Summary: The blockchain industry is a poor government’s idea of a rich technology industry.

Summary: ASCII - The simplest communications protocol and the only data format that can be universally decoded by any computer on the planet.

Summary: Though a hundred thousand people have died, initial predictions were far worse, giving rise to many theories on ‘the African paradox’

Summary: The backup solution space is crowded. There are a multitude of applications, commands, and methodologies that are available. Choosing the right one is a daunting task that can definitely leave your head spinning. After having tried a few of the options out there, I have settled with Restic and here’s why.

Summary: This tutorial explains IBM App Connect Mapping Assist's capability to reduce integration flow building time and enable developers to build flows confidently.

Summary: A range of unusual plants and wildlife lives in the Harenna Forest, but they face pressure from development. There are few places in Ethiopia—or the world—quite like the Harenna Forest. Spread across the southern slopes of the Bale Mountains, it is the second-largest stand of moist tropical fores

Summary: Ethereum's price fell by close to 30 percent since and may even drop down to the $1,300 price range in the coming days. However, for a coin

Summary: Bitcoin's price has gone past multiple ATHs over the past two months, with its ATH of $58,640 being the latest one. However, the last 7..

Summary: Ethereum's price fell by close to 30 percent since and may even drop down to the $1,300 price range in the coming days. However, for a coin

Summary: United Airlines agreed to pay $49 million to resolve civil and criminal claims that it falsified international mail delivery data for years.

Summary: Yahoo is part of Verizon Media. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development.

Summary: A phone in your pocket may as well be a GPS beacon strapped to your ankle.

Summary: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance has agreed to pay $92 million in a settlement to U.S. users who are part of a class-action lawsuit alleging that the video-sharing...

Summary: Wattpad, a social storytelling platform with 90 million users, is becoming a rich source of intellectual property for film and TV producers.

Summary: This collection of free datasets will provide plenty of training data for your machine learning or deep learning project.

Summary: New tech that allows artists to interact with superfans — and turn their data into dollars — promises to open long-term revenue streams

Summary: After a frenetic February, investors are probably hoping that March holds true to its proverb: In like a lion out like a lamb.

Summary: Cross-border teams of scientists need to collaborate on climate models, even as their countries’ militaries clash.

Summary: Organizers at the Conservative Political Action Conference received a strong negative reaction from the crowd when they asked them to wear masks to comply with local Covid-19 ordinances.

Summary: Electric Power Monitor. Residential and Commercial. Single, split and three-phase. Any voltage. Local data storage and analysis and also upload to your cloud service. Economical. Ships worldwide, in use in dozens of countries on four continents.

Summary: President Joe Biden says Americans are "one step closer" to relief after the House voted to approve the $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package. CNN's Joe Johns explains the president's short remarks as the bill heads to the Senate.

Summary: Nearly 1.6m Facebook users to receive at least $345 after network allegedly used face photo-tagging without permission

Summary: Ageing is a degenerative process that leads to tissue dysfunction and death. A proposed cause of ageing is the accumulation of epigenetic noise that disrupts gene expression patterns, leading to decreases in tissue function and regenerative capacity1–3. Changes to DNA methylation patterns over time form the basis of ageing clocks4, but whether older individuals retain the information needed to restore these patterns—and, if so, whether this could improve tissue function—is not known. Over time,

Summary: A lot has been happening behind the scenes of Elrond as of late. Many people seem to overlook this ecosystem for reasons unknown.

Summary: A Stanford graduate and former associate partner at Monitor Deloitte, Steven Pu is a serial entrepreneur in healthcare, IoT, and blockchain. Fascinated by the

Summary: A judge approved the deal in a 2015 Illinois class-action involving nearly 1.6 million Facebook users.

Summary: This primer to Google's Structured Data provides an overview of implementing your schema to work well with Google's SEO.

Summary: Mikah and Rosemary show you how to protect your data and maintain your privacy online. Protect Your Privacy and DataExpressVPN (TWiT Network Sponsor)Safari Private Browsing & Incog…

Summary: Bitcoin prices dropped Friday, tracking declines in the US indexes after new data indicated a stronger economic recovery and an auction of seven-year bonds met with lukewarm demand from investors. The flagship cryptocurrency’s upside momentum faltered earlier this week after establishing a record high above $58,000. At first, the move downside appeared like a natural […]

Summary: The admission came amid a wider trend of Europeans hesitating over the jab. Regulators say it is safe, but it has a more troubled history than others.

Summary: Under a deal negotiated in secret with the British government, shady data firm Palantir will continue to manage NHS data for two years. Activists calling for transparency have now brought the NHS to court.

Summary: Facebook unveils another experimental app, Atlassian acquires a data visualization startup and Newsela becomes a unicorn. This is your Daily Crunch for February 26, 2021. The big story: Facebook launches rap app The new BARS app was created by NPE Team (Facebook’s internal R&D group), all…

Summary: Gab claims a hacker is trying to smear its business, but also claims there's no evidence of a data breach.

Summary: Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed, elastically scalable, and globally distributed database with a multi-model approach with the ability to provide visual data.

Summary: Baker Hughes undefined on Friday reported that the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for oil climbed by four to 309 this week. That followed a modest fall...

Summary: Plain Text Protocols

Summary: The FBI has identified a suspect it's focusing on in the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, according to law enforcement officials.

Summary: Polkadot is one of the popular blockchains of this year. With popularity comes the attention of the developers who wish to integrate the blockchain data in their own projects and use case. To make the data of both the chains ( Polkadot and Kusama Net...

Summary: Chainlink's price has risen exponentially since the start of 2021, both independently and on Bitcoin's own coattails...

Summary: Trust is at the heart of a long-term strategy of any product. There are many ways to earn it, and even more ways to lose it. In this article, we’ll go through how you, as a product designer, can make sure your product nurtures and retains trust throughout every touchpoint. To do that, we’ll be borrowing some of the tricks marketers and product people have up their sleeves.

Summary: ICE’s use of the vast database offers another example of how government agencies have targeted commercial sources to access information they are not authorized to compile on their own. One researcher called it “a massive betrayal of people’s trust": “When you sign up for electricity, you don’t expect them to send immigration agents to your front door.”

Summary: Myanmar's United Nations Ambassador has pleaded for immediate international action to help overturn the country's military coup.

Summary: The committee recommended that the FDA authorize the one-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine can effectively protect against the disease.

Summary: Best Buy said Thursday that it laid off 5,000 workers this month and is planning to close more stores this year as more consumers buy electronics online.

Summary: The price of the flagship cryptocurrency Bitcoin has been steadily rising over the last few months, going from little over $11K in October 2020 to a new $52K all-time high this week. Corporate adoption is widely believed to have been behind BTC’s astonishing price rise.

Summary: Submarine telecommunications cables could one day serve as a massive network of seismic sensors. New research shows that one of Google’s fiber optic cables successfully detected earthquakes without needing to add additional infrastructure. One day, the new approach might be used as an early warning system for tsunamis.

Summary: Salesforce Integration improves functionality across all business applications — here are some strategies one should follow during this integration process.

Summary: Oil futures settled lower on Friday, but U.S. prices ended the month nearly 18% higher after marking a nearly 22-month settlement high on Thursday. Crude-oil...

Summary: The full FDA is likely to approve the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine as early as Saturday with distribution to the states next week.

Summary: The long-awaited launch of Amazonia-1 is a major test for Brazilian science

Summary: The Nym network is a generic, decentralized, and incentivized infrastructure that provides privacy to a broad range of applications and services,

Summary: Yahoo is part of Verizon Media. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development.

Summary: PIVX’s blockchain allows users to decide whether they’d like to send out transparent transactions, or if they’d rather keep all data private.

Summary: I create a prototype to demonstrate how to handle large rows in decision tables with reasonable performance. Following this are three different solutions.

Summary: SmartKey, a blockchain-based integration platform, has taken another step in creating the smart cities of the future with a formal integration with GeoDB,

Summary: Download the updated OmniSci for Mac Preview, along with our our new Data Science installer!

Summary: The platform has promised to do better after a string of incidents. But the hardest part might be managing user expectations.

Summary: Europe's drug regulator said on Wednesday it was evaluating South Korean drugmaker Celltrion's COVID-19 antibody treatment, the third such drug ...

Summary: NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States praised Tanzania on Friday for finally acknowledging the resurgence of COVID-19 after claiming for months it had defeated the pandemic through prayer. But the U.S. urged the country to share infection data and...

Summary: When Google users browse in "Incognito" mode, just how hidden is their activity?

Summary: Tweak is a hex editor. It allows you to edit a file at very low level, letting you see the full and exact binary contents of the file. It can be useful for modifying binary files such as executables, editing disk or CD images, debugging programs that generate binary file formats incorrectly, and many other things.

Summary: CNN's Jim Acosta reports from this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) where it's clear much of the Republican party sees former President Donald Trump as a "golden goose."

Summary: The finance ministry said GDP data reflects a V-shaped recovery but also warned that India is not yet past the pandemic.

Summary: One would be hard-pressed to deny the progression that fintech has experienced since the last year. Regardless of the fact that there was an ongoing global pandemic, big changes were already being implemented in terms of how user experience would be affected and also how fintech’s digital chant would become increasingly critical due to platforms …

Summary: Donald Trump lost the presidential election. But some of his supporters have bought into a conspiracy theory that says Trump will be president again on March 4. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan reports.

Summary: Chainlink's price has risen exponentially since the start of 2021, both independently and on Bitcoin's own coattails...

Summary: Model suggests higher risk based on race and age, offers insights to reduce disease impact. A modeling study suggests a majority of adult COVID-19 hospitalizations nationwide are attributable to at least one of four pre-existing conditions: obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and heart failure, in t

Summary: This will be a policy hurdle that Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical company, Janssen, will also need to clear for its single-dose vaccine.

Summary: The EU’s highest court has fined Spain €15 million ($18.34 million) for failing to comply with a European data protection directive governing the protection of personal data during police investigations within the country.

Summary: This is a 3 part series for unit testing the controller, service, and repository layers in a typical REST architecture. This post will test the controller.

Summary: Jill Biden shared some candid relationship advice when she appeared on "The Kelly Clarkson Show" for her first solo interview since becoming first lady.

Summary: a browser extension to help you track tech giants

Summary: One day, will it be headsets v handsets?

Summary: Retired Lt. General Mark Hertling and former Obama adviser David Axelrod discuss the US military strike ordered by President Biden on a site in Syria used by two Iranian-backed militia groups.

Summary: Novavax Inc expects data from a late-stage U.S. trial of its COVID-19 vaccine at the start of April, after which it will apply for emergency use ...

Summary: A tutorial on how to combine Cumul.io’s embedded analytics platform with a hotglue Quickbooks data integration pipeline for an interactive MRR Report.

Summary: Kava, built on the Cosmos SDK, is quickly gaining momentum as the most trusted DeFi platform for institutional clients around the world. Kava plans to take another major step forward towards that end through an integration with Cosmos's recently launched Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC). Kava will then use IBC to make Chainlink's widely used and secure decentralized data feeds available to blockchains across the wider Cosmos

Summary: A new study maps attitudes, behaviors, environment, and user experience across 42 economies.

Summary: The UK Supreme Court ruled Friday that "ISIS bride" Shamima Begum cannot return to the United Kingdom to appeal the revocation of her UK citizenship.

Summary: The Swiss franc declined slightly against the US dollar after the relatively strong GDP numbers from the country. According to the State Secretariat f

Summary: Anxiety-inducing hurdles in getting a second vaccine shot come during debate over how to best roll out the limited supply: prioritizing second doses or offering single doses to more people. There's wiggle room on timing for a second shot, CDC...

Summary: JERUSALEM: The first big real-world study of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to be independently reviewed shows the shot is highly effective at ...

Summary: There is an element of risk when these financial institutions lend money to clients. So ideally, they want to reduce their risk and loan money only to clients they are sure are going to pay them…

Summary: New research throws wide open the amount of information that can be simultaneously transmitted by a single light source. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a new way to harness properties of light waves that can radically increase the amount of data they carry. They

Summary: Ripple cofounder Jed McCaleb has moved almost 136 million XRP from his wallet since February 20, recent data shows

Summary: New data says that Bitcoin FOMO is only just beginning in this bull cycle.

Summary: A security researcher has detailed the total of seven trackers in LastPass’s Android app, They say their presence is bad practice for a security-critical app handling sensitive information.

Summary: Hackers seeking to extort Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research release confidential documents

Summary: Cryptomining company buys two Bitcoin mining facilities in New Brunswick

Summary: Doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are going unused across the EU amid low confidence in the jab after the company was repeatedly criticized by Brussels for not sharing sufficient data and supply problems.

Summary: Business intelligence is an integral process in ensuring organizations are able to wise business decisions and develop effective business strategies.

Summary: The French minister for digital transformation has said mafia-type gangs from Eastern Europe are probably behind a spate of attacks on French hospitals and laboratories during the pandemic, rather than foreign state actors.

Summary: Yahoo is part of Verizon Media. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development.

Summary: Chinese multinational ByteDance agreed to a $92 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit after over a year of litigation. The suit alleged its short video app TikTok tracked and harvested private data of some US users.

Summary: ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Summary: EMMANUEL Macron's sidekick Clement Beaune has admitted the EU's sluggish vaccine rollout is the result of a bloc-wide failure to invest adequately.

Summary: The page "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" covers some of the ways names are hard to deal with in programming. This post will ignore most of those complexities, and deal with the problem of matching up loose user input to a database of names.

Summary: A digital twin of our planet is being designed to simulate Earth's climate system reaching into the future. It is a tool to support policy-?makers in taking appropriate measures to better prepare for extreme events.

Summary: There are several best practices CTOs can follow to ensure their IT operation is efficient, running within capacity, and executing as productively as possible.

Summary: In 2020, India was the second-most attacked country in Asia, accounting for 7% of all attacks worldwide, IBM's data show.