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Ive always found great respite in media, but the pandemic has impacted this in ways I didnt expect. I really havent felt like watching much of anything to be honest. But there has been one medium thats grabbed my attention throughout COVID: graphic novels and comic books. And you know what? And also wax lyrical about something I love. Why graphic novels and comics? 40% off TNW Conference! Its the work of a few isolated people, rather than the result of these huge teams....

Theyveshut down electricity in Ukraineandmeddled in elections in the U.S.and elsewhere. Who are these operators, why are they so skilled, and what are they up to? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The hacker was after military secrets, downloading documents with important keywords such as nuclear. The 1990s also saw the arrest ofVladimir Levin, a computer operator in St. Petersburg. And Russian hackers defaced U.S. websites during theKosovo conflict, portending Russias extensive use of disruptive and damaging cyberattacks....

Destructuring on object lets you bind different properties of an object at any depth. Accessing the object property Doing a deep or nested destructuring Wait, what? If I destructedauthor, why is it not defined? What is going on is actually really simple. So hey always remember that. Then we can access that variable in our code. Its important to notice that a variable with the original propertynamein our case name wont be defined....

Rebecca Jones, of London, recently pulled up Amazon.co.uk to search for a phone adapter. 40% off TNW Conference! For Jones, the out-of-place reviews gave her pause and ended up steering her away from the purchase. In a statement, Amazon spokesperson Patrick Graham said customer trust is a top priority. We have robust proactive and reactive systems in place to protect our store and our customers. How fake reviews happen Reviews are the oil that keeps the gears of the Amazon machine turning....

Thisarticlewas originally published on.cultbyJames Q. .cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers! You just got done with an interview and you nailed it. So, how do you find the sweet spot to negotiate appropriately? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. On the flip side, its your responsibility to advocate that you are the right candidate for the job. To advocate for yourself, think about what makes you special?...

This article contains graphically sexual language. Searches in the keyword planner for boys of those same ethnicities also primarily returned suggestions related to pornography. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Searches for White girls and White boys, however, returned no suggested terms at all. Googles Keyword Planner is an important part of the companys online advertising ecosystem. Google Ads generated more than$134 billionin revenue in 2019 alone. Weve removed these terms from the tool and are looking into how we stop this from happening again....

When the COVID-19 pandemic began we were all so full of hope. We let our guard down. Didnt most of us figure wed be back to business as usual by mid to late June? But June turned to July and now were seeing record case numberson a daily basis. August looks to bebrutal. Other nations with advanced AI programs arent necessarily fairing much better. Its bad news all the way down....

Working with non-numerical data can be tough, even forexperienced data scientists. To be useful, data has to be transformed into a vector space first. One popular approach would be totreat a non-numerical feature as categorical. No two emails are exactly the same, hence this approach would be of no use. Computing distance (similarity) between all data samples would give us a distance (or similarity) matrix. This is numerical data we could use....

To human observers, the following two images are identical. And oddly enough, it had more confidence in the gibbon image. Adversarial examples fool machine learning algorithms into making dumb mistakes The right image is an adversarial example. Adversarial examples exploit the way artificial intelligence algorithms work to disrupt the behavior of artificial intelligence algorithms. Theres growing concern thatvulnerabilities in machine learning systemscan be exploited for malicious purposes. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....

But what if things didnt have to be this way? Well, there might just be. Yep, you heard that right. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. bench my belovedRazer Viper Ultimateand put the Zephyr through its paces. Its practically mouse equivalent of asweat, a try-hard design. If youre into it, thats cool Im just not. Theres also a button to control the fan at the bottom of the machine....

Todays best designers are more than creators;theyre facilitators. UX workshops are probably one of the best ways to put this into practice. A UX workshop consists of inviting your team (other designers, developers, product managers, etc.) 40% off TNW Conference! Lets look at some time-tested practices that will help make a remote UX workshop run smoothly. So, what do you do before the workshop? Define participant roles and get help Planning and facilitating a remote design workshop requires preparation and collaboration....

More recently, however, advanced technologies in web development have made the task a bit more difficult. But as I got further into it, I found obstacles that could not be overcome with traditional methods. In my case, this seemed like it could be useful. And sure enough, aSelenium libraryexists for Python. This would allow me to instantiate a net web client Chrome, Firefox, IE, etc. then pretend I was using the web client myself to gain access to the data I was looking for....

Not ringing a bell? Its time you never get back. Which is what well be looking at today. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. straighten your arm, bend your knees). In this article, Ill show you the core techniques that would make an app like that possible. Want to jump straight to the code? Check out therepoon Github. He sent back this: you’re able to see it was kind of a bloodbath....