RStudio’s Barret Schloerke this week offered Shiny developers details of an R package that promises to improve testing for R Shiny applications. shinytest2 version 0.1.0, on CRAN since Wednesday, allows for automated testing of Shiny web app interactivity. That testing is done via chromote, a headless Chrome browser. During a presentation at a Shiny conference
Read MoreSigning out of your YouTube account is a quick and easy surface-level way to safeguard your channel. If you forget to log out of YouTube on a device that doesn’t belong to you, anyone who starts using it may see your personal information and mess with your channel. Whenever someone else uses your laptop or
Read MoreThe first thing you should do when building a YouTube channel is give it a recognizable profile picture. The first thing people see when clicking on your video is the thumbnail. After opening your video, their eyes will likely wander down to the channel the video was posted on. If you have a generic profile
Read MoreYou can work up a sweat and have some fun with sports in this 2022 collection of minigames. Wii…no, Nintendo Switch Sports is here! Nintendo’s latest physical activity-focused game builds on its long tradition of sports titles using motion controls. There’s a wide range of games to play, both against the AI and with your
Read More[ITman496] is one of us hackers working his way around health problems, in his case, a back injury. He is eager to solve various difficulties he has to deal with, and in case of the video he made, it was about moving a large trashcan through ice-covered roads on his property. Not willing to risk
Read MoreSometimes we can’t help but be curious about who is checking out our social media profiles and watching our posts. If nothing else, it can be a good measure of what marketing tactics are working and how much you’re getting noticed. Here’s how to see who views your TikToks. Read more: How to delete videos on
Read MoreNew York Times: Instacart plans a strategy shift to sell software to grocers and more ads in its app, trying to avoid becoming another pandemic boom company that has fizzled — The grocery delivery start-up parted ways with its founder, slashed its valuation and shifted its strategy after sales slowed.
Read MoreChelaybinsk Meteor trace, 2013 Residents of several southern states both saw and heard a visitor from outer space this week. NASA is reporting over 30 people caught a glimpse of a fireball hurtling towards Earth. Many more residents of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi didn’t see the object, but heard it just fine. There were myriad
Read MoreA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti onboard, Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4
Read MoreYour YouTube channel name is your brand. When you publish videos, people identify your content with your channel. That said, there may come a time when you become dissatisfied with your current channel name. Perhaps you created your account when you were younger and your channel name seems childish. Perhaps you switched topics and, instead
Read MoreChristine Hall / TechCrunch: Brazil-based Inventa, a wholesale marketplace for SMBs to find suppliers, raises a $55M Series B led by Greylock, bringing its total funding to $80M — When Inventa sees a good opportunity to grab some extra capital, it takes it. However, as you will see, it is on a trajectory of fast
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Six months after predicting the global chip shortage would last until at least 2023, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is now suggesting it might be 2024 before we’re fully out of the woods. “[W]e believe the overall semiconductor shortage will now drift into 2024, from our earlier estimates in
Read MoreSave those FaceTime calls for later. FaceTime calls are a great way to stay in touch with people you care about, whether on an iOS device or a Mac. However, what do you do if you want to save those special moments or use FaceTime as an interview tool? Luckily, using your Mac or iPhone,
Read MoreCasey Newton / Platformer: At an all-hands, CEO Parag Agrawal acknowledged Twitter was vulnerable to a takeover since it had historically underachieved and asked staff to “embrace change” — CEO Parag Agrawal on five years of regrets — Late Thursday night, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced the company …
Read MoreWarner Bros. While Warner Bros.’ and Mattel Films’ upcoming Barbie movie is sure to have some level of self-awareness about its main character’s status as a real-world cultural icon, Mattel is taking a firm stance against featuring the iconic doll’s very unofficial anthem that basically everyone knows by heart. The small tease of Greta Gerwig’s
Read MoreVideo content is the crux of YouTube as a platform. If users couldn’t upload videos, YouTube would serve zero purpose in today’s media landscape. Since 2005, YouTube has become the second most visited site, second only to its parent company Google. Content creators have been able to pay their bills by posting popular—sometimes even iconic—videos.
Read MoreAs the Season of Alola continues, a new event is coming to Pokémon Go. The Pokémon Air Adventures event will see the return of Flying Pikachu, an abundance of flying Pokémon, and the debut of Pokémon Go’s first Mega Evolved Legendary Pokémon: Mega Latios and Mega Latias. Fortunately, we here at iMore have everything you
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey, and others who disliked Twitter’s direction pushed Elon Musk to launch a bid; Musk is dismayed that Trump is still banned — Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent Tesla CEO’s ear; Jack Dorsey’s role — Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Model Y in 2019.
Read MoreIt’s a fair bet that anyone regularly reading Hackaday has a voltmeter within arm’s reach, and there’s a good chance an oscilloscope isn’t far behind. But beyond that, things get a little murky. We’re sure some of you have access to a proper lab full of high-end test gear, even if only during business hours,
Read MoreIssie Lapowsky / Protocol: Salesforce plans to extend California’s Silenced No More Act protections, which limit the scope of NDAs, to all US employees in 2022, after shareholder pressure — Salesforce just became the latest tech giant to commit to limiting the scope of its non-disclosure agreements …
Read MoreA tractor drives through a giant pile of plastic bottles at the San Francisco Recycling Center April 22, 2008 in San Francisco, California. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California will investigate whether fossil fuel companies have broken the law by perpetuating myths about plastic recycling, Attorney General Rob Bonta announced yesterday. The investigation marks
Read MoreIt isn’t the first time. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Activision Blizzard is facing another complaint to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that it’s trying to keep employees from talking about their working conditions, despite their legally protected rights to do so. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) has filed an
Read MoreMari Yamamoto as Hana | Apple Ahead of Pachinko’s season 1 finale, Apple has just renewed its adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s best-selling novel for a second season. Today, Apple announced that it’s moving forward with more of series creator Soo Hugh’s multigenerational story about a family of Korean immigrants surviving and thriving in Japan
Read MoreThe dream of robot vacuums (and mops) has always been a product that cleans a whole floor with minimal maintenance. Many cleaning robots do enough but still fall short of the ideal. The Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni is part of a new generation of products that promise to get as close to that dream as
Read MoreDevin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Anthropic, founded by ex-OpenAI VP of research Dario Amodei to explore large-scale AI systems, raises a $580M Series B led by FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried — Less than a year ago, Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI VP of research Dario Amodei, intending to perform research in the public interest …
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