Coursera is Among the Top 10 on Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators List

By Jenny Talwar, Director of Talent at Coursera Innovators wanted: join our team at a pivotal moment Today, Fast Company ranked Coursera ninth on its Best Workplaces for Innovators list. The 2020 ranking features 100 companies that demonstrate a deep commitment to nurturing innovation at all levels. “As much of the world recovers from health, […]
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Target and Walmart May Have Just Killed Black Friday as We Know It

An anonymous reader shares a report: Following Walmart’s decision last week to shutter its doors on Thanksgiving Day over COVID-19 concerns, fellow big-box behemoth, Target, has announced that it will also be skipping this year’s orgiastic capitalist pre-game for the good of consumers and workers. Well, that’s the official position at least. “Historically, deal hunting and holiday shopping can mean crowded…

Surveillance Software Scanning File-Sharing Networks Led To 12,000 Arrests

Mr. Cooper was a retired high school history teacher using what NBC News calls those peer-to-peer networks where “the lack of corporate oversight creates the illusion of safety for people sharing illegal images.” Police were led to Cooper’s door by a forensic tool called Child Protection System, which scans file-sharing networks and chatrooms to find computers that are downloading photos and…

Quibi Cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Streaming Service’s Rough Start

Quibi, the streaming app veteran executive Jeffrey Katzenberg started with Meg Whitman a little more than a month ago — and for which it raised $1.8 billion — is off to a rough start. From a report: Downloads have been anemic, despite a lineup that includes producers and stars like Jennifer Lopez, LeBron James, Idris Elba, Steven Spielberg and Chrissy Teigen….

Launching New Content As More Learners Move Online: 2 Degrees, 8 MasterTracks, and 100 Guided Projects

By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO Coursera The profound impact of COVID-19 has forced us to rethink many aspects of our lives. Overnight, the global education system had to find ways to mitigate the impact of more than 1.5 billion students seeing their campuses closed. Since then, it has been heartwarming to witness the heroic efforts of […]
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How Did Covid-19 Begin? WaPo OpEd Calls Its Origin Story ‘Shaky’

The story of how the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China, has produced a nasty propaganda battle between the United States and China. Columnist David Ignatius writes in an opinion piece for The Washington Post: The two sides have traded some of the sharpest charges made between two nations since the Soviet Union in 1985 falsely accused the CIA of manufacturing…

Study Finds High Demand for Go and AR/VR Programmers, While Python Remains Favorite Language

The tech jobs marketplace at Hired.com crunched their data on more than 400,000 interview requests and job offers over the last year to produce their annual “State of Software Engineers” report. Among its surprising insights: software engineers with more than 10 years of experience get 20% fewere interview requests than engineers with 4 to 10 years of experience. Other insights:
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Printing’s Not Dead: The $35 Billion Fight Over Ink Cartridges

America’s onetime innovation icons are wrestling over their biggest remaining piles of money. From a report: The HP 63 Tri-color ink cartridge retails for $28.99 at Staples. Stuffed with foam sponges drenched in a fraction of an ounce of cyan, magenta, and yellow dyes, this bestseller, model No. F6U61AN#140, can spray 36,000 drops per second in the Envy printers made by…

Report Identifies the Most Dangerous Mobile App Store on the Internet

9Game.com, a portal for downloading free Android games, was the mobile app store hosting the most malicious apps in 2019. From a report: 9Game ranked number one on the list of app stores with the most “new” malicious app uploads, but also number one on the list of app stores with the highest concentration of malicious apps overall. According to RiskIQ’s…

Google Confirms It Again Removed Alleged Spying Tool ToTok From Google Play

Google has confirmed that the popular messaging app ToTok, which is actually a spying tool used by the United Arab Emirates to track the activities of those who download it, has again been removed from the Play Store. But this time they declined to comment as to why. TechCrunch reports: Reached for comment, Google confirmed to TechCrunch that it removed the…