The company is releasing a revamped shopping experience that aims to bring a wide array of clothes in one place, where you can sort items by style, department, and size type, among other things. The new experience also gives users quick access to reviews to help them make a decision. [Read: How to simplify your shopping routine with these handy apps] Here’s what that will look like: To use the feature, simply search for any piece of clothing or accessory like you normally would, and you should start seeing suggestions by Google....

Check out our blog for all the details → https://t.co/n27t4Pmnn4 — Stadia (@GoogleStadia) April 8, 2020 More specifically, it’s offering two months of Stadia Pro for free, which includes instant access to nine games, including Destiny 2 and GRID. Phil Harrison, Stadia’s VP, said in the company’s press release that the increased need for gaming prompted the company to extend the offer: “Keeping social distance is vital, but staying home for long periods can be difficult and feel isolating....

This year, however, Google Maps is delivering some festive help. The app has gift-wrapped a bundle of new features to help shoppers survive the holiday rush. First up is Area Busyness, which analyzes geographical data to show when a neighborhood is crowded. Open up Google Maps, and the app will show you the locations to avoid. You can then tap on a neighborhood to see how busy it gets throughout the day, and review the crowdedness of venues in the area....

The update most affects iOS users, as some traffic-reporting features were already available on Android. The iPhone crowd will now be able to report crashes, speed traps, and traffic slowdowns right from the maps navigation screen. Simply tap ‘+’ and select the appropriate incident from a few icons. New to both platforms, Google is adding four new kinds of traffic incidents. In addition to the above, Android users can now also alert other drivers of construction, lane closures, disabled vehicles, and debris on the road....

The company developed this dataset in collaboration with Jigsaw – a tech incubator created by Google. Plus, FaceForenesics Benchmark, a program developed by the Technical University of Munich and the University Federico II of Naples, that helps researchers create techniques to detect artificial videos, will incorporate the dataset. Google said it worked with actors over the past year to create deekfake videos for this dataset: While some videos are real, others are created by imposing one actor’s face onto another....

Google’s URL2Video tool helps you convert your website into a short video if you specify the constraints of the output video, such as the duration and aspect ratio. The tool tries to maintain the design language of the source page and uses its elements such as the text, images, and clips to create a new video. [Read: 4 ridiculously easy ways you can be more eco-friendly] To train the model, the company interviewed designers to determine important aspects of a webpage derived from heuristics....

Not only have US-listed guns and ammo stocks outperformed the world’s biggest tech companies this year, but they’ve even eclipsed companies that benefitted most from the world’s transition into remote work and education. [Read: No, THIS is how much $10K worth of dot-com bubble stock is worth today] In fact, when the S&P 500 (SPX) index, a popular benchmark for the wider US market, fell by more than 2% last Friday to erase all of its June gains, tech giants and stay-at-home stocks followed suit....

Dubbed Raccoon Stealer, the malware first emerged in April 2019 and has since infected hundreds of thousands of Windows devices around the world, Boston-based endpoint security solutions provider Cybereason said. “Its popularity, even with a limited feature set, signals the continuation of a growing trend of the commoditization of malware as they follow a MaaS (Malware-as-a-Service) model and evolve their efforts,” the researchers stated. Costing $200 per month to use, Raccoon is suspected to be of Russian origin and has been found to be aggressively marketed in underground forums, offering prompt 24×7 customer support to community questions and comments on Telegram under the handle “glad0ff....

Some of that inefficiency is only to be expected. Manufacturing responsively at such short notice was always going to be messy. But many of the hardware hold-ups we’ve witnessed – from production line bottlenecks to part shortages – could be avoided in the future by applying an “open source” ethos to the world’s production of hardware. Open source design is a form of collective intelligence, where experts work together to create a design that anyone has the legal right to manufacture....

