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But it doesn’t have to be this way. As shown by YouTuber JerryRigEverything (real name Zack Nelson), replacing the back glass of a new iPhone can be a relatively inexpensive affair… if you have a big ole’ laser machine to help you. See, Apple began using a permanent adhesive on the back of its phones with the iPhone X. This makes removing shattered glass much more difficult than on the typical phone, with which a basic heat gun is enough to soften the adhesive and remove the glass with a pry tool....

The new iPad Pro also has an iPhone 11-like camera assembly on the back with a 12-megapixel primary camera and a 10-megapixel ultra-wide camera. It comes in two sizes — 11-inch and 12.9-inch — and it’s powered by Apple’s own A12Z bionic chip. The company says the new iPad also features studio-quality mics for better audio recording. The trackpad support comes with a special magic keyboard Apple is releasing. The company says the cursor, that you can control with the trackpad, appears in the form of a circle that highlights user interface elements such as text fields and apps....

That’s right! Mircosoft’s new Surface Duo is a dual-screen device running the Android operating system. — Panos Panay (@panos_panay) October 2, 2019 As per a report from Wired, The device has two 5.6-inch screens powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor. It runs a modified version of Android 9 Pie suited for two screens. The Surface Duo will officially launch next year during the holiday season. But the company wants to give developers a taste of developing for dual-screen devices early in the game....

Top execs from the central banks of Europe, Canada, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK — as well as the Bank of International Settlements — formed the group in January to set governance standards digital currencies. It will reportedly discuss how central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) can make international transactions more convenient, as well as strategies for keeping such systems secure. [READ: Libra exec promises Facebook’s plan isn’t to replace existing currencies] The move is seen as a response to Facebook’s plans to issue its own ‘cryptocurrency,’ Libra....

Jedi: Fallen Order is perhaps the first true attempt by EA to produce a single-player Star Wars game. After years of hearing about such games getting canned in favor of two Battlefront titles, playing this game feels like an achievement in and of itself. I’ve been playing it off-and-on ever since it came out. Keep in mind I haven’t finished the game — Death Stranding and Pokémon Sword & Shield exist, and I only have so many hours in the day....

It’s always tough to gauge the effectiveness of a piece of software you’ve never used before. Your first option is usually to check with someone you know and trust that might be able to offer some insight. But if you don’t know any experienced users, the next best bet is to trust some reliable reviews. In tech, it doesn’t get more reliable than PC Mag. So when they name Keeper Unlimited Password Manager ($53....

Excuse my archaic game references, but Godfall reminds me of a blend between Legacy of Kain and God of War. If that means nothing to you younguns, TechRadar calls it a “hack-and-slash Destiny.” “No, none of those mean anything to me.” Whatever, see for yourself and draw your own similes: I know, it’s a pretty loaded title for a Reddit thread, but we don’t want to get risk getting DMCA’ed, so there’s that....

Seven in 10 organizations have suffered a major project failure in the past year. And that’s no surprise if you look at the some alarming figures compiled by all those businesses. Like how for every $1 billion invested, it’s estimated about $122 million are virtually wasted simply because project performance isn’t measuring up. As with any failure, blame goes to those in charge, including a project manager who should have a well-established game plan in place at the start for making sure over $120 million worth of mistakes never happen....

The PC came with a Logitech mouse and keyboard combo, both white, with simple but elegant designs. I don’t recall the exact models, but I still hold fond memories of those times. These gadgets were sturdy, and lasted me for years — until I decided to upgrade my setup at 15 as I considered taking a stab at going pro at Counter-Strike 1.6 (yet another unrealized dream). Since then, I’ve used various other brands, but I always seem to circle back to Logitech....

Over what now feels like an eternity working in the creative and technology industries, I’ve seen the difference that fostering diversity can make to innovation. Simply put, you don’t get that much of it without it. As my shero Cyndy Gallop puts it so well, “Women challenge the status quo, because we are never it.” What I like about my main area of interest – immersive tech – is that it seems to be thriving with examples of female creatives finding their voice, and really exploring the boundaries of this new medium to express themselves and tell interesting, compelling, and utterly engaging stories in new ways....

