If you’ve never heard of Lean Six Sigma, it’s basically a distillation of Lean and Six Sigma, two of the most popular project management methods around. By using elements of both systems, Lean Six Sigma approaches any business project with the same philosophy: eliminating mistakes and waste leads to improved results and happy stakeholders. Of course, that’s all easier said than done. But with the training found in The Lean Six Sigma Expert Training Bundle ($49, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals), you’ll learn the steps to putting that structure in place on any project to optimize your shot at success....

With summer temperatures already starting to ratchet up across the U.S., residents everywhere are bracing for those sky-high summer utility bills and already trying to take steps to keep those costs in check this year. With homeowners and renters in states like Arizona facing energy bills of over $470 to cool their homes this summer, everyone needs to consider ways of staying cool that don’t involve firing up that central cooling system....

Let’s build a new internet together. — Richard Socher (@RichardSocher) December 8, 2020 Heads up: It looks like TechCrunch’s Ron Miller caught the scoop. According to them, Socher wants to “differentiate from Google by not relying on advertising.” The big idea here, per the article and the You.com website, involves using advanced natural langauge processing to surface more relevant search results without having to rely on targeted-data/advertising. This would, at least in theory, allow for a “truly private” yet fully functional search engine....

That’s according to the Wall Street Journal, which reported the first ever case of AI-based voice fraud — aka vishing (short for “voice phishing”) — that cost a company $243,000. In a sign that audio deepfakes are becoming eerily accurate, criminals sought the help of commercially available voice-generating AI software to impersonate the boss of a German parent company that owns a UK-based energy firm. They then tricked the latter’s chief executive into urgently wiring said funds to a Hungarian supplier in an hour, with guarantees that the transfer would be reimbursed immediately....

The latest entry in the saga for humanity’s survival (read my colleague Rachel Kaser’s review here on TNW) doesn’t just feature a playable female protagonist (a first for the franchise), it also allows you to kit out your multiplayer persona with one of numerous Pride flags representing a spectrum of LGBTQPIA+ identities. 2019 has been a great year for inclusivity in gaming and it just keeps getting better. Apparently first spotted by Twitter user @ashiinu (above images used with permission), the game features at least 19 Pride flags representing gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, and other LGBTQPIA+ identities....

In this four hour course, you will learn how to leverage your personal Facebook page, business page, and advertising page to help scale your business. Alex will take you through 72 lectures that cover how to drive more engagement by creating headlines, setting up chatbots, and much more. The bread and butter of this course are centered on the formula to get virality to boost audience engagement. If you are looking to grow your business by leveraging the billions of potential fans on Facebook, look no further than Facebook Marketing 2019: 1,000% Engagement & Sales Strategies....

However, it’s not clear as to how exactly this step will benefit the open-source community in India. The company hasn’t announced region-specific pricing for its paid, or opened up its Patreon-like GitHub Sponsors program that allows people and companies to financially support developers directly. Erica Brescia, COO at GitHub, explained to me that currently there that currently, there are no special announcements for open-source programs. The company will initially hold community events to gather feedback from developers: Apart from events, the company plans to boost its campus representative programs with grants up to $1,000 through student hackathons....

The code management platform is not the only one heading in this direction. A bunch of other open-source projects and companies including the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), the Go programming language, and Grammarly have changed their terminology to remove terms that are racially suggestive. These entities have made changed whitelist and blacklist to allowlist and blocklist. A report from ZDNet noted that LinkedIn engineer Gabrial Csapo said he’s working to open issues in the company’s internal libraries that use these terms....

Compare this to the previous process which included numerous steps such as these: How did the change come about? It’s all thanks to extensive lobbying by EU and EEA consumer organizations. They authored a masterly titled 2021 report “You Can Log Out, But You Can Never Leave.” In other words, consumers who want to leave the service face many hurdles. These include complicated navigation menus, skewed wording, confusing choices, and repeated nudging....

