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At the same time, it’s being used by the governments of Russia and Ukraine to set the agenda for wider media reporting. Official Russian government accounts have been found to be amplifying pro-Russia disinformation on Twitter. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian government has taken to the platform to appeal to its two million followers for support. Help us stop Russia. Demand your governments to act now: – Provide Ukraine with all weapons we need– More tough sanctions on Russia – Cut all trade ties with them pic....

You’re streaming Rick and Morty (or whatever show you like to rewatch a million times) on your phone, and all of a sudden it skips to the next episode. It’s not a glitch, just the good ol’ accidental Netflix playback tap. We’ve all been there. But worry no more: Netflix has rolled out a new ‘screen lock’ feature that lets you avoid that. It’s pretty easy to use the new function....

The lunar eclipse on May 26 should be a delight for amateur astronomers (especially in the western United States), or casual stargazers willing to venture outside late at night. “[C]ertain skywatchers will be able to catch a glimpse of a rare lunar trifecta: a ‘super blood moon.’ Not only will this be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year, it coincides with a total lunar eclipse, where the Moon will appear red for approximately fifteen minutes,” NASA officials describe....

As much as it’s now fairly easy to type quickly on touchscreen keyboards these days, it can be more laborious than using a desktop with a full-sized physical keyboard — especially if you need to format your text and enter special characters. I’ve got a tip for you. Google’s Gboard and Microsoft’s SwiftKey keyboard apps come with handy clipboards that let you save multiple snippets of text that you can retrieve and paste anywhere with just a couple of taps on your screen....

Hey all you cool cats and… Nope. I’m not going to do it. I’m staying out of that debate. Though I will say that “Tiger King” is a tour de force that’ll almost certainly make you feel better about yourself and your life choices. I’m not a Netflix shill, I just know good TV when I see it. And I agree with nearly every other critic out there in saying it’s the perfect television experience for the pandemic....

There are different schools of thought when it comes to getting your vocals perfect for any project. The easiest way, surely, is building a million-dollar studio and filling it with the best gear money can buy. This is a guide for those of us who don’t have that option. The first thing you need to do is find out where you’re at vis-a-vis what you need, what you want, and what you can afford....

I’ll keep it real with you: I absolutely hate reading. News pieces, hot-take blogs, obituaries, I dread it all — and don’t even get me started on books. But thanks to techmology (and Google), you no longer have to deal with the tedium of reading. Instead, an AI can do it for you. [Read: How to use the sleek new version of Facebook Messenger on iOS] A few months back, Google revealed it has cooked up a new feature that makes it possible for Assistant to read out text-based long-form content....

The article will cover two main topics: Face features recognition Adding filters So, here’s how to to detect facial features Similarly to how DLib works, for JavaScript, we have a library called clmtrackr which will do the heavy work of detecting where the face is on an image, and will also identify facial features such as the nose, mouth, eyes, and more. This library provides some generic models which are already pre-trained and ready to use following the numbering of the features as follows:...

The reasoning is what you’ve heard a million times by now: they’re just too volatile. Specifically, Quinn says: That said, Quinn says he approves of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), which he claims “can facilitate international transactions” and “are likely to operate in a transparent manner.” CBDCs, however, lose much of the appeal of decentralized cryptocurrencies. The comments from Europe’s largest bank will come as a blow to some crytpocurrency enthusiasts, but not everyone is feeling the same way....

Replying to a legal notice filed by the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), a Delhi-based non-profit that works on digital liberties, the country’s National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) defended the move, stating it doesn’t interfere with privacy of citizens as it “only automates the existing police procedure of comparing suspects’ photos with those listed in LEA’s [Law Enforcement Agency] databases.” It also dismissed worries of possible misidentification and discriminatory profiling, and said the project will only be used to identify missing people and unidentified dead bodies....

A report by the Economic Times yesterday suggested that some officials are proposing that WhatsApp should assign and store an alphanumeric hash to each message so as it could be traced back to the originator if it causes unlawful activity. An official who is involved in the traceability discussion said that the government is “willing to work with WhatsApp to come up with a solution to enable traceability of messages without breaking encryption”....

The test was run in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan, and New Zealand earlier this year. Now it’s been expanded to the rest of the world. So if, all of a sudden, you can’t see the number of likes on another user’s post, it’s because you’ve been included in this test. The layout is otherwise unchanged. — Instagram (@instagram) November 14, 2019 The social media platform’s pivot away from the instant gratification of likes and views is an interesting experiment — how much do our fellow users respond to the number below our pictures more so than to the pictures themselves?...

The feature lets anyone shoot 15-second videos that can be edited with music from other videos – just like TikTok. The company wants to popularize the format by promoting it through hashtags. “I think [about] Musically before TikTok, and TikTok deserves a ton of credit for popularizing this format,” Robby Stein, Instagram’s director of product management told TechCrunch. This is quite similar to what CEO Kevin Systrom said about Snapchat when the company launched the Stories feature in 2016....

The UK-based firm plans to launch a network of low-earth-orbit satellites that will provide next-generation 5G services, Bloomberg reports. “It brings multiple network elements together into harmony, into a single unified network,” Immarsat CEO Rajeev Suri told the news outlet. “No other company has anything like it.” The launch of the new satellites isn’t imminent, however. They’re not expected to arrive until after 2026. Immarsat is also taking a different market strategy from Starlink and Project Kuiper....

As we noted in our earlier post, the partnership makes sense, especially as the two forces are now able to join together to take on the increasingly popular Apple Watch. Fitbit is extremely popular in the fitness market, but it’s struggled to make a dent with the “smart” portion of its smartwatches. It’s also facing increasingly stiff competition from competitors like Huawei and Xiaomi. Meanwhile, Google has a myriad of devices under the Wear OS umbrella, but their sales pale in comparison to Apple devices....

During his visit, Bezos will also meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He had previously met Modi at an event in Washington back in 2016, and later said the company would invest over $5 billion in India in the coming years. — AICPDF (@AICPDF) January 14, 2020 Last year, the Indian government introduced a law that restricted eCommerce firms from selling their own products. Plus, the new norms asked these companies to cut down on discounts and cashback promotions....

With more companies paring down and working remotely, it’s extremely likely that if you’re an experienced digital project manager, you may well be tasked with overseeing an initiative without ever physically being present. So how do you balance the needs of the project, the needs of your staff and the needs of your stakeholders, all from the confines of your own home? With training like the information found in the Remote Project Management Toolkit Bundle....

App-based helicopter and charter flight booking platform, Blade Air Mobility says: nope. After performing a pointless catch-me-if-you-can exercise with reporters from Business Insider, last week the company finally admitted its spokesperson of three years, Simon McLaren, didn’t exist. The “jaded New Yorker, raconteur, college dropout writer, and student of highly driven narcissists” (as his Twitter bio once read) was completely made up by Blade’s team. According to CEO Rob Wiesenthal, “There was no intention of being duplicitous....

Sun reinforced his desire to work with Yang to make Universal Basic Income (UBI) a reality during a livestream on Tuesday, just after promising to reschedule his $4.6 million charity lunch with Warren Buffet “very soon.” Yang’s plans to establish a UBI were revealed on September 12, when he announced plans to give away $120,000 through the course of the next year as part of a pilot program for this key policy plan....

Amid all the concern and darkness in a world fighting its way through a global pandemic, it’s important not to lose sight of some of the silver linings to be found in our collective new normal. With businesses closed and social distancing in effect, the world has finally complied with a request we’ve all uttered at some point. Through the years, you’ve likely wanted this crazy planet to occasionally just slow down for a minute....