“To celebrate Java’s 25th anniversary this year and the latest release of Java 15, JetBrains has compiled data from multiple sources to look at what the current state of the language,” reports
SD Times: The largest concentration of Java developers is in Asia, where 2.5 million developers use it as their primary language. JetBrains believes this may be due to the fact…
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How App Developers Manipulate Your Mood To Boost Ranking?
Higher ratings are the ‘lifeblood’ of the smartphone app world but what if they are inflated? From a report: Rating an iPhone app takes just a second, maybe two. “Enjoying Skype?” a prompt will ask, and you click on a 1-5 star rating. Millions of people respond to these requests, giving little thought to their fleeting whim. Behind the scenes, though,…
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Makes a Global Bet on the Film Industry
In Christopher Nolan’s new thriller, “Tenet,” the fate of humanity pivots on characters moving back and forth through time. It is an epic, brain-bending exploration of ideas the filmmaker has spent decades examining. But now, as “Tenet” opens after multiple delays in cinemas around the world, it comes loaded with symbolism that its writer and director could never have foreseen. From…
Boom Supersonic Hopes To Test-Fly Its Supersonic Plane In 2021
Colorado startup Boom Supersonic is planning to show off its XB-1 supersonic plane on October 7th, with flights planned for next year. Engadget reports: [Boom Supersonic founder Blake Scholl] describes himself as an Objectivist (a follower of the teachings of Ayn Rand) and previously worked for both Groupon and Amazon. He freely admits that, beyond his private pilots license, he does…
Richard Stallman Discusses Privacy Risks of Bitcoin, Suggests ‘Something Much Better’
Richard Stallman gave a new interview to the site Cointelegraph, which asked him his feelings about cryptocurrencies. “I’m not against them,” Stallman answers “I’m not campaigning to eliminate them, I just don’t particularly want to use them.” Cointelegraph then asks Stallman how he feels about tests underway for the Chinese government’s own central bank digital currency: Richard Stallman: “Digital payment systems…
Some Cities are Combining Basic Incomes with Local Currenices
Bloomberg looks at some interesting local currency programs that have been implemented around the world. And in at least one case money “is literally being made from trees” — the wooden dollars being printed in a small city in the northwest U.S. and distributed to the needy in monthly stipends. “We preach localism and investing in our local community,” says mayor…
New Repository Leaks Souce Code From Microsoft, Adobe, and Dozens of Other Companies
Bleeping Computer reported this week that a new public repository of leaked code includes big names like Microsoft, Adobe, Lenovo, AMD, Qualcomm, Motorola, Roblox, and Disney:
The leaks have been collected by Tillie Kottmann, a developer and reverse engineer, from various sources and from their own hunting for misconfigured devops tools that offer access to source code… According to Bank Security, a…
Digital Banking Site ‘Dave’ Admits Security Breach Impacting 7.5 Million Users
“Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave.com confirmed today a security breach,” reports ZDNet, “after a hacker published the details of 7,516,625 users on a public forum.”
In an email to ZDNet today, Dave said the security breach originated on the network of a former business partner, Waydev, an analytics platform used by engineering teams… The company said it has already plugged…
‘Mozilla VPN’ Launches in Six Countries
“Starting today, there’s a VPN on the market from a company you trust,” Mozilla announced Wednesday. Mozilla VPN is now officially available for Windows and Android in six countries: the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand, and it’ll be coming to even more countries later this year, reports the Verge: The service is available for $4.99 a month,…
Accelerating Curiosity: Novartis’s Integrated Approach to Employee Learning
By Steve Sitek, Head of U.S. Learning, Novartis There’s nothing better than a personalized experience, curtailed to our unique needs and wants. Those experiences are why social media platforms are now highly customized to our likes/dislikes, why we’re welcomed by name when we log in to our online banking platform, and why restaurants remember our […]
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