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TAYL / ramiro.email.5flRobinhood’s no-fee model has real costs: ‘That is what scares me’As the trading app inches closer to its IPO, concerns surface again over how the service could harm consumers.
2021-05-0408 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flElon Musk Roasted After Floating Some Unfunny ’SNL’ Sketch IdeasA host for the longtime sketch comedy show hasn’t been this hated since Donald Trump in 2015.
2021-05-0302 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flNeuralink co-founder Max Hodak leaves Elon Musk’s brain implant companyNeuralink co-founder Max Hodak leaves Elon Musk’s brain implant company
2021-05-0303 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flVerizon Near Deal to Sell Yahoo and AOLIn making the deal with the private equity firm Apollo, Verizon is acknowledging that it couldn’t compete with Google and Facebook for digital ads. Instead, it will concentrate on building a 5G network.
2021-05-0305 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flCoinbase, A Bitcoin Startup, Goes Public. Is Crypto Really The ‘Future Of Finance’?Coinbase’s public debut comes as more institutions warm up to the idea of cryptocurrency and its popularity among investors soars.
2021-04-2804 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flReact vs. Vue in 2021: Best JavaScript Framework - DZone Web DevWe’ve put together this convenient guide to help you better understand the use cases of Vue vs. React and determine which one will work best for your next ...
2021-04-2511 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flThe big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solvedBOSTON (AP) — A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in. A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world’s computer networks that it was now managing a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet owned by t…
2021-04-2507 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flA centuries-old secret society is hanging out in Facebook groupsRosicrucianism, which once prided itself on invisibility, is still around today — just check Facebook.
2021-04-2308 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flNeo-Nazis And White Supremacists Are Coding Their Language On Telegram To Recruit More PeopleMAGA and QAnon adherents are “veering very quickly into some of the most intense stuff out there, stuff [that’s been circulating] on hardcore neo-Nazi groups for years,” one expert said.
2021-04-2306 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flUnderstanding quantum computing through drunken walks - Stack Overflow BlogThe jumping off point for exploring quantum computing is to understand that while many of the principles are counterintuitive, the classical universe we know and love is but a mere shadow of the quantum fabric of reality. To get a feel for that fundamental difference we will walk through an example …
2021-04-2109 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flPrivacy and ads in Chrome are about to become FLoCing complicatedGoogle’s Chrome browser is beginning an online trial for its cookie replacement for ad tracking. It’s called FLoC and the way it works is incredibly complicated and incredibly important for the future of the open web.
2021-04-2013 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flThe U.S. Is Not Ready for High Speed RailThe U.S. already has 140,000 miles of perfectly good regular train tracks. Let’s start with what we have.
2021-04-2014 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flSex Workers Explain Why the SAFE TECH Act Will Break the InternetCongress is once again threatening the livelihoods and safety of sex workers with its latest attempt to reform Section 230.
2021-04-1708 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flSome of the U.S. military elite share QAnon, 2020 lies, racism on-lineNBC News reviewed posts from four private, secret Facebook groups that describe themselves as solely for current and former special operations forces.
2021-04-1712 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flJohn Conway’s Life in Games | Quanta MagazineThe mathematician John Horton Conway’s myriad accomplishments — including the Game of Life, sprouts and the surreal numbers — are the product of a mind at play.
2020-05-0238 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flTesla cancels plans to bring workers back to US car plant this weekAfter asking workers back to its U.S. car plant this week, Tesla canceled its plans and California authorities extended health orders which limit the car maker to “minimum basic operations” there.
2020-05-0202 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flDamien Patton, founder of surveillance startup Banjo, has a secret racist pastDamien Patton, the founder of Banjo, was a Nazi as a teenager, running with groups like the Dixie Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. It raises questions about Banjo’s surveillance technology.
2020-05-0203 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flElon Musk goes on anti-lockdown Twitter spreeThe Tesla CEO seemingly still thinks the coronavirus panic is “dumb.”
2020-05-0202 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flGoogle Duo for Android may lose phone number requirement - 9to5GoogleGoogle Duo is a great app for video calls, but requiring a phone number can rule it out for some users. Now, the android app might be losing that.
