Boku, a payments service that allows users to charge purchases to their mobile number, said on Tuesday that the number of daily average users rose in the second half of February versus the second half of January — particularly in countries under the coronavirus threat, including South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Oman. [READ: China’s coronavirus detection app is reportedly sharing citizen data with police] Boku can be used on platforms such as Spotify and Playstation, and is accepted by a number of gambling websites and online casinos....

The excavations will take place in Arrowhead Ridge, a former battlefield inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that bisects the Korean Peninsula. The droids will use AI to scan underground for bodies of soldiers still missing from the war, which began in 1950 when North Korean communist forces invaded the capitalist south. A 1953 armistice suspended hostilities, but the ceasefire never progressed into a peace treaty. Tensions still simmer on the peninsula to this day....

Here’s the scary part: The WHO defines “overwork” as spending more than 55 hours per week on the job. That makes it a very serious issue for employees in industries that experience crunch such as STEM and gaming, and for entrepreneurs who think the key to success is putting in long hours. Per the study: In other words: in 2016 alone, somewhere around 750,000 deaths caused by heart disease or stroke were directly linked to longer working hours....

It’s a really gripping show, and I’m surely going to read more articles about those colorful characters. However, I really wish I had watched it with my friends, so that I can make fun of silly things. Alas, this social distancing is cruel that way, and I’m sure you are missing binging sessions with your friends too. So, today, I’m gonna give you some tools, so you can watch shows and movies together online during the lockdown....

At the start of November, we downloaded the full Robintrack database, which records how many Robinhood users hold a particular stock over time. While the public data doesn’t contain total share-buying volumes, it still provides us with a wealth of information — even more so when combined with other readily available data about these publicly listed companies. To assess the amount of risk undertaken on Robinhood’s platform as a whole, we have to look at how well diversified the holdings are....

Please stop asking me to your mobile app. I don’t want want to use it. I don’t care if you think your app is the bee’s knees. If I wanted to use your app, I’d go to the app store and download said app. But I didn’t do that. Instead, I’m writing this article to state the obvious. I prefer to access your service within the comfort of a browser, thank-you-very-much....

Research has proven, on numerous occasions, that diverse teams are good for business — as they bring new perspectives, attract new talent, and improve company culture. This is why Alison Wynn, a research associate with the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab, spent the past year studying the implementation of a gender equality initiative at a Silicon Valley tech company. Wynn’s research titled “Pathways Towards Change,” explored how a tech company’s ideologies and inequality affect their efforts to change....

Traditionally, developers have written software as a series of hard-coded rules: If X happens then do Y. The human instructs the machine, line by line. That’s Software 1.0. But Software 2.0 recognizes that — with advances in deep learning — we can build a neural network that learns which instructions or rules are needed for a desired outcome. The argument made by 2.0 proponents like Andrej Karpathy, director of AI at Tesla, is that we won’t really write code anymore....

But, while the CMS system is powering the websites of so many businesses across the globe, the truth is, a majority of developers actually hate it. In Stack Overflow’s annual Developer Survey, WordPress was voted the most dreaded platform to work with, in 2019 and 2020. But it’s not just WordPress. Traditional CMS systems including Squarespace, Drupal, and WooCommerce, made to be ‘easier for marketers to use,’ seem to be a pain for developers....

DeviantArt, an online art and design community founded in 2000, is now opening up its NFT protection tool to everyone. Until now, that tool was available only to DeviantArt community members. But now any artist can sign up for it. Here’s what you get: the free version allows you to upload 10 images, and you’ll get alerts if anyone is using your art as an NFT. You can pay $9....

It might take us a while to get used to it, and we might it hate it for a while. But the company explained in a thread that why it made these changes: the primary reason is accessibility. First, Twitter’s new fonts are called Chirp (cute name), and the company claims they are designed to make reading easier when you’re scrolling through tweets. These are the company’s first proprietary typeface, and you can read more about it here....

Ceres is the largest dwarf planet in the inner solar system, and new findings from the Dawn spacecraft reveal this body is covered in salty oceans. Data from the Dawn spacecraft, the first robotic explorer to orbit a dwarf planet, revealed this icy body was surprisingly active, housing an ocean far deeper than any found on Earth. [Read: Jupiter’s atmosphere is regulated by ammonia storms, research reveals] The famed astronomer Johannes Kepler had earlier predicted that a planet should orbit in between Mars and Jupiter....

Specifically, these billionaires would fall subject to the 23.8% capital gains tax on the increased value of unsold assets like stocks and bonds. Elon has plenty of money Let’s be clear: the man is hardly buying no-name brand baby food for X Æ A-12. His net worth rose by a tidy $36.2 billion alone on Monday in response to a surge in Tesla stock. He reportedly earns $610.8 million per week — that’s $152....

It comes in a long history of statements, in which the renowned entrepreneur suggests degrees — even highschool degrees — aren’t a necessity to work for him. In a 2014 interview, for instance, Musk mentioned he’s interested in people with demonstrable capabilities rather than a fancy degree. “If there’s a track record of exceptional achievement, then it’s likely that that will continue into the future.” In order to verify Musk’s statements, we decided to go through all current vacancies at Tesla, as listed on their website....

It was inevitable. Elon Musk said today that now you can buy a Tesla with Bitcoin. There aren’t many details on the logistics of this, but like a lot of company announcements, we are finding this out through Musk’s tweets. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2021 Musk said that the company is using internal and open-source software to operate Bitcoin nodes and it won’t convert the cryptocurrency transactions to fiat currency....

Based in leafy Cambridge for all 28 years of its existence, and owned by Japan’s SoftBank, Arm Holdings’ designs form the basis of every smartphone processor in existence. According to a memo obtained by the BBC, ARM Holdings is instructing staff to suspend business with Huawei, over concerns the designs contain US-origin technology. Although the US embargo on Huawei has been suspended temporarily for 90 days, the BBC states that ARM staffers haven’t been told they can resume collaborating with Huawei....

We covered the previous device in this series — the Honor 9X — in a piece about how good budget phones have become in the past few years. And, let me tell you something for free, the new 9X Pro has made this market all the more crowded. Anyway, now the device has been properly announced, here’s everything you need to know about the Honor 9X Pro — including a short hands-on segment at the end....

Our research shows autocorrect errors, particularly in Excel spreadsheets, can also make a mess of gene names in genetic research. We surveyed more than 10,000 papers with Excel gene lists published between 2014 and 2020 and found more than 30% contained at least one gene name mangled by autocorrect. This research follows our 2016 study that found around 20% of papers contained these errors, so the problem may be getting worse....

The Oculus Quest 2 is, like its predecessor, a standalone headset that can be connected with a PC via the Oculus link cable. It’s smaller and lighter, with redesigned, more ergonomic controllers. The internals are also getting an upgrade with a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2, 6GB of RAM, and 1832 x 1920 pixels per eye, and the headset will support a 90Hz refresh rate. It also has a host of accessories, including custom earbuds and a stronger headstrap that comes with a battery pack....

The system threatened to ban mask makers in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and California, The New York Times reports. These groups were set up to fill a gap in protective gear that has forced hospital staff to don ski goggles and Halloween masks as shields against infection. But their efforts were caught in the crossfire of Facebook’s battle against coronavirus profiteers. “The automated systems we set up to prevent the sale of medical masks needed by health workers have inadvertently blocked some efforts to donate supplies,” Facebook admitted in a statement....