppy Linux выпустили новый релиз — 9.5 (FossaPup). Его загрузочный образ занимает всего 409 МБ. Новинка основана на пакетной базе Ubuntu 20.04 и Woof-CE, инструмента, который дает возможность использовать пакетные базы сторонних дистрибутивов. По словам разработчиков, использование Ubuntu в качестве основы дало возможность сократить время подготовки и тестирования релиза, а также обеспечить максимальную совместимость с репозиториями Ubuntu. При этом сохранена совместимость с пакетами Puppy. Читать дальше →

Привет, Хабр! Сегодня мы хотим рассказать о своей разработке — система управления двухтопливным двигателем (бензин-газ СНГ или КПГ), которая внедрена на автомобилях ВАЗ и УАЗ (и может быть установлена на большинство бензиновых двигателей различных автопроизводителей, например, для повышения степени локализации или для расширения функциональных свойств автомобиля, что приведет к усилению интереса потребителя), а также ответить на ваши уточняющие вопросы. Новый автомобиль «УАЗ-Профи» Мы начали эту работу в 2016 году, когда появился проект легкого коммерческого грузовичка «УАЗ-Профи» Евро 5. Но история разработки системы управления двухтопливным двигателем в «ИТЭЛМА» уходит в более ранний пери…

В нескольких предыдущих заметках данной серии мы уже упоминали понятие дифференциального рендеринга. Сегодня пришло время разъяснить что это такое и с чем это едят.

Мы поговорим о том, почему традиционный пайплайн рендеринга не дифференцируем, зачем исследователям в области 3D ML потребовалось сделать его дифференцируемым и как это связано с нейронным рендерингом. Какие существуют подходы к конструированию таких систем, и рассмотрим конкретный пример — SoftRasterizer и его реализацию в PyTorch 3D. В конце, с помощью этой технологии, восстановим все пространственные характеристики “Моны Лизы” Леонардо Да Винчи так, если бы картина была не написана рукой мастера, а отрендерена с помощью компь…

«Возможно, Алиса пойдет в B2C, а Олег — в B2B»: как «Яндекс» и «Тинькофф» будут строить совместное будущееОдин из таких постов опубликовал у себя в Facebook венчурный инвестор, основатель A.Partners Алексей Соловьев, а мы делимся им с вами с разрешения автора.

Где-то сильные у «Яндекса», где-то у «Тинькофф», а где-то нет ни у кого.

Таким образом, в рамках слияния в некоторых сегментах первую скрипку будут играть одни, а в некоторых — другие, какие-то сегменты с нулевым присутствием, а какие-то с конкуренцией.

ЛояльностьТут есть чем похвастаться и «Тинькофф» (кешбэк), и «Яндексу» («Плюс»).

Возможно, Алиса пойдет в B2C, а Олег — в B2B (и в B2SMB в частности).

Coca-Cola будет продавать в России молотый и зерновой кофеCoca-Cola запускает новый бизнес в России — продажу зернового и молотого кофе под брендом Costa Coffee.

По словам гендиректора Coca-Cola HBC в России Александара Ружевича, компания внимательно анализировала рынок в России.

В дальнейшем Coca-Cola рассматривает возможность дистрибуции кофе в капсулах и для профессионального использования.

Coca-Cola в России выпускает напитки под брендами Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Zero, Fanta, Sprite, Schweppes, «Добрый», Rich, «Моя cемья» и другими.

В Euromonitor International оценивают объем российского рынка кофе в 140,13 тыс.

Берлинский стартап с российскими корнями Endel привлек $5 млн в инвестиционном раунде A. Об этом пишет TechCrunch.

В раунде также участвовали Target Global, SleepScore Ventures, Techstars Ventures, Impulse Ventures, Plus 8 Equity Partners, Waverly Capital, Amazon Alexa Fund и бизнес-ангелы.

Тогда стартап получил €1,1 млн, лид-инвесторами выступили фонды Impulse VC и Amazon Alexa Fund.

Сервис использует технологии искусственного интеллекта, чтобы проанализировать данные пользователя и окружающей среды: местоположение, погоду, время суток, сердечный ритм.

В 2018 году Endel стал выпускником музыкального акселератора Techstars Music.

Mail.Ru Group объявила о планах разместить свои глобальные депозитарные расписки (GDR) и конвертируемые бонды на общую сумму в $600 млн.

Запланировано, что с помощью конвертируемых бондов будет привлечено $400 млн, через размещение GDR — $200 млн.

По заявлению компании, средства будут направлены на:развитие и поддержку бизнеса,финансирование будущих сделок,инвестиции в совместное предприятие с РФПИ, «Мегафоном» и Alibaba — «AliExpress Россия»,СП со Сбербанком «O2O Холдинг».

В размещении акций планируют принять участие основные акционеры компании, включая Naspers и Tencent, говорится в сообщении.

Акционерами Mail.Ru являются южноафриканский медиахолдинг Naspers с долей уставного капитала 27,…

Объем венчурных инвестиций в России упал почти в три раза — исследованиеВ соответствии с отчетом о развитии венчурного рынка, подготовленном платформой Dsight, в первом полугодии 2020 года в России зафиксировано 108 сделок.

Общий объем инвестиций упал почти в три раза до $183,8 млн.

В исследовании указывается, что основной причиной падения объема венчурных инвестиций в России стало сокращение сделок с компаниями на поздней стадии.

При этом было осуществлено 6 выходов из инвестиций на общую сумму $203 млн.

Он добавил, что в скором времени возрастет конкуренция между крупными российскими компаниями за стартапы, как внутри страны, так и за её пределами.

Сформирован значительный релиз специализированного браузера Tor Browser 10, в котором осуществлён переход на ESR-ветку Firefox 78. Браузер сосредоточен на обеспечении анонимности, безопасности и приватности, весь трафик перенаправляется только через сеть Tor. Обратиться напрямую через штатное сетевое соединение текущей системы невозможно, что не позволяет отследить реальный IP пользователя (в случае взлома браузера, атакующие могут получить доступ к системным параметрам сети, поэтому для полного блокирования возможных утечек следует использовать такие продукты, как Whonix). Сборки Tor Browser подготовлены для Linux, Windows и macOS.

Представлен релиз Samba 4.13.0, продолживший развитие ветки Samba 4 с полноценной реализацией контроллера домена и сервиса Active Directory, совместимого с реализацией Windows 2000 и способного обслуживать все поддерживаемые Microsoft версии Windows-клиентов, в том числе Windows 10.

Samba 4 является многофункциональным серверным продуктом, предоставляющим также реализацию файлового сервера, сервиса печати и сервера идентификации (winbind).

Ключевые изменения в Samba 4.13: Добавлена защита от уязвимости ZeroLogon (CVE-2020-1472), позволяющей злоумышленнику получить права администратора в контроллере домена в системах, не использующих настройку "server schannel = yes".

Требования к минимально…

Состоялся релиз web-браузера Firefox 81. Кроме того, сформировано обновление ветки с длительным сроком поддержки 78.3.0. Формирование обновлений Firefox 68.x прекращено, пользователям данной ветки будет предложено автоматическое обновление до выпуска 78.3. На стадию бета-тестирования перешла ветка Firefox 82, релиз которой намечен на 20 октября.

Проект UBports, который взял в свои руки разработку мобильной платформы Ubuntu Touch, после того как от неё отстранилась компания Canonical, опубликовал обновление прошивки OTA-13 (over-the-air) для всех официально поддерживаемых смартфонов и планшетов, которые были укомплектованы прошивкой на базе Ubuntu.

Обновление сформировано для смартфонов OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 2013, Meizu MX4/PRO 5, VollaPhone, Bq Aquaris E5/E4.5/M10.

Выпуск сформирован на основе Ubuntu 16.04 (сборка OTA-3 была основана на Ubuntu 15.04, а начиная с OTA-4 осуществлён переход на Ubuntu 16.04).

Подготовленные изменения также улучшили общую переносимость кодовой базы и в будущем упростят пере…

Разработчики Mozilla WebThings, платформы для потребительских интернет-устройств, сообщили об отделении от компании Mozilla и превращении в независимый открытый проект. Платформа также переименована и вместо Mozilla WebThings теперь именуется просто WebThings и распространяется через новый сайт webthings.io. Причиной предпринятых действий стало сокращение прямых инвестиции компании Mozilla в проект и передача связанных с ним наработок сообществу. Проект останется на плаву, но теперь будет независим от компании Mozilla, не сможет использовать инфраструктуру Mozilla и лишится права использовать торговые марки Mozilla.

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), 20:52, 21/09/2020 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – Кто видит?

), 20:47, 21/09/2020 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] +1 + / – На распознавание лиц в московском метро выделяют 1,4 млрд рублейhttps://roskomsvoboda.org/61591/Wake up, Neo.

Эндрю Хуан (Andrew Huang), известный активист по продвижению идей свободного аппаратного обеспечения, удостоенный премии EFF Pioneer Award 2012, представил открытую платформу "Precursor", предназначенную для создания концептов новых мобильных устройств. По аналогии с тем, как Raspberry Pi и Arduino позволяют создавать устройства для интернета-вещей, Precursor нацелен на предоставление возможности спроектировать и собрать своими руками различные мобильные устройства для решения своих задач.

Похоже, его достали тупые баг-репорты >> Why not just launch a profiling session in the browser's dev tools?

That would tell you whether uMatrix's code is executing or not.

I did and this shows this is not a uMatrix issue.

Anyway, as it is, I've archived uMatrix's repo, I can't and won't be spending any more time on this project, and neither on all such issues.

Доконал его тикет "я отключил некоторые скрипты на странице и это повысило загрузку процессора".

Доступна для тестирования бета-версия пользовательской оболочки Plasma 5.20. Протестировать новый выпуск можно через Live-сборку от проекта openSUSE и сборки от проекта KDE Neon Testing edition. Пакеты для различных дистрибутивов можно найти на данной странице. Релиз ожидается 13 октября.

В Firefox для Android выявлена серьёзная уязвимость в реализации протокола SSDP, применяемого для обнаружения сетевых сервисов в локальной сети. Уязвимость позволяет атакующему, находящемуся в той же локальной или беспроводной сети, ответить на проверочные запросы Firefox сообщением UPnP XML "LOCATION" с intent-командами, при помощи которых можно открыть в браузере произвольный URL или вызвать обработчики других приложений.

Ребят, у них количество айнодов в фс задаётся при форматировании: > -N inodes - the number of inodes (by default, there is one> inode for 20480 bytes) 2020 год не перестаёт удивлять

2.27 , Аноним ( 27 ), 11:33, 18/09/2020 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] –2 + / – Проект "мозила-браузер" тоже закроют?

Вместо него хорошо бы подошёл проект "мозила-скачать-хромого".

3.28 , vplakhot ( ok ), 11:35, 18/09/2020 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – > Проект "мозила-браузер" тоже закроют?

Не закроют, Google их спонсирует за поисковую систему по умолчанию4.37 , FixingGunsInAir ( ok ), 11:48, 18/09/2020 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – А завтра они скажут, "а не пошли бы вы, у нас монополия".

5.41 , vplakhot ( ok ), 11:50, 18/09/2020 [^] [^^] [^^^] [ответить] + / – > А завтра они скажут, "а не пошли бы вы, у нас монополия".

>Драйвер Panfrost был основан в 2018 году Алисой Розенцвейг (Alyssa Rosenzweig)Me, I take alternative hormones to affirm my alternative sex, and since I was eleven, I’ve used an alternative name and alternative pronouns.

You ought to understand, I’ve been wishing for an alternative government because this one sure hates my alternative lifestyle.

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/life-on-the-other-side.html

Начни отсюда: https://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/121694.html#84 Потом сюда:https://genode.org"IntroductionWe understand the complexity of code and policy as the most fundamental security problem shared by modern general-purpose operating systems.

Because of high functional demands and dynamic workloads, however, this complexity cannot be avoided.

The Genode OS framework is an open-source tool kit for building highly secure component-based operating systems.

It scales from embedded devices to dynamic general-purpose computing.

keywordscapability-based security, microkernel, principle of least authority, sandboxing, virtualization" Эх DAC, MAC нет вообще и не будет никогда, ибо ми…

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Direct experimental evidence for effects of prenatal exposure(s) on human fetal testis development and function exists.

The objective of this systematic review was to provide a comprehensive description of the evidence for effects of prenatal exposure(s) on human fetal testis development and function.

The majority of experimental studies investigating the effects of environmental exposures on fetal testis development and function involve rodents.

Comparison of approaches to comparing the effects of environmental and pharmaceutical exposures on human fetal testis development and function.

This systematic review will detail the experimental evidence for impacts of environmental chemicals, pha…

NewsNew company to reduce cows’ methane using feed additive made from the seaweedAustralia’s national science agency, CSIRO announced the formation of a new company to take a methane-busting seaweed to market, with $13 million secured from five investors.

FutureFeed Pty Ltd will commercialise a livestock feed additive made from the seaweed Asparagopsis, which has been shown to reduce methane emissions in beef and dairy cattle by more than 80 per cent in research trials in Australia and the USA.

AGP Sustainable Real Assets-Sparklabs Cultiv8 Joint Venture, GrainCorp, Harvest Road, Woolworths and CSIRO have committed to investing in the company.

Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Ka…

Their very blackness makes it hard to estimate how many black holes inhabit the cosmos and how big they are.

But perhaps black holes were also born during the Big Bang itself.

A hidden population of such “primordial” black holes could conceivably constitute dark matter, a hidden thumb on the cosmic scale.

Now, however, following a flurry of recent papers, the primordial black hole idea appears to have come back to life.

Dark matter remains dark.

A best-of-breed language with a holistic approach to moving the needle.

Each one starts with a value of 0, and can hold any 32-bit signed integer.

The value of the expression is the result of concatenating the values of the constants.

For example, Engineering has a value of 1 and Marketing has a value of 5 , so the expression Engineering and Marketing has a value of 15 .

More examples:Engineering, Marketing, and HR = 150= Engineering = 1= HR and Engineering = 1 (leading zeros are ignored)= (leading zeros are ignored) Marketing, Marketing, Marketing = 555CommentsThe syntax of Strategic Communication meets or exceeds the highest standards of corporate discourse, therefore comments are unneces…

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The historic first image of a black hole unveiled last year has now been turned into a movie.

Black hole pictured for first time — in spectacular detailThe images show a lopsided blob of light swirling around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy M87.

It portrayed M87*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy, some 17 megaparsecs (55 million light years) away.

This was expected, owing to a combination of effects in the complex dynamics around a black hole.

The first image of a black hole: A three minute guideDynamic diskThis was not unexpected, the authors say: although the M87* black hole itself does not change from year to year, the environment around…

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, including a team of MIT Haystack Observatory scientists, delivered the first image of a black hole, revealing M87* — the supermassive object in the center of the M87 galaxy.

The analysis reveals the behavior of the black hole image across multiple years, indicating persistence of the crescent-like shadow feature, but also variation of its orientation — the crescent appears to be wobbling.

But the EHT team was able to use statistical modeling to look at changes in the appearance of M87* over time.

The black hole’s shadow diameter has remained consistent with the prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity for a black hole of…

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For the last decade, the massive deployment of deep neural networks has radically transformed research approaches.

Particularly in natural language processing (NLP), innovations on deep neural networks have been continuously evolving to meet new market demands.

Recently, there has been a growing interest in developing small and accurate NLP neural networks that can run entirely on smartphones, smartwatches and IoT devices.

PQRNN favourably compared with the SOTA NLP model BERT on text classification tasks on the civil_comments dataset, achieving near BERT-level performance but using 300x fewer parameters and with no pretraining.

The paper PRADO: Projection Attention Networks for Document Cl…

From high school to university, I’ve always relied on pen and paper as my weapon of choice.

At the time and even to some extent now, I’ve felt like this was a good enough solution to my problems.

I’ve always felt the simpler the solution the better.

It was during those dark times of desperation that I stumbled upon the “niche” industry of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) and as an extension, the Memex.

I was fascinated with all the innovation coming from up and coming open source projects and companies in this space.

Four years after its foray into the Chinese market followed by rapid and cash-hemorrhaging expansion, WeWork decided to wind down its involvement in the country. WeWork’s Chinese unit has secured a $200 million investment led by Shanghai-based equity firm Trustbridge Partners, which first backed WeWork China in its Series B round in 2018, the American […]

Mobileye’s computer vision technology will be used in a new premium electric vehicle called Zero Concept from Geely Auto Group, one of China’s largest privately-held automobile manufacturers. Mobileye’s owner Intel made the announcement today at the Beijing Auto Show. Zero Concept is produced by Lynk & Co., the brand formed as a joint venture between […]

About three weeks ago, Facebook announced will increase its efforts against hate speech and misinformation in Myanmar before the country’s general election on November 8, 2020. Today, it gave some more details about what the company is doing to prevent the spread of hate speech and misinformation. This includes adding Burmese language warning screens to […]

VC and corporate investment into climate tech grew at a faster rate than overall VC investment as a whole between 2013-2019, according to a major new report — to the tune of $60 billion of early-stage capital. The new research by PwC (“The State of Climate Tech 2020“) found that although it’s still early days […]

Peterson Ventures, a 12-year-old, Salt Lake City, Ut.-based seed-stage fund, has long operated fairly quietly, but many of its bets have become known brands in the respective worlds of consumer and enterprise software investing. Among these is the shoe company Allbirds; the men’s clothing company Bonobos (acquired a few years ago by Walmart); and Lucid […]

Shopify blames “rogue” employees for a data breach, Google Maps adds COVID-19 data and China pushes back against the TikTok deal. This is your Daily Crunch for September 23, 2020. The big story: Shopify confirms data breach The e-commerce platform blamed two “rogue members” of its support team, alleging that they stole customer data from […]

It happens to the best of us. Some newer, flashier model comes along and we’re no longer the latest and greatest new thing. The iPad’s had a plenty good run, of course. Ten years ago, the device redefined what a tablet is and has maintained a dominant spot atop the category, as countless competitors have […]

In this case, money, it really is the shoes. GOAT, the proprietor of online and physical retail locations for reselling the collectible kicks and kits that are the currency of street cred and cultural cool among the youths, is now worth a whopping $1.75 billion thanks to $100 million in new financing. It’s a big […]

Live TV streaming service Sling TV is joining in on the co-watching trend. The company today announced the launch of its own version of a co-viewing feature, which allows friends and family in different locations to watch live TV together at the same time. What makes Sling TV’s implementation unique, however, is that it’s allowing […]

TikTok’s fight with the Trump administration doesn’t yet appear to be over, regardless of what the deal that was signed between its parent company ByteDance and Oracle says. Earlier today, the company filed a motion to stop the Commerce Department from enforcing a ban against the popular social app. That ban was supposed to come […]

Shopify has confirmed a data breach, in which two “rogue members” of its support team stole customer data from at least 100 merchants. In a blog post, the online shopping site said that its investigation so far showed that the two employees, who have since been fired, were “engaged in a scheme to obtain customer […]

Tesla is suing the Trump administration over tariffs on a computer chip and other parts it imports from China, joining an increasingly long list of similar lawsuits filed by hundreds of companies, including automakers Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo. Tesla, which names U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in the lawsuit filed in the U.S. Court of […]

First: Daimon Helstrom, the son of Satan, introduced in Ghost Rider #1 (1973).

YouTube/Hulu Tom Austen plays Daimon Helstrom, an ethics professor who hopes to save those close to him from demons.

YouTube/Hulu Tom Austen plays Daimon Helstrom, an ethics professor who hopes to save those close to him from demons.

YouTube/Hulu Ana Helstrom (Sydney Lemmon) is Daimon's estranged sister.

YouTube/Hulu Helstrom lets loose.

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered UN staff free doses of the country’s COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, which has not completed clinical trials for efficacy and has not been thoroughly vetted for safety.

Putin made headlines last month after announcing that Russia has granted regulatory approval for the (limited) use of Sputnik V, the first country in the world to do so.

The results indicate that Sputnik V spurred potentially protective immune responses and did not cause any severe side effects.

Sputnik V has now moved into larger trials with tens of thousands of people.

The lack of data does not seem to trouble Putin, who was happy to distribute the vaccine to UN staff.

The odds of NASA sending humans back to the Moon by 2024 are long—not zero, but pretty close.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said this week that funding the Artemis Moon Program before the end of this year would be workable.

In deliberations earlier this year, the US House provided only $600 million, or less than one-fifth of the budget NASA said its needs for the coming year.

So says the SenateWednesday provided the first opportunity to assess, publicly at least, whether the Senate will be more supportive of the Artemis Program and its aggressive 2024 goal.

With this information, NASA plans to "down-select" from this initial group of three landing teams in February.

Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles get an extra decade to comply, but by 2045 these too must ditch internal combustion engines.

The same year, Germany's Bundesrat voted to outlaw new ICE vehicles from 2030, although this was not a binding resolution.

The following year, France announced that new ICE vehicles would be banned from 2040.

Our cars shouldn't make wildfires worse—and create more days filled with smoky air.

Cars shouldn't melt glaciers or raise sea levels threatening our cherished beaches and coastlines."

Today's Dealmaster is headlined by a couple of small but notable discounts on the new 10.2-inch iPad and Apple Watch Series 6.

These are not massive deals, clearly, and as of this writing, Amazon says the Apple Watch may take a few weeks to ship.

Conversely, the Apple Watch Series 6 sits at the top of Apple's smartwatch lineup.

But if you need the most featured Apple Watch possible, the Series 6 is it.

Apple MacBook Air (2020) laptop - 1.1GHz Intel Core i5-1030NG7, 13.3-inch 2560x1600, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD for $1,199.99 at Amazon (normally $1,300).

"Section 230" is the nickname for a very short part of the law under which Internet companies have been regulated since 1996.

Broadly speaking, it means that if you use an Internet service to say something obscene or unlawful, then you, not the Internet service, are the one responsible for having said the thing, and the Internet service has legal immunity from whatever you said.

The proposed new bill legislation also adds several explicit carve-outs to the law.

The last page of the proposed legislation adds a list of "good faith" requirements.

Is the proposed law... legal?

But several cast members will return in Bly Manor, albeit playing different characters: Victoria Pedretti, Henry Thomas, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Catherine "Katie" Parker, and Kate Siegel.

Netflix Welcome to Bly Manor.

Netflix Every little girl needs a creepy dollhouse replica of Bly Manor... Netflix ... and a creepy doll of her former governess, Miss Jessel.

Netflix Henry Thomas plays Henry Wingrave, uncle to Flora and Milles.

The Haunting of Bly Manor starts streaming on Netflix on October 9, 2020.

T-Mobile US CEO Mike Sievert yesterday fired back at AT&T and Verizon, saying the carriers' complaints about T-Mobile obtaining more spectrum licenses show that they are afraid of competition.

As we wrote Monday, Verizon and AT&T have urged the Federal Communications Commission to impose limits on T-Mobile's ability to obtain more spectrum licenses.

Verizon told the FCC that "T-Mobile already holds licenses for 311MHz of low- and mid-band spectrum nationwide," more than AT&T and Verizon combined and well above the FCC's 250MHz "spectrum screen."

And importantly, the "spectrum screen" pre-dates, and therefore ignores, certain 5G spectrum where Verizon already dominates.

In short, we have AT&…

Samsung The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE comes in a range of colors.

Samsung The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE comes in a range of colors.

The "FE" in "Galaxy S20 FE" stands for "Fan Edition," a name the company last used when it scraped together the leftover un-exploded Galaxy Note 7 parts to make the Galaxy Note FE.

The Samsung Galaxy S20 Fan Edition 5G Ultra Wideband is $749, a $50 premium over the regular Samsung Galaxy S20 Fan Edition 5G.

In the US, the Galaxy S20 FE will ship October 2, and it's up for preorder on Samsung.com today.

Over the next 15 years, cheaper and more powerful batteries enabled Tesla to build roomier cars with longer ranges at lower prices.

In recent years, Tesla has had a large team of engineers re-thinking every aspect of Tesla's batteries, from the chemistry inside the cells to the way the batteries are incorporated into vehicles.

As a result, Elon Musk said, Tesla will be able to realize a longstanding dream: a truly affordable electric car.

Tesla has ambitious plans for its new battery cells.

So Tesla is planning to start its own lithium mining operation in Nevada with a new, Tesla-developed mining process.

On Tuesday, the company launched preorders for this November's Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.And today, Microsoft topped all of that off by shipping us a "non-final" Series X of our own—and I have immediately begun testing it.

Sam Machkovech Xbox Series X, in vertical orientation.

In terms of wireless features, Xbox Series X supports 802.11ac Wi-Fi connectivity and the dual-band Xbox Wireless protocol.

Last of all, the disc drive on the front of Series X supports 4K UHD Blu-Ray, which it has in common with Xbox One X and Xbox One S. It's also compatible with existing Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One discs, and loading older, compatible games into the Series X disc drive will prompt some form …

Taobao PlayStation buttons?

Taobao PlayStation buttons?

Taobao The top of the device shows shoulder buttons that look redesigned compared to the original Xperia Play.

A shot of the original Xperia Play, for comparison.

Otherwise, the PlayStation-styled controls on the prototype look altogether similar to those on the original Xperia Play.

Jonathan Gitlin This is our first look at the 2021 VW ID.4, the brand's new battery-electric crossover.

Jonathan Gitlin This is our first look at the 2021 VW ID.4, the brand's new battery-electric crossover.

Jonathan Gitlin The ID.4 uses a version of VW Group's latest MIB3 infotainment system.

Jonathan Gitlin This page looks similar to one of the new Apple CarPlay pages.

Jonathan Gitlin The advent of cheap LEDs means that you can pick your own color of interior lighting.

Beginning today, Lenovo is offering a greatly expanded selection of OEM Linux PCs to the general public.

Earlier this year, Lenovo began offering Fedora Linux preinstalled on laptop systems including Thinkpad P1 Gen 2, Thinkpad P54, and Thinkpad X1 Gen 8.

Today's announcement makes Ubuntu Linux available on a considerably broader swath of both desktop and laptop PCs.

ThinkPad T14 (AMD and Intel) ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 5 ThinkPad P1 Gen 3 ThinkPad T14s (AMD and Intel) ThinkPad L14 ThinkStation P340 ThinkPad T15p ThinkPad L15 ThinkStation P340 Tiny ThinkPad T15 ThinkPad P15s ThinkStation P520c ThinkPad X13 (AMD and Intel) ThinkPad P15v ThinkStation P520 ThinkPad X13 Yoga ThinkPad P15 ThinkStati…

The cold, rigidly controlled (and controlling) Nurse Mildred Ratched (aka Big Nurse, played by Louise Fletcher) rules the place with an iron hand.

As for Nurse Ratched, her injuries render her unable to speak—her most potent weapon in controlling her charges.

Per the official premise:Ratched is a suspenseful drama series that tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched.

That's when Mildred Ratched (Paulson) shows up and manipulates her way into joining the nursing staff.

Netflix Dr. Hanover orders a sadistic treatment to "cure" a patient of her lesbian desires.

Ever since Microsoft announced the details of that Velocity Drive storage architecture in its new Xbox Series family, we knew it wouldn’t be cheap to add some extra storage for your new console.

Now Twitter deal-hunter Wario64 points out a Best Buy listing for Seagate’s 1TB expansion SSD, confirming earlier leaks with its $220 price.

Seagate - 1TB Game Drive for Xbox Series X and Series S External Custom PCI Express Gen4 x2 (NVMe) Solid State Drive is up for preorder at Best Buy ($219.99) https://t.co/LzdBZ0dUFT pic.twitter.com/FFVWl1Tmvr — Wario64 (@Wario64) September 24, 2020While that compares well to speedy SSDs that use PCIe and usually cost around $200, it is worth considering whether…

Last week the Commerce Department delayed plans to implement a ban that would prevent new downloads of the TikTok app by one week, pushing the deadline out to this coming Sunday as its owner negotiated a deal with the government, Oracle and Walmart.

On Wednesday afternoon TikTok followed the path of WeChat, by filing for a preliminary injunction to prevent the ban, asking for a hearing before it’s scheduled to start at 11:59 PM on September 27th.

WeChat asked for and received an injunction blocking the ban last weekend, and in TikTok’s request the company said “there is no plausible reason to insist the prohibitions be enforced immediately.”

Nintendo has officially launched a new Kirby brawler for the Switch that it never officially confirmed until now.

Kirby Fighters 2 is now available as a digital download for $20, and as the trailer’s voiceover says, it’s a Kirby vs. Kirby vs. Kirby vs. Kirby affair.