2020-05-0201 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flNew CDC criteria points to Apple and Google contact tracing system as a ‘preferred’ choice - 9to5MacThe CDC has shared a new document today that covers some of the minimum as well as preferred criteria for digital contact tracing apps. No surprise here but Apple and Google’s exposure notification system lines up with many of the “preferred” criteria elements and looks like it will offer a good cho…
2020-05-0202 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flGoogle travel data shows lockdown fatigue in U.SMore people stayed home in Brazil, Japan and Singapore in April as those countries’ novel coronavirus cases surged, while people in the United States and Australia returned to parks and jobs as infection rates flattened, data from Google show.
2020-05-0203 minTAYL / ramiro.email.5flJohn Conway’s Life in Games | Quanta MagazineThe mathematician John Horton Conway’s myriad accomplishments — including the Game of Life, sprouts and the surreal numbers — are the product of a mind at play.
2020-04-2738 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flGoogle just published 25 million free datasetsGoogle recently released datasetsearch, a free tool for searching 25 million publicly available datasets. The search tool includes filters to limit results based on their license (free or paid)…
2020-02-1902 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flWhy everyone is talking about WebAssemblyIf you haven’t heard of WebAssembly yet, then you will soon. It’s one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, but it’s everywhere. It’s supported by all the major browsers, and it’s coming to the server-side, too. It’s fast. It’s being used for gaming. It’s an open standard from the World Wide Web Cons…
2020-02-1807 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flWhich Tech Company Is Really the Most Evil?The 30 most dangerous corporations in the industry, ranked by the people who know.
2020-01-2248 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flDesigning very large (JavaScript) applicationsHello, I used to build very large JavaScript applications. I don’t really do that anymore, so I thought it was a good time to give a bit of a retrospective and share what I learned. Yesterday I was…
2019-12-2922 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flInfosec Engineers Are Suffering to Keep Us SafeInfosec engineers prevent hacks, data theft, and even save lives. But some in the industry are suffering severe stress and burnout, while many companies are still failing to provide support.
2019-12-2507 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flWhy so many data scientists are leaving their jobsMy take on why data scientists and machine learning engineers topped the list of developers looking for new jobs. It highlights the less glamorous side of data science
2019-12-2506 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flWhy Senior Devs Write Dumb Code and How to Spot a Junior From A Mile AwayOne of my all time favorite quotes is from Brian Goetz, a smart dude in the Java world who is one of the authors of Java Concurrency in Practice, among other things. The quote appears in an…
2019-12-2503 min
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TAYL / ramiro.email.5flDemand for smartwatches and fitness trackers is exploding – so why isn’t Fitbit doing so well? | ZDNetA new report shows that 2019 has seen phenomenal growth for “wearable bands” – that is, smartwatches and fitness trackers. Apple and Xiaomi are leading the race, leaving little space for Fitbit to compete.
2019-12-2104 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flThe Future of Data Engineering: Chris Riccomini at QCon San FranciscoAt QCon San Francisco 2019, Chris Riccomini presented “The Future of Data Engineering”. The key takeaway of his talk is about reaching an end goal with data engineering, which is having a fully automated decentralized data warehouse.
2019-12-2005 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flChrome 79 released with tab freezing, back-forward caching, and loads of security features | ZDNetChrome 79 also ships with support for predictive phishing, for real-time Safe Browsing detections, and a built-in Password Checkup tool.
2019-12-1407 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flUnderstanding Memoization in JavaScript to Improve PerformanceCranking up the performance rate of our apps is what we crave. Memoization is one of the techniques in JavaScript to speed up the lookup of expensive operations by caching the results and re-using…
2019-12-1419 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flWhy GraphQL is the future of APIsLearn more about GraphQL and understand what it is, see what features make this query language so intuitive and easy to use.
2019-12-1408 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flAmazon is joining a project that could upend network chipmakers such as BroadcomDent is a proposed operating system for switches, which are pieces of hardware used to route data around networks, usually within companies or between companies and the internet.
