The three musical players that you can connect to the app are Google Play Music (on Android), Apple Music (on iPhone), and Spotify. With the former two, as they are built into their respective phone OSes, all you have to do is enable permissions. Spotify requires a few extra steps. So here’s how to connect your Spotify account to Google Maps from your phone. [Read: Google now supports five new languages on Translate] For starters, the process is much more streamlined if you have the Spotify app installed and you’re logged in, so I recommend doing that if you haven’t already....

Knowledge is the key to…well, everything. The more you know, the better your chances to understand. And the more you understand, the better your odds of making the right choices personally, professionally and cosmically. The likelihood of you leading the kind of life you want to live is directly tied to your grasp of information. Want a six-figure job? Unless you can throw a baseball 100 mph or sing like a bird, that means you better read up, son....

This article was originally published on .cult by Mynah Marie. .cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the world. In 2011, a programmer going by the name of Viznut published the following video on YouTube: Accompanying the video were various articles written by him and published on his blog. In them, he describes how he accidentally discovered that by running a simple C program outputting single characters and piping them into the audio interface of a computer, it’s possible to encode these bytes and turn them into not just sounds, but music....

As we’re all stuck indoors and working from home, there are likely a lot of you relying on your trusty laptops to get everything done. Whether you’re working from home, sitting in on a Zoom conference call, or just having some well-earned digital time with family and friends, laptops can be a lifesaver at a time like this. But your laptop can quickly become a breeding ground of nastiness, depending on how much you handle it....

Although the cart abandonment rate has fallen to 75.6% in the year 2018 when compared to 79.2% in 2017, marketers continue to struggle with the problem of cart abandonment as the total loss has been estimated at around $4.6 trillion. Luckily, I’ve found a few tips that have helped me minimize cart abandonment which you can hopefully benefit from as well. However, before we dive deeper into the email marketing tips that you can use in your cart abandonment emails, let’s have a glimpse of the reasons leading to abandonment on the image below: Other reasons that can make the customers abandon their cart include concerns related to the quality of the product and not being able to see the products close up or get the suitable fit....

Disappearing messages have two benefits: they save storage space on your phone and provide an extra layer of privacy. Nice. They’re not a new invention, but many people still don’t know they exist. While some apps have offered ephemeral messages for years, others have only recently rolled them. If you’re keen to try them out, we’ve got you covered. Here’s how you can use disappearing messaging in all the major messaging apps that offer them....

One solution is to fight tiny with tiny. Nanotechnology relates to any technology that is or contains components that are between 1nm and 100nm in size. Nanomedicine that takes advantage of such tiny technology is used in everything from plasters that contain anti-bacterial nanoparticles of silver to complex diagnostic machines. Nanotechnology also has an impressive record against viruses and has been used since the late 1880s to separate and identify them....

One of the most important choices you need to make when buying an ebike is whether you want to opt for a hub-drive or mid-drive motor. The choice of motor system can significantly affect your ride quality, and it’d do you well to know the differences. A hub drive motor is the most common type of motor you’ll see on cheaper ebikes, with the motor integrated into the front or rear wheel....

I was reminded of this fact earlier this week, when I stumbled on an interesting Medium post by Mike Mallazzo. Titled “The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I.,” the article shed light on how product vendors rebrand rudimentary technologies as artificial intelligence to cause hype and excitement—and attract more capital. (Unfortunately, the post was removed from Medium, but a cached version still exists if you Google it.) “For the last few years, startups have shamelessly re-branded rudimentary machine-learning algorithms as the dawn of the singularity, aided by investors and analysts who have a vested interest in building up the hype....

That’s precisely what BMW did to promote its latest X6, partnering with Vantablack’s creators at Surrey NanoSystems. It’s a vehicle that looks as black when surrounded by ambient light as it does with the lights off. I don’t know Bruce Wayne’s taste in crossovers, but if he owned a BMW, it’d be this one. Check it out for yourself: Yes, I realize the car is nothing but a marketing gimmick – BMW is showing it off at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month – but it’s just so stealthy....

If you ever stared at lines of computer code and felt like you were trying to decipher a foreign language, the state of Arkansas apparently agrees with you. Under a bill currently being considered by Arkansas lawmakers, courses like programming, AP Computer Science Principles, and Computer Science Standard Level could soon be counted as a foreign language for state high school students. It’s easy to laugh at that idea, but when you think about it, they aren’t entirely wrong....

When men and women become parents, they don’t usually assume they’ll also need to be a full-time accredited education professional to get their youngster through their primary learning years. However, few of us foresaw anything quite like COVID-19, home sequestration and closed schools either. With everyone in such close quarters, dumping the kids off in front of the PS4 and opening the floodgates to 12-hour Minecraft marathons is tempting. But eventually, the good parenting guilt is going to catch up with you....

Writesonic uses AI to analyze your inputs and pattern matching to create landing pages, ads, product descriptions and more for your business. Writesonic is like having a copywriter on staff at a fraction of the cost and at much faster speeds. And with lifetime access, you’ll have Writesonic at your disposal whenever and wherever you need it. Writesonic knows what to convert and how to write copy that will attract business....

Here it is: everyone sucks. Some people more than others, certainly, but it’s still all of them. The people all suck. Anyone involved? Sucks. By proxy, that means I also suck, but I’m not willing to submit my mind to this level of scrutiny just yet. Before we get into why I’m the only one with the Correct Opinion, we need to do a little bit of history. Don’t worry, I’ll keep it brief....

Workflows are changing rapidly, almost daily. And at the pace that natural events are shaping how we all do our jobs, it seems likely that the upheaval may be a regular feature in all of our lives for quite some time. And given that your home office could realistically become your real office sooner than later, now is a perfect time to start laying down some best practices to keep your work hours as productive as those days you had a boss literally breathing down your neck....

Presenting the annual budget, finance minister Nirmala Sitharman said today that the country is introducing import duty on few mobile parts in order to boost local manufacturing. Manufacturers will have to pay a 2.5% customs duty for importing parts, including camera modules, printed circuit boards, and connectors, starting from April. Plus, there is an increased tax on importing parts of chargers. Apple and Samsung have already booted out the adapter from retail packs of their phones....

The company had first announced the service on April 30, and now it has made JioMeet available for everyone. During its test period, more than 100,000 people had downloaded the app. While JioMeet might have all the bells and whistles of a mainstream video conferencing app such as screen sharing scheduled meetings, there’s not much information available on its security and privacy aspects. In April, India advised government employees not to use Zoom over privacy concerns....

The core function of the app remains the same as the beta version: using your phone’s location data and Bluetooth to assess if you’ve been near a person who was infected by COVID-19, by looking through a database of known cases. The app specifies that all your data is on the device in an encrypted form. Looking at the code, it sends your data to the server in an anonymized form to check if you’re near an infected person....

Pay transparency has been lauded for its potential to solve the pay gap, and in the past few years we’ve seen a handful of corporate companies releasing their salary data — such as Buffer, the social media scheduling tool, and the BBC. Joining the transparency ranks is Intel, which yesterday pledged to voluntarily release its employee pay data to the public, broken down by race and gender, later this year....

The well-known American Seed money accelerator has produced a 70-page guide based on its work with 190 businesses that raised a combined total of $2 billion over the past two years. “This guide is a distillation of everything we know about successfully raising an A. It includes insights learned from watching hundreds of founders succeed in raising, and in watching dozens fail,” reads Y Combinator’s website. [Read: Index Ventures launches $2B fund to back tech startups worldwide] The guide features an overview of to-dos at every stage of series A funding, including best practices for creating a compelling pitch, deck, and memo for investors....