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According to the folks over at Android Police, Google Maps is now showing music controls, voice assistant, and app icons within the app when it’s being used in navigation mode. It seems the Google Maps update borrows a lot from Android Auto’s user interface. When in navigation mode, two icons appear at the foot of the screen: one for voice and another that loads an app tile screen. A third button appears that lets the user go back to navigation at the touch of a button....

This story is the first of two parts. If you want to find YouTube videos related to “KKK” to advertise on, Google Ads will block you. But the company failed to block dozens of other hate and White nationalist terms and slogans, an investigation by The Markup has found. Using a list of 86 hate-related terms we compiled with the help of experts, we discovered that Google uses a blocklist to try to stop advertisers from building YouTube ad campaigns around hate terms....

The team says that traditional search engines are sufficient at answering queries such as “What are the symptoms of coronavirus?” or “Where can I get tested in my country?”. However, when it comes to more pointed questions from researchers, these search engines and their keyword-based approach fail to deliver accurate results. [Read: Stick-on sensor detects coronavirus by monitoring chest vibrations] Google’s new tool helps researchers solve that problem. The CORD-19 database has over 50,000 journal articles and research papers related to coronavirus....

So if you find yourself experiencing an outage, you know that all of your efforts need to go toward identifying the issue and then recovering as quickly as possible, all while making sure the people impacted know what they need to. So what can you do in order to make sure things go as smoothly as possible? To find out, we asked a panel of Young Entrepreneur Council members the following question: What is one crucial thing you need to do in order to troubleshoot or recover from a system outage as quickly as possible?...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has since blamed the crisis on what he called the “mutant” algorithm. But this wasn’t a malfunctioning piece of technology. In marking down many individual students to prevent high grades increasing overall, the algorithm did exactly what the government wanted it to do. The fact that more disadvantaged pupils were marked down was an inevitable consequence of prioritizing historical data from an unequal education system over individual achievement....

The epic transfer was signaled by Binance CEO Changpang Zhao earlier this morning in a tweet. — CZ Binance (@cz_binance) October 20, 2018 Sure enough, Twitter-based transaction monitor @whale_alert soon notified its followers that Binance had successfully sent a combined 145,980 BTC to a new, unknown wallet. Bitcoin blocks #578327 and #578328 contain the flagged movements, broadcast at around 9:00 UTC, May 29. Blockchain explorer data shows the first was for 77,410....

Having an accessible website is not only a responsibility against discrimination, but it’s also a legal requirement in several countries, and you open yourself up to lawsuits by not adhering to the guidelines. Additionally, from a business marketing perspective, the design and functionality features mean that accessible websites perform better and are higher ranking in search engine lists. Your website is therefore more likely to gain attention from a larger potential audience when it’s accessible to everyone....

The fund, which opened on October 19, allows investors to speculate on the future value of bitcoin – without actually owning it. It is the first time investors have been able to trade an asset related to bitcoin on the New York Stock Exchange and was preceded by much media attention and hype in financial markets. It began trading at US$40 (£29) a share and finished the day up 5% with some US$570 million (£412 million) of assets, making it the second most heavily traded new ETF on record (the first was set up by BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset management company)....

The iPhone maker will offer lossless quality in three tiers. CD-quality (16-bit depth/44.1KHz sampling rate), 24-bit depth/48KHz, 24-bit depth/192KHz sampling rate. [Read: What’s bit depth? And how does it impact music?] If you’re an Apple fan, you’d expect that its $550 headphones, the AirPods Max, will support hi-fi music streaming out of the box — at least the CD-quality tier. But that’s not the case. Apple said that its expensive cans only support the AAC coded for streaming music when it’s connected via Bluetooth to your iPhone....