A brand-new Kirby game is available NOW!

Choose from a cast of Kirby’s most iconic copy abilities and duke it out to be the last Kirby standing in #KirbyFighters2!

It lets you choose your fighter from a cast of the character’s most iconic copy abilities, including Sword, Beam, Artist and the brand-new Wrestler option.

Back in 2018, Innersloth released Among Us, a simple Mafia-style party game that requires teamwork from its players, but also tasks one of them as an imposter whose job is to undermine the group’s efforts.

Until about August of this year it hadn’t attracted much attention, which is when the game suddenly exploded in popularity with Twitch players featuring it constantly and drawing more interest, as well as crossplay for iOS and Android that let people easily join in the games.

Just a month ago the developers announced Among Us 2, noting that “It's been crazy to see how much more popular Among Us could be than we ever imagined.” Now, the folks at Innersloth have changed course again, as the…

A little after its tenth anniversary, Amnesia: The Dark Descent is now open-source, allowing modders and aspiring game developers to delve into the title's codebase to see how the horror masterpiece was created.

You can download the source code for both The Dark Descent and its sequel, A Machine for Pigs (which itself started out as a mod), through GitHub.

As series developer Frictional Games points out, the annoucement doesn't mean you can get the two titles for free.

"It just means that people are free to use the source however they want as long as they adhere to the GPL3 license," the studio said.

"The game and all of its content is still owned by Frictional Games.

Sling TV just launched a “Sling Watch Party” feature in beta, meaning you can now connect with friends and family via video or text chat while you watch live TV together.

The streaming service is the latest to offer a “watch party” feature -- following others like Amazon Prime and Disney+ -- and it’s the only service to offer watch parties for live TV.

Sling Watch Party allows customers to invite up to three guests to share a TV viewing experience.

In addition to having the ability to chat with other viewers, Sling Watch Party also gives you full control of your video camera and volume.

You can use the feature on live TV or any on-demand programming.

It turns out audio tweets were only the beginning of Twitter's newfound interest in letting users communicate with more than just the written word.

On Wednesday, the company told The Verge it’s testing a new feature, starting in Brazil, that will allow users to send voice messages directly to one another.

"We know people want more options for how they express themselves in conversations on Twitter — both publicly and privately," said Alex Ackerman-Greenberg, product manager for direct messages at Twitter, fittingly, in a 20-second voice message to The Verge's Chris Welch.

Contrary to previous reports, a Facebook rep has confirmed that the social media site will not, in fact, allow ads claiming victory for either the Trump or Biden campaigns to run on election night.

In a September 3rd blog post, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg laid out a new policy banning political ads from being run on the social media site for the entire week leading up to November 3rd, election day.

However, that policy did not, according to a recent Fast Company post, prevent campaigns from running new ones starting on November 4th.

This would enable either or both presidential campaigns to claim victory and saturate the market with misleading advertisements.

Facebook has since clarified in …

“As a society, weight stigma and body shaming pose both individual and cultural challenges, and we know that the internet, if left unchecked, has the risk of exacerbating such issues,” the company said.

There’s also the issue of TikTok users who post that content.

Then there’s the opaque algorithm that powers TikTok’s For You feed.

Earlier this year, BuzzFeed News detailed how the app exposes people to content that glorifies unhealthy eating and weight loss habits through its home page.

TikTok points out people can long-press on a video to stop similar content from showing up on their For You feed, but that doesn't solve the problem of that those types of videos showing up in the first plac…

The report notes that Eric Covey, chief of staff for Vermont’s secretary of state, reached out to Facebook asking why CrowdTangle couldn’t monitor public posts from individual users, since they are the main source of voter misinformation.

Khalid Pagan, a Facebook government and politics outreach manager, responded that such monitoring wasn’t possible because of “privacy concerns.”In addition to individual user profiles, CrowdTangle’s other major blindspots include private Facebook groups and Instagram accounts with fewer than 75,000 followers, Bloomberg reports.

Facebook said in a statement that while the company enables state officials to flag content they consider voter interference, it d…

As California continues to battle ever more deadly and destructive wildfires up and down the state, California governor Gavin Newsom has issued a sweeping executive order that will effectively ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel-driven vehicles by the year 2035 by requiring that any car you drive off the dealer’s lot be zero emission.

“This is the most impactful step our state can take to fight climate change,” Newsom said at a Wednesday news conference.

“For too many decades, we have allowed cars to pollute the air that our children and families breathe.

Our cars shouldn’t make wildfires worse and create more days filled with smoky air.

Cars shouldn’t melt glaciers or raise sea levels …

Image : MicrosoftIf there’s one thing we could do without next year besides, well (gestures at everything), it’s subscription services.

You can still do that with some things , obviously, and subscription services aren’t going away, but now that e verything is an endless bill cycle, it would be nice to just....own something.

Microsoft seems to have gotten the memo , because it plans to release a new subscription-less version of Office in 2021.

Currently, there are a few ways to get your hands on some Microsoft Office programs.

If you’re someone like me who uses Microsoft Office a lot, you save more in the long run anyway.

Image : NOAAMarine biologists are astonished after a Cuvier’s beaked whale held its breath for nearly four hours during a deep dive.

In the first of two epic dives, the Cuvier beaked whale, wearing tag ZcTag066, stayed underwater for nearly three hours.

A week later, the whale outdid itself, holding its breath for a bewildering three hours and 42 minutes.

Cuvier’s beaked whales are elusive and skittish, having developed fascinating strategies to avoid predators, namely orcas.

The shortest dives lasted just 33 minutes, but the longest dive (excluding ZcTag066's ) was recorded at 2 hours and 13 minutes.

Image : Sling TVSling TV, a fairly affordable streaming option for cord-cutters, has become the latest streaming service to support a Watch Party function that’ll allow anyone with a Sling login to watch programming together.

AdvertisementSling Watch Party launched today as a beta feature, but a Sling spokesperson said that anyone—including free accounts—can join a co-watching party right now.

“Friends and family can join a Sling Watch Party through 9/30 simply by creating a Sling TV account.”AdvertisementGroup watch support has rolled out widely on many services both through native features as well as through third-party extensions.

Prime Video, for example, recently introduced a watch par…

AdvertisementSales of nicotine e-cigarettes and fluids (whether nicotine juices or salts) are already prohibited throughout all of Australia via state and territorial law, the Guardian wrote, and nicotine is considered a poison that is illegal to possess anywhere but South Australia.

The law currently allows Australians to import vaping products from abroad with a prescription, but the doctor’s note requirement was broadly ignored.

The same rules would apply to heat-not-burn tobacco products—which have despite shaky harm reduction claims, have been approved for sale in the U.S.—as well as chewing tobacco, snuff, and other nicotine products, according to the Guardian.

Recent studies have ind…

Good thing she didn’t yell “I’ll be back!” Image : HBOSorry, Thrones fans.

But after years of silence about why Stoneheart was never on the cards, the team behind the show have finally revealed just why she was cut.

“We knew we had Jon Snow’s resurrection coming up,” Benioff says.

We wanted to keep our powder dry for that.”AdvertisementGame of Thrones and diminishing returns?

No doubt we’ll learn more about potential could-have-beens when Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon hits shelves on October 6.

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These drugs were chosen because they’re analogs, or close chemical cousins, of the drug piracetam, another claimed nootropic ingredient.

Cohen and his team published a similar study last year specifically looking for piracetam (or noopept, as it’s also known) in nootropic supplements.

In one brand, they found a whopping four nootropic drugs at once.

To their credit, the FDA spoke out last year about the dangers of nootropic supplements, and it has sent warning letters to companies selling supplements with these sorts of unapproved ingredients.

“Basically, we need to avoid supplements that promise on the label they’re going to have immediate effects on our health.

Dubbed “Toonify,” the project allows us to stare into the eyes of God.

To achieve diabolically Toonified results in the Pix2PixHD model, Pinkney and Adler needed to come up with a bunch of preexisting pairs of people and their matching toons.

It needs to “find” a very close approximation of your face to work off of.

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Photo : Kyle Grillot ( Getty Images )California has taken a dramatic step forward in its battle to combat its gradual slide into climate change hell.

“This is the most impactful step our state can take to fight climate change,” Governor Newsom said in a press statement.

Our cars shouldn’t make wildfires worse and create more days filled with smoky air.

Cars shouldn’t melt glaciers or raise sea levels threatening our cherished beaches and coastlines.”Newsom makes some good points.

And while California’s new fuel emissions standards are welcome news, they won’t be enough to curb the dangers of climate change.

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Photo : Amazon/Netflix/Disney“Wait, are there actually going to be new movies this fall?” It’s a thought we’ve all been having for some time.

Scare Me debuted at Sundance this year to generally positive reviews, and while it’s apparently more of a psychological mind game than an actual horror film, we love the idea.

This animated film looks like it could really be something special.

It would be to somehow become electronic and invade their phones or tablets, which is the premise of this new horror movie.

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AdvertisementThe Catholic faith hasn’t really upgraded since the Second Vatican Council, at which time they swapped development environments and communication protocols from Latin to the vernacular.

The rest of the Catholic hardware— the vestments, the chalices, and even the Sanctus are a few centuries old.

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“Most Catholic rituals are hundreds— in some cases, thousands— of years old.

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On the second day of the WIRED25 three-part virtual speaker series, topics ranged from the disastrous effects of the Anthropocene to the importance of journalism in an authoritarian regime.

Today’s premise: how to make our communities, systems, and planet more resilient.

Sarah Friar, the CEO of Nextdoor, kickstarted the discussions with an interview by Lauren Goode, a senior writer at WIRED and host of the Get WIRED podcast.

Even in the pre-pandemic world, the company’s research showed that loneliness plagues people around the globe and from every walk of life—a condition whose effects have been equated to smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

Arielle Pardes, a senior writer at WIRED, was then joine…

California governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Wednesday that sets an ambitious plan to eliminate sales of gas-powered cars and trucks in the state by 2035.

But just 7.9 percent of the light-duty vehicles sold in 2019 were electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids—a figure that would have to increase more than 12-fold in 15 years.

Today, price, lack of charging infrastructure, anxiety about how far the car can go, and simple lack of knowledge prevent US drivers from considering an electric vehicle.

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Society’s growing dependence on digital platforms and infrastructure, combined with the events of 2020, have made his work more relevant than ever.

Social media companies encourage everyone to document their lives online as a form of self expression, but for some there can be significant unintended consequences.

Law enforcement agencies work with technology companies that can sift social media feeds for names, locations, topics, tone, or other markers.

One difference between physical and digital frisking is that the online form is more covert.

He fears that law enforcement’s trawling on social media, and other digital surveillance tools such as face recognition, will become entrenched if pe…

Silicon Valley has long been criticized for operating under an erroneous binary: You must choose between profit or positive social impact.

“So if you just follow the youth, they want to be on a mission that is good for our planet and good for our society,” Rae explained.

Hamilton says she saw the dominance of white males in venture capital as an opportunity.

Venture capital investment in the US topped $130 billion in 2019.

“We also, on the venture capital side, on the entrepreneurship and innovation side, have to show the way.

Maria Ressa, CEO and executive editor of Rappler, an investigative news website in the Philippines, says we talk about disinformation all wrong.

The typical framing suggests that the people behind disinformation want us to believe something that isn’t true.

A higher aim of those efforts is to shake our sense of what’s true and what’s not in the first place.

Ressa has been the target of Facebook disinformation networks for years based on her journalism.

After years of little action, Ressa says Facebook’s recent work to take down disinformation networks—rather than playing “whack-a-mole” with individual false items—is encouraging.

Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar did not use the “f-word”—you know, Facebook—even once during her appearance at the all-virtual WIRED25 Conference on Wednesday.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Friar said, Nextdoor has seen a spike in sign-ups, driving home the importance of keeping the platform safe, useful, and hate-free.

As WIRED has reported, Nextdoor has had a racism problem, and set out to address it, beginning in 2015.

The story of Nextdoor, Friar insisted, was a good one.

Neighbors asking neighbors for help delivering prescriptions or groceries; neighbors rallying others around struggling local businesses.

They’re still too clumsy and stupid to work on their own, so they’re more likely to automate parts of your job.

But I’ll be honest, I did not see this one coming: A robot named Curly just mastered the sport of curling, beating two Korean national teams.

At the end of the round, the team with a stone closest to the center of the target gets a point.

If that team has extra stones closer to the center than the opposing team, those tally additional points.

The strategy comes from making sure your opponent doesn’t instead get their stones closest to the center of the house.

Just as Hollywood has had to pause production on some of its most anticipated film projects, television has run into production dilemmas, too.

Which means that, like so many other things in 2020, the fall TV schedule won’t be as jam-packed with new shows as it has in previous years.

But that doesn’t mean that there won’t be any new shows—nor does it mean that there isn’t still plenty to watch.

Whether you’re looking for something brand-new, or just new-to-you, here are 15 of the TV shows everyone should be watching this fall.

FargoTelevision producers don’t have the greatest track record when it comes to translating beloved movies into TV shows.

But why does the ball slow down?

There is the downward pulling gravitational force and the backwards pushing air drag force due to the collision between the ball and the molecules in the air.

But what about the air drag?

The air drag force makes the ball slow down—but the air drag force changes with the velocity of ball.

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Data from media analytics firm Ampere Analysis suggests that on average, a Netflix Original gets just two seasons before being canceled.

But while it’s sad for fans to see a show cut dramatically short, for Netflix it comes down to the data.

The second data point is Completers, subscribers who finish an entire season.

All of that data helps Netflix paint a picture about whether to renew your favorite series.

Netflix also employs a cost-plus model, which means that it pays a show’s entire production costs, plus a 30 percent premium.

One: Tesla had begun to design and produce its own batteries, Musk said.

The other: Tesla would produce a $25,000 electric vehicle “about three years from now,” according to Musk.

“A lot of people want to buy a Tesla, but they simply don’t have enough money.” Elon Musk, Tesla CEOMusk said the cost of Teslas—the Model 3, Tesla’s cheapest car, starts at $38,000 before subsidies—limits their appeal.

But the Tesla battery project appears to be underway.

Tesla has worked with Panasonic, LG Chem, and more recently, the Chinese battery company CATL to produce batteries.

After months of Covid-induced delays, it seemed like an appropriate setting for the company’s much-hyped Battery Day event.

