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Friends, career consultants, and the media inundate us with a constant barrage of advice telling us to follow our dreams, find our bliss or pursue our passions in our professional lives. Yet this kind of advice is not always easily followed. Even when it’s heeded, the advice can come with downsides, especially when it turns out that those aforementioned passions involve jobs with routine, day-to-day tasks that people are less than passionate about....

Didn’t have time to watch the event yourself? Here’s what you need to know. The new iPhone SE Apple has updated the iPhone SE for 2022 with the same A15 Bionic processor in the iPhone 13, as well as 5G support and improved cameras to make it a much better offering at an affordable price. Although it’s still using a dated iPhone 6-era design, the updated processor puts it on par with the best flagship phones for performance....

Many electric vehicles (EVs) are being produced with the ability to use their onboard battery to send power back to the electricity supply they are connected to. Whether that is the owner’s house, or the electricity grid more generally, these technologies have been led by governments and electric car manufacturers mainly in order to balance the demand on the power transmission network or grid. The ability to use these huge connected batteries complies with the future management and provision of cleaner grids – instead of burning fossil fuels to generate electricity, we should harness clean renewable sources such as wind and solar when abundant, and store the electricity in batteries for when not....

This world, G 9–40b, is at least twice as large as Earth, and is likely significantly larger — possibly closer to the size of Neptune. It orbits its parent star just 100 light years from Earth once every five days and 17 hours at a distance of 5,760,000 km (5,580,000 miles), roughly 25 times closer than the distance between the Earth and Sun. “G 9–40b is amongst the top twenty closest transiting planets known, which makes this discovery really exciting....

While internet-saavy folk generally know how to tell ‘real’ news apart from satire, the truth is that many Facebook users do not. It is too common of an occurrence to see someone share an article from The Onion or The Borowitz Report as if it were serious news. The new labels show up under the page’s name as a bit of grey text. — Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) April 7, 2021 But wait, there’s more!...

While both companies have confirmed the deal, they haven’t disclosed the amount. A report by Axios suggests Facebook bough GIPHY for $400 million. GIPHY’s API is quite popular amongst social networks. Facebook already uses it in its other products such as Messenger and WhatsApp for GIF search. Several other social networks such as Twitter, Reddit, and Slack also rely on GIPHY’s APIs for their GIF-related features In a statement, Vishal Shah, VP of Product at Instagram, said GIPHY will continue to operate its library, and developers will have same access to GIPHY’s APIs as before: Despite Facebook’s assurance, there are already privacy-related questions on how Facebook will handle user data....

According to registration documents filed earlier this week, Facebook will be represented by Washington, DC-based FS Vector LLC, a firm that specializes in regulatory compliance and public policy. The lead lobbyist named is John Collins, partner at FS Vector and formally the head of policy at Coinbase. Collins also lead US Congress’ first exploration into digital currencies back in 2013 – so it’s likely he’ll know a thing or two about the hurdles that Facebook’s Libra is facing....

The declaration of the new policy comes just before Monika Bickert, Vice President, Global Policy Management, is set to testify against the House Energy and Commerce consumer protection subcommittee tomorrow to discuss how the platform will tackle manipulative media. The social network will remove media from its platform if it satisfies any of these two criteria: It has been edited or synthesized – beyond adjustments for clarity or quality – in ways that aren’t apparent to an average person and would likely mislead someone into thinking that a subject of the video said words that they did not actually say....

In fact, tech stocks have outperformed the wider market since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic spurred record sell-offs in March. The FANG+ index, a set that includes the likes of Apple, Alibaba, Tesla, and Twitter, is actually up by almost 10% year-to-date. On the other hand, the S&P 500 index — a popular collection of 500 stocks that represents the overall US market — is down by just under 14% over the same period....

