Copyright (c) 2019 Baptist Press. Reprinted from Baptist Press (www.baptistpress.com), news service of the Southern Baptist Convention.The original story can be found at http://www.bpnews.net/48743/study-americans-fond-of-bible-but-how-many-read-it by Bob Smietana, posted Tuesday, April 25, 2017 (one year ago) NASHVILLE (BP) — Americans appear to have a positive view of the Bible. And many say Scripture is filled with

Relativity Space has the infrastructure; now it just needs to build the rocket By Loren Grush on January 17, 2019 11:00 am A rendering of what Relativity Space’s rocket will look like, launching from LC-16. Image: Relativity Space America’s busiest spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is about to get a new tenant: a startup that

Second Measure analyzes billions of U.S. credit card transactions to answer real-time questions on consumer behavior. We track purchasing patterns for over 3000 public and private companies, and have 100+ clients (including some of the world’s largest hedge funds, venture capital firms, and consumer brands). Since launching in 2015, we’ve enjoyed phenomenal growth in headcount and clients.

Headbands that monitor concentration by reading brain signals have been trialled on thousands of Chinese schoolchildren. The devices could soon be used on millions of students across China, according to the US tech company which designed them. Massachusetts-based start-up BrainCo says its Focus 1 headbands can help teachers identify pupils who need extra assistance. Join

Last week, Nvidia announced plans to roll out a software-only version of G-Sync, its Adaptive Sync tool for PC displays. And now, with GeForce driver 417.71 out in the open, the small group of people who mix Nvidia graphics cards with FreeSync monitors can try out this new implementation of G-Sync. Nvidia says it’s in

Photo: Claire Lower I love the “in-a-hole” genre of egg cooking, be that hole in a simple piece of white bread, a grilled cheese sandwich, or even a bell pepper. (The only member of this family I hate is an egg cooked in an avocado; not all holes are meant to be filled.) My new

SageDB: a learned database system January 16, 2019 tags: Datastores, Machine Learning SageDB: a learned database system Kraska et al., CIDR’19 About this time last year, a paper entitled ‘The case for learned index structures’ (part I, part II) generated a lot of excitement and debate. Today’s paper choice builds on that foundation, putting forward a

It’s Saturday night and you and your friends want to go to the hottest restaurant in the neighborhood. Here’s a little trick that might actually make that possible. This tiny hack from Redditor u/ashen808 on r/LifeProTips is contingent on a few things: you have punctual friends and you’re going somewhere that isn’t flooded morning until

In recent years, the federal government has significantly ramped up its efforts to monitor people on social media. The FBI, for one, has repeatedly acknowledged that it engages in surveillance of social media posts. So it was surprising when the bureau responded to our Freedom of Information Act request on this kind of surveillance by

It’s hard to be amazing every single day. Especially if you started out this year with lofty goals, you might be discouraged if you can’t seem to keep up. Instead of giving up, try the forgiving philosophy of “no zero days.” The concept became popular on Reddit, after u/ryans01 described it in a comment. The

We like to think of ourselves as nerds here at TechCrunch, which is why we’re bring you this. During the government shutdown, security experts noticed several federal websites were throwing back browser errors because the TLS certificate, which lights up your browser with “HTTPS” or flashes a padlock, on many domains had expired. And because

Jan. 17, 2019 · The Rust Release Team The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.32.0. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.32.0 is as easy as: $

More than 30,000 Los Angeles public school teachers are currently on strike, demanding changes that include significantly reduced class sizes and salary increases. “It is unacceptable to have teachers come in and then leave because the conditions are too hard and the pay isn’t enough,” Alex Caputo-Pearl, the Director of United Teachers Los Angeles, the

Image: Stephan Henning on Unsplash Over the past few months, there have been a handful of announcements from credit companies about new “tricks” consumers will soon be able to use to improve their credit score. The changes sound good in theory, but as with all finance-related products, you can bet the companies aren’t introducing them

THE FUZZY specks growing on discs of jelly in Floyd Romesberg’s lab at Scripps Research in La Jolla look much like any other culture of E. coli. But appearances deceive—for the DNA of these bacteria is written in an alphabet that has six chemical letters instead of the usual four. Every other organism on Earth

Rumors about a Pixel Watch have abounded for years. Such a device would certainly make sense as Google attempts to prove the viability of its struggling wearable operating system, Wear OS. Seems the company is finally getting serious about the prospect. Today Fossil announced plans to sell its smartwatch IP to the software giant for

After AMD released its seven-nanometer Radeon VII graphics card with impressive-looking performance, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang responded by essentially trashing it. “The performance is lousy and there’s nothing new,” he told PC World. “No ray tracing, no AI. It’s 7nm with HBM memory that barely keeps up with an [NVIDIA RTX] 2080.” NVIDIA’s CEO doth

I’m so sorry but we’re still talking about Marie Kondo. The popularity of her Netflix show Tidying Up caused an uptick in donations to thrift stores and used bookstores, according to CNN, the New Yorker, and Seattle’s Stranger. Not every store has seen more incoming books, but plenty have, including New York’s Housing Works Bookstore

Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty) As I write this, we’re now in the fourth week of a federal government shutdown that appears to have no end in sight. President Donald Trump is losing it. The Democrats are (surprisingly) holding their ground over their refusal to provide nearly $6 billion in funding for a wall on the

Image: Mario Tama/Getty Images This year’s Free Comic Book Day isn’t happening until May, but we already have a bit of an idea of what will be available come May 4th. Free Comic Book Day recently released a full list of this year’s free comics and it looks pretty fantastic. There are 12 Gold Sponsor

KEN WAMSLEY SOMETIMES DREAMS that he’s playing softball again. He’ll be at center field, just like when he played slow pitch back in his teens, or pounding the ball over the fence as the crowd goes wild. Other times, he’s somehow inexplicably back at work in the lab. Wamsley calls them nightmares, these stories that

Building a real-time user action counting system for ads Pinterest EngineeringBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jul 13, 2018 Del Bao, Software engineer, Ads Infrastructure Guodong Han and Jian Fang, Software engineers, Serving System The Pinterest ads team’s mission is to provide the best experience for both Pinners and advertisers. Our ads system is a real-time bidding system that delivers targeted ads

Snap CFO Tim Stone is leaving the company, according to documents Snap filed with the SEC today. “Tim has made a big impact in his short time on our team and we are very grateful for all of his hard work,” Snap CEO Evan Spiegel wrote in a memo, obtained by TechCrunch, to employees. “I

Blowing Up Images to Make Them Small 13 Jan 2019 Normally, an image looks distorted or pixelated after being enlarged — especially if it contains graphics or text — but the technique I’m about to show you is all about blowing up tiny images and the results might surprise you. Let’s say you want to

The Ethereum Core Developers and the Ethereum Security Community were made aware of the potential Constantinople-related issues identified by ChainSecurity on January 15, 2019. We are investigating any potential vulnerabilities and will follow with updates in this blog post and across social media channels. Out of an abundance of caution, key stakeholders around the Ethereum

Best Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily.    We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today. Head over to our main post for more deals, and follow us on Twitter and Facebook to never miss a chance

[embedded content] In many an audio engineering course, I’ve come across the Fourier Transform, an idea so fundamental in sound production that it seems essential for everyone to know it. My limited understanding was, you might say, functional. It’s some kind of mathematical reverse engineering machine that turns waveforms into frequencies, right? Yes, but it’s

Photo: Daria Shevtsova (Pexels) The actual cost of anything at a hospital is a mystery until you get the bill, but as of January 1, 2019, hospitals must post a list of all their prices online. It can be confusing, near-unreadable, and hard to find, but it’s there. Somewhere. Quartzy looked for these lists on

A YC startup called GBatteries has come out of stealth with a bold claim: they can recharge an electric car as quickly as it takes to full up a tank of gas. Created by aerospace engineer Kostya Khomutov, electrical engineers Alex Tkachenko and Nick Sherstyuk, and CCO Tim Sherstyuk, the company is funded by the

Image: Annie Spratt on Unsplash It might be time to rethink which target-date fund you’re investing in with a different calculation in mind. To summarize, target-date funds are mutual funds designed by brokers to align with your retirement year. They rebalance periodically, becoming more conservative as you approach your target year. They’re easy, hands-off products

When making a cocktail, the shaker serves several functions. It mixes, aerates, and rapidly chills ingredients, and—as writer Chelsea Fagan pointed out on Twitter—there’s no need to limit the tool to an alcoholic happy hour. Advertisement Shaking any simple beverage you want super chilled and a little frothy is a delicious idea, but you can

Fasting is enjoying a surge in popularity, thanks to proponents who claim it activates weight loss. Everyone these days, it seems, is skipping their breakfasts or drinking only water every third day. But is fasting actually good for you? And (more importantly to some) will it make you lose weight? The short answer is yes,

In the 2017–18 theater season, 63 percent of the 13.8 million tickets sold to performances of Broadway shows were bought by tourists who live outside New York City and its suburbs. No other American city can make a comparable claim. Despite the high quality of theater elsewhere in the U.S., New York remains America’s only

The afternoon of Friday, April 27, 2012 was a mild and sunny one in Detroit. With temperatures hovering in the low 50s, employees around the city were no doubt eager to escape their offices and enjoy a little of the spring weather. But by Monday morning, the atmosphere in one Corktown business had chilled considerably.

JANUARY 15, 2019 I. The Resurrection WE SOMETIMES FORGET that, at the turn of the century, Silicon Valley was in a funk, economic and psychic. The great dot-com bubble of the 1990s had imploded, destroying vast amounts of investment capital along with the savings of many Americans. Trophy startups like Pets.com, Webvan, and Excite@Home, avatars

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday suffered a humiliating defeat over her plan to withdraw Britain from the European Union, thrusting the country further into political chaos with only 10 weeks to go until it is scheduled to leave the bloc. The 432-to-202 vote to reject her plan was the biggest defeat in

Illustration: Reddit/Nick Douglas The cool thing about Reddit is that you can subscribe to just the subreddits you like, and ignore everything you don’t. The smaller, more specialized subreddits are the best, but they’re harder to find. The new tool sayit helps you find them. Sayit shows a network map of subreddits, judging their similarity

Photo: Pexels I used to hate the gym—not because of actual exercise per se, but purely because I was so self-conscious. I was obsessed with the idea that I’d be criticized for my shoddy squat form or brief five minutes on the treadmill—and then exiled from my gym forever, cast off onto the island of

“We’re a family that celebrates,” my son once said during one of our many celebratory dinners for who-knows-what occasion. “We sure are,” I said, as the three of us clinked our glasses together, the way we always do in a restaurant. Advertisement I have always been someone who loves to go all out for birthdays

Photo: Jack Taylor (Getty Images) Your heart beats fast when you’re exercising hard, and slower when you’re resting or sleeping. Your Apple Watch is taking your pulse all day long, and wants to tell you allllll about it. Some major caveats on everything we’re about to say: first, everybody is different, so if your numbers

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Will It Casserole, the column where we see what meals, dishes, and cuisines can be re-imagined and transformed into casseroles. It’s a new year, which means it’s time to pick our very first casserole project of 2019. Turn That Last Bit of Leftover Turkey Into a Cheesy Casserole If

This winter kicked off with record-setting snow and freezing temperatures — and we’re not even halfway through, which means many of us have weeks or months of snow (and snow shoveling) to look forward to. Municipal codes generally require residents to clear snow and ice from the sidewalks on their properties within a certain period

Mystro is an automation app that allows drivers to safely and easily run Uber, Lyft and other platforms simultaneously. Check us out: https://www.inc.com/julie-walmsley/this-y-combinator-grad-charges-12-a-month-to-help-drivers-cheat-on-uber-earn-more-cash.html We are looking someone who can learn rapidly, work independently as part of a small fast-moving team, and contribute in a wide range of areas as we continue to improve the Mystro

Unbabel’s “Translation as a Service” platform allows modern enterprises to understand and be understood by their customers in dozens of languages. Powered by AI and refined by a global community of tens of thousands of human linguists, Unbabel delivers professional-grade content at the scale required by modern enterprises like Facebook, Microsoft, Under Armour, Pinterest and

Jump to navigation Jump to search Universe Sandbox Developer(s) Dan Dixon Christian Herold Georg Steinröhder Thomas Grønneløv Eric Hilton Naomi Goldenson Chad Jenkins Initial release May 2008 Stable release 2.2 / October 1, 2012 Operating system Microsoft Windows Type Educational software License Proprietary commercial software Website universesandbox.com Universe Sandbox is an interactive space gravity simulator video

Another week comes along and with it, another assault on CSS. It’s turning into a bit of a trend—particularly in the JavaScript community—to crap on CSS wherever possible. I could lambaste those who frequently do this, but instead, I thought I’d write about CSS positively to counter the falsities that are spread over the tech

Image: Pexels If you’re not used to public speaking, a teleprompter can be a useful tool to have in your arsenal. A teleprompter can help you keep your speech on track, and make everything run a bit more smoothly. There’s just one issue: Most free and web-based teleprompter for with an auto scroll, meaning that

Fasting glucose and A1C tests done over the past few years show me at low risk for diabetes. But these tests don’t necessarily capture how much blood sugar “spikes” after meals–something that may be a better predictor of disease risk. Such blood sugar spikes can be minimized with a suitable diet, but what that diet

From time to time we come across a story of an app being removed from the Play Store unjustly and the developer getting frustrated with the lack of warning or communication, and more frustratingly, the absence of a valid reason. The case of popular apps Power Shade (500K installs) and Material Notification Shade (1M+ installs) has proven to

From time to time we come across a story of an app being removed from the Play Store unjustly and the developer getting frustrated with the lack of warning or communication, and more frustratingly, the absence of a valid reason. The case of popular apps Power Shade (500K installs) and Material Notification Shade (1M+ installs) has proven to

Google Assistant is everywhere. On your phone, tablet, smart speaker, watch, car, TV, and even your oven. Even on your phone, there are several ways to trigger Assistant, from saying “Ok Google” to tapping and holding the home button or using the icon in the Google search bar. And now, there’s a new way to open

4 text files that go from vague life goals down to concrete hourly tasks: – todo-year.txt : all goals for the year – todo-month.txt : track subset of annual goals to finish this month – todo-week.txt : track all monthly high-level tasks to finish this week – todo.txt : daily task plan based on weekly

The Embroidered Computer The Embroidered Computer is an exploration into using historic gold embroidery materials and knowledge to craft a programmable 8 bit computer. Solely built from a variety of metal threads, magnetic, glas and metal beads, and being inspired by traditional crafting routines and patterns, the piece questions the appearance of current digital and

Google Assistant is everywhere. On your phone, tablet, smart speaker, watch, car, TV, and even your oven. Even on your phone, there are several ways to trigger Assistant, from saying “Ok Google” to tapping and holding the home button or using the icon in the Google search bar. And now, there’s a new way to open

More than 80 TLS certificates used by US government websites have expired so far without being renewed, leaving some websites inaccessible to the public. More security news NASA, the US Department of Justice, and the Court of Appeals are just some of the US government agencies currently impacted, according to Netcraft. The blame falls on

Sundar Pichai, lately the CEO of Google and a huge figure in the world of Android, is apparently considering the advice of his dear mother when it comes time to name the next release of Android. That’s according to a question and answer session Pichai gave at Delhi University, where topics such as football (soccer)

Last month, Hue bulbs were updated with the option to use their most recent settings when powering on, rather than coming on at full brightness. Hue has now announced that users will soon be able to choose what setting lights power on with — full brightness, the last used setting, or a user-defined custom setting.

Google Assistant is everywhere. On your phone, tablet, smart speaker, watch, car, TV, and even your oven. Even on your phone, there are several ways to trigger Assistant, from saying “Ok Google” to tapping and holding the home button or using the icon in the Google search bar. And now, there’s a new way to open

Google Assistant is everywhere. On your phone, tablet, smart speaker, watch, car, TV, and even your oven. Even on your phone, there are several ways to trigger Assistant, from saying “Ok Google” to tapping and holding the home button or using the icon in the Google search bar. And now, there’s a new way to open

Yesterday, a post on Reddit said that Google’s little music streamer that could, Chromecast Audio, had been discontinued. Sadly, that turned out to be true: according to an official statement from Google, the device is no longer being manufactured. A Google spokesperson has confirmed to Android Police that Chromecast Audio has been discontinued, saying: Our product portfolio

In recent times, there have been a couple of tremendously popular blog posts explaining JOINs using Venn Diagrams. After all, relational algebra and SQL are set oriented theories and languages, so it only makes sense to illustrate set operations like JOINs using Venn Diagrams. Right? Google seems to say so: Everyone uses Venn Diagrams to

Imagine scientists reviving giant creatures that once roamed the Earth. Well, that’s what arborists are doing today, only they’re cloning saplings from the stumps of the world’s largest, strongest, and longest-lived trees—felled for timber more than a century ago—to create redwood “super groves” that can help fight climate change. “Most redwoods don’t live to be

These are dark days for supplements. Although they are a $30-plus billion market in the United States alone, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, beta-carotene, glucosamine, chondroitin, and fish oil have now flopped in study after study. If there was one supplement that seemed sure to survive the rigorous tests, it was vitamin D.

I’ve been announcing the Open Beta release of my game HexSolve for Android and iOS.  HexSolve was written in Smalltalk and people have been asking me how it’s possible to run Smalltalk on mobile devices.  I thought I’d write up a little description of the technology behind it. I’ve wanted to be able to run

On January 1st, 2018, I made predictions (here) about self driving cars, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, and about progress in the space industry. Those predictions had dates attached to them for 32 years up through January 1st, 2050. So, today, January 1st, 2019, is my first annual self appraisal of how well I did. I’ll try

How many people put a sticky note over their laptop webcams because they’re worried about someone spying on them? Rumors of hackers accessing webcams and USB microphones are ever-present in today’s technological world, but it’s even worse when the manufacturer responsible for a connected camera is the one leaking videos of you. As detailed in

We got a question last week from a reader asking us about the best apps for tracking newborn feedings and diaper changes. To which my initial response was, “Apps? I used a yellow legal pad.” But then I remembered that was eight years ago, which might as well be 50 years as far as technology

Does the entire world really need to see where you’re tweeting from? I usually don’t think about how much location data I’m sharing on Twitter, because I don’t think anybody cares about my 1) tweets and 2) where I tweet. However, a new report from Wired has made me rethink my approach. As it turns

It’s pretty awesome to lift enough weights, or play enough hockey, that you notice more muscle in your butt and thighs. But it’s not so awesome to hulk out of your own clothes, and notice that none of the pants in stores fit you anymore. Professional hockey players often can’t wear store-bought jeans, which we

Screenshot: Netflix It’s Marie Kondo’s world now, and we’re all just trying to declutter in it. After Kondo’s Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, based on her book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, debuted this month, Americans have gone tidy-crazy. Local and national news sites are reporting that thrift shops are seeing dramatic

Yesterday afternoon, while walking in the crosswalk, I was hit by a car. The person who hit me was turning into the lane. She should have stopped to let me pass, and the assumption that she would stop at literally any second is why I kept walking. I realized she wasn’t going to stop—she either

After much debate, our readers chose the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 as their favorite work keyboard. This was a really tight contest with each entry netting over 15% of the vote. In fact, each of the runner-ups are worth checking out. The Five Best Work Keyboards, According to Our Readers On Monday, we asked you

Jerry Ai 是总部位于美国加州硅谷的高科技创新公司，目前在纽约州和加拿大魁北克省均设有分部。 公司由美国名校博士联合创立，联合创始人具有硅谷连续创业经验， 公司已获得美国顶级VC投资。 旗下产品利用大数据和人工智能技术与美国金融机构和保险公司进行数据对接与合作，从而为用户打造最快捷便利的人工智能金融和保险产品选购平台。 工作职责： 设计、开发、测试、部署、维护和改进软件 合理安排各个项目的优先顺序，确保项目按期完成并实现目标成果 我们需要这样的你： 本科及以上学历，计算机，软件工程相关专业 4年以上工作经验，具有一定相关团队建设经验者优先考虑 具备扎实的软件开发基础知识（数据结构，算法等等） 熟悉现代javascript (ES6+). 熟悉javascript工具链以及常用的库. 熟悉Web前段框架，如ReactJs, Vue.js等. 了解服务器端渲染技术，以及React Native移动端开发 了解javascript的最佳实践和一些常用的设计模式。具备编写高效简洁的javascript代码。 会编写和维护规范的测试集。有维护和管理大型代码repo的相关经验并且知道如何维护repo 具备良好的英文沟通能力。 年龄不限 *加分项目： 熟练运用GraphQL以及Apollo 相关产品开发经验 我们的工作地点： 支持远程办公 我们可以提供： 年薪15-25万（优异者可商谈） 业务表现优秀者可协助办理加拿大签证移民 如果您感兴趣，请把您的英文简历发至：[email protected] (邮件主题字段必须包含：资深软件工程师-中国)或点击申请，我们会尽快和您取得联系。 About Jerry.ai: Think insurance shopping is painful and time-consuming? We thought so too. That is why we built jerry.ai to create

Fond is a perks and rewards platform used by over 500 companies across the U.S. from startups competing for top talent to Fortune 500 companies strengthening their employer brands. Fond helps customers build cultures of appreciation and recognition, knowing that happier employees make for better business. Some of our current customers include Salesforce, Sephora, Delta

Wherever you’re from, whatever your background, Fivetran needs you! At Fivetran, we believe that inclusion and diversity are key to our success. By fully leveraging our diverse experiences, backgrounds and insights, we inspire innovation, challenge the status quo and create better outcomes for our people and our customers. Making inclusion and diversity a competitive advantage

Technology from phones to smart homes has been getting safer, smarter, more personalized and immersive. Facial recognition and sensors for biometric authentication, cinema-quality entertainment on the go, and voice recognition to activate multiple virtual assistants that co-exist are now all possible. Evolving needs – such as desiring security and privacy without sacrificing convenience, or immersive

One of the many new services re-invented at AWS’s re:invent conference was the storage of secrets for applications. Secrets in essence are generally things your application may need to run but you don’t really want to put in source control. Things like API keys, password salt, database connection strings and the like. Current ways of

Photo: Claire Lower I love to start my day with curds and whey; they’re filling, neutral enough to pair deliciously with a variety of plant parts, and (most importantly) speedy. A bowl of cottage cheese takes the same amount of time to prepare as a bowl of cereal, but will keep you fuller for much

Today, Google is showing off auto-translation on smart display speakers, letting you naturally talk to each other with the speaker acting as the translator automatically. It has announced integrations with dozens of well-known brands. It will put Google Assistant on millions more iPhones with a Trojan horse play: integrating it into Google Maps. Google is

Screenshot: YouTube A couple of popular YouTubers, whose subscribers are largely kids, are coming under criticism for partnering with and promoting a site that entices users to gamble by spending money to open a digital “mystery box.” Jake Paul (17.7 million subscribers) and Bryan “RiceGum” Le (10.7 million subscribers) both have recently promoted MysteryBrand.net, a

