We recently sat down with Shwetabh Mittal, the head of product and corporate strategy for Coursera for Business. Shwetabh was excited to provide a peak into how our product roadmap is developed and share some of the most exciting upcoming new features. In particular, he shares how he’s thinking about skills-based features in the wake […]
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Tag: San Francisco
Uber and Lyft’s Rise Tanked Wheelchair Access To Taxis
A new San Francisco city report details the devastating drop in on-demand rides for the disability community after the rise of Uber and Lyft. From a report: The financial blow to the taxi industry, the report alleges, was also a blow to the availability of on-demand trips for anyone who uses a wheelchair. The report also points a way forward for…
Millions of Golfers Land In Privacy Hazard After Cloud Misconfig
Millions of golfer records from the Game Golf app, including GPS details from courses played, usernames and passwords, and even Facebook login data, were all exposed for anyone with an internet browser to see — a veritable hole-in-one for a cyberattacker looking to build profiles for potential victims, to be used in follow-on social-engineering attacks. Threatpost reports: Security Discovery researcher Bob…
Tesla’s Stock Falls After News About Autopilot Crashes and Battery Fires
CNBC reports:
Tesla shares fell almost 8% on Friday to their lowest close since December 2016, after the National Transportation Safety Board said the company’s Autopilot driver assistance system was engaged during a fatal crash in March… The accident was at least the third of its kind in the U.S. and raises concerns about Tesla’s Autopilot technology. Thursday Elon Musk also told…
Some of China’s ‘996’ Tech Tribe Quit, Seek Less Stress
An increasingly growing number of millennials in China are beginning to question the value of working long hours in the tech sector and deviate from the longstanding 996 work environment (working 9am to 9pm for six days a week) that many local companies religiously follow. From a report: In April, protests from tech employees against excessive overtime surfaced online, sparking an…
San Francisco Could Be First US City To Ban Facial-Recognition Technology
San Francisco, long one of the most tech-friendly and tech-savvy cities in the world, is poised to prohibit its government from using facial-recognition technology. From a report: A proposed ban is part of a broader anti-surveillance ordinance that the city’s Board of Supervisors is expected to approve on Tuesday. If passed — a majority of the board’s 11 supervisors have expressed…
Clouds that look like ocean waves
They’re called Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, aka billow clouds or shear-gravity clouds, and they look like breaking ocean waves. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/kelvin-helmholzt-clouds…
‘I Bought Some Noise-Canceling Headphones. They Don’t Cancel Noise’
“Many are seduced by the idea that they can listen in silence,” complains ZDNet columnist Chris Matyszczyk. “This doesn’t seem to be true,” he writes, describing a typical experience with some $279.95 Beats Studio3 wireless over-ear headphones: I could still hear so much of what was going on beyond the soccer match or movie upon which my headphones were supposed to…
Look for the legendary green flash
A sea horizon is best for seeing a green flash, but any distant, flat horizon will do. Look at the last moment before the sun sets. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/see-the-legendary-green-flash…
Uber and Lyft increased traffic delays in San Francisco by 40 percent
Uber and Lyft say they help cut down on vehicle congestion, but a new analysis of San Francisco traffic found they did the opposite over a six year period Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2202011-uber-and-lyft-increased-traffic-delays-in-san-francisco-by-40-percent/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…