Now, in 2019, it’s exiting this business. That’s not really a surprise. Microsoft’s good at a lot of things, but it’s historically struggled with anything involving content. It makes no sense for it to throw resources at a niche market that isn’t even core to its business aspirations. But this means that from next month, anyone who bought an eBook from Microsoft will suddenly find it won’t work. Why? Three letters: DRM....
The company’s senior director of product & design, Sanaz Ahari, made the announcement on Twitter just a few hours ago. Thankfully, this is a server-side rollout, so you don’t need to manually update the app on your phone to enable this new functionality. — Sanaz (@sanazahari) March 27, 2020 Last year, the company added the ability for eight people to join a video call — same as competitor Houseparty — on the app....
Many countries are still largely shut down, while others are re-opening. Economies are initiating a reboot. Depending on the forecasting analysts, the 2020 automotive market may be down 10-15% in China and 15-25% in Europe and the USA. Even if it is too early to assess how much damage has been done, most actors are reducing their OPEX and CAPEX. Health-related behaviors are changing. This has started to trickle down to startups and tech development....
But why are radiator grilles pointless in electric cars? Let’s first remember their purpose in conventional vehicles. The grille is there to enable constant ventilation and to allow the outside air to reach the radiator, which cools down the engine. EVs don’t come with a stinky engine, which means that they don’t rely on this specific process. So does this mean that they don’t require cooling at all? Certainly not....
And it’s not always been plain sailing. While our fuzzy friends may seem cute and cuddly on the surface, in the ongoing battle between nature and technology, we all know who really rules the household. Many gadgets have tried to come out on top — and many have failed. From cats who don’t give a damn about your deadline: To pugs who are seriously unamused by the new sound box you’ve brought into their domain....
It’s only been five years since the last major redesign of the Ford F-150, not a long time historically in the truck world, but with competition heating up both in the traditional competitors and newcomers, Ford is pushing forward with the introduction of the all-new 2021 F-150, a remake of its best-selling and most lucrative model. The goal of the introduction this week, hosted by Ford spokesperson Dennis Leary and featuring a variety of Ford employees and F-150 customers, was to show that Ford is well-aware that its industry-leading position (best-selling truck for the past 43 years) is not something assumed, but an achievement to be re-earned every year....
The definition of “touchy” is “oversensitive and irritable,” which necessarily means they are a poor manager. Good managers are calm, rational, and are empathetic to the needs of their subordinates. What you have is better called a “boss,” as they allow their personality flaws to show in their managerial approach. Therefore, I read your question as, “How do I work around an oversensitive and irritable boss?” Working for a bad boss is often cited as the #1 reason why people quit their job, and I would be remiss not to recommend that you find a new position working for an experienced manager....
This is called the friendship paradox. This phenomenon states that most people have fewer friends than their friends have, on average. In this article, I will demonstrate why such a paradox exists, and whether we can find the paradox in Facebook data. Minimal example To understand why the friend paradox exists, let’s start with a minimal example. We will create a network of people. Two people are friends if they are listed in the same Python tuple....
One of the sectors to have been most comprehensively stopped in its tracks is travel. While many businesses have adapted well to the need to work remotely, the inability to travel is impacting many international startups, which – like my own business – typically rely on in-person meetings to drive growth and maintain company culture. At TravelPerk, we have seen the near shutdown of global travel up close. Our company manages the travel of thousands of companies; in Europe, which is now the epicenter of the pandemic, bookings are down by more than 90% across the board....
Apple just released iOS 13 for iPhones (till iPhone 6) and iPods (till 7th gen). One of the most talked-about features is, naturally, the dark mode. In this post, we’ll help you figure out how to make the most of the feature. Enable dark mode through the control center Open the control center on your phone. Long press on the brightness indicator. Select the dark mode option from the toggle buttons below to enable it....
Specifically, 6% of these emissions resulted from the manufacture of cement, steel, and aluminium used for construction; 8% from the use of fossil fuels; and 19% from the generation of electricity and heat needed to maintain them. This makes one thing clear: more attention needs to be paid to making our buildings greener and more sustainable. Thankfully, 2023 will be the year when we start taking some significant steps towards this goal....
Neither of these Dales fit my aspirational self-image. On the contrary, I wanted to be named Sailor Moon. I did not like that my name was “androgynous” — 14 male Dales are born for every one female Dale. When I asked my parents about this, their rationale was: A. Women with androgynous names are potentially more successful. B. Their hipster friends just named their daughter Dale and it was just so cute!...
There’s still rampant discrimination in the sector, and a “bro” culture that permeates many companies and teams. This can make the tech industry intimidating to any LGBTI+ people looking to break in. Thankfully though, there are a raft of experienced people who can help out. And one of those is Tracy Benson, CEO and co-founder of Obsesh. If you want to get her advice in full, then you should watch the video embedded at the top of this article....
From November 12, startup digital-only challenger bank Revolut will share user data with credit bureaus, social media companies, and analytics firms, Silicon Republic reported. On one hand, data sharing helps businesses create revenue streams and target customers with more relevant advertisements. On the other hand, data sharing is an invasion of privacy. But don’t despair, Revolut does give you the opportunity to opt out of its policy. Alongside sharing user data with credit bureaus, Revolut also shares information for marketing purposes....
After a wide-ranging 16-month investigation, a congressional subcommittee examining dominance in the technology industry last week recommended more than two dozen updates to the U.S. antitrust system, including implementing nondiscrimination rules that would limit “preferential or discriminatory treatment” by dominant platforms. But such rules can be hard to enforce, experts said, and attempts by the European Union to spur competition with Google through measures of this sort have fallen short....
Chromecasting is amazing. Now the majority of modern TVs and lots of smart devices have the functionality, you can get videos from your phone to the big screen seamlessly. But, as convenient as Chromecast technology is, there’s one major flaw: streaming your own videos. Yes, casting Netflix or YouTube is as easy as pressing a button, but what if there’s a file on your computer you’d like to watch on your Chromecast or Android TV device?...
While this is promising, I’ve found that there’s a widespread delusion among many executives that since there are 1.4 billion people in China, they’ll definitely be able to sell something due to the market’s sheer size. But that’s not necessarily true, and we know many examples of a brand that failed to do so. Companies ranging from Tesco and Uber to eBay and Google have been on that path and had to exit or rebuild their strategy entirely....
In this tutorial, we will see how to convert web pages into PDF with Puppeteer and Node.js. Let’s start the work with a quick introduction to what Puppeteer is. What is Puppeteer, and why is it awesome? In Google’s own words, Puppeteer is, “A Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol.” [Read: Meet the 4 scale-ups using data to save the planet]...
If your friends come over to your house, you might need to tell them your WiFi password. And if it’s a complex password, you would need to type it in for them. It becomes annoying and cumbersome if there are more than a couple of friends at your house. But you can speed up the whole process by using a QR Code, which your friends can scan to connect to your network....
So people are searching for tools like VPN to jump these fences and access the open internet. One of the effective ways to do this is to use Tor Browser. How does Tor browser work? In its simplest form, Tor uses a set of nodes — called relays — to mask your identity when you try to visit a website. These relays help keep your data private from websites and your Internet Service Provider (ISP)....