While Google vs. IBM might make a good story, this disagreement between two of the world’s biggest technology companies rather distracts from the real scientific and technological progress behind both teams’ work. Despite how it might sound, even exceeding the milestone of quantum supremacy wouldn’t mean quantum computers are about to take over. On the other hand, just approaching this point has exciting implications for the future of technology. Quantum computers represent a new way of processing data....

Unfortunately, Google appears to have just killed them. I can only hope that’s because there’s an even better follow-up on the way. As noted by Android Police, Google has removed the Pixel Buds’ product page from its online store in the US and Canada. You can’t easily find a link to the Pixel Buds. Going there directly just tells you the product is out of stock and redirects you to the cheaper, $99 Pixel Buds A-Series....

The tool uses a deep neural net with 680 million parameters to better understand the context of misspelled words. It runs in 3 milliseconds — faster than one flap of a hummingbird’s wings, according to Google. The algorithm will be incorporated in Google’s “did you mean” feature by the end of the month. Cathy Edwards, VP of engineering at Google, said it will improve the feature “more in this one day than it has the last five years combined....

One of the biggest challenges we face as a society is how to meet this demand, while at the same time lowering global CO2 emissions. The solution? It’s no surprise that we need to rapidly expand our use of renewable energy sources. What’s often unclear are the hurdles we still need to overcome to get there. Some of the biggest challenges we face are: Infrastructure While we’re speeding up the collection of renewable energy with larger-scale wind and solar farms, one of the long-term changes we’ll need to focus on is creating the infrastructure to actually put this energy to use....

Last summer, 525 security researchers spent three months trying to hack our Morpheus processor as well as others. All attempts against Morpheus failed. This study was part of a program sponsored by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Program Agency to design a secure processor that could protect vulnerable software. DARPA released the results on the program to the public for the first time in January 2021. A processor is the piece of computer hardware that runs software programs....

However, hackers wanted to do nothing with the account. TNW got in touch with the hackers and they told me that it was just to squash a recent report that alleged the group had hacked Paytm Mall, a local ecommerce outlet. Paytm Mall denied any breach of their platform. The hackers also mentioned that the PM’s site, narendramodi.in, is riddled with bugs, and that they wanted to get in touch with its admins to sort these out....

No, folks, there isn’t. And that’s exactly what Hyundai has done. Remember the 1986 Grandeur, the company’s original flagship? On Tuesday, it was the car’s 35th anniversary. To honor it, Hyundai unveiled an electrified concept based on the classic vehicle. Exterior-wise, the Grandeur concept is still boxy as hell, although the lines have been smoothed out with a more elegant touch. Its old-school vibe is nevertheless reinvented for the present with a number of contemporary features, including pixelated LED headlights and taillights (like the ones you will find on the Ioniq 5), a chrome mesh grille and trim, and flat wheel covers....

When we feature one of these stellar giveaway packages full of incredibly cool stuff like this Big Summer of Gaming Giveaway prize collection, it’s easy to get distracted by the sheer avalanche of fun toys. Yes, of course you want to enter this free sweepstakes and take home a gaming collection that features…well, essentially everything. It includes a free PlayStation 5 and an Xbox Series X, both of which still can’t even stay on store shelves right now....

True to the promise, the change is a security upgrade for some of the Google Drive files you might have shared in the past. It will make it harder for malicious actors to find shared files that you didn’t want to expose to the public. But it doesn’t change anything about the fundamental security flaws of Google Drive’s link sharing feature. Link sharing on Google Drive There are basically two ways to share files on Google Drive....

Let me tell you about the future of work. You’ll work on something you love, without having to interview. You’ll work for numerous employers, all of which will pay you based on a contract you didn’t sign. You’ll compete for rewards with colleagues you don’t know, but you’ll see everything they do. You’ll get a say in the organization’s strategy, but so will all of its customers. You’ll be remote, global, and always “on”....

The company, which makes DIY electronic kits for children aged from four up to 11+, started small: around the founders’ kitchen table — it now operates in 97 countries. Over the years, Koby says she’s received plenty of advice — some good and other less so. “The best piece of advice I was given was that being an entrepreneur is a journey and not a destination. Also, no matter how big your business gets, you should know and care about everyone on your team — personally and professionally,” she says....