But here we sit. There’s a good chance that the company that makes your phone’s OS develops AI for the military and/or uses legal loopholes to avoid paying fair taxes. And, in the US, your phone carrier probably helped destroy net neutrality. Let’s not even get into the company you ordered your smart speakers from, who owns the email servers you use at home and work, and how the browser most people will read this story on is actively breaching their privacy....

It’s time for bed, but first, a few routine tasks: Put on pajamas. Brush teeth. Open windows. Unlock doors. Place wallet, personal documents, and banking information in a convenient pile on the kitchen counter. Sweet dreams. If that scenario is unsettling, consider how often the same sensitive information is entered into our digital devices. Without the proper security protocols in place, our assets and identities are easy prey. Worse, as designers of digital interfaces, a disregard for security places users at risk—financially, professionally, relationally, and emotionally....

In this day and age, there is only one answer: recycle. Even though the transition to battery electric vehicles is only beginning, we’re well aware of the need to recycle and reuse the precious metals and components contained within lithium-ion batteries. Given how intensive mining processes are, it’s a total waste to not recover these materials when an EV battery is no longer usable. German automaker VW has already built a battery recycling plant in Salzgitter, and in a recent video (above) shows off the general process for recycling a battery....

It is in human nature to try automating repetitive tasks, look for tools that make them more productive, and optimize work to save time… but how? The sales systems my team created have to process hundreds of thousands of orders per month, and more than 99% of these orders are fully self-service, meaning that there has been absolutely no sales team touch before the order was placed and processed. In this article, I am going to explain how companies can achieve similar results and what it really gives to the business and its customers....

From your weight to your money, there’s a tracking app for everything nowadays. Sure, they can make our lives more convenient, and they give us a sense of control, but just the fact that they exist doesn’t mean we should actually use them. In fact, some are simply abusing our laziness to gather personal information for commercial purposes. Recently, millennials have been bombarded with a slew of new personal finance apps....

The story begins back in 1967 when John Stonehouse, a Labour MP and minster for technology under Prime Minister Harold Wilson, established a group to develop a technology that had only just made its debut on Star Trek – a full colour flat-screen display. Unfortunately for Stonehouse, his amazing foresight has since been overshadowed by his attempt (in 1974) to fake his own death to avoid punishment for multiple counts of fraud and forgery....

Thanks to computer-aided design (CAD), architects were able to experiment with new organic forms, free from the restraints of slide rules and protractors. The result was famous curvy buildings such as Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Future Systems’ Selfridges Department Store in Birmingham. Today, computers are poised to change buildings once again, this time with algorithms that can inform, refine and even create new designs. Even weirder shapes are just the start: algorithms can now work out the best ways to lay out rooms, construct the buildings and even change them over time to meet users’ needs....

In this story, we’re going to look at Huawei’s tumultuous recent history. The arrest of the CFO Last December, Candian authorities arrested the company’s Chief Financial Officer, Meng Wanzhou — who happens to be the daughter of the company’s founder Ren Zhengfei — on request of the US government. She was charged with violation of the US’ sanctions on Iran, allegedly helping Huawei cover up wire frauds run by China....

For each, those steps were key in not only boosting their productivity, but charting a path to future success. The steps to reach your ultimate potential are varied and you never know which trick or suggestion might unlock your process. You can start figuring that out with the training in the How Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers Master Productivity with Tim Ferriss course. It’s on sale right now for just $19....

Choose a good source There are many stock photo websites; however, they are not the same. Although you can easily find photos that are free of charge, you will often want to find more specific photos. It is a good idea if you contact the photographer so that you can know their style and how they inquire whether they have specific photos to your needs. Research licensing agreements If you want to save money on stock photos, then it is important that you use them legally....

There might be part of a site that doesn’t easily let you copy some text, or maybe the text you need to copy is part of an image. So we’re going to talk about a few tools to capture text easily. iPhone Live Text Apple recently rolled out the Live Text feature in iOS 15 that easily lets you copy text using your camera. To make sure this feature is enabled on your iPhone or iPad, go to Settings > General > Language & Region, and tap on the Live Text toggle....