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Amazon AWS S3 outage causing widespread issues for (2.06/3) businesses

Companies across the United States are dealing with major website and application issues due to portions of Amazon Web Services going offline this afternoon. Amazon AWS provides cloud-based storage and web services for companies so they can deploy

computing power without having to build or invest in server farms, according to an MSN report. Some of these companies include Airbnb, Netflix, Pinterest, Slack and Spotify. The AWS Cloud Twitter account is providing updates. According to this account, they are continuing to experience “high error rates with S3 in US-East-1, which is impacting other AWS Services.” Also, for S3, Amazon believes it understands the root cause and is working on it. Future updates across all services will be on the dashboard, said the company. The Amazon Web Services health dashboard is providing some error updates as well.

Amazon AWS S3 Goes Down, Takes Down Services, Websites, Apps With It news.softpedia.com

Amazon checking AWS S3 issues, meanwhile many of your favourite sites take a hit feedproxy.google.com

2017-02-28 22:01 Madison Moore sdtimes.com

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Windows 10 Creators Update Build 15046 for PC arrives on (1.05/3) the Fast ring

Work continues apace on the next big update to Windows 10 , and Microsoft has rolled out a new build to the Fast ring a mere four days after the last one. Build 15046 for PC (no new Mobile build yet) adds some additional functionality and tweaks to the OS, as well as squashing plenty of bugs.

SEE ALSO: You'll be able to unlock any device running Windows 10 Creators Update with a Samsung phone The first change isn’t really a change at all. Microsoft has been experimenting with the color of Cortana on the taskbar… and has decided to stick with the original look. As you were then. There have been some improvements made to the Windows Defender Security Center, which gains an icon in the notification area, so you can see what’s happening. The Center can also be launched directly from the Settings screen, and the 'App and Browser' page works properly. Cortana now shows apps, files and sites from Edge when you switch devices, allowing you to pick up where you left off. This is only available in EN-US for now. There have been improvements made to foreign language translations, the Gaming Settings icon has been updated, and you can now control what apps can install on your PC. There are three

options. You can choose to only allow Windows Store apps, allow apps from elsewhere, but get a warning if they come from outside the Windows Store, or allow all apps (the default). Given the quality of apps in the Windows Store, versus the quality of programs available elsewhere, this last option is the one most sensible people will opt for, but it’s nice to have the option, I guess. Other changes, improvements, and fixes for PC include: Known issues for PC include: Photo credit: charnsitr / Shutterstock

Here's what's fixed, improved, and still broken in Windows 10 for PCs build 15046 feedproxy.google.com

Microsoft releases Windows 10 for PCs build 15046 to the Fast ring feedproxy.google.com

2017-02-28 23:36 Wayne Williams feeds.betanews.com

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Google has no plans for a third (1.03/3) Chromebook Pixel

Rick Osterloh, Google’s senior vice president for hardware, revealed in a meeting with journalists at Mobile World Congress today that the company has no plans to make a third Chromebook Pixel. Google unveiled the first-generation Chromebook Pixel in February 2013. Unlike most Chromebooks that used affordability as a primary selling point, the Pixel was designed for those with deeper pockets and a desire for more premium, powerful hardware.

The second-gen Chromebook Pixel arrived roughly two years later with improved hardware and a cheaper entry point of $999 (the original started at $1,299). Even at the lower price, the machine was way overpriced for most to take seriously. The news isn’t terribly surprising considering Google retired the Chromebook Pixel 2 last summer. At the time, the search giant said it was committed to the Pixel program but had no plans to restock the Pixel 2. Like Microsoft and its Surface, Google mostly went to the trouble of making the Chromebook Pixel to serve as an example of what a high-end Chromebook could look like (and with any luck, influence the rest of the industry). As you’ve no doubt noticed, Google isn’t giving up on the Pixel name as the company’s recent smartphone adopted the branding. Before that, Google used the branding with its Pixel C tablet , a 10.2-inch slate running Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

Google won't be launching any new Pixel laptops anymore feedproxy.google.com 2017-02-28 23:30 Shawn Knight www.techspot.com

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'Meet' Google's new videoconferencing service for (1.03/3) the enterprise

Google appears to have accidentally revealed its new group videoconferencing service for businesses on Tuesday, a week before a big user conference. The service, called Meet, appears to be its offering for businesses that want to do group meetings over the Internet. According to a saved iOS App Store listing captured by AppAnnie, it will support highdefinition video meetings with up to 30 participants. That’s an upgrade over the company’s existing

Hangouts instant messaging and video calling service, which only allows meetings of up to 10 people. A trio of screenshots shows Google Meet's functionality on iOS TechCrunch first spotted the listing for Meet, which has since been removed. It doesn’t seem like Meet is going to replace Hangouts, considering that the app’s name in the iOS App Store is “Meet by Google Hangouts.” Google

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conference in San Francisco next week, and it seems likely that we’ll hear more about Meet at that point. The Google Cloud Next website lists several sessions focused on team communication, including one called “The future of team communications,” which cryptically says that attendees will learn about “the latest additions to G Suite in the area of team communications.” Unified communications and videoconferencing have become an increasingly hot market, with veterans like Microsoft and Cisco competing with dedicated startups like Zoom and chat apps aiming to expand their functionality like HipChat and Slack. Google has been a longtime player in that space, especially on the consumer side with Hangouts, but Meet seems like a more concerted effort to appeal to an enterprise audience. According to the AppAnnie listing, the service is integrated with G Suite, so people can join meetings from both Google Calendar and Gmail. Based on one of the App Store screenshots, Meet appears to support calls with users from multiple organizations, not just the one originating the call,

which would be useful for businesses that need to support conversations with partners or vendors. G Suite Enterprise users will also be able to get a dial-in phone number, so people can connect to a call with a standard phone. It’s similar to offerings from other videoconferencing services like Skype for Business, WebEx, and the recently-launched Amazon Chime. A website for the service, located at meet.google.com , is still active as of this writing. Users are able to log into the service using a Google account, but actually starting a meeting through the web portal at this moment requires a meeting code. It also appears as though the website is currently only accessible using Google’s Chrome Browser. When accessed through Safari or Internet Explorer, it asks users to download Chrome and doesn’t give them access. That said, the settings for the service offer a few more clues of what it’s capable of. Video sent and received through the desktop appears to be capped

at 720p, and users can opt to send and receive 360p video, or only receive audio. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Google won't be launching any new Pixel laptops anymore feedproxy.google.com 2017-02-28 23:13 Blair Hanley www.pcworld.com

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Intel will change its approach to (1.02/3) PC chip upgrades

Intel is changing its view on how it upgrades chips. Rather than tying chip upgrades directly to the manufacturing process involved, Intel will look at delivering a sustained set of performance upgrades with each new chip architecture.

"We're going to be focused more on the generation by the amount of performance increment it will give us," said Venkata Renduchintala, president of Intel's Client and Internet of Things businesses and its Systems Architecture Group. "I don't think generations will be tagged to node transitions. " The performance benefits will matter more, and the process technology that lives underneath is going to be less conspicuous, Renduchintala said. "We can translate that into more predictable cadence of product, which delivers meaningful performance to stimulate PC upgrades,"

Renduchintala said. In the meanwhile, Intel will speed up its modem development so it can transition to 5G quickly. Intel is looking to grow in the communications market, while giving a lower priority to PCs, a market that has flattened. The company was showing off its new modems at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. Intel used to deliver two generations of PC chips with each manufacturing process node, but that changed with its recent 14-nanometer process. Intel has made three generations of chips including Broadwell, Skylake, and Kaby Lake, on the 14nanometer process. The company recently revealed that the 8th Generation Core processors will also be made on the 14-nm node. The announcement came as a surprise because Intel's next-generation 10-nm process is ready. Intel has made more generations of chips using the 14-nm process as it has been able to squeeze more performance through incremental design upgrades and tweaks to its existing manufacturing

process. But Intel will also deliver PC chips code-named Cannonlake -- its first on the 10-nm process -- later this year. A big question was whether the 8th Generation Core processors would also include Cannonlake chips. Not for now, but that could change. The company hasn't yet decided how it'll brand or market the Cannonlake chips due later this year. "If Cannonlake comes out at the end of the year, it'll be interesting what we actually market it as. We haven't decided it yet," Renduchintala said. Intel has said its 8th Generation Core processors made on the 14-nm process will deliver a performance update of more than 15 percent compared to the current Kaby Lake chips. The parallel shipments of 10-nm and 14-nm chips could create a branding dilemma, and Intel may have to launch 9th Generation Core chips alongside the 8th Generation chips.

With Intel's new approach to chip design, it's hard to predict how many generations of chips will be made on the 10-nm process. A rough estimate is three to four chip architectures before Intel moves to the 7-nm process. Right now, PC chips are the first to get upgraded based on new architectures, but that will change in the coming years with server processors getting the first shot at upgrades. Intel is moving to a model where users can expect "a yearly cadence of platform upgrade that actually gives meaningful performance improvements from the generation that preceded it," Renduchintala said.

Intel will change its approach to PC chip upgrades, deemphasize process sizes pcworld.com 2017-02-28 23:32 Agam Shah www.infoworld.com

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Google unveils YouTube TV -live sports, unlimited storage DVR, and affordable price (1.02/3)

Cable television is very expensive nowadays, so many people are opting to cut the cord. Depending on where you live, you can sometimes get free over-the-air programming -- this is a great way to save money, but the number of channels is low.

Another option is internet-based solutions such as PlayStation TV or Sling TV. The problem with these services, however, is the limitations, such as missing channels and a lack of some live sports. Today, Google is aiming to be the best internetbased television provider with the all-new YouTube TV. The search-giant's new offering is very affordable, plus it has really impressive features like live sports, local channels, and an unlimited storage cloud-based DVR. You even get access to YouTube Red original shows. Unfortunately, it falls short of perfection. "YouTube TV gives you the best of live TV, from must-see broadcast shows like "Empire," "The Voice," "The Big Bang Theory" and "Scandal," to the live sports you want. YouTube TV includes major sports networks like ESPN and regional sports networks like Fox Sports Networks and Comcast SportsNet, so you can watch your favorite NBA or MLB teams. We've also partnered with local TV stations, so you'll also get sports and local news based on where you live," says Christian Oestlien, Product Management Director, Google.

ALSO READ: People are watching one billion combined hours of YouTube videos every single day Oestlien further says, "YouTube TV offers dozens of additional cable channels, so you won't miss out on the latest news from MSNBC or Fox News, popular shows and movies from USA or FX, kids programming from the Disney Channel or Sprout, or reality TV from E! or Bravo. You can also add Showtime, or Fox Soccer Plus to your networks for an additional charge. In total, YouTube TV gives you access to more than 40 networks, listed below. " For $35, you get the television service with up to six accounts so an entire family can watch different programming at the same time. Since it is internetbased, you can enjoy the content anywhere, using the screen of your choice -- laptop, mobile (Android and iOS), or traditional television with Chromecast. Where the service falls short, is a lack of channels. While the listing is respectable, many options are missing -- including some of my favorites. For

instance, I watch a lot of TBS, TNT, Food Network, and ID. None of those are available for YouTube TV, making it a non-starter for me. While $35 is less than what I pay my cable provider, the savings are simply not worth it for me. The other thing that makes me nervous is the promise of partnering with local sports channels. While I am sure Google can make some of those channels available, not all of them will want to join in. For instance, I absolutely love the Knicks, but I would be shocked to see the MSG channel on YouTube TV. Plus, there may be restrictions based on IP address, where you cannot watch when traveling outside of a market. The saving grace is the fact that you can cancel at any time. I just returned from a vacation where I had no access to cable -- YouTube TV would have been a wonderful temporary option while away from home. Until Google can expand the channel lineup, however, I won't be cutting the cord. If you are interested in being notified of when the service is available in your area, you can sign up

here. Will you be signing up for YouTube TV? Tell me in the comments.

YouTube launches streaming TV service with 40 channels and unlimited cloud DVR storage pcworld.com 2017-02-28 23:19 Brian Fagioli feeds.betanews.com

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Is a Windows 98 machine usable (1.02/3) in 2017?

I’m often teased by friends for my reluctance to upgrade my operating system and by proxy, my PC. Although it’s more than six years old at this point, the system is plenty speedy for how I use it and the thought of learning a new OS isn’t as appealing as it would have been in my youth. I suspect my machine still has plenty of life left in it thanks largely in part to the fact that AMD conceded

defeat to Intel many moons ago, thus allowing Chipzilla to take its foot off the innovation accelerator and push out a series of incremental upgrades that weren’t much to write home about. The slowing of Moore’s Law also hasn’t helped matters but that’s a discussion for another time. At the height of the processor wars, however, meaningful hardware was coming down the pipeline each and every year. This meant that new hardware was significantly faster than what it was replacing and processing power jumped by leaps and bounds in a relatively short amount of time.

Considering that a properly configured PC running six-year-old hardware is still zippy by today’s standards, it begs the question – just how old of a PC can you get by with today? In exploring that question, YouTube user Oldtech81 recently dug up a laptop from the Windows 98 era and attempted to use it as his main machine today. How did the dated Compaq Armada E500 hold up to Father Time? Check out the video above to find out. Found is a TechSpot feature where we share clever, funny or otherwise interesting stuff from around the web.

Here's what it's like to use a Windows 98 PC in 2017 extremetech.com 2017-02-28 22:15 Shawn Knight www.techspot.com

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Laid-off IT workers worry U. S. is losing tech jobs to outsourcing (1.02/3)

Sixty-three-year-old Bob Zhang is worried about the future of tech jobs in the U. S. Will the high-paying positions be a thing of the past? Zhang said it’s already starting to happen. He’s one of 79 IT workers from the University of California, San Francisco, who’ve been laid off. Tuesday was their last day on the job. To replace them, the school is outsourcing some of their work to an

Indian firm. “Usually, they outsource the low-paying jobs,” he said at a gathering outside a school building. “But now they use H-1B (visa) and use foreign workers to replace the high-paying jobs. This trend is dangerous.” It was a sentiment shared among the laid-off IT workers, who’ve tried to push the school to save their positions, to no avail. Now they fear other publicly funded universities will take the same approach and replace U. S. employees with foreign workers. “It’s everybody’s problem,” said Jeff Tan, another laid-off staffer. “I think there are lasting effects to what happens here.” A box of possessions from laid-off UCSF IT worker Kurt Ho on Feb. 28, 2017. The layoffs at the school have grabbed headlines, because it’s a rare instance of a publicly funded university outsourcing and offshoring IT work to an Indian company, allegedly through the use of the

federal H-1B visa program. That program contains loopholes, critics say, that have allowed U. S. companies to bring foreign IT workers to replace jobs once held by U. S. citizens. In its defense, the university has said the outsourcing will save more than $30 million over five years, at a time when the school is struggling to deal with rising costs. “IT costs on the university’s clinical side nearly tripled between 2011 and 2016,” the university said in a statement on Tuesday. “This growth rate is not sustainable.” As a result, the university is contracting out some of the work to HCL , an offshoring outsourcing Indian company well known for its use of H-1B visas. But the school said none of the lost jobs are being filled with H-1B visa holders. The laid-off workers say this isn't the case. Before they left their positions, some trained their incoming replacements from HCL, which they suspect are on H-1B visas and will work at the school.

“Once you send out the manufacturing jobs, once you send out the service jobs, once you send out the research jobs, what’s left? There’s nothing left,” said Tan, who’s 55 and now looking for a new job. Kurt Ho, another laid-off worker, said he was paid an annual salary of about $110,000, but the new workers replacing these jobs will receive a fraction of that amount. “In two years, I could be at another company, and I could be facing the same thing,” he said. Thirteen of the workers are thinking about suing the school, claiming the way their jobs were eliminated amounted to discrimination. But filing a lawsuit will mean receiving no severance pay. The workers would likely file the lawsuit in 30 to 60 days, a lawyer for them said. Forty-eight-year-old Bizhan Tabatabaian, another affected worker, said he’ll take some time off before looking for a new job. But he’s concerned it won’t be easy to find employment, partly because of his age.

Bizhan Tabatabaian (left) leaving his office at UCSF on Feb. 28, 2017. “Most of my co-workers have not found work, and that’s a little scary,” he said. Tabatabaian is also a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. So he’s bothered that a UC school is sending work and money offshore. “It’s sending a mixed message,” he said. “Our jobs were just sent offshore by an institute of higher learning, which should be fostering that education, not sending it off-site.” Although U. S. politicians, including President Donald Trump, are looking at changes to the H-1B visa program, Tabatabaian is doubtful anything will come of it. “There’s talk about fixing things, and no has done it yet,” he said. “And I’m the proof.” UCSF said it gave the laid-off workers six months’ notice and has been trying to help them find new

employment at other UC schools. Of the 49 permanent employees that were dismissed, 32 have already secured new employment or will retire, the school said.

Laid-off IT workers worry US is losing tech jobs to outsourcing pcworld.com 2017-02-28 21:42 Michael Kan www.computerworld.com

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Cloud Native Applications and (0.01/3) the CAP Theorem

This article is featured in the new DZone Guide to the Cloud: Native Development and Deployment. Get your free copy for more insightful articles, industry statistics, and more! Building applications for enterprises has come a long way. To simplify a bit, we've gone from simply automating paper processes to using it as an

alternative channel for our businesses to becoming the business itself. Parallel to this we've seen the evolution of Moore's law from cheaper, faster, individual hardware to fast, cheap, piles of hardware on demand. If our applications "are the business," and we have access to fleets of cheap machines and infrastructure, what does this mean for the applications and developers in this new era? It means we have to innovate by making changes quickly. We have to build resilient systems. We need to scale to deal with challenges in the world of IoT, big data, etc. Building systems and applications that fit this "cloud era" are a bit different than how we've built them in the past.

In the past, we developers had a lot of safety guarantees that made our job a lot easier. Everything ran mostly co-located. When things failed, we knew where to look and could reason about stack traces from our co-located components. We didn't have to reason much about concurrency or failure conditions with our data because the database solved a lot of that for us. When we called application or infrastructure services we did so with confidence because we were told those services were highly available (whatever that really meant). When we made changes to the data owned by our application, those changes were instantly visible to other components in our application. We could make changes to many components with a single deployment since we owned all of the application. And there are many other assumptions we've lived with, many of which will not hold up in the architectures designed for the cloud era. When we think about designing applications in a cloud-native world, we focus on three main things: For this article, I'll focus mostly on the last bullet: designing for failure.

