Sharmadean Reid defines herself as a “very philosophical and strategic entrepreneur,” someone who is able to look at the details and visualize a project from start to finish. “I’m the type of entrepreneur who likes to have a thesis behind everything I do, and then build the right team around me to execute it,” she tells Growth Quarters. It seems this strategy has so far paid off. Known in UK tech circles as the woman responsible for fixing beauty tech, Reid is the founder of BeautyStack, an online booking service that highlights the work of individual artists and creators....

Hugh Brian Haney, who pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court earlier this week, was found to be a high-ranking member of Pharmville — a prominent narcotics vendor on the dark web — after law enforcement searched his home in Ohio last year. Additionally, agents found a computer that housed a document entitled “HBD daily to-do list,” which referred to Pharmville. In 2017 and 2018, Haney sent his Bitcoin earnings from an address connected to Silk Road, to an account he had with a cryptocurrency exchange....

Companies today use advanced tools and tests to weed out the pretenders and identify the people who bring truly valuable skills to the table. Unfortunately, many tech workers — even some of the best — don’t know exactly where they stand. To combat that knowledge gap, workers are turning to the same types of advanced tools that employers use on them. STELLARES, an AI-powered talent platform, developed a free Skill Mapper to help tech employees understand the relevance and demand for their skills....

According to researchers at McAfee, who tracked down several posts published on underground forums, one particular distributor made the equivalent of $287,499 in Bitcoin in just 72 hours. Researchers found that Sodinokibi has more than 40 active affiliates and that its creators typically get between $700 and $1,500 from every payment. Additionally, blockchain analysis unearthed several transactions from affiliates to a wallet that contained $4.5 million worth of Bitcoin. Some of this money was used to purchase illicit goods and services on the dark web, on marketplaces such as Hydra Market....

And it’s getting busier. In the last few weeks, SpaceX has launched 60 new satellites as part of its Starlink program. This brings the total to currently around 400 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit as part of a program that aims to bring cheap, satellite-based internet access to everyone. Eventually, this program could place nearly 12,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Read: [An astronaut got a blood clot in space — here’s how it helped science] The debris ranges in size from a few microns to many meters....

All members of the family can use their individual accounts to stream music and podcasts as per their choice. The master account holder will be billed at the end of each month. With the new family plan, you will also get parental controls and a playlist called Family Mix based on of all the tunes your family is listening to. In comparison, Apple Music offers a family plan in India for Rs....

Wind and solar power vary over the course of a day, so energy storage is essential to provide a continuous flow of electricity. But today’s batteries are typically quite small and store enough energy for only a few hours of electricity. To rely more on wind and solar power, the U.S. will need more overnight and longer-term storage as well. While battery innovations get a lot of attention, there’s a simple, proven long-term storage technique that’s been used in the U....

A recent COVID-19 sentiment study conducted by automotive consumer advice group CarGurus found that car sales, in the long term, are unlikely to be affected by the pandemic. However, it also found that people are likely to be far less interested in using ride-share services like Uber and Lyft. [Read: Study: Teslas cover more miles in their first 3 years than other auto brands] Ride-share apps should be concerned During April, CarGurus surveyed 722 US car buyers and found that 79% of them have decided to delay their car purchase as a result of the pandemic....

Just two weeks ago, the firm announced it’s going to create a 1000hp electric truck for the EV startup Hercules, and on Wednesday revealed its utterly sleek Teorema concept. The Teorema is Pininfarina’s first 100% virtually developed concept car and aims to offer “an all-new interpretation of fully electric, autonomous mobility.” Designed inside out The design teams in Cambiano and Shanghai created the interior experience before developing the exterior, starting from a scalable electric skateboard chassis which allows the car to maximize in-cabin space....

One of the best ways to do this is to create an online portfolio. A good online portfolio will give you a clean and organized place to showcase your past work, talk about your experience, and share your favorite projects. Your portfolio should represent who you are and what you love. While you’ll always be restricted by how much information you can put in a CV or cover letter, a portfolio of your best work will give you a chance to go into detail and share your passions and successes....

