When you ride with Apple, you’re playing with a double-edged sword. Of course, you enjoy all the cool innovative benefits of their frontier-pushing tech. But on the flip side, their highly proprietary nature means if you don’t like the Apple-endorsed solution to a problem…well, you’re outta luck. Sure, you can jailbreak your iPhone or iPad, but that’s like trapeze work without a net. If you run into a problem, your device is basically null and void in Apple’s eyes....

James Peebles, a one-half winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics (he split the award with a duo comprised of Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz), is a bit of a curmudgeon when it comes to early-universe theories. According to him, the events surrounding the “Big Bang” are still unknown, and he really wishes his colleagues would stop referring to it as a “big bang.” According to a report from Agence France-Presse (AFP), Peebles told an audience at an event honoring Nobel winners at the Swedish embassy earlier this week: Notably, the Nobel winner doesn’t have his own theory to replace the Big Bang....

Surprisingly, although some traditional investors have been experimenting with crypto’s potential, the overwhelming majority are still apprehensive. But just what is causing this hesitancy and how can we remove these barriers to bring in wider adoption by investment firms? At TNW Conference 2021, Efi Pylarinou, a Fintech & Blockchain Influencer, interviewed a panel of experts on what needs to happen before traditional investors adopt cryptocurrency as an investment strategy. Here’s what we found out....

Save posts for later, create custom collections, and spend less time trying to find what you need. Instagram collections: Your Pinterest board to-do list Instagram’s Saves isn’t a public feature—the user who posted won’t be notified when their post has been saved, nor can a user’s saved posts be seen from their profile, so no judgment on what you save. You can organize your saved posts into specific collections (as many as you want) and then come back to those collections for review or inspiration later....

Or the irresistible shuffle of The Simpsons’ opening music? But, if we’re going to truly honest, if we’re going to genuinely look within ourselves to find a higher truth, we all know the greatest cartoon theme song of all time. Yes, that’s right, please stand up for the intro to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: It has everything you could ever want from a piece of music: sweet chord changes, exciting ad libs, and a chorus so catchy it really should be quarantined....

In a true sign of the times, thousands of Animal Crossing: New Horizons players took to their islands to kick off the start of a virtual Pride festival earlier this month, honoring LGBTQPIA+ STEM communities. Meanwhile, you can now also download an app that will pretty accurately forecast the weather of a player’s virtual island, offering them a leg up on your game goals. If that last paragraph has you scratching your head in total bewilderment, you are behind the curve....

The idea was to deliver ‘Windows as a service,’ after all. Instead of major, paid OS updates every few years, we got a variety of free, bite-sized updates every few months. Windows 10 was supposed to be in a state of constant improvement. So even after Microsoft announced it would reveal ‘the next generation of Windows,’ I didn’t expect the company to actually call it Windows “11.” But I should have known Windows 10 was on its way out....

Currently, the app is only available for iOS users in Russia. The company says it plans to launch Android and iOS versions for a global audience early next year. Sloy’s developers have trained its AI to recognize and tag clothing items worn by you. You can click on the tag and watch videos that contain similar clothes and styling. This foreseeably opens great opportunities for partnerships between content creators, fashion labels, and clothing stores....

The thing about new challenges, though, is that it’s hard to know exactly where to start. Do you shout your idea at anyone within earshot? Do you work on your pitch, or do you devote time to your product and make sure it ‘does the talking’? To get closer to a definitive answer, I spoke to two tech founders about what they believe mattered most when they were raising their first million....

Your smartphone may be smart…but it’s also disgusting. It’s not your fault though. You’re a human being. It comes with the territory. Your phone is covered with over 25,000 bacteria per square inch. That’s more contaminant matter than you’d find in the same space on a toilet seat, a kitchen counter, a pet food dish, a checkout screen and a doorknob — combined. And yes, COVID-19 can live on your phone plenty long enough to get right up next to your face during your next call....

While the thumbs-down button is staying, the tally will only be available to the person who uploaded the video. YouTube says the move will shield creators from harassment and “dislike attacks.” In tests, the changes made people “less likely to target a video’s dislike button to drive up the count.” YouTube is now gradually making the switch a permanent feature. Viewers will still be able to dislike videos, which will tune their recommendations, but the counter will be concealed within the creator’s analytics dashboard....

The hate speech policies changed earlier this year, with YouTube “specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.” It also added it’d be removing videos glorifying Nazi ideology, and those that denied “well-documented violent events” like Sandy Hook or the Holocaust. That was in June 2019, so better late than never, right?...

The tool is called AR Beauty Try-On, will let you virtually try products on your face with AR while following along with guides on YouTube. The streaming platform said it’s tuned the algorithm to make virtual beauty products work on all skin tones. YouTube’s testing out an alpha version of this feature with FameBit, Google’s branded content platform. It has partnered with M.A.C Cosmetics so you can try out their products....

According to a blog post on Electric Coin Company’s (ECC) website, the contract officially handing over ownership was signed and executed yesterday making the Zcash Foundation the official custodians of the coin’s trademark. The Electric Coin Company launched Zcash back in 2016, and has been one of the main developers of the privacy coin. Until yesterday, it also owned the rights to trademark registration and protection for the cryptocurrency. The Zcash Foundation is a non-profit organization of developers, engineers, Zcash fans, and other community members....

Generally, these trends are in-line with shrinking Bitcoin trading volumes, reports research firm Delphi Digital. Still, the firm highlighted 220,000 BTC (worth roughly $1.6 billion at current prices) bought way back in November 2017 — the start of peak Bitcoin-mania — that hasn’t moved at all since then. Surely, some strong hands. There’s less new money entering the cryptocurrency space Trading activity spiked at the end of October, when Bitcoin’s price last pushed above $9,000, but volumes had reached six-month lows by the end of November....

I never thought there’d be anything more annoying about browsing the web than autoplay videos ads with sound, but in the past few years, a challenger has emerged: sites asking permission to send you notifications. Look websites, almost no one wants more notifications. We expect them from dedicated apps, but not from our do-it-all browsers. A pop-up asking me to receive notifications as soon as I open a site does nothing to make me want to visit it more often....

According to Business Insider, which spoke with 27 Tesla dealership employees, the company made a series of slapdash announcements in February last year, which said that the company would be “winding down many of [its] stores.” Despite the gravity of the initial announcement, it mentioned casually in a blog post about a new upcoming Model 3 variant. Tesla employees were not made aware of this announcement before it was announced publicly....

For a given dataset the pandas profiling package computes the following statistics: Installation Usage Let’s use the age-old titanic dataset to demonstrate the capabilities of the versatile python profiler. This single line of code is all you need to display the data profiling report in a Jupyter notebook. The report is pretty detailed including charts wherever necessary. The report can also be exported into an interactive HTML file with the following code....

Of course, this isn’t all there is though. In 2022, we’ve seen NFTs (non-fungible tokens that are part of the Ethereum blockchain) capture the public’s imagination — but outside of this, blockchain as a whole hasn’t translated into something most people use. In fact, the majority of news in this space often appears hyped or pointless. From an outsider’s perspective, it appears as though companies put things on the blockchain simply because they can....

Internal interviews between Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook employees were leaked today, by The Verge, and appear to show unease amongst the ranks. Zuck called for staff to rally together against skeptics, critics, and the regulators. But what about Libra? Indeed, staff made Facebook’s plans for a digital currency a point of contention asking Zuck for more information. Here’re three things we learned about Libra from the leaked interviews. 1. Libra might launch without a token “…we want to work with traditional currencies....