Pals, it hurts. Oh god, it hurts: England lost the final of the Euro 2020 championship. Yes, it might have happened over a week ago now, but some things take time to heal. On one hand, my overriding emotion remains a hearty oof… …but on the other? I’m somehow actually… overflowing with joy? Not only was this the first final the men’s football team reached since 1966 (woo!), but the current crop of players represent England in… a positive light?...

But when your experience is industry-leading, how do you evolve it without disappointing customers? The answer lies in experimentation, built on proven psychological principles. And because Netflix is a subscription service, you can quickly discover what’s working. Just observe how many customers cancel their service in response to your experiment and optimize from there. The Reciprocity Principle Reciprocity is a social norm of responding to a positive action with another positive action....

But the extent to which people comply depends on their psychological filters when receiving the messages – as the coronavirus pandemic has shown. With COVID-19, the early messaging attempted to circumscribe the nature of the threat. In March, the WHO announced that: “COVID-19 impacts the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions most severely.” Similar statements were made by the UK government. A reasonable interpretation of this would be that the virus does not “affect” young people....

In 2016, James Vlahos, the CEO of HereAfter, created ‘Dadbot,’ — an interactive text-based chatbot of Vlahos’ late father — after his father was diagnosed with lung cancer, and later died. Vlahos worked to keep the essence of who his father was alive by recording his dad’s life story over several months. Once complete, Vlahos honored his father’s memory with a software program that lets him have conversations with his late father, as if he were still here....

If some malicious cyber-stalker digs them up, you could end up publicly-shamed, dumped, or even unemployed. Unfortunately, Twitter doesn’t provide a way to bulk-delete tweets (assholes). Instead, the site suggests you manually remove the offending tweets, one-by-one. But that can be a grueling task, littered with humiliating reminders of the past. [Read: How do you build a pet-friendly gadget? We asked experts and animal owners] A more expedient option is using a third-party app to automatically delete old tweets on a recurring schedule....

It places demands on market players both old and new: release now, fix the issues later. Launch the feature today or watch your competitors outpace you. Meet the deadline or lose a vitally important partner/client. These are all thoughts and ideas most product managers, CTOs, and team leads have had (or heard). In part, I think the culprit for this state of affairs has been automation itself, as it has streamlined so many tech processes across industries and has set client and market expectations....

Get your WhatsApp and Telegram data Parse it to build an ML-ready dataset Train a GPT-2 model Chat with the model So let’s start our adventure! A quick warning before we get started It’s always better not to run random scripts on personal information (like personal chat messages). I guarantee there’s no catch, but you can always check the native code that’s being used: messaging-chat-parser and pistoBot, all the sources are open-source on github....

If you want to experience a metaverse, buy NFTs, or trade in cryptocurrency, it’s essential to have a wallet that’s easy to create and use. MetaMask is a pretty popular choice these days. It’s free to use, and is available as a desktop browser extension and a mobile app. You can sign up to create a wallet to store your digital assets in just a few seconds, and it will also let you connect like the OpenSea NFT marketplace in a blink....

Look, that’s just how it is. I don’t make the rules. Seriously, though: the difference between these two interactions is real, which is part of why remote work is lonely. There’s also not really any context for serendipitous small talk — you won’t run into anyone in the hallway, for example. All of this makes it hard to connect with coworkers, let alone make friends with them. But that’s not to say it’s impossible....

In a Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the platform is introducing a feature that lets users customize and control the content they see. With the new Feeds tab, you can see the most recent posts from your selected categories: Friends, Pages, or Groups. The All category will show you posts from all feeds. Thankfully, there’s no Suggested For You content on Feeds, but ads remain. Users will find Feeds in their shortcut bar....

Google has today rolled out new shortcuts on its Maps app that make it easier for users to order takeout and food delivery. There’s no better time than now, with this being the only way most of us are going to eat out for the foreseeable future. Here’s how it works. The shortcuts are the little options at the top of the map that you see when you open the app up....

Podcast discovery is already a hard task. Companies like Spotify are investing a lot of money in improving recommendation. But it’s almost impossible to find a particular episode based on your specific interest. Now, Google’s trying to solve this problem with its mighty search engine. Starting today, you can search for a particular term, and Google will return podcasts episodes based on it. Here’s how you can use it:...

Up front: Big data is a big deal. Less than a decade ago, many businesses were manually entering data into spreadsheets to meet their insight needs. Today, even the most modest startups can benefit from deep analytics. Unfortunately, the landscape of companies that provide targeted services for a spectrum of industries is somewhat barren. Simply put, you can’t just integrate a bunch of generic AI models into your IT stack and hope to magically pipeline solutions to your company’s problems....

While coding is simple for some, that’s not always the case, especially for those of us who don’t have minds like a supercomputer. When you take your first steps in the world of programming, you quickly learn how much of the discipline is centered around almost methodical order and process. So if you work or learn best in a more tactile, freewheeling manner, it may take more than boring readings or dry lectures to make sure that information sticks....

The cliché goes further. If techies lack basic human skills like communicating effectively or cracking a funny joke, then they won’t make good managers. And don’t even think of appointing such people as a CEO. Of course, this is a stereotype. Most techies I know — including myself — are interesting, multi-faceted people with exciting hobbies and beautiful personalities. Most techies I know score as high in human skills as they do in their area of technical expertise....

The country’s national police academy – the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVP NPA) – has launched an educational course to help officers gain an understanding of how cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology work. Additionally, officers will learn about the “legal aspects of cryptocurrencies, crimes committed using cryptocurrencies, [and], investigation of cases involving cryptocurrencies.” The course, which will start in September, comes weeks after several other police forces announced similar educational initiatives and amid a flurry of cryptocurrency-related criminal activity in India....

— ISRO (@isro) July 18, 2019 After the scintillating finals of Wimbledon and the Cricket World Cup over the weekend, people watching at home were eagerly waiting for the next spectacle – India‘s Chandrayaan-2 launch. However, they will have to wait at least a few more days, as the country’s space agency, ISRO, has delayed the launch due to a “technical snag.” The launch was originally slotted for 15 July 2....

After user backlash, governments are also joining in criticizing WhatsApp’s controversial privacy policy change. Today, the Indian government asked the app to withdraw its new policy. In a letter addressed to the WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said to “respect the informational privacy and data security of Indian users and asked it to withdraw this proposed policy.” The ministry has also sent a detailed questionnaire to WhatsApp regarding user data and privacy....

A lot of apps use SMS-based authentication to send you a One Time Password (OPT) as the second factor of verification. However, researchers have noted that that relying on SMS can be less secure, as hackers have been using techniques like SIM Swapping to redirect 2FA codes. To solve that problem, Instagram is working on a feature to send you 2FA codes through WhatsApp. App researcher and leaker Alessandro Paluzzi posted screenshots of this feature under development....

If you haven’t updated your phone yet, you should go to Settings > General > Software Update to download and install the latest version. According to the iPhone maker, the new feature enhances the level of details and reduces noise in a photo, thanks to “computational photography mad science.” Behind the scenes, the phone takes multiple frames at different exposures, and then processes pixel by pixel to improve the image quality; just like SmartHDR, but smarter....