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Do you know what Blazor is? It’s a free, open-source web framework for developers to build web apps that use the C# programming language as well as HTML. How about Heroku? That’s a cloud platform that offers coders the chance to deploy, manage, and ultimately scale up apps that they create. And GitHub is a way of keeping track of it all, a data management system that lets users track all the changes in a coding program and protect against potentially disastrous mistakes....

The stakes in the international game of cyberterrorism have literally never been higher. While U.S. forces spent 2020 focused on defending systems tied to last November’s presidential election, it appears Russian hackers took that as a prime opportunity to attack almost everywhere else. The Solar Winds hack covered months, with suspected Russian hacking groups secretly infiltrating U.S. institutions like the State, Treasury and Justice departments, Homeland Security, state and local governments, and hundreds of private companies like Cisco, Intel, and more....

Of course, there’s a lot more to what makes a car good than how fast or far it goes, but the EV that’s just been officially unveiled, the Lucid Air, might just redefine the top line benchmarks. [Read: Turns out Nikola won’t build its Badger hydrogen EV truck after all — GM will] Over the past few weeks, in the run up to the Air’s official unveiling, Lucid has bragged about various world-beating features....

To put it another way, can we trust the person whose stewardship of one of the world’s most powerful companies over the past two years has rapidly diminished public faith in tech (to say nothing of politics, news, and corporate respect for privacy)? I imagine this is a question many are asking themselves. And the evidence suggests we would all be wise to be skeptical of the Facebook founder’s words....

The company has updated that model with active noise-canceling (ANC) chops, Bluetooth 5.0 for better wireless connectivity, a padded headband, and a sleek new black finish. It also costs $50 bucks more. That pits the revamped Exodus headphones against some formidable contenders. I spent the last few weeks putting them through their paces to see how they held up. Here’s what you can expect for $250. Design The Exodus ANC cans look practically the same as their predecessors, with FSC certified wood shaped into the ear cups, a metal headband, and adjustable metal batons supporting the ear pieces....

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The company registered interest in TikTok for the first time in August 2020. But as we know, no deal was finalized. A year later, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has shed some light on what happened. Speaking at the Code Conference with Kara Swisher last night, the company head said that it was TikTok that came to Microsoft, and not the other way around: He added that ByteDance wanted a cloud security provider that also offered security services, and he found TikTok to be a ‘great property....

No true professional ever really stops growing. The minute someone decides they’ve learned everything there is to learn in their field is the minute they start heading toward a rude awakening. This truth is that if you’ve stopped acquiring new skills, you’ve already started falling behind. That doesn’t always mean seeking out the flashiest new innovation. Sometimes, advancing your career just means finally learning a skill you’ve always meant to pick up, particularly for those in tricky business of numbers....

The model has been added to Seeing AI, a free app for people with visual impairments that uses a smartphone camera to read text, identify people, and describe objects and surroundings. It’s also now available to app developers through the Computer Vision API in Azure Cognitive Services, and will start rolling out in Microsoft Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint later this year. The model can generate “alt text” image descriptions for web pages and documents, an important feature for people with limited vision that’s all-too-often unavailable....

If you haven’t been keeping up, Microsoft bought Wunderlist in order to bolster its own attempts at making a productivity app, Microsoft To Do. Though met with a lukewarm initial reception, To Do has evolved into a competitive app incorporating many of Wunderlist’s features, even if some users would simply rather have the OG app back. Of course, Microsoft has placed an emphasis on integrating the app with its own services, which gives it an advantage if you’re deep into the Office ecosystem....

The team analyzed conversations on 15 subreddits focused on mental health issues, along with 11-non-mental health forums, such as r/PersonalFinance. They first used natural language processing algorithms to find negative semantic changes in posts from 826,961 different users. Next, they applied unsupervised machine learning to classify the posts into their support groups. Finally, they used unsupervised methods, such as topic modeling, to assess how mental health concerns had changed across Reddit since the first wave....

