During economic downturns, businesses resort to muscle memory and do what they used to do. This often means budget cuts, and the deepest cuts usually involve investment in technology and people. However, this time it seems to be completely different. Companies increasingly see their technical talent as a hard-won strategic investment they don’t want to...
If you receive ready to set your annual goals for 2023, stop. It’s likely that you’re forming and breaking habits the wrong way, experts say, especially if you’re extremely motivated in January but are distracted or overwhelmed in February. Before we dive into the specifics of how to start or break a habit you’ll actually...
I recently watched fellow particle physicist talks about a calculation he has taken to new heights of precision. His instrument? A 1980s computer program called FORM. Particle physicists use some of the longest equations in all of science. To look for signs of new elementary particles in collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, for example,...
The camera is focusing on two bare feet like a Twitch streamer passing by JrocTheGodbreaks boss after boss Cuphead only toes. After several failed attempts to defeat the Devilish Final Boss (in addition to several rest breaks), J-Roc collects credits for Cuphead when members of his community type “gg” in chat. “Full-time work or streaming,...
To make similar changes to Google Assistant, follow the link Settings > Google > Settings for Google Apps > Search, Assistant and Voiceand select Google Assistant. you can click Lock screen and turn on Assistant responses on the lock screen. If you scroll down you can also adjust the sensitivity, enable Continuation of the conversationand...
15th of November, The 8 billionth person on the planet was born. Well, more or less. This date was chosen UN demographers at the moment when the world crossed its last demographic frontier. The exact date is probably wrong—perhaps by a few months or more—but there are about a billion more people alive today than...
It may finally take place. For many years, technologists have been promising that the age of electric vehicles will come. After false starts in the early 20th century (when electrics briefly made up a third of cars in the US), the 1970s (thanks to the gas crisis), and the early 2000s (when two American engineers...
Almost two years I reviewed the $200 Nokia 5.3 a while ago, which was promised two years of Android OS updates and three years of security updates. How is HMD Global, the company that licenses the Nokia brand, doing? It’s just only deployed on this device Android 12, which is a one-year version of Google’s...
On cool but on a humane November evening in Toronto, Allison Williams and I fall into a lengthy conversation about how politely one can manipulate an audience. Williams is an actress, one of the most conscientious of her generation; audience manipulation is her not-so-secret weapon. And I am well aware that as a writer covering...
