It has been many years now that I have been earning a living from typing; be it writing reviews, content for different websites, and so forth. And I must admit that I have neglected the importance of finding the right keyboard. After years of elbow, shoulder, and neck pains, I realized it is time to not only find the correct sitting position for continuous hours of typing, but also the correct keyboard....

They are often the big personalities behind the corporate stories; they are visionary leaders who drove the companies through transformative steps over decades. The only difference in Silicon Valley is that there haven’t been many iterations or generations of leaders. The founder’s story isn’t in the archives, and neither is the founder. Many founders are still involved with the company. [Read: As a CEO I’m often wrong — but that’s okay] There’s a little mystique to founders and often an aura of brilliance that can make them intimidating and difficult to work with....

After working for free for over a year, I landed a role in a digital agency. At the time, the agency was minute — I was one of three very young employees. We were all relatively inexperienced, but willing to work hard. The workload was immense, the learning curve steep, but in hindsight this job — my first-ever foray into the startup world — proved invaluable in more ways than one....

But seriously, I didn’t quite believe it when I first saw it. According to GM Trucks, the upcoming GMC Hummer EV will weigh 9,046 lbs, that’s just over 4,000 kgs. Ranger Rovers, which everyone knows are massive, weigh around 2,500 kgs. The electric Hummer is likely to be one of the heaviest publicly available trucks, ever. But let’s put that into some kind of context. Here are some other things that weigh about four tonnes:...

In June of 2019, hundreds of college students arrived on the IBM campus in Austin, Texas, to participate in a three-month-long internship program. During these months, they’d gain firsthand experience of life at a large, global tech company. The majority of them were aspiring software engineers, followed by a number of designers, researchers, and offering managers. For the entire summer, they’d be assigned to IBM product teams, where they’d engage in industry-level practices like design thinking, agile methodology, and the many stages of your typical product life cycle....

With the competition being tough, as a leader, you need to know the important 5 things that can save you from downfall and keep you ahead of 99% of the leaders. You need to take a change. Have a look: Emailing is becoming obsolete. Nobody is getting into those complex text messages. Surely emails might be a way out for pretty many things, but for another sure reason it is not a reliable method for daily workplace communications....

The 21-year-old suspect in the Walmart mass shooting, which resulted in the deaths of 20 people, is said to have posted a white nationalist rant on the message board favored by many on the far-right before the attack. Calling 8chan a “cesspool of hate,” CEO Matthew Prince wrote that the company will no longer offer protection from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as of midnight Pacific Time tonight. “The rationale is simple: they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths,” wrote Prince....

Increasingly over the past two decades, the internet has been a major factor affecting the right to development. The United Nations definition of this right is that: Today, all African countries have access to the internet, though the digital divide remains huge within and between countries. In a recent research paper, one of us (Ilori), together with colleagues, examined the effect of network disruptions on human rights and democratic development in sub-Saharan Africa....

I’m an astrophysicist who studies the formation of structure in the universe. Since the 1960s, scientists like me have been considering the important scientific questions we might be able to answer with a telescope placed in the outer solar system. So what would such a mission look like? And what science could be done? A tiny telescope far from home The scientific strength of a telescope far from Earth would come primarily from its location, not its size....

One of my friends used to run a company that was growing fast and needed to hire a CTO. She tapped her network and spoke to a bunch of potentials, trying to find the perfect candidate. After some search, one person stuck out in particular. He wasn’t living in the same country though, so the first conversations all took place over the phone. After having spoken with the entire management team, and most of the dev team, they felt confident enough to invite him to the office for a face to face meeting....

According to an Economic Times report published at the end of December, India’s transport minister Nitin Gadkari has confirmed the American EV maker will arrive in the country this year. “American auto major Tesla will have its distribution facility (sale centers) for its cars in India from next year and, considering the demand, it would look into setting up of manufacturing here (too),” Gadkari told the Economic Times. The first step will see Tesla set up sales operations in the country, and could eventually consider local assembly and manufacturing....

In particular, the company is looking for public opinion on whether “world leaders should be subject to the same rules as others on Twitter” and about “what type of enforcement is appropriate” when such a figure breaks the rules. In a blog post, the company announced it would run a poll from March 19 to April 12 to “inform the development of our policy framework.” This questionnaire would be available in 14 languages to help ensure global input: Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Urdu....

The AI developed the characters and plot by studying the works of Osamu Tezuka, known as “the father of manga” and the “Walt Disney of Japan” for creating classics such as Astro Boy and Black Jack before his death in 1989. Humans helpers completed the work by adding details such as clothing and dialogue, the Japan Times reports. The results will be revealed in a story called “Paidon,” which revolves around a homeless philosopher who teams up with a robotic bird to investigate crimes in 2030 Tokyo....

The UK’s investment in AI recently reached a record high for 2019, rising from $1.02 billion for the whole of 2018 to $1.06 billion in the first six months of 2019. What’s more, the European Commission’s new president, Ursula von der Leyen recently made calls for a GDPR-style regulation for the use of AI to be put in place, signaling the predicted mass uptake of the technology amongst businesses across different industries....

However, Alibaba and WeChat said yesterday travelers will be able to link their international cards to their payment apps now. — Alipay (@Alipay) November 5, 2019 In a separate statement, WeChat’s owner Tencent said it’ll support American Express cards in addition to the aforementioned cards. Mobile payments are quite popular in China. According to a report by the World Economic Forum published in May, the payment method has 35 percent penetration with $1,612 of average annual spend....

This is a useful feature in a post-pandemic India as well, where a lot of shops are crowded on a busy day, and the shopkeeper might not have time to attend you. The company says that thousands of brick and mortar stores have already signed up with for the Smart Stores program. In January, when Jeff Bezos visited India, members of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), a union of small traders, held protests against the company for its predatory pricing practices....

This question leads to another question: what is memory? For people, memory is the capacity to recall something that happened in the past. We also ask computers to reproduce past actions – the blending of the idea of the computer as brain and brain as computer has led us to take ‘memory’ to mean something like the information stored on a hard drive. We know our memory relies on changes in how much a set of linked neurons stimulate each other; that it is reinforced somehow during sleep; and that recent and long-term memory involve different circuits of connected neurons....

An F50 catamaran preparing for the Sail GP series recently even broke this barrier, reaching an incredible speed of 50.22 knots (57.8mph) purely powered by the wind. This was achieved in a wind of just 19.3 knots (22.2mph). F50s are 15-meter-long, 8.8-meter-wide hydrofoil catamarans propelled by rigid sails and capable of such astounding speeds that Sail GP has been called the “Formula One of sailing”. How are these yachts able to go so fast?...

The event is now heralded as the biggest startup and innovation summit in the Nordic region but began with humble beginnings back in 2012. While tech events tend to flower from the ecosystems around them, in Copenhagen the opposite seems to be true. Grassroots nonprofit organizations like TechBBQ and Copenhagen For The Win (CPHFTW) played a key role in laying the seeds for the strong ecosystem which has flourished, to make the Danish capital the ‘unicorn factory’ it is today....

First, let’s explore background of JavaScript modules. JavaScript programs started as simple scripts or apps that had rather small codebases. But after time, its evolved and so has its uses meaning there’s been an increase in the size of codebases. To support this increase the language needed to support a mechanism under which was possible to separate or split the code into smaller, reusable units. Node.JS had that ability for a while before it was incorporated in JavaScript with a feature called ‘modules....