Cloudflareās engineering headcount surged 45 percent in the weeks after the company cut 1,100 jobs in May, according to BNP Paribas data drawn from LinkedIn profiles. The finding, first reported by Business Insider, shows Cloudflareās engineering staff grew from 1,308 to 1,894 even as its total workforce shrank by a fifth. CEO Matthew Prince confirmed [ā¦] This story continues at The Next Web Read more āŗ
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By: Todd Feathers and Alfred Ng In late 2019, Utah state senator Kirk Cullimore got a phone call from one of his constituents, a lawyer who represented technology companies in California. āHe said, āI think the businesses I represent would like to have some bright lines about what they can do in Utah,āāā Cullimore told The Markup. At the time, tech companies in California were struggling with how they... Read more āŗ
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Last year, more than 300 million truly wireless earbuds (TWS) were shipped worldwide. While Apple is the leading company in the sector with its AirPods, they cost more than $150. The leading price point in the market is under $50, with a 36% market share, according to research firm Counterpoint. This is the segment OnePlus wants to dominate with its sub-$40 Nord Buds. Itās a no-frills release from the company... Read more āŗ
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Few office workers seem to like performance reviews, those annual examinations of how well workers are doing their jobs. And many seem to outright hate ā or fear ā them. A 2015 survey of Fortune 1000 companies found that nearly two-thirds of employees were dissatisfied with performance reviews, didnāt think they were relevant to their jobs ā or both. In a separate survey conducted in 2016, a quarter of men... Read more āŗ
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OnePlus released its first set of wireless earbuds in 2020. They were cute, pocket-friendly, and sounded good for its price. But they werenāt exactly a home run. In 2021, it released the $50 budget OnePlus Buds Z and $150 OnePlus Buds Pro with ANC (Active Noise Canceling). This year, the company has cracked a reasonable compromise between those two, with the $99 OnePlus Buds Z2. Iāve been using these wireless... Read more āŗ
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Machine-learning systems are increasingly worming their way through our everyday lives, challenging our moral and social values and the rules that govern them. These days, virtual assistants threaten the privacy of the home; news recommenders shape the way we understand the world; risk-prediction systems tip social workers on which children to protect from abuse; while data-driven hiring tools also rank your chances of landing a job. However, the ethics of... Read more āŗ
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Enthusiasts lit up social media recently with images of what appeared to be a ādoorwayā into a hillside on Mars. Was it, some wondered, evidence that the red planet could be, or have been, inhabited by aliens? The ādoorā was imaged by Nasaās Curiosity rover on May 7 on the slopes of Mount Sharp, the central massif within Gale crater, where it landed in 2012. Described on one website as... Read more āŗ
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Thereās a new development in the TwitterāElon Musk deal, and this time, itās a financial one rather than a juicy controversy. In his latest step, Musk has removed Tesla shares as collateral to secure financing for his acquisition of Twitter. He declared the expiry of margin loans in a new filing with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC). When Musk first penned the offer to buy Twitter, he committed $21... Read more āŗ
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Headphones donāt like my hair. Thatās an unfortunate truth for someone who has spent half of his life being a little obsessed with headphones. Getting good sound quality out of most headphones requires a good seal, but years of testing headphones have shown most simply donāt try to account for more voluminous hairstyles like the fro Iāve been growing over the pandemic. People who wear glasses often face similar issues,... Read more āŗ
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Working as a tech journo, I meet many people with big, world-changing ideas. But despite the hyperbole, when I ask about how they are going to achieve their aims ā or indeed if they are already up and running, who they have helped ā the Zoom call often gets really quiet.Ā So when I meet someone who is making the lives of some of the most disadvantaged people in the... Read more āŗ
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Sails have propelled earthlings across the seas for millennia, but NASA believes their future is off-world. The space agency has unveiled plans to develop a new solar sailĀ system for a demonstration mission. Dubbed Diffractive Solar Sailing, the project won Phase III of the NASAĀ Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, which supports visionary space technologies. Those picked for Phase IIIĀ are the closest to becoming real ā so a spacecraft... Read more āŗ
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Not a week goes by without seeing a video, news item, or tweet about a lithium-ion battery fire. Just over the weekend, there was news in Canada of a Tesla Model Y 2021 driver who had to break a window to escape after his car shut down and caught fire unexpectedly. The car lost power, locked him inside, and started filling up with smoke. The problem is big. Incidents range... Read more āŗ
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The AI imagery competition is getting personal. Google this week unveiled a new challenger to OpenAIās vaunted DALLE-2 text-to-image generatorĀ ā and took shots at its rivalās efforts. Both models convert text prompts into pictures. But Googleās researchers claim theirĀ systemĀ provides āunprecedented photorealism and deep language understanding.ā Human raters preferred Imagen over DALLE-2 for both sample quality and image-text alignment. Credit: Saharia et al.The cringingly-named Imagen system uses a... Read more āŗ
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Appleās finally cracking down on apps that donāt easily let you delete your account and data when you want to leave their service. Starting June 30, the company will enforce a policy that apps that provide sign up (or account creation methods) features, will also need to make sure they allow users to delete their account through that interface. Hereās what the company says in its developer guidelines: If your... Read more āŗ
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Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best scientific work. In 1921, he was studying radioactivity at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, Germany, when he noticed something he could not explain. One of the elements he was working with wasnāt behaving as... Read more āŗ
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A team of researchers from Austria recently developed an AI-powered drone capable of tracking moving objects through dense foliage. So much for escaping to the woods and living off the land if the machines ever rise up against us. Per the teamās research paper: While detecting and tracking moving targets through foliage is difficult (and often even impossible) in regular aerial images or videos, it becomes practically feasible with image... Read more āŗ
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While the real-life Delorean still canāt go back to the future, Googleās Street View vehicles can now transport us to the past. Historial images captured by the cars have been assembled in a tool that shows how places have changed over time. The feature was previously only available on the desktop version of Google Maps, but is now available on smartphones. āStreet View is all about capturing the world as... Read more āŗ
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Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes or spammers, commonly referred to as ābots.ā Since his offer to buy Twitter was accepted, Elon Musk has repeatedly questioned these estimates, even dismissing Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawalās public response. Later, Musk put the deal on hold and demanded more proof. So why are people arguing about the percentage of bot accounts on Twitter? As the creators of Botometer,... Read more āŗ
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The EV industry is striving to develop fast-charging batteries thatāll make range anxiety a thing of the past ā and it seems that whoever gets there first will have an enviable advantage. On Tuesday, Polestar officially threw its hat in the ring, announcing its investment in the Israeli battery manufacturer StoreDot. To create extreme fast-charging (XFC) batteries, StoreDot has used two different techniques. First up, it has replaced the conventional... Read more āŗ
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Fans of Apple-powered smart devices, rejoice ā itās rumored thereāll be a new HomePod released either at the end of 2022, or the start of 2023. Whatās currently unclear is whether this will be a direct replacement for the now-discontinued original HomePod, or if Apple is going to release a model thatās sized in between this and the mini ā as has been reported in the past. It isnāt all... Read more āŗ
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At last: Appleās apparently upgrading the selfie camera on the upcoming iPhone 14. Thatās from a report from a South Korean outlet Electronic Times Internet, which noted that the company has placed an order with LG Inno for front cameras that might cost thrice as much as that of the iPhone 13. Sure, thereās no guarantee that using a costlier component translates to the iPhone 14ās selfie camera being otherworldly.... Read more āŗ
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