A few weeks ago I lost my AirPods on the London tube. The same evening I arrived back home in Amsterdam I received a press release for the new AirPods Pro that was about to become available two days later. I ordered them within minutes of receiving the press release, and have been using them ever since. There’s one feature of the AirPods Pro that at first seems like an unnecessary gimmick nobody asked for: transparency mode....

Well, joy of joys: it’s finally here! The last season of the current LA By Night chronicle airs on Friday, 3 September at 8PM PST (that’s today if you’re reading this hot off the press). LA By Night, for those unfamiliar, is a streaming show set in the World of Darkness. Specifically, it’s a group of actors and a designated “Storyteller,” playing the game Vampire: The Masquerade on camera. They roll dice, improvise, and act out their characters’ actions just like regular tabletop RPG groups do, but their performance is geared more towards telling an entertaining and compelling story to watch than it is towards “winning” at a game....

As a result, men are often migrating further to keep their families going, looking for casual work in neighboring towns or villages for a few days or weeks at a time, or to cities further away. Many try to return home when they can, with whatever they have earned. But during their absence, the entire burden of maintaining the family is on women. Researchers are in a race against time to predict how climate change will affect these communities and help them adapt, with drought and flood-resistant crops and cattle breeds for example....

The data brokers who’ve made fortunes from collecting and sharing millions of people’s personal information tend to fly under the radar. Names like LiveRamp or RELX might not be familiar to most Americans, but they’re making themselves known on Capitol Hill. Collectively, data broker spending on lobbying in 2020 rivaled the spending of individual Big Tech firms like Facebook and Google. The Markup searched lobbying disclosures in the U.S. Senate’s Lobbying Disclosure Act database and the watchdog Center for Responsive Politics’ tool OpenSecrets for the names of companies that registered as data brokers in Vermont or California....

On Monday, the European Council adopted the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a set of new rules to create fairer online competition. The act aims to establish a level digital playing field, by setting clear rights and rules for large online platforms (referred to as “gatekeepers”), making it more difficult for them to abuse their position. As per Ivan Bartoš, Deputy Prime Minister for Digitisation and Minister of Regional Development: The gatekeeper category covers online search engines, app stores, and social media platforms....

While we’re already seeing and discussing many of the negative aspects of AI, not enough is being done to address them. And the reason is that we’re looking in the wrong place, as futurist and Amy Webb discusses in her book The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity. Many are quick to blame large tech companies for the problems caused by artificial intelligence....

But it also provides a critical test bed for the future of mobility, featuring a plethora of rapidly evolving technology in the wild. Let’s take a look. Driving with your hands off the wheel and your eyes off the road In December 2021, the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) granted Mercedes-Benz system approval for Level 3 autonomous driving under UN-R157 on the autobahn. It means drivers can legally engage in “certain secondary activities at speeds of up to 60 kmph in heavy traffic or congested situations on suitable stretches of motorway” such as the autobahn....

The Ariya is similar in size to Nissan’s best-selling Rogue crossover, but aimed at a new audience. The all-electric compact SUV will come in front-wheel drive and all-wheel drive (dual motor) versions. It offers two powertrain packages, a 63-kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery pack mated to a single 215-horsepower (hp) electric motor or an 87 kWh battery with 389 total hp from two motors. Range is estimated to be 267 miles for the smaller battery and 379 for the larger one, based on the generous WLTP test cycle....

I’ve been using the Meizu 16s for the past couple of weeks and found it to be a rock solid, feature-rich phone — especially for the price. Is it perfect? No, but it comes pretty close. Let’s start with the basics, what specs does the Meizu 16s have? For the cost (around $600), they’re incredibly impressive: Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 mobile platform 3600mAh 24W mCharge fast charging Flyme operating system 6....

Studies — and the resulting news reports that cover them — are filled with findings that often grab your attention. Then there are those study results that should scare the living bejeezus out of you. Like that your smartphone is covered in 10 times more bacteria than a public restroom. Or that making toilet paper kills 27,000 trees a day. Or how about this — during the height of the pandemic, the average American was estimated to be spending over 19 hours a day in front of a screen....