The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition, a nonprofit that promotes “open, affordable, high-quality broadband connections,” has issued a roadmap for 2021, laying out what it will be pursuing in its mission of supplying internet access to an estimated 42 million unconnected people in the United States. 9 Priorities for Closing the Digital Divide Source:
Read MoreIt depends on what you mean by “secret,” and also “success.” The Secrets of Instagram Growth-Hacking Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreSome of us can be a little too diligent when dealing with email or text spam—because whatever you do, you shouldn’t click “unsubscribe” links or text “stop” in reply, as they literally mean “subscribe” and “please, go on” to illicit spammers. Read more… Why You Should Never 'Unsubscribe' From Illicit Spam Emails and Texts Source:
Read MoreHigher education’s response to the pandemic has required agility, flexibility and perhaps most important, innovation. Join us Feb. 24 for this free one-day event, in which education and IT leaders will share how they are managing the challenges of remote work and learning, adapting to change and solving problems with outside-the-box ideas and practices. New
Read MoreDan Berthiaume / Chain Store Age: Amazon says it reviewed ~10K product listings each day in 2020 and removed 2M+ in total for violating its policies and guidelines, 1.5M+ via automated tools — Amazon is using a combination of automated and manual review of products and content on its site to flag and remove offensive
Read MoreYou can now have a haunted home in “The Sims 4,” so of course I built Tanglewood from “Phasmophobia.” I recreated ‘Phasmophobia’ in ‘The Sims 4’ with the game’s new paranormal pack Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreLast Sunday evening I remembered that I had a pork tenderloin sitting in the fridge. I had taken it out of the freezer two days before, and was suddenly gripped with anxiety over it going bad before I had a chance to cook and eat it. I had been planning to bop over to SF
Read MoreI fell in love with cable driven mechanisms a few years ago and put together some of my first mechanical tentacles to celebrate. But only after playing with them did I start to understand the principles that made them work. Today I want to share one of the most important equations to keep in mind
Read MorePhoto by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles was the biggest COVID-19 testing site in the United States, with the ability to test over 10,000 people each day. But two weeks into January, amid a chaotic and slow-moving COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the city shut down the site in order to convert
Read MoreYou might already use Spotify to supply a round-the-clock soundtrack of music and podcasts while you navigate work and life, but the platform is giving you another reason to keep its app open all day with a new offering: Audiobooks. Read more… How to Listen to Audiobooks on Spotify Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreThe head of video games giant Valve says future brain-computer interfaces could change how players feel. Gabe Newell believes BCIs will soon create superior experiences to what we can perceive through our eyes and ears alone. “But that’s not where it gets weird,” he told New Zealand’s 1 News. “Where it gets weird is when who you are
Read MoreIt appears you can still upgrade to Windows 10 for free, as Microsoft is keen to get Windows 7 users to upgrade. Windows 7 is dead, but you can still upgrade to Windows 10 for free – here’s how to get it Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreInternet outages and slowed services hit many areas of the East Coast just as the work day was ramping up Tuesday. Big Internet outages hit the East Coast, causing issues for Verizon, Zoom, Slack, Gmail Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In Apple and Epic’s ongoing court battle over App Store fees, one of the key sticking points has been Apple’s insistence on maintaining a 30 percent cut as a cornerstone of the storefront. But newly revealed Apple executive emails from the case show that the App Store rules
Read MoreTLDR: Lightkey Pro studies how you write, then predicts what you’ll write next up to 12 words so you can add it to your emails and documents with just a click. There’s a reason answering emails starts to feel like shoveling snow during a Minnesota January. The moment you think you’re finished, you turn around
Read MoreOur kids’ online lives can feel like a bit of a mystery. Particularly if they are into gaming, they might sit—headphones on and behind closed doors—for hours at a time, leaving you wondering who they’re interacting with and what those conversations are like. If that’s the case, one popular gamer has advice for… Read more…
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon Fios, the company’s fiber optic network, appears to be experiencing outages in many locations on the US East Coast. There are more than 22,000 user reports of problems with Verizon on Downdetector, and there appear to be hotspots on Downdetector’s outage map for Verizon in Boston, New
Read MoreMariella Moon / Engadget: Samsung says its latest OLED screen tech, launching in the Galaxy S21 Ultra, reduces the display’s power consumption by up to 16% — When Samsung launched the Galaxy S21 Ultra, it talked about how the device’s screen supports refresh rates of 120Hz at both full HD and Quad HD resolutions. Samsung
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: Vectorized launches Redpanda, an open source tool to help developers to build streaming data applications, and announces $3M seed and $12.5M Series A — Streaming data is not new. Kafka has existed as an open source tool for a decade. Vectorized was founded on the premise that the existing tools …
Read MoreSwetha Gopinath / Bloomberg: UK-based online greetings card retailer Moonpig plans to raise £384M in its London IPO, pricing shares at £3.10 to £3.50 and valuing the company at £1B-£1.2B — – Shares in the IPO are being marketed at 310 pence to 350 pence — Price range values the company at up to 1.2
Read MoreThe animated feature hits Disney Plus and theaters in March. Raya and the Last Dragon trailer reveals Disney movie's con-baby – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBlackBerry may not be the stalwart it once was with phones, but its ties continue to deepen in the automotive realm. BlackBerry will power Baidu technology for future Chinese EVs – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe next robot on Mars will touch down in a few weeks, and the space agency has the rundown on how that’s expected to go. How to watch NASA preview its Perseverance Mars rover landing – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Calendly, a popular meeting scheduling service, raises $350M from OpenView Venture Partners and Iconiq at a $3B+ valuation — We’re all meeting virtually, and Calendly has raised $350M to help us plan and track it all — One big theme in tech right now is the rise of services … Calendly,
Read MoreThe Japanese heavy-equipment manufacturer could start mass-producing battery-powered diggers as soon as 2023. Komatsu is developing all-electric excavators – Roadshow Source: CNet
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