By Andrew Magdy Kamal When asked about Google, there has been a lot to say over the years. Google done some things right, and seemingly some things very wrong. As far as conspiracies go, Google does seem to have a CIA connection (see video below). This even roots back to potential government research, and missing gaps on how they have been funded in the early stage. Read the full story By shishir One of the most popular apps of 2019, TikTok ruled the download charts in both the Android and Apple markets. Having more than 1.5 billion downloads and approximately half a billion monthly active users, TikTok definitely has access to a trove of users. With that large user base comes a hidden goldmine: their data. Read the full story By Mark Few people ask me about the social, political, and economic impact of cryptographically-secure, time-stamped distributed ledgers.Read the full story By Adina Humayoon 'Just ignore them; they are only joking.', 'Boys will be boys' Read the full story By Fabio How the Platypush web extension makes it easy to customize your browser and connect things togetherRead the full story By Limor Mekaiten OR: How to ask the right questions in order to find your dream company.Read the full story By Jason Tan I sent the following note to the Sift team today. I’m also sharing it here in case it’s useful to others.Read the full story By Rohit Krishnan "All models are wrong." George Box, the statistician is supposed to have said. Unfortunately, like he also continued to say, some are useful. Whenever I try to take a step back and think about the broader investing landscape, that remains true. Read the full story By Manoar Are you wondering about IP addresses and figuring out how to look up your IP address? There are many different reasons that you may have to look up your IP address but most of us don’t know how to. Don’t worry because we have outlined the basic and most important facts you need to know about IP addresses as well as the difference between IPv4 and IPv6 address types below.Read the full story By Stanley Nguyen An alternative logging strategy to make loggers your friends, not enemiesRead the full story By Tanker Say you need to update (bump) your software. It’s currently at version 1.2, all the required changes have been merged, and it’s time to publish version 1.3. That’s really easy, right? Change the version in one file, commit, tag, and push. Done!Read the full story By Sophie Louise So far 2020, has been a truly magnificent year for Decentralized Finance (DeFi). Since the beginning of the year, the total value locked in DeFi smart contracts has risen fivefold, with the vast majority of this growth coming from the last two months alone. Read the full story By Will Ho This is the second installment of my 'How I built' trilogy detailing the build process of all 3 of my clusters. Read the first here.Read the full story By Raffaele Florio This is the second story of Road to Simplicity. And it’s about the role of tests in software writing.Read the full story By Johnny Software development is one of the most popular professions today, with an average salary of $59,568 a year. As the demand for promising coding professionals is not going anywhere, many people strive to master new skills to join the ranks of developers. But, even if you don’t plan to become a full-time developer, obtaining experience in coding will open up more opportunities and greatly benefit your future career.Read the full story By Rituraj Sengar Despite the COVID-19 pandemic sending the world into a frenzy, the new iPhone 12 might just bring some good news for the Apple loyalists and the company in general. Although a lot has been speculated regarding the design and the innovations surrounding the design, let's discuss the technological relevance of Apple's new design.Read the full story By sudhanshu kumar A successful business owner always keeps an eye on what’s happening in tech. Many small business owners might not want to take the risk of being at the forefront of emerging tech — but some of the trends you’re hearing about may indeed play a valuable role in efficiency and growth for you small or medium-scale enterprise.Read the full story By Justin Roberti Are you worried about the health or livelihoods of you and your loved ones? It's important to remember that you're not alone. The CDC takes your stress seriously enough during the pandemic that they have published signs and guidelines for detecting and handling stress and anxiety. The CDC suggests to manage your own stress you consider taking the following steps:Read the full story By Rick Lamers How Jupyter Notebooks played an important role in the incredible rise in popularity of Data Science and why they are its future.Read the full story By Sean Do you want to learn about the history of computers? Are MP3 files just to darn big? Can you only listen to audio streamed off a floppy disk? Well, then I have just the podcast for you. Allow me to introduce Advent of Computing: extreme lo-fi edition. Each episode is guaranteed to be under 1.44 megabytes.Read the full story By Jai Paul The fifth generation of mobile communication networks isn’t on its way; it's already here. You’ve probably heard plenty about 5G in the past few years, as this promising new generation of wireless technology is what’s enabling the continued spread of the internet of things and a host of other digital innovations. Virtually all tech experts agree that 5G technology is a good thing, given that it will lead to faster connectivity and more secure networks. However, there are good reasons to believe that the staggered deployment of 5G technology will mean that it remains vulnerable to a number of security woes currently plaguing 4G technology. Read the full story |
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