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It’s a Match: Essential Skills Mapped to Critical Business Functions
By Kyle Clark, Enterprise Content Strategist Coursera’s Essential Skills Map identifies the skills of tomorrow for key functions, future-proofing your workforce while helping your business keep pace with digital transformation. ———- Technology is rapidly transforming the nature of jobs and skills. Partnering with over 1,900 companies globally through Coursera for Business takes us deep into […]
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Suzanne Collins has written a Hunger Games prequel set to come out in 2020
Source: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/6/22/18701159/suzanne-collins-hunger-games-prequel…
Google Maps Will Tell You If Your Taxi Driver Is Veering Off Course To Rack Up a Higher Fare
Google Maps is rolling out a new feature that will tell you if your taxi driver goes off-route in an attempt to rack up a higher fare. Sure, you could always use Google Maps to pick the shortest route possible, but the newest feature does the work for you. BGR reports: The feature is especially useful in cities you don’t know,…
‘Java Web Start Is Dead. Long Live Java Web Start!’
An anonymous reader reminded us about the open source reimplementation of Java Web Start, a framework originally developed by Sun Microsystems that allowed users to more easily run Java applications in an applet-like sandbox using a web browser. From OpenWebStart.com:
Java Web Start (JWS) was deprecated in Java 9, and starting with Java 11, Oracle removed JWS from their JDK distributions. This…
How npm Stopped a Malicious Upstream Code Update From Stealing Cryptocurrency
“If you’re a cryptocurrency startup, would you face a huge backlash by hacking your own customers to keep their funds safe if you know that a hacker is about to launch an attack and steal their funds?” asks ZDNet: This is exactly what happened yesterday when the Komodo Platform learned about a backdoor in one of its older wallet apps named…
Facebook Suspends App Pre-installs on Huawei Phones
Facebook is no longer allowing pre-installation of its apps on Huawei phones, the latest blow for the Chinese tech giant as it struggles to keep its business afloat in the face of a U.S. ban on its purchase of American parts and software. From a report: Customers who already have Huawei phones will still be able to use its apps and…
Google Launches Android Q Beta 4 With Final APIs and Official SDK
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Google today launched the fourth Android Q beta with final Android Q APIs and the official SDK. If you’re a developer, this is your fourth Android Q preview, and you can start testing your apps against this release by downloading it from developer.android.com/preview. The preview includes system images for the Pixel, Pixel XL,…
Apple Asks Developers To Place Its Login Button Above Google and Facebook
Apple will ask developers to position a new “Sign in with Apple” button in iPhone and iPad apps above rival buttons from Alphabet’s Google and Facebook, according to design guidelines released this week. From a report: The move to give Apple prime placement is significant because users often select the default or top option on apps. And Apple will require apps…
Apple Is Now the Privacy-As-A-Service Company
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Apple’s truly transforming into a privacy-as-a-service company, which shows in the way that it’s implementing both the new single sign-on account service, as well as its camera and location services updates in iOS 13. The SSO play is especially clever, because it includes a mechanism that will allow developers to still have the…