Each day I, like many others, sit with my laptop or smartphone and open a collection of apps. Throughout the day I change that collection, closing some and opening others. I focus, refocus, arrange and rearrange them constantly. Each time I am effectively assembling software into some imagined workflow, and workflows are the engine of modern productivity. The feature I am using to set up the workflows is a largely hidden one that as designers we call ‘Multitask Computing....

Take a look at what’s happened over the last few days. Telecom operator AT&T is being sued by an individual claiming to be the victim of a SIM-swap hack which resulted in the loss of $1.8 million. The victim alleges that between May 16 – 18 AT&T employees transferred ownership of their SIM to bad actors. The scammers were then able to access the victim’s personal finances and cryptocurrency exchange accounts to carry out their attack....

It’s Moonday Mornings, take a look. 1. Racehorse buyer accused stealing from OneCoin scheme A high profile individual from the world of horse racing is believed to have been involved in the OneCoin scam. Amer Abdulaziz, the founder of Phoenix Thoroughbreds, a Dubai-based horse racing investment firm, is being accused of being a key figure in the scheme. Konstantin Ignatov, the brother OneCoin figurehead Dr Ruja Ingatova, said that Abdulaziz also stole €100 million ($110 million) from OneCoin, and then went on a spending spree buying racehorses, Racing Post reports....

Rust has been steadily growing in popularity for the last number of years. In fact, according to this year’s StackOverflow developer survey, Rust is the most beloved language by developers. So, what’s the deal? What makes it so brilliant? Rust is blazingly fast and memory-efficient: with no runtime or garbage collector, it can power performance-critical services, run on embedded devices, and easily integrate with other languages. Rust’s rich type system and ownership model guarantee memory-safety and thread-safety, enabling you to eliminate many classes of bugs at compile-time....

The idea of a connected future is nothing new. Beyond fringe sci-fi predictions of decades past, we live in a world where connected devices have entered the mainstream consciousness. Despite our smartphone connections to voice assistants and fitness wearables, something is missing. The problem is that our devices do not work well together. Rival brands may host apps on different platforms, but cohesive connections between their connected devices are limited....

When ebike startup Muto got in touch to tell us about their debut machine, also called the Muto, I jumped at the chance to use it as my daily commuter for a week — and boy I’m glad that I did. [Read: Here’s how many cyclists it takes to charge a Tesla as fast as a Supercharger] My colleagues have reviewed quite a few ebikes here on TNW, but I’ve personally never had chance to get hands on with one and use it as my daily ride....

The company’s woes have sparked concerns that video streaming is dying, but research suggests that there’s plenty of life left in the sector. A May study by Hub Entertainment Research estimated that 89% of US consumers subscribed to one in streaming service in 2022 — an 11% increase on the previous year. “Netflix’s subscriber loss in Q1 of 2022, and its anticipated losses in the following quarters, represent a tiny proportion of its global subscriber base,” said study co-author Peter Fondulas....

— Beto on Security(back to basics now) (@BetoOnSecurity) July 27, 2019 When I contacted Netflix, it said it’s a part of a test which improves video playback quality based on a user’s activity: It seems like the company is taking advantage of new activity recognition permission on Android Q which lets the developer understand whether you’re in motion while using their apps. In this case, it’s possible that Netflix may use the data to figure out how to buffer video so your stream doesn’t skip while you’re on the move – but we can’t exactly be sure....

The incredibly quick development of rapid tests and vaccines for COVID-19 demonstrate the success that can follow the open sharing of data within the research community. The importance and impact of that data even drove a White House Executive Order mandating that “the heads of all executive departments and agencies” share “COVID-19-related data” publicly last year. I am the Director of the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Open Programs Office. At [email protected], my colleagues and I work with faculty and researchers to help them openly share their research and data in a manner that provides others the rights to access, reuse and redistribute that work with as few barriers or restrictions a possible....