However, this doesn’t mean that you can’t challenge the limits in your field from time to time, for example by exploring a different programming paradigm or a new language. TypeScript: JavaScript, but type-safe About a decade ago, software engineers at Microsoft noticed that JavaScript wasn’t meeting all their needs anymore. On the one hand, the language was evolving rapidly and adding extremely interesting new features. On the other hand, none of the features in the pipeline could solve one fundamental problem: JavaScript was great for small programs, but writing whole applications with it was a mess....

There are a lot of ways to calculate the number of days between two dates. You could use free online calculators. You could do it programmatically, with coding languages, if it’s needed for a product you’re building. But if you want a solution somewhere in between where you’re not required to code, but do wish to feel some ‘wizardly’ gratification, there’s always good ‘ol Excel or Google Sheets. Now, you could use such a formula in many different ways, for many different purposes....

Of her four children, twins Jennie and James discovered that they also have the faulty gene that cut short their mother’s life. Both twins are affected with inoperable tumors wrapped around vital blood vessels and nerves in their necks. Father Jo decided to appear in a Cancer Research pledge video (below) in memory of his wife and to raise awareness of the important work that cancer researchers do for people like his children....

Still, it’s not as if freelancers are without options. When paying jobs dry up, there’s work to be done. Positivity in the midst of uncertainty is a byproduct of staying active and striving toward goals. For freelancers struggling to find work, there remain ample opportunities to improve professionally and inspire others. 1. Launch a passion project It’s difficult to design anything from scratch. When it comes to personal design projects, knowing where to start is the hardest part....

There’s been a lot of discussion in recent times around the need to get more women into AI and the primary focus of this discussion has been on developing AI systems that represent both men and women in order to reduce bias. The necessity of including women in the development of AI is universally accepted as being a positive step, and of course, it extends beyond gender to ethnicity and nationality as well if we are to truly create anything without bias....

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) lifted off aboard a SpaceX rocket from California on November 23, and will arrive at the target asteroid system in September, next year. The mission will travel to the asteroid Didymos, a member of the Amor group of asteroids. Every 12 hours Didymos is orbited by a mini-moon, or “moonlet”, Dimorphos. This smaller half of the pair will be DART’s target. Are we facing an extinction threat from asteroids?...

Oh what a difference a few years can make. You can’t open the science section on Google or Apple News nowadays without seeing a near-equal split between space and quantum physics stories. The world’s fallen in love with speculative science again thanks to quantum computing and artificial intelligence, and I couldn’t be happier. I believe quantum computing has the ability to impact our species in a way that nothing short of the emergence of a physical God or the arrival of an advanced alien benefactor can....

In a blog post, Marlinspike claimed that he found one of the company’s devices in a package that fell out of a truck — that’s some luck, huh? He added the Cellebrite device has multiple bugs that could be used to take over it. Here’s how he actually did it: They placed an innocuous-looking — albeit specially formatted — file on the device that Cellebrite’s software would eventually scan. After that, the attackers could remotely execute any arbitrary code that could modify the unlocker device’s report....

Having started MING Labs in China in 2011, we have seen a big development from the old-internet world of overladen landing pages, to digital products of world-class defining design today. In parallel, we have seen the move from clunky desktop applications with small user bases, to the mobile-first B2C revolution to the rise of the super apps that are the new all-encompassing ecosystems in the market. Throughout those major shifts in digital products and behaviors, some preferences have remained constant that differ from those in Western markets....

Apple rolled out the iOS 14.5 update last night, and the new App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature is probably one of the most-talked-about privacy updates for the iPhone. This new feature will force apps to ask for your permission if they want to track your data and use it to serve you targeted advertisements. To use it, first, you’ll need to update your phone to iOS 14.5 via Settings > General > Software update....

More and more Android phones are adopting displays with higher refresh rates than the standard 60Hz. And it’s not just the flagships; Xiaomi just launched a $270 Redmi Note 10 Pro with a superb AMOLED display that supports 120Hz. A higher refresh rate allows for smoother animations, whether you’re scrolling web pages or playing graphics-intensive games. However, not all apps support high refresh rates. So how can you check if they do?...