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• JavaScript Arrow Functions – A Friendly Introduction

  17-03-2020 22:47 via blog.alexdevero.com
  
  https://blog.alexdevero.com/javascript-arrow-functions/
  
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• Uber and Lyft both suspend their carpooling option due to COVID-19

  17-03-2020 21:57
  
  Uber and Lyft today revealed they’re both temporarily suspending carpooling services. As more and more health organizations recommend people keep their distances from each other in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, both ridesharing services are attempting to take measures to protect both their drivers and riders without suspending operations completely. To flatten the curve of community spread in the cities we serve, we are suspending our Pool option in the US, Canada, London, and
  
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• What Does the Symmetry of Your Logo Say About Your Brand?

  17-03-2020 21:00 via hbr.org
  
  https://hbr.org/2020/03/what-does-the-symmetry-of-your-logo-say-about-your-brand
  
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• Accessible SVGs: Inclusiveness Beyond Patterns

  17-03-2020 20:31 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/03/accessible-svgs-inclusiveness-beyond-patterns/
  
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• Social media firms will use more AI to combat coronavirus misinformation, even if it makes more mistakes

  17-03-2020 20:08
  
  Social media platforms have been flooded with falsehoods, conspiracy theories, and exaggerations about the coronavirus since the outbreak emerged last December in Wuhan, China. The outbreak has been falsely blamed on the 5G rollout damaging immune systems, an experiment gone wrong in a Chinese research facility, and, of course, the Rothschilds wanting more money, this time through their ownership of a patent to coronavirus. More dangerous than the conspiracy theories is the misleading medical a
  
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• Why Radio Buttons and Checkboxes Can’t Co-Exist

  17-03-2020 19:23 via uxmovement.com
  
  https://uxmovement.com/forms/why-radio-buttons-and-checkboxes-cant-co-exist/
  
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• Google Translate launches real time transcription feature in eight languages

  17-03-2020 18:33
  
  Google Translate is a great tool for travelers and language learners. However, it always had one feature missing — real-time transcription. Now, the company has finally launched transcription in eight languages. The new feature is rolling out to Android phones starting tomorrow, and it’ll land on iOS later. Currently, it supports English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Thai.  In January, Google previewed the transcription feature at an event,
  
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• Global Emoji Meanings and How to Use Them in Subject Lines

  17-03-2020 17:57 via campaignmonitor.com
  
  https://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/email-marketing/2020/03/global-emoji-meanings-and-how-to-use-them-in-subject-lines/
  
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• Nintendo might have put Animal Crossing grandma in New Horizons

  17-03-2020 17:55
  
  As the new Animal Crossing game, New Horizons, is about to hit the shelves, gamers have spotted what might be a tribute to one of the series’ most devoted fans. We sincerely hope it to be the case, since it would be heartwarming (and we all could really use a little heartwarming news right now). We have an official name for the new Wolf villager in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and her name is Audie! She may be named after the grandma who went viral last year for her 3500+ hours in New Le
  
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• How to get rid of the annoying expandable hyperlinks on Slack

  17-03-2020 16:49
  
  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Slack recently made a minor change to the way it handles links that’s been driving me insane. I’m talking about expandable hyperlinks. [Read: How to use Chrome’s media controls to easily switch between videos and podcasts] You might’ve noticed that if you copy-paste a snippet of text with a hyperlink, Slack now keeps the form
  
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• Amazon opens 100K new jobs to keep up with coronavirus demand

  17-03-2020 15:56
  
  Amazon is raising wages and opening 100,000 new positions across the US to ensure its delivery network can withstand the coronavirus pandemic. A press release notes both full-time and part-time positions will be made available to meet unprecedented seasonal labor needs in its fulfilment centers “Getting a priority item to your doorstep is vital as communities practice social-distancing, particularly for the elderly and others with underlying health issues,” said Amazon. The eco
  
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• These designers let us peek inside their home offices

