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Smart software solutions for charging infrastructure When Tesla launched the Roadster in 2008 it put e-mobility under the spotlight. At the time I was working in the tech industry and charge stations were an aspect of my business. While many players rushed to develop the hardware, I was interested in how software could improve the processes behind charging infrastructure. So in 2013 we launched has·to·be with the aim of providing smart software solutions for charging infrastructure amidst a growing e-mobility industry....

This record-breaking measurement could have implications reaching as far as redefining exactly how long a second is or discovering where all the dark matter in our universe is hiding. Up front: Einstein figured out that time functions differently depending on how close to a “gravity well” the observer is. So, for instance, if you’re standing on the Earth wearing a watch it’ll run a tad bit slower than if you’re out in space....

How does cookie-based tracking work? Imagine that user Alice visits an online store and puts a T-shirt in her basket. At this moment, Alice’s user ID and the T-shirt’s product ID is saved to the browser as a cookie, enabling that Alice’s basket contents are known at the checkout page. Alternatively, it is enough to save only the user ID to the browser if the user ID/product ID pair is saved in the online store’s database....

It was a concept that quickly took off with the general public, who were virtually excluded from the financial markets. After less than a year, Robinhood had almost 500,000 users. By 2017, it had executed over $30 billion in trades. Evidently, there was an appetite for products that democratize access to the stock market. Other companies quickly followed suit, hoping to carve a slice out of this nascent industry. In the US, upstarts like WiseBanyan and Acorns started offering free, or nearly-free, trading for shares and ETFs....

Historically, our reactions to this issue have not been particularly subtle—from the blunt changes in legislation to forced rehabilitation as part of sentencing. More recently, we’ve committed to engaging in a deeper understanding and treatment of the personal aspects of addiction, finding solutions that treat the root causes, while encouraging the maintenance of healthy lifestyle changes throughout recovery. As we have taken greater care to treat the person with the addiction, we have also found more useful and effective approaches to the issue as a whole, including the recognition that the addict must be helped to help themselves....

Google has been pushing its Chat and Meet products in Gmail for the last couple of months now. The company wants to cash in on the growing work from home culture, and make you ditch products like Slack or Zoom in favor of its own offerings. If your company’s email account uses Google Workspaces as the base service, chances are that you’ve already seen options for Chat and Meet floating around....

So you’ve given the new Peacock streaming service a try. You like what you see and try out the paid version, Premium, or the ad-free version, Premium Plus. You’ve done the week-long trial, but you’re not loving what you’ve seen. So what do you do? Honestly, I get it. Peacock’s decent, but I admit the main reason I signed on was to have unfettered access to some good ol’ Law & Order....

Variance is a powerful statistic used in data analysis and machine learning. It is one of the four main measures of variability along with range, interquartile range (IQR) and standard deviation. Understanding variance is important because it gives you insight into the spread of your data and can be used to compare differences in sample groups or identify important modeling features. Variance is also used in machine learning to understand changes in model performance due to using different samples of training data....

By far my favourite thing about my job as an astronomer is those rare moments when I get to see beautiful distant galaxies, whose light left them millions to billions of years ago. It’s a combination of pure awe and scientific curiosity that excites me about “galaxy hunting”. In astronomy today, much of our work is handling enormous amounts of data by writing and running programs to work with images of the sky....

But what if I told you there’s a way to make your ‘fake’ piano sound eerily close to a real grand or upright pianowithout having to spend thousands of dollars? Enter virtual pianos, commonly called piano VSTs (virtual studio technology) or piano plugins. Instead of settling for your cheap digital piano’s built-in tones (or taking on credit card debt for a more expensive model), you can access higher quality sounds by connecting your piano to a computer — or even a smartphone....

As we debate the future of money, the usability of Decentralized Finance Applications and how bizarre it is that influencers can now create their own cryptocurrencies to gift or sell to their followers, fintech startups continue to emerge all over the place. While many of these startups have come up with big ideas that they feel will position them as top dogs in an emerging industry that is continuously growing, a recent report has shown that the fintech space is facing huge COVID-19 related losses, with the UK sector needing to raise £825 million to see out the pandemic....

Now that the Steam Link app is available for just about all mobile devices, it means you can stream any number of compatible games to your phone or tablet. It’s fairly similar to playing on your computer, and if you have a compatible game If you haven’t used it before, Steam Link essentially allows you to stream games from a host computer to your mobile device. To use it, you need a computer that runs Steam and the app on your device....

I’m not a Night Shift fan per se. I don’t like it when my iPhone or iPad screen becomes orange-tinted on a schedule. If I’m still up in front of the TV at midnight on a Tuesday, I’d rather not my expensive device look as though it was dunked in Orangina. But… there does come a time when I’m using my device in bed (I know, awful habit) and I’d rather some of that vicious blue light is negated....

It’s easy to share links and text if you operate in Apple’s world, i.e. you have an iPhone and a Mac. If you don’t know how to do that yet, you should read my colleague Callum’s mind-expanding guide. However, what if you have an iPhone and a Windows laptop or an Android phone and a MacBook? Don’t worry, I got you. This free tool called Share TXT will let you share text and links between devices in a snap....

Apple’s latest mobile operating system doesn’t officially drop until September. But, if you’re willing to deal with a few bugs in a Public Beta offering, you can get iOS 13 now. It’s worth noting that the bugs range from minor inconveniences to things that could significantly alter the way you use certain apps, or the device itself. But by the time Apple launches its first Public Beta, these bugs are typically pretty minor....

Telegram rolled out a bunch of new features last night with its latest update, including more payment options and two new web versions. But since Clubhouse and real-time talking has become all the rage, Telegram introduced new additions to its Voice Chat feature. Earlier, the chat app allowed groups and channels to create voice chats for talking to other folks in real-time, but you had to do it spontaneously. Now, you can schedule this session at some time in the future....

The star of the show is an absolutely massive 1/1.28-inch, 50 MP F1.9 primary sensor. Increasing the sensor size is one of the most beneficial changes you can make to improve a camera system, and the P40 family has the largest sensor ever put in a modern smartphone. It’s even encroaching upon sensors used in dedicated cameras (the now-defunct Nikon 1 system used 1-inch sensors, for instance). The only sensor that comes close is the 1/1....

IBM’s new tools are divided into two parts: a set of public guidelines called IBM Equal Access Toolkit and a Checker that identifies shortcomings in your application from an accessibility standpoint. The guidelines provide byte-sized information to app developers with details on what they should focus on when it comes to accessibility. It also prepares developers for accessibility on different stages such as planning, designing, development, and launching. Si McAleer, program director at IBM Accessibility, said that it’s important to keep these guidelines in mind and verify the app before it’s launched....

They say everybody has a book in them. All they have to do is write it. But if everyone has a book in them, doesn’t that mean everybody has a website in them too? Just like sitting down to let the words pour out on to a page, all a website needs to spring to life is some inspiration. Oh yeah…and a web host. Because you can’t do anything online — and we do mean anything — without a web host....

Weeks after that, the company launched the fifth generation of its Mi Band for Rs. 2,499 ($32) — not a whole lot expensive compared to the Redmi Band. I’ve been using the Mi Band 5 fitness tracker for more than two weeks and I hardly have any complaints. I’m super impressed by the features and battery life it offers at this price point. I might be recommending this band to a lot of people....