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Evan Spiegel on Snap's turnaround, how Snapchat's controversial redesign, after few fixes, increased the time users spend on premium content, Facebook, more (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Evan Spiegel on Snap’s turnaround, how Snapchat’s controversial redesign, after few fixes, increased the time users spend on premium content, Facebook, more  —  As the company turns a corner, the CEO says Snapchat’s controversial redesign is paying off  —  Last year, Snap Inc. Chief Executive … Evan Spiegel on Snap's turnaround, how

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Microsoft unveils a new logo for Edge Chromium, ahead of the release of the final version of the browser (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils a new logo for Edge Chromium, ahead of the release of the final version of the browser  —  The new icon is a wave surfing the web  —  Microsoft is refreshing the logo for its Chromium-based Edge browser.  The software giant originally unveiled its Edge icon more than

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Researchers spot the first successful attack using Windows BlueKeep vulnerability; the exploit is not a worm and installs cryptominers, instead of ransomware (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Researchers spot the first successful attack using Windows BlueKeep vulnerability; the exploit is not a worm and installs cryptominers, instead of ransomware  —  After months of warnings, the first successful attack using Microsoft’s BlueKeep vulnerability has arrived—but isn’t nearly as bad as it could have been. Researchers spot the first successful

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DIY Cassette Tape Guitar Delay

{$inline_image} Digital delay pedals are pretty good nowadays and even the cheaper ones do a pretty good job at emulating the sound of old analog delay effects. And that’s good, because the original delay effects can run you a pretty penny. If you’re in to DIY electronics, though, analog delay effects can still be built

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DIY Cassette Tape Guitar Delay

Digital delay pedals are pretty good nowadays and even the cheaper ones do a pretty good job at emulating the sound of old analog delay effects. And that’s good, because the original delay effects can run you a pretty penny. If you’re in to DIY electronics, though, analog delay effects can still be built without

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Unprotected database for popular "camgirl" sites run by Spain-based VTS Media exposed months worth of user activity logs and chats, details about sex workers (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Unprotected database for popular “camgirl” sites run by Spain-based VTS Media exposed months worth of user activity logs and chats, details about sex workers  —  A number of popular “camgirl” sites have exposed millions of sex workers and users after the company running the sites left the back-end database unprotected. Unprotected

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How data science could save 6 million lives from preventable death by 2030

An initiative that will use digital technologies such as artificial intelligence has been launched to empower community health workers, promising to help save the lives of at least six million children and women in ten countries by 2030. The Rockefeller Foundation initiative will be piloted in Uganda and India for its first phase that runs from this year to 2022.

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Profile of Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading (Gregory Zuckerman/Wall Street Journal)

Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal: Profile of Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading  —  Jim Simons was a middle-aged mathematician in a strip mall who knew little about finance.  He had to overcome his own doubts to turn Wall Street on

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