  17-03-2020 15:05 via fastcompany.com
  
  https://www.fastcompany.com/90477416/work-from-home-is-the-new-normal-so-these-top-designers-let-us-peek-inside-their-home-offices
  
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• The performance benefits of Variable Fonts

  17-03-2020 15:05 via uxdesign.cc
  
  https://uxdesign.cc/the-performance-benefits-of-variable-fonts-79af8c4ff56c
  
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• Mastering Data Visualization: 3 Tips For A Smoother Design Process

  17-03-2020 15:05 via dribbble.com
  
  https://dribbble.com/stories/2020/03/17/data-viz-design-tips
  
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• Introducing: A brand new Dribbble

  17-03-2020 15:05 via dribbble.com
  
  https://dribbble.com/stories/2020/03/16/a-brand-new-dribbble
  
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• Creatives band together for support during the crisis

  17-03-2020 15:05 via itsnicethat.com
  
  https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/creatives-band-together-in-covid-19-crisis-creative-industry-160320
  
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• A Guide to Better Designer Client Relationships

  17-03-2020 14:51 via erickarjaluoto.com
  
  http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/blog/a-guide-to-better-designer-client-relationships
  
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• UK mobile networks go down as people start working from home due to coronavirus

  17-03-2020 14:12
  
  All of the major mobile networks in the UK are suffering severe outages, causing further problems for the millions of Britons now working from home to flatten the curve of coronavirus. Mobile networks including EE, Vodafone, O2, and 3 are all said to be experiencing issues, just a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s advised the public to avoid workspaces. However, the operators don’t think the problem is due to the immense growth in remote working. “We don’t believe
  
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• Companies use automated systems to find job candidates. With Rezi, you can learn what the machines are looking for.

  17-03-2020 13:30
  
  To get your resume hiring manager ready, enlist services like Rezi Resume Software to make sure you’re actually giving yourself the best possible shot at the job you want. Right now, a lifetime subscription to Rezi Resume Pro Software is now over 90 percent off at just $29 from TNW Deals.
  
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• White House’s 29,000 coronavirus papers will be fed to AI experts for analysis

  17-03-2020 13:13
  
  The White House has urged AI experts to analyze a dataset of 29,000 scholarly articles about coronavirus that could offer insights into how to manage the pandemic. The government wants researchers to use it to develop new text and data mining techniques that can help scientists answer key questions about the origins, transmissions and potential treatment of COVID-19: These questions have been published on Kaggle, a machine learning community owned by Google. They include: What is known about tr
  
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• NPM Is Joining GitHub

  17-03-2020 13:06 via github.blog
  
  https://github.blog/2020-03-16-npm-is-joining-github/
  
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• Your Mac needs an upgrade. These nine apps will help it feel like a brand-new machine again. 

  17-03-2020 12:30
  
  If you’re a Mac user, we’d like to help with that. Right now, you can pick up The 2020 Mac Productivity Essentials Bundle ($25.50, over 90 percent off, from TNW Deals with promo code: SPRINGSAVE15) and immediately set up your machine and you to do a better job getting tasks done quickly and efficiently.
  
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• 7 tips for my fellow humans stuck working from home

  17-03-2020 12:30
  
  Well, hello there, fellow human! How are you? Let me guess, working from home? Or as the cool kids say, ‘WFH.’ It’s lonely, I know. The great news is that you can wave your commute goodbye and you’ll no longer have to put up with peoples’ loud chewing or smelling farts other than your own. [Read: How to recover from burnout and chronic work stress, according to a psychologist] The bad news is that you’re likely to be stuck at home for some time, but
  
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• The new Powerbeats earbuds are part of Apple’s plan to own the gym

  17-03-2020 12:26
  
  We’ve said it before: Powerbeats want to be the AirPods of the gym. And Beats’ latest earbuds — effectively the Powerbeats 4, but just marketed as the Powerbeats — intend to continue this mission. Before we get into that though, lets talk about the new Powerbeats’ specs. First off, these things will set you back $149. That isn’t cheap, per se, but it isn’t an out-of-this-world price for a pair of exercise headphones — depending on how much you wor
  