To be sure, Tesla’s new battery appears to offer large performance gains in a few key areas, but it was unclear whether Tesla has actually achieved these upgrades or whether this is the projected performance for the finalized battery.

Baglino and Musk also claimed a 56 percent reduction in the dollars per kilowatt hour compared with Tesla’s existing cells, but did not name a dollar figure.

Altogether, that makes its volume about six times greater than that of the Panasonic 2170 cells used in newer model Teslas.

Baglino didn’t elaborate, but presumably this is relative …

It’s one of the largest global dark web takedowns to date: 179 arrests spread across six countries; 500 kilograms of drugs seized; $6.5 million in cash and cryptocurrency confiscated.

That’s the day that German police seized Wall Street Market, the popular underground bazaar that gave international authorities everything they needed to upend the dark web drug trade.

It’s unclear how big a dent Operation Disruptor will make in the long run; the dark web drug market tends to bounce back, even through the high-profile collapses of marketplaces like the Silk Road and AlphaBay.

The Wall Street Market seizure is not the first or even most devastating law enforcement takeover of a dark web storefr…

On the Facebook group Survivor Corps, a poster has good news about an ailing loved one: His oxygen levels are finally holding steady.

Despite the much-heralded perils of social media groups like misinformation and harassment, for many people with Covid-19, these groups have been a source of solace.

Online support groups tend to surge after any major crisis, whether it’s a terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

Covid-19 support groups aren’t purely Pollyanna.

Meanwhile, Sinrod’s Facebook group has cut down on noise and misinformation but limiting all posts to personal experience—no screaming headlines allowed.

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"We treat him like a guy handing out leaflets on the subway."

As the U.S. coronavirus death toll exceeded 200,000 this week, President Donald Trump stood in front of an Ohio crowd and said with a straight face that COVID-19 affects "virtually nobody."

Though, as Meyers pointed out, Trump boldly telling wild lies is just a regular, unsurprising routine now.

Speaking about going home (which he apparently does "all the time"), Trump said Melania called him "sir" — not exactly an affectionate name to call your husband.

President,'" said Meyers.

For September 2020's Social Good Series panel, Lyz Lenz spoke with MJ Hegar, Leslie Priscilla, and Christine Michel Carter about how the pandemic has been stressful for families and some practical ways we can revamp childcare post-pandemic.

In addition to writing the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a fervent believer in fairies, seances, and real-life magic.

Yet even with his prodigious imagination, Doyle could not have dreamed up a character like Enola Holmes.

The dual mysteries at the heart of Enola Holmes are compelling despite creating more than a few plot holes that, while small, poke at the story’s credibility as a classic whodunnit.

Enola Holmes could have done more to subvert his antiquarian attitudes.

The Enola Holmes Mysteries are a six-book series and Enola Holmes on Netflix only adapted the first of them.

Nintendo has just announced Kirby Fighters 2, a brand new game in the Kirby series for the Nintendo Switch, and it’s available to download from the eShop right now for $19.99.

In the game, you fight against up to three other players in local or online multiplayer.

The game also has a “Single-Handed Mode” where you’ll be tasked with clearing nine battles against increasingly-difficult opponents as quickly as you can, all by yourself.

I’ll be honest that I had no idea that there was a Kirby Fighters game before this, but Kirby Fighters 2 follows Kirby Fighters Deluxe, which was released in 2014 for the Nintendo 3DS.

And Kirby Fighters Deluxe was a standalone game broken out from a multiplayer…

Nvidia’s RTX 3080 graphics card seemed to be the 4K gaming champ we’d been waiting for at $699 — except most of us are still waiting a week after launch.

The card was practically impossible to buy, Nvidia made some mistakes and had to fight off bots, and scalpers wound up selling them for thousands on eBay.

Tomorrow, the beefier $1,499 RTX 3090 goes on sale, but it’s probably not a solution for any of those problems.

We know this is frustrating, and we’re working with our partners to increase the supply in the weeks to come.

If you’re interested, though, you can try these links for Amazon, Best Buy, B&H Photo and Newegg and hope you luck out.

Wikipedia has been an integral part of web culture for nearly twenty years, letting users browse its millions of text-heavy, crowd-sourced encyclopedia entries from their computer, tablet, or phone.

Now, the overall look of Wikipedia on desktop is getting a makeover for the first time in a decade to make the site more approachable for new users.

The site will also add an easy one-click button to switch the language for a page you’re reading.

Wikipedia will also add improvements to the in-site search tool to make it easier to find other pages and will reconfigure the logo to make it smaller on each Wikipedia page.

It didn’t say whether the mobile version would receive the same redesign.

The developers of the hit social deduction game Among Us just announced that they have canceled a planned sequel because of the popularity of the first game.

Though that sequel had been announced just 36 days ago, developer InnerSloth wants to support the game that’s so popular right now.

“The main reason we [were] shooting for a sequel is because the codebase of Among Us 1 is so outdated and not built to support adding so much new content,” InnerSloth said in a blog post.

It’s the third most-played game on Steam (where it costs $4.99) as of this writing, and SteamSpy estimates that the game has more than 10 million owners on Steam alone.

Even though the sequel has been canned, you’ll still…

TikTok has requested an injunction against a looming ban on its app in the United States.

The request addresses an increasingly convoluted attempt to sever TikTok from ByteDance, ostensibly because the Chinese-owned app poses national security risks.

President Donald Trump originally gave ByteDance a September 15th deadline to sell TikTok, then ordered app stores to ban it on September 20th.

Tencent-owned messaging app WeChat was granted a similar reprieve over the weekend, when a group of WeChat users successfully petitioned a judge to temporarily block sanctions against the app.

In that case, the judge cited “serious questions” about whether Trump’s WeChat ban infringed on users’ First Am…

As the Arizona Senate election heats up ahead of November, Democratic candidate Mark Kelly’s team launched its own Snapchat account on Wednesday, including the first custom Snapchat AR lens from a Senate campaign.

A campaign spokesperson told The Verge on Wednesday that the team will be posting new Snapchat content for followers daily.

This will include Snapchat lenses like the animated astronaut lens that launched on Thursday as well as additional highlights and stories.

The Kelly campaign estimates that there are over 1 million registered Arizonan voters between the ages of 18 and 30 on Snapchat.

Kelly’s campaign also touts sizable followings on other social media platforms like Facebook,…

The proposal would make it riskier for sites to remove offensive content and would remove sites’ immunity for hosting material related to terrorism, child sex abuse, or cyber-stalking.

It would also remove some protections for sites that don’t sufficiently explain their content moderation policies.

Many of these decisions would still be covered under the First Amendment, but removing Section 230 protections could drag out legal battles over allegations of social media censorship.

Conversely, if sites are sued for leaving illegal content online, they won’t be protected if they acted as “bad Samaritans” who purposely promoted or solicited illegal material.

Sites may also not be able to immedi…

I hate to bring you this news, but underneath a Fall Guy’s playful, gelatinous exterior, the very being that comprises it is deeply disturbing.

It has hidden abs, nipples, a human skull, and long taffy-like optic nerves, among other horrific anatomical anomalies, according to a tweet from the game’s developer.

Fall Guys are six feet tall, taller than many human beings.

Now, I’m left with bad thoughts, like “wherever it is that each Fall Guy falls to, there’s a gigantic pit filled with these disturbing skeletons.” Look at what this image has done!

Jokes aside, this is hilarious, and I honestly hope that it’s an unlockable costume at some point, like the Peely Bone costume in Fortnite.

HBO Max is getting a new TV series called Peacemaker, a spinoff of the upcoming Suicide Squad sequel directed by James Gunn.

Peacemaker is the latest DC Comics property to receive a TV show on HBO Max.

It’s not that surprising that HBO Max is getting a ton of DC-related series: HBO Max is owned by AT&T, which also owns Warner Bros. and DC.

Several original shows from the DC Universe, including Titans, Swamp Thing, Stargirl, and Young Justice are heading to the service.

HBO Max will also hold exclusive rights to stream the highly anticipated Synder Cut of Justice League, which will arrive on the service next year.

Facebook will reject ads from Donald Trump and Joe Biden claiming victory before the winner of the US election is declared.

Either presidential candidate could have started claiming victory at 12:01AM PT on November 4th.

“We will be rejecting political ads that claim victory before the results of the 2020 election have been declared,” the tech giant said in a statement to Fast Company.

In early September, Zuckerberg announced that the company would stop accepting new political ads the week before the election.

As part of the expanded policy, Facebook said it will also label posts that seek to spread doubt about the legitimacy of the election as well as content from political campaigns claim…

Sony has confirmed to Kotaku that Spider-Man Remastered — the updated PS5 version — won’t be sold as a standalone title or offered as a free upgrade for existing Spider-Man owners.

Instead, the only way to buy it will be as part of the $69.99 Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition bundle, which couples the PS5 version of the upcoming spinoff with Spider-Man Remastered.

Buy Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales on the PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5 (which includes a free upgrade to Miles Morales on the PS5) for $49.99.

You’ll then have the option to pay the extra $20 to upgrade to the Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition to get Spider-Man Remastered — but you’ll still have to…

Sega Akihabara 2nd, the multifloor haven filled with arcade cabinets and gacha games, closed in late August after being open for 17 years.

If you’ve played one of the great Yakuza games, you’ve probably spent time playing Sega arcade games in a virtual version of Sega’s Akihabara 2nd, or something reminiscent of it.

Now, this building’s closing isn’t a sign that Sega arcade cabinets and the like will disappear from Japan — just from this building.

The intersection in front of Sega Akihabara 2nd was filled with YouTubers capturing b-roll for what I’m sure were delectable video compilations.

Hopefully what ends up taking this Sega building’s place will look equally cool.

That’s where Creative’s SXFI Gamer headset comes in with its Super X-Fi holographic technology.

The SXFI Gamer is available now for $130.

The SXFI Gamer brings games to lifeThe SXFI Gamer is a revelation when you pair it with a console or PC.

But since the SXFI Gamer uses USB-C, it doesn’t have those issues with Nintendo’s limited digital-to-analog converter.

SXFI Gamer vs. the competitionIn a vacuum, I recommend the SXFI Gamer.

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“Our customers, on average, see a 20% improvement in product quality within 30 days of going live on the platform,” Heckman says.

Sentient is another metric that companies can use to improve their product quality, enabling them to win by providing a better product experience.

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IDC estimates that global revenue for enterprise external OEM storage systems declined 5% year over year to ~$6.3 billion during Q2 2020.

But one little company, Pure Storage is growing.

That’s exactly what Pure Storage aims to do.

Containers are spun up and down rapidly within minutes, demanding a different scale, and static storage systems are not able to handle these loads.

Portworx entered the market as the storage abstraction layer that promised to handle any app, any environment, any cloud storage.

Following its developer conference last week, Baidu today detailed Quantum Leaf, a new cloud quantum computing platform designed for programming, simulating, and executing quantum workloads.

Users can leverage prebuilt objects and modules in the quantum programming environment, passing parameters to build and execute quantum circuits on the simulator or cloud simulators and hardware.

The unveiling of Quantum Leaf and Quanlse follows the release of Amazon Braket and Google’s TensorFlow Quantum, a machine learning framework that can construct quantum data sets, prototype hybrid quantum and classic machine learning models, support quantum circuit simulators, and train discriminative and genera…

Microsoft has sent me a preview version of the Xbox Series X, and that’s about all I can say about the next generation game console at this point.

Oh, I guess I can also share this one (1) image of me with said Xbox Series X.

I cannot answer them yet, but I will do my best to share all the answers once Microsoft gives the go-ahead.

It’s not like I can go to the store and buy a ton of Xbox Series X games yet.

But make sure to return for all of our Xbox Series X coverage right here.

Earlier in the year, Microsoft detailed the ways Bing has benefited from AI at Scale, an initiative to apply large-scale AI and supercomputing to language processing across Microsoft’s apps, services, and managed products.

Bing and its competitors have a lot to gain from AI and machine learning, particularly in the natural language domain.

Bing’s autosuggest feature, for instance, which recommends relevant completed searches matching a partial search, can now better handle next phrase prediction thanks to new language generation models.

Another Bing feature, the related resource list People Also Ask, has improved thanks to recent AI and machine learning innovations.

“Bing users around the g…

Google is officially expanding its Chronicle cybersecurity platform into the threat detection realm, with the promise to bring “Google-scale threat analysis” to enterprises.

Last June, Chronicle was swallowed by Google Cloud, serving as a potential carrot-on-a-stick to attract enterprise customers from cloud rivals with the promise of more comprehensive cybersecurity smarts.

Big dataAt Chronicle’s core are machine learning algorithms that analyze vast swaths of data to identify security threats more quickly.

Back in February, however, Google set the wheels in motion for proactive threat detection and alert functionality.

create our own alerts — in addition to investigations,” Rick Caccia, h…

Google has announced that Flutter, its open source UI development kit for building cross-platform software from the same codebase, is finally available for Windows apps in alpha.

Flutter — like other cross-platform frameworks — encourages developers to think about what they want to build, rather than which device they’re building for.

According to Google, Flutter has been used to build more than 100,000 apps for Android on the Google Play Store alone, including from big-name companies such as eBay.

Indeed, Google said its own statistics show that more than half of all Flutter developers use Windows already, so offering native desktop support for Microsoft’s omnipresent operating system make…

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WhyLabs is launching out of stealth today with $4 million to grow its platform for data scientists who need help monitoring and troubleshooting problems they encounter with datasets or AI models.

Though more businesses are finding ways to apply AI to their operations, many still encounter issues when trying to deploy machine learning in the wild.

WhyLabs CEO and cofounder Alessya Visnjic created the company after fixing machine learning issues that arose for Amazon’s retail website and machine learning team when they were doing demand forecasting.

Those statistics allow the open source library to catch data quality problems like missing values or data type shift, data drifts, and distributi…

The Game Awards is returning on December 10 as an all-digital event with awards presentations, musical performances, and game premieres — this time across three cities.

On top of that, it will add new awards such as an honor for the best accessibility in a game.

“We’re looking into ways for people to experience the show in different ways,” Keighley said.

We’re going to have our own metaverse event on January 27.

'” Keighley said Fares has a new game coming but would not say if Fares would be a guest on the show.

