Landing your first job in tech can be hard. Especially when you have no experience in the field. I’ve worked in factories and call centers most of my adult life. I only learned how to code when I was 33 — this was in my free time outside of my 12-hour shift and while raising six children with my wife. I’m not going to lie, it was hard. I applied to countless jobs and felt the sting of rejection time and time again....
Apple is slated to unveil the iPhone 12 today, and word on the street is that it’ll have four models in the lineup. The online-only event will take place and be streamed from Apple Park on October 13 at 10AM PT, 12PM CDT, 1PM ET, 7PM CEST, and 10:30PM IST. You can tune into the stream on Apple’s site via your browser at apple.com/apple-events, or this YouTube stream below (you can also click through to set a reminder for when the event will start): As with Apple’s previous online events this year, it’ll be pre-recorded, and likely go faster than the live ones you might be used to....
HTC says the Vive flow is “taking technology in a new direction, focusing not on what we do, but on how we feel.” To this end, the company says the headset is aimed at use with meditation and brain training apps, as well as to allow you to watch TV and movies on your own “personal, cinema-sized VR screen.” Spec-wise, the device is packing a 3.2K resolution, a 75 Hz refresh rate, and a 100-degree field of view....
In case you haven’t heard, Apple is holding an event today. Supposedly, this will be the announcement of the M1X MacBook Pro. There’s a lot to be excited about. The rumors are that Apple will ditch the traitorous Touch Bar, MagSafe is making a return, and the displays will be sharper and larger. On paper, this is fantastic. The new MacBook Pro doesn’t sound like an update, it’s an entire refresh — something the machine has sorely needed....
But I’m here to remind you that, once in a while — and especially during the pandemic — you just need a simple way to relax. And Power Wash Simulator (PWS) delivers on that front in spades. I first came across the game last year, when there was only a single demo level and limited washing equipment to work with. The title, which is now available for PC via Steam Early Access, has expanded to offer a lot more content to keep you occupied....
According to a report conducted by old-school tech firm IBM and the Official Monetary Institutions Forum (OMFIF), we can expect to see fiat-based digital currencies within the next five years. These currencies will exist as “either a complement to or as a substitute for notes and coins.” With that in mind, one struggles to see how these currencies are any different to the digital representations we have in our online bank accounts now....
This assessment comes on the heels of Big Blue’s latest launch: two new Qiskit Runtime primitives debuting today (you read it here first). Quantum computing promises to do two things for society: help us solve today’s problems faster, and put us in a position to solve tomorrow’s problems. And whether those problems involve optimization, simulations, or needle-in-a-haystack searches, we’ll need computers powerful enough to solve them. But we’ll also need cloud infrastructure, software, and all kinds of interfaces between classical and quantum systems....
For all their talents, entrepreneurs seldom know the specific issue that will lead to the ultimate success or failure of their business plan. That’s understandable — because unexpected issues crop up all the time in fledgling companies. The trick is being able to spot that problem or opportunity quickly enough to adjust before the moment is gone. Six Sigma is a process dedicated to identifying those potentially seismic business moments and tailoring solutions quickly....
First, India’s parliament passed an amended bill on Aadhaar that allows voluntary use of the ID to open a bank account or get a SIM card and penalty for any private company if it stores Aadhaar data – a step to curb frequent data leaks. Then the government’s chief economic advisor, K Subramanian, said in this year’s Economic Survey report that a master database built by the government collating all the citizens’ information too – with Aadhaar at the heart of it....
The authorities argued in Delhi High court that the social network has lost its immunity as per India’s IT rules. Twitter has failed to appoint local officers including a chief compliance officer, a grievance officer, and a nodal officer to handle requests from law enforcement round the clock. Law experts have previously argued that only courts can decide if a company could lose its intermediary status. If the court strips Twitter of this status, the firm and its employees could face penal action for posts on the platforms....
