Charging an electric vehicle can appear confusing at first, but in reality, it’s not that difficult once you start to get your head around the terminology. We’ve already taken a look at CHAdeMo, another rapid-charging connector; this time we’re taking a look at CCS or Combined Charging System. CCS is another type of connector used for rapid-charging and is growing in popularity — particularly in Europe and North America....

To that effect, the Palo Alto-based firm is launching a new software development kit (SDK) that offers a standardized means for verifying logins using smart watches, in addition to mobile apps, mobile web, and desktop web. The SDK is currently available for Apple’s watchOS platform. The iPhone maker’s latest watchOS update has made it possible to decouple the Apple Watch from the iPhone, allowing users to download and run apps straight from an independent App Store without being tethered to the phone....

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, YouTube now has a revamped menu that pops up when you tap the quality button that eschews the standard resolution options of 480p, 720p, 1080p, and so on, for ‘friendlier’ phrasing: Was this user feedback? Newfangled UX thinking? All I know is it must’ve been unhinged. This isn’t a user experience crime in itself. Perhaps maybe we don’t really need to see what resolution we choose, and it’s best left to the app to decide....

Indeed, both Zoom and Tesla have multiplied their market caps this year, growth that outstrips every single company in the NASDAQ 100 (a popular index of large-cap stocks that includes tech’s biggest firms). [Read: Civil unrest pushes US gun stocks to outpace tech’s biggest companies] Zoom, the free video conferencing app that rose to prominence as COVID-19 spread across the world, started the year with a $18.99 billion market cap....

That’s what I’ve always thought. As someone who gets to work from home, I will write from just about anywhere. From my bed, from my couch, from my kitchen counter, from my sit-stand desk. I’ve been using an Autonomous SmartDesk 2 for years, mostly from a standing position, as I never thought I could sit in a chair all day and still be comfortable. I’d tried a few high-end chairs before, but none that was really revelatory....

As reported first by ZDNet, researchers found the dump on October 28. Group-IB says some cards are being sold at $100, with a total value of the database estimated at over $130 million. According to researchers, this is the single biggest and one of the most valuable database uploads on the dark web. Right now, details of the source or origin of these card details are not known. Ilya Sachkov, CEO and founder of Group-IB, said data uploads from this region are quite rare, and it has notified authorities of this incident: It’s not clear at the moment which banks are compromised....

Short of literally packing your bags and rooting out your passport, your phone can support all of your travel needs in one way or another. So, if you’re about to go on holiday or logistics just aren’t your forte, these apps will help you get it together: Before you go Skyscanner This is a pretty popular booking service on the Web already and the mobile app is just as handy....

I always encourage people who have spent their lives in the world of tech to have empathy and understanding of those who have jobs in physical labor, and I wanted to pass on a few lessons I learned from my time in construction. Plan ahead meticulously As the global crisis around COVID-19 grows, it’s becoming obvious which companies planned ahead for unexpected chaos and those that assumed things would always be positive....

Now, many of these have had plenty of attention, both from the media and general public. They’re active in ecommerce (e.g. Shopify), streamlining working from home (e.g. DocuSign with its digital signatures and contracts solutions), and cyber security (e.g. Zscaler, CrowdStrike), for example. Yet some publicly listed tech companies have miraculously stayed somewhat under the general public’s radar despite their astronomical surges this year. We combined stock data with Google Trends’ web search interest data to identify them....

The world of software is vibrant and happening. There’s something or the other that keeps happening in the world of software. Therefore, the engineers have to stay abreast of the latest trends, techniques, and tools. Today, we will talk about some of the top techniques, trends, and predictions for 2020. The predictions are done based on existing industry trends. Though, some of the most promising technologies that will influence the world of software are Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and so on....

In 2019, the country was ranked number one in Europe for startups by NimbleFins. EY reported that Germany’s top 100 startups received a total of $11.1 billion in funding in 2019, a significant increase from the $6.3 billion reached in 2018. While startup ecosystems across the globe have taken a hit during the pandemic, we’re already seeing signs of recovery across Germany’s startup scene, from the creation of new accelerators and venture capital firms to multi-million euro funding rounds....

I’ve been working a long time on automation and simplifying the process of running a business. Over the course of my career, I’ve learned a thing or two about how to improve businesses, but I’ve never had to overcome as many challenges and learn as much as I had to in 2020 — and I guess the same goes for you. So here are my top five lessons of 2020 and how you can best prepare yourself and your team for 2021....

Verizon has announced a collaboration with United Parcel Service (UPS) to test 5G to deliver retail packages via drones to residents at The Villages retirement community in Florida. The announcement was one of several made by Verizon’s Chairman and CEO, Hans Vestberg, during a keynote at the virtual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which opened yesterday. In 2020, Verizon, UPS Flight Forward, and Skyward started testing 4G LTE in delivery drones to demonstrate cellular reliability and performance at altitude....

Just like in other industries, AI and machine learning are entering the scene and causing great disruption in what used to be one of the most stable career choices. In the US, one report found that 1.3 million bank workers will lose their jobs or be reassigned due to automation. Globally, finance leaders are predicting that 50% of jobs could be lost. As these technologies develop, which jobs will become obsolete?...

This led to an explosion in an already thriving workplace tech market. Solutions that were just picking up steam received thousands of new users overnight, while a number of new tools created specifically to solve ‘new normal’ problems have been popping up every day. This has created the perfect condition to not only get productivity back up, but also rethink the way our companies operate. Youri Doeleman, Partner at investment firm Antler, explained: “I think a mindset of experimenting with different ways of working in the new workplace is super important....

While getting people to visit a website is important, what businesses actually want is a conversion. In other words, grab fickle visitors who may be interested enough in the company’s unique value proposition to sign up, subscribe, stay updated, share with friends, and become loyal customers. That being the case, a landing page designer’s primary goal is to create a high-converting landing page by making a strong first impression, and they have less than 7 seconds to do it....

According to various Bitcoin blockchain explorers and market information websites, over 17,850,000 Bitcoin (17,850,600 according to CoinMarketCap) have been mined and are classed as being “in circulation.” That’s a hair over 85 percent of the cryptocurrency’s supply limit of 21 million coins. As a result, there are just over 3,000,000 Bitcoin left to mine, until we inch closer to that fabled 21 millionth coin. There’s no need to panic, though....

In machine learning, crowd wisdom is achieved through ensemble learning. For many problems, the result obtained from an ensemble, a combination of machine learning models, can be more accurate than any single member of the group. How does ensemble learning work? Say you want to develop a machine learning model that predicts inventory stock orders for your company based on historical data you have gathered from previous years. You use train four machine learning models using a different algorithms: linear regression, support vector machine, a regression decision tree, and a basic artificial neural network....

This is the age of Big Data. There isn’t an industry on the planet that can’t immediately immerse itself in reams and reams of information about every aspect of that business. But sometimes, all that data isn’t necessarily a good thing. If you’re a website owner, a quick look at Google Analytics makes the point. Unless you’re a data scientist, there’s a good chance the page after page of breakdowns and statistics attempting to document and explain every visitor to your site and their actions will turn into a numbers equivalent of white noise....

The system uses object recognition algorithms that detect the unique features of bomb craters, including their shapes, colors, textures, and sizes. These algorithms then scan satellite images for signals of the craters. The Ohio State University team first used the system to find craters in a village in the province of Prey Veng, a heavily bombed area around 30 kilometers from the Vietnam border. The model increased the bomb crater detection by more than 160 percent over standard objective recognition algorithms, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE....