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Meet Mr. Charles Coomber, a San Diego-based teacher at Otay Ranch Academy for the Arts, whose latest lesson on angle vocabulary has gone viral on YouTube. The whole thing is recorded in Half Life: Alyx, with Mr. Coomber using virtual windows as a makeshift whiteboard. Pretty cool. IT is healingCan self-healing security software fight cybercrime? READ ARTICLE [Read: Portal for Microsoft HoloLens makes real life look great again] The strategy seems to be working, too....

While streaming outlets like Netflix thrive in our stay at home quarantine lifestyle, it only seems to be hastening the death of cable television. In a recent survey, The Trade Desk found 64 percent of respondents have already cut the cable cord, plan to, or have never been cable subscribers. That number jumps to 75 percent for those from 18 to 34 years old. One of the beneficiaries of the move toward streaming is SelectTV — and right now, you can score a huge discount on a two-year SelectTV subscription at $32....

The halcyon era of peaceful browsing on clean sites is now a distant memory. Today’s internet is a digital hellscape of pop-up ads, notification prompts, and paywall blocks. Navigating these barriers can be more trouble than it’s worth. At times, it’s easier to just hit the back button. A new parody website encapsulates this harrowing experience. Named “How I Experience Web Today,” the site obscures the content you want behind an interminable stream of crap....

The company claimed creators have made over 10 million videos tagged #EduTok, with over 48 billion views in total. However, at the time of writing, videos with the hashtag had over 46 billion views, as per the website. So what does all this content look like? TikTok counts life tips, career advice, and motivational speech videos as educational. In September, the company partnered with educational companies such as Vedantu, Vidya Guru, Hello English, and CETKing to create content....

The report notes that the company has already secured rights from two of India’s biggest music labels – T-series and Times Music – and is in talks with other global record companies. It adds that ByteDance is looking to release the app in emerging markets to rival Spotify and Apple Music. A report from Economic Times fuels the rumor further by saying the company is looking to launch the app in July....

What exactly happened? While Toyota claims the accident happened during manual control, the company has suspended the use of all e-Palette self-driving pods. In a YouTube video, Toyota Chief Executive Akio Toyoda explained that the vehicle was under manual control at the time of the accident. The driver used the control joystick to stop at a T junction and then — when attempting to turn — hit the athlete going at around 1 or 2 kilometers an hour....

This is the social network’s second crypto announcement in two months, after it enabled NFT-based profile pictures in January. These developments have come after Jack Dorsey stepped down as the company’s CEO last year. As a staunch Bitcoin supporter, Twitter’s new direction in cryptocurrencies might have annoyed him — especially as both announcements are related to Ethereum, a currency he appears dismissive of. When considering all this, we had one important question: just how annoyed will Jack Dorsey be?...

Earlier this week, Ireland’s Minister for Business, Enterprise, and Innovation Heather Humphreys launched the country’s first Master’s in blockchain technology. While on the other side of the Atlantic, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania introduced a new course on all things fintech. Ireland’s new blockchain Master’s was developed in collaboration with Technology Ireland ICT Skillnet, a government funded ICT training organization, and Dublin City University. The course is targeted primarily at IT professionals looking to build their blockchain dev skills....

The game list is admittedly impressive — over 100 titles, including the entirety of the Assassin’s Creed, Prince of Persia, and Far Cry series (or at least the games Ubisoft has been responsible for), as well as the various Tom Clancy properties. It also includes some of Ubisoft’s quirkier properties that don’t get as much acclaim as the others — like Child of Light or Valiant Hearts. There’s also Uno, for some reason....

Yes, more details have emerged about Apple’s AirPods Studio — the company’s new and upcoming over-ear cans. So strap in. Reported by 9to5Mac, one of the biggest pieces of information from this leak revolves around how the sensors on Apple’s AirPods Studio will work. The over-ear headphones will have a feature similar to the normal AirPods (where if you take them out of your ears, the music pauses), but they’ll include something fresh: neck detection....

In the month of April, carmakers based in the United Kingdom produced 197 premium or luxury vehicles, just 45 of these actually made it to customers. That’s a 99.7% drop compared to the same time period last year, BBC reports. [Read: CVS is testing driverless vehicles in Houston for safe, socially distanced medical deliveries] According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders it’s the lowest output the country has seen since World War 2....

As the UK supreme court has ruled today, Uber must classify its drivers as workers. As a result it must provide forms of employee benefits such as a minimum wage and holiday pay, BBC reports. This appears to be the final ruling for Uber in the United Kingdom. The “not a taxi-firm” ride hailing service has already appealed three previous court decisions in the UK, all of which said that drivers should not be considered independent....

Now that concession may soon be a thing of the past. As reported by Android Central, the latest revision to the USB-C cable and connector specification — revision 2.1 — will allow USB-C cables to transmit as much as a whopping 240W of power. That’s enough for all but the most obscene laptops. The 15-inch MacBook Pro pushed the old standard to the limit at 96W, for example. Razer’s 17-inch Blade laptop with an Nvidia RTX 3080 comes with a 230W charger....

Adobe Illustrator has been an industry staple for creating vector graphics and design work for print, web, video and beyond for years. And as an industry leader, you pay for that positioning too, with annual subscription plans that can set you back about $240 a year. But the dirty little secret is there are some stellar vector graphic apps that can handle the same intricate design work that Illustrator can…and cost a whole lot less....

Plenty of shade from VW CEO This week Herbert Diess, Volkswagen Group CEO, complained on LinkedIn (in a now-deleted post) about difficulties finding a working plug along the Brenner Pass that links Austria to Italy. He wrote: VW partly owns Ionity. Not a great experience, being called out by your investors publicly! Oof. UK MP reluctant to embrace EV charging vehicles But it’s not only CEOs complaining. Also this week, Conservative UK MP Michael Fabricant said he wouldn’t drive an electric car citing charging times and range anxiety....

Animal lovers will tell you they would rather have nothing than have a robot for a pet. While a robopet can be programmed to simulate the actions of a real animal, people know it is fake. There should be a pivot from the companion-based marketing strategy for robopets — which has deep ethical issues associated with replacing emotional bonding between living beings — to address the needs currently being met by service animals....

Dark patterns can be found in many kinds of sites and are used by several kinds of organizations. They take the form of deceptively labeled buttons, choices that are difficult to undo, and graphical elements like color and shading that direct users’ attention to or away from certain options. Dark patterns in subscriptions are a common example of these kinds of design choices, given the ubiquity of online subscriptions and free trials for all kinds of products and services....

One of the most severe fears product designers have is the fear of creating products that nobody wants to use. So how do you minimize the risk of product failure? The answer is simple — invest time building a minimum product to validate the product with target users. Today, creating an MVP (minimum viable product) is an essential part of many teams’ product design strategy. By following the approach to “think big, start small,” product teams invest time and effort in building an MVP and testing it with the target audience....

But regardless of where they stand in comparison to human intelligence, today’s AI algorithms have already become a defining component for many sectors, including health care, finance, manufacturing, transportation, and many more. And very soon “no field of human endeavor will remain independent of artificial intelligence,” as Harvard Business School professors Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani explain in their book Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World....

One of the most common issues is finding that only one of your AirPods is working. Whether it’s the left or the right earbud, it’s always going to be frustrating if only one is functioning. The good news is that you don’t need to throw out the AirPods you own and replace them. Instead, try these quick and easy fixes. More often than not, working your way through this list will resolve any problems you have where only one of your AirPods is working....