When we build cloud-native applications we are first and foremost building a distributed system. Communication between services and infrastructure happens over the network. Failure happens in all shapes and sizes. Hardware fails. Applications have bugs. Things can be working perfectly fine, but to an observer across the network, they appear to have failed. But services need to communicate and cooperate with each other to make progress. In many cases, they share similar concepts and data. For example, for an online bookstore, a book may be represented in different parts of the system differently. We may have a search service, a recommendation service, and a checkout/order service. All of these have a different understanding about what is a book and how to interpret data related to books. A problem arises when certain details of a book change. All of these services that store information related to a particular book may need to be updated with the new information. How do we deal with this? DZone's Guide to the Cloud: Native Development and Deployment

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New Cloud Web Application Firewall dzone.com 2017-02-28 22:06 Parent Linkdate dzone.com

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Guest View: Cybersecurity education isn’t a game. Or is it? (0.01/3)

Security, specifically application security, has become a huge challenge for IT companies worldwide. Actually, most companies in any vertical nowadays have some sort of IT platform they maintain. An increasing number of exploits, causing widespread financial and technical damage, are being reported on an almost daily basis. Yet the biggest vulnerability you have is sitting right under your nose (or next to you). Sixty-six percent of respondents to a recent study from the Ponemon

Institute cited employees as the biggest security threat to their company. As a leader, the best place to start looking for employee vulnerabilities is within your own team. If you look around, you might realize that some of the key IT players and developers are uneducated and sometimes even unaware of security in their code. There’s a big gap between app developers’ coding abilities and their security literacy. (Related: Outdated technology the backbone of security in too many places )

Now, you’ve tried (often in vain) to educate your peers, developers and other employees about threats and security. Despite all the PowerPoints, handouts and lectures, you still don’t feel like you’ve made an impact. Don’t worry—you haven’t lost yet! I’m here to tell you that in order to win the game against malicious threat actors, you have to play the game—or rather your team does. The app gap I’ve been seeing a rise in hackers successfully exploiting vulnerabilities in application codes. These often exist from the early stage of the software’s development and remain undetected until it’s too late. When we look at the development process, we can see that many times developers work as part of a team. Yet, when it comes to fixing security bugs, developers tend to find themselves alone in the process. In fact, according to SANS , only 22% of software developers have an active role in testing application security. In order to fix this broken process, it’s important to bring developers together, educated and united toward a common goal. This is where gamification comes in.

Gaming guide Gamification is a trending topic among enterprises and startups alike. But what exactly does it mean? Wikipedia has a good description: “Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics in non-game contexts to engage users in solving problems. Gamification is used in applications and processes to improve user engagement, return on investment, data quality, timeliness, and learning.” Although gamifying processes started gaining momentum in 2010, security had already deeply embraced the gamification trend by then. Just consider OWASP’s Capture the Flag or how it raised security awareness through bug bounties, game rewards and incentives. Why was gamification so popular in the security community? It takes teamwork to another level, which is exactly what you need to solve the AppSec gap. System specs Gamification can be implemented as an exchange platform between developers or integrated into the developers’ environments. In

such a setup, each developer would be able to view the security solutions of others. Developers could then flag particular solutions, similar to a Facebook “like,” and even contribute to the general understanding of the nature of the particular vulnerability. Taking it further, it’s even possible to reward the user who has been most beneficial to the team. For example, presenting rewards to developers who find hidden problems, ways to break the code, or an impenetrable functions. You can even call it your own in-house bug-bounty program. A global social network is ideal for implementing such a security exchange platform. However, even simple forums, such as GitHub or StackExchange, can be used as they too reward developers for their contribution. In-context training Not to sound too repetitive, but seriously, traditional education rarely achieves the expected results. A classroom stuffed with developers studying secure coding best practices is great, but how much do you really expect they will

remember? Moreover, what about the new developer who was hired the week after the course ended and what about the time that was wasted for the JavaScript developer during the C# course? However, I don’t expect you to think that every single one of these issues can be solved with gamification. To address immediate concerns, delivering short and concise (five to 10 minutes) training sessions based on the specific need when it appears is considerably more effective than the traditional classroom. If these sessions are dedicated to the specific hurdle or need of the developer and don’t interfere with the regular flow of work, but rather act as an extension to enhance the developer’s delivery, you’ll see immediate results. Do you want engaged employees? Deviate from the norm and provide a dynamic experience that encourages employees to actively participate and look forward to new business processes. As an IT leader, you have the opportunity to create excitement and genuine interest in new gamified experiences. If you become actively involved in the

process, others will follow your lead. I think you’ll be surprised to see just how much enthusiasm other managers and developers will show for a gamified program. So what are you waiting for? Cybersecurity is a serious thing, but now you can make sure you’re keeping your company safe and having a little bit of fun along the way!

The cloud wars rage on, but the battlefield has changed sdtimes.com 2017-02-28 21:00 Amit Ashbel sdtimes.com

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The best free drone simulator (0.01/3) 2017

1. DRL Drone Racing Simulator DRL Drone Racing Simulator

2. Hotprops 3. Real Drone Simulator Real Drone Simulator 4. Heli-X Flight Simulator Heli-X Flight Simulator Read on for our in-depth analysis of each simulator Before you take your new drone out for its maiden flight, it’s a good idea to use a simulator to get a feel for its handling to avoid embarrassing and potentially expensive crashes. You could pay hundreds of pounds for a realistic drone sim, but the strong community spirit of drone pilots means

there’s also a growing collection of superb free simulators to help you master your props. There are two main types of drone simulator: those designed to help you practise first-person view (FPV) racing, and those for refining handling of camera drones to help you achieve better video and photos. The best sims offer a variety of courses, variable weather conditions, and realistic physics so you’re fully prepared and know how your drone will respond in different situations. Real licensed drone models are also a boon, as is scope for future development. All of the free drone simulators here let you use your own RC transmitter, which you’ll need to connect using a device like the PCTx (a quick Google search should reveal whether there are any alternative ways to link your specific controller to your PC). Most simulators support game controllers as well, and some even let you fly with a keyboard and mouse, though you’d need three hands to control a quadcopter with any success. PCTx

Blast through the neon mazes used by the real Drone Racing League in dizzying first-person The official simulator of the professional Drone Racing League, DRL Drone Racing Simulator is the most polished of the free drone simulators here. It’s currently in beta, but the League was confident enough to use it for pre-qualifying for the 2017 world championships. DRL Drone Racing Simulator DRL Drone Racing Simulator features courses from the real competition, and is scored in the same way, with points earned from a combination of checkpoints and completion times. Real-life DRL racing drones are fully customizable, and so are their simulated counterparts. Outdoor maps are fairly realistic, but the simulator really comes into its own indoors, where LED-clad drones hurtle through a Bladerunner-style tangle of neon. DRL Drone Racing Simulator is compatible with both console and RC controllers. There’s a menu option for keyboard controls, but in our tests the sim failed to detect any hardware; something of a moot

point, because the fine-control necessary for navigating the complex courses at high speed would be almost impossible with key-hammering. Download here: DRL Drone Racing Simulator DRL Drone Racing Simulator A stylish sim for amateur drone racers who want full control over their quadcopter's handling Hotprops is also in active beta, available to download and enjoy with no restrictions. Like DRL Drone Racing Simulator, the goal of this greatlooking sim is to reproduce the experience of FPV drone-racing as accurately as possible, with advanced physics courtesy of the Unity game engine. Hotprops offers fully adjustable parameters to replicate the behavior of your own drone as closely as possible. The settings offer a very impressive degree of granularity, and the impact of each slider and radio button is clearly explained. Hotprops Hotprops’ developers are constantly adding, removing and adjusting features in response to testing and user feedback. As a result, there can be

considerable wait-times while the sim is updated automatically at launch – sometimes up to half an hour. There’s more loading mid-sim too; even if you don’t intend to pit your skills against friends or strangers in the game’s multiplayer mode, you’ll need an internet connection to download tracks before you can fly them. The simulation itself is superb, with realistic flight physics and smooth, good-looking graphics. There’s a great choice of maps to test your skills, and they’re fun and varied enough to enjoy as a racing game in their own right (albeit one that requires an RC controller). We don’t yet know whether the Hotprops release candidate will be free-to-play or carry a subscription fee, but the active beta is very promising. One to keep an eye on. Download here: Hotprops Real licensed drones and real fun, with lots of extra features promised for the final release Real Drone Simulator is in pre-alpha (an early

testable release), so it’s still a little rough around the edges and doesn’t yet have a full complement of tracks and features. It’s very promising though, and the developers are planning to keep it free to play, with optional donations to support the project. Real Drone Simulator Real Drone Simulator offers two types of environment to practise your skills: ‘virtual reality’ (realistic but computer-generated) and real-world (based on Google Earth). Each level has a difficulty profile, area size and wind strength, so you know what to expect before starting your props. The physics and handling are realistic, and adjust to the weather conditions, but Real Drone Simulator is designed for fun, first and foremost. The final release will gamify the experience with a career mode that lets you earn virtual currency to upgrade your drone, and race it against other pilots locally or online. You can control your quadcopter with a transmitter connected via USB, with a gamepad, or with a keyboard and mouse if you’re just playing for fun and have an extra arm. Real Drone Simulator’s developer (the Real-Team)

has some other ambitious plans up its sleeve, including the addition of photography and aerial filming missions, and international championships in the style of DRL: the sim already contains some licensed racing drones, and the Real-Team intend to contact all the major drone manufacturers when they hit beta to request permission to license their craft. Download here: Real Drone Simulator Real Drone Simulator A serious simulator for aerial photographers, though mostly designed for RC helicopters As its name suggests, Heli-X Flight Simulator is primarily an RC helicopter sim, but the free version also includes one quadcopter – the DJI Phantom. This prosumer drone is designed for aerial photography and filmmaking, and Heli-X is designed to help you refine your handling before you send £500 of hardware skyward. Heli-X Flight Simulator DJI Phantom Heli-X offers a great selection of training modes to test your dexterity, though there’s little mileage if

you’re looking for a simulator that doubles as a game; the tasks are challenging, but there are no rewards beyond the satisfaction of beating your own high-scores. The free version only offers two airports and one training course, though this can be populated with various obstacles. The handling settings are highly customizable, but the defaults have been set by a professional pilot to provide a realistic experience, so there’s little to be gained from tweaking them in you’re training to operate a real Phantom. If you have trouble running Heli-X, make sure you have the latest version of Java installed, then try the Java-based version instead. Download here: Heli-X Flight Simulator Heli-X Flight Simulator

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How far does school dinner chicken travel?

School children are being served chicken produced 6,000 miles away in Thailand, a BBC investigation has found. Scottish government ministers have repeatedly called for supermarkets and shops to buy local. But the BBC investigation found Scottish councils were spending millions importing food from abroad

which could be sourced in Scotland. Glasgow alone spends £1.3m a year on food sourced outside the UK. 2017-02-28 23:59 www.bbc.co.uk

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Marin Software reports 4Q loss

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Marin Software Inc. (MRIN) on Tuesday reported a loss of $4.6 million in its fourth quarter. The San Francisco-based company said it had a loss of 12 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for

one-time gains and costs, came to 5 cents per share. The cloud-based digital advertising management company posted revenue of $22.9 million in the period. For the year, the company reported that its loss narrowed to $16.5 million, or 43 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $99.9 million. For the current quarter ending in April, Marin Software expects its results to range from a loss of 14 cents per share to a loss of 13 cents per share. The company said it expects revenue in the range of $19 million to $19.5 million for the fiscal first quarter. In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, the company's shares hit $2.30. A year ago, they were trading at $3. This story was generated by Automated Insights ( http://automatedinsights.com/ap ) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock

report on MRIN at https://www.zacks.com/ap/MRIN Keywords: Marin Software, Earnings Report 2017-02-28 23:43 CNBC www.cnbc.com

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Facebook open-sources its Prophet forecasting tools for Python and R

Facebook has open-sourced its Prophet forecasting tool, designed "to make it easier for experts and non-experts to make high-quality forecasts,"

according to a blog post by Sean J. Taylor and Ben Letham in the company's research team. "Forecasts are customizable in ways that are intuitive to nonexperts," they wrote. The code is available on GitHub in both Python and R. Prophet is aimed specifically at business problems such as computer infrastructure capacity planning that have at least several months of data (preferably a year or more) and issues such as seasonality, "holidays" that can affect trends (such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday for retailers), and events that can have significant impacts (such as launching a new website when trying to forecast site traffic). Prophet can also handle some missing values and outliers, the blog post said. Facebook suggests taking Prophet for a spin using page views from a Wikipedia page, data which is currently available on tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews. In R, data needs to be set up so it has two columns: one named ds containing dates, and the other with numerical data. The sample -- forecasting

pageviews for Peyton Manning's Wikipedia page changed the numerical data to a log scale with R's log() function. Basic Prophet forecasting steps: Sample plot of trends and seasonality using Facebook's Prophet in R. To include holidays and other special events, you'd create a new data frame with a ds column for dates and a holiday column with the name of the holiday. That information can be included in the initial model with my_model 2017-02-28 23:06 Sharon Machlis www.infoworld.com

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AMD names next-gen graphics cards 'Radeon RX Vega'

At AMD's Capsaicin & Cream event at the Game Developers Conference 2017, the company unveiled that their next-generation line of graphics cards will officially be called Radeon RX Vega. Presumably each Vega model will come with some additional numbers and letters to denote how

powerful it is. If you were expecting any other news about Vega at the event , you'll be disappointed to hear that this is basically all AMD announced. Most of the information AMD 'revealed' at the event about Vega we already reported on back in January. There were two small tidbits of additional information though, as spotted by The Tech Report. AMD demonstrated how Vega's High-Bandwidth Cache Controller improves performance in realworld games: it doubled the minimum framerate in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided compared to a "traditional VRAM mode".

AMD also showed how Vega's increased FP16 capabilities – double the throughput of FP32 – allow the GPU to render twice as many hair strands in a particular scene. For more information on Vega, you'll have to wait until closer to its launch. At this stage we expect AMD to properly introduce Vega around Computex in the middle of the year, which would just scrape inside AMD's stated first half of 2017 launch window. 2017-02-28 22:56 Tim Schiesser www.techspot.com

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Upcoming Webinar: How to Build Better Products Together

This Friday, March 3, 2017 at 2:00pm ET, I’ll be joining David Berlind, the Editor-in-Chief at ProgrammableWeb , on a webinar to discuss one of my favorite topics—how the DevExchange team has knocked down traditional barriers in FinTech with an open developer platform. It’s sure to be a lively exchange, so register today to secure your

spot. I’m confident that we’ll touch on many topics, but in the meantime, I wanted to share some of my thoughts regarding where Capital One’s DevExchange has been and where it’s going. open developer platform register today As I often mention to my team, the success of DevExchange is creating a culture that inspires cocreation and cultivating a platform mindset. More specifically what I mean is that a strong platform mindset enables consumers to access data anytime and anywhere while creating a space for startups and innovators to co-create with big financial institutions, such as Capital One. It also allows us to

create experiences that we would otherwise be unable to develop with internal resources alone. That was the concept that became the foundation of DevExchange. When we started DevExchange in March 2016 at SXSW, most API platforms had names like, oh, say, “Developer Platform.” Boring! We named ours DevExchange because we wanted everyone involved to understand that our platform and developer experience was built around the concept of “exchange” in every sense—the exchange of ideas, information, and open source code. But, the DevExchange is much more than exchanging and communicating. It’s also about cocreation, or building things together that make consumers’ lives easier and the world a better place. On DevExchange, we encourage our partners, affiliates, and startups alike to create applications and digital experiences together. Over the last year, we have developed some amazing things such as the Bank Account Starter ; an API that allows affiliates to give their customers the ability to open a savings account with no fees,

minimums or catches—all without ever leaving the affiliate site. We are also really excited about the Credit Offers API that returns a personalized list of Capital One credit cards in under 60 sends, all based on a few pieces of personal information. And, there’s so much more in the hopper that I know you’ll be excited about. Bank Account Starter Credit Offers So, what’s ahead for the DevExchange in 2017? Well, we have a long list of enhancements. But let me share a few highlights that you’ll see on the platform: a co-development environment, an early adopter preview program, extra help with professional services, and joint partner marketing. We’re also planning some additional co-creation programs within Capital One so that our developers can contribute to our API Center of Excellence and to DevExchange Inside; an internal portal where our engineers can collaborate on API design and document features. There will even be a community area where developers can submit ideas, ask questions, and contribute to a collaborative music platform we’ll be announcing at SXSW. DevExchange

I’m sure that David and I will cover these topics and much more. So, sign up and tune in on Friday at 2pm ET. We look forward to collaborating with you soon! 2017-02-28 22:47 By feedproxy.google.com

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Palo Alto Q3 outlook disappoints amid execution issues

Security Labor calls out government for breaching privacy laws amid Centrelink fiasco Hardware MobileIron lands reseller deal with Lenovo Security Ghost apps live on to torment Android users

Security Stuffed toys database left personal data exposed, says security expert 2017-02-28 22:31 Larry Dignan www.zdnet.com

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In video, Uber CEO speaks openly about impact of competitors on pricing

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Click on the button below to subscribe and wait for a new Facebook message from the TC Messenger news bot. Thanks, TC Team Uber Founded 2009 Overview Uber, a [San Francisco] (/location/sanfrancisco/528f5e3c90d111115d1c2e4ff979d58e)based technology startup, is innovating at the intersection of lifestyle and logistics. Uber connects riders with safe, reliable, convenient transportation providers at a variety of price-points in cities around the world. Location San Francisco, CA Categories Public Transportation , Mobile Apps , Transportation Website http://www.uber.com Full profile for Uber U b e r Founded 2009 Overview Uber, a [San Francisco](/location/sanfrancisco/528f5e3c90d111115d1c2e4ff979d58e)based technology startup, is innovating at the

intersection of lifestyle and logistics. Uber connects riders with safe, reliable, convenient transportation providers at a variety of price-points in cities around the world. Location San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA Categories Public Transportation , Mobile Apps , Transportation Public Transportation Mobile Apps Transportation Website http://www.uber.com Full profile for Uber Full profile for Uber Travis Kalanick Bio Travis Kalanick is a co-founder and the CEO of Uber Technologies Inc. Travis Kalanick is an entrepreneur in the areas of consumer internet, transportation, and enterprise content delivery. His most recent company, Uber, an on-demand black car service, seeks to be “Everyone’s Private Driver” by bringing disruptive technology and business innovation to urban transportation challenges. Prior … Full profile for Travis Kalanick Travis Kalanick Bio Travis Kalanick is a co-founder and the CEO of Uber Technologies Inc. Travis Kalanick is an entrepreneur in the areas of

consumer internet, transportation, and enterprise content delivery. His most recent company, Uber, an on-demand black car service, seeks to be “Everyone’s Private Driver” by bringing disruptive technology and business innovation to urban transportation challenges. Prior … Full profile for Travis Kalanick Full profile for Travis Kalanick SEE ALL NEWSLETTERS SpaceX Is Flying Two People Around the Moon | Crunch Report SpaceX Is Flying Two People Around the Moon | Crunch Report Watch More Episodes CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER at LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT (Los Angeles, CA, USA) CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER at LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT (Los Angeles, CA, USA) Sr. Chef DevOps Developer at Raytheon (Richardson, TX, United States) Sr. Chef DevOps Developer at Raytheon (Richardson, TX, United States) Android Developer, Product at Showtime Networks Inc. (New York, NY, United States) Android Developer, Product at Showtime Networks

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International media unite against fake news

The new venture includes Agence France-Presse (AFP), the French dailies Le Monde and Liberation as well as Britain's BBC News and Channel 4 and US financial outlet Bloomberg. The project is being run in collaboration with Google and the non-profit First Draft News. AFP's global news director Michele Leridon said media rivalry needed to be put to one side.