The 11th Gen Intel Core Processors, Atom x6000E Series, Pentium, Celeron N, and J Series bring new AI security, functional safety, and real-time capabilities to edge customers, the chipmaker says, laying the groundwork for innovative future applications.

Intel expects that the edge market to be a $65 billion silicon opportunity by 2024.

(Intel says the 11th Gen Core i5 is up to twice as fast in terms of inferences per second as an 8th Gen Core i5-8500 when running on just the CPU in each product.)

As for the Atom x6000E Series, Pentium, Celeron N, and J Series, Intel says they represent its first processor platform specifically enhanced for IoT.

Intel says it already has 90 partners committ…

Beginning with iOS, Android, and ChromeOS ahead of desktop and browser support in the coming months, Reader will gain a viewing option called Liquid Mode that automatically reformats text, images, tables, and more to make them readable on small screens.

Reading documents — particularly PDFs — on mobile has never been a stellar experience.

According to Adobe’s own research, 65% of people in the U.S. find it frustrating and 45% stopped reading or didn’t try.

When Liquid Mode is enabled, it attempts to spot and make sense of headings, paragraphs, images, lists, tables, and other parts of PDFs and where they fit in a hierarchy and order.

Adobe says it’s exploring partnerships with institutions …

The video game industry and gamers faced more than 10 billion cyberattacks during the past couple of years, with the attacks spiking in the pandemic, according to a new report by internet delivery and cloud services company Akamai.

Each successful login indicates a gamer’s account has been compromised.

“There’s a huge disconnect there, even though a lot of players couldn’t recover a compromised account,” Ragan said.

The report posits that even though avid gamers might not recognize the value in the data associated with their accounts, criminals most certainly do.

For the most part, they have disposable income, and they tend to spend it on their gaming accounts and gaming experiences.

Telstra, Optus, TPG, and Dodo hit with 8,000 breaches of NBN service continuity rules Watch NowOptus announced on Thursday it has chosen to go with Nokia's management platform for its narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) segment.

"Anticipated industry applications include cost-effective waste management, supply chain optimisation, logistics management, and scene analytics for improved safety and security," the pair said in a statement.

Nokia and Optus previously teamed up to create the latter's 5G network, although Ericsson is also used by the telco as well.

Optus currently has over 900 5G sites around Australia, and over 420,000 households on its 5G fixed-wireless service.

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The report [PDF] said 70% of respondents considered the protection of their personal information to be a major concern in their lives.

"Our comfort with certain data practices depends on the type of information collected, the purpose behind it, and the level of trust in the organisation involved.

As well as greater control over their personal information, Australians want to be protected against harmful practices, with 84% believing personal information should not be used in ways that cause harm, loss, or distress.

"Concerns regarding data privacy are driven by a belief that many companies routinely use personal information for purposes that make Australians uncomfortable," the report said.…

Four former eBay employees are set to plead guilty to cyberstalking charges at US district court in a fortnight's time.

"Four former employees of #eBay are scheduled to plead guilty on October 8 at 2pm via zoom in federal court in #Boston," The Massachusetts Attorney's office confirmed on Wednesday in a Twitter post.

"The defendants are charged w/ participating in a cyberstalking campaign that targeted a Massachusetts couple."

The two eBay directors, James Baugh and David Harville, are currently not charged, but they have been named as co-conspirators in the ongoing criminal case.

After this distress was caused, Gilbert allegedly contacted the victims -- identifying as an eBay employee -- t…

Image: SamsungSamsung has announced its electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring app has been given the all-clear by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Up until now, South Korea was the only country where Samsung's ECG monitoring function had been approved.

Available through the Samsung Health Monitor app when connected to a compatible Galaxy smartphone, the ECG monitor can be used to monitor a user's heart rhythm and scan for signs of irregularities or indication of atrial fibrillation (AFib).

Samsung has debuted the ECG function in the US on its new Galaxy Watch3 and Watch Active2.

The release of the Galaxy Watch3 with the ECG monitor comes a week after rival Apple announced the launch …

Westpac has reached an agreement with the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (Austrac) to settle the anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing allegations that were raised by the watchdog in November 2019.

Should the Federal Court accept the penalty, the bank will pay AU$1.3 billion for breaching the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF Act) over 23 million times.

Westpac has admitted to the breaches, which include failing to report international funds transfers of more than AU$11 billion.

King stepped in following former CEO Brian Hartzer leaving the bank when the Austrac investigation was announced.

Australian Attorney-General…

CrowdStrike on Wednesday announced that it will acquire Preempt Security, providers of zero trust and conditional access technology, for approximately $96 million.

CrowdStrike, which offers endpoint and cloud protection solutions, said it plans to use the deal to bolster its Falcon platform with conditional access technology.

The Falcon platform includes threat detection, incident response, and enterprise architecture visibility tools, and is CrowdStrike's flagship offering.

CrowdStrike said the acquisition will also the company to offer enhanced zero trust security capabilities to customers.

"With the addition of Preempt Security's capabilities, the CrowdStrike Falcon platform will provide…

These new warnings come as Emotet activity has continued to increase, dwarfing any other malware operation active today.

"It has been very heavy for [Emotet] spam lately," Joseph Roosen, a member of Cryptolaemus, a group of security researchers who track Emotet malware campaigns, told ZDNet during an interview today.

These spam emails come with malicious files attached, which infect the host with the Emotet malware.

Image: Palo Alto NetworksBut the alerts from Microsoft and Italian authorities also warn of another recent change in Emotet spam campaigns, which are now also leveraging password-protected ZIP files instead of Office documents.

The idea is that by using password-protected files,…

The wearables market in Brazil has seen an acceleration during the second quarter of 2020, according to new numbers from market analyst firm IDC.

Sales of devices grew by 21.1% between April and June in Brazil compared to the second quarter of 2019.

The movement seen in the second quarter saw a spike in consumption with some manufacturers reporting sales records, given the concern of consumers with sedentary lifestyles in the pandemic.

The average ticket of wearables in Brazil also rose, driven by a spike of the US dollar against the Brazilian real.

"Wearables were already enjoying a positive sales performance in e-commerce and, with the closure of physical stores due to the pandemic, deman…

It wanted to find out how often Americans are updating LinkedIn and their resumes during the pandemic?

Workers reporting the highest salaries ($80k or more) reported updating their LinkedIn profiles the most often in the past year.

Managers report updating their LinkedIn profiles more often than their traditional resumes (3.6 times per year compared to 3.4 times per year for their traditional resume).

And managers update their resumes more often than non-managers who update their LinkedIn profiles only 2.2 times per year, and traditional resumes 2.5 times per year.

Resume LabsIf two out of three Americans are actively seeking new employment, why do they have such outdated information on the…

The Linux desktop may never be as popular as the Windows desktop, but more top-tier computer OEMs are now offering a broad assortment of Linux desktops.

In the latest move, Lenovo, currently the top PC vendor in the world according to Gartner, will roll Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS out across 30 of Lenovo's ThinkPads and ThinkStations.

In April 2019, Shuttleworth said, "We have seen companies signing up for Linux desktop support because they want to have fleets of Ubuntu desktop for their artificial intelligence engineers."

For these power-hungry users, Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS comes with many improvements.

No one's predicting a "Year of the Linux desktop."

Credit: MicrosoftMicrosoft has released another new Windows 10 test build to Insiders in the Dev Channel.

Windows 10 Build 20221, released Sept. 23, has a Skype Meet Now button available in the taskbar in Windows 10.

Microsoft already announced the MeetNow in Skype feature earlier this year.

Microsoft has made a number of fixes to the Dev Channel Windows 10 feature update with build 20221, which it lists in its blog post about the new build.

Officials said this feature will be gradually rolled out over a few days for Your Phone app users.

James Martin/CNETWe're all getting to know our Echo smart speakers better these days.

That means home security from Amazon's Ring, internet connectivity from Eero and smart home controls from Alexa.

Other Fire TV devices include the much less popular $120 Cube -- a weird Alexa speaker/universal remote/streamer combo -- which received a faster processor last year, and the Fire TV Edition televisions.

Sources at Amazon also tell CNET not to expect any Eero devices to double as bridge devices for Amazon Sidewalk, at least not in 2020.

Ring could also tackle additional concerns among privacy advocates about its patents for facial recognition (a feature that doesn't currently exist on any Ring d…

James Martin/CNETAmazon customers looking for a greener online shopping experience now have an easier way to identify more ecologically sustainable products.

The online retailer also created a dedicated storefront for the program, which lets shoppers either browse by category or search for specific products bearing the green label.

Amazon said the badge can already be found on about 25,000 listings.

A number of outside organizations partnered with Amazon to certify these products as sustainable, including EnergyStar, Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance.

Amazon also created its own program, called "Compact by Design," to highlight products whose designs are more sustainable even if the items t…

Sharp said the new feature, which is called Story Pins, connects users "directly with the people who inspire them."

The move by Pinterest underscores the rising popularity of video on social media sites as demand for this type of content increases.

Now Pinterest is testing Story Pins in the US with select creators, who can sign up for the new feature through Pinterest's website.

Pinterest will show users Story Pins on their home feed, search results and a tab that features curated topics and Pins.

Making it easier for users to share more video and photos could also create content moderation challenges for Pinterest.

This year's show, which was scheduled to take place in late February 2020, was one of the first major tech events to be canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

But while MWC 2020 didn't take place at all, MWC 2021 will -- albeit with a delay.

A smaller, China-based event, MWC Shanghai has also been moved to take place in February.

Now, with no end to the pandemic in sight, organizers are starting looking forward to 2021 and make alternative plans.

Back in July, the CTA announced that CES 2021 would also be an all-digital event.

Today's major tech headlines include first impressions of Fitbit's new Sense watch, Amazon's Prime Day to start October 13 and new details about Amazon's effort to move in on Peleton's turf with the Prime Bike.

Facebook said it removed 155 Facebook accounts, 11 pages and nine groups, as well as six accounts on Facebook-owned Instagram that were tied to China.

Facebook removed fake accounts tied to China in August 2019, but the social network said those accounts had ties to the Chinese government.

The accounts posted about global news and current events in Chinese, Filipino and English.

Facebook also pulled down 57 Facebook accounts, 31 pages and 20 Instagram accounts tied to the Philippines.

The accounts posted in Filipino and English about local news and events, such as criticism of communism and the Communist Party of the Philippines.

It's official, Amazon Prime Day 2020 will be held on Oct. 13. Check out our explainer on everything you need to know to get yourself ready for the big day.

Boost MobileDish may not have made many major moves since acquiring Boost Mobile from T-Mobile and Sprint earlier this year, but that may change as the calendar turns towards 2021.

On Tuesday the carrier publicly named Stephen Stokols, the former founder of wireless venture FreedomPop, to be Boost Mobile's new executive vice president.

Stokols sold FreedomPop, which used Sprint's network to sell wireless service (or what is known as a mobile virtual network operator or MVNO), last year to Red Pocket Mobile.

When Dish acquired Boost it had around 9 million subscribers, with the company since acquiring fellow MVNO Ting Mobile in August.

Correction, Sept. 22: A previous version of this story i…

CNET Now What explores how tracing the "envirome" through sewage reveals the big picture.

Today's major tech headlines include Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda Software's parent company, ZeniMax Media for $7.5B, Quibi already possibly looking to sell and Amazon's gearing up for the launch of Sidewalk.

Analyst Sam Abuelsamid explains to CNET Now What how range and batteries are oversimplified.

James Martin/CNETGet Tim Cook talking about privacy, renewable energy or even the coronavirus pandemic, and he's happy to give you his perspective.

Goldberg asked about Cook's conversations with Trump, who's invited the Apple CEO to White House events on manufacturing and the economy.

AppleThe exchange, which was a short part of Cook's interview, served as a reminder about how carefully the tech CEO treats his relationship with the White House.

But he continues to regularly travel to Washington and have conversations with the White House, including Trump.

"All of these together I do believe will convince the people that are not currently convinced about climate change."

Moderators spend more than four hours a day reviewing graphic video content because YouTube is "chronically understaffed," the suit says.

In May, Facebook agreed to pay $52 million to content moderators as part of a settlement.

YouTube also didn't do enough to provide support for these employees after they started their job, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit alleges that YouTube is strictly liable for the harms caused to content moderators because the work is "abnormally dangerous."

If content moderators choose to leave their jobs, they'll lose their pay and health benefits.

Video: TikTok-Oracle deal approved, temporary block on WeChat banThe deal, however, isn't the final chapter in the seemingly never-ending saga.

Here's what you need to know:What's in the deal between TikTok, Oracle and Walmart?

TikTok Global also plans to create 25,000 US jobs as part of an expansion of its global headquarters, which will remain in the US.

Does the Chinese government approve of the TikTok Oracle deal?

— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) September 21, 2020In August, China issued new restrictions on artificial intelligence technology exports, a move that delayed the TikTok deal.

But it's also spent more than $10 billion buying development studios behind some of the most popular video games in the world.

Though not known as a gamer himself, Nadella's made big bets on the video game industry, buying Minecraft maker Mojang for $2.5 billion shortly after he was named CEO in 2014.

Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNETThat's why Microsoft will consider buying even more video game companies in the future, he said, and why it continues to invest in its Xbox Games Pass subscription service.

Gamers will see a noticeable difference with Bethesda, Spencer said in the interview Monday, noting that the company's games will be offered on Microsoft's Xbox Games Pass subscription se…

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To find out what the remote sales world needs, I checked in with Yoav Vilner, Walnut’s co-founder and CEO.

With Walnut, sales teams can put together live demonstrations without back-end help.

Layer on the remote element of today’s product demos, and there are more opportunities for something to go wrong than ever.

Even if nothing goes wrong in a sales demo, however, doesn’t mean everything has gone right.

A study by independent researcher Knowledge Networks PDI found live demos lifted sales by 475%, boosting the wider product line’s sales by 177%.

Previously, I reviewed the Molekule Air Mini and found it to be one of the better air purifiers on the market.

Now, I have been using the Molekule Air Pro to test how the air purifier works on a coverage area that is said to span up to 1,000 square feet.

There some features that can only be found on the Air Pro compared to Molekule’s other air purifier models.

While Air Mini+ has a sensor that detects particles in the air, the sensor capability in Air Pro is more robust.

Final ThoughtsThe Molekule Air Pro works well in a much larger space.

As startup culture and our economy has evolved over the past couple of decades, startup funding has drastically changed—and it’s poised to change even more in the coming years.

