The internet is full of articles for salespeople offering alternatives to saying those three words, all with elaborate ways to avoid admitting ignorance. And I get it: telling someone you don’t know something is hard, especially when you’re trying to convince that person to give you money. But that’s why saying “I don’t know” is so powerful. In a world full of BS, the best way to stand out is to resemble an actual human being....
Remember at school when we were told we had to learn maths because we don’t have calculators in our pockets? WELL BET YOU FEEL PRETTY STUPID RIGHT NOW, MR. WILLIAMS, HAVE YOU SEEN SMARTPHONES LOL LOSER. In all seriousness, maths is important, kids — stay in school. It’s hard work being a role model. Anyway, we shouldn’t ignore just how amazing it is that we do, in fact, constantly have a calculator in our pocket....
As someone who has been working from home for 10 years, I’ve learned the hard way how to create an optimal environment and push past these kinds of barriers. Ensuring your work-from-home experience is a positive and productive one isn’t necessarily difficult (it’s mostly about small tweaks), but it can be more complicated than you might expect. Here are five things that have helped me build successful habits and maintain a better state of mind, and I bet they can help you too....
It is essential that managers are attuned to the various personal needs of their colleagues at this time. The boundaries between work and personal life erode when we work from home and everyone will experience this situation in a different way, depending on their family situation, their dependents, and the various dimensions of their personalities. This requires managers to put themselves in the shoes of their colleagues and take their perspective....
Things didn’t go to plan, and Tesla’s ambitions for a wireless global electricity supply were never realized. But the theory itself wasn’t disproved: it would have simply required an extraordinary amount of power, much of which would have been wasted. Now, a research paper has suggested that the architects of the 5G network may have unwittingly built what Tesla failed to construct at the turn of the twentieth century: a “wireless power grid” that could be adapted to charge or power small devices embedded in cars, homes, workplaces, and factories....
Over 100 brands are set to showcase what’s been going on behind the scenes and take part in some of the biggest tech debates of our age at this year’s TNW2020. Here are just a few on our radar this year. Huawei This year Huawei became one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world. But to stay in the lead, it will need to offer up some exciting new ideas this year....
The world of cryptocurrency and blockchain is no exception, with many of its figureheads involved in serious squabbles that often span several years. Here’s a quick (but not exhaustive) look at who’s fighting with whom, and why. Craig Wright: The King of feuding I could devote a whole piece to all the feuds Craig Steven Wright is involved in, but for brevity’s sake, here’s a quick summary. Craig Wright first burst on to the scene after two concurrent investigations in December 2015 suggested he could have invented Bitcoin....
Everyone knows the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of apps can handle practically any digital creation project this side of taking your dog for a walk. But once most users get past the basic workings of perennial favorites like Photoshop or Premiere, the capabilities of those other two dozen powerful programs start to get a little murky for most. Adobe XD may not have the name recognition of some of its buzzier siblings, but if you harbor visions of being a web designer, app creator, or digital freelancer, understanding Adobe XD could instantly vault you ahead of the rest of the pack....
Digital advertising is no longer just an adjunct to a more traditional broadcast or print campaign. In fact, even the biggest names in international finance can see the writing on the wall: ad dollars are moving away from old school outlets to the digital front at a remarkable rate. In a report last month by global investment firm Goldman Sachs, they say the impact of the coronavirus was expected to further fuel the trend they’ve been watching for a while and “will only accelerate the secular shift in advertising budgets towards digital....
The National COVID-19 Chest Imaging Database (NCCID) is comprised of more than 40,000 CT scans, MRIs, and X-rays taken from more than 10,000 UK patients since the start of the pandemic. Clinicians are already using the images to track patterns and markers of illness. These insights could help speed up diagnosis, inform treatment plans, and predict whether a patient will end up in a critical condition. The database was developed by NHSX, a digital unit of the UK’s National Health Service....
The AI-powered system sends inaudible sounds from the speakers towards a person sitting nearby. When they bounce back, algorithms analyze the sound waves to determine the heart rate. Researchers from the University of Washington tested the device on healthy people and hospitalized cardiac patients. They found that the smart speaker detected their heartbeats almost as well as medical-grade ECG monitors. The team says it’s the first time that both regular and irregular heartbeats can be monitored without physical contact....
The US is a nation that practices federalism. Some people call this states’ rights, but those people are wrong. States don’t have rights. As the US Constitution clearly points out, only people have rights and those rights are inalienable. As part of their plan to ensure this remained the case, the founders of the US ensured that individual state territories would always have their own governments operating alongside the federal government....
The model makes daily predictions of both total and current infections across the US and in the 50 countries worst affected by the virus. It calculated that more than 71 million people in the US had contracted COVID-19 by February 4, when there were only 26.7 million confirmed cases. The model also estimated that 7 million people in the country currently have infections and are potentially contagious. In other countries, the algorithm also calculated far higher numbers of infections than those reported....
On the other hand, there are only a handful of Windows laptops and desktops that use ARM-based processors. One of the keys to having more of these systems would be a robust app ecosystem. Last year, Apple introduced an ARM-based Mac Mini for developers to start porting their apps. If you’re a Windows app developer, there’s also a reference machine available for you, thanks to Qualcomm. In May, at Microsoft’s Build developer summit, Qualcomm announced a developer kit without revealing too many details....
Through its new site, which is part of a larger health initiative called Project Baseline, people residing in California can sign up to get tested for COVID-19 at no charge. At present, it’s only available to folks living in Santa Clara County and San Mateo County. President Trump erroneously announced last week that Google was building making a site to help people get tested across the US. However, it’s Verily, not Google, which has built the site....
“One way to mitigate against such attacks is to configure a service such that requests to the service incur some sort of expense, thereby providing a disincentive to participating in the attack,” the application reads. Planting a Merkle Tree But what’s a Merkle Tree? In short, Merkle Trees are cryptographic tools where blocks of data are manipulated to give them a unique identifier also known as a hash. These hashes are then manipulated again to create a parent hash....
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Apple has responded to Escobar’s lawsuit, asking for a 30-day extension to properly evaluate the allegations, according to emails Escobar Inc. CEO Olof Gustafsson shared with TNW. Here’s where things get heated: Gustafsson adds Escobar has already declined Apple’s request for extension. “All US Courts only allow for 30 days to respond to a lawsuit, and failure to respond results in an instant loss for the defendant (win for us),” the Escobar Inc....
Kuo’s report notes the new version will have the latest A13 Bionic chip and 3GB of RAM. According to an earlier report, the phone is slated to sport a 4.7-inch LCD display. However, this might change, seeing as how Apple is moving towards Face ID for unlocking its devices. In 2017, we saw plenty of leaks surrounding the iPhone SE 2, but as we all know, Apple never got around to releasing this device....
Let’s back up for a bit and take a look at what happened. First, the European Union opened an anti-trust investigation into App Store rules, after music streaming service Spotify and Rakutan-owned ebook distributor Kobo filed complaints about competition in music streaming and e-books. Then, amid the much-hyped launch of Basecamp’s new email service Hey, Apple rejected updates to its iOS app because it didn’t include the official in-app purchase mechanism, which allows Apple to take a cut....
