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TapeACall is about to get a lot more expensive

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The cost of TapeACall, the occasionally glitchy app many reporters use to record their interviews, will increase significantly in less than a month. I discovered this thanks to a pop-up notification when I opened the app, which alerted me that my annual subscription would increase from $29.99 to

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2024 Home Sweet Home Automation: A DIY SCADA smart home

Touch-screen control and monitoring Supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, systems sit in the background in industrial settings, performing all kinds of important jobs but in an ad-hoc setup, depending on the precise requirements of the installation. When we think about home automation systems, they’re pretty much the same deal: ad-hoc systems put together

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GitHub previews AI-powered code scanning autofix

GitHub is previewing code scanning autofix, a feature that combines its GitHub Copilot AI assistant with its CodeQL code scanner to provide suggested fixes to discovered vulnerabilities. Code scanning autofix is available in a public beta to GitHub Advanced Security customers. Launched March 20, code scanning autofix makes vulnerability fixes available right away as a

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Why Do People Let Their Life Insurance Lapse?

The abstract of a new paper published on Journal of Financial Economics: We study aggregate lapsation risk in the life insurance sector. We construct two lapsation risk factors that explain a large fraction of the common variation in lapse rates of the 30 largest life insurance companies. The first is a cyclical factor that is

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