Startup Funding TodayLet’s start by looking at some of the aspects of startup funding today.

So with these preconditions in mind, what might we expect from the future of startup funding?

ConclusionThe future of startup funding is going to rely on a number of new technologies and new modes of collecting and distributing funds.

Other developments, and the long-term future of startup funding, are much more difficult to predict.

For example, AI is being increasingly used in the marketing industry to crunch numbers and intelligently recommend new strategies.

In the first vision, AI is merely used to handle responsibilities that humans can’t handle, for one reason or another.

It’s also worth noting that AI could replace some human responsibilities without actually replacing the humans engaging in those responsibilities.

In this vision, the nature of white collar work would gradually change, with white collar workers taking on bigger, higher-level, and more complex responsibilities over time.

This could result in an even bigger skill gap between blue collar and white collar workers, and spur a number of problematic ec…

In looking for Bluetooth speakers for my laptop set up in my office, I stumbled upon the Mackie Cr5-XBT 5″ multimedia monitors with Bluetooth.

About the Mackie Multimedia SpeakersMackie’s CR Series Creative Reference Multimedia Monitors come in many different types.

The CR5-XBT 5” monitors with Bluetooth have a modern, edgy design, using a brushed-metal panel with an all-wood cabinet.

In the BoxWhen you get these multimedia monitors, the box also contains some accessories.

Final ThoughtsI recommend these multimedia monitors to anyone that works from a home studio or for gaming and content creation.

But, as many have discovered, managing a remote team poses a set of unique challenges.

Here are five fundamental strategies that can help you to sustainably manage a remote team.

By answering these questions clearly, you establish a framework in which your remote team can thrive.

One of the most important strategies for successfully managing a remote team, in the long run, is to ensure team members’ physical and mental health.

With the right strategies based on the fundamental principles of managing remote teams, a distributed workforce becomes a solid business foundation, not just an emergency measure.

In fact, various telemedicine firms are seeing a spike in simulated visits in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Talking about the present and future of Artificial Intelligence in telemedicine, it can be understood better through the following available possibilities.

This is, however, just the beginning of Artificial Intelligence in telemedicine as there’s a lot more to come in the near future.

Before you conclude, there are certain questions in the pile as the challenges of Artificial Intelligence in telemedicine that are as follows.

ConclusionIf you conclude, Artificial Intelligence in telemedicine has come a long way already but still has a long way to go.

Over the years, I’ve tested out all the top calendar apps and scheduling tools.

In that way, Calendar reminds me of Zoom or HubSpot.

Soon, everyone will expect Calendar’s features and perks from every scheduling app.

According to one survey, managers and administrative professionals waste 4.8 hours per week scheduling meetings.

Being able to send someone a link with no back-and-forth is the easiest way to schedule meetings quickly and save everyone time.

During the past two decades, I quietly sat at the back behind the scenes, learning from large organizations, watching, listening, and trying to understand the nuts and bolts of how they became so successful.

Here is an insight into large scale organizations to apply to small businesses.

Lesson 4: ExpectationsMy advice:As an owner and manager of a business, don’t expect the moon out of your people.

Have an employee of the month, Best Sales Person of the Year, Best Innovator, Best New Idea, Most Customer-Centric.

Say yes to something you don’t know how to do yet.

Can you give an overview of the Fundamental Surgery platform and the problem it solves?

We are able to mimic real-life sensations of numerous medical tools and tissue variants within a submillimeter accuracy of resistance.

This means that by using our platform, surgeons can earn credits to use towards their maintenance of certification.

First, the use of immersive training tools will allow programs to move towards competency-based curriculums instead of chronological.

What are hurdles that need to be overcome for immersive training tools to be widely adopted?

Here are the web accessibility solutions and how the company accessiBe stands out from the crowd — by making websites accessible — on autopilot.

W3C has resources, strategies, and checklists to make web accessibility available to everyone — but especially those with disabilities.

The developments from the accessiBe web solutions were recently awarded #1 Product of the Week at ProductHunt.

There are two other types of solutions including accessibility services and accessibility plugins.

Accessibility ServicesWeb accessibility services are comprehensive and project-based services that give a detailed action plan that’s developed and implemented for the accessibility features.

Hauling your eCommerce store to a successful destination might have been tugging at you; as such, consider the following for your success in the eCommerce business, to be smart is a sneaky way to get top fast surreptitiously.

A store layout doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to do something that has never been done before.

In fact, by implementing a store layout ideas that have been used in the past, you can make your store more comfortable.

No matter which marketing solution you choose, you must get the right to ensure that this eCommerce marketing strategy will work for you.

However, this only goes to show how powerful investing in Ads can be for you and your eCommerce store.

We’ve been covering here some of the apps that have been updated with iOS 14 features, such as home screen widgets, App Clips, and more.

If you are an Apple Music subscriber and want to customize your home screen with some unique music widgets, the latest Marvis Pro app update brings exactly that.

The app was updated this week with multiple home screen widgets for iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 users.

Apple Music offers a single Recently Played widget available in three sizes, but the widgets from Marvis Pro go beyond that.

In addition, Marvis Pro works as a full featured Apple Music player with customizable interface, gestures, landscape mode, and much more.

While voice tweets will likely remain in beta for a while, Twitter is now adding the option to send voice messages through Direct Messages.

Right now, users can send text, images, videos, and GIFs through DMs, but soon they may also be able to send private audio messages to other Twitter users.

The experience will be similar to other messaging apps that offer voice messages, such as Telegram, WhatsApp, and even iMessage.

But if you’re expecting to send voice messages to your friends on Twitter anytime soon, you may have to wait longer.

As the report points out, social network apps like Facebook and Instagram already let users send private voice messages, so it makes sense that Twitter is no…

The UK government has today launched its NHS COVID-19 app in the App Store, which supports the privacy-preserving Apple/Google Exposure Notifications API and aids the national contact tracing effort.

iPhone users can go to the App Store now and download the app for free; your device must be running iOS 13.5 or later.

The system Exposure Notifications API allows regional health apps to send out alerts to users if they have been in proximity to someone who has reported positive for COVID-19.

If a match is found, you will be presented with a COVID-19 Exposure Notification alert.

Simply navigate to the Exposure Notifications pane in the Settings app.

The stainless steel space black Apple Watch finish fell closer to the jet black end of the spectrum.

This year, Apple has replaced the Apple Watch space black finish with an all-new graphite stainless steel finish.

Apple also says that the Apple Watch Series 6 can charge 20% faster than the Series 5.

Still to comeIn the next edition of my Apple Watch diary, I’ll have more details on the blue Apple Watch Series 6 and how well it matches with various Apple Watch bands, as well as details on my cellular usage, performance improvements with the S6 processor, and more.

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Todoist launched Boards today and walked through its possibilities in a blog post.

You need a way to map out the big picture without losing track of the details.

That’s why we’ve spent the last two years paving the way for Boards – a powerful new way to organize and visualize your Todoist projects.

From weekly meal plans to five-year business strategies, Boards make it easy to get a bird’s-eye view of your projects and make progress from start to finish.

The list view you know and love will always be there – just toggle any project between board and list depending on the view you need in the moment.

Additional Apple Pencil features, improved menus, and general bug fixes are all present here on this update.

While widgets can be placed on the home screen and app pages in iOS 14, widgets in iPadOS 14 are unfortunately limited to the Today View section for now.

The search menu UI is much more compact and similar to MacOS’ search menu in design.

This is so much better for not being completely interrupted during a gaming session, or when drawing with the Apple Pencil.

What are your favorite iPadOS 14 features?

Building responsive app UIs, the launch of iOS 14, and thoughts on the Apple One bundle and some of its international pricing.

Also, the return of both #askstacktrace and Stacktrace Arcade, as well as how using iCloud might affect the transferability of an app.

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One of the headlining features of watchOS 7 is the ability to easily share Apple Watch faces.

Now Apple Watch customization app Facer has been updated to support watch face sharing and it’s aiming to be your hub for discovering and sharing them as well as following friends and favorite artists with an App Store-style experience.

But going further, Facer includes a social aspect as you curate a collection of watch faces.

Facer includes free and paid watch faces and highlights it’s easy to find new faces you’ll love with the top charts and featured sections.

The latest Facer app for iPhone includes a share sheet integration so you can seamlessly share your own watch faces with others:Going be…

Apple’s latest 10.2-inch iPad highlights today’s best deals, plus the new 13-inch MacBook Pro is on sale, alongside NETGEAR’s Wi-Fi 6 Router.

Apple’s new 10.2-inch iPad sees first Amazon discountAmazon is discounting many of Apple’s new 10.2-inch iPad models headlined by the Wi-Fi 32GB model at $299.

Latest 13-inch MacBook Pro returns to Amazon lowsAmazon offers the latest Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro 2GHz/16GB/512GB for $1,600.

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

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

Anastasia Folorunso, co-host of the Non Traditional podcast, joins Zac to discuss the Apple Watch Series 6 event, new clock faces in watchOS 7, the upcoming Apple Fitness+ service, and much more.

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Face ID is normally a completely seamless way to unlock an iPhone and iPad: just swipe up and it unlocks automatically.

So we’d like to see Apple allow an unlocked Apple Watch to automatically unlock an iPhone and iPad …Apple of course already allows the Apple Watch to unlock a Mac: just wake a Mac from sleep and, if you are wearing an unlocked Apple Watch using the same Apple ID, it will unlock the Mac.

It also allows an iPhone to unlock an Apple Watch.

When I put my watch on in the morning, instead of typing in the PIN – which is a little fiddly – I just unlock my iPhone which then automatically unlocks my watch.

It’s normally a safe thing to do because it only unlocks devices that use th…

Fantastical users can now take advantage of iOS 14 home screen widgets.

Notably, all 12 Fantastical widgets are free for all users with no subscriptions required.

In addition to iOS 14 home screen widgets, today’s update to Fantastical also brings support for Scribble in iPadOS 14.

Here are the full release notes for today’s Fantasical update on iPhone and iPad:Widgets for iOS 14!

Find more third-party apps with iOS 14 features such as home screen widgets, App Clips, and more in our full roundup.

If you do allow the download, it’s just a harmless text file, but it’s annoying to have to keep hitting Cancel to block it.

In Safari, go to the Safari menu, select Preferences and then Downloads from the left-hand menu.

Beneath the list of Allowed and Denied sites is an option: When visiting other websites.

You may need to explicitly grant permission for sites you do want to be able to offer you downloads.

For each of these, select Allow or Ask as desired.

The latest Apple Pay promo offers a free drink at Jimmy John’s when you spend $10 or more…Apple says that it’s available for all purchase methods as long as you use Apple Pay.

Use Apple Pay with Freaky Fast Rewards® and earn a free drink on your account.

Spend $10 or more when you order ahead in the Jimmy John’s app, on jimmyjohns.com, or in store, through September 27.

Limit one (1) reward per day per Freaky Fast Rewards® account and it must be redeemed within 7 days.

Apple regularly runs Apple Pay promotions that offer discounts or freebies.

Что-то случилось с датацентром Tesla Inc, пользователи, которые вместо ключа привыкли пользоваться мобильным приложением остались без доступа к своим автомобилям - все лежит. Проблемы 21го века, без интернета не сесть в свою машину https://archive.is/TIJ7s

Flutter (это такой кросс-платформенный фреймворк со своим языком программирования, позволяющий создавать мобильные приложения) теперь официально поддерживает и платформу Windows начиная с версии 7. Да, пока это альфа, но если им удастся стать фреймворком, покрываюшим все платформы (ios, andoird, windows, mac, linux) - это будет отличная альтернатива всеми нелюбимому Электрону. Эх, если бы еще не этот ужасный язык Dart - было бы не плохо https://9to5google.com/2020/09/23/flutter-sdk-windows-alpha/

Очередные утекшие аудио и текстовые записи Марка Цукерберга, показывающие как тяжело балансировать между желанием компании (и сотрудников) быть с Трампом пожестче, и требованием общественности и пользователей быть нейтральным или даже про-трамповским иногда https://www.theverge.com/21444203/facebook-leaked-audio-zuckerberg-trump-pandemic-blm

Любопытный текст о том, как такой простой и понятный интерфейс ТикТока помогает собирать и анализировать данные о поведении пользователей и строить рекомендации. Никогда об этом не думал, но действительно, это “дружественный к алгоритмам дизайн”, очень интересный заход https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/9/18/seeing-like-an-algorithm

Прямо сейчас начинается онлайн-дискуссия Visa «Остановка по требованию: как изменится транспорт в России после пандемии?». Присоединяйтесь, чтобы вместе с экспертами обсудить, как используются инновационные виды транспорта в российских городах, как меняется отношение россиян к городскому транспорту, что будет с общественным транспортом в эпоху постковида, как шеринговые сервисы изменят мегаполисы и многое другое. Ссылка на трансляцию: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qUIymSFb00

Мне очень не нравится, что мы во многом вынуждены жить на удаленке. Очень много всего теряется в удаленной работе, особенно там где это касается эмоций, а не только кода. Но я уверен, что к сожалению, мы уже не вернемся в офисы в режиме “как раньше”, слишком уж многое поменялось в головах у людей за этот карантин. И вот приятно, что у дураков мысли сходятся - Тим Кук тоже считает, что мы уже никогда не будем “работать как раньше”. Даже эппл поменяет свое правило “работа только в офисе”, после того как уйдет боязнь эпидемии https://archive.is/wrwTO

Полный обзор Fitbit Sense. Неплохой дизайн, удобный интерфейс, куча измерений и метрик (включая активность и сон), но так же чудовищная куча ощибок, залипающие кнопки, малое время жизни от батареи. Вот такие они сейчас, конкуренты Apple Watch. Удивительно, что только у Самсунг сейчас получается хоть как-то конкурировать с Эпплом в носимых устройствах. https://www.theverge.com/21450123/fitbit-sense-review

---=== реклама ===--- Пандемия, безусловно, изменила то, как мы перемещаемся по городу. Компания Visa решила одной из первых изучить свежие тренды в сфере развития городской мобильности. Совместное исследование вместе с институтом «Урбаника» позволяет понять, как используются инновационные виды транспорта в российских городах и что меняется в условиях пандемии. 23 сентября Visa представит рейтинг городов по развитию инновационных видов транспорта и обсудит его с экспертами в ходе онлайн-дискуссии «Остановка по требованию: как изменится транспорт в России после пандемии?». Участники дискуссии также поговорят о том, как меняется отношение россиян к городскому транспорту, что будет с обществен…

Возможностью «унести все свои данные из Гугла» пользуются не менее 2 млн раз в месяц. И я не удивлён - на самом деле это просто экспорт всего, что о тебе знает Гугл, я сам пару раз пользовался https://9to5google.com/2020/09/21/google-takeout-albums-transfer/

Основатель и председатель совета директоров Nikola покинул своё место после недавнего разоблачения махинаций и обмана инвесторов. Важный сигнал о том, что обвинения были не беспочвенны. Кажется у нас на глазах разворачивается ещё одна история, похожая на Теранос https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/21/21448729/nikola-electric-hydrogen-truck-fraud-allegations-executive-chairman-founder-trevor-milton

Трамп опять: в этот раз он сообщил что не выдаст разрешение на снятие блокировки ТикТока, если ByteDance не отдаст контрольный пакет акций компании. Напомню, сейчас по договоренности речь шла о том, что Оракл выкупит только 20% компании https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/business/trump-tiktok-deal.html

Facebook запустил свою систему, позволяющую избранным (пока) издателям и владельцам фотографий заявлять о своем авторстве и требовании удалить нелегальное их использование.

Непонятно почему не делают автоматическую систему, по сути сделать content id для картинок даже проще, чем для видео. https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/21/21445722/facebook-rights-manager-photos-images-update-copyright-takedown

Майкрософт выпустили стейтмент что купили игровой холдинг ZeniMax Media за 7.5 миллиардов долларов. Почему это важно: в холдинг ZeniMax входят: Bethesda Softworks (издатели и разработчики серии The Elder Scrolls и Fallout), iD Software (Doom, Quake, Rage и Wolfenstein совместо с компанией MachineGames), Arkane (Dishonored и Prey). Короче это коллекция создателей самых именитых игр последнего десятилетия. Масштабная история, которая очень сильно усилит положение всей экосистемы Xbox. https://news.microsoft.com/2020/09/21/microsoft-to-acquire-zenimax-media-and-its-game-publisher-bethesda-softworks/

В понедельник с утра для вас два текста и одна заметка: - Отличный текст о том как ставка на компьютерные игры и развитие ИИ сделало из Nvidia крупнейшую и солидную компанию. Взгляд немного сверху но очень похоже на то, как я это вижу https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-nvidias-ceo-cooked-up-americas-biggest-semiconductor-company-11600184856?mod=djemalertNEWS

- Фил Спенсер и команда дизайна о том, как проектировался и создавался Xbox X и Xbox S, как придумали контроллер для меньшего размера рук и тд. Приятно читать про майкрософт, как продуктовую компанию https://www.fastcompany.com/90551216/exclusive-with-the-new-xbox-microsoft-unveils-affordable-design-for-the-masses

- Короткая, но точная за…

Изначально вся эта криптореволюция вокруг криптовалют поднималась для того, чтобы отказаться от архаичного наследия - государственной регуляции, банков и прочих “нахлебников монетарной системы”. Вчера Kraken (это одна из крупнейших криптовалютных бирж) обьявили о том, что откроют собственный банк в Вайоминге. Казалось бы шаг назад, на самом деле не совсем - банк открывается в новой “регуляторной песочнице” по упрощенной методике, и нужен для того, чтобы не зависеть от чужих банков. Т.е. по сути это не банк, а гейт между криптовалютами и фиатными деньгами. https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/77804/kraken-crypto-bank-launch-wyoming

Rozetked выпустили свою банковскую карту! И у неё реально уникальные условия тарифа с ОЧЕНЬ полезным кэшбэком! Аналогов на рынке просто нет. Оформи карту Tinkoff x Rozetked с нереальным кэшбеком: l.tinkoff.ru/rozetkedcard Все подробности в деталях: rozetked.me/articles/13167-bankovskaya-karta-mechty-ot-rozetked-i-tin-koff

Просто самый подробный и потрясающий обзор Pixel 4a Внутри ещё очень важная новость, а также розыгрыш Pixel’я 👍 youtu.be/ZU1QyX8KdyM

«Ведьмака», «Ганнибала», Дэнни ДеВито и других персонажей поп-культуры превратили в героев аниме. Всё благодаря Snapchat-фильтру Anime Style — он считывает человеческие лица и придаёт им черты героев аниме. Собрали несколько забавных результатов работы программы. rozetked.me/news/13181-anime-style-snapchat-fil-tr-kotoryy-sdelal-iz-populyarnyh-geroev-anime-personazhey

Samsung представила смартфон Galaxy S20 FE, который унаследовал дизайн и фишки серии Galaxy S20. Предзаказ на новинку уже открыт — покупателям дают в подарок мультизарядное устройство EP-P5200. rozetked.me/news/13180-galaxy-s20-fe-smartfon-premium-klassa-sochetayuschiy-polyubivshiesya-innovacii-serii-s20

Apple дала ответ депутату Антону Горелкину Ранее он заявил, что компания затрудняет доступ российским разработчикам к публикации приложений в App Store. В Apple рассказали, что такая ситуация возникает из-за строгой системы защиты от мошенничества, и это происходит по всему миру. Проблему пообещали решить. rozetked.me/news/13178-apple-otvetila-deputatu-kotoryy-zhalovalsya-na-ogranicheniya-dlya-rossiyskih-razrabotchikov-v-app-store

Спорт и игры на 88-дюймовом OLED TV Снова говорим о LG SIGNATURE TV. При создании не забыли о фанатах гейминга.

Время отклика 1 мс, есть совместимость с NVIDIA G-Sync (2K или 4K), поддержка VRR и

ALLM. Для PS5 точно подойдёт! Для наслаждения спортивными событиями есть режим OLED Motion, который отвечает за

то, чтобы малейшие движения выглядели чётко и размыто. И не забывайте, что это 8K-телевизор с насыщенными естественными цветами и чистым

чёрным. Подробнее о модели: www.lg.com/ru/televisions/lg-OLED88ZX9LA

«Яндексу» — 23! За эти годы компания прошла путь от одной поисковой строки до целой экосистемы успешных продуктов, которых, надеемся, будет становиться лишь больше. С днём рождения! rozetked.me/news/13176-yandeksu-segodnya-23

«Роскосмос» займётся делом — поможет в съёмке первого художественного фильма в космосе. Совместно с «Первым каналом» и студией Yellow, Black and White. rozetked.me/news/13171-roskosmos-i-pervyy-kanal-snimut-pervyy-hudozhestvennyy-fil-m-v-kosmose

Сайт Winfuture, зарекомендовавший себя как надёжный источник, опубликовал спецификации Google Pixel 5 Как и ожидалось, настоящего флагмана от Google в этом году не будет. https://rozetked.me/news/13169-polnye-harakteristiki-google-pixel-5-ot-winfuture

Наш главный редактор высказал всё, что думает о «Яндекс.Музыке» — сервису сегодня, кстати, исполнилось 10 лет. Сразу упомянем, что это не реклама: автор рассказывает о своём личном опыте. rozetked.me/articles/12952-pochemu-ya-vybirayu-yandeks-muzyku

WASHINGTON—TikTok Inc. asked a federal judge to stop the Trump administration from imposing a ban on the popular video-sharing app over national-security concerns.

In a court-filed injunction request Wednesday, TikTok lawyers told a D.C. district court judge that the U.S. government’s proposed ban violates constitutional provisions for free speech and due process.

Judge Carl J. Nichols set a hearing for Thursday morning to go over the request.

TikTok sued President Trump and the Commerce Department, which is in charge of implementing the ban, on Friday, its second legal challenge to the proposed measure.

Wednesday’s measure built on that challenge, explicitly asking the judge to halt the ba…

WeWork is selling control of its China business, the latest sign that the company is abandoning its former rapid growth approach and looking to reduce risk.

A group led by investment firm Trustbridge Partners paid $200 million to increase its stake in WeWork China, which leases and effectively sublets office space in the country, the companies said.

Parts of the deal resemble a traditional franchise model, and WeWork is giving up operating control.

But WeWork will retain a minority stake and a board seat in the China business, a person familiar with the arrangement said.

Franchise-type arrangements like the new one in China brings WeWork a smaller share of a location’s revenues, but it also…

Robots on the loose in the world are clumsy and sometimes make bad decisions.

They trip on sidewalks and fall down stairs and into water fountains.

What about robots on ice?

The sport of curling—sometimes called “chess on ice”—is a hotbed of dynamism, making it the perfect training environment for nimble robots of the future, according to...

BERLIN—Volkswagen AG on Wednesday took the wraps off its ID.4 all-electric sport-utility vehicle in a bid by the world’s largest car maker to challenge Tesla Inc. and re-energize a problem-ridden electric vehicle strategy.

Volkswagen remains years behind its U.S. rival in developing and selling a mass market electric car.

Even as it slowly catches up, Tesla has stayed one step ahead, launching better-performing vehicles and even building a new factory near the German capital, in Volkswagen’s backyard.

Talks between electric-truck maker Nikola Corp. and several potential partners, including BP PLC, to build hydrogen-refueling stations stalled following allegations the company had misled investors, according to people familiar with the matter.

The setback is the first outward indication that the controversy around the report is impacting the startup’s ability to execute its business plan.

Democrat Mark Warner, a former telecom executive, suggests industrial policy may be necessary to sustain Western competition to China.

When Mark Warner was in the telecommunications business in the 1980s and 1990s, he didn’t think much about how U.S. rules and standards shaped the global use of technology—it was a given.

“I never appreciated how much we set the standards on almost every technology and innovation, even if not invented in America,” Mr. Warner said in an interview this week.

“We flooded the zone with engineers....

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department will submit a proposal to Congress on Wednesday to curb longstanding legal protections for internet companies such as Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Twitter Inc. and force them to shoulder more responsibility for managing content on their sites, a senior department official said.

The department refined its proposal in the intervening months based on feedback from market participants and other stakeholders such as victims’ rights groups.

As a result of that process, the department made some changes, including clarifying that internet companies would have immunity when they take down material that promotes violent extremism or self-harm, the offici…

People are streaming more movies and shows on internet-connected TV sets. But keeping track of who is watching what and where—and how many times they see the same ads—is becoming a bigger frustration for advertisers seeking to move money into the medium.

Amazon has opened more than two-dozen Go-branded stores since 2018 and offered other retailers access to the technology in March.

Early customers include OTG Experience LLC at its CIBO Express stores in Newark Liberty International and LaGuardia airports.

PREVIEWGiant Eagle Inc. recently hired cashier-free technology company Grabango Co. to introduce checkout-free shopping at a GetGo convenience store in Pittsburgh.

Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc. is testing Mastercard’s system at an undisclosed store in California that will be rebranded as Dunkin’ Dash.

Despite the pandemic, some customers continue to want a social checkout experience, even at convenience and grocery stores, she said.

Volkswagen AG trucking subsidiary Traton Group will work with automation startup TuSimple to develop self-driving trucks and will take a stake in the technology company as part of their agreement.

It follows a similar agreement TuSimple struck in July with Navistar International Corp. to jointly develop self-driving trucks, with the U.S. truck manufacturer also taking a minority stake in the startup.

PREVIEWTraton and TuSimple didn’t disclose the size of the stake the European manufacturer is taking in the company.

The company has said it aims to pilot a completely self-driving service in 2021.

“Our partnership with [Traton] accelerates the introduction of autonomous truck technology to new…

Palantir Technologies Inc. expects revenue to top $1 billion this year, as the company unveils its outlook ahead of its long-anticipated stock listing following decades of teasing the market with plans to go public.

The data analytics company projects revenue of around $1.05 billion to $1.06 billion this year, a more than 41% increase from the year before.

In the third quarter, it expects revenue to rise about 47%, to around $278 million to $280 million from the comparable period a year earlier.

The company’s collections in...

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk kicked off a long-promised event Tuesday showcasing advances in battery technology, the fuel in the race between the Silicon Valley car maker and rivals to win electric-vehicles sales.

So-called Battery Day began soon after Mr. Musk addressed Tesla’s annual shareholders meeting, its first such gathering since the pandemic struck.

After Tesla increased deliveries 50% last year, Mr. Musk told shareholders he expected 30% to 40% growth in 2020 despite its being “the most difficult year of...

A Nikola Corp. executive defended the electric-truck firm’s technology and business plan, telling an investor conference that its partners are staying the course following the departure of its high-profile founder and executive chairman.

“Nothing has changed,” Kim Brady, Nikola’s chief financial officer, said during a virtual conference Tuesday.

“We recommend that investors really focus on the future and what we have delivered and what we’re going to deliver.”Nikola,...

NEW DELHI — American fans of TikTok have recently been left pondering a possible future without their favorite short-video sharing app.

I just sleep in my room all day.”India ousted the app months ago, and ever since, the nation has been in TikTok withdrawal.

Wannabe TikTok stars hoping for their 15 seconds of fame crowded parks and malls across the country, shooting videos to share their Bollywood dance, comedy and lip-syncing skills.

In just a couple of years from launch, TikTok was getting more downloads every month in India than Facebook , Twitter and Instagram.

He has since agreed to a tentative deal between TikTok’s parent company and Walmart and Oracle that would effectively make it …

The original law, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, makes it difficult to sue online platforms over the content they host or the way they moderate it.

Under the proposed changes, technology platforms that purposely facilitate “harmful criminal activity” would not receive the protections, the department said.

Platforms that allow “known criminal content” to stay up once they know it exists would lose the protections for that content.

President Trump and his allies have made criticism of major tech platforms a regular talking point in his campaign for re-election, attacking the firms over anecdotal examples of the removal of conservative content from online platforms.

The compani…

A video of Joseph R. Biden Jr. answering live questions during a television interview is being edited to claim, incorrectly, that the Democratic presidential nominee was using a teleprompter.

In the full interview with Telemundo, conducted on Sept. 15, Mr. Biden can clearly be seen looking to his left, where the television studio set up a screen with live incoming questions from voters.

An edited version of the video shows just one moment where Mr. Biden was unable to view a question and says, “I lost that line.”The 26-second clip from the video has been shared by people close to President Trump, including his son Eric Trump, who tweeted on Wednesday that Mr. Biden had been “caught red-hand…

Walmart’s planned investment in TikTok is being called “transformative.” Another analyst predicted the deal could “redefine retail” across the industry.

