They usually go one of two ways — overly social or too scientific — and considering that we’re at a crucial point in the fight against climate change, that’s a huge problem. So here are some tips on how to improve your communication as an impact-driven founder. First up, let’s start by setting the scene. The impact-driven startups of today will go on to build the foundations of what McKinsey & Company calls the “impact economy....
Firefighters in Ladysmith, approximately 365 kilometres south of Johannesburg, were called to Sphelele “Sgumza” Mbatha’s house on Wednesday afternoon after several angry citizens set the building on fire. An anonymous source told TimesLIVE that victims were taking the law into their own hands because Mbatha was unreachable. Mbatha operated Bitcoin Wallet, a company which reportedly enticed victims to invest in exchange for easy and big returns on investments. Earlier this week, Mbatha told the Ladysmith Gazette that he didn’t have any more cash to pay out to clients....
The Show also takes care of a bunch of those Alexa duties you already depend on, including streaming music from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, or your own cloud storage files. The Show even includes new and improved speakers with dual 2-inch neodymium drivers and a passive bass radiator to deliver that music with even more power and clarity than Alexa can offer. But the Show isn’t all about keeping you amused....
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed by the two companies. “Joining GitHub will allow our products to be fully integrated and offered to millions more developers around the world. I will be joining the GitHub team to integrate Pull Panda and continue to grow its features as part of the core product,” wrote Abi Noda, Pull Panda’s founder and CEO, announcing the move. Pull Panda, a startup that builds code review tools for GitHub developers, had previously offered its products — Pull Reminders, Pull Analytics, and Pull Assigner — as a subscription bundle....
According to new figures from market analysis firm Berg Insight, the global e-scooter market will experience a temporary contraction in 2020, but over the next four years the number of shared scooters in use is expected to boom. [Read: Study: Teslas cover more miles in their first 3 years than other auto brands] As of 2019, there were 774,000 shared scooters in operation around the globe. By 2024, Berg Insight expects there to be 4....
A post from the security group suggests it found the bug last week, and attackers were exploiting it at that moment. The post notes the exploit requires no or minimal customization to root a phone that’s exposed to the bug. The research group has listed some of the devices affected that are running Android version 8.x or later: Pixel 2 with Android 9 and Android 10 preview Huawei P20 Xiaomi Redmi 5A Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Xiaomi A1 Oppo A3 Moto Z3 Oreo LG phones Samsung Galaxy S7, S8, S9...
You can check out the ad for yourself below: “Look ma, no hands!” The video shows a facial recognition system that seems to work as quickly as Apple’s Face ID (though it’s an ad, so of course it does). In a related blog post, Google says that it won’t require you to swipe up on the Pixel 4 to access the device, an occasionally annoying extra step on iOS devices....
The firm started offering free unlimited calls for all users last April, and after a few extensions, it had set the deadline for this ‘generous’ offering for June 30, 2021. Now, as noted by 9to5Google, the company is showing a new message on its support page noting that you’ll get a notification of the time limit at the 55-minute mark: This new cap is just for three or more participants per call....
The findings, disclosed by cybersecurity firm CSIS Security Group, reveal that the malware — called Joker — is designed to surreptitiously sign users up for premium service subscriptions, in addition to stealing the victim’s SMS messages, the contact list, and device information. In total, CSIS found 24 Android apps on Google Play (listed below) containing the trojan, racking up more than 472,000 downloads by unsuspecting Android users before Google eventually purged the infected software from its platform....
I often carry my phone to the kitchen: to listen to music or podcasts while cooking, to check my progress on a recipe, or to keep an eye on the score of a match I’m following. Google’s Nest Hub can do all of this and more – hands-free. While some press photos might give you an illusion of a sizeable device, the Nest Hub is more like a really large phone slapped on a speaker stand....
The service is now piloting the option to see live data on the crowdedness of individual train carriages. Up front: Google initially launched transit crowdedness predictions in 2019, when people were more worried about finding a seat than catching a potentially fatal infection. The feature uses a combination of AI, historical location trends, and user contributions to estimate the seating and standing capacity on buses, trains, and subways. The predictions have now been expanded from nearly 200 cities to more than 10,000 transit agencies in 100 countries....
The next biggest model out there, as far as we’re aware, is OpenAI’s GPT-3, which uses a measly 175 billion parameters. Background: Language models are capable of performing a variety of functions but perhaps the most popular is the generation of novel text. For example, you can go here and talk to a “philosopher AI” language model that’ll attempt to answer any question you ask it (with numerous notable exceptions)....
Yesterday, Google shared insights into its effort of trying to filter these emails in Gmail. The search giant said in just the last week, it saw more than 18 million malware and phishing emails with some sort of coronavirus angle every day. Plus, the company blocks 240 million COVID-19 related spam emails every day. [Read: Coronavirus threatens flow of US capital into European tech startups] It added that Gmail’s machine learning algorithm has been filtering out spam and malware-laden emails with a 99....
Google’s new 911 feature is meant to address these situations. Using the speech technology seen on Duplex and the Pixel’s call-screening technology, Google will be able to point the operator to your location and the type of help you need – medical, fire, or police – without you uttering a word. When you call 911 – or your country’s emergency number – Google will give you your location so you can relay it to the operator if you are able to speak....
The Big G currently offers 2FA — also known as two-step verification (2SV) — as an optional setting, but will soon turn it on automatically. [Read: 3 new technologies ecommerce brands can use to connect better with customers] Mark Risher, Google’s director of product management, identity, and user security, announced the plan in a Thursday blog post: An “appropriately configured” account will already include recovery information, such as a secondary email or a phone number....
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As a JavaScript developer, you must prepare yourself before appearing in an exam or an interview. It’ll increase your chances of getting hired by a reputed company. Now, you might be wondering where to start when it comes to preparation and getting familiar with the kind of questions that’ll be thrown your way. So, to help you out, I’ve compiled a list of commonly asked JavaScript interview questions. Each of these questions has a brief answer which you can review below....
Unfortunately, the traditional methods for gathering all of this information are costly, time-consuming, disengaging and are often subject to limited pools of participants. As an answer to this problem, many organizations have begun sprucing up or making their data-collection processes more exciting and more engaging. Gamification is one way to do that. Gamification, in general, has made a lot of waves lately in the enterprise world. The entire gamification market is expected to grow 200 percent to a total of $11 billion by 2020....
And some more angles: There’ isn’t anything crazy revealed in these drawings, and they’re certainly not as revealing as say, an actual photo would be. Still, there are a few interesting tidbits, such as USB-C port and what appears to be a 3.5mm jack. There are appear to be two or three buttons around the rim of the earcups, but the layout doesn’t suggest these would function at volume controls....
The company wants to change that with its new flagship model, and has partnered with the Swedish camera company Hasselblad. The firm is known for its high-end photography gear, including medium-format camera systems and lenses. In a 2019 interview with TNW, OnePlus’ product manager, Zack Zhang, said that the company’s camera system is not where it aspires to be. Since then, the Chinese manufacturer has improved its camera quality, but its results are still inconsistent....