NEWS AND VIEWS 07 January 2019 Scenarios have been discovered in which it is impossible to prove whether or not a machine-learning algorithm could solve a particular problem. This finding might have implications for both established and future learning algorithms. Lev Reyzin Lev Reyzin is in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University

The Syracuse startup has fielded a fleet of six custom-built hexacopters and worked their magic on apple, cherry, and almond orchards in California and New York with verified success. Adam Fine, co-founder of Dropcopter, and Chief Marketing Officer Mike Winch have beat bees at their game by removing many of the variables and uncertainties that

Image: 💕🌸 claudia 🌸💕 on Reshot One way to pay off your student loans faster is to, well, make extra payments. But rather than applying additional funds to interest payments only, you can request that they be applied to the principal balance. We’ve written about how to go about doing that here. Another key for

LONDON — A possible drone sighting prompted officials at London’s Heathrow Airport, the busiest in Europe, to stop all departures on Tuesday evening, less than three weeks after Gatwick, Britain’s second-busiest airport, was shut down for parts of three days because of drone sightings. About an hour later, Heathrow said departures had resumed. “We continue

LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) – The U.S. case against the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies, who was arrested in Canada last month, centers on the company’s suspected ties to two obscure companies. One is a telecom equipment seller that operated in Tehran; the other is that firm’s owner, a holding company registered in Mauritius.

Mux is building the future of online video infrastructure. Our first product was analytics and performance monitoring – think “NewRelic for Video” – used by major video streaming companies like PBS, Vimeo, and The New York Times to monitor and improve billions of streams. We just announced Mux Video, a simple API to video hosting,

Image: Shutterstock. Remix: Jason Koebler Nervously, I gave a bounty hunter a phone number. He had offered to geolocate a phone for me, using a shady, overlooked service intended not for the cops, but for private individuals and businesses. Armed with just the number and a few hundred dollars, he said he could find the

It’s always fun to get free things in the mail, especially if they’re a surprise—whether a gift from a friend or loved one or a subtle encouragement from Amazon that you should try out a sponsored product. At least, that’s Amazon’s latest tactic to get you to engage with “products you might love,” according to

90 Comments By Ellen Byron Ellen Byron The Wall Street Journal Biography @ellenbyron Ellen.Byron@wsj.com Jan. 8, 2019 9:42 a.m. ET Monica Dangerfield works during the hours before her two children wake up. Above, Ms. Dangerfield at her computer before sunrise last month at home near Richmond, Va. Photo: Julia Rendleman for The Wall Street Journal

Over the holidays, I played a game with my family. My three nieces were at the table, so I did my best to clean up my potty mouth. I was so proud of myself for producing “crap” and “frick” instead of The Bad Words. Apparently, that was not enough; my first-grade niece turned to me

Every year I take a step back and ask if there are common themes in technology. Sometimes this creates a very backwards looking view, as the most obvious signals are in companies that have been working well for a few years and the trend is really over. Other times the signal turns out to be

Sean White January 8, 2019 Last year, Mozilla set out to build a best-in-class browser that was made specifically for immersive browsing. The result was Firefox Reality, a browser designed from the ground up to work on virtual reality headsets. To kick off 2019, we are happy to announce that we are partnering with HTC

On April 3, Nina Dang, 24, found herself in a position like so many San Francisco bike riders — on the pavement with a broken arm. A bystander saw her fall and called an ambulance. She was semi-lucid for that ride, awake but unable to answer basic questions about where she lived. Paramedics took her

Product Head of at a YCombinator fintech startup We are RedCarpet – we are a YCombinator and Lightspeed funded lending fintech. As we like to say – “We lend where banks cannot see”. https://www.redcarpetup.com/about/ Some of the press around what we are doing is here. – http://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/technology/yes-bank-taps-ai-to-directly-offer-small-loans-to-students/59484785 – https://www.yesbank.in/media/press-releases/10-start-ups-graduate-from-yes-fintech,-yes-banks-business-accelerator-program-for-fintech-start-ups – https://yourstory.com/2016/05/google-launchpad-india-2016/ – https://youtu.be/xoZsNN9UGlQ?t=301 (Google Launchpad

Neural Networks had their beginnings in 1943 when Warren McCulloch, a neurophysiologist, and a young mathematician, Walter Pitts, wrote a paper on how human neurons might work. They focused on understanding how our brain can produce highly complex patterns by using many basic cells that are bound together. These basic brain cells are known as neurons, and McCulloch

TL;DR: bamboo wood doesn’t exist, and bamboo is not very good at replacing real wood in most situations. Okay, here is the long answer. Bamboo is the collective name for several dozen genera of grasses, all in the Bambusoideae branch of the “BOP” clade.[1] While most bamboo species are either shrubby or relatively short plants,

Rob Dunn and his team of ecologists aren’t your average navel gazers. They’re professional navel gazers, thank you very much, and their new study details the microbial contents of 60 volunteers’ belly buttons. The upshot? Belly buttons, it turns out, are a lot like rain forests. The whole thing started about two years ago. An

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – New Trump administration policies aimed at curbing China’s access to American innovation have all but halted Chinese investment in U.S. technology startups, as both investors and startup founders abandon deals amid scrutiny from Washington. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping shake hands after making joint statements

Align your data for speed and correctness Jonathan RentzschPublished on February 08, 2005 Memory access granularity Programmers are conditioned to think of memory as a simple array of bytes. Among C and its descendants, char* is ubiquitous as meaning “a block of memory”, and even Java™ has its byte[] type to represent raw memory. Figure

If you ask “what is the best” type of questions, you will end up with biased answers, usually. Everyone will tell you his own preference. Although you have listened to this famous Quote “Love is blind” & no one believes to defend his love with arguments & solid pieces of evidence, but In this Article,

The web is moving to HTTPS, preventing network attackers from observing or injecting page contents. But HTTPS needs TLS certificates, and while deployment is increasingly a solved issue thanks to the ACME protocol and Let’s Encrypt, development still mostly ends up happening over HTTP because no one can get an universally valid certificate for localhost.