“It is a bigger-picture opportunity,” said Oliver Chen, a retail analyst at Cowen.

As in the early days of many tech investments by large corporations, the details of how Walmart will use TikTok are fuzzy.

But one thing is clear: Walmart now has something that its rival Amazon does not.

It can engage with consumers not just when they are buying something on the retailer’s website, but while they are creating and consuming viral videos.

Ron Cobb, the artist and movie production designer known for his work on the spaceship in “Alien,” the DeLorean in “Back to the Future,” and some tipsy aliens in “Star Wars,” died on Monday in Sydney, Australia.

His death was confirmed by his wife, Robin Love.

The cause was Lewy body dementia.

Mr. Cobb, a self-taught designer who worked largely behind the scenes, advanced an aesthetic that still influences the spaceships and time machines of today’s science fiction films: futuristic, yet retro; modular, but boundless; and bursting with meticulous detail.

“He was hugely influential to myself and many of my peers in the business,” said François Audouy, the production designer behind the 2019 …

Ron Cobb, the artist and movie production designer known for his work on the spaceship in “Alien,” the DeLorean in “Back to the Future,” and some tipsy aliens in “Star Wars,” died on Monday in Sydney, Australia.

His death was confirmed by his wife, Robin Love.

The cause was Lewy body dementia.

Mr. Cobb, a self-taught designer who worked largely behind the scenes, advanced an aesthetic that still influences the spaceships and time machines of today’s science fiction films: futuristic, yet retro; modular, but boundless; and bursting with meticulous detail.

“He was hugely influential to myself and many of my peers in the business,” said François Audouy, the production designer behind the 2019 …

As public health officials raise alarms about surging coronavirus cases among young people, new research suggests that Americans under 25 are most likely to believe virus-related misinformation about the severity of the disease and how it originated.

In a survey of 21,196 people in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, researchers identified a clear generational divide.

The results diverge from past research that said older people were more likely to share false news articles on social media.

In the virus study, people were questioned to gauge their acceptance of 11 false claims.

Those included false claims that the virus originated in people who ate bats, that taking antibiotics prot…

Tesla is working on cheaper, more powerful batteries for its electric cars, but many of the required innovations are still works in progress, its chief executive, Elon Musk, said Tuesday at a much anticipated presentation at the company’s California factory.

The advances could ultimately cut battery costs more than 50 percent and increase the distance Tesla’s vehicles can travel by nearly as much.

That would set the stage for the company to make a “compelling” $25,000 electric vehicle three years from now, Mr. Musk said, speaking to a parking lot full of Tesla owners in their vehicles, honking in approval.

But Mr. Musk, who has a reputation for promising game-changing innovations that often…

Toxic misinformation has continued reaching new heights in 2020.

“Birtherism” misinformation about Senator Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, now exceeds that about President Barack Obama at its peak in 2017, according to a new analysis.

Mentions of the falsehood soared to 103,400 that week across social media and TV broadcasts.

That was higher than the volume of birtherism misinformation about Mr. Obama in the week after President Trump renewed questions about his predecessor’s birthplace in 2017, Zignal Labs said.

Ms. Harris, a daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, was born in 1964 in Oakland, Calif. A spokeswoman for the senator did not immediately respond to …

In contrast to mounting political criticisms of, say, Facebook and Twitter, platforms where the president is extremely active and invested, the government’s public case against TikTok has been largely speculative, citing theoretical dangers and hardly trying to appeal to the app’s users directly.

It’s no surprise that the vague message from Ms. Pappas gave some users comfort, given how little this process has addressed them.

TikTok’s users are experiencing for the first time something long familiar to much of the world outside the United States: a flourishing online social space existentially threatened by diplomatic and political fights between states and corporations, with little input fr…

It would have been a dangerous assertion in the middle of a deadly pandemic no matter where it came from: that wearing masks has “little to no medical value” and could do more “harm” than wearing no mask at all.

But it was especially remarkable given the source.

Published on the right-wing website RedState, it turned out to have been written under a pseudonym by William B.

Crews, a public affairs officer at the National Institutes of Health, promoting the same type of discredited information about dealing with the virus that his employer was working aggressively to beat back.

as The Daily Beast prepared to expose his clandestine role as purveyor of misinformation.

WASHINGTON — Facebook has detected limited Chinese operations intended to both help and hurt President Trump’s re-election chances, the company announced on Tuesday, the first public disclosure of Chinese efforts to influence the presidential election in November.

The Chinese activity, while modest and not directly attributed to the government in Beijing, could undercut Mr. Trump’s repeated contention that China is intervening in the election to support former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic candidate.

While the intelligence community has assessed that China opposes Mr. Trump’s re-election, officials said this week that the actions on Facebook so far were small and Beijin…

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The pandemic has made it more clear that millions of Americans are falling behind in work, school and life because they don’t have or can’t afford decent internet access.

But Apjit Walia, the global head of technology strategy at Deutsche Bank, has a more free market suggestion: Big technology companies should pay for millions of lower-income Americans to get what they need to go online.

In Walia’s view, it would be a smart business decision to reach new customers and repair Big Tech’s reputation.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday plans to brief officials from state attorneys general offices on its antitrust action against Google, in what is expected to be one of the final steps before filing a landmark case against the tech giant.

The department will outline a potential lawsuit against Google in a call with state attorneys general, according to four people with knowledge of the plan who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deliberations are private.

The suit could come within days, they said.

The case is expected to focus on the company’s search business, and whether the company used its dominant search position to block rivals and harm consumers, according…

President Trump routinely passes along false and misleading information that has been circulating online.

On Monday, he appeared to be the one starting it.

Shortly before Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, she made a request about what should happen to her seat on the Supreme Court.

“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” Ms. Ginsburg said, according to NPR, which reported that the 87-year-old justice dictated the note to her granddaughter, Clara Spera, in the final days of her life.

But during a “Fox & Friends” interview on Monday morning, President Trump claimed, without evidence, that Justice Ginsburg’s “dying wish” might actually have bee…

By buying the game maker ZeniMax Media, the parent company of gaming studios like Bethesda, Microsoft gained control of major gaming titles like The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein.

The deal allows Microsoft to counter criticism that it lags behind Sony in the quality of its games while deepening its game catalog seven weeks before both Microsoft and Sony release a new generation of gaming consoles.

Gamers have long complained that Microsoft’s Xbox consoles lacked the type of exclusive, high-quality games that Sony promotes as a major selling point for its PlayStation consoles.

For years, Sony owned more games studios than Microsoft.

The deal announced on Monday increase…

NHS Covid-19 app: England and Wales get smartphone contact tracing for over-16s By Leo Kelion & Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology reporters Published duration 59 minutes ago Related Topics Coronavirus pandemicimage caption Users will be told to self-isolate if the app determines they are at high risk of being infectedPeople living in England and Wales are being urged to download the government's official contact-tracing app following its official release.

NHS Covid-19 instructs users to self-isolate for 14 days if it detects they were nearby someone who has the virus.

Unlike when a human contact tracer orders someone to self-isolate, the app keeps the subject's identity a secret.

The Department o…

Advertisers strike social media deal over hate speech Published duration 1 hour agoimage copyright Getty Images image caption Mark Zuckerberg found himself dealing with irate advertisers earlier this yearFacebook, YouTube and Twitter have agreed a deal with major advertisers on how they define harmful content.

The agreement - with the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) - will see the social networks use common definitions for things such as hate speech, aggression and bullying.

It follows an advertising boycott of Facebook earlier this year, involving more than 1,000 companies.

It is also specifically about advertising - content policies do not need to change, and decisions about what to…

NHS Covid-19 app: How England and Wales' contact-tracing service works By Leo Kelion and Rory Cellan-JonesTechnology reporters Published duration 33 minutes agoIt has been a long time coming but England and Wales' Covid-19 app will launch on Thursday.

To get started, go to Android's Google Play or Apple's App Store and search for "NHS Covid-19".

But because the app lets users remain anonymous and health chiefs want it to be popular, fines for users should not be an issue.

Unlike when a human contact tracer orders someone to self-isolate, the app keeps the subject's identity a secret.

And a unique code lets users receive their test result via the app as soon as it is ready.

Facebook shuts down 150 fake Chinese accounts Published duration 1 hour agoFacebook has shut down a network of more than 150 fake profiles linked to China for "co-ordinated" interference in political discussions.

It is only the second time that Facebook has identified such fake accounts as originating in China.

They were traced back to individuals based in Fujan province, who were beginning to pay for advertisements in Chinese yuan, Facebook said.

image copyright Graphika image caption While some of the accounts used AI-generated faces, others were less sophisticatedFacebook also removed a network of fake accounts originating in the Philippines which focused on domestic audiences and local …

Huawei: 'Survival is the goal' as it stockpiles chips Published duration 28 minutes agoimage copyright Reuters image caption Guo Ping laid out the problems Huawei faced, at its annual conferenceHuawei says it had to rush to stockpile chips ahead of the latest tightening of trade restrictions from Washington, which has hit its supply hard.

"Non-stop aggression from the US government has put us under significant pressure," Guo Ping, who chairs the company, said.

The company urged the US to reconsider the rules, which make it difficult for Huawei to buy essential parts for products such as phones.

And since 15 September, the company can no longer buy key chips from its manufacturers.

"In terms…

Theatre has had a particularly tough time since the March coronavirus lockdown.

Technology is now trying to fill the void until actors can begin treading the boards again, but can it really replicate the excitement of a live performance?

Marc Cieslak disappeared down a rabbit hole to find out how a digital show based on Alice in Wonderland was put together.

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Musk: $25,000 Tesla ready "in about three years" By James ClaytonNorth America technology reporter Published duration 6 minutes agoimage copyright Getty ImagesTesla founder Elon Musk has announced technology that he says will make Tesla batteries cheaper and more powerful.

At a live presentation that Mr Musk labelled 'Battery Day' he also teased the possibility of a $25,000, fully-autonomous Tesla "in about three years time".

Mr Musk also announced that as well as purchasing batteries from Panasonic and LG Chem - Tesla itself would begin to make them.

In April last year Musk himself revealed problems with sourcing Panasonic batteries used in its Model 3 Tesla.

And in July Mr Musk said Tesla…

Video game loot boxes: another form of gambling?

Published duration 56 minutes agoimage copyright Getty ImagesThe government is asking for the public's opinion about the impact of loot boxes in video games, in an eight-week consultation.

Loot boxes are a controversial feature of many video games - both console and mobile.

When a player purchases a loot box, they only find out what is inside it once they have paid.

Loot boxes have divided opinion for a very long time.

Coronavirus: 'Government must publish contact-tracing app data' Published duration 58 minutes agoimage copyright PA Media image caption The NHS Covid-19 app is set to become available to everyone in England and Wales on ThursdayA leading health charity is demanding details about how England and Wales' contact-tracing app fared in tests.

It has been trialled in the London Borough of Newham as well as the Isle of Wight, but data from from the pilots has not been made public.

Diverse test groupThe NHS Covid-19 app has been in development since March in one form or another, and follows the release of parallel contact-tracing smartphone software in Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Two different ve…

Dark net drugs raid leads to 179 arrests Published duration 6 minutes agoPolice forces around the world have seized more than $6.5m (£5m) in cash and virtual currencies, as well as drugs and guns in a co-ordinated raid on dark net marketplaces.

Some 179 people were arrested across Europe and the US, and 500kg (1,102lb) of drugs and 64 guns confiscated.

It ends the "golden age" of these underground marketplaces, Europol said"The hidden internet is no longer hidden", said Edvardas Sileris, head of Europol's cyber-crime centre.

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TikTok writes to rivals over suicide clips Published duration 26 minutes agoimage copyright Parliament TV image caption TikTok's European head of public policy Theo Bertram said the firm had to "do better"TikTok has written to social media firms asking them to join together to remove content that depicts self-harm or suicide more quickly.

Theo Bertram, Europe's public policy head, said the sharing of the video suggested a co-ordinated attack, possibly from bot accounts.

He declined to discuss ongoing negotiations on the future of TikTok.

And I think that these concerns are projected on to TikTok and don't think they are always fairly projected," he told MPs.

He was also asked about reports …

Dark Overlord hacker pleads guilty Published duration 1 hour agoimage copyright David Parker/ANL/ShutterstockA Northamptonshire man who was a member of a hacking group which stole hospital patients' records and Netflix shows has been sentenced to five years in prison in the US.

The Dark Overlord (TDO) hacking group stole data from a range of organisations, and demanded huge ransoms for its return.

The 39-year-old pleaded guilty in a federal court in St Louis to charges of identity theft and computer fraud.

He admitted that the group had obtained sensitive data from companies, and threatened to release the data unless the companies paid a ransom of between $75,000 (£58,000) and $350,000.

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They then switched to a monitoring device and found the fault was due to electrical interference emitted by a householder's second-hand television.

The owner, who does not want to be identified, was "mortified" to find out their old TV was causing the problem, according to Openreach.

"Our device picked up a large burst of electrical interference in the village.

"It turned out that at 7am every morning the occupant would switch on their old TV which would, in-turn, knock out broadband for the entire village."

The TV was found to be emitting a single high-level impulse noise (SHINE), which causes electrical interference in other devices.

Amazon criticised over 'Black Lives Don't Matter' caps By Charlie JonesBBC News Published duration 6 hours agoimage copyright Amazon image caption Amazon has since taken down the hats from sale and said sellers must follow their guidelinesA barrister has criticised Amazon for selling hats with the slogan "Black Lives Don't Matter", marketed as being elegant and a "nice present".

Alexandra Wilson, from Essex, said it was "honestly embarrassing" the company was selling the caps and questioned whether it had any checks in place.

Amazon has since removed the hats, which were being sold by a third party.

The hat, which cost £12.96, was described by the seller as "high quality" with a "unique an…

It is this kind of process, in need of a digital upgrade, that is frustrating for Ms Westra.

Image copyright Anna Moffatt Image caption Louise Westra got stuck in a "farcical" legal loopMs Westra's case is one of many that have been delayed.

The number of outstanding Crown court cases was 43,676 on 26 July, and the entire backlog across magistrates' and Crown courts is more than 560,000.

Cases like Ms Westra's have been affected by the pandemic, but many lawyers believe that the legal system could have been better prepared through technology investment over the years.

A programme for testing and adopting video technology was planned out until 2022, but in the pandemic, the government had to…