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Among product teams, a Design Sprint is one of the many popular design methodologies that vie for their attention. A “Sprint”—in designer jargon—is a time-constrained, five-phase process that uses design thinking to reduce risk when designing a new product. As a product design approach, it’s gaining ground among designers, product managers, and others working in the realm of problem-solving and product innovation. Why? It works. A Design Sprint’s goal is to focus on a specific problem, generate multiple solutions, build prototypes, and get rapid feedback from users....

Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 reported the zero-day exploit. Mozilla claims to be aware of “targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw,” though it doesn’t say exactly how it’s being abused. It describes the problem as “Incorrect alias information in IonMonkey JIT compiler for setting array elements could lead to a type confusion.” Even the Department of Homeland Security is urging users to update their Firefox browser to the latest version....

Late last week, the NHTSA issued an update to the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). This document dictates what features vehicles should have and what safety testing they should be subject to, Autoblog reports. The update now recognizes the changing nature of vehicles on our streets, and acknowledges, in the case of self-driving cars, that they may not have a steering wheel, pedals, and other components typically required for human operation....

It’s natural for any hot new creation to rise, then fall. Even once meteorically hot social platforms like Facebook confront troubles and inevitably slip from their previous heights. Sounds like a place you’d really like to plant a very visible flag for your business, right? That’s the mission behind the training in The Complete Content Creator Bundle for YouTube ($39.99, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals). This 10-course collection with over 50 hours of in-depth training aims to do just that, using knowledge of YouTube, its procedures and its analytics to vault content under your brand to the top of viewership totals and bring potentially millions of new consumers to your offerings....

Zuckerberg began offloading shares on November 9, and he’s now generating nearly $12.10 million every day on average by selling his Facebook stock. The sales come at the tail end of a comparatively average year for Facebook stock. The social media giant’s share price has risen 37% in 2020, while the tech-heavy NASDAQ 100 index jumped 40%. Zuckerberg netted between $267 and $287 per share, with all sales made according to pre-set trading plans lodged with the US Securities and Exchange Commission....

The deepest of these cuts, by far, was Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. The most popular of Twitch’s stars, Ninja quickly rose to prominence thanks mostly to Fortnite. His celebrity is such that he can appear on a Super Bowl and even my non-gaming family members recognize him. So when he announced in August he’d be streaming exclusively on Mixer, Microsoft’s streaming site that used to be called Beam, his community was shaken....

Now, state agencies in Texas have succumbed to a ‘coordinated ransomware attack‘ that has impacted at least 23 local government entities across the state. The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR), which is leading the response and investigation into the incident, said the attacks started in the morning on August 16. Origins Unknown “The majority of these entities were smaller local governments,” the DIR said, adding evidence pointed to “one single threat actor....

Ten years seems to be about the right amount of time to get good at something, though some amount of natural talent or sheer drive can make it go faster. But growth is not as simple as waiting it out and talent does not supersede the need for experience. But before we delve into what I’ve learned from those 12 years, let’s look at my French proficiency. It matters, trust me....

Need a new phone? Hey, Presidents’ Day sales don’t discriminate, so if you’re in the market for some new essential personal hardware, we’re all about hooking that up. In fact, we’ve got a collection of deals that can not only put a new phone in your hand, but will also help trick out the standard smartphone for some premium sound, cinema-quality video and a battery life that’ll keep chugging along for days....

Even if you don’t share the same physical space, you’re still forced to communicate with said person on Slack, email, or both. What’s worse, the nuance of the real world doesn’t exist, and you’re likely struggling to contain yourself. Sound familiar? If so, don’t worry because you’re not alone. “Try as we might, we won’t like everyone and not everyone will like us. Even when we or they have done nothing wrong,” says Gethin Nadin, a psychologist and HR author....

What’s the first thing that people think of when they hear the word ‘developer’? For many people, it’s probably ‘money’ or maybe companies like ‘Facebook’ or ‘Google’. However, these topics don’t really reflect the work that developers do or the ways in which they view their career or their life. In fact, while only 8% of developers in Europe want to work for a FAANG, 35% want to work in an industry that’s working towards a good cause....

I love startups. I love anyone willing to go on that journey. So from the gate, I already want to do anything I can to help him out. When I eventually ran into him, we started chatting. He started pitching me his idea, and he spoke for 30, maybe 45, minutes. Finally he paused to take his first breath. I told him I thought his business idea was really cool, which it is....

At JetBrains, which grew from a small startup in Prague to an established company whose tools are used across 213 countries and territories, my colleagues and I had the early assumption that most developers speak English, for instance. It’s a requirement for developers at JetBrains to have good English skills, and most developers in our inner circle are fluent, so we thought it was a safe assumption to make. It isn’t....

But that kind of deceit would never happen in a professional setting… would it? By now, you’ve probably heard about the Madbird job scam that hit the news back in February. Madbird was advertised as a British-based design agency run by a charismatic and energetic leader, “Ali Ayad.” Ayad hired an impressive team of creatives, actively poached designers from other companies, frequently posted on LinkedIn, sent inspirational team updates, and continuously talked about the company’s expansion and growth....

In the modern, fast-paced, and highly competitive corporate stratosphere, content marketing has become more than just a technique to gain a competitive edge – it’s become a necessity. Today, if you want to gain leads and see those leads converting into customers, build a relationship with your audience, and present a consistently good image of your business, you need to put in place the bricks of a strong content marketing strategy....

Data-intensive video streaming, gaming, and live streaming for business, university, and school classes is chewing up energy. Estimates can be notoriously difficult and depend on the electricity source, but six hours of streaming video may be the equivalent of burning one liter of petrol, due to emissions from the electricity used to power the data centers which deliver the video. In fact, the energy associated with the global IT sector – from powering internet servers to charging smartphones – is estimated to have the same carbon footprint as the aviation industry’s fuel emissions (before planes were grounded)....

When your home market is locked in and you start looking further afield for your next target, it can be easy to think you have your playbook setup already. However, once the reality of having to select the RIGHT market, hire local talent, and face cultural nuances hits home, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. This is a particular challenge for European startup founders who want to make it big. Gernot Schwendtner, co-founder of weGrow International explained: At weGrow International, we’ve worked with more than 1,000 founders on 200+ expansion projects....

From old-school web and mobile apps to blockchain, AI, and AR/VR, healthcare organizations are exploring new applications that can improve patient care and experience, reduce costs, discover new treatments, and more. Here are eight developer roles that are in high demand in healthcare. Data scientists and machine learning engineers Some of the most exciting developments in medicine and healthcare have been expedited thanks to advances in machine learning and data science....

A number of US-based firms have responded by exploring the viability of a “global parallel system” that would allow the world’s cryptocurrency exchanges to share data in a bid to remain compliant, Bloomberg reports. Hedge funds and investment firms that specialize in digital assets could experience trading delays and increased costs for making transactions. Industry insiders have also warned of increased compliance costs, and say businesses that shirk their responsibilities could end up shutting down altogether....

No-code is a way to program websites, mobile apps and games without using codes or scripts, or sets of commands. People readily learn from visual cues, which led to the development of “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) document and multimedia editors as early as the 1970s. WYSIWYG editors allow you to work in a document as it appears in finished form. The concept was extended to software development in the 1990s....