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In which this beautiful member of the Nymphalidae butterfly family shows off its pretty patterns.
Source: TreeHugger – Photo: Spotted fritillary considers the leaves
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is planning to launch a carpool-based ride-sharing service using Waze in the Bay Area. The new feature would connect drivers and potential passengers going along the same route via the navigation app.
Source: Engadget – Report: Google is turning Waze into a ride-sharing platform
If you hurry over to Amazon, you can score a 16 ounce Contigo Autoseal West Loop travel mug in white for $12, the best price we’ve seen.
Source: Gizmodo – Your Favorite Travel Mug Has Never Been Cheaper
A strong enough laser can burn things
, clean things
, pop things
, and most impressively, move things. Yep. Watch this powerful laser shining into a piece of aluminum foil suspended in a vacuum and you’ll see the foil starting to sway back and forth from the ultra light beam.
Source: Gizmodo – Watch a Powerful Laser Beam Push a Piece of Foil Forward
Source: Engadget – Chris Brown turns to Instagram amid police standoff
Let me tell you a story about me, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, and bad timing.
Source: io9 – What Show Did You Fall in Love With Right Before It Was Canceled?
These are the beautiful butterfly head crowns crafted by Iryna Osinchuk-Chajka of Etsy shop EtenIren. They cost around $40, and each butterfly is individually cut and decorated by hand. The crown is perfect for the person in your life who wants it to look like butterflies are swarming their head so they can pretend they’re some sort of magical forest fairy princess. I want one except instead of butterflies I want them to be stars like I just got hit over the head with a hammer in a cartoon. And I want it to be motorized so they actually spin around my head. Actually I just want to be Wile E. Coyote. Now I’m gonna run off this cliff and I want you to drop an anvil on my face.
Keep going for several more.
Source: Geekologie – Whimsical: Beautiful Butterfly Head Crowns
Fortune reports that the “yawning gap in tech skills” has resulted in a surprising shift in supply and demand in the software industry. And in many companies now, a growing trend of developer jobs being given to non-developers can be seen. From the article: That’s because a relatively new technology, known as low-code or no-code platforms, is now doing a big chunk of the work that high-priced human talent used to do. Low-code platforms are designed so that people with little or no coding or software engineering background — known in the business as “citizen developers” — can create apps, both for use in-house and for clients. Not surprisingly, the low-code platform industry, made up of about 40 small companies (so far), is growing like crazy. A recent Forrester Research report put its total revenues at about $1.7 billion in 2015, a figure that’s projected to balloon to $15 billion in the next four years. Low-code-platform providers, notes Forrester, are typically seeing sales increases in excess of 50% a year.The report cites QuickBase, a company whose low-code platforms are used by half of the Fortune 500 companies, as an example. Its CEO Allison Mnookin says that almost any employee can now do most or all of the same work that developers used to do. Mnookin adds that there’s a big advantage in this. “Opening an app’s development to the non-techies who need the app removes misunderstandings between the IT department and other employees about what the end user needs.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Companies Are Developing More Apps With Fewer Developers
We’re back with the second episode of our new weekly video series where —you guessed it!—we hang out and talk about Overwatch. Working title is “Let’s Talk Overwatch.” We’ll probably change that soon.
Source: Kotaku – Who Even Watches Their Overwatch Kill-Cam?
The Amazon Kindle is a great ereader
, but it’s not particularly feature-rich. Reabble is a simple little RSS reader optimized to work inside the Kindle’s experimental browser to make reading articles less of a chore.
Source: LifeHacker – Reabble Is a Web-Based RSS Reader Made for the Kindle
Agencies like the Federal Trade Commission have started to crack down
on celebrity endorsements on networks like Instagram and YouTube. But have you ever wondered how much your average celebrity gets paid for a post? Not Kim Kardashian West or Kanye West. We know they make millions. But just your average, run-of-the-mill celeb or internet-famous “influencer” with a few million followers? They still make tens of thousands of dollars.
Source: Gizmodo – Average Internet Celebrities Make ,000 Per Instagram Ad and ,000 Per Paid Tweet
When the European Union passed its net neutrality laws in 2015, it left a few big loopholes that many were worried would undermine the rules. Would your internet provider have free rein to exempt its own services from data caps, for example, or slow…
Source: Engadget – EU net neutrality guidelines close key ‘fast lane’ loopholes
Last week, astronomers announced
that our nearest neighboring star hosts an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone—an exciting prospect for alien life, and a possible second home for humanity. But before we assemble the interstellar welcoming party to greet our cosmic neighbors, we need to figure out whether Proxima b is capable of supporting life at all. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, that question could be answered in less than three years.
Source: Gizmodo – How We’ll Get Our First Big Clue About Life on Proxima b
Sophisticated hackers use the command line with their pinkies raised and wear cashmere balaclavas.
The profile of attacks on two state voter registration systems this summer presented in an FBI “Flash” memo suggests that the states were hit by a fairly typical sort of intrusion. But an Arizona official said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had attributed an attack that succeeded only in capturing a single user’s login credentials to Russian hackers and rated the threat from the attack as an “eight on a scale of ten” in severity. An Illinois state official characterized the more successful attack on that state’s system as “highly sophisticated” based on information from the FBI.
Arizona Secretary of State Office Communications Director Matt Roberts told the Post’s Ellen Nakashima that the FBI had alerted Arizona officials in June of an attack by Russians, though the FBI did not state whether they were state-sponsored or criminal hackers. The attack did not gain access to any state or county voter registration system, but the username and password of a single election official was stolen. Roberts did not respond to requests from Ars for clarification on the timeline and other details of the attack.
Based on the details provided by Roberts to the Post, it’s not clear if the Arizona incident was one of the two referred to in the FBI “Flash” published this month. The FBI has not responded to questions about the memorandum on the attacks first published publicly by Yahoo News’ Michael Isikoff, but a SQL injection attack wouldn’t seem to be the likely culprit for stealing a single username and password. It’s more likely that the Gila County election official whose credentials were stolen was the victim of a phishing attack or malware.
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Source: Ars Technica – Officials blame “sophisticated” Russian hackers for voter system attacks
This past weekend, I found a couple of small box in my apartment full of memories from when I was writing about video games for MTV News a decade ago. They might as well have been a buried time capsule.
Source: Kotaku – Scraps From Covering Video Games A Decade Ago
According to this blog post, Twitter is willing to share more money with content creators in order to entice more people to use its platform. Apparently Twitter is trying to lure you in with a 70%/30% split versus the 55% / 45% split you get with YouTube.
Today, we’re excited to announce the expansion of our creator revenue programs, which will provide creators of all sizes with the ability to monetize content in multiple ways and generate revenue at scale. Niche is the creator-first platform that provides creators with the ability to grow, understand, and monetize their social presence across all networks. Niche, a part of the Twitter family since 2015, works with 35,000 creators worldwide alongside top brands to develop authentic and resonating branded content.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Twitter Wants To Share Video Ad Money With You
When has a company refusing to fix a flaw ever ended well? Something tells me now that the issue is getting attention that Google will have a change of heart.
I couldn’t quite believe that Google had both understood this issue, and simply shrugged it off. So I opened several reports to make sure understanding, or communicating the issue wasn’t the error here. In total, three reports were opened with Google; three reports were closed. I have included the final report here, to which I received the most responses.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Google Won’t Fix Flaw That Can Lead To Malware Download
Introducing Allkauren koi, a ridiculously looking flying reptile with a very cool name. The fossilized remains of this newly discovered pterosaur were discovered in the Patagonia region of South America, and it’s shedding light on the origin and evolution of these ancient creatures.
Source: Gizmodo – Look at This Silly New Flying Reptile
The worst nightmare scenario in many superhero universes is when the Superman analogue constrains Earth in an ultra-oppressive grip. A new graphic novel by a comic writer known for some of the best Superman stories ever shows mankind fighting back in thrilling fashion.
Source: io9 – In Mark Waid’s Axiom, Humanity Fights Back When Earth’s Most Powerful Superhero Takes Over the World