2019-12-1403 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flAmazon will be the most important company of the 2020sAmazon’s methodology — low prices, endless selection, continuous novelty — will continue to make it a fearsome competitor in the next decade. An eventual $2 trillion market cap is not out of the question.
2019-12-1413 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flPeople On Venmo Are Being Harassed With A Flood Of Payment RequestsSpammers are targeting Venmo users who show up in the app’s public feed and flooding them with dozens of payment requests.
2019-12-1403 min
2019-12-1400 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flAtom Finance’s free Bloomberg Terminal rival raises $12M – TechCrunchIf you want to win on Wall Street, Yahoo Finance is insufficient but Bloomberg Terminal costs a whopping $24,000 per year. That’s why Atom Finance built a free tool designed to democratize access to professional investor research. If Robinhood made it cost $0 to trade stocks, Atom Finance mak…
2019-12-1405 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flThe tricks to make yourself effortlessly charmingFrom the first moment you walk into a room people are making judgements about how much they like you. Fortunately, there are ways to improve your chances
2019-12-1211 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flReport explores how retailers are pushing back against ‘elite’ credit cards like Apple Card - 9to5MacBloomberg has published an interesting look at how retailers are partially footing the bill for lucrative rewards cards like Apple Card. Specifically, Apple Card is designated as an “elite” card, which means retailers have to pay higher interchange fees when someone uses it. The report explains that…
2019-12-1203 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flLos Angeles wants to build a hydrogen-fueled power plant. It’s never been done beforeIf L.A. succeeds, a hydrogen-burning Intermountain Power Plant could become a model for governments and electric utilities around the world.
2019-12-1208 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flSlow-Reading is The New Deep LearningElite learners succeed by reading slowly. They actively engage with the material through metacognition. Speed-reading is for skimming. Slow-reading is for scholars.
2019-12-1009 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flAbandonware is One of the Most Difficult Problems Facing the iPad ProThe iPad Pro has some limitations when you compare it to a traditional laptop with a touchscreen and pen compatibility. I think any fan of the device who’s honest with themselves understands …
2019-12-1005 minTAYL / ramiro.email.5flU.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to Berkeley cell phone lawThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a free speech challenge brought by a t...
2019-12-1001 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flThe Architect of Modern AlgorithmsBarbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone.
2019-12-1011 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flWeb creator Tim Berners-Lee launches plan to ‘fix’ the internetA non-profit campaign group set up by Berners-Lee has secured the backing of Facebook and Google for his “contract for the web.”
2019-12-1003 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flPES 2020 PRO EVOLUTION SOCCERExperience the award winning gameplay and match excitement from console on mobile!
2019-12-0808 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flAmazon announces three renewable energy projects in Spain and the USThese three projects will begin construction in both the US and Spain. The first will be a solar farm in Sevilla, Spain, and it will provide 149 megawatts of new renewable capacity to the region. Amazon says this project will…
2019-12-0701 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flSingapore’s fake news law should be a warning to American lawmakersMisinformation laws get used against the very people who advocate for them. It’s something to consider as more people push for Section 230 to be repealed in the United States
2019-12-0713 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flTesla’s Model Y Could Hit the Road Much Earlier Than Expected | Digital TrendsThe last time we heard, Tesla’s all-electric Model Y crossover was heading for a summer 2020 launch, but reports from its Taiwan-based suppliers suggest it could hit the road even sooner, possibly in the next three months. For a company known for missing its deadlines, that would certainly be marked…
2019-12-0702 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flChina gene-edited baby experiment ‘may have created unintended mutations’He Jiankui’s original research, published for the first time, could have failed, scientists say
2019-12-0702 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flNetflix: BPF is a new type of software we use to run Linux apps securely in the kernel | ZDNetA Netflix performance architect says BPF promises a fundamental change to a 50-year-old kernel model.
2019-12-0703 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flSamsung Suddenly Exposes Radical New Galaxy Smartphone [Updated]Samsung has exposed its most radical Galaxy smartphone in years...
2019-12-0303 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flPablo Escobar’s Brother Has Apple In His Crosshairs With... an ‘Unbreakable’ Foldable Phone?If the Samsung Galaxy Fold, the Huawei Mate X, or that new Razr phone are too rich for your blood, consider the $350 Pablo Escobar Fold 1. Yes, you read correctly.
