Here are the tell-tale signs that your boss isn’t all that crazy about you and some useful tips to help you manage the situation. They’re micromanaging you Micromanaging isn’t all that uncommon — in fact, most of us are guilty of doing it — but if your boss is checking up on you (and only you) all the time, it could be a sign that they don’t really like or trust you....
Shortcuts for iOS is a useful app for automating actions on your iPhone or iPad. In this series, we’ve been looking at a variety of workflows to make your Apple device a lot more powerful to accomplish specific tasks. With the upcoming iOS 13 update, Shortcuts is all set to get even better, allowing you to automatically trigger workflows at a specific time and location. Today, we’ll take a look at a simple automation that tells you the size of any file passed to it....
But, whether I like it or not, emails are unlikely to go away. In fact, I imagine we are all noticing an uptick in our inboxes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. So, how exactly do we go about dealing with this? Last year, I shared five tips to help you get to inbox zero but today I want to go one step further and share my advice to help you manage your inbound emails as let’s face it, you’re probably settling in to work from home until further notice....
As people around the world participate in protests and demonstrations the world over in support of Black Lives Matter and to honor the late George Floyd, some are running into resistance from law enforcement. Should you be arrested while participating, here’s how you can make sure your iPhone can’t be unlocked without a pin code. My colleague Georgina Ustik recommends not bringing your phone at all, or bringing a cheap burner phone with tracking disabled, so if your phone is lost or stolen it won’t hurt you too much....
Whether you’re new to Telegram or have been using it for a while, it’s worth knowing that it has plenty of nifty features. that other chat apps might not offer. One of the features that caught my eye is the ability to schedule a message to be delivered at some point in future. Here’s how you can use it: Open the Telegram app on your phone. Head to the conversation where you want to send a scheduled message....
Apple’s iOS 14 is an improvement in many ways — it gives you more freedom in organizing your apps, it finally makes widgets worth looking at, and (my favorite) allow you to set at least a few new default apps other than Apple’s homegrown options. Here’s how to do that with the mail app. It’s always been my philosophy that if we must be forced to use Apple’s apps, they’re not good enough....
Shortcuts app for iOS is a very useful way to automate your iPhone or iPad. Last week, we looked at creating a simple RSS reader using the app. But that’s not the only thing Shortcuts is good at. Another shortcut that can come in handy is sharing your Wi-Fi password as a QR code. Here’s how you can do it. Disclaimer: The screenshots below correspond to Shortcuts app for iOS 13 Beta 2....
If you’re using WhatsApp as your primary chat app, it lets you archive old conversations, so they don’t appear in your inbox. However, if there’s a new message in any of those conversations, you will see it back in your inbox. Thankfully, WhatsApp has changed that feature to let you keep archived messages from popping back to your inbox — even if there’s a new chat. Here’s how you can enable it:...
Facebook today completed its global rollout of the “Off-Facebook Activity” tool, a process it started last August. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called it a “Clear History” button in the past, and that’s a fair description: it lets you manage the information Facebook collects on your from other sites and apps. The platform has not, to put it mildly, cultivated a great reputation for consumer privacy. This tool is part of a multi-step process to address those concerns, at least on a surface level....
But setting up any kind of off-Earth mining industry will be no small feat. Let’s look at what we’re up against. In-situ resource utilization When you think of off-Earth mining, you might imagine extracting materials from various bodies in space and bringing them back to Earth. But this is unlikely to be the first commercially viable example. If we wanted to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon, as NASA has proposed, we would need to resupply astronauts living there....
This is a reality that many of the pioneers of deep learning and its main component, artificial neural networks, have acknowledged in various AI conferences in the past year. Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio, the three “godfathers of deep learning,” have all spoken about the limits of neural networks. The question is, what is the path forward? At NeurIPS 2019, Bengio discussed system 2 deep learning, a new generation of neural networks that can handle compositionality, out of order distribution, and causal structures....
More specifically, everyone seemed pretty pumped that it had managed to perform its first test run with two real-life human passengers. But I’d like to step back for a moment, and ask us to take a big reality check before we consider just how notable a milestone this is. Let’s put it into context. This Virgin Hyperloop test hit a top speed of just 48.07 meters per second, that’s 107 mph and it traveled 395 meters....
If you’ve purchased a MacBook model recently, you’re likely familiar with the term, but for those out of the loop: In 2015, Apple dropped the standard scissor key in favor of the so-called butterfly switch. The new design was supposed to reduce travel and speed up your typing (it also makes the device thinner), but it breaks awfully easily. [Read: What the hell is Apple’s butterfly keyboard?] After only six months of use, I noticed one of the keys on my 2019 MacBook Air didn’t feel the same....
The distributed team of developers from Brazil, India, Mongolia, and Taiwan, who met at Pace University, will receive $200,000 and support from IBM experts and partners to incubate, test, and deploy their solution. They will also get help from The Linux Foundation to open-source their app so developers across the world can improve and scale the tech. Agrolly was created to mitigate the damage done to farmers by climate change....
Despite their status as the far-and-away leading web content management system running a third of all websites on the internet, WordPress is not spending its reign resting on its laurels. Actually, it’s open source status makes WordPress more malleable to change and innovation than most tech titans, so when paradigm-shifting plug-ins like Elementor and WooCommerce came along to revolutionize the simplicity of site creation and the abilities of WP ecommerce sites, they were embraced quickly and with open arms....
Aside from WhatsApp, it follows similar moves from apps like Messenger and Snapchat, which originated the concept. Truth be told, this isn’t the first time Instagram has attempted the ‘scan-and-add’ model either. In 2018, the company launched a feature called ‘Nametags‘ which worked much the same as scanning a QR code. The crucial difference, however, is that Instagram’s new QR codes can be scanned by any camera app which supports generic QR codes....
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) February 7, 2020 The images come from — who else? — Jane Wong on Twitter. According to the images she unearthed, IGTV users would be able to “earn money by running short ads on your IGTV videos. It sounds very similar to Facebook’s mid-roll ads, in which content creators reap the revenue from the ads. It makes sense that it’s the first monetization option on the Facebook-owned platform — it works on Facebook, so it stands a good chance of working on Instagram....
That is what’s happening with Instagram Reels — the company’s TikTok rival. Facebook is now introducing ads as long as 30 seconds in between Reels on the app. These ads will have a small “Sponsored” label with the advertiser’s name. Instagram first introduced ads in Reels back in April to users in countries like India, Brazil, Germany, and Australia. The ads will appear only when you’re going through Reels in a full-screen immersive mode....
Since then, there have been multiple waves of the #deletefacebook hashtag trending and millions of people leaving the platform, especially those between the ages of 12 and 34. Criticisms have ranged from serious lines of inquiry about the ethics of the company overall to mindless regurgitations of memes that Mark Zuckerberg is secretly a robot. Either way, it seems the general population is happy to accept the idea that Facebook is an unethical corporate monster that needs to be stopped....
The study was led by Professor Malka Cohen-Armon and her team at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with Dr. Talia Golan and her team at the Cancer Research Center at Sheba Medical Center, and conducted with transplantations of human pancreatic cancer cells into immunocompromised mice, or xenografts. “In research published in 2017, we discovered a mechanism that causes the self-destruction of human cancer cells during their duplication (mitosis) without affecting normal cells,” explained Professor Cohen-Armon in a statement by the university this week....