"The core values of our profession are under attack," she said. "We need to respond together, and CrossCheck is a significant step in that direction. " The CrossCheck website ( crosscheck.firstdraftnews.com ) allows the 37 media partners to pool their efforts to expose false political and other claims and establish the facts, First Draft managing director Jenni Sargent told a press conference in Paris. Each partner could then publish such verifications on their own platforms.

"We find it interesting to collaborate with other editors because we normally work in our own corners and a lone editor cannot respond to all the information circulating," said Le Monde journalist Adrien Senecat. The new political fact-checking initiative will involve a total of some 250 journalists from the media partners and will cover the two rounds of France's presidential election, in April and May. Anyone who sees or hears something they would like CrossCheck to investigate can fill in an online form—anonymously if they wish—either via the main website or the news partners' own websites. All the fact-checking will be verified by at least two of the media outlets. If it proves a success the scheme could be continued. Explore further: Facebook, Twitter join coalition to improve online news 2017-02-28 22:26 phys.org

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Samsung Galaxy S8 will probably let you change the navigation button order

You can usually recognize a Samsung phone, even from a distance. Well, or a phone that’s trying really hard to look like a Samsung phone. Starting with the Galaxy S3, Samsung standardized its button design with a large physical home button and two backlit capacitive navigation keys below the screen. The Galaxy S8 is expected to change that up with on-screen buttons, and you might even be able to change the order of them. While most Android phones have the back button to

the left of home and an overview button to the right, Samsung does it the other way around. With the GS8’s on-screen buttons, you should be able to change that. This is not an outlandish idea in the grand scheme of Android — phones from companies like LG and OnePlus allow you to edit the on-screen navigation buttons. It’s a big step for Samsung, which has held firm to this part of its brand identity. This news comes by way of yet another leak of the Galaxy S8. The images of the Galaxy S8 show the screen on with the new navigation buttons visible. Samsung’s icons are a little… weird. The phone above is rotated landscape, but the order of the buttons doesn’t change when you do that. They’re in the traditional Android order of back, home, overview. So, maybe Samsung is just doing it that way now? Nope, there’s a second phone in the image; it’s upside down, but the button order is clearly the other way around (overview, home, back). There’s probably a toggle in the software. This tells us that Samsung is taking this opportunity to give users a little more choice in how they use

the phone. It has always been jarring to use a Samsung phone after carrying almost any other device because of the reversed nav buttons. Having the buttons rendered by the OS lets everyone get what they want. Well, mostly. Simply having on-screen navigation buttons will require an adjustment for long-time Samsung users. You’ve always been able to wake up Samsung phones with the home button. Now you’ll either need to use the power button on the side or tap the fingerprint sensor on the back, where it has been relocated. The use of on-screen buttons means some screen real estate will be lost, but both the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus are expected to be larger than past phones with very slim bezels. The GS8 will have a 5.7-inch display and the GS8 Plus will be 6.2-inches. 2017-02-28 22:14 Ryan Whitwam www.extremetech.com

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FSF responds to W3C director’s decision not to block EME

When the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) director Tim Berners-Lee decided the organization would not block Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) in HTML5, many people went up in arms. EME allows web pages to include encrypted content using a Digital Rights Management (DRM). The reason why people are against this is because they believe DRM imposes technical restrictions on what users can do with digital media. However, Berners-Lee believes : “The reason for recommending EME is that by doing so, we lead the industry who developed it in the first place to

form a simple, easy-to-use way of putting encrypted content online, so that there will be interoperability between browsers. This makes it easier for web developers and also for users.” (Related: Atlassian adds security layers to Bitbucket Cloud ) The Free Software Foundation has released a statement responding to Berners-Lee’s post, saying: “This argument relies on a false dichotomy between wiping DRM from the face of the Earth, and giving it his stamp of approval.” The FSF’s full statement is available here . 2017-02-28 22:09 Christina Cardoza sdtimes.com

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Kim Jong-nam death: Two women to face murder charges

Two women implicated in the killing of the estranged brother of North Korea's leader will be charged with murder shortly, Malaysia's prosecutor says.

Attorney General Mohamed Apandi Ali said the women - from Indonesia and Vietnam - would be formally charged and could face death if convicted. The women allegedly smeared a deadly chemical over Kim Jong-nam's face at a Malaysia airport earlier this month. They have said they thought they were taking part in a TV prank. "They will be charged in court under Section 302 of the penal code," the attorney general said, which is a murder charge with a mandatory death sentence if found guilty.

He said no decision had yet been taken on whether to charge a North Korean man, Ri Jong Chol, who is also being held over the killing. That "depends on the outcome of the police investigation, which is still ongoing", Mr Apandi was quoted as saying by AFP news agency. The two women - Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam and Siti Aisyah from Indonesia - are among some 10 suspects identified by Malaysia as being involved in the killing. The other suspects include a senior official at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur and a staff member of the state airline. South Korea believes at least four suspects are North Korean spies. A high-level delegation from North Korea - led by the former ambassador to the UN - arrived in the Malaysian capital on Tuesday. They said they were seeking the retrieval of the body and the release of Ri Jong Chol, as well as the "development of friendly relationships" between North Korea and Malaysia.

North Korea has not confirmed that the person killed on 13 February at Kuala Lumpur airport was Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of leader Kim Jongun, saying only he was a North Korean travelling on a diplomatic passport. Kim Jong-nam, 42, was at a check-in desk for a flight to Macau, where he lives, when he was accosted. He was smeared with a very high amount of the toxic nerve agent VX and died in pain within 15-20 minutes, Malaysia's health minister said on Sunday. Little is known for definite about Doan Thi Huong and Siti Aisyah except that they had left their homes in different parts of Asia and were trying to make a living in Malaysia. Malaysian police officials described Ms Huong, a 28-year-old from Vietnam, as an "entertainment outlet employee" while Ms Siti, 25 from Indonesia, was working in a hotel massage parlour. It is clear they lived precarious existences, reports the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes who has been

researching the story. Ms Huong's Facebook page, in which she posted under the name Ruby Ruby, showed her posing in a number of selfies and glamour shots. There are rumours she once auditioned for Vietnam's version of Pop Idol. Her family said she left her home village in north Vietnam at 17 to study in the capital Hanoi, and had rarely returned home since. They said they were surprised to learn she was in Malaysia. Her stepmother told BBC Vietnamese that the family were fed up with all the attention they had received but were grateful for the support of their neighbours. "They are sympathetic because they don't understand how a daughter of a family with high moral values like us could become like that," Nguyen Thi Vy, 54, said. Siti Aisyah was arrested for the killing along with her 26-year-old Malaysian boyfriend, who was later released on bail.

She told the Indonesian embassy officials that she thought she was taking part in a reality TV show, and had been paid 400 Malaysian ringgit ($90; £72) to smear what she thought was baby oil on to Mr Kim's face. Ms Siti was out partying with her friends the night before the killing. A friend, who spoke anonymously, said they had been celebrating her birthday, which had been the day before. Film footage purportedly from the evening shows her talking with friends about becoming an internet star. Ri Jong Chol, 47, is a North Korean who has lived in Malaysia for the last three years. He is in Malaysian detention. The Malaysian boyfriend of Siti Aisyah, Muhammad Farid Jalaluddin, was arrested but police said he would be released on bail. Hyon Kwang Song, 44, second secretary at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur is being sought by police. He is believed to be in the embassy in Kuala Lumpur.

Kim Uk Il, 37, is a staff member of North Korea's state airline Air Koryo, and is also believed to still be in Malaysia. Ri Ju U, 30, a North Korean also known as "James", has been identified by the women as the man who recruited them. Ri Ji Hyon, 33, a North Korean, is believed to have fled to Pyongyang. Hong Song Hac, 34, a North Korean, is believed to have fled to Pyongyang. O Jong Gil, 55, a North Korean, is believed to have fled to Pyongyang. Ri Jae Nam, 57, a North Korean, is believed to have fled to Pyongyang. 2017-02-28 22:04 www.bbc.co.uk

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These are the games currently available on the Xbox Game Pass

Earlier today, Microsoft announced the introduction of a new monthly subscription service for its console, Xbox Game Pass. Now, we have a list of games that are already available on the service. It is important to note that the subscription service is currently in Alpha preview and the company will be adding more games from big developers like THQ, 2K, and Codemasters as it nears launch. The service, which is being termed as "Netflix for games" is similar to other subscription-based

models such as Sony’s PlayStation Now program for its consoles and EA Access for Xbox. The list of the games currently available include: Xbox Game Pass is different from the console's Games with Gold model which allows subscribers to claim selected games each month for free. Instead, the company will allow patrons to install games from its library, which will feature big titles such as Halo 5: Guardians in the near future, without actually purchasing them. The subscription will set you back $10 every month and you will be able to play the installed games for as long as you're a member of the service. Source: Windows Central 2017-02-28 22:00 Gurkaran Singh feedproxy.google.com

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Tesla responds to harassment lawsuit filed by female engineer in 2016

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world’s transition to electric mobility with a full range of increasingly affordable electric cars. Tesla vehicles are EVs (electric vehicles), which are transforming the way people drive and move. Tesla has gone public as of June 29, 2010 and has a market cap of $34.32 billion. … Location Palo Alto, CA Categories Automotive , Electronics , Innovation Management Website https://www.tesla.com/ Full profile for Tesla Tesla Founded 2003 Overview Tesla Motors was started by a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and strives to create a revolution and accelerate the world’s transition to electric mobility with a full range of increasingly affordable electric cars. Tesla vehicles are EVs (electric vehicles), which are transforming the way people drive and move. Tesla has gone public as of June 29, 2010 and has a market cap of $34.32 billion. … Location Palo Alto, CA Palo Alto, CA Categories Automotive , Electronics , Innovation Management Automotive Electronics Innovation Management Website https://www.tesla.com/ Full profile for Tesla Full profile for Tesla

Uber Founded 2009 Overview Uber, a [San Francisco] (/location/sanfrancisco/528f5e3c90d111115d1c2e4ff979d58e)based technology startup, is innovating at the intersection of lifestyle and logistics. Uber connects riders with safe, reliable, convenient transportation providers at a variety of price-points in cities around the world. Location San Francisco, CA Categories Public Transportation , Mobile Apps , Transportation Website http://www.uber.com Full profile for Uber U b e r Founded 2009 Overview Uber, a [San Francisco](/location/sanfrancisco/528f5e3c90d111115d1c2e4ff979d58e)based technology startup, is innovating at the intersection of lifestyle and logistics. Uber connects riders with safe, reliable, convenient transportation providers at a variety of price-points in cities around the world. Location San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA Categories Public Transportation , Mobile Apps , Transportation Public Transportation Mobile Apps Transportation Website http://www.uber.com Full profile for Uber Full profile

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Microsoft Word powerhouse.

What this new AI feature in Microsoft Word teaches us about ourselves

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The app, which has existed in one form or another since 1983, can now look for word choice problems, weak language, passive voice, and

many other writing problems. The new feature, called Editor, appears in a window on the right hand side. Anyone with an Office 365 subscription can use the new update -- just make sure you select the Fast Insider option in settings. It's part of a major update for Office 365. I started testing Editor this morning after hearing about the addition. One of the most interesting additions in some time, even in the history of the popular app, the machine learning can examine your prose on the fly. For example, if you keep using the words “maybe” and “possibly” it will flag those as weak words. If you use casual nouns and verbs, including those that would not pass a test for basic business writing like “cushy” or “comfy” you’ll see a dark underline for those words. When the Editor flags something, you can then quickly right-click and select an alternative, if one is available, or research the suggestion more and see explanations in the Editor window. I could see someone new to the business writing field using this app to help improve their writing. For those who have been writing for decades, it’s a good reminder

or can help flag mistakes and smooth and massage your text. The machine learning looks for context and phrasing. For example, you might use the word “really” to emphasize a term, but Word will flag it as unnecessary. Yet, if you weave the word into a different sentence -- starting with the word followed by a comma or a question mark, for example -Word might ignore it. Passive voice seems to come up the most. The app will flag phrasing like “was surprised” but, in my testing, I usually had to think of a way to reword the sentence myself -- usually by picking a stronger noun and verb construction. “Bob surprised me” is better than “Bob was surprised” because it’s clearer and more direct. Active voice is one of the signs of good writing; many of the “contributed content” articles you read, some of them submitted by folks trying to sell a product, are in passive voice. I could see these features expanding into other apps. In Microsoft Excel, for example, I’d love to have an AI assistant that suggests different ways of

formatting or calculating cells. Even in Microsoft Edge, an AI could help with writing emails and even web searches, or could flag sites known for distributing malware. An AI could pop up in just about any software program, from Adobe Photoshop to Apple Logic X on a Mac. For now, I’m thoroughly impressed with how the Editor in Microsoft Word works -- I’ve been waiting a while to check it out with longer documents and see if I can improve the flow in my writing. In one case with an extremely long document, I managed to cut out about 100 words by choosing some of the alternate suggestions. The ones that helped the most were usually related to passive voice and weaker words. What this new direction teaches us is that we may be able to let our apps do more of the work someday. We might not have to type at all -- a bot will let us dictate. We can let the AI handle the complexities of removing obvious errors. We can focus on being creative. At the same time, it says something about us as

well. Maybe we are asking for too many shortcuts -who knows? I'd prefer students didn't rely too much on this tech. If you try it, I’d love to hear your feedback -- did it help you write better prose, did you cut out some extra words? Drop me a note -- just make sure you remove passive voice. 2017-02-28 21:44 John Brandon www.computerworld.com

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By Chick Young

Hamilton Academical 1-0 Aberdeen

BBC Scotland at New Douglas Park Hamilton moved up to ninth in the Premiership with victory over Aberdeen. Accies took the lead when Mikey Devlin stole in ahead of Ash Taylor to divert Danny Redmond's free-kick into the net from close range. Adam Rooney almost brought the Dons level, his glancing header from Niall McGinn's cross coming back off a post. Substitute Miles Storey had a goal ruled out for offside as Accies held on for the win despite a late red card for midfielder Darian MacKinnon. The defeat sees Aberdeen remain nine points clear of third-placed Rangers having played a game more. Hamilton move off the bottom of the table and above Inverness CT, Motherwell and Ross County. Hamilton stunned the Dons after just nine minutes with Devlin's first goal of the season, the defender getting a foot on the ball as the Aberdeen back-line

hesitated and allowed him to prod the ball home. Aberdeen started without Johnny Hayes, a shock absentee whose hamstring problem could also keep him out of the weekend Scottish Cup tie against Partick Thistle. But they responded in positive fashion. Rooney rattled Gary Woods' left post with a header, McGinn flashed a shot across the goal and the same player landed a free-kick on top of the net. Despite being a goal down they dominated play throughout the half, but just couldn't get the ball in the net. The pressure on Hamilton was incessant but what you do have to say is that their defending was courageous. And their spirits were lifted by the appearance off the bench of their marquee player Ali Crawford after a five-game absence through injury. Devlin made an incredible goal-saving header over his own bar before Rooney failed to put away a

Kenny McLean cross. Still the Alamo-like performance by the home team went on. Even when sub Storey had the ball in the net Accies were saved by the offside flag. And then Hamilton's luck seemed to change. Two yellow cards within a minute meant a red for MacKinnon - the second a particularly reckless challenge - and suddenly for the last six minutes the home team were down to ten men. But incredibly, despite conceding 20 corner kicks and winning not a single one themselves, they held out for a quite astonishing and vitally important win. Hamilton manager Martin Canning : "Obviously in the first half we get our opportunity and we take it. Probably in the game we had four or five breakaways when we could have done better with the final pass. "In the main it was backs to the wall, Aberdeen are a top team, so we knew they were going to be on the front foot. But with the situation we are in,

everybody's got to fight, they've got to brave and throw their bodies on the line. Everything I'd want to see from the team, and I have seen it all season to be honest, was there tonight. "Yeah, we rode our luck, Aberdeen had a lot of opportunities to put the ball in the box but I don't remember too many clear cut chances. "A lot of it was balls into the box and Michael Devlin was outstanding. I've never mentioned it to the media before but it's something we've mentioned behind closed doors here. When you go back a couple of months ago when Scotland were playing, people were saying there are no young Scottish centre backs about and nobody even mentioned Michael, and he's captaining a Premier League team at 22. "That's in the future and I think he's got the capabilities to go there but he just has to keep his head down and keep working hard and keep on performing like that, because Aberdeen are a top team and you're competing against the best in the country. All round I thought he was fantastic. "

Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes : "A lot of pride in the performance and pride in the response, dealing with the situation, players taking real responsibility. "I didn't think it was a difficult game for us, coming here we normally find it a bit more difficult than it was tonight. I thought we dominated the game and some of our play was excellent. We can be critical of the goal we lost and the amount of crosses in their box and how we've not converted chances. "Kenny McLean was a Rolls Royce tonight, he was absolutely everywhere. The high quality of his crossing, his possession and his work rate. He was in good company with a lot of good performances in the team, but sometimes you don't get what you deserve. "It was total dominance, the game was played in their final third. We tried to be as positive as we could and we didn't panic. We just never had that final pass or shot in us tonight. Everyone could see how eager and determined our team was tonight to make the game go our way. While we lost we can

still have a lot of pride in our performance. " Match ends, Hamilton Academical 1, Aberdeen 0. Second Half Aberdeen 0.

ends,

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Academical

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Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Georgios Sarris. Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Grant Gillespie. Georgios Sarris (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Peter Pawlett (Aberdeen). Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Michael Devlin. Attempt blocked. Kenny McLean (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Substitution, Aberdeen. Anthony O'Connor replaces Ryan Jack because of an injury. Attempt missed. Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from outside the box is

just a bit too high. Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Massimo Donati replaces Rakish Bingham. Second yellow card to Darian (Hamilton Academical) for a bad foul.

MacKinnon

Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical). Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Darian MacKinnon (Hamilton Academical). Attempt missed. Ash Taylor (Aberdeen) header from the centre of the box is too high. Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Gary Woods.

Hand ball Academical).

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Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Dougie Imrie. Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen). Giannis Skondras (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Substitution, Aberdeen. Miles Storey replaces Ryan Christie. Attempt missed. Shaleum Logan (Aberdeen) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Scott McMann. Attempt saved. Shaleum Logan (Aberdeen) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.

Attempt blocked. Niall McGinn (Aberdeen) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Georgios Sarris. Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Greg Docherty replaces Daniel Redmond. Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Ali Crawford replaces Gramoz Kurtaj. Foul by Ash Taylor (Aberdeen). Michael Devlin (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Attempt saved. Ash Taylor (Aberdeen) header from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Georgios Sarris. Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Daniel Redmond. Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Georgios Sarris. Corner, Aberdeen. Conceded by Daniel Redmond.

Scottish football news and interviews, Wed 1 Mar, 18:30 GMT, BBC Radio Scotland (MW) Scottish Premiership, Wed 1 Mar, 19:45 GMT, BBC Radio Scotland (MW) Adult Social Badminton Session Beginner Golf Coaching Course 2017-02-28 21:36 www.bbc.co.uk

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St Paul's Cathedral admits first woman to choir

St Paul's Cathedral has appointed a female chorister - believed to be the first in its history. Carris Jones, 35, from south London will take up the full-time role in the choir which often performs at state occasions. She believes it is the first time a woman has joined any London cathedral choir as a full-time member.

St Paul's director of music Andrew Carwood said he was "delighted" with the panel's unanimous appointment. Ms Jones from South Norwood said: "As a child I had a Mary Poppins obsession so singing at St Paul's has been a long-held ambition. "But when I first moved to London as a singer there was no inkling women would ever be considered for adult positions in the choir. I didn't think it was

possible. "It feels wonderful. " The Royal Academy of Music graduate and London Oratory alto has been singing professionally for eight years. She will join three male counter-tenors in the alto section on 1 September after giving birth to her second child. Reflecting on her appointment, she said: "When I speak to other female colleagues it means a lot that we won't have to explain to another generation why they can't [sing in this choir]. "Equality of opportunity is everything. " Natalie Collins from the Christian Feminists Network said: "It's good news but it's also a bit disturbing that it's taken until 2017. "I hope it paves the way for more change in the high church. "

St Paul's choir has performed at notable national events such as Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer's wedding in 1981, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012 and Baroness Thatcher's funeral in 2013. 2017-02-28 21:33 www.bbc.co.uk

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Eye candy: Epic shows off Unreal Engine 2017 features

Gears of War, Street Fighter V, Sea of Thieves, Rocket League, LawBreakers, what do they all

have in common? All those games were built using the Unreal Engine. GDC 2017 (Game Developers conference) is under way and Epic is showing off the features they have planned for Unreal Engine in 2017. If you're a developer, you can check out these release notes for changes in UE 4.15 which include optimizations in overall stability and improvements to runtime performance and compile times. For the rest of us, the eye candy on the video above gives us a glimpse of what's coming in computer graphics and gaming titles effective immediately. 2017-02-28 21:30 Julio Franco www.techspot.com

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QASymphony hires software veteran Bas Nijjer to accelerate global expansion

QASymphony , the leading provider of agile testing solutions for the Global 2000, announced today the appointment of Bas Nijjer as General Manager of the EMEA region. Nijjer previous held leadership

positions at several enterprise software companies including Hewlett-Packard, CollabNet and WANDisco. Nijjer joins QASymphony at a transformative time. The company has achieved rapid growth in the past three years as enterprises move away from expensive legacy software like HP Quality Center to modern solutions like QASymphony’s qTest platform. qTest integrates with popular developer tools like Atlassian’s JIRA, Selenium and Jenkins, enabling teams to develop high quality software at an agile pace. Below are some of the key highlights from 2016:

“Over the past two years there has been tremendous growth in the European market as enterprises are experiencing competitive pressure to speed up time to market while improving software quality,” said Dave Keil, CEO of QASymphony. “We are thrilled to have Bas lead our European team and I am confident that he will be able to accelerate the growth of our global footprint.” “This is a very exciting time to join QASymphony,” said Nijjer. “The company has best-in-class software testing solutions, a very talented team and incredible sales momentum in North America. I look forward to driving similar success in the European region.” 2017-02-28 21:26 SD Times sdtimes.com

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Google promotes Keep note app to a G Suite core service, much to our relief

Keep has always been one of Google’s most

Keep has always been one of Google’s most

unsung tools. A versatile and powerful crossplatform note-taker, it’s great for jotting down thoughts, saving photos, making to-do lists—just about anything we need to access quickly throughout our day. And now Google is finally giving it the respect it deserves. No longer a standalone utility, Google is upgrading Keep to a G Suite core service , making it as important of an office production tool as Docs or Sheets. Now you’ll be able to see, search, and edit your Keep notes in Docs, saving precious minutes and helping to streamline your workflow with drag-and-drop integration of notes right into your documents.

You can now edit and create Keep notes right in Google Docs. Any notes you create while in a document will be added to a Related tab in the sidebar and synced back to the Keep app. Then, when you then view those notes in Keep, they will include a link back to the original document where they were created. As a core service, Keep will now have the same technical support and service level, and it will be added as a monitored service to the G Suite Status Dashboard. And business that subscribe to a monthly G Suite plan will also get administrative rights over Keep through Google Drive. 2017-02-28 21:25 Michael Simon www.pcworld.com

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China marks significant progress on its BeiDou satnav network

Engineers working on China’s domesticallyproduced sat nav system BeiDou say they have

made significant progress on the network’s accuracy. At a press conference, they confirmed that the BeiDou satellites can pin users down to one or two metres with the help of a new chip. Prior to this, BeiDou could only get someone’s position accurate to 10 metres. Li Xueli, an engineer working on BeiDou, said: China will surely be pleased with the progress made on the satellite system and will reinforce confidence in the project going into 2018 when 18 more satellites are expected to be launched. By 2020, over 30 satellites will have been launched

and will be usable anywhere in the world. The more satellite systems that a device support, the more accurate your location data will be when trying to find out where you are on apps such as Google Maps. Most phones currently work with GPS and GLONASS , however, some cheaper models lack GLONASS support and location reliability drops noticeably due to a lack of observable satellites. With 1-2m precision, BeiDou is just behind the EU’s Galileo satellite system which gives the public 1m accuracy. GPS gives 5m accuracy and GLONASS gives 4.5-7.4m accuracy. Source: CGTN | Chinese flag image via Wikimedia 2017-02-28 21:06 Paul Hill feedproxy.google.com

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Niantic CEO insists Pokemon Go is still going strong

It seems like ages ago, but it was only last summer that the game developed by the San Francisco-

based company Niantic turned into a global phenomenon, sending legions of players into a worldwide frantic hunt of popular Asian cartoon characters. Today? Not so much. Those stunning scenes of urban stampedes are

basically over, and user numbers have reportedly plummeted, but that doesn't mean that Pokemon Go was just a fad, according to Niantic CEO John Hanke. "I think you should go check your data. Look at the top grossing apps on Google Play and Apple and check the charts, then form your own opinion," Hanke told The Associated Press Tuesday after his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. "What happened last summer was really kind of strange, where Pokemon Go spiraled out of control to this level of cultural awareness that nobody expected, certainly not us. What happened after that is that it became an extremely successful mobile game and product, just based on the number of daily active users and monthly active users. " Niantic was originally founded as a start-up within Google, where Hanke developed Google Maps, but went independent in 2015 while keeping the multinational technology giant as one of its main

investors. Most people associate augmented-reality smartphone apps with Pokemon Go, which allows players to feel like they're catching monsters in the real world when they appear on their phones. But the number of games and competition is growing. Hanke vowed to keep going strong, though, announcing the addition of new Pokemon characters, as well as a new version of the game that preceded Pokemon Go, the popular Ingress. One common complaint among non-Pokemon Go enthusiasts related to security hazards the game exposed citizens to. Reports also ranged from annoyed storeowners to reproaches of littering by the sudden influx of players leaving trash behind in parks, resulting sometimes in new ordinances requiring gaming companies to pay a fee to help with upkeep. Game developers, on the other hand, warned that restrictions could harm the growth of the bulging technology industry. "I haven't heard complaints about stampedes of people. ... In certain places, there were a few

complaints about littering, but I chalk that up to this being a brand new consumer experience that nobody had any knowledge about how to prepare for in the past," Hanke said. The Niantic chief insisted that the new virtual-reality world will still take some getting used to, and that Pokemon Go will have a leading role in the evolution of its gaming products. "The usage is at a more normal level for one thing, but people will now understand what it is and won't be surprised necessarily when hundreds of people gather in the parks for no other reason than looking at their phones and playing Pokemon Go," Hanke said. Pokemon Go's creator fell short of unveiling new product offerings, but managed to tease the game's users with promises of interesting developments. "As in the past, we will be launching our in-games live events and all new kinds of customized apparel for trainers. We also have three additional major releases planned throughout the year and one of those is going to bring stuff users have been

clamoring for," Hanke concluded. Explore further: Popular mobile game 'Pokemon Go' lands on Apple Watch 2017-02-28 21:02 phys.org

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Why Try? Better Exception Handling in Java With Try

Exception handling in Java is difficult with streams, IO, and concurrency. A lot of people are saying that it even might be a failed experiment. Broken. I am

not saying it is but that is what I've heard, just ask around. Checked exceptions are not what they used to be. They won't write about it but I will. Make the Try great again. &:0 Yoda says there is no Try in Java 8. You have to write it yourself. Sad. Oracle doesn't provide a Try and throws exceptions at innocent methods — NO JVM INSTALLS? &:0 It is not that difficult, though. A Try is an object that wraps an exception so it is not immediately thrown. A Try is either a success or a failure. A developer can inspect the Try and ask if it is a success or not. According to the Scala documentation, a Try can be chained, catching exceptions along the way. A good explanation is found at: What's wrong with Java 8, part IV. There are several implementations of Try, including the basic implementation we go over here. A more elaborate implementation is found at: https://github.com/jasongoodwin/better-javamonads. The basic implementation tries a function call, wraps the exception, and returns a success or

failure. The Try can be chained with the map and flatMap operations: A Try is an abstract class with a static initializer method, failable(), which returns either a Success or a Failure. A Success contains a value and a Failure contains a RuntimeException with the original exception as the cause. The exception is unchecked so that if it is thrown, it will halt the program and doesn't need to be caught again. In Scala, an example is provided on how to use the Try, available at: http://www.scalalang.org/api/2.9.3/scala/util/Try.html. This example takes two integers from the console and tries to divide them. If one of the strings can't be parsed into an integer, or if the divisor is zero, an exception is thrown. The Try returns a failure and that event can be handled gracefully: In this example, all functionality of the Try is clearly visible. Exceptions are chained and saved for later so that they can be handled gracefully in code. Streams can't handle checked exceptions. Throwing exceptions from within the stream will

break the type system. Wrapping exceptions is perfectly all right. See Brian Goetz's answer on Stackoverflow: How can I throw checked exceptions from inside Java 8 streams. The Try wraps the checked exception, but doesn't throw it. Instead, it provides the option to inspect the result and decide to either handle the failure or throw an unchecked exception. This is also legal in streams. For example: In the above example, a method which may throw a checked exception, is called in the stream. The compiler will flag this, but when wrapped in a Try, the code is executed and the eventual exceptions are stored in the Try. With the filter method, all failures are filtered out and we get a list of results. It is easy to see how success and failure can be handled. The results can be passed to a different location for further inspection. Concurrency is another area where exception handling can be difficult. With the Java Executor, you get a Future, which may contain an exception. When calling the get method, the exception is immediately thrown. You don't know beforehand

whether the result is available or not. Maybe you don't want to throw and catch the exception. Maybe you're only interested in those Futures that did finish successfully. Either way, the following example shows how the result of a Future is stored in a Try and made available for inspection: No try-catch blocks needed and the code still handles exceptions gracefully. In the previous examples, we saw that the Try is useful in several scenarios, and there are more. It is a good replacement for Optional, for example. If Try is so useful, why is it not part of the Java JDK? The Future and the Optional would be easier if they had Try semantics. In streams, a Try is useful when dealing with checked exceptions to wrap them in unchecked exceptions and still be able to handle the exceptions gracefully. I suggest Oracle take the Try seriously, but not literally. &:0 2017-02-28 21:01 Parent Linkdate dzone.com

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Containers 101

As containers and microservices become more mainstream, you may wonder how to pave the way to adoption. How can you use containers to automate application deployments? What tools do you need to help your path to adoption? How can you get there faster, with fewer chances for errors and re-work?

A new Geek Guide sponsored by Puppet, Containers 101 , covers everything you need to know about: What containers are, including the major players in the space. Benefits gained from switching to containers. How configuration containers.

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Using containers is not an all-or-nothing approach. You’ll see how to incorporate containers into a mix of technologies, whether you’re managing bare metal, virtual machines, or services in the cloud. You’ll also get a sense of how to manage a migration plan, so you can gain benefits quickly, and avoid security risks. The guide also covers how companies like Uber, eBay, Yelp, ADP and Goldman Sachs have used containers successfully, and how a tool like Puppet can help accelerate the adoption of container technologies.

Get the guide . 2017-02-28 21:01 Puppet www.computerworld.com

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Kwikset, Schlage, and Yale smart locks gain Alexa skills

Schlage is enabling this skill for its Connect series of touchscreen entry locks and Kwikset is adding this capability to its Kwikset SmartCode 910-, 914-, and 916-series locks. We’re waiting to hear which Yale models will be affected, but we presume it will be the Real Living or Assure series, since onboard

Z-Wave radios seems to be the other feature in common. According to Schlage’s VP of strategy and partnerships Rob Martens, “the integration of the Alexa Skill for locks is achieved through a cloud-tocloud integration, and the Alexa team has previously made those cloud-to-cloud integrations with Z-Wave smart home systems such as SmartThings and Wink and to operate other devices such as lighting and thermostats. It is faster to roll out additional Alexa skills using existing integrations.” These skills will likely be rolled out for additional smart home hubs in the future, but they’re limited to SmartThings and Wink for now. “This is a choice made by the Amazon Alexa team,” Martens said. “Typically, there is a significant amount of testing involved with launching a new Alexa Skill, so Amazon may choose to limit the number of participants for initial rollout and then add more later.” These smart entry locks will respond to just two

voice commands in the beginning. You’ll be able to ask Alexa to lock your door, and you’ll be able to ask her the current status of the lock. You wouldn’t want Alexa to unlock your door, as that would present a tremendous security risk because Alexa can’t distinguish between your voice and a burglar’s. But I know from personal experience how convenient it is to use a voice command to lock a door from anywhere in range of my Amazon Echos (I have an Echo Dot in almost every room of my home, including my garage). I’m using a Vivint Smart Home system that gained Alexa Skills more than one year ago. 2017-02-28 21:00 Michael Brown www.techhive.com

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Bitbucket Introduces Required Two-Factor Authentication and IP Whitelisting

Atlassian has announced two new features aimed to make Bitbucket more secure: IP whitelisting and required two-factor verification.

IP whitelisting will allow organizations to restrict the IP address from which a user can view, push, or clone a Bitbucket repository. According to Atlassian, Bitbucket is the first of the leading Git repository management tools to use IP whitelisting to ensure that data is safe even if an account’s password is compromised. Specifically, Atlassian believe that IP whitelisting will make it possible for customers who

have preferred using on-premises version control system to have more control on user access, to safely migrate to their data to the cloud. In particular, Atlassian hopes IP whitelisting will allow organizations more sensitive to privacy issues, such as in the financial or health care industry, to enforce advanced security policies, including: Two-factor authentication was introduced in Bitbucket in 2015 as an optional feature which can either leverage a mobile device to handle the second confirmation or a security key device such as the YubiKey. While two-factor authentication can drastically limit the occurrences of identity theft, being optional reduces its effectiveness. Now account administrators can make two-factor authentication mandatory for whole teams. If a user tries to access their account without having enabled two-factor authentication, they will be denied access and shown instructions on how to enable it. Both IP whitelisting and mandatory two-step authentication are only available with Bitbucket’s Premium plan, which will cost $5/user/month. Twostep authentication remains available, though, as a

free feature to all users who want to enable it. 2017-02-28 21:00 Sergio De www.infoq.com

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TC Disrupt Startup Battlefield application deadline extended to Thursday

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Battlefield today, you might have noticed you hit a wall. We’re having some technical difficulties right now with the website, and have decided to extend the deadline to Thursday, March 2, at 12 pm PT. We’ll be sure to spread the word when the issue is resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience. spread the word Startup Battlefield is the premier startup competition. So far, 648 companies have launched on our stages, raising a combined total of $6.9 billion — and 94 Battlefield companies have either been acquired or IPO’ed. If selected to participate, your team will get to pitch for six minutes and then face Q&A from an all-star list of judges. All Battlefield sessions are live streamed to a vast, global audience via TechCrunch, Facebook, Twitter/Periscope and YouTube. The Battlefield winner takes home the Disrupt Cup, a check for $50,000 and exposure to investors and

media. Oh, and glory. Disrupt NY will be held May 15-17 at Pier 36 in Manhattan. Companies selected for Battlefield will receive private pitch coaching by TechCrunch editors, free demo space in Startup Alley, invitations to VIP events and TC swag. Disrupt NY will be held May 15-17 at Pier 36 in Manhattan. Battlefield is open to startups in all verticals, including: hardware or software, international, mobility, AI, BioTech, entertainment, enterprise and consumer goods. Companies launching for the first time to the public on our stage will be given preference. You can find the full eligibility rules here. here To apply, head on over to the Startup Battlefield application page. As soon as it’s fixed, of course. Startup Battlefield application page 0 SHARES Advertisement Advertisement SEE ALL NEWSLETTERS SpaceX Is Flying Two People Around the Moon | Crunch Report

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Porsche Design unveils gorgeous Book-style Windows 2-in-1

Not to be outdone by Samsung’s recently announced Galaxy Book , Porsche Design at Mobile World Congress has unveiled an incredibly impressive 2-in-1 of its own.

The Porsche Design Book One features a 13.3-inch touchscreen display sporting a resolution of 3,200 x 1,800 that’s mated to Intel’s Core i7-7500U processor, Intel HD Graphics 620, 16GB of RAM and 512GB of PCIe solid-state storage. It also includes two USB Type-C ports, two standard USB 3.0 ports and a USB Type-C port with Thunderbolt 3 although unfortunately, there’s no option for discrete graphics. Other amenities include a precision trackpad, a magnetic holder on the right side of the system for its stylus, a Windows Hello camera and up to 14 hours of battery life when used with the keyboard

dock (or around three hours with the tablet only). It runs Windows 10 Pro out of the box. As a 2-in-1, the Book One can be detached from its base and used as a tablet. Its unique cog-style hinge also allows the display to be rotated back 360° and used in tablet mode that way a la Lenovo’s Yoga line. The Porsche Design Book One goes on sale in April and will be priced at $2,495. That’s no small chunk of change but then again, this is perhaps the best looking Book-style 2-in-1 we’ve seen to date. 2017-02-28 20:49 Shawn Knight www.techspot.com

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Xiaomi Launches Redmi 4X with Octa-Core Snapdragon 435 CPU, LTE Support

According to Xiaomi , its new Redmi 4X smartphone will go on sale as early as next month. Customers will be able to pick this one up in Cherry Pink, Champagne Gold, and Matte Black. It will cost

as low as $100 for the 16GB, but the 32GB will be available for $130. Considering the phone's retail price, it's a wonder that some features have been added under its hood. First off, it offers LTE support for speeds of up to 300Mbps download and 100Mbps upload. The smartphone even packs a 1.4GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 processor, coupled with an Adreno 505 graphics processing unit and either 2GB or 3GB of RAM. As mentioned earlier, the Redmi 4X comes in different versions based on the amount of memory, so you can choose between the 16GB and 32GB

models. The good news is the smartphone offers the option to further expand memory via microSD card. In the camera department, the Redmi 4X doesn't disappoint either, as Xiaomi added a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera with LED flash and autofocus, as well as a secondary 5-megapixel selfie camera in the front. More importantly, Xiaomi Redmi 4X sports a 5-inch display that supports HD (720p) resolution. Other highlights of the phone include dual-SIM support, VoLTE, as well as a huge 4,100 mAh battery, which should provide at least a couple of days on average use. Xiaomi Redmi 4X will be officially introduced in China soon, but the company did not offer details on the phone's availability in other countries. We believe there's a chance the Redmi 4X will be launched in India where Xiaomi previously released some of its budget-friendly smartphones. 2017-02-28 20:47 Andrei Vlad news.softpedia.com

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HTC Vive’s Netflix-esque VR subscription costs $6.99 per month

HTC is giving users of its Vive virtual reality headset access to a Netflix-like subscription service. Everyone who currently owns a Vive will get a free trial for a month, and the service will cost US $6.99 a month thereafter. For that price, users will be able to pick out five

virtual reality apps at the start of each month, including games and other interactive experiences. The service will be available in a “couple weeks,” Rickard Steiber, the company’s senior vice president for virtual reality said during an interview at the Game Developers Conference Monday. One benefit to consumers is that the subscription will give users an affordable way to try out titles every month, without requiring them to commit to a full retail purchase. The company had 14,000 people say they were interested in such a subscription after HTC announced it at the Consumer Electronics Show last month, Steiber said. Once it’s available, users will have to opt in for their free trial. Developers also have to opt into the Viveport Subscription service, which will give them roughly $0.84 for each subscriber who picks one of their titles. The subscription could stand to be a windfall for popular experiences and a boon to consumers who

want to try new things in VR without paying full price. Developers also get an opportunity to stand out from the crowd of 1,300 games and other apps available for the Vive by making their titles available through the new service. Developers could also choose to bring their app to the subscription service for a brief time to give users a taste of what it does, before pulling it to encourage them to buy the full retail version. Developers have to notify HTC 60 days before they want to remove the game, and users will have it removed from their library after that. The subscription will be available to consumers worldwide. A survey collecting sign-ups for interested users offers a drop-down that supports 32 countries, including the U. S., U. K., China, Japan, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Denmark, Germany, and France. Countries may have different titles available, based on licensing restrictions and developers’ choices. The news came as the company announced pricing for the Vive Tracker hardware, which allows

developers to track physical objects in virtual reality by attaching a special gizmo. One tracker costs $99, and they’ll be available for developers to purchase on March 27. 2017-02-28 20:38 Blair Hanley www.pcworld.com

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Macworld’s March Digital Edition: The MacBook Pro's Battery Life Tested

Every day, Macworld brings you the essential daily news and other info about all things Apple. But

staying on top of that torrent of information can be a constant challenge. One solution: the Macworld Digital Edition. Tested: The truth behind the MacBook Pro’s 'terrible' battery life. Also, choose the best Wi-Fi replacement for your Apple AirPort router. Also in this month’s issue: We're now on a new platform that adds the ability to read in landscape, adjust type size, pinch and zoom and do a full library search. Your issue library access will be intact but it need to be downloaded again and will display in the new format. Check out our responsive view. While in the issue, swipe to an article page like MacUser, tap the screen to reveal the app menu, go to the bottom menu and tap the viewer icon (first icon from the left). To go back to static view, tap the viewer icon again. You'll need your email and subscription password to access your issues. If you haven't created a password for your subscription, follow the steps

below. From a desktop, go to macworld.com/customer_service to create a password for your subscription. (If you read the Replica edition through Zinio, your process will not change.) Should you need assistance, please call 800-2886848, or email us at [email protected] , and we'll be happy to help you. Sign up for our Digital Edition. Existing subscribers can log in to access to their issues. Our digital edition can also be found through a variety of other digital newsstands such as Texture (formerly known as Next Issue), Google Play , Kindle and Nook . 2017-02-28 20:26 Macworld Staff www.macworld.com

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Boston Dynamics takes big jump with two-legged Handle robot

Robotics company Boston Dynamics has built a two-legged, wheeled robot that can roll down a flight of stairs and jump on and off a table, all while maintaining its balance and speed. Handle, a 6-foot, 5-inch tall robot, can travel at 9 mph and jump four feet, according to Boston Dynamics , a Alphabet-owned company, which posted a video of the robot on YouTube.

With 10 actuated joints, the robot has a range of 15 miles on one battery charge. What has attracted attention to the Handle video, which was posted on Monday and had more than 1.5 million views by Tuesday afternoon, is the robot's ability to balance itself while moving, jumping and even having one leg roll up a ramp while the other leg rolls across the floor beside it. "Handle uses many of the same dynamics, balance and mobile manipulation principles found in the quadruped and biped robots we build, but with only about 10 actuated joints, it is significantly less complex," Boston Dynamics said in the video. "Wheels are efficient on flat surfaces while legs can go almost anywhere. " Boston Dynamics did not respond to a request for comment. A few years ago, the company's two-legged Atlas humanoid robots were used by several robotics teams to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

While some robots were able to open and walk through doors, climb stairs and walk over rubble, the ones that succeeded were often shaky and struggled to balance. Programming the ability to balance into a twolegged robot is a challenging task, and Boston Dynamics has taken a huge step in overcoming this obstacle, said Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy. "First, it's on two limbs, which is harder than four. Wheels aren't necessarily easier than walking, and I'm impressed by the speed and nimble movement even when going down the stairs or across uneven or even slippery terrain. " The headless robot has two arms that are connected to the machine's hip area. The arms extend in back and are able to pick up and carry as much as 100 pounds. With that ability, the robot could be used to deliver packages to customer's homes or within an enterprise, Moorhead said.

"I could see enterprises using this to deliver mail or even packages in an office environment and even moving parts around in a space-constrained environment like a factory," he added. 2017-02-28 20:15 Sharon Gaudin www.computerworld.com

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Microsoft adds Store app-only restriction as option in Windows 10

Microsoft has added a setting to Windows 10 that will let users restrict new software installation to

only those apps hosted in the Windows Store. The option debuted in the latest version of Windows 10 Insider, the preview program which gives participants an early peek at the next feature upgrade as Microsoft builds it. That version, labeled 15042, was released Friday. With the setting at its most stringent, Windows 10 will block the installation of Win32 software -- the traditional legacy applications that continue to make up the vast bulk of the Windows ecosystem -and allow users to install only apps from the Windows Store, Microsoft's marketplace. Other settings allow software installation from any source, or, while allowing that, put a preference on those from the Windows Store. Unless Microsoft removes them, the options will appear in the next Windows 10 feature upgrade, dubbed "Creators Update," which is to launch in March or April. The appearance of the installation-origin settings followed reports last month that Microsoft was

crafting another Windows 10 edition, called "Cloud," which would run only Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps obtained from the Store. Microsoft has said nothing about the purpose of the new settings or confirmed the reports of Windows 10 Cloud. But when the new options were applied, they touted themselves as making devices "safe and reliable. " When asked today for more information about the thinking behind the installation options, a company spokeswoman repeated a stock statement about the Insider program that included the line, "We regularly test new features and changes to existing features to see what resonates well with our fans. " By limiting Windows 10 to only the apps on the Windows Store, Microsoft will follow in the footsteps of Apple's iOS and macOS, as well as Google's Chrome OS. Each of those operating systems block all software but that hosted in a vetted mart, or in the case of macOS, let users choose the option. (The new Windows 10 setting is most like macOS's "Gatekeeper," which debuted in 2012's Mountain

Lion.) In iOS, for instance, the App Store serves as the only sanctioned software gateway; iPhone owners must "jailbreak" their smartphones for it to install apps not in the store. The practice has largely kept iOS devices malware free. John Pescatore, the director of SANS, has argued for years that the best security move Microsoft could take would be to mimic iOS, and restrict what runs on the OS. He repeated his call in a recent interview. "Look at iPhones and Android, they live without AV [antivirus] software," Pescatore said. "iOS and Android were built with app store construction and the Internet in mind," he added, pointing out that unauthorized executable code -- whether legitimate or malware -- could not be run on iOS. "Unfortunately, Windows 10 still has much in it that was built before the Internet," Pescatore continued. "So, it's easy for executables to work. " Since 2003 - when Pescatore was with Gartner Research -he's argued that Microsoft should restrict runnable

code. "Why doesn't Microsoft build into Windows a way to block executables? " he asked in summarizing his decade-and-more recommendation. 2017-02-28 20:13 Gregg Keizer www.computerworld.com

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Woman who found £20 note on floor convicted of theft

A woman who kept a £20 note she found in a shop has been convicted of theft. Nicole Bailey, 23, picked up the cash at a branch of

One Stop, in Blurton, Stoke-on-Trent, after it was dropped by a customer who withdrew it from a nearby cash point, police said. Bailey pleaded guilty at North Staffordshire Justice Centre after seeing CCTV evidence. Her defence team reportedly argued the case should have been dealt with through a police caution. Bailey, of Highfield Drive, Blurton, must also pay £20 compensation, a £20 victim surcharge and £135 in court costs. More updates on this and other stories in Staffordshire The theft occurred on 8 August last year. Ch Insp Karen Stevenson, from Staffordshire Police, urged anyone who finds lost money to "do the right thing". "Morally, the right thing to do is hand in any found property so that the person who has lost out has

every opportunity to be reunited with it. " "This was someone's hard-earned money and we are committed to supporting all victims in our community. " 2017-02-28 20:05 www.bbc.co.uk

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Networks must be software enabled and open ahead of 5G: Ciena

Cloud Microsoft to discontinue Skype WiFi as of March 31 Networking Nokia pushing operators toward 5G First through NFV and 4.9G Networking Qualcomm trialling Mercedes AMG

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Networking Qualcomm and Ericsson partner on 5G NR for Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo 2017-02-28 20:05 Corinne Reichert www.zdnet.com

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LineageOS brings more improvements along with support for more devices

The team behind LineageOS has been working

The team behind LineageOS has been working

hard on improvements to the fledgling Android platform. Like previous weeks , the firm has announced a comprehensive update on what has been improved, what devices have been added, and also what will be needed going forward. LineageOS has been improved with new features being added to the latest builds. The detailed list of which can be seen below. Adding to the already immense roster of devices , LineageOS will now be available for the following devices: 14.1 for the LG G3 and Samsung Galaxy S III, and 13.0 for the LeEco LeMax2 and Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0. As for moving the project forward, the team is looking for talented translators to begin

translations of the OS into different languages. You can assist by clicking the source link below. Source: LineageOS 2017-02-28 20:04 Timi Cantisano feedproxy.google.com

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Snap: Rewriting ‘Art of War’ for social networking — by not documenting anything

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Click on the button below to subscribe and wait for a new Facebook message from the TC Messenger news bot. Thanks, TC Team SNAP Founded 2010 Overview SNAP is an awardwinning, easy-to-integrate platform designed to modernize traditional in-store loyalty programs by expanding upon them to include today's most popular social media networks. SNAP is the first platform to bring social media posts and passive check-ins to the growing masses of location-based check-in and social network users. SNAP offers businesses large and small the ability to creatively … Location Pearl River, NY Categories Location Based Services Website http://www.snapforbusiness.com Full profile for SNAP SNAP Founded 2010 Overview SNAP is an awardwinning, easy-to-integrate platform designed to modernize traditional in-store loyalty programs by

expanding upon them to include today's most popular social media networks. SNAP is the first platform to bring social media posts and passive check-ins to the growing masses of location-based check-in and social network users. SNAP offers businesses large and small the ability to creatively … Location Pearl River, NY Pearl River, NY Categories Location Based Services Location Based Services Website http://www.snapforbusiness.com Full profile for SNAP Full profile for SNAP Snap Inc. Founded 2011 Overview Snap, formerly Snapchat Inc, is a privately owned multinational camera company. The company announced the rebranding on September 24, 2016 as it introduces its new product called Spectacles. Location Venice, CA Categories Photography , File Sharing , Messaging , Apps , Mobile Founders Evan Spiegel Website https://www.snap.com/en-US/ Full profile for Snap Inc.

Snap Inc. Founded 2011 Overview Snap, formerly Snapchat Inc, is a privately owned multinational camera company. The company announced the rebranding on September 24, 2016 as it introduces its new product called Spectacles. Location Venice, CA Venice, CA Categories Photography , File Sharing , Messaging , Apps , Mobile Photography File Sharing Messaging Apps Mobile Founders Evan Spiegel Evan Spiegel Website https://www.snap.com/en-US/ Full profile for Snap Inc. Full profile for Snap Inc. Spectacles Description Spectacle is a video-sharing sunglasses that frees the Snapchat app from smartphone cameras. Website https://www.spectacles.com/ Full profile for Spectacles Spectacles Description Spectacle is a videosharing sunglasses that frees the Snapchat app from smartphone cameras. Website https://www.spectacles.com/ Full profile for

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Gaming company Kabam’s roller coaster ride to a $700 million exit

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Thanks, TC Team Kabam Founded 2006 Overview Kabam is the leader in the western world for free-to-play core games with first and third party published titles available on mobile devices via the Apple Store, Google Play, Amazon Appstore, and on the Web via Facebook, Yahoo, Kabam.com and other platforms. In each of the last two years Kabam revenues have grown by 80 percent or more and will total more than $325 million in 2013. The company is … Location San Francisco, CA Categories Web Development , Gaming , Mobile Founders Holly Liu , Kevin Chou , Mike Li Website http://www.kabam.com Full profile for Kabam K a b a m Founded 2006 Overview Kabam is the leader in the western world for free-to-play core games with first and third party published titles available on mobile devices via the Apple Store, Google Play, Amazon Appstore, and on the Web

via Facebook, Yahoo, Kabam.com and other platforms. In each of the last two years Kabam revenues have grown by 80 percent or more and will total more than $325 million in 2013. The company is … Location San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA Categories Web Development , Gaming , Mobile Web Development Gaming Mobile Founders Holly Liu , Kevin Chou , Mike Li Holly Liu Kevin Chou Mike Li Website http://www.kabam.com Full profile for Kabam Full profile for Kabam SEE ALL NEWSLETTERS SpaceX Is Flying Two People Around the Moon | Crunch Report SpaceX Is Flying Two People Around the Moon | Crunch Report Watch More Episodes CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER at LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT (Los Angeles, CA, USA) CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER at LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT (Los Angeles, CA, USA) Sr. Chef DevOps Developer at Raytheon (Richardson, TX, United States) Sr. Chef DevOps

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ITU drafts 5G specs: 20Gbps downloads, 4ms latency per cell

According to the latest draft report from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) published on Thursday, the upcoming 5G standard must support one million connected devices per square kilometer and each single 5G cell will be

required to have a total download capacity of 20Gbps. Although the report is currently a draft, it is likely that the technical requirements for 5G will be approved this November. At that time, telecoms and chipset manufacturers can truly begin building the necessary technologies to power their 5G networks and devices. 5G will require at least 10Gbps uplink per each single cell. IoT is currently an emerging technology but once more consumers and businesses adopt it, 5G networks will need to be adequately prepared to

handle the increased demand. Latency will also be improved by the new standard with the maximum latency of 5G set at 4ms. Currently LTE cells have a much higher maximum latency of 20ms. The ITU has even called for a 1ms latency for ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC). 5G technology is still a ways off from being ready for consumer devices but this report does offer us a clear idea of what to expect over the course of the next two years as manufacturers and telecoms prepare to implement it in their networks and devices. Published under license from ITProPortal.com, a Future plc Publication. All rights reserved. Image Credit : Grey Carnation / Shutterstock 2017-02-28 19:48 Anthony Spadafora feeds.betanews.com

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HP's Pavilion x360 with a Kaby Lake processor has dropped to $479

The Microsoft Store has another great sale on a Windows 10 2-in-1 convertible , and this one’s rocking the latest generation of Intel’s Core processors. Right now, you can pick up the HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 15-bk193ms for $480. Like other devices sold at the Microsoft Store, this is a Signature Edition PC, which means bloatware from the computer maker is significantly reduced. The convertible laptop features a 15.6-inch 1080p touchscreen display, a 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core

“Kaby Lake” i5-7200U, 8GB RAM, and a 1TB hard drive. It also includes an SD card reader, two USB 3.0 ports, one USB 2.0 port, HDMI, Bluetooth 4.0, and 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Microsoft’s sale item only comes in silver and is loaded with the 64-bit version of Windows 10 Home. We haven’t looked at the Pavilion x360 since 2014 , and that model was a much smaller version to boot. But HP’s done a lot of overhauls since then. This value-oriented convertible caught our eye because it doesn’t skimp on features yet is still lightweight for its class. Most 15.6-inch budget laptops start at five pounds, but this Pavilion is 4.6 pounds—just a few more ounces than the 15-inch convertible in HP’s higher-end Spectre line. With a battery life that lasts up to eight hours, that means you can still travel fairly easily with it. [ Today’s deal: HP Pavilion x360 15 for $480 ] 2017-02-28 19:46 Ian Paul www.pcworld.com

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SAP's platform strategy doubles down on cloud, IoT, AI, and user experience

Enterprise Software SAP says iOS software developer kit set for lift-off CXO Brazilian ERP giant Totvs reports weak results

Cloud SAP doubles down on S/4HANA, rolls out public cloud editions Cloud SAP aims to step up its artificial intelligence, machine learning game as S/4HANA hits public cloud 2017-02-28 19:39 Dion Hinchcliffe www.zdnet.com

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The Best VPN Services of 2017

As consumers, we expect our computer hardware and software to keep us safe. The problem is, we all too often use our computers in risky ways. Connecting to public Wi-Fi networks, for example, is a commonplace practice, but these are also excellent avenues for attackers to seize your personal information. Enter virtual private networks, or VPNs. These services use simple software to secure your internet connection and give you greater control of how you appear online. You can even use them to stream Netflix from other countries. While you might never have heard of VPN services, they are valuable tools that everyone should have at their disposal, as we'll explain.

If you've ever had to connect to a corporate network while working remotely, you may already be familiar with VPN technology. In the simplest terms, it creates a secure, encrypted connection, which can be thought of as a tunnel, between your computer and a server operated by the VPN service. In a professional setting, this tunnel makes you part of the company's network as if you were physically sitting in the office, hence the name. While connected to the VPN, all your network traffic passes through this protected tunnel, and no one in between can see what you are up to. A consumer VPN service does the same thing, but for the purposes of protecting data and identity. Think about it this way: If your car pulls out of your driveway, someone can follow you and see where you are going, how long you are at your destination, and when you are coming back. They might even be able to peek inside your car and learn more about you. With a VPN service, you are essentially driving into a closed parking garage, switching to a different car, and driving out, so that no one who was originally following you knows where you went.

Of course, it would be misleading to claim that any security product is a magic bullet. VPN services, while tremendously helpful, are not foolproof. A determined adversary can almost always breach your defenses in one way or another. Using a VPN can't help if you unwisely download ransomware on a visit to the Dark Web. What a VPN can do is to protect you against mass data collection and the casual criminal vacuuming up user data for later use. The protection provided by a VPN offers many advantages. First and foremost, it prevents anyone on the same Wi-Fi hotspot (or anywhere else) from intercepting your web traffic in a man-in-the-middle attack. This is especially handy for travelers and for those using public Wi-Fi networks, such as those at hotels, airports, and coffee shops. VPNs also cloak your computer's actual IP address, making it harder for advertisers (or spies, or hackers) to track you online. This is just good security, but there are people for whom a VPN is essential. Journalists and activists rely on VPN services to circumvent government

censorship so they can safely communicate with the outside world. Of course, doing so may be against the law, depending on the country in which they're located. Some services, such as TorGuard and NordVPN, allow peer-to-peer file sharing and the use of BitTorrent sharing. Others will cancel your subscription if you use their servers for file sharing. Be smart: Don't ignore the company's terms of service. That way you can't complain if you get caught. The VPN services market has exploded over the past three years. Many providers are capitalizing on the general population's growing concerns about surveillance and cybercrime, which means it's getting hard to tell when a company is actually providing a secure service and when it's throwing out a lot of fancy words while selling snake oil. It's important to keep a few things in mind when evaluating which VPN service is right for you: reputation, performance, type of encryption used, transparency, ease of use, support, and extra features. Don't just focus on price, though that is an

important factor. That said, not all VPN services require that you pay. Several of the services we've listed here also supply free VPN services. You tend to get what you pay for, as far as features and server locations go, but if your needs are basic, a free service can still keep you safe. TunnelBear, for example, offers a limited but serviceable free VPN. Some VPN services provide a free trial, so take advantage of it. Make sure you are happy with what you sign up for, and take advantage of money-back guarantees if you're not. This is actually why I also recommend starting out with a short-term subscription—a week or a month—to really make sure you are happy. KeepSolid VPN Unlimited offers a one-week Vacation subscription, for example. Yes, you may get a discount by signing up for a year, but that's more money to lose if you realize the service doesn't meet your performance needs. If you're using a service to route all your internet traffic through its servers, you have to be able to

trust the provider. Established security companies, such as F-Secure, may have only recently come to the VPN market. It's easier to trust companies that have been around a little longer, simply because their reputation is likely to be known. But companies and products can change quickly. Today's slow VPN service that won't let you cancel your subscription could be tomorrow's poster child for excellence. I'm not a cryptography expert, so I can't verify all of the encryption claims providers make. I focus, instead, on the features provided. Bonus features like ad-blocking, firewalls, and kill switches that disconnect you from the web if your VPN connection drops go a long way toward keeping you safe. I also prefer providers that use OpenVPN, since it's a standard that's superior to the older PPTP standard. It's also, as the name implies, open source, so issues with the protocol can be quickly found and addressed. Be sure to consider transparency and the privacy policy of a VPN service before you buy a subscription. See if the policy spells out what the

service does, what information it collects, and what its responsibilities are. Some companies explain that they collect some information but don't inform you about how they intend to use that information. TorGuard, for example, has a clear explanation of how it keeps track of payment card information without maintaining any logging information. Also, be sure to find out where the company is based. Some countries don't have data-retention laws, making it easier to keep a promise of "We don't keep any logs. " Most users want a full graphic user interface for managing their VPN connection and settings, though a few would rather download a configuration file and import it into the OpenVPN client. Most VPN companies I've reviewed support all levels of technological savvy, and the best have robust customer support for when things go sideways. While a VPN can protect you online, you still might want to take the additional step of avoiding credit cards for moral or security reasons. Several VPN services now accept PayPal, Bitcoin, and other

alternate payment methods. In a few cases, VPN services may even accept retailer gift cards. That Starbucks gift card may be better spent on secure web browsing than a mediocre-at-best latte. It's also important to remember what a VPN can and cannot do. While it will hide your IP address, it's not a true anonymization service. For that, you'll want to access the Tor network , which will almost certainly slow down your connection. That said, some services, such as NordVPN, offer Tor access on specific servers. IVPN offers a similar feature called multi-hop VPN, which lets you route your web traffic in tricky ways. Borders still exist on the web. New, major-release films and television shows are often released on Netflix outside of the US and only available for purchase via Amazon, iTunes, or on the Windows Store within the US. But if you were to select a VPN server in a country with rights to the show, your computer's IP address would appear to be in that country, allowing you to view the content. Of course, you might find Netflix in other countries to be even more restrictive. You won't be able to watch House

of Cards in Bulgaria, for example. The trouble is that Netflix and similar streaming services are getting wise to the scam. In my testing, I found that Netflix blocked streaming more often than not when I was using a VPN. There are a few exceptions, but I also have to assume that Netflix is actively working to protect its content deals. What works today may not work tomorrow. You'll note that I said "scam," above, and that is more or less true. Just because you paid for Netflix in one place does not mean you're entitled to the content available on the same service but in a different location. Media distribution and rights are incredibly messy and complicated. You may or may not agree with the laws and terms of service surrounding media streaming, but you should definitely be aware that they exist and understand when you're taking the risk of breaking them. While it's often said that having to choose between security and convenience is a false dichotomy, it is at least somewhat true in the case of VPN services. When a VPN is active, your web traffic is going

through many more steps than normal and likely being bounced around in surprising ways. The end result is that your internet connection will likely be more sluggish than normal. The good news is that using a VPN probably isn't going to remind you of the dial-up days of yore. Most services provide perfectly adequate internet speed when in use and can even handle streaming HD video. 4K video and other data-intensive tasks like gaming are another story, however. Some VPN services, like NordVPN, have started to roll out specialty servers for high-bandwidth activities. And nearly every service I've tested includes a tool to connect you with the fastest available network. Of course, you can always limit your VPN use to when you're not on a trusted network. In some very rare cases, VPN services can actually improve your internet performance. That's the case for PureVPN, IPVanish, and ExpressVPN. This is likely because these services have access to highbandwidth infrastructure that your traffic is routed through when the service is active.

When I test VPNs, I use the Ookla speed test tool. (Note that Ookla is owned by PCMag's publisher, Ziff Davis.) This test provides metrics for latency, download speeds, and upload speeds. Any one of these can be an important measurement depending on your needs, but I tend to view the download speed as the most important. After all, we live in an age of digital consumption. Using that measurement, PureVPN is the 351574">fastest VPN by far. It's followed by the aptly named Express VPN and IPVanish VPN. But networks can be fickle things and your mileage may vary. I used to advise people to do banking and other important business over their cellular connection when using a mobile device, since it is generally safer than connecting with a public Wi-Fi network. But even that isn't always a safe bet. Researchers have demonstrated how a portable cell tower, such as a femtocell, can be used for malicious ends. The attack hinges on jamming the LTE and 3G bands, which are secured with strong encryption, and forcing devices to connect with a phony tower over

the less-secure 2G band. Because the attacker controls the fake tower, he can carry out a man-inthe-middle attack. Admittedly, this is an exotic attack, but it's far from impossible. And Wi-Fi attacks are probably far more common than we'd like to believe. That's why I recommend getting a VPN app for your mobile device to protect all your mobile communications. Even if you don't use it all the time, using a mobile VPN is a smart move to protect your personal information. Most VPN services offer apps on both Android and iOS, saving you the trouble of configuring your phone's VPN settings yourself. VPN providers typically allow up to six devices to be connected simultaneously under a single account. Also, while there are free VPN services available, many require that mobile users sign up for a paid subscription. Not all mobile VPN apps are created equal. In fact, most VPN providers offer different services (and sometimes, different servers) on their mobile offerings than what is available on their desktop

counterparts. I was pleased to see that NordVPN and Private Internet Access provide the same excellent selection of servers regardless of platform. These apps received an Editors' Choice nod both for desktop VPN apps and Android VPN apps. One feature of note for Android users is that some VPN services also block online ads and trackers. While iPhone owners can use apps like 1Blocker to remove ads and trackers from Safari, ad blockers aren't available on the Google Play store. But if you were to use Spotflux or Private Internet Access, ads would be a thing of the past. Computer and software providers work hard to make sure that the devices you buy are safe right out of the box. But they don't provide everything you'll need. Antivirus software, for example, consistently out-performs the built-in protections. In the same vein, VPN software lets you use the web and Wi-Fi with confidence that your information will remain secure. It's critically important, and oftoverlooked.

Even if you don't use it every moment of every day, a VPN is a fundamental tool that everyone should have at their disposal—like a password manager or online backup service. And one that will only become more important as our devices become more connected. So get safe, and get a VPN. Click through the review links of the best VPN services below for detailed analysis and performance results, and feel free to chime in on the comments section below them. 2017-02-28 19:37 Max Eddy uk.pcmag.com

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The Best Project Management Software of 2017

Teams that have to handle multiple projects can't rely on their memories to keep them all organized. And trying to keep everything together in email is a recipe for disaster. To deliver projects on time and within budget, information needs to be written down, deadlines plotted, and documents shared. Team members need to be in constant

communication with one another. That's the kind of information that quickly outgrows email threads and spreadsheets. When your team needs to get serious about managing projects, the solution is to get project management software. Project management apps are online systems for both working and collaborating in real-time on projects. These real-time workspaces let team members and outside partners keep an eye on every detail that brings a project to fruition. They typically provide an overview of all the projects in the pipeline, as well as the nitty-gritty details about the daily work being done to move the projects forward.

The kind of work that benefits from a project management app typically takes more than a few weeks to complete, and there are many steps and people involved. Is selling a house a project? It very well could be. Inside these apps, employees work together to break complex projects into component parts, namely milestones, tasks, and subtasks. Every milestone, task, and subtask can be assigned to a specific person and given a deadline. Typically, all the other team members can see who is responsible for each task, whether that person is on track to complete it on time, and if there are any unanswered questions about the job. Having visibility into every team member's task list is useful for understanding whether people are falling behind because they're overworked. When you can see that a colleague has six task assignments all due within the next 48 hours, it's easy to spot the problem and redistribute the work before deadlines slip. By looking at a Gantt chart, for example, which are pretty common in project

management apps, a manager would be able to see clearly when employees have too much work on their plates, or not enough. It helps everyone use their resources more effectively. Projects usually have assets, too, which range from a detailed description of the project and its parts to a visual mock-up. People on the project team all need access to these assets, and the project management becomes the central place where they live. Many project management solutions come with some amount of storage space so that your team can upload files right into the workspace, where everyone on the team can see them and discuss them. It's also common for services to have an option to connect to online storage services , such as Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive, so that team members can link to or upload files to the project management system from the repositories they already use. A few project management software systems have free versions, but they are generally quite limited.

The primary limitation is usually the number of projects you can manage (think one or two), although sometimes you might be restricted on space or prevented from using certain features. Almost all project management apps have at a minimum a two-week free trial. When a free trial has a time limit on it, I don't count it as having a free tier of service. To me, free means you get to use it forever with no charge. While it's helpful to try out software for free while you're deciding whether to upgrade, most businesses, in the end, will want the features and space allotments that come with paid accounts. Still, it's often helpful to try a product for an unlimited amount of time before deciding whether it's right for you, your team, and the work you all do. Which project management system has a free version? Zoho Projects, Teamwork Projects, Wrike, Volerro, and ProofHub all do. As you can see from the chart above, these free versions only allow you to manage one or two projects, except for Wrike. With Wrike, the limitations are that only five people

can use the tool, you only get 2GB of space, and you don't get proofing and approval tools. Free trials often come with other limitations, as well. These are listed in the Price section of the complete reviews, which are linked below. Collaboration software is a little different than project management software. While you do "collaborate" in a project management app, project management software is something much more specific. Collaboration software comprises so many different kinds of apps and services that handle everything from video conference calls to letting two people type on a document at the same time. Modern project management services often roll communication and collaboration tools right into them. Or they let you connect to the collaboration apps that your team already uses, such as Slack , HipChat , or even Google Docs. Whether you use communications tools included in the project management application or connect to

an outside one, the idea is that your team can log into one workspace and have at hand everything they need to get work done, including a prioritized to-do list, all the necessary assets, notes from other colleagues, a calendar of deadlines and milestones, and a place to ask questions and find answers. Some project management apps even offer billing and expense tools, too. Because collaboration and communication are so important, one of my favorite project management features is a built-in chat app. Having a chat app doesn't necessarily mean your team must use it, but it's nice to have the option. Zoho Projects, Volerro, and Clarizen all offer an included chat app. Task management software is slightly different from project management software. Project management apps will include task management features in them. But you can get standalone task management apps if that's the only piece you really need. One of the clearest example of a task management app is Asana. Asana is also sometimes called a

workflow management tool. With Asana, you can have tasks assigned to specific individuals, and those tasks can have descriptions, deadlines, and attached documents, but they aren't necessarily part of a larger project. Another kind of workflow management software are kanban boards. Trello is one example. Kanban is also a style of working. It comes from Japan, and it was traditionally used in manufacturing for just-intime delivery. These days, kanban apps are popular among software development teams. Kanban is particularly good at controlling how much new work a team takes on before the current batch of work in progress is complete. Some businesses do use kanban to manage projects, but kanban apps aren't really project management apps. Task-management apps work pretty well for ongoing work, the kind of work that generates task upon task with no end in sight. (Remember, projects have a start date, an end date, and a deliverable.) You can manage a project in Asana or Trello, but it takes a little more work on your part to

do so. The best way to explain it is with an analogy. Think of Asana or a kanban app as a deck of cards. Now think of a project management app as a board game. Board games come with rules, and the game is usually the most fun when you play it the way it was designed to be played. With a deck of cards, however, you can play a game someone else invented or you can make up your own game. Before you play cards, you have to make sure everyone at the table knows the rules and plays by the same rules, because they aren't written down on a nice little sheet of paper for you to follow. The same thing happens when you start using a task management app. You have to spend a lot of time figuring out how you're going to use it. On the one hand, it's very flexible. On the other hand, it can take some trial and error to get it right. That's not to imply that project management systems are inflexible. With a board game, you could certainly make up your own rules or create variations on the rules. But you buy a board game with an understanding that it works best when you

use it for its intended purposes. You use a project management app with the understanding that you are going to manage projects by assigning tasks and deadlines, monitoring work, tracking billable hours, and so forth. Another kind of app that people sometimes confuse with project management apps are to-do apps. Some to-do apps are collaborative. They sometimes give you the ability to create "projects" within them. You can assign a person to a to-do, give it a deadline, and watch for when the task is complete. But they're not project management apps. Similar to the issue with task management apps, todo list software doesn't give you the whole range of tools and features for tracking a complex project through its completion. Collaborative to-do apps are good for lightweight work. They're also good for families and multi-person households. But they're incapable of giving you a Gantt chart or an estimation of how much work time is left before the next phase of a project can begin.

My two favorite collaborative to-do apps are Todoist and Wunderlist . Many small businesses turn to project management software because they're overwhelmed by working in email. The right project management platform can help kill email , but know that it won't happen overnight. It takes time for employees to learn the software, and for your organization to figure out how best to use it for the projects you have. Small business and enterprises have very different needs, however, and it's important to find the project management tool that best fits your business. One tip-off as to whether a project management solution is better suited for small companies or large enterprises is how they charge. Project management platforms that can support enterprises typically have a per-user-per-month fee structure, while those that cater more to very small businesses often charge a flat monthly rate for a set number of licenses or for unlimited licenses. And it's not that a very small business can't or shouldn't use

the same software that the big players use, but sometimes it's overkill, and who wants to get stuck paying for features they don't need? Another differentiating factor is whether the project management platform has many permissions levels. Workfront, for instance, has different permissions levels for executives, portfolio managers, project managers, and team members. Having such hierarchical roles can ensure that each person in the organization has the right level of access. In a very small business, where each employee wears a lot of different hats, permission levels might not be as advantageous. There are other differences, too, aspects you'll want to consider for your particular business, team structure, and style of working. The summaries below will guide you toward finding the right service for your organization. When you're ready to get the full story on a particular service, click through to read an in-depth review. 2017-02-28 19:35 Jill Duffy uk.pcmag.com

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Dyson to open a second R&D tech campus in the UK

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TCL could launch about three BlackBerry Android smartphones this year

At the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, TCL unveiled the physical keyboardtoting BlackBerry KEYone smartphone, but that's

not the last of the company's plans for the year. The Chinese smartphone-maker is said to be planning to launch three more BlackBerry devices in 2017. The revelation comes directly from Nicolas Zibell, the CEO of TCL Communications, who was interviewed by CNET during MWC 2017. Zibell has not disclosed any details about the price points that the company will be targeting or what kind of devices are being planned. According to CNET, the DTEK50 and DTEK60 smartphones, which were launched late last year will get their respective successors and yet another full touchscreen device would be launched. So it doesn't seem like the BlackBerry Priv would be getting an overhaul anytime soon and it might just be a one-off device. For physical keyboard fans, the KEYone seems to be the only option in the modern smartphone era. You can check out our hands-on video and impressions of the KEYone or know more about the device in our continuous coverage of the Mobile World Congress from Barcelona.

Source: CNET 2017-02-28 19:20 Shreyas Gandhe feedproxy.google.com

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AWS investigating S3 problem at major data center location

Cloud Microsoft to discontinue Skype WiFi as of March 31

Cloud Salesforce beats Q4 earnings targets, Q1 outlook light SAP SAP's platform strategy doubles down on cloud, IoT, AI, and user experience Cloud Microsoft, Intel, banks form Enterprise Ethereum blockchain alliance 2017-02-28 19:19 Stephanie Condon www.zdnet.com

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5.3

Save More Than $300 on QuadCore Dell XPS 8910 Desktop

Get this deal This configuration features a sixth-generation quadcore 3.4GHz Intel Core i7-6700 CPU, a discrete Nvidia GeForce GT 730 graphics card (with 2GB of

memory), 8GB of DDR4 RAM, a 1TB 7200RPM hard drive, a DVD drive, Bluetooth 4.2, and 802.11b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi support. Dell is also offering a wired keyboard and mouse combo at no additional cost. That's particularly convenient if you're starting from scratch, but you can easily continue using your favorite existing input devices as well. So, what exactly makes this model so versatile? It's the sheer number of ports and slots. Inside, it has room for three 3.5-inch drives, four PCIe slots (with room for a full-size graphics card), and four DIMM

slots (with support for up to 64GB). And with the included power supply, you'll be able use up to 225W full-size video cards. By default, the XPS 8910 comes with Windows 10 Pro (64-bit) installed, so you'll be able to use the Edge Web browser, the Xbox app, the Cortana personal assistant, and the Windows Store right out of the box. 2017-02-28 19:18 Grant Brunner uk.pcmag.com

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Sweet Simplicity of a REST App With Spring Boot

You can build a fully featured REST app with only three Java classes. The ingredients list of what you need is pretty straightforward. You'll be working with the following packages: Spring Boot (you probably figured that out from the title). The Spring Data REST package.

All of the dependencies that these pull in — but you probably won't care too much about these. That's pretty much it — aside from Java, Gradle, and your favorite IDE. We're going to start off with something simple. Say we need a microservice to keep track of registered users in our system. We need to be able to store user data and allow it to be retrieved, updated, and deleted. In other words, we need a typical CRUD interface. The interface, of course, will be exposed as a REST

service. In addition to the regular old GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE methods, though, we'll want to support some sort of discoverable to our API, so we'll also be exposing a HATEAOS interface to allow clients to discover and dynamically adapt to our service as we expand it in the future. We're already talking about a fair amount of functionality here, but trust me, we won't be breaking the three class rule. Our model starts with a simple User class: Simple enough place to start. I did remove some boilerplate code from that sample, but I literally used IntelliJ to generate it all, so it really wasn't that interesting. Our model, of course, is pretty much useless on its own. This is where the Spring Data project comes in. Spring Data helps make it easier to manage data. The range of functionality provided is huge, and best discovered on your own. For this tutorial, the short version is that we'll be taking advantage of Spring Data's ability to make it really easy to work with JPA objects

Yeah, I know, I didn't mention anything about JPA earlier, but the fact of the matter is that for the very basic functionality we're talking about here, we just don't need to stress out about it too much. Here's all you really need to know: JPA will be storing our Model object in a single table called Users. The columns will be named the same as the field names and will be typed as varchar's. You won't be writing any SQL. Hibernate will be doing the actual work for us. You can customize pretty much everything above if you want to. Oh, and in case anyone cares, JPA stands for Java Persistence API, and you can read about it here . Now that we're all more comfortable, the first thing we need to do is update our model a bit. We're going to give it a db-generated primary key, and

we're going to annotate it as an Entity, so the system knows that it should care. We're still on just a single class, of course — here comes our second. Well, nearly — it's an interface, actually: Of course, we need something to run - so here is our main class. As you can see, we've annotated it with @SpringBootApplication , and our main class is calling SpringApplication.run() : All we need now is a build script: And away we go! Instant REST service! Go ahead, play around — send a POST to the same URL with Content-Type: application/json , and this JSON object to create a new user: List them, PUT them, DELETE them — it all works! I know, you really want a super complicated Spring configuration — sorry, not here. You were really excited to implement that repository interface?

Nope, not today. You even wanted to download and install your favorite Servlet engine, and configure it just so — sorry to disappoint! There's no sorcery here. This is Spring Boot in action, a set of libraries that make it very easy to build small, nimble, easy to extend and configure microservices. It's no longer a hassle to setup a new project; you can literally do it in five minutes. However, before we congratulate ourselves, let's take a closer look at what's going on here. I've been a fan of Spring for years, when I realized I could use it to make my code easier to read, more testable, and get me the transactionality of EJB without miles and miles of boilerplate code (anyone remember EJB 2.0?). Spring's Achilles Heel has always been in the configuration - when it's working, its magic, but when it's not, it's maddening. Spring Boot (and, in fact, Spring 4 in general) addresses this with simple and rather clever auto configuration. With Spring Boot, all you need to enable a certain feature is to include a 'starter library' on the classpath. There is a slew of these available, both from Spring and from third parties.

Spring has even provided what looks like a pretty comprehensive list of both. In our case, we've included 'spring-boot-starterdata-rest' on our classpath, which gives us a whole lot: It adds the Spring Data libraries to our classpath, obviously. It includes the Tomcat Servlet engine on our classpath, and embeds it into the jar file. Yes, this makes the jar file larger than it otherwise would be, but it tremendously simplifies the deployment of our app. It includes a bootstrap library that ties everything together when executing the JAR file. Our Repository interface has a full REST web service defined and implemented automatically, complete with paging support, and a full HATEAOS design, all based on the definition of the Repository and the Entity class. Even the findByEmail method is exposed as a search resource.

The spring-boot-starter-data-jpa library is what ties Spring Data and Hibernate together - it takes our Repository interface, and provides a default implementation, meaning that we are free to focus our JPA efforts into the mapping, and we don't need to touch the API. While this doesn't mean we can get by without understanding what's going on behind the scenes, it allows us to simply eliminate an entire class of code that tends to include a lot of boiler plate, and can be error prone. In addition, it tremendously simplifies the configuration - simply add a JDBC driver to the classpath and the connection info in an application.properties file, and you're all set to use that database. Heck, if you include the H2 inmemory JDBC driver, as we do above, it will start and stop the database for you with no further configuration at all - sweet for testing. JPA is not my favorite library - it gives us Annotation overload at times, it's tricky to work with complex object relationships, and it provides us with a query language that's close enough to SQL to look familiar, but different enough to not work the way I

usually think it should - but with a library like Spring Data, it's hard to argue that this isn't a great option. And that's it. Really! Download the code from my GitHub repo , and please, poke around and find whatever else is interesting. This was obviously only a taste of what you can do, but it shows off that with the current state of tools, you can motivate your team to build small, independent micro-services without a lot of overhead. This isn't all that's to it, of course — good testing practices, simple deployment mechanisms, and solid discipline are still required for working with micro-services, but the bar is being lowered every day! 2017-02-28 19:01 Parent Linkdate dzone.com

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Highlight Risks When Reporting Defects

A reader asked me this question: If you are working on a legacy application where

the team was not able, for any number of reasons, to maintain technical excellence, you might have a problem like this. So many defects, so little time to discuss. Let’s take the status-reporting problem. You could report the defect trends: number open last week, number closed, and number remaining. See Figure 8 in Are We There Yet? That chart (and most of those on the page) are for the project team — not management. When managers want to know about defect status,

they actually want the answers to these questions, the impact of the defects: If you can frame the problems as answers to these questions, you can provide a reasonable status in 10 minutes (or less). Here’s how this might work in four scenarios. “We have two big problems, aside from a number of small ones. I’m going to focus on problems one and two. If a customer encounters either of these, they will lose their data. We can’t recover the data. They will be quite angry. The possible outcomes are revenue loss from these kinds of customers, and worse, possible reviews that tell other people about our problems.” “We have unknown risks in these areas [the places where you have insufficient test automation]. Yes, we marked features in these areas as done, and we don’t know what we don’t know. Unknown risks have a habit of creating problems. [Remind them of the last time this occurred.] I recommend we release this as a beta release and spend the next two weeks working on our backlog of test

automation and build time reduction so we know faster what’s really going on. That way, we don’t have a problem with customer acquisition or retention and we don’t have potential customer problems with data loss and therefore losing that customer.” “Although we are finishing our work, we can’t finish the features because we don’t have the necessary people integrated into our team. [Say who those people are.] I’m not blaming them — I am sure they want to finish this work, also. However, I am worried about the risk of release without the testing being done [or whatever the risk is that you see]. I am worried we will lose customers and therefore revenue. I’m worried we won’t get reference accounts. I’m worried we will miss our release date and lose potential revenue.” In each of these scenarios, you’ve done your job. You explained the impact of the problems. It’s up to your managers to decide what to do. When you want to influence people — which is what you’re doing with a project status report — you

explain how the problem affects them. You offer possibilities that you can then discuss. 2017-02-28 19:01 Parent Linkdate dzone.com

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Industry Watch: NativeScript takes web developers mobile

JavaScript developers are taking over the world. More applications than ever before are living on the client, using APIs to connect to any requisite (and most likely cloud-based) back-end services. With that, we’ve seen an explosion of tools and frameworks to make JavaScript development seem

more like traditional programming, handling large codebases and issues such as type safety. In the meantime, we are living in a mobile-first world , where apps have emerged as the favored interface to business, accessible via phone or tablet, freeing users from the bonds of the desktop. How many languages and frameworks are developers required to learn these days to fulfill an organization’s digital mission? I spoke with Todd Anglin, who worked on NativeScript at Telerik before it was acquired by Progress, which is where he’s continuing his evangelism for the runtime. “JavaScript represents the world’s largest developer population, so this makes it a very attractive space for developers interested in creating tools and libraries,” Anglin said. “Often these libraries are delivering capabilities that have been available in other programming languages, like creating a PDF, but now done in ‘pure’ JavaScript.” Among the most popular abstractions, Anglin noted, are Node.js (JavaScript on the server), TypeScript

(makes JavaScript feel like C#) and Angular JS (one of the world’s most used JavaScript app frameworks). NativeScript, he explained, extends a JavaScript developer’s skills to native mobile apps. Unlike other runtimes, he told SD Times, NativeScript exposes 100% of the underlying native APIs to JavaScript, so developers can do anything in NativeScript that is possible in a traditional native iOS or Android app. NativeScript began in 2013 as “sort of skunkworks engineering project that was looking at hybrid at the time—the Telerik platform does quite a bit of work with Adobe PhoneGap, Cordova and hybrid development—and there were lingering concerns about the limits of hybrid,” he said. “Hybrid’s great for a lot of scenarios, but there are these cases where little quirks of hybrid can become a bit of a nuisance, so the team began in 2013 and began to look at this problem, saying ‘Can we take what everyone likes about hybrid—that is the reuse of web developer skill set, the reuse of JavaScript libraries—can we take that and eliminate what is

usually the big problem in hybrid, that HTML web key, which is prone to performance problems, and replace it with actual, genuinely native UI for each mobile platform?’” Among hybrid tools, Apache Cordova and PhoneGap have been quite successful in bringing web developers to mobile. But in terms of engineering, Anglin called them “a stopgap. It was essentially just taking a web browser, wrapping it up in a shell, and then creating a little thin JavaScript bridge to let a web developer talk to native devices through APIs. And so we look at NativeScript as kind of the next generation of what PhoneGap tried to do. In my view, I like to think of NativeScript as fulfilling the overdue promise of hybrid, which was always supposed to be write your application with reusable code with skills for the web, and then have a quality native app that can run on any platform. This is always what hybrid was supposed to do, but there’s a limit to what that little tiny web browser can achieve on a mobile device, especially with Apple.

“Apple,” he continued, “has been—whether you want to call it malicious or passively oblivious to how their little mobile web view works—they have a lot of barriers that they’ve built into iOS that make it a challenge to achieve high-performance apps when using that hybrid approach. We think NativeScript is very compelling. We think it does make a very smooth transition path from a hybrid developer to the NativeScript native approach. What the industry is now in many ways calling JavaScript Vivid Native, and we think it’s just now a matter of time before we get sort of a mass transition of that built-up Cordova audience to NativeScript.” The most recent release of NativeScript, version 2.5, became available in January. You can find out more about the release here. 2017-02-28 19:00 David Rubinstein sdtimes.com

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4.8

Download of the day: YouTube Song Downloader

For many people the most important source of new

For many people the most important source of new

music isn’t Spotify or Apple Music. It’s YouTube, which seems to have every song ever written on it somewhere, often in multiple versions and with cover versions and lyric videos too. That’s great if you’re in an area with reliable, fast internet access, but it’s not so good if you're not, or if you want to listen to your favorite songs offline because you’re on a limited data plan. Provided you have the copyright holder’s permission, YouTube Song Downloader enables you to do just that. Because you can’t always get a connection. YouTube Song Downloader is a fully-featured

YouTube client that enables you to find whatever you want to hear and then download it in MP3 or OGG format. It can download video too, and edit the titles after they’ve been downloaded. The app is free but it really wants you to register for a free account, and when you close the app it suggests tipping the developer. It’s a little bit annoying we know, but we’d rather deal with that than have to worry about adware or spyware that you often find in free apps. 2017-02-28 19:00 Gary Marshall feedproxy.google.com

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Qantas to add agility to legacy IT with APIs

Qantas is working on placing API layers in front of its legacy IT systems as part of a wide-ranging digital transformation program Australia’s largest airline has undertaken over the last two years. Qantas has built its own API gateway and management platform, which currently provides its

software developers with access to a small group of RESTful APIs — but a lot more are on the way, according to Jessica Lin. Lin is manager, digital technology and services, for Qantas IT and the product owner of the platform. Qantas’ decision to build its own solution was a “rather unconventional approach for a larger enterprise,” Lin acknowledged in a talk yesterday to the APIdays conference in Sydney. However, she said the risk inherent in the approach made sense in the context of the broader transformation Qantas has been undergoing, which

has seen the airline boost its software development capabilities. “That’s given us the capability to be able to design and build and upgrade [and] support our own platform, to support the technology decision choices that we have made,” Lin said. It’s also a conscious choice to take on certain risks and complexity and in return see benefits in terms of speed and cost effectiveness, she added. The homegrown API gateway and management platform was released into Qantas’ production environment in December 2016. It includes an internal developer portal with an API catalogue, API authentication, API versioning and routing, support for API throttling, and analytics and monitoring. Currently a handful of APIs are published on the portal: An API for customer profiles — allowing the identification of an individual based on their frequent flyer number and offering access to their preferences and travel history; an API for business profiles; and an API that can be employed by business areas that need to collect payments from

customers. APIs that Lin expects to be registered on the portal include flight scheduling; flight status and events; flight offers and promotions; check-in APIs; boarding passes; lounge services; crew profiles; and aircraft maintenance data. There’s “a lot of data flying about” in the Qantas ecosystem, and APIs can provide an efficient and cost-effective way of bringing together external and internal sources of data, Lin said. The adoption of APIs has also been driven by the increasing need to engage customers across multiple channels. The airline is yet to discuss whether to open up Qantas’ APIs beyond its internal developers and partners, she said. The airline conducted two proof of concepts for the API platform: One using a proprietary off-the-shelf product and another using a cloud-based, homegrown solution that leaned heavily on open source. The latter provided the basis for the platform currently used.

Qantas’ cloud-based setup uses NGINX as an API gateway, Red Hat’s 3Scale for API management, ModSecurity to provide a web application firewall and Node.js for automation of registration, routing and other functions. Qantas has adopted Amazon Web Services in a big way, so developing a cloud-native solution was a key consideration, Lin said. The platform the airline built has auto-healing and auto-scaling capabilities, so it doesn’t suffer capacity constraints, and it is heavily automated. The use of open source has cost benefits, particularly as Qantas continues to grow the platform, Lin said. The airline can also add new features as needed, she said. The downside is the complexity inherent in combining multiple open source components in a highly custom platform, she added. Lin said that one of the next major steps for the platform will be adding SOAP support “so that we are able to unlock the value from our legacy services”.

Qantas is also making a major push on microservices, Lin said. “We’re also adopting microservices architecture to allow us to innovate more quickly,” she said. Microservices will give developer teams the autonomy to innovate in their own area of functionality without affecting work by other teams. It will also allow Qantas to scale up and down its business services at a more granular level, Lin said. Tags software development API economy open source Qantas Cloud APIs cloud computing More about Amazon Web Services Qantas Red Hat 2017-02-28 19:00 www.computerworld.com.au

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Reflect reflects on lessons learned, rebuilds and opens its public beta

I wrote about Reflect last year when Alex Bilmes, a

Portland, Ore. tech scene stalwart, launched the startup to tackle the opportunity around visualizations . More specifically, Reflect was all about building a developer tool (think Twilio or SendGrid) that makes it super easy for developers to create visualizations within their applications -- but without having to custom code visualization functionality themselves. At the time, Bilmes opined to me that: "Companies are spending millions of dollars and

wasting years building infrastructure, APIs and entire front-ends to visualize data for their teams and customers. Data visualization isn't a core competency for most companies, nor should it be. Today, they are forced to hire teams of experts -designers, developers, product managers and data scientists -- to get things done. With Reflect, all it takes is a simple API. " Hence Reflect came to be -- a tool which allowed dashboards, reports and graphical views of application to be embedded within web and mobile applications -- without having to build and scale infrastructure and visualization libraries. Back in July, the experience that the Reflect team had while attending the TechStars program, and the early progress they demonstrated, led to a $2.5 million seed round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Now, some eight months or so later, Bilmes and the team have had time to reflect on those initial assumptions, assess progress to date, and change things up based on customer observations. Which takes us to today’s announcement that Reflect is opening a public beta of a completely rewritten

platform that the company hopes will help it grab market share off incumbents such as Tableau and GoodData. The launch comes after almost a year of user feedback from companies such as GM, Barracuda Networks, Zendesk and TUNE. So, what has the past year shown Bilmes and what necessitated a reworking of the platform? According to Bilmes, Reflect found a number of trends that were consistent across their userbase. Firstly, large enterprises are moving away from traditional BI approaches and settling on smaller application-based solutions because they can’t get their users to adopt traditional BI tools. Many are looking to add BI functionality to the apps their employees already use. Whereas BI was formerly an adjunct to applications, it is now an inherent part of those apps. Reflect obviously has a number of SaaS companies as customers -- and Bilmes told me that from what he’s seen, every SaaS company is getting asked for reporting and analytics by their customers. Most of

their customers are buying their software for the promise of better visualization, but analytics are harder to build than they thought. The amount of failed analytics projects that Reflect hears about is surprisingly high. In terms of actually implementing analytics alongside an application, Bilmes points to the real life difficulties that developers face. He suggests that data integration has historically been a really tough challenge. Developers would have to go through IT to get a port opened in their company’s firewall, go through security screening, etc. Reflect aims to change that by using their agent, which lets companies connect to almost any datasource by launching a Docker container in their infrastructure. With Reflect, developers can visualize data that lives anywhere, and embed it anywhere, without moving it off the server. This speaks to a dual value proposition -- the initial one of a modular developer tool for realizing visualization and analytics needs within applications, and a new one which more directly challenges the other visualization vendors for

driving visualizations off of third-party applications. For the former use cases, Bilmes talks of new ways that organizations are approaching greenfield applications: “Traditional monolithic stacks aren't keeping up with the way developers work today. Developers are building their own stacks, using a collection of microservices that work the way they work. We found that the biggest value we provided was in replacing the entire API/ACL layer. Our most engaged customers were adding Reflect directly on top of their Redshift warehouses and managing multi-tenancy entirely through our platform.” It strikes me that Reflect is attempting to broaden its franchise here, moving beyond a pure developer tool and addressing a far more widespread number of use cases. In doing so, however, they more squarely come up against the traditional analytics/visualization tools and have to justify their place in the world as opposed to these larger competitors. The age old arguments around a lack of legacy and an approach that more closely aligns

with the way modern developers want to work should help the company to grow its userbase as it gets closer to broader general availability. 2017-02-28 18:59 Ben Kepes www.computerworld.com

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Most financial businesses in the UK worry about the effects of disruption

More than three quarters (78 percent) of financial organizations in the UK worry about what digital disruption can do to their industry, according to a

new Fujitsu report. The company claims this makes the financial industry the most concerned one, compared with retail, public and manufacturing, and utility sectors. The report, entitled Digital: Co-creation in the Age of Disruption , says most C-suite execs (80 percent) see digital disruption as an exciting opportunity, with 92 percent thinking they need to evolve to stay relevant. Even though the majority seems positively excited about digital disruption, 56 percent believe their business will not exist in its current form in five years’ time. Almost two thirds (63 percent) of financial services firms say digital disruption has already fundamentally changed the way they operate -- 52 percent claim an increase in innovation and a faster pace of change. Almost half (48 percent) say there is increased competition for talent. Competitors and customers are the biggest drivers behind digital disruption.

"Digital -- and specifically the need to use digital technology to improve service offerings and drive revenue - is now a pillar of business strategy in the financial services industry. Both the challenge and potential of digital touches all parts of a company’s business," says Mike Foster, managing director, Financial Services, UK and Ireland, Fujitsu. "There is a substantial opportunity to embrace the notion of becoming more digitally disruptive. Our research underscores that 96 percent of financial services organizations have already taken measures to thrive in a digitally disrupted world. " Published under license from ITProPortal.com, a Future plc Publication. All rights reserved. Photo Credit: dizain / Shutterstock 2017-02-28 18:58 Sead Fadilpašić feeds.betanews.com

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Watch Live: AMD's Radeon Capsaicin & Cream event at GDC 2017

AMD's upcoming Vega GPUs are coming soon with more details set to be revealed today. Radeon RX Vega is set to compete with the GeForce GTX 1080 (Ti?) and is scheduled for release later this year. 2017-02-28 18:41 Julio Franco www.techspot.com

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The Porsche Design Book One laptop is selling beauty and power

Beauty. Power. Money. The Porsche Design Book

One laptop, unveiled Monday night at Mobile World Congress, expresses all of these things within its high-end design. The Porsche Design Group (owned by the same parent company as automaker Porsche AG) already crafts watches, headphones, and more for wealthy clientele with refined tastes. When the Book One ships in April for $2,495, it will present the first real challenge to Microsoft’s Surface Book in what we’ll call the Trophy Laptop category— wherein you buy the PC not because you need it, but because you can afford it. The Book One does, indeed, set new standards for laptop beauty. (The laptop is designed in Germany and manufactured

by Quanta Computer in Taiwan.) However, it clearly sacrifices some power for the sake of looks—and the price point. With all the PC parts in the display, the Porsche Design Book One naturally has vents along the screen’s sides. The company deserves credit for bringing some beauty to a challenging form factor that faces incessant pressure to be slimmer and lighter. The Book One starts with a brushed-aluminum shell and chiseled corners, elements you’ll find on other highend laptops. It’s also extremely thin, at just 15.9mm (0.63 inches). Next, it adds hints of Porsche automotive heritage in details such as the radiatorlike ventilation grilles on the sides of the display, and especially in the 360-degree hinges. Automotive gears inspired the 360-degree hinge between the display and keyboard on the Porsche Design Book One The gearlike hinge mechanisms are polished stainless steel. You can admire how they roll smoothly over each other and keep the two halves

closely matched. That’s thanks to a small additional mechanism that Porsche calls the intelligent distance ring, which deftly tilts the hinges around each other. That’s far better than the awkward upand-over you see with most laptops, and even the quirky, loopy turn the Surface Book makes. If we’re talking aesthetics, however, that little ring (which you can see in the middle of the hinge) is simple white plastic and looks out of place among all the metal bling. Of course the pen that comes with the Porsche Design Book One is also a high-end design, made of aluminum. The Book One is the first laptop to have both a 360degree hinge and a detachable display. The glossy IPS screen, protected by Gorilla Glass 4, has a skyhigh resolution of 3200x1800 pixels, and a 5MP front camera plus an infrared camera for enabling Windows Hello face authentication. The beautiful (of course) aluminum stylus, designed with Wacom, sticks to the right side of the display using magnets. A small button on the right side of the Porsche

Design Book One’s keyboard releases the display. You detach the display by pressing a small button on the right side of the Book One. A small light on the bottom of the screen turns green when the display is ready to be released. You pull it up and off fairly easily, leaving a slender bar attached at the hinges. The lower half has a full-size backlit keyboard and a Microsoft Precision Touchpad, which can accept an advanced set of taps, touches, and gestures for easier navigation. When you separate the Porsche Design Book One’s keyboard from its display, a slender top slice with small tabs remains. Most of the computer, of course, is squeezed in behind the display so it can function independently as a tablet. The main specs include Windows 10 Pro and an Intel 7th-generation Kaby Lake Core i77500U processor paired with 16GB of LPDDR3 RAM (at 1,866MHz). The 512GB SSD is roomy and fast. The one thing that isn’t top-of-the-line is the graphics. For a brand so closely associated with

high performance, I expected the Book One would have discrete graphics. Instead, it has Intel’s HD Graphics 620, which is a pretty good solution, but nothing like the discrete Nvidia chip you get with the Surface Book SKU closest in price to the Book One. To be fair, however, there’s only so much the Book One could do with the space it has (it’s a little smaller and thinner than the Surface Book), and it would have been difficult to build a discrete GPU into the display half without a lot more ventilation and other compromises. The Porsche Design Book One is shown with its keyboard and display separated, plus its included pen. On the other hand, the Book One offers a total of 70Wh of lithium polymer battery with a projected life of up to 14 hours. That battery is split: 25Wh in the display, and 45Wh in the keyboard. Porsche Design says you can charge the unit fully within two hours. As hard as it is for PC enthusiasts to admit, many users would willingly trade some performance for longer battery life, and that’s part of what’s going on with Book One.

We’ve had distinctively (okay, garishly) styled gaming PCs for years, and a few mainstream PCs that have taken the time and resources to be aesthetically pleasing. Having a non-computer company like Porsche Design come in with a highstyle product like the Book One, however, confirms that people are willing to pay more money for pretty PCs. Hardware enthusiasts may grumble about a compromise or two, but this PC is really speaking to a different audience. 2017-02-28 18:39 Melissa Riofrio www.pcworld.com

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Samsung ups the rich messaging ante with RCS support on all Marshmallow and Nougat phones

The battle over RCS is starting to get serious. Last week, Google shifted the branding of its Messenger app to Android Messages as part of an effort to streamline messaging across all phones and eventually bring RCS to the larger Android community. Notably absent from that

announcement, however, was Samsung, and now we know why. Late last year, Samsung acquired Canada-based NewNet Communication Technologies’ Rich Communication Services division, and it’s already paying off. The Galaxy phone maker announced it will be building the tech into all of its phones running Marshmallow or Nougat, as it rolls out “a complete end-to-end solution that includes RCSenabled devices, native/downloadable device clients, cloud-based RCS application servers, an interconnectivity hub among operators and a thirdparty monetization platform.”

As such, users will be able to enjoy all the benefits of rich messaging, including “group chats, video calls and large file transfers, while continuing to use their phone numbers without the need for an additional app.” Presumably, the service will be delivered via a software update to the standard messaging app that ships on all Galaxy phones. Samsung also says its RCS service will allow mobile network operators to quickly launch support for the service without the “costly and timeconsuming efforts of building their own network infrastructure.” Additionally, Samsung announced it is working with a number of carriers to advance the availability of RCS messaging, including Deutsche Telekom, KT, SK Telecom, T-Mobile and Vodafone and says more partners are expected to join in the near future. Like Google, however, Verizon and AT&T are conspicuously missing from that list, and if Samsung wants RCS to reach as many users as possible, it will need to woo their support. 2017-02-28 18:34 Michael Simon www.pcworld.com

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Glossier’s Emily Weiss and Outdoor Voices’ Tyler Haney to talk shop at TC Disrupt NY

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March 3 Browse more... Browse more... Jordan Crook @jordanrcrook 0 SHARES Next Story Volvo’s new XC60 will automatically steer as well as brake to avoid crashes Disrupt NY is fast approaching, and the agenda is shaping up to be a real doozy. Alongside speakers like Handy’s Oisin Hanrahan, Managed By Q’s Dan Teran, WayUp’s Liz Wessel, Ford’s Raj Nair and AngelList’s Naval Ravikant, we’re also pleased to host Glossier’s Emily Weiss and Outdoor Voices’ Tyler Haney on the Disrupt NY stage. Disrupt NY We’ve watched e-commerce change the way that consumers shop and the way that big companies sell, but Glossier and Outdoor Voices stand out among a growing pack of e-commerce brands. Emily Weiss is the founder and CEO of Glossier, a

digitally native beauty brand that has successfully taken on incumbents like L’Oreal and Estée Lauder. The company was originally launched in 2014 and has grown to more than 60 employees in its New York City headquarters. Weiss has also raised more than $34 million in venture capital funding from investors such as IVP, Thrive Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures and Index. What makes Glossier particularly interesting is that it was formed from a beauty blog called The Gloss, which now sees more than 1.5 million unique visitors. The baseline of open communication channels between the brand and consumers is part of what makes Glossier successful — Weiss sees Glossier as a content company first. Glossier We’re excited to have Weiss on stage to discuss the growth of the company and the future of Glossier since the last time she visited Disrupt in 2015, which you can check out here. here In the world of women’s casual/fitness clothing, lululemon has reigned supreme for quite some

time. But Tyler Haney’s Outdoor Voices is ready to give the giant a run for its money. Outdoor Voices launched back in 2012 with the mission to make comfortable clothes for women that are both useful and fashionable. Part of Outdoor Voices’ strategy includes selling “kits” of clothes, which may mean three pairs of different pants/leggings or a complete outfit for yoga or jogging. While these kits aren’t technically “cheap,” they make it easy to shop for the right casual-wear clothes. Beyond that, OV is expanding beyond online retail to launch brick-and-mortar stores in various markets. The company has raised more than $21 million in funding from investors like General Catalyst, 14W and Forerunner Ventures. You can check out Outdoor Voices here. here We’re amped to have both Weiss and Haney on our stage at TC Disrupt NY on May 15 to May 17. If you want to buy tickets to the conference at our ExtraEarly-Bird rate, you can pick those up here until this Friday, March 3. here

Sponsors make TechCrunch events possible. If you’re interested in learning more about sponsorships with TechCrunch, fill out this form. fill out this form 0 SHARES Advertisement Emily Weiss Bio Emily Weiss is the Founder and CEO of Into The Gloss and Glossier, where she leads a team of 45 employees (and counting!) who are setting out to rethink, reclaim, and redefine beauty. Emily lives in New York City and is addicted to Instagram for inspiration, meeting new people, and engaging with the ITG and Glossier community. Full profile for Emily Weiss Emily Weiss Bio Emily Weiss is the Founder and CEO of Into The Gloss and Glossier, where she leads a team of 45 employees (and counting!) who are setting out to rethink, reclaim, and redefine beauty. Emily lives in New York City and is addicted to Instagram for inspiration, meeting new people, and engaging with the ITG and Glossier community. Full profile for Emily Weiss Full profile for Emily Weiss SEE ALL NEWSLETTERS

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Volvo’s new XC60 will automatically steer as well as brake to avoid crashes

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the world. Location San Francisco, CA Categories Public Transportation , Mobile Apps , Transportation Website http://www.uber.com Full profile for Uber U b e r Founded 2009 Overview Uber, a [San Francisco](/location/sanfrancisco/528f5e3c90d111115d1c2e4ff979d58e)based technology startup, is innovating at the intersection of lifestyle and logistics. Uber connects riders with safe, reliable, convenient transportation providers at a variety of price-points in cities around the world. Location San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA Categories Public Transportation , Mobile Apps , Transportation Public Transportation Mobile Apps Transportation Website http://www.uber.com Full profile for Uber Full profile for Uber AB Volvo Founded 1927 Overview The Volvo Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines. The Group also provides complete solutions for financing and service. The Volvo

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Write Practical Shell Scripts

In the last post, we talked about regex, and see how to use them in sed and awk for text processing. Additionally, we discussed Linux sed commands and awk commands. During the series, we've written small shell scripts, but we didn’t mix things up. I think we should take a small step and write a shell script that can be somewhat useful. The main reason for learning to write a shell script is to be able to create your own Linux utilities. Understanding how to write useful and practical scripts is important. Sometimes, however, it helps to do something fun to learn a concept or skill. The scripts in this post can be lots of fun! And they help empower the concepts behind the script. Sending messages

Write command Creating the send script Monitoring Disk Space You can send messages to someone by phone or e-mail, but one method, not commonly used anymore, is sending a message directly to a fellow system user’s terminal. The shell script helps you to quickly and easily send a message to someone who is logged onto your Linux system. For this simple shell script, only a few functions are required. Several of the commands are common and have been covered in our series of shell scripting; you can review the posts to understand what we are talking about The first command needed is the who command. The who command allows you to see all the users currently logged into the system. To send a message, you only need the first two items: the username and the user’s current

terminal. Users can prevent anyone from sending them messages via the mesg command. Therefore, before you start attempting to send messages, it’s a good idea to check whether messages are allowed. For yourself, you can simply enter the mesg command like this: The is n result shows that messaging is turned off. If the result showed is y, messages would be allowed. To check anyone else’s message status, you can use the who command again. Keep in mind that this checks the message status only for those who are currently logged into the system. You use the -T option to check their message status. If you see dash (-) that means messages are turned off and if you see a plus sign (+) that means messages are enabled. To allow messages to be sent to your machine, if it is turned off, you need to use the message command with the y option like this

Sure enough, the command shown is y, which indicates messages are allowed to this user. Of course, we need another user to communicate with. So, in order to demonstrate, I’m going to connect to my PC (where I'm already loggedin) using ssh, so we have two users logged onto the system. Now we can send the message from one user to the other. The primary tool for sending messages between logged in users is the write command. As long as messaging is allowed, the write command allows you to send a message to another logged-in user, using their username and current terminal. Note: The write command only allows you to successfully send messages to users logged onto a virtual console terminal. A user logged into the graphical environment (KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, etc.) will not be able to receive messages. We will send a message to testuser user from my user likegeeks like this:

After the message is initiated by the write command, a blank line is shown for you to begin inputting the message text. It may be as many lines as you desire. When the Enter key is pressed, a new line is available for more message text. After you are finished entering message text, the whole message is sent by pressing the Ctrl+D key combination, which is the end of file signal. I recommend that you review the post about signals and jobs. The receiver can see which user on which terminal sent the message. A timestamp is also included. Notice the EOF shown at the bottom. It indicates End Of File, which lets the message recipient know that this is the entire message. Now we have all parts we need to build our shell script. Before we create our shell script, we need to determine whether the user we want to send a message to is logged into the system. This can be done using the who command. The results of the who command are piped into the

grep command. The grep command uses the -i option to ignore case, so the username to be entered using uppercase or lowercase letters. The m 1 option is included in the grep command, in case the user is logged into the system multiple times. The grep command produces nothing if the user is not logged on, or the username’s first login information. This output is passed to the awk command. The awk command returns only the first item, either nothing or the username. This final output from the awk command is stored in the variable logged_on. Then we need to check the variable logged on to see if it contains something or not. I recommend that you read the post about if statements and how to use them on Bash Script . The logged_on variable is tested to determine if it is a zero-length variable. If it is a zero-length variable, the script user is informed via echo commands that the user is not currently logged onto the system, and the script is exited via the exit command. If the user is logged

onto the system, the logged_on variable contains the user’s username, and the script continues. The next step is to determine whether a logged on user accepts messages. Notice that we use the who command with -T. This displays a (+) next to the username if messaging is allowed. Otherwise, it displays a (-) next to the username, if messaging is not allowed. The results from the who command are then piped into grep and awk to pull out only the messaging indicator. The messaging indicator is stored in the allowed variable. Finally, an if statement is used to test for a messaging indicator not set to +. If the indicator is not set to +, the script user is informed and the script is exited. However, if the messaging indicator shows messaging is allowed, the script continues. To test for the message parameter, an if statement is used like this: Before we send a message, we need to get the user current terminal and store it in a variable. Then we can send the message.

Now we can test the whole shell script to see how it goes. Let’s see the other shell window: Good! You can now send simple one-word messages Surely you want to send more than just a single word. Let's try that with this shell script: It didn’t work. Only the first word of the message is sent. This is due to the script using parameters and each word is treated as a different parameter. To fix this problem we will use the shift command with the while loop. You can review the shift command from our post Bash Scripting. And now one thing needs to be fixed in the message parameter. Instead of just sending parameter $2 to the write utility, the script is modified to send the variable, whole_message.

So now the whole script should be like this: Now, if you try to send our message again: Awesome! It worked. Again, I’m not here to make a script to send the message to the user, but the main reason to review our shell scripting knowledge and use all parts we’ve learned together and see how things work together. We are going to build a shell script utility that will help you determine the top ten disk space consumers for designated directories. The du command displays the disk usage for individual files and directories. The -s option lets you summarize totals at the directory level. I recommend that you review my post about du commands and all other Main Linux Commands. This comes in handy when calculating the total disk space used by an individual user. The listing quickly becomes too detailed. The -S (capital S) option works better for our purposes here, providing a total for each directory and subdirectory individually.

Since we are interested in the directories consuming the biggest chunks of disk space, the sort command is used on the listing produced by du. The -n option allows you to sort numerically. The -r option lists the largest numbers first (reverse order). This is perfect for finding the largest disk consumers. The sed command brings more clarity to this listing. To focus on the top ten disk space consumers, when line 11 is reached, sed is set to delete the rest of the listing. The next step is to add a line number for each line in the listing. To get those line numbers on the same line as the disk space text, combine the text lines using the N command. The sed commands will look like this: You can review my post about sed command. Then we can clean the output using the awk command. The output from the sed command is piped into the awk command and printed using the printf function.

After the line number, a colon (:) is added, and tab (\t) characters are put between the individual fields for each text line’s output row. Now we understand how the command work lets us write the script. To be productive, the script creates a report for multiple directories. We will make a variable to accomplish this, say MY_DIRECTORIES. For our purposes here, the variable is set to just two directories: MY_DIRECTORIES=”/home /var/log” We will make a for loop to perform the du command on each directory listed in the variable. Each time the loop iterates through the list of values in the variable MY_DIRECTORIES. So the shell script will look like this: Good! The report shows the disk consumption for both directories in a beautifully formatted report.

You can filter files so instead of calculating the consumption of all files you can calculate specific extension *.log or whatever, just change the file globing. One thing I have to mention here in production systems is that you can’t rely on disk space reports. Instead, consider setting disk quotas, if the quota package is installed. I hope you understand how shell scripts work and how commands work together. Again the shell scripts we’ve introduced here are for showing how shell scripting works, there are a ton of ways to implement any task in Linux. My post is finished for now. I tried to reduce the code length and make everything simple as possible. Hope you like it! Thank you. 2017-02-28 18:01 Parent Linkdate dzone.com

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