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• How to use Chrome’s media controls to easily switch between videos and podcasts

  17-03-2020 12:11
  
  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. I’m terrible at managing tabs. There’s always an endless line of news I have yet to read, Twitter threads to check out, and YouTube videos to finish. I also have a pretty bad habit of playing podcasts in the browser as I switch between videos. It’s a mess. But Chrome has a feature that makes it easier to avoid that. [Read: Her
  
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• The science behind why your pet can’t spread COVID-19

  17-03-2020 11:44
  
  A Pomeranian dog in Hong Kong grabbed the international media’s attention this week after scientists found traces of coronavirus in the canine. Following confirmation that the dog’s owner was positive for the virus causing COVID-19, the dog was taken from Hong Kong Island to a nearby animal quarantine facility. Subsequent tests performed on swabs collected from the dog’s nose and throat unexpectedly revealed coronavirus. These results have raised many questions and concerns. C
  
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• Xiaomi is bringing TikTok style watch-only clips to Mi Videos

  17-03-2020 11:18
  
  After looking at the success of short video platforms like TikTok, Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi has also decided to invest in the sector. While the phone manufacturer isn’t making another app for users to create videos, it has tied up with a short video platform called Firework to show its clips on the Mi Videos app. As part of the agreement, Firework will show its catalog of 30-second videos across 38 categories such as travel, beauty, and fitness. The company officially launched the
  
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• How to recover from burnout and chronic work stress, according to a psychologist

  17-03-2020 08:00
  
  It’s pretty likely you’ve heard of burnout – and you may have even experienced it. Caused by chronic work stress, it’s characterized by signs such as emotional exhaustion, lack of energy, and loss of satisfaction with work – and has been linked to a wide range of physical conditions such as cardiovascular diseases and musculoskeletal pain. Work stress activates our hormonal, metabolic, immune and cardiovascular systems. If these bodily responses are triggered too f
  
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• India plans to build an all-seeing database to track citizens’ every move by 2021

  17-03-2020 06:51
  
  India, the world’s biggest democracy, built a massive database containing information and biometrics of its citizens in the form of Aadhaar back in 2009. Now, it’s planning to build a new database that will continually track the lives of 1.2 billion people living in the country — and further enable surveillance without legal frameworks to prevent its misuse. As per documents reviewed by HuffPost India‘s Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava, the government plans to re
  
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• WhatsApp may let you set a self-destruct timer on private messages

  17-03-2020 00:32
  
  Your WhatsApp conversations may soon become a little more ephemeral. A recent Beta of the app introduced to the Google Play Store suggests WhatsApp will allow you to set a timer on messages to delete themselves in private chats, as reported by WABetaInfo. While we reported on this feature back in October, it originally only applied to group conversations. The most recent Beta includes code that suggests the feature will arrive for private chats as well, allowing you to set messages to self-dest
  
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• TikTok encouraged moderators to suppress content from those deemed ugly, poor, or overweight

  17-03-2020 00:24
  
  Chinese video-sharing app TikTok once instructed its moderators to hide posts created by users it deemed to be ugly, poor, overweight, or disabled, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. It’s not the first time media outlets have got their hands on these types of memos from TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. According to a 2019 report from Netzpolitik, the company made previous efforts to censor the reach of those with visible or obvious disabilities. The memo specifical
  
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• Report: iOS 14 code suggests Apple is working on an iPhone 9 Plus too

  17-03-2020 00:03
  
  We’ve been hearing rumors for months that Apple is planning on releasing a new budget phone this year, known as either the iPhone SE 2 or the iPhone 9. But a new report by 9to5Mac suggests Apple is working on a larger iPhone 9 Plus too – the first we’ve heard of such a device. Previous rumors had suggested the iPhone 9 would use the iPhone 6‘s design, including a 4.7-inch LCD and TouchID, in order to reduce costs. But code in iOS 14 also points to a larger 5.5-inch
  
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