2019-12-0303 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flGoogle Translator Toolkit shutdown scheduled for December - 9to5GoogleOn December 4th, 2019, Google’s Translator Toolkit platform will shutdown for all users after nearly a decade of availability.
2019-12-0302 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flFBI calls FaceApp a ‘potential counterintelligence threat’ from RussiaThe FBI wants to know if FaceApp was used in political disinformation campaigns.
2019-12-0303 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flTrump’s plans to throttle the H-1B and OPT could upend the supply of US tech talent | ZDNetThese sweeping changes, if implemented, could change the face of US technology.
2019-11-3007 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flThis is how Facebook’s AI looks for bad stuffThe context: The vast majority of Facebook’s moderation is now done automatically by the company’s machine-learning systems, reducing the amount of harrowing content its moderators have to review.
2019-11-3002 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flIs React Overrated?Early in the year, I gave React an honest try. Coming from an Angular background, I worked on keeping an open mind on the concepts that the library presented. It was weird at first — coming in from…
2019-11-3001 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flWeb Architecture 101The above diagram is a fairly good representation of our architecture at Storyblocks. If you’re not an experienced web developer, you’ll likely find it complicated. The walk through below should…
2019-11-3016 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flDesign patterns for modern web APIsFor the past decade, much of my professional life has evolved around making applications and (web)servers talk to each other. After making several contributions to one of the first client side…
2019-11-3012 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flDesign patterns in modern JavaScript developmentAs is the case with object-oriented programming, we, the developers, are trying to model the world surrounding us. As such, it makes sense to also try and use the world surrounding us as a tool to…
2019-11-3002 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flWe fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.Our resident genius, our Dr. Jekyll, explosively completed his transformation into Mr. Hyde.
2019-11-3007 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flQuantum computing’s potential is still far off, but quantum supremacy shows we’re on the right trackIn this edition of the Radar column, we explore Google’s quantum supremacy milestone.
2019-11-2609 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flThe Army Built to Fight ‘Medicare for All’The top health industry lobbies have joined forces to take down socialized medicine — or anything that looks like it. Will they succeed?
2019-11-2611 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flCryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then ranHow did Ruja Ignatova make $4bn selling her fake cryptocurrency to the world - and where did she go?
2019-11-2638 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flVader Immortal proved VR ‘experiences’ are just underdeveloped gamesOculus and ILMxLAB pitched Vader Immortal as an experience rather than a series of games, but the terminology masked serious development weaknesses.
2019-11-2607 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flApple built a $1 trillion empire on two metaphors. One is breakingTechnology that once seemed so easy now seems like it’s making us do its bidding, writes Cliff Kuang in his new book, ‘User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play.’
2019-11-2410 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flInside the bloody cartel war for Mexico’s multibillion-dollar avocado industryIt’s not just drugs. Mexico’s cartels are fighting over avocados.
2019-11-2412 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flNew ‘smart skin’ may let you reach out and virtually touch -- anyoneScientists have advanced virtual touch capabilities, making them wireless and two-way. They say it won’t be long before you can reach out and touch -- everyone?
2019-11-2305 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flRussia bans smartphones without local softwareSupporters say the law on new sales promotes Russian technology but there are concerns about surveillance.
2019-11-2302 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flWhite nationalists are openly operating on Facebook. The company won’t actGuardian analysis finds VDare and Red Ice TV among several outlets that are still on the platform despite Facebook’s promised ban
2019-11-2310 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flUniversal Dependency InjectionA lightweight TypeScript dependency injection solution (DI) useful for React, Ionic, and more.
2019-11-1900 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flGoodbye, Object Oriented ProgrammingI’ve been programming in Object Oriented languages for decades. The first OO language I used was C++ and then Smalltalk and finally .NET and Java. I was gung-ho to leverage the benefits of…
2019-11-1813 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5fl2020 Programming Trend Predictions2020 is almost here, as crazy as that sounds. The year 2020 sounds like it’s derived from science fiction, yet here we are — about to knock on its front door. If you’re curious about what the future…
2019-11-1801 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flThe introductory guide to AssemblyScript - LogRocket BlogAssemblyScript provides a way to get around the steep learning curve for WebAssembly. Learn how to get started with this TypeScript-to-Wasm compiler.
