The official COVID-19 contact-tracing app for the state of North Dakota, designed to detect whether people have potentially been exposed to the coronavirus, sends location data and a unique user identifier to Foursquare — and other data to Google and a bug-tracking company — according to a new report from smartphone privacy company Jumbo Privacy. From a report: The app, called…
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How Wesley went from Part-Time Cook to Full-Time IT Support Technician
My name is Wesley Mercado, and I live in Los Angeles, California. Before completing the Google IT Support Professional Certificate on the Coursera platform, I had no prior experience in IT Support. Now, I work as an IT Support Technician at a healthcare call center in Beverly Hills. I did not grow up as a […]
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See how Rayan found a new career path in digital marketing
Meet Rayan, a 26-year-old marketing analyst from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. In this post, he discusses his journey to a successful digital marketing career, and how his commitment to learning new skills on Coursera helped make it possible. Ready for a change After completing my Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics in 2016, I stayed unemployed for two […]
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Facebook’s Oculus Is Developing a New Quest VR Headset
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Facebook’s Oculus division is building a new version of its Quest standalone virtual reality headset, but the device is facing potential delays due to the impact of Covid-19 on product development and the global supply chain. The social-networking giant is working on multiple potential successors to the Quest. Some models in advanced testing…
Cisco Spotlights New IT Roles You May Have Never Heard of
coondoggie writes: A glimpse into what that future means for IT networking professionals can be found in Cisco’s 2020 Global Networking Trends Report. It was completed before COVID-19 changed the way company’s do business, but the predicted impacts have been hastened by the pandemic’s impact. From the networking study, Cisco put forward a number of new or developing roles it expects…
Copyleft and the Cloud: Where Do We Go From Here?
Free software evangelist Jeremy Allison – Sam (Slashdot reader #8,157) is a co-creator on the Samba project, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, and he also works in Google’s Open Source Programs Office. Now he shares his presentation at the Software Freedom Conservancy’s “International Copyleft Conference.” He writes: The Samba project has traditionally been one of the strongest proponents of Copyleft…
Telegram Hits 400M Monthly Active Users
Instant messaging service Telegram has amassed 400 million monthly active users, it said today, up from 300 million active users the seven-year-old service disclosed to the SEC last October. From a report: The service — founded by Pavel Durov, who also created Russian social networking site VK — said it adds about 1.5 million users each day and is the most…
Internet Governance Body RIPE Opposes China’s Internet Protocols Upgrade Plan
EU-based Internet governance body RIPE is opposing a proposal to remodel core internet protocols, a proposal backed by the Chinese government, Chinese telecoms, and Chinese networking equipment vendor Huawei. From a report: Named “New IP,” this proposal consists of a revamped version of the TCP/IP standards to accommodate new technologies, a “shutoff protocol” to cut off misbehaving parts of the internet,…
Alibaba To Invest $28 Billion In Cloud Services After Coronavirus Boosted Demand
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said it will invest $28 billion in its cloud infrastructure over three years — “a plan that follows a boom in demand for business software as the coronavirus outbreak peaked in China,” reports Reuters. From the report: The company said in a statement it will spend the funds on semiconductor and operating system development as well as…
Vint Cerf Explains Why the Internet is Holding Up
In a video interview over Google Hangouts this week, 76-year-old Vint Cerf explained to the Washington Post why the internet’s 50-year-old architecture is still holding up, “with a mix of triumph and wonder in his voice.” “Resiliency and redundancy are very much a part of the Internet design,” explained Cerf, whose passion for touting the wonders of computer networking prompted Google…