Day: December 4, 2018

Javascript and jQuery keep the web alive. It’s why you should learn them now for $29

JavaScript and its super-efficient application aide jQuery are virtual musts in your toolbox. Now, you can learn ‘em both — in just an hour each. Those are just two of the courses in this extensive collection of instruction we call the Complete Javascript and jQuery Programming bundle. Javascript and jQuery keep the web alive. It’s

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Review of $349 Nokia 7.1: has a sharp and colorful screen, snappy performance, and fast software updates due to Android One, making for a great value smartphone (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Review of $349 Nokia 7.1: has a sharp and colorful screen, snappy performance, and fast software updates due to Android One, making for a great value smartphone  —  But what’s on the inside matters, too  —  What matters more: how a phone looks or how it performs? Review of 9

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Facebook makes Collections shareable, allowing users to share gift ideas or shopping lists with friends (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Facebook makes Collections shareable, allowing users to share gift ideas or shopping lists with friends  —  This holiday season, Facebook is hoping you’ll use a relatively little-known feature to share your gift ideas.  —  With collections, users can already save Facebook content … Facebook makes Collections shareable, allowing users to share

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Cryptocurrency whales increase Ethereum stacks by 80% in 2018

There’s no doubt the 2018 bear market has been rough, but some cryptocurrency traders have been taking advantage. Actively trading whales have accumulated more Ethereum this year than at any other time in its history. Blockchain research unit Diar analysed more than 5200 Ethereum addresses to discover cryptocurrency whales who trade regularly are sitting on

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Inside Google's Area 120, the company's in-house startup incubator founded in 2016 that has since greenlighted about 50 projects by Google employees (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Inside Google’s Area 120, the company’s in-house startup incubator founded in 2016 that has since greenlighted about 50 projects by Google employees  —  Google’s “20% time“-the long-standing perk that invites employees to carve off a fifth of their working hours to devote to personal projects … Inside Google’s Area 120,

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Zoom bug let attackers hijack your screens during conference calls

Videoconferencing is almost always terrible at the best of times, but can you imagine someone taking control of your screen during a meeting and sending inappropriate messages to the other attendees? Zoom patched this kind of vulnerability in the desktop app for its video chat service last week to save people from a conference call

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Ripple and NEM launch EU blockchain association to cozy up to regulators

Blockchain firms want to stay on the good side of Europe, it seems. Ripple, NEM, and company have founded a new association to represent the interests of blockchain and cryptocurrency businesses across the continent. The so-called “Blockchain for Europe” association claims to be the first unified voice for the industry on European soil. The undertaking

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US government building tools to deanonymize anonymous cryptocurrencies

If you thought you were safe using privacy coins like Zcash and Monero you might want to think again. It appears that the US Department of Homeland Security (DoHS) is looking to develop forensic analysis techniques for privacy-focused cryptocurrencies like Zcash and Monero, according to a pre-solicitation document spotted by The Block. The document was

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2018 State of European Tech report: funding reached a record $23B, all-male founders get 93% of capital, almost 50% women suffer discrimination in workplace (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)

Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: 2018 State of European Tech report: funding reached a record $23B, all-male founders get 93% of capital, almost 50% women suffer discrimination in workplace  —  The 2018 State of European Tech report, now in its fourth year, was released today.  Assembled by investment firm Atomico … 2018 State of European Tech

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Teensy Liberates the ThinkPad Keyboard

[Frank Adams] liked the keyboard on his Lenovo ThinkPad T61 so much that he decided to design an adapter so he could use it over USB with the Teensy microcontroller. He got the Trackpoint working, and along the way managed to add support for a number of other laptop boards as well. Before you know

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After Jack Dorsey's trip to India and encounter with the harassment Dalits face on Twitter, it's time to include minorities in talks of platform accountability (Thenmozhi Soundararajan/New York Times)

Thenmozhi Soundararajan / New York Times: After Jack Dorsey’s trip to India and encounter with the harassment Dalits face on Twitter, it’s time to include minorities in talks of platform accountability  —  Dalits and other Indian gender, religious, tribal and ethnic minorities are regularly harassed on Twitter by right-wing troll armies. After Jack Dorsey’s trip

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Sexual violence should never be the goal of a video game

For the ongoing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can protect people against sexual assault and harassment, and how it can help and support survivors. **Trigger warning** The following article describes graphic sexual violence against women in video games. In Custer’s Revenge, Civil War commander General Custer needs to get from

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Japanese authorities form pact to hunt cryptocurrency tax evaders

Big time cryptocurrency traders in Japan could be getting a letter from the tax man next year. The Japanese government is developing a system to catch those who are not paying the appropriate taxes on the profits made from cryptocurrency trading, according to local news. According to sources close to the matter, the system would

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Sources: Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge as the default browser on Windows 10 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge as the default browser on Windows 10  —  Microsoft’s Edge web browser has seen little success since its debut on Windows 10 back in 2015.  Built from the ground up with a new rendering engine known as EdgeHTML

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Microsoft is reportedly building a Chromium-based browser to replace Edge

Windows Central reports that Microsoft is working on a replacement for its Edge web browser – which is the default option in Windows 10 – that will use Google’s Chromium base under the hood. If that’s legit, it’ll see Microsoft swap out the EdgeHTML engine it built from scratch for the one that’s part of

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Profile of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, the only Google Senior Fellows, who joined the company in 1999 and have pair-programmed some of its key infrastructure (James Somers/New Yorker)

James Somers / New Yorker: Profile of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, the only Google Senior Fellows, who joined the company in 1999 and have pair-programmed some of its key infrastructure  —  Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet. Profile of Jeff Dean

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Nvidia open sources its PhysX physics simulation engine

Nvidia has made its PhysX GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine open source, which means anyone can integrate into their games, as well as projects involving AI, robotics, and autonomous vehicle systems. PhysX was previously available to use in commercial projects for free, but the new BSD-3 license also allows people to modify the engine to suit

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