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You already know web engineers, data scientists and project managers are making some serious bank. But you may not have realized that freelance wedding photographers are quietly pulling down some major coin as well. As in, six-figure coin. If you’ve got the eye and the background, starting a business as a freelance photographer can be a very lucrative side hustle. Of course, you need that background, which you can earn with the training from The Side Photography Business Bundle....

The culprit? Their lithium-ion batteries. To better understand why lithium-ion batteries can sometimes be hazardous, let’s first refresh how they work. A li-ion battery comprises of four key elements: a positive electrode (the cathode), a negative electrode (the anode), an electrolyte, and a separator. The electrodes store the lithium ions, the electrolyte carries them between the electrodes, and the separator keeps the cathode from coming in contact with the anode....

Honda R&D Co., the company’s innovations arm, will be leading the efforts to produce an eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft, an avatar robot, and space tech. Honda’s eVTOL First up, Honda’s foray into an entirely new dimension… up. The Japanese automaker didn’t disclose many details about its upcoming eVTOL. But what the company did divulge was that the aircraft’s electric motor will also be supported by a gas turbine hybrid power unit....

Similar videos about sexual assault posted by young women became popular in 2020. The new video is aimed at teens and focuses on sexual harassment. By calling attention to how common sexual harassment is for teen girls, the “Put a finger down: Sexual harassment edition” video has become the 2021 TikTok teen version of the #MeToo movement of 2017. This trend brings together two nearly universal realities in the lives of teen girls: the ubiquitous presence of social media and the daily barrage of sexual harassment....

This is one area where artificial intelligence can help, experts at Jvion believe. The company, which specializes in clinical AI, is undertaking a data analysis project that will inform COVID-19 readiness strategies and help hospitals take a proactive approach to manage patient populations in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Jvion is using machine learning algorithms to determine the social risk factors that make people more likely to contract and spread the virus or acquire an infection that requires hospitalization....

Companies will embrace automation The past is prescient here. In the early 1900s the onset of US factories provided an employment boom for blue collar workers. As the decades wore on, US prosperity became the envy of the world. By the mid-1950s, the American dream had been born. A family of four could thrive on the average median blue collar salary. Compensation at the time, even at the minimum wage, allowed most workers to purchase a home, a car, and to save up for retirement....

London-based mapping company WhereIsMyTransport has completed what it claims is the first comprehensive overview of Bangkok’s transport network, mapping 40,000 kilometers of data across the city in 60 days. The firm, which specializes in mapping transport data in emerging cities globally, employed a team of 25 locally based data collectors to travel across the Thai capital’s public transit network – including the MRT, the BTS Skytrain , and bus services – as well as the vast array of informal ‘songthaew,’ minibus and riverboat routes that provide the bulk of first- and last-mile services....

Mass protests have broken out across the United States after a Minneapolis police officer killed black Minnesotan George Floyd while he was in police custody. One thing demonstrators should be aware of before they head out is that their cellphones may subject them to surveillance tactics by law enforcement. If your cellphone is on and unsecured, not only can your location be tracked, but your messages and the content of your phone may also be retrieved by police either if they take custody of your phone or later by warrant or subpoena....

Typically it looks like this graph below: fuel consumption rises from about 80km/h, partly because air resistance increases. But speed is only one factor. No matter what car you are driving, you can reduce fuel consumption (and therefore emissions) by driving more smoothly. This includes anticipating corners and avoiding sudden braking, taking the foot off the accelerator just before reaching the peak of a hill and cruising over it, and removing roof racks or bull bars and heavier items from inside when they are not needed to make the car lighter and more streamlined....

Globally, our species seen a decrease in the overall body size and brain size, together with reductions in the proportions of our jaws and teeth. Regional populations also show differing physical characteristics, due to climate and lifestyle. “We are now generally shorter, lighter and smaller boned than our ancestors were 100,000 years ago. The decrease has been gradual but has been most noticeable in the last 10,000 years. However, there has been some slight reversal to this trend in the last few centuries as the average height has started to increase,” the Australian Museum reports....