More than 100 years ago acoustic mirrors along the coast of England were used to detect the sound of approaching German zeppelins. The concave concrete structures were designed to pick up sound waves from enemy aircraft, making it possible to predict their flight trajectory, giving enough time for ground forces to be alerted to defend

Trying to deploy WPA3 on my home network Introduction Recently, news broke about a new possible offline attack on WPA2 using PMKID. To summarize the attack, WPA2 protected APs can end up broadcasting PMKID values which can then be used to offline-brute-force the password. These PMKID values are computed this way: PMKID = HMAC-SHA1-128(PMK, "PMK

Image: Pexels Our family’s Thanksgiving is huge. After everyone is done eating, we’re typically searching for some sort of “activity” that both the kids and the older folks can enjoy, which for the past few years has involved a spirited game of Pictionary. Can’t Draw Worth Shit? Try These Exercises Drawing is hard. Even after

JAMstack | JavaScript, APIs, and Markup When we talk about “The Stack,” we no longer talk about operating systems, specific web servers, backend programming languages, or databases. The JAMstack is not about specific technologies. It’s a new way of building websites and apps that delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a

In the weeks leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, President Donald Trump reached deep into his arsenal to try to deliver votes to Republicans. Most of his weapons were rhetorical, featuring a mix of lies and false inducements—claims that every congressional Democrat had signed on to an “open borders” bill (none had), that liberals

Blockchain has yet to become the game-changer some expected. A key to finding the value is to apply the technology only when it is the simplest solution available. Blockchain over recent years has been extolled as a revolution in business technology. In the nine years since its launch, companies, regulators, and financial technologists have spent

Photo: John Moore/Getty Images If your TSA Precheck is set to expire soon, renewing it might be a bit easier than you think. The TSA is now allowing fliers to renew their enrollment in the program online and up to six months before their current enrollment is set to expire. If everything goes according to

Sephora curling irons, OutdoorMaster ski goggles, and Joseph Joseph snack bowls lead off Saturday’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter and Facebook to never miss a deal. Best Tech Deals Can an ultrawide monitor replace your dual monitor setup? It depends on what you’re trying to do, but the short answer

Tiny replacement for malloc / free in unmanaged, linear memory situations, e.g. WASM and embedded devices. Features written in standalone C11, no dependencies, C runtime or syscalls used configurable address region (and max. block count) for heap space configurable pointer alignment in heap space optional compaction of consecutive free blocks optional block splitting during alloc

Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The Golden Globes officially air tonight. The show, which is hosted this year by Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh, officially kicks off at 8pm ET/5pm PT in Beverly Hills. This year’s program will also feature a new award, The Carol Burnett Award, which will be presented to Burnett during the broadcast.

Alexandre Prokoudine 20. Dec, 2018 Just a day or two after posting the story on the sustainability of free/libre non-linear video editors, I ran into a new project called Olive, by MattKC. It’s not like we didn’t already have enough NLEs to choose from. But here is why I think it’s worth looking at. First

A friend of dwyl asked the following question in our “chat” system: We feel it’s worth capturing the reply in public because it’s relevant to anyone considering Elixir. “Hi guys, sorry for bothering, but I need your help/input with somethingI know that you have been working with Elixir now for a whileSo I want to

In early November, I helped run the Weekend For Good event as part of the Code For Good West Michigan admin team. The event brought together 120+ volunteers and 14 local nonprofits to help build, rebrand, or update websites. It was scheduled for three straight days, and I was there for all of it. It’s

In November 2016, American diplomats in Cuba complained of persistent, high-pitched sounds followed by a range of symptoms, including headaches, nausea and hearing loss. Exams of nearly two dozen of them eventually revealed signs of concussions or other brain injuries, and speculation about the cause turned to weapons that blast sound or microwaves. Amid an

Introduction Historically, both on this blog and on BlindConfidential, I have very rarely engaged with commenters. I write articles, I post them, people read them or not and some choose to comment. While I was reading Marco Zehe’s excellent Android review series , I observed him engage with his commenters both in the comments on

Image: Pexels If you’re a Bank of America customer, you can visit some museums and art galleries for free this year. The program officially kicks off this weekend (January 5-6) and grants Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and U.S. Trust credit and debit card holders free general admission to over 200+ destinations in 123 different

For Canonical’s fiscal year ending 31 March 2018, the company behind Ubuntu just filed their latest financial documents in the UK on Thursday. These documents with UK’s Companies House offer a first look at the financial performance of Canonical since their 2017 shift to focus on profitability and doing away with Unity 8 and mobile/convergence

Enlarge / No one wants to celebrate a company going away, though these organizations certainly seem to be on a tenuous track. Picture Post / Getty Images It’s come to this again: 2018 has passed, making the dumpster fire that was 2017 look a bit more like the glory days. Last year ended with the

As the internet has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over its most important services has gradually shifted from open source protocols maintained by non-profit communities to proprietary services operated by large tech companies. As a result, billions of people got access to amazing, free technologies. But that shift also created serious problems. Millions of

Introduction Being involved with retro computers, I have a few floppy disks (of the 3.5-inch variety) that I would like to preserve as faithfully as possible. Of course, I know there are dedicated devices for doing that, such as the Kryoflux or the SuperCard Pro. But it occurred to me that I already own the

An isomorphic, customizable and fool proof javascript function for object deep cloning omniclone(source, config); Example: const obj = { foo: { bar: 'baz' } }; const obj2 = omniclone(obj); obj2; // { foo: { bar: 'baz' } }; obj === obj2; // false obj.foo === obj2.foo; // false installation $ npm install --save omniclone usage

Best Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily.    A fancy coffee press, Cowin Noise-Canceling Headphones, and Mophie Wireless Chargers lead off Saturday’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter and Facebook to never miss a deal. Best Tech Deals Half the things you plug in these