One of the latest to join the transition is Italian sportscar maker Maserati, The Driven reports. While there’s been no official announcement, the company’s chief operating office, Davide Grasso, made the announcement during an online event organized by daily newspaper Milano Finaza. According to the unofficial announcement, Maserati’s first fully electric vehicle will be an EV variant of its upcoming SUV, the Grecale. [Read: Why this security engineer loves working in infosec] The Grecale will be first offered as a combustion engined vehicle alongside a hybrid version in 2021....

Career change is never easy. Especially in the midst of economic uncertainty, societal upheaval and a worldwide medical emergency. But if you want to help hedge your bets when making this big professional leap at this particular moment in history, take a close look at businesses that are thriving regardless of the chaos. The fact is that cloud operations were already booming before 2020. Now, further emboldened by all the destabilizing factors of the current year, major cloud providers like Microsoft Azure are seeing their ranks swell at a hyperadrenalized rate....

The Windows maker has stopped selling Huawei MateBook X Pro laptop in its online store in the wake of the US government’s blacklisting of the Chinese firm. A listing for the laptop has vanished from the Microsoft Store, and searching for “Huawei” doesn’t return any results either. Microsoft, for its part, hasn’t made an official statement regarding whether it plans to block Windows 10 updates for Huawei laptops. We’ve reached out to Microsoft for comment and will update this story if we hear back....

Smart To-Do is an AI feature that scans your outgoing emails for actionable text and turns your self-given tasks into items on an automatically generated to-do list. If, for example, you tell your boss that you’ll give them an update on the Amsterdam account by noon on Wednesday, the AI will put something like “update the boss on the Amsterdam account” on your to-do list with the applicable deadline. The (hopefully) upcoming feature was revealed in a pre-print research paper published on arXiv today....

To be clear, the blogs are still online, and you can access them by changing ‘blogspot.in‘ to ‘blogspot.com‘ in the URL — currently, your browser won’t be automatically redirected to the working URL. According to the above screenshot, there’s been an update in the registry last month. But it’s not clear exactly when Google lost control of the domain. Whatever the reason might be, if I host a site or blog with Google, I would expect a company of this size to keep up and know when their domain name ownership expires....

It’s been almost imperceptible, but interest in Fortnite is starting to slowly drift downwards. Not a sharp drop-off by any means but still — gamers are starting to show less rabid enthusiasm for Epic’s cash cow. Forbes writer Paul Tassi noticed the Google search trends for Fortnite have declined steadily in the last few months. And the game that’s risen in search trends at a commensurate rate? Minecraft. Mojang community manager Aubrey Norris said in June that YouTube views for Minecraft content were also on the rise....

The engineers behind the AI explain the results as being very similar to the situation that happened in Singapore where quarantine and social distancing efforts managed to almost completely flatten the curve before an ill-advised return to business as usual caused a massive resurgence in COVID-19 cases. The MIT team trained the AI to extrapolate publicly-available data for insights into the disease’s spread, taking into account how different governments handled social distancing and quarantine orders as well as other standard epidemiology parameters....

The system, called Conduct-A-Bot, measures arm movements through wearable motion sensors, and records muscle signals through electrodes attached to the skin. Algorithms then convert the muscle and motion data into different controls. Rotate your wrist, and the drone turns; flick your hand up to make it elevate; clench your fist, and the drone accelerates; stiffen your arm and watch it stop. [Read: ‘Pandemic drones’ are flying over the US to detect coronavirus symptoms] Check it out in action in the video below....

These words from Peter Steiner’s famous cartoon could easily be applied to the recent ransomware attack on Florida-based software supplier Kaseya. Kaseya provides software services to thousands of clients around the world. It’s estimated between 800 and 1,500 medium to small businesses may be impacted by the attack, with the hackers demanding US$50 million (lower than the previously reported US$70 million) in exchange for restoring access to data being held for ransom....

You’ve got to spend money to make money. We’ve all heard that old chestnut spouted our entire lives. But, if you want to make money with a new business, where do you find the money to spend in the first place? Generating business capital is one of the toughest tasks a startup entrepreneur will face. You can help get yourself over that financial goal line by making sure your message is buttoned up and on-point with a professional-grade pitch deck....