Citizens will be able to use the wallets to prove their ID and share electronic documents “with the click of a button on their phone,” the European Commission said on Thursday. “The European digital identity will enable us to do in any Member State as we do at home without any extra cost and fewer hurdles,” said Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s executive vice president for digital. [Read: This dude drove an EV from the Netherlands to New Zealand — here are his 3 top road trip tips] Under the proposals, the bloc’s 27 member states will offer citizens and businesses digital wallets that can link their national digital IDs with documents including driving licenses, diplomas, and bank accounts....

Let’s get right to it then, starting with the myriad of Alexa-compatible devices in the Echo family. Echo Studio Price: $199.99 When: Pre-order here, launches November 7. Echo Buds Price: $129.99 When: Pre-order here, launches October 30. Echo Frames They basically work like an audio smartwatch, reading your notifications out loud and allowing you to ask Alexa questions. They even support optional access to the Google Assistant. But the microphones can also be turned off when you want some extra privacy....

Jupiter and Saturn can easily be found in the southwestern region of the evening skies, while everyone’s favorite ex-planet, Pluto, can be found by skilled amateur astronomers. Venus and Mercury, huddling close to the Sun, can be seen just before sunrise. Mars, meanwhile, is spending its time with our two ice giants — Uranus and Neptune. Fire and ice The southeastern sky, a little after sunset, offers Mars — glowing brilliant red....

The Elon Musk-led Tesla, a major tech stock not included in the S&P 500 index, took a veritable beating by losing 14%. Data storage device manufacturer Western Digital sank 13%. [Read: Apple can sell devices in India because of Trump administration, says Tim Cook] IT services company DXC suffered the biggest loss of the tech firms in the index, falling 18% by the day’s close, CNBC notes. Rough news, considering DXC’s share price dropped almost 30% last year....

The iPhone-maker is hosting an event on September 15 and there’s a chance it might unveil the new product during the keynote presentation — even if it ships later. Apple is pretty good at designing things, so I expect these tags to be compact enough to keep into my wallet or keychain without forming a bulge in my pocket. [Read: We asked 3 CEOs what tech trends will dominate post-COVID] The company prices its products in a premium range....

So, how do you know when it’s time to pause and reinvest in your systems? What are the signs that it is time to break things apart? Knowing what this transition looks like, and accepting that every company that has velocity will eventually get here, will help you understand that retooling your system is a sign of success, not of failure. Two years ago at CircleCI, we fundamentally changed the guts of our product, and there’s no way for that to not be terrifying....

We made that last part up, but the fact of the matter is that it’s safe to say those of us born after World War II have never collectively experienced anything like the COVID-19 pandemic as a global community. Everyone is affected by the pandemic in one way or another, and everyone has mental health. And that means we need to exercise our minds the same as we would our bodies, be aware of our mental state just like we keep track of our physical health, and treat our mental health with the same import as we should our physical well-being....

According to the lawsuit, on October 29, the social network blocked 100 Facebook and Instagram accounts. Many amongst them belonged to current and former employees of NSO Group and their family members. A statement released by representatives of these employees said Facebook’s action is harmful and unjust. It also noted they filed the case only after reaching out to Facebook multiple times and receiving no response. In response, Facebook said in a statement because of its ongoing suit against the NSO Group it had disabled “relevant accounts” for “security reasons, including preventing additional attacks....

The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HmbBfDI) issued a three-month emergency ban on Tuesday, which is permitted under the General Data Protection Regulation. The watchdog will now seek a binding decision covering the whole EU from the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). In a statement, the regulator cited concerns with WhatsApp’s privacy policy, which is due to roll out on May 15: The watchdog argued that the new terms of use are therefore illegal....

The company said that the blocking was an oversight, and New Delhi didn’t order the social networking giant to restrict it: This incident raises a lot of eyebrows because at one end we have the government, which ordered Facebook and Twitter to remove more than 100 posts that objurgated the country’s poor handling of the current surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. For more than a week, India has registered more than 300,000 daily cases with thousands of deaths....