Li Chengzhi had a lot to learn when he first got a job as a professional censor. Like many young people in China, the 24-year-old recent college graduate knew little about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. He had never heard of China’s most famous dissident, Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died in

Football is the one sport I never really got into. I’m typically the friend trying to rally the troops to attend baseball and hockey games, and in my home state of North Carolina basketball is a religion… but football has always evaded me. I guess it’s just not my sport. That means that when I

Last year Georgia Tech’s Internet Governance Project teamed up with ICANN’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer to research the economic factors affecting the decisions of network operators to deploy Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The study was commissioned because we both believe that the Internet community needs a better understanding of the economic incentives

Local Kubernetes development with no stress. Tilt helps you develop your microservices locally without slowing you down or making you play Twenty Questions with kubectl. Questions? Comments? Just want to say hi? Find us on the Kubernetes slack in #tilt. Overview Run tilt up to start working on your services in a complete dev environment

Privacy Inequality: The Most Brutal Form of Inequality You’ve Ever Imagined Borja MoyaBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Aug 15, 2018 Listen to the PrivateID Podcast. Download this episode here (right click & save as…) There are dozens of movies that represent a future or a scenario where there’s a big gap between rich and poor. You’ve got movies like Elysium,

“Have you ever been depressed as a physician?” I asked 220 doctors. Ninety percent stated yes. Yet few seek professional help. Here’s what depressed doctors do (when nobody’s looking). Some drink alcohol, exercise obsessively, even steal psychiatric meds. Still more shocking—I discovered that 75% of med students (and new doctors) are now on psychiatric medications.

Image: Pexels If you have a flight coming up, you might want to give yourself a little extra time at the airport. TSA agents are among the government employees that are being asked to work without pay during the shutdown. Now as that shutdown ends its second week, many of those TSA employees are calling

Image: Sarah Shaffer on Unsplash Two Cents readers are likely familiar with the 52 week money challenge—you increase your savings by $1 every week for a year. The first week you save $1, the next week you save $2, and so on, until you’ve accumulated $1,378 by the end of the year. Some people prefer

In any argument, it can be hard to tell who is wrong and who is right. Except when you’re one of the involved parties, that is—because you’re definitely right. Right? It turns out, you might not be! Humans find it difficult to know when they’re in the wrong, and it’s even harder for them to

The bourbon is gone now.Photo: Claire Lower Happy weekend, everyone, and welcome back to 3-Ingredient Happy Hour, the weekly drink column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. This week we’re making a basic buck with a good amount of very strong bourbon. This Dark and Stormy Week Calls for a Dark ‘n’ Stormy Cocktail Happy

There’s no shortage of browser extensions you can use to stay productive by blocking distracting websites throughout the day. (Sorry Reddit, YouTube, and Facebook.) But are they really that effective at keeping you from doing the work you need to get done? If you don’t have much self-control, you can disable or uninstall the extensions,

Image: Shelbey Miller on Unsplash Between 401(k)s, 529s, IRAs, high-yield accounts and apps that do the work for you, there’s no shortage of ways to save money. And using these accounts and apps effectively is key to long-term financial health. Maybe your 2019 money goal is to save more money, by taking advantage of all

Gift cards are an almost inconceivably huge industry. Americans spent $160 billion on them in 2018 alone, which means the secondary market is both lucrative and totally overwhelming—especially right after the biggest gift-giving holidays of the year. If you have a weird gift card to sell or trade, here’s what you need to know to

We almost didn’t write about the Johnsonville Sizzling Sausage Grill, a device specifically designed for cooking Johnsonville brats. As far as single-use kitchen gadgets go, this one is particularly random and unnecessary. And yet, the grill was so instantly beloved by the entire Inventory team, that our fearless leader/Senior Director of Commerce Shep McAllister declared

About Jerry.ai: Based in Silicon Valley, California, we are looking for remote developers to join our distributed team. We are backed by Y-combinator, SV Angel, Funders Club, and many other prominent Silicon Valley Investors. Jerry.ai is founded by serial entrepreneurs who previously built and scaled YourMechanic (“Uber for car repair,” the nation’s largest on-demand car

On a cold Sunday early last month in the small Austrian city of Graz, three young researchers sat down in front of the computers in their homes and tried to break their most fundamental security protections. Two days earlier, in their lab at Graz’s University of Technology, Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss, and Michael Schwarz had

MTailor sells custom clothing by measuring you with your phone’s camera. We offer men’s shirts, suits, jeans, chinos and tees as well as women’s jeans. We’re hiring a “Materials Sourcing Coordinator” to improve the fabrics and trims in our existing garments as well as source new materials to support new product launches. You’ll be working

Earthquakes America’s first public earthquake-warning app unveiled in Los Angeles Experts hope ShakeAlertLA will encourage other west coast cities to make similar investments Los Angeles has unveiled the US’s first publicly available earthquake early-warning app, a development seismologists hope will move cities across the west coast to invest in wide-scale alert technology. ShakeAlertLA uses mobile

This year I had a great pleasure to be involved in a research project, which required me to get familiar with a substantial number of publications from the domain of deep learning for computer vision. It allowed me to take a deep dive into the field and I was amazed by the progress done in

Parents should worry less about how much time their children spend using screens, paediatricians have said. The first UK guidance on screen use for children says there is little evidence that it is harmful in itself. But experts say it is important that the use of devices does not replace healthy activities, such as sleep,

The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: Grundig Satellit 650 Radio – IEEE Spectrum 3 Jan 2019 | 12:00 GMT The market for expensive shortwave radios collapsed in the early 2000s. But before it did, Grundig created a blaze of glory By Brian Santo Advertisement Editor’s Picks Photo: Universal Radio Revered Radio: Introduced in 1986 and

