Day: April 24, 2018

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Music fans who don’t want to pay $9.99 per month for Spotify’s premium subscription will now have more features to choose from. The streaming music giant announced Tuesday that it will be releasing several new capabilities for its free music tier that will be launching […]

Facebook Has Considered Profiling Its Users’ Personalities and Using the Information To Target Ads Published on April 24, 2018 at 06:30PM An anonymous reader shares a report: A patent filed by the social network describes how personality characteristics, including emotional stability, could be determined from […]

Far From Being a Utilitarian Afterthought, an Astonishing Number of Design Choices Go Into Pagination Published on April 24, 2018 at 06:00PM An anonymous reader shares a report: In his landmark 1931 book An Essay on Typography, the British typographer Eric Gill discusses everything from […]

Ask Slashdot: Do We Need a New Word For Hacking? Published on April 24, 2018 at 07:10PM goombah99 writes: Hacking and Hackers get a bum rap. Headline scream “Every Nitendo switch can be hacked.” But that’s good right? Just like farmers hacking their tractors or […]

Atlanta Projected To Spend At Least $2.6 Million on Ransomware Recovery Published on April 24, 2018 at 05:25PM Atlanta is setting aside more than $2.6 million on recovery efforts stemming from a ransomware attack, which crippled a sizable part of the city’s online services. ZDNet […]

No matter how magnetic Josh Brolin is when wearing a full face of CGI makeup—and the answer, it seems, is a surprising “more than you’d expect”—there’s no way that Avengers: Infinity War can fulfill everyone’s Thanos thirst. The character Brolin is embodying is almost too […]

Here is the news on Sport Illustrated

Today’s modern CIOs face a set of expectations, opportunities, and challenges that have grown tremendously over the last decade. This fundamentally revolves around one question “How can IT provide value for the business?”  In conjunction with emerging technologies are the challenges of managing people, process […]

A ripple effect is a situation in which, like ripples expanding across the water when an object is dropped into it, an effect from an initial state can be followed outwards incrementally (source Medium)