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Engineering Social Media for Good at UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz Assistant Professor David T. Lee's Tech4Good Lab at the Baskin School of Engineering’s mission is to modernize the way we teach, the way we work, and the way we solve problems as a society by combining social networking technologies and small group...
Report: Amazon’s HQ2 Search Grew Out of Jeff Bezos’s Tesla Envy
Amazon's doomed search for HQ2, its second headquarters, came about because Jeff Bezos was envious of the large incentive Elon Musk was able to command from Nevada for Tesla's giant battery factory, a new report says. There's a lesson there for every...
Why learning Python is now essential for all data scientists
Credit: Pexels Since the year 1950, the world has seen the emergence of more than a few programming languages. Be it JAVA, C, C++, Python or C#, every language eas designed to serve a purpose. Over time, people started to communicate with machines in these...
Bank Chief Tells Employees: Stay Off Zoom, Google Hangouts
LEON NEAL/AFP Standard Chartered is reportedly the first major global bank to instruct employees not to use the Zoom video conferencing app or Google Hangouts during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic due to cybersecurity concerns. Reuters reports that Standard...
7 Best WordPress Backup Plugins Compared (Pros and Cons)
Creating regular WordPress backups is the best thing you can do for your website security. Backups give you peace of mind and can save you in catastrophic situations such as when your site gets hacked or you accidentally lock yourself out. There are several free and...
ProtonMail could use Google’s infrastructure to circumvent censorship
ProtonMailImage Credit: Paul Sawers / VentureBeat **This article was updated on March 16, 2020, to reflect additional input from Proton, which told VentureBeat that it would only use Google’s infrastructure in very limited situations — and that it won’t be...