Driving isn’t necessarily all about being behind the wheel any more.
Source: Wired
An update to Apple’s vintage/obsolete list shows the company pulling support for the Mac Mini models released in 2011 packing second-gen Intel CPUs. That means Apple no longer provides parts and services for the outdated devices.
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Today the organisation is upping the stakes, kicking off a campaign to teach 20,000 young women in the U.K. and Ireland how to code for free by the end of 2020. To help achieve this, Code First: Girls is running a crowdfunding campaign, in addition to working with partners and backers from leading employers, including KKR and OVH, to train young women at the start of their careers. Read More
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Here’s a surprise: at our Disrupt Berlin event, Ulrich Spiesshofer, the CEO of 125-year old automation giant ABB, argued that automation is nothing to fear. “I think we need to take this fear extremely seriously and get people out of this fear,” he said. In his view, automation and robotics has allowed millions of people to move beyond the extreme poverty line and… Read More
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Marketing tech company Zeta Global is making good use of its recent $140 million Series F funding round. After acquiring Boomtrain, the company today announced it has acquired Disqus, a service you’re probably familiar with thanks to its ubiquitous online commenting service that powers the commenting sections of sites that range from TMZ to The Atlantic and Entertainment Weekly. Read More
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Facebook introduces Messenger Kids for 6-to-12-year olds who are too young for its main app. The apps is ad-free and includes parental controls, but critics say they’re not adequate.
Source: Wired
From Net Nanny to parental blocks to, you know, actually talking to your kids about their online behavior.
Source: Wired
Vivaldi said on December 5 that it now offers a version of its web browser that runs on Linux devices using ARM-based processors. That includes Raspberry Pi 3, Raspberry Pi Zero, and the Asus Tinker board.
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Forget your top 10 movies list of the year. This is Twitter’s most tweeted about.
Source: CNET
James Williams is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. He studies the ethics of attention and persuasion in technology design and spoke with us about the rise of attention-grabbing advertising and media and how we can fight back against the onslaught. I talked to him just before Thanksgiving for this enlightening episode of Technotopia. Before fighting against bad… Read More
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