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The hiring funnel The process of recruiting, hiring, and retaining employees would be too long to explain in here. Let’s just say that people smarter than me have identified the four majors steps of the hiring funnel: Identifying candidates Motivating them to apply Evaluating them for your company Closing and get them to join This article focuses on the second step: How your organization can send positive signals about the engineering culture of your organization for recruiting purposes....

Because I’m an optimist, this is how I choose to believe computers work too. Don’t believe all the naysayers out there who claim that a laptop and a body are totally different things and work in utterly different ways. They’re small minded. Getting a virus or malware on your machine won’t damage it long-term, instead it’ll make it stronger. And that’s better than a fact, that’s a belief. This is why you’ve got to ensure your Mac is brimming with the most vicious and nefarious malware around....

February 21st, 2019, the Japanese space agency’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft touched down on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu — the orbit of which brings it between Earth and Mars — granting researchers at close-up look at the object’s rocky-surface. The images, released in a paper published in the journal Science, come as a precursor to samples that will be returned to the research team in December 2020. The detailed observations promise to help astronomers better understand both the age and geological history of the body and grant insights into the material that formed the planets....

A team of researchers at the University of Michigan, working with another group in Japan, detailed a number of attacks just like this one in a recent paper. All of the attacks use focused light to manipulate modern smart devices, sometimes from more than a football field away. How does it work? According to the researchers: In other words, the built-in microphones that detect sound waves in your voice will react to focused light in the same way....

In the race to be crowned 2020’s most-profitable ETF, there’s one actively managed fund slaying the competition: ARK Invest’s Next Generation Internet (ARKW), up almost 40% year-to-date. [Read: Zoom is up 250% this year: it’s now worth more than AMD and General Electric] For scale, the wider tech sector (as represented by the NASDAQ 100 (NDX)) has risen by a comparatively small 12.5%, and the S&P 500 (SPX), which tracks the top 500 US-listed companies regardless of industry, is actually down 4....

Gale Crater, explored by the Curiosity rover, provided data showing distinct signs of a titanic flood, roughly four billion years in the past. This finding could provide further evidence that Mars once had a climate suitable for the development of primitive life. “We identified megafloods for the first time using detailed sedimentological data observed by the rover Curiosity. Deposits left behind by megafloods had not been previously identified with orbiter data,” Alberto Fairén, a visiting astrobiologist in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, stated....

How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had access to our own Solar System. However, the discovery of planets around distant stars in the 1990s made it clear that the picture was much more complicated than we knew. In new research, we have spotted a hot, Jupiter-like gas giant in the process of forming around a star about 500 light-years from Earth....

Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 17, and her boyfriend, Jay Cook, 20, left Victoria, British Columbia on November 18, 1987 for what was supposed to be an overnight trip to the Seattle area. The next day, when the couple hadn’t returned home as planned, Van Cylenborg’s family started to get worried. It was “out of character” they said for her not to make contact, or to return home. A day later, on November 20, the two were officially reported missing....

The feature is a long time coming. It’s been available in Mexico and Spain for some time, but US users have been waiting for some time. According to some metrics, the US has more Spanish speakers than anywhere else in the world outside of Mexico. With Spanish support also comes Multi-lingual mode. Once activated, you’ll be able to speak to Alexa in either English or Spanish without having to manually switch the language every time....

India has Red, Orange, and Green zones to denote the severity of the spread of coronavirus in those areas (Red being the worst affected). Currently, 130 districts are classified as Red, 284 as Orange, and 319 as Green. According to new orders, these online retailers will be able to deliver non-essential items, but with certain caveats. They’ll be able to deliver these items only in green and orange zones — districts defined by the Indian government with no or limited amount of coronavirus spread....

[Read: Google Duo majorly improves low-bandwidth video quality with new codec] This partnership will also hopefully help the ecommerce giant in improving relationships with local sellers in the country. In January, during Jeff Bezos’s visit, members of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), a union of small traders, held protests against the company for its alleged predatory pricing strategy. Yesterday, Facebook invested $5.7 billion in India’s biggest carrier Reliance Jio....

The UK based shared experiences platform reached an unprecedented growth explosion. Founded in June 2019, at the time Hopin was a humble operation of eight people. Just two years later, it’s already become one of Europe’s most coveted tech unicorns, having raised over $1 billion since February 2020. It’s now a global operation of 800 employees. “Going from just an idea to a product so many people around the world have now used, in only two years, is an impressive story of growth and focus....

3D printing allows you to build all sorts of gadgets and gizmos, fix things without having to locate specialty components, and solve problems you didn’t even realize you had. You can build sporks! Folding coat hangers! Ratchet wrenches! Wheelchairs for dogs! If it has a shape, you can probably print it. But 3D printing is slow. Until I tested my first 3D printer – one of the most highly-regarded on the market, mind you – I don’t think I really grasped how much patience is required to iterate on a design....

The system could help clean up the 8 million tons of plastic trash that enter our oceans every year, harming marine species, human health, tourism, and the climate. The litter is typically assessed by direct observations from boats and planes. But the vast ocean areas and volumes of data make it hard for researchers to accurately monitor the impact. Marlit reduces the workload by applying AI to images of the seas....

The keyboard changes echo what we’ve seen on other MacBooks. The old butterfly mechanism was prone to problems and wasn’t all that comfortable to type on with just 0.7mm of travel. The new keyboard bumps that up to 1mm and uses trusted scissor switches that won’t spazz on you so badly if you happen to get gunk stuck under a key. It also features a physical escape key, and the arrow keys use an inverted T layout It’s just a better typing experience overall....

You can file a claim and expect to get some amount from Apple. The claim cover will any US-based owner of iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, 7, 7Plus or SE that ran iOS 10.2.1 or above; it’ll also cover owners of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus with iOS 11.2 before December 21, 2017. The final amount of penalty will depend upon the number of people filing claims....

The ancient galaxy GN-z11 likely formed just 420 million years after the Big Bang, when the Universe was just 3% as old as it is today. Such an age would place this family of stars near the edge of the observable Universe. This galaxy formed at the dawn of the era of reionization when light first filled the Cosmos. A long time ago, there was a galaxy far, far away… The galaxy GM-z11 was first seen in March 2016, and astronomers immediately recognized it as one of the oldest galaxies ever seen....

Asus is trying to change that with its new line of commercial laptops under the Expertbook moniker in India. The company claims that these laptops not only lightweight, but also powerful and secure. I got to use the new Asus Experbook B9 for a couple of weeks and I’m frankly impressed — it’s sleek, it packs a lot of features, and it’s got excellent battery life. Before we talk more about the device, let’s take a look at its specifications....

Road transport is one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions and represented 16% of Australia’s total carbon dioxide emissions in 2000, growing to 21% in 2016. Total CO₂ emissions from road transport increased by almost 30% in the period 2000-16. Fuel efficiency (CO₂ emission) standards have been adopted in around 80% of the global light vehicle market to cap the growth of transport emissions. This includes the United States, the European Union, Canada, Japan, China, South Korea, and India – but not Australia....

The promise A January 2020 joint report issued by the National Science and Technology Council and U.S. Department of Transportation paints a bright picture of an autonomous-enabled future. They predict autonomous vehicles will provide “improved quality of life, access, and mobility for all citizens.” Replacing the driver with an autonomous system will create safer transportation by removing the “possibility of human error.” In addition, synchronizing vehicle movement with distance and traffic patterns would not only result in more efficient servicebut safer roadway navigation....