Double Your Development Velocity without Growing Your Team Matt BernierBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 3 Hypervelocity Impact Demonstration, from Wikimedia Commons The Developer Experience team at SendGrid is a small, but mighty force of two. We attempt to tackle every problem that we can get our hands on. This often means that some items get left behind. At the

More than 200 firms contributed to our request for ideas on what the global tech trends will be in 2019. Here’s a synthesis of the main themes occupying the minds of the technorati this year. You may be surprised. This year it’s all about data – a small, rather dull word for something that is

Monorepo: please do! Adam JacobBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jan 3 You should choose a monorepo because the default behavior it encourages in your teams is visibility and shared responsibility, especially as teams scale. You will have to invest in tooling no matter what, but it’s always better when the default behavior is the behavior you want to see in

Character of Robin Hood. Arrow and bow, archer hero man, flat vector illustrationGetty OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FINTECH SNARK TANK By now, you’ve probably heard of the financial services industry’s version of the Payless Shoes prank: The Robinhood checking account with a high-end 3% interest rate on account balances that a lot of people were tricked

Portland Press Herald via Getty Images For the second year in a row, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has cancelled his appearance at CES, though this time around, it’s under very different circumstances. According to Politico Pro, both he and Commissioner Brendan Carr have had to cancel their CES plans due to the partial government shutdown

Evan Blass, Twitter Don’t look now, but Samsung’s foldable phone might already be old hat. Reputable leaker Evan Blass has shared a video of what’s believed to be a three-panel folding phone from Xiaomi. The dimly-lit clip shows precious little beyond the display, but it’s clearly the centerpiece. In addition to providing a large landscape

Getting an immediate warning on your phone that an earthquake is about to begin is now an option in the Los Angeles County area with the new ShakeAlertLA app. Finally, a use for my phone. The app is available for download for Apple and Android phones, ABC News reports, and is capable of alerting people

LIONEL BONAVENTURE via Getty Images A federal judge has issued an injunction against a New York City law that would require home-sharing companies like Airbnb and HomeAway to provide detailed information to the city about those who rent spaces through the platforms. Mayor Bill de Blasio signed the law in August and it was set

Sure, the Academy Awards are more prestigious, but the Golden Globes have booze. And they hand out awards for TV shows in addition to movies. I’d argue the Golden Globes make for better television than the Oscars — for the simple fact that acceptance speeches are only improved when the winners are operating with a

Photo: Claire Lower I have always thought that black-eyed peas were bigger than New Year’s. In fact, until I moved out of Mississippi, I didn’t even know they were a New Year’s “thing.” (My family eats them pretty much all year round, usually as a simple side cooked with a little ham.) Refried Hummus Is

Best Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily.    We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today. Head over to our main post for more deals, and follow us on Twitter and Facebook to never miss a chance

Enlarge Getty | DEA / C.DANI / I.JESKE A quick reminder: there’s a band of feral monkeys running wild in Central Florida that carries a type of herpes lethal to humans. The mischievous simians—who are not shy around people—can transmit deadly disease with just a scratch, nip, or fling of poo. Last year, experts warned

Apple has been ordered to remove some iPhone models from its 15 stores in Germany over a patent dispute with chip giant Qualcomm. A court ruling in Munich on 20 December found Apple had infringed patents on power-saving technology. On Thursday Qualcomm paid a €1.3bn (£1.2bn) bond, allowing the ban on iPhone 7 and 8

Image: Aziz Acharki on Unsplash If you’re planning a financial overhaul in 2019, one of the first things you need to do is figure out where you stand. And as advised by Kiplinger, one of the easiest ways to do that—and potentially discover possible cracks in your foundation in the process—is to create a balance

After writing two books on the subject (API Foundations in Go and 12 Factor Applications with Docker and Go) and years of writing various Go microservices, I do want to put some thoughts down as to what it takes to write great Go code. But first of all, let me explain this very plainly to

Roberto Baldwin/Engadget If you were thinking about buying a Chevy Bolt in the US, you might want to hop on that shortly. A Reuters source claims that GM managed to sell a lifetime total of 200,000 electric cars by the end of 2018, triggering the EV tax credit phase-out that recently affected Tesla. If accurate,

If you’re an adult who does everything you’re supposed to do, when you’re supposed to do it, then surely you have a primary care physician in your phone’s contacts. You’ve met this person, seen them for well visits, and they have all your medical records so you can call them and get prescriptions and advice

For some, meat is mysterious. If you don’t have a lot of practice cooking it, it can be hard to get a feel for exactly how long you should roast, sear, sous vide, or otherwise heat the stuff to render it safe and delicious. Getting a digital thermometer helps, but this tool from MIT can

As a longtime resident of New York City, I’ve developed a little game I play when I’m alone in one of Manhattan’s especially ritzy neighborhoods: “Famous or Just Rich?” To play, all you have to do is notice a person and try to decide if they’ve caught your eye because they’re famous. It will feel

The house was gone, consumed by the November 2018 Woolsey Fire that left swaths of Los Angeles covered in ash and reduced whole neighborhoods to charcoaled ruins. Amidst the tangle of blackened debris that was once a house in the suburbs northwest of Los Angeles, only one identifiable feature stood intact. It was a high-security

Christopher Polk via Getty Images YouTube is doubling down on its Coachella partnership — it will stream live performances from both weekends for the first time this year. As has been the case in recent years, the service will stream the festival’s first weekend, which takes place April 12th-14th. This time around, YouTube will host

‘Tis the season for commercials featuring your favorite smart home speaker showing off what it can do—which means you may have experienced your Google Assistant, Alexa, or Siri responding to questions that come from your TV. And it’s annoying to have to shout, “Hey Google, stop,” or the equivalent phrase for your smart speaker, every time

Samsung Samsung will be showing off three new monitors at CES — one aimed at saving space, another for gamers and a curved monitor geared towards content creators. The first is Samsung’s Space Monitor, which comes with a fully-integrated arm that can attach to the edge of a desk, giving you more room to work.