It’s challenging to find positives in the middle of chaos. And if you’re the leader of a newly formed distributed team, you’re likely struggling to maintain business as usual at a time of unusual uncertainty. Even established leaders of remote teams are finding change forced upon them at an unprecedented rate.
Facebook recently rolled out a new version of Messenger. After years of bolting new feature after new feature onto a straining interface of tabs and sub-tabs, it’s finally shrunk the app to the essentials. That’s not a metaphor — the app is literally a quarter of the size it used to be. Facebook has alluded that some of the features it removed may make a comeback, but for now, the app is a much more manageable size....
The report said Huawei’s Consumer Business Software President, Dr. Wang Chenglu, told reporters the Mate 30 will make its debut in Europe, at a briefing held at the company’s developer conference in China last week. The company said the new chip’s marquee feature is its energy efficiency. Last week, a leak from the reliable Ice universe account suggested the phone will sport two 40-megapixel sensors in a circular arrangement on the back....
Oh, I’ve tried. Over the years I’ve used various tab grouping methods. I’ve tried double-layer horizontal tabs. I’ve tried various extensions that allow you to quickly search for and manage tabs. I’ve even given vertical tabs, the subject of this post, a try in various iterations before. But inevitably I’ve always masochistically reverted to the default tab layout. Dedicating a few brain cells to actually organizing tabs into groups seems to annoy me just as much as the actual agglomeration of tabs....
It’s September, and in-person events are slowly returning to Europe. This week saw the return of the IAA fair. It moved from Frankfurt to Munich, and its new rebrand is the IAA Mobility. It’s an opportunity for carmakers to show off their latest designs and concept vehicles, but it’s also an event struggling to show its relevance. Is IAA show still relevant? Do people still visit car shows to look for their next purchase or aspirational car?...
We may now have a ray of hope in the form of new and vastly improved battery tech under development at IBM Research. It eschews nickel and cobalt for three new materials that can be extracted from seawater, thereby negating the need for mining these minerals out of the earth. The new design is also said to outperform traditional lithium-ion batteries in many ways. It’s capable of charging faster (up to 80 percent within five minutes), have a higher power density (greater than 10,000 W/L) and ensure low flammability of electrolytes....
Watch Dogs: Legion came out in late October but it didn’t grab me (read my review here), Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla dropped two weeks later and I liked it a hell of a lot more. Next week, it’s Immortals Fenyx Rising’s turn. It’s a new franchise in Ubisoft’s stable, made by the team formerly responsible for fan favorite Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Like AC Odyssey, Immortals takes place in ancient Greece, but this time it’s more like a Saturday-morning cartoon version of the lands described in ancient greek mythology....
According to the circular, this follows advisories issued by The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) regarding the platform in the past couple of months. It also dictates guidelines for safe personal usage of the video conferencing platform. — Prasar Bharati News Services (@PBNS_India) April 16, 2020 We’ve reached out to Zoom for a comment, and we’ll update the story if we hear back. [Read: India is offering local tech companies $130K to build an encrypted Zoom clone] India’s advisory is not entirely surprising as it’s been pushing officials to use indigenous solutions....
Last week, leaders of the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) of India tweeted out a toll-free number for people to call and show their support for the upcoming Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). However, later, several accounts – allegedly directed by the BJP – tweeted the same number, offering free Netflix subscriptions and hotlines to chat with ‘lonely women.’ For the uninitiated, CAA is an upcoming law that grants citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from select neighboring countries....
If you think foreign hackers and cybercrime are mostly just stuff out of the movies, the headlines refute that theory almost every day. Earlier this month, we learned cybercriminals had breached nine different organizations in the defense, energy, health care, technology and education industry, including at least one in the U.S. And if it can happen to major organizations in sensitive sectors, then how safe are you or your business from infiltration?...
According to an online survey conducted by ING, Austrians are most skeptical of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with only 13 percent of those surveyed saying they saw digital currencies in a positive light. In stark contrast, some 62 percent of Turks said they perceived cryptocurrency in a positive way. Indeed, cryptocurrency‘s reputation suffered somewhat of a downturn in Austrians’ estimation over the past 12 months. Results from last year’s survey showed that 20 percent of Austrians thought cryptocurrency signaled the future of digital payments....
