What does it even mean anymore? It’s such a hyped-up term, overused by a market saturated with evangelists spouting conceptual nonsense, amplifying its enigma-like existence (and profiting handsomely from it). It normally starts with the C-Suite coming back from a strategy week, a Silicon Valley trip, or a CMO change — in tow is a strategic imperative on doing something better ‘digitally.’ This enthusiasm trickles down and results in a bunch of smart people sitting in a room formulating a digital strategy — and that’s precisely where companies make their first mistakes....

OTA updates are a hot topic for vehicles owners who resent paying for new services. I reported earlier in the year about Mercedes-Benz introducing an OTA subscription update to the all-electric luxury salon Mercedes-Benz EQ to modify the rear-axle steering with a ten-degree steering angle. Fast-forward to this week, Toyota has consumers up in arms by setting an end date to free subscriptions for key fob remote start capabilities. This functionality is now only available with a Remote Connect subscription....

Over six courses packed with 130 hours of training, this bundle is where to start understanding today’s data revolution. From key programming disciplines like Python and R Programming to some of the more critical data analysis tools like Hadoop, this training helps you identify and use all the pieces you need to know in this impactful field. But, it isn’t just data analysis getting the focus here, it’s also some of the science’s most important offshoot applications....

You can never have too much digital stuff. Whether that’s music, movies, photos, documents, or whatever else tickles your virtual fantasies, it’s all good. The issue though is space. How are you meant to store all of that juicy content in an easy way? External hard drives. The answer, to reiterate, is external hard drives. But what’s the point in having a 1TB storage device? Or 2TB? Or even 5TB?...

In a press conference in Beijing yesterday, The People’s Bank of China’s (PBoC) governor Yi Gang said that there is “no timetable” for the launch of its new digital currency, South China Morning Post reports. Last month, reports surfaced which stated the PBoC had allegedly said its digital currency was “almost ready.” The sources were said to be a former employee at a Chinese institution pegged to receive the currency and someone “involved in the development of the cryptocurrency,” Forbes reported....

However, court documents released on Tuesday show that US District Judge Vince Chhabria threw fraud and unfair competition charges relating to the case. Bitcoin Cash was borne out of a Bitcoin fork in 2017 and then split off into two subsequent cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Cash SV, the following year. This move marks the latest advance in a protracted lawsuit filed by Jeffery Berk in the aftermath of BCH’s launch....

Reason 3,219 to have a VPN: With businesses closed, there aren’t many on-site company IT networks anymore, so a VPN has become the simplest, most secure way for employees at home to get access to all their critical work systems. Of course, all that increased VPN activity has also raised the attention of cybercrooks. With that in mind, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS CISA) warned we’re likely to see an increase in phishing emails to unsuspecting teleworkers in an effort to steal usernames and passwords....

His reasoning? She had THC in her system and his team couldn’t come up with any other explanations for her death. The doctor in question, Christy Montegut, told The New Orleans Advocate: Let’s start with how much THC the woman consumed. The coroner’s report indicates she had 8.4 nanograms of THC in her system. In technical terms, that means she would have consumed enough cannabis to put her at more than four times the amount experts say would impair her ability to drive....

When online supermarket Crisp launched in 2018, it wasn’t as if the Dutch didn’t have any grocery stores to pick from. There are several big supermarket chains in the Netherlands, such as Jumbo and Albert Heijn, while organic, more high-end food had already found an outlet with Marqt. Despite this, Crisp proved to be one of the fastest-growing startups of the past decade. In 2021, the company raised €30M, after having already completed an €8....

As if that wasn’t exciting enough, Reeves took to the stage in person to announce that he was indeed going to feature in the game – and revealed its launch of date of April 16, 2020. Set in the future in the American metropolis of Night City, the title will see you take on the role of a mercenary at a time when transhumanism is the order of the day....

Boston Dynamics machines flawlessly and soulfully dancing in rhythm. pic.twitter.com/1PHmurRo1k — Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) July 17, 2021 Why is this scary? I feel like I missed a memo. Did alien overlords come down and declare that all future combat would be settled via dance-offs between robots and humans over the weekend? Because, if that’s not what happened, the thousands of you freaking out over this are just being silly....

Perhaps most notably, the function row was removed in favor of a touch-sensitive strip which can toggle between shortcuts and regular function ‘buttons.’ Unfortunately, these shortcuts are not customizable, so it’s pretty much most of the bad about the touchbar with none of the good. That said, the soft buttons appear to be a bit more separated from the keyboard, so hopefully, they won’t be as prone to accidental touches....

The best salesman you know is likely a synthesis of both hard and soft skills. It’s no surprise that a master of sales would have a strong knowledge of their product, know their way around a customer relations management (CRM) system, and have a rock solid sense of what’s working and what isn’t in their current market. But for all those important hard skills, a quality salesman is usually truly governed by their command of soft skills, a talent set marked by superior communication and acute emotional intelligence....

Security researcher Zack Edwards this week revealed that DuckDuckGo’s mobile browsers allow some Microsoft sites to bypass its block on trackers. While the browser blocks Facebook and Google trackers, DuckDuckGo makes an exception for some of Microsoft’s. Edwards found that the browsers allow allows data to be sent to Microsoft’s LinkedIn and Bing domains “You can capture data within the DuckDuckGo so-called private browser on a website like Facebook’s workplace....

A report from ArsTechnica notes that several sources working for the organizer the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), told the publication that the firm will make an official announcement soon. [Read: Sony to skip E3 again, leaving the floor open for Xbox to shine] Earlier this month, ESA said in a COVID-19 update that it’s “monitoring and evaluating the situation daily.” We’ve asked ESA for a comment, and we’ll update the story if we hear back....

The billionaire tech entrepreneur has also called for OpenAI, a company he co-founded but has since quit, to “be more open”. Musk made his comments in response to an MIT Technology Review story on the research lab, which claims its “mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. MIT reporter Karen Hao argued that the company “has allowed a fierce competitiveness and mounting pressure for ever more funding to erode its founding ideals of transparency, openness, and collaboration....

But now, we have a robust idea of what Twitter’s numbers would look like under the Tesla CEO’s management. Over the weekend, The New York Times published a report about Musk’s pitch deck to investors — and the goals described in it are pretty ambitious. Rocket fueled user growth 931 million. That’s Musk’s target for user numbers by 2028. That’s huge by any measure. But for reference, let’s take a look at the current numbers for Twitter....

At first glance, it is an unlikely match: on the one side, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), or neuro-computing — so-called “exponential technologies,” defined as technologies that develop exponentially fast, with power and speed doubling and cost dropping by half every year. On the other side, the pre-kindergarten kids enrolled in Head Start programs across the U.S. who benefit from early childhood education and comprehensive health and community services for the most vulnerable children and their families....

But these relatively small and temporary changes should not be mistaken for the COVID-19 pandemic actually helping to fix climate change. Quite the contrary: the pandemic that made the world stop offers a glimpse of the deep changes in lifestyles and economic structures that we need to implement if we are to effectively mitigate the worst of climate change. The short-term effects are not in doubt. A new study in Nature Climate Change led by scientists from the University of East Anglia and Stanford has found that daily global CO₂ emissions in early April 2020 were down 17% compared to the mean level of emissions in 2019....

The revamped NHS COVID-19 app uses Bluetooth to track the time people spend near other users and the distance between them. When an individual falls ill, they can report it in the app, which then alerts anyone who’s been close to them. If the system’s algorithm calculates that their contact was high-risk, they’ll be told to self-isolate. They can also use the app to access local risk alerts, QR check-in at venues, a symptom checker, and test booking....