If you didn’t catch this during the crush of your holiday activities, Cisco delighted IT professionals of all types by announcing they’re streamlining their certifications. Starting in February, their new CCNA certification guidelines only require students to take one wide-ranging exam for their credentialing, rather than several tests covering a variety of subjects. That good news means anyone looking to land an associate-level IT position only has to undergo training like The Complete 2020 Cisco CCNA Certification Prep Course ($39, 86 percent off from TNW Deals) to be ready to ace that all-important single exam....

— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 1, 2020 During the protests, violent criminals taking advantage of the chaos clashed with vigilantes encouraged by the president’s reckless tweets causing numerous casualties, including several deaths. But the ongoing protests have drawn tens of millions of people from across the country, the vast majority of which remain peaceful. The police and military, however, are attacking peaceful protesters around the country without provocation. Police and military personnel in dozens of cities across the country were caught assaulting peaceful protesters in videos that were streamed live on social media and shared by millions....

In an announcement last night, Coinbase’s UK CEO Zeesham Feroz wrote that UK customers can fund their wallets directly from GBP bank accounts or credit/debit cards once again. The news comes as Coinbase had to find a new British banking partner when its relationship with Barclays came to a close – something it found with ClearBank. As ClearBank is part of the UK’s faster payments system, Coinbase is now able to offer fast transfers between Coinbase wallets and GBP bank accounts, Bloomberg reports....

Recently, I had the pleasure of riding the Cowboy 4 and Cowboy 4 ST for about a week — and damn, I was impressed. Long story short, the Cowboy 4 is an excellent iterative upgrade. The company ironed out many of the issues with the Cowboy 2 and 3, and created a truly exceptional ebike. So, without further ado, here’s the Cowboy 4 review. What’s new with the Cowboy 4 bikes?...

According to security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, who uncovered the leak, the company took the database offline as soon as it was notified. The database consisted of 86 million lines of daily updating records of activity on the lending platform, featuring logs and computer demands based on users’ activity on the front-end website. TechCrunch, which broke the news, says it’s seen records containing sufficient information to make fraudulent card purchases – with names, credit card numbers, card verification numbers, and expiry dates readily available for fraudsters....

— Studio MDHR (@StudioMDHR) July 9, 2019 Not much is known about the show’s content thus far. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show will be made with the help of King Features Syndicate, the same company that owns the rights to Betty Boop, Felix the Cat, and several other staples of the era Cuphead lovingly imitates. It’s a perfect candidate, visually speaking: the game is deliberately patterned after the 1930s-era Fleischer cartoons, meaning it’s designed to not look more like a cartoon than your usual platformer in the first place....

Earlier today, Game Informer published an article titled “Cyberpunk 2077 Epileptic PSA.” The author, Liana Ruppert, reports that she suffered one major seizure and came close to one several times while playing. She notes that one of the game’s main features is “braindancing,” which allows the player character to cybernetically interface with and experience memories. To do this, your character uses a headset that includes flashing LEDs similar to real-life devices used to trigger seizures for medical purposes....

If you ever wanted to take part in this kind of techno-philanthropy and pick up coding to build cool applications, now is probably a great time. There are plenty of free courses available for you that include lessons for C++ to Python. Here are some of the best of the lot: Google’s Grasshopper is a great way to start your coding journey. It teaches you programming basics through Javascript, a widely used language on the majority of websites across the world....

Yeah, how fucking cool is that? First reported on by 9to5Mac — who found the information in the developers’ beta of iOS 13.4 — the new feature is called, and wait for it, CarKey. Yes, Apple’s attempt to replace your car keys is called… CarKey. Goddamn, working in that company’s marketing department would be a dream. [Read: Apple’s Q1 2020 financials were great — but it still needs a budget iPhone] Anyway, iOS 13....

Sky Justin Gornik previously pled guilty to the charge and also admitted that he tried to launder drug proceeds using cryptocurrencies, which he held on US-based exchanges Bittrex and Poloniex. As part of his plea, Gornik admitted he bought and sold controlled substances on the dark web from 2014 to June 7, 2017. To do so, he used several screen names on marketplaces including Alpha Bay, Dream Market, and Trade Route....