General relativity is not only very accurate but ask any astrophysicist about the theory and they’ll probably also describe it as “beautiful”. But it has a dark side too: a fundamental conflict with our other great physical theory, quantum mechanics. General relativity works extremely well at large scales in the Universe, but quantum mechanics rules the microscopic realm of atoms and fundamental particles. To resolve this conflict, we need to see general relativity pushed to its limits: extremely intense gravitational forces at work on small scales....
Yet another foldable with a shattered screen. That’s what I call a shattered dream. But who could’ve seen it coming? It’s as if we learned nothing from the not-so-distant past: Foldables are meant to be looked at, not to be used. Samsung and Motorola wanted to change that with the Z Flip and the Razr. But it seems they’re coming up short. [Read: Nope, I refuse to believe this leaked Pixel 5 prototype is real] A little over a week after the announcement, we’ve already got the first reported case of a cracked Z Flip screen....
The connectivity problems began around 3:30 PM ET according to downdetector.com, peaking around 4:20 PM. Though the service appears to have resumed for many users, some report still being unable to send or received messages, while others report slower operation than usual. WhatsApp outages are pretty rare — one would hope, given its popularity — and we assume it won’t be long until service is restored globally. If you’re still experiencing difficulties, just hold on a little longer....
Dorsey explained the reasoning for his departure in an email sent to employees and later shared on Twitter: I resigned from Twitter pic.twitter.com/G5tUkSSxkl — jack⚡️ (@jack) November 29, 2021 Agrawal provided his own response: — Parag Agrawal (@paraga) November 29, 2021 Meanwhile Bret Taylor, President and COO of Salesforce, is becoming chair of the board. He replaces Patrick Pichette, who will remain as a member of the board. In short, Dorsey, who is also one of Twitter’s co-founders, explains that he believes “it’s critical a company can stand on its own, free of its founder’s influence or direction....
The company is describing Project A as “a stylish, competitive, character-based tactical shooter for PC.” Instead of drawing from the League of Legends universe as it did for the other titles it announced, this FPS will feature a brand new setting in near-future Earth, and feature a “lethal” new cast of characters. It’s too early to call it, but the stylized graphics from the short teaser (hit play above to watch the Project A segment starting at 3:31) appear to be designed with high performance in mind, as opposed to a high-fidelity photorealistic look....
Let’s Encrypt, a site that provides such free certificates, has issued a billion of them since its launch in 2016. The non-profit is operated by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), with members such as Mozilla Foundation, Akamai Technologies, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and the University of Michigan. [Read: A massive cache of stolen OnlyFans videos have been dumped online] HTTPS certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt are valid for just 90 days....
Chances are high that you’ve got a reservoir of talents that are mostly going untapped. We all have skills and abilities that we develop, then often set aside to gather dust as we pursue a new profession or new life path. But those talents are still there — and they could even start getting you paid. Once you shake off the rust, you’ve got the ability to pursue side hustles in job areas like freelance writing, programming, marketing, ecommerce and more....
In a release posted yesterday, the company said that its upcoming EV — the Air — will be able to charge at a rate of 20 miles per minute, which would make it the fastest charging EV on the market. In real world use, the company says it’s enough to add 300 miles (483 km) of range in around 20 minutes. [Read: Lexus trademark hints an all-new EV is on the way] Lucid’s hyper-fast ‘refueling’ is enabled by a 900 volt charger that has a peak charge rate of 300 kW....
Audio of captured recordings depict deeply personal conversations whose subject matter touches on several sensitive topics, including relationship woes, ongoing struggles with weight loss, and even exchanges that resemble phone sex. According to Motherboard, the recordings last between five and ten seconds, although some snippets are somewhat larger. Motherboard also alleges, based on the same cache of documents, that Microsoft contractors are also listening to voice commands issued to Cortana – the company’s flagship digital assistant....