In its statement, Facebook has said that it noticed “co-ordinated inauthentic behavior” originating from Israel targeting Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Angola, Niger and Tunisia and that led its staff to investigate further. “Today we removed 265 Facebook and Instagram accounts, Facebook Pages, Groups and events involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior. This activity originated in Israel and focused on Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Angola, Niger and Tunisia along with some activity in Latin America and Southeast Asia....

According to a recently unsealed criminal complaint spotted by CoinDesk, Joshua Thomas Argires received $956,600 via the US’ Payment Protection Program (PPP) for a “Texas Barbecue.” [Read: Tesla just became a top 10 US company, but it’s still not in the S&P 500] Despite submitting documents that indicated Texas Barbecue had 50-plus employees worth an average monthly payroll of $382,500, investigators found Argires’ firm “actually has no employees, no payroll, and no revenue....

By: Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng Life360, a popular family safety app used by 33 million people worldwide, has been marketed as a great way for parents to track their children’s movements using their cellphones. The Markup has learned, however, that the app is selling data on kids’ and families’ whereabouts to approximately a dozen data brokers who have sold data to virtually anyone who wants to buy it. Through interviews with two former employees of the company, along with two individuals who formerly worked at location data brokers Cuebiq and X-Mode, The Markup discovered that the app acts as a firehose of data for a controversial industry that has operated in the shadows with few safeguards to prevent the misuse of this sensitive information....

Plenty of app developers are churning out plenty of free apps to handle just about any task a Mac owner would need to perform. However, it never takes long to realize that those free apps are often limited — and if you really want to get in there and get something done fast and right, you need some top-shelf apps capable of handling the load. The Limited Edition Mac Bundle Ft....

Rust never sleeps…and neither does the web. That’s why every year is marked by new technologies and new fields of expansion on the web that open the world to new ways of thinking — and each of those new ideas brings in new blood to start expanding those areas. No matter which of these growing tech arenas strike your interest, there’s bound to be at least one among these nine IT and ethical hacking training course packages covering some of the most important and most highly sought-after skill sets available today....

When you’re trying to run a business, you’ve got a lot to consider. You’re trying to sell your product. You’re trying to communicate with customers and collect payments. You’re trying to balance your books and promote your brand. Thankfully, there are plenty of apps and services available to help you accomplish those vital business goals. Unfortunately, those apps usually only handle just one of those tasks, which means you’re still dealing with a handful of different interfaces to help streamline your business operations....

The technology giant is facing a new challenge after the G7 said on Thursday that such stablecoins shouldn’t be allowed to launch until international risk was assessed. Ultimately, regulators and governors are scared about Libra‘s potential impact on the world’s monetary system and financial stability — a concern echoed by the G7 working group report. There are also concerns about the digital currency being used for money laundering and financing terrorism....

We all know Git. It’s the foundation of the modern software development workflow. But if you’re merely using it as a tool to host and manage code, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity to bring order and consistency to your infrastructure deployments. GitOps unleashes that other 90%. At its core, this approach sees Git placed at the heart of how an organization manages and deploys its infrastructure footprint. New containers and virtual servers are defined not with step-by-step instructions, but rather as lines of code within a repository, and then actioned within....

In an interview with French financial newspaper Les Echos today, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said that they are doing extensive research on the concept of “tokenization.” Solomon expressed his belief in the potential of blockchain-based digital currency in enabling frictionless cross-border payments. Similar to JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs believes such a currency will need to be backed by actual fiat currencies. According to Solomon, cryptocurrency regulations are likely to see a change in near future....

What are dreams? What causes gravity? How did life begin? What is the universe made of? Some of the biggest questions we face don’t have a simple answer — or actually, any answer at all. Sure, humans may have theories, but there’s plenty in our world and beyond that still defies explanation. However, all that unknown doesn’t quench our thirst for knowledge. And with so many questions out there, the man who founded Discovery Communications has launched an on-demand destination for unlocking all the answers we know…or think we know....