This series is meant to display “a range of personal autonomous options and advanced connected vehicle features” — but that’s a load of marketing waffle. I’m excited about the InnerSpace concept car because it looks like a fucking spaceship. Let’s feast our ground control eyes on these Major Tom images: I love it. Look at that panoramic glass roof. Just imagine staring at the sky during nighttime driving. And I’m not at all freaked out how it looks like the offspring of a frog and a Ferrari....

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 25, 2019 Then earlier today, Ford VP Sunny Madra joined the fray, challenging Tesla to a real “apples to apples” contest: — sunny madra (@sundeep) November 25, 2019 It’s not clear what Madra would change to make it a fair test, but some have claimed the Ford F350, with its higher torque diesel engines, would present a fairer challenge against the Cybertruck – it’s closer in price range too....

Luckily for us, that’s exactly what CNET and SquareTrade did, the latter which built a machine to fold the phone in rapid succession. Unluckily for Samsung, the device only lasted for about 60 percent of its claim – 119, 380 folds. In other words, closer to about 3 years of use. You can view a condensed version of the test below; it breaks at about the 25:30 mark: But okay, there are a few important caveats here....

Older games frequently perished in the extinction level events also known as “iOS updates.” Others ceased to be profitable enough for their original developers to justify supporting them. In any case, lots of previously well-known, well-regarded games vanished since the App Store first started hosting games in 2008. GameClub’s purpose is to bring those games back, by MacGuyvering the original source code of these sometimes-ancient titles to work with the latest version of iOS....

It’s been a long fall for the company. For a while, BlackBerry was… well, I don’t know about cool, but it was popular. More than that, it defined a particular moment in our collective memory. This was the start of the mobile era, a time when having a full keyboard on a phone felt revolutionary. But all good things must end. The classic BlackBerry devices (those made before the switch to Android) stopped working on January 4....

Music is universal. But with the surge of digital downloads, cheap-o earbuds and life happening on the go, go, go, the experience of listening to new stuff from your favorite artists isn’t what it used to be. Can you really take in the true craft and subtle nuance of a musician’s gifts when you’re streaming from a YouTube link on your office laptop? Or when music morphs into soundtrack wallpaper while you work out at the gym or commute to work?...

Apart from easily showing what bugs the code is causing, videos can be great to demonstrate why you’re placing a pull request, or what functionality you aim to add to the project with your latest contribution. [Read more: This dude drove an EV from the Netherlands to New Zealand — here are his 3 top road trip tips] Plus, if it’s an educational project, videos can help budding programmers build their chops with more descriptive lessons....

Small business owners must often be the master of a thousand disciplines. Unfortunately, each of those talents takes time to use. So it isn’t uncommon for a beleaguered owner to spend hours putting out fires and maintaining order, only to get to their afternoon and think, “What have I really done today?” With truckloads of ever-pressing time-sensitive tasks, it’s easy for a business leader to lose sight of big-picture goals....

Virtual private networks are practically essential protection measures for web users these days, providing valuable anonymity and fortified security services. But nobody enjoys paying those annual, or sometimes even monthly VPN provider fees. And nobody appreciates the worry that that provider might one day slip or even willingly turn over information about you and your web activities to…well, anybody. While VPNs are great, many security-conscious web users are now turning to the next evolution in personal online protection — a decentralized private network, or DPN....

Chrome 87 will bring a new button next to the new tab sign that’ll help you find an already open tab. Click on that button, and you’ll be able to type in the title of the tab you’re searching for. Google said that this feature is coming to Chromebooks first and other desktop systems later. If you’re using a Windows machine, you can try out this guide from 9to5Google to enable this feature before it becomes available officially....

Google’s advertising system allowed employers or landlords to discriminate against nonbinary and some transgender people, The Markup found. Companies trying to run ads on YouTube or elsewhere on the web could direct Google not to show those ads to people of “unknown gender” — meaning people who have not identified themselves to Google as “male” or “female.” After being alerted to this by The Markup, Google pledged to crack down on the practice....