Author: Tech Support

    • Q&A with Chris Best, CEO of Substack: the company has seen revenue increase 60% and readership and writership double in the first three months of the pandemic (Biz Carson/Protocol)

    Biz Carson / Protocol: Q&A with Chris Best, CEO of Substack: the company has seen revenue increase 60% and readership and writership double in the first three months of the pandemic  —  And why he thinks his VC-backed platform can avoid making some of the judgment calls that Facebook and Twitter are currently wrestling with.

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    Software developers make over $100,000 a year. If that’s a paycheck you want, this can help get you there

    TLDR: The courses in The Software Developer Certification Bundle teach various coding languages, valuable developing tools and even the business acumen to succeed. There’s a great lesson to be learned from all the time we’ve been spending working in our homes the past few months.  When you have to fight commute traffic, deal with frustrating

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    • China's $1.4T tech campaign includes a massive 5G project, aiming for 600K base stations by end of 2020, relies on money from private sector, local governments (Liza Lin/Wall Street Journal)

    Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: China’s $1.4T tech campaign includes a massive 5G project, aiming for 600K base stations by end of 2020, relies on money from private sector, local governments  —  Beijing plans to spend $1.4 trillion in the next five years in sectors including 5G, artificial intelligence and data centers China's .4T

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    • Reddit faces renewed scrutiny over racism on the platform, as moderators claiming to represent 200M users sign open letter in its largest ever collective action (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)

    Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: Reddit faces renewed scrutiny over racism on the platform, as moderators claiming to represent 200M users sign open letter in its largest ever collective action  —  Social-media platforms can’t evade the scrutiny that so many other institutions in America are currently under. Reddit faces renewed scrutiny over racism on the

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    • Report: EOS platform, which raised $4B in ICO in 2018, has seen developer activity decline by 85% YoY; Ethereum has 80% of all smart contracts and dapps space (Alexander Behrens/Decrypt)

    Alexander Behrens / Decrypt: Report: EOS platform, which raised $4B in ICO in 2018, has seen developer activity decline by 85% YoY; Ethereum has 80% of all smart contracts and dapps space  —  New research from Outlier Ventures lays out the landscape of blockchain development in the crypto space.  And things aren’t looking good for

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    • Microsoft is aware of a bug affecting Windows 10 PCs with a printer connected via USB that renders the USB port unusable; patch is coming in a future OS update (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

    Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft is aware of a bug affecting Windows 10 PCs with a printer connected via USB that renders the USB port unusable; patch is coming in a future OS update  —  Windows 10 users are reporting that they are unable to print using devices from multiple vendors after installing updates …

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    • Boston-based Kyruus, which provides analytics and scheduling software for health care systems, raises $30M, bringing its total raised to $155M (Srividya Kalyanaraman/AmericanInno)

    Srividya Kalyanaraman / AmericanInno: Boston-based Kyruus, which provides analytics and scheduling software for health care systems, raises $30M, bringing its total raised to $155M  —  Kyruus, Boston-based analytics and scheduling software provider for healthcare systems, pulled in $30 million, led by Bay-area private equity firm Francisco Partners. Boston-based Kyruus, which provides analytics and scheduling software

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    • Facebook fired an employee for challenging his colleague's silence on Twitter over company's inaction regarding Trump posts (Katie Paul/Reuters)

    Katie Paul / Reuters: Facebook fired an employee for challenging his colleague’s silence on Twitter over company’s inaction regarding Trump posts  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) fired an employee who had criticized Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to take action against inflammatory posts … Facebook fired an employee for challenging his

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    • Big tech companies are responding to George Floyd in a way they never did for Michael Brown

    Photo illustration by William Joel | Photography by Michael B. Thomas/AFP via Getty Images,  Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Amazon, Apple, Facebook and their peers put out statements of solidarity against racial injustice for George Floyd, but were stunningly silent six years ago. Now, they’re donating more money. Continue reading… Big tech companies are responding to George

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