While the explosion of modern online dating has connected people romantically and sexually on an unprecedented level, it’s also not without its share of problems, particular if you’re a woman. Harassment, hostility, and objectification towards women via dating apps are consistently exposed on the Instagram pages Bye Felipe, Tinder Nightmares, Beam Me Up Softboi, and Hinge is Hell. Deception via catfishing and kitten-fishing is prevalent, and many people know someone (if not ourselves) that has been ghosted....

Way back in 2015, Forrester Research interviewed digital leaders at enterprise organizations and found that, on average, they were maintaining 268 customer-facing sites, which at the time felt like a huge number. Well, five years have passed, and enterprise organizations are now managing thousands of apps, with some corporations running tens of thousands of domains at once and others running hundreds of apps for thousands of clients. Public-facing sites and applications have proliferated across organizations, from global CPG and life-sciences companies to colleges and universities, agencies, and software companies....

Today, I’m gonna talk about Apple’s butterfly keyboard. More specifically, its demise — something worthy of both mourning and celebration. “Hold on,” I hear you screech, “what the fuck is the butterfly keyboard?” First off, language. You can find a long-form answer to your question here, but the TL;DR is it’s basically an Apple-designed keyboard mechanism that was meant to deliver a lower typing profile and better tapping experience. Thing is — and this is a vital consideration — it fucking sucked harder than a Henry hoover at a Hackney houseparty....

If you want to start working in the tech sector or if you’re already an IT pro, but want to expand your skillset, we’ve got an option for you. Actually, it’s 10 options, but who’s counting? We pulled together some of the best deals available right now on some of the most in-demand talents a working IT professional can showcase on a resume. The Beginner Cloud Architect Professional Training Bundle Ft....

To curb the spread of COVID-19, the French Academy of Medicine – an independent body of leading French doctors and scientists – has called on commuters to “avoid talking or making phone calls” on metros, buses, or anywhere in public where social distancing is not an option. Masks have been mandatory on public transport in France since May, but concerns about travelers disobeying the rules or removing them to talk on the phone or to others have prompted the call....

The messages varied in their exact wording, but generally followed a similar format: For example, Elon Musk’s tweet read: All tweets featured the same Bitcoin address. Meanwhile, several accounts for major cryptocurrency companies featured fake tweets announcing a partnership with an organization called ‘Crypto for Health.’ Naturally, this link pointed to the same scam. You send $1,000, I send back $2,000! Only doing this for the next 30 minutes. bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh”...

In many ways, the short history of self-driving cars is reminiscent of the early decades of artificial intelligence research. Scientists constantly promised that human-level AI (or artificial general intelligence) was just around the corner. But as they dug deeper and deeper, they faced the hard truth that replicating the functions of the human mind is more challenging than we thought. Seven decades of AI research have not been enough to create computers that have the commonsense and general problem-solving capabilities of humans....

The 33-year-old named as Berry van M. was director of two companies which claimed to sell Bitcoin mining machines. The perpetrator is said to have operated the machines from a mining firm, De Gelderlander reports. Through what sounds like cloud mining contracts, the Dutch miscreant had promised investors a return of around 0.3 Bitcoin ($2,300 at the time of writing) per month. However, the investors never received these returns, nor could they get their hands on the computers they believe they invested in....

The county council said that letting electric vehicles use the bus lanes serves as an additional incentive to get drivers out of their combustion engine vehicles and into EVs. — road.cc (@roadcc) January 14, 2021 Bus lanes are designed to give some priority to those that use public transport, meaning that they don’t get stuck in traffic jams and can stick to their scheduled times. [Read: How Netflix shapes mainstream culture, explained by data] While we’re all for getting more people into electric cars, we’re also keen on supporting our roads’ most vulnerable users, such as pedestrians and cyclists....

The announcement is exciting, invoking deep emotions of hope and adventure. But I can’t help having a number of moral reservations about it. Musk has declared a fascinatingly short time line to achieve orbit with this rocket. He wants to build four or five versions of the vehicle in the next six months. The first rocket will do a test launch to 20km within a month, and the final version will orbit the Earth....