2019-11-1813 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5fl5 Ways to Lower Your A1CA hemoglobin A1C blood test provides a three-month average of your blood sugar levels to see if your diabetes management plan is working. Learn how to lower your A1C.
2019-11-1804 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flWhat Are the Best Low-Carb Fruits to Eat on a Keto Diet?Staying in ketosis can be tricky with carbs hiding not only in treats but also in healthy foods. Read through this list of fruits you can eat on the keto diet, including avocados, raspberries, and watermelon, and find out how many net carbs are in each.
2019-11-1802 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flMachine learning — Is the emperor wearing clothes?Machine learning uses patterns in data to label things. Sounds magical? The core concepts are actually embarrassingly simple. I say “embarrassingly” because if someone made you think it’s mystical…
2019-11-1807 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flPersistent Layout Patterns in Next.jsStrategies for persisting UI elements across page transitions when working with Next.js.
2019-11-1810 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flMeet the Tiny Austin Company That Wants to Disrupt the Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry With Its 3-D-Printed HomesThe journey of faith and hard work that led Jason Ballard to his fascinating startup, Icon.
2019-11-1821 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flThe new ValueType in Java: Why value types are importantJava, as it is now, has two different types of data—primitives and objects. In the coming releases, there will be a new type that is called ValueType.
2019-11-1718 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flMachine learning algorithms and the art of hyperparameter selectionWokring in AI? Here’s a review of the power of an optimization strategy and an overview of four commonly used optimization strategies.
2019-11-1711 min
2019-11-1405 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flTinyML: The challenges and opportunities of low-power ML applicationsIn this edition of the Radar column, we look at what’s possible when ML apps can work with minimal or inconsistent power supplies.
2019-11-1211 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flWhat’s in a Modern Attack Surface? RiskIQ Research Has the AnswerTo keep up with the breakneck speed of modern business, which come with , increased risk of cyber attack and the associated consequences, organizations are moving customer and partner interactions online, expanding their attack surface.
2019-11-1212 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flMassacre of U.S. citizens puts spotlight on Mormon community with deep roots in MexicoThe deadly attack Monday on U.S.-Mexican citizens in northern Mexico has brought renewed attention to the history of fundamentalist Mormon communities that settled in northern Mexico in the 19th century.
2019-11-1005 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flCanadian cryptocurrency exchange goes dark taking over $12M in user funds with itFinancial regulators in Canada are taking action against a cryptocurrency exchange that has gone dark owing customers more than USD$12.1 million.
2019-11-1003 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flWeWork-owned Meetup confirms restructuring, layoffs – TechCrunchMeetup announced “organizational changes” in a staff meeting this morning.
2019-11-1003 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flIntroducing Concurrent Mode (Experimental) – ReactA JavaScript library for building user interfaces
2019-11-0307 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flEncapsulation in JavaScriptEncapsulation is the bundling of data and the methods that act on that data such that access to that data is restricted from outside the bundle, or as Alan Kay describes it, “local retention and…
2019-11-0311 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flJavaScript is CJavaScript and C both make you maintain your invariants the most painful way possible. Happily, there are better alternatives these days.
2019-11-0304 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flNetwork science reveals the secrets of the world’s best soccer teamA new kind of analysis shows why the Barcelona team of 2009-10 stands head and shoulders above the rest. And the same approach could do the same for other sports.
2019-11-0307 minTAYL / ramiro.email.5flModern Web Development on the JAMstackIntroduction In just the past few years, a flurry of advancements has greatly strengthened the web as a content and application platform. Browsers are much more powerful. JavaScript has matured. … - Selection from Modern Web Development on the JAMstack [Book]
2019-11-0214 min
TAYL / ramiro.email.5flCode with DanAngular, ES6, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, jQuery, Node.js, ASP.NET, C#, XAML, Docker
2019-11-0207 min