If you’re considering having to change the way you generate your income, then you’ve probably identified that your revenue model is a barrier to your startup’s further growth. However, at the same time, you’ll likely be dependent on your current revenue model to generate the income you need to keep the lights on and pay your team. In this way, changing your startup’s revenue model while keeping up with your own growth targets is analogous to trying to swap out an airplane’s engines mid-flight....

Upon hearing that the SailGP is the first climate-positive sport on the planet, aided by a whole load of innovation in sailing and technology, I wanted to find out more. So I headed to San Francisco to learn all about it. To be clear and transparent, just so you know, I attended on the league’s dime. Let’s start with the basics: What’s SailGP? SailGP is a global sailing league co-founded in 2019 by tech mogul Larry Ellison, co-founder, CTO, and former CEO of Oracle....

Each of those results would be among the greatest scientific accomplishments in human history. But the aliens one might have the biggest immediate impact on civilization. For that very reason, a team of scientists working at NASA have proposed drafting a framework by which the US government should go about informing the public on its findings in the event the space agency discovers evidence for extraterrestrial life. Per the NASA document outlining the request: That sounds a lot like typical science reporting, however, so it’s unlikely the general public’s going to be biting its nails with each NASA update wondering if we’re at a “five” or a “six” on the progressive alien biology scale....

The lockdown will, at some point, end. Urban life will begin to hum again to the familiar rhythms of work, leisure and shopping. This will be a huge relief for us all. Yet our towns and cities will never be the same. Indeed, things might get worse before they get better. But it’s also the case that other crises haven’t gone away. Our relatively brief lockdown won’t solve longer-term urban problems: dependence on fossil fuels, rising carbon emissions, poor air quality, dysfunctional housing markets, loss of biodiversity, divisions between the rich and the poor, low paid work....

The hack had exposed names, email addresses, shipping addresses, usernames, shoe sizes, hashed passwords, and purchase histories of about 6.8 million customers. According to Bleeping Computer, the stolen data is now being sold online on dark web. Have I been Pwned to the rescue A report by TechCrunch published on August 3 revealed how an unnamed data breach seller had reached out to the publication without saying where or how they obtained the data, and noted the data had a price tag of $300 on a dark web listing....

Here’s how you can change the comment control on your public post: Open the Facebook app on your phone. Head to the post where you want to control comments. Tap on the three-dot menu on the top-right of the post and select the “Who can comment on your post?” option. Now, you can select Public, Friends, or Profile and Pages that you mentioned. Once you set this up, only the selected people or pages will be able to comment on your post....

This morning I needed to move a bit of text from phone to my computer. For some reason, in this specific circumstance, I remembered that back in 2009 I used to have a fancy little clipboard app that allowed me to do this easily. “Did this exist still?” I wondered to myself. I did what any good online sleuth would in this situation and — here’s the surprising part — searched for it on Google....

One of these areas is Python classes. Borrowed from Object-Oriented Programming, they’re quite beautiful constructs that you can expand and modify as you code. The big problem is that classes can make your code more complicated than necessary, and make it harder to read and maintain. So when should you use classes, and when should you use standard functions instead? This story is a deeper dive into the matter. So if you’re in a hurry, you can skip the following two sections and scroll right down to the sections When to use classes and When classes are a bad idea....

Before we start talking about USB cables, I know some people will read the headline and go bonkers. I am expecting, “This is not true journalism,” “You are a clickbaiter,” and “Everyone knows this, shut up.” Now that we’ve established that, let’s move on. Plugging in a USB cable should be an easy task right? But there are countless times I’ve flip-flopped USB cables to fit them into the slot perfectly....

All of us take a lot of video calls these days, and because of the pandemic, they’re mostly from our own homes and on Wi-Fi connections. However, when you might need to take a call from outside or your Wi-Fi might not be working, call quality drops drastically. To tackle this, Google Meet is rolling out a data saving mode in its app to reduce your data usage, optimize your battery life, and manage CPU workload....