At this year’s annual TNW conference, Hard Fork took the opportunity to ask a number of industry experts to explain blockchain in as few words as possible. We hoped to get a bit of insight into how the tech is developing and what the industry currently makes of it. Here’s what they said: “Blockchain is a chain of blocks. That’s the definition, anything else is wrong.” – João Almeida, co-founder and CTO of Opennode – the Bitcoin payments system that recently helped Lil Pump’s merch store accept Bitcoin....
Last night, Instagram’s chief, Adam Mosseri, announced this feature alongside another one that will let you delete a specific photo from a carousel. Pretty neat. You can watch the feature in action in the video below from the 55-second mark. You can also turn the toggle off so you don’t accidentally land on the bug reporting page. Did you know about these ?s? Any other features you’d like me to cover?...
Security researcher Saugat Pokharel has clinched a $6,000 bug bounty after noticing that the service kept messages and photos on its servers long after users wiped them, TechCrunch reports. The discovery was possible thanks to Instagram’s own data download tool, which the company released in 2018 to comply with GDPR. It’s pretty standard practice for companies to retain freshly deleted data on their servers until it can be properly wiped....
[Read: EVs are better for the environment than cars — even when charged by coal-generated electricity] According to the iOS 14 source code — seen by 9t05Mac — cars from German automaker BMW could be the first to support Apple’s CarKey. When pressed, BMW didn’t confirm it was working with Cupertino tech giant. But it didn’t exactly deny any involvement with the project either. Instead, BMW just referred reporters back to a press release it published last year, that says it’s working to “usher in a next generation Digital Key....
pic.twitter.com/56505GeK1U — Erik Solheim (@ErikSolheim) May 19, 2021 To begin with, it’s not that new. The Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit (ART) guided articulated vehicle was developed back in 2013 by Chinese rail maker CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd. It was first launched in Zhuzhou in 2017, and since then it has undergone several trials and experimental operations. The biggest issue with the ART vehicle is that we can’t really point out what it is: a train, a tram, or a bus?...
In most cases, it doesn’t, and as a business leader, it probably shouldn’t matter to you. News attaching specific criminal groups to cyberattacks – and perhaps human nature – are driving a need for attribution and understandably prompting organizational leaders to believe it matters who conducted the attack. Attributing WannaCry ransomware to North Korea or NotPetya to Russia is certainly important to law enforcement, but is best left to intelligence agencies....
It’s a well-known fact that male entrepreneurs tend to raise more money for their startups than their female counterparts. According to Atomico’s State of European Tech 2019 report, which polled over 1,200 founders across Europe, nearly a quarter of respondents said they had experienced discrimination on factors ranging from ethnicity to age. As part of its research, the venture capital firm also asked founders whether they had raised external cash or bootstrapped their companies....
Artificial intelligence researchers like me have been warning of the advent of such lethal autonomous weapons systems, which can make life-or-death decisions without human intervention, for years. A recent episode of 4 Corners reviewed this and many other risks posed by developments in AI. Around 50 countries are meeting at the UN offices in Geneva this week in the latest attempt to hammer out a treaty to prevent the proliferation of these killer devices....
Jeff Lowe, a prominent figure in the “Tiger King” docu-series on Netflix, held an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit yesterday and it went exactly how you’d expect. The internet tried to dunk on Lowe but he sloughed it off and dropped a bombshell accusation: Joe Exotic (the titular Tiger King) and his ex-husband John Finlay allegedly committed animal sexual assault. Jeff Lowe’s the supposedly-rich guy who took over The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park – the zoo made famous by Exotic....
In our technologically advanced business world, is there anything more disorganized and downright hilarious than the impromptu scramble for an available conference room? Someone sets up a meeting, only to discover someone else has commandeered their chosen space, prompting a last-second Python-esque scurry across the building to find a new spot. Since signup sheets, office managers and simple foot of mouth can’t seem to untangle this divine corporate comedy, the folks behind the Joan 6 Meeting Room Display ($499, $50 off the regular price from TNW Deals) have come up a logical, efficient, cost-effective solution....
