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• Study: Girls show more interest in STEM when they’re not fed harmful stereotypes

  22-11-2021 23:04
  
  Researchers at the University of Houston and the University of Washington today published new research indicating gender stereotypes play a huge role in whether children choose to pursue an eventual career in computer science or engineering. Up front: The researchers conducted a series of studies and experiments involving more than 2,200 children. The team’s goal was to determine how gender stereotypes affected school-aged children in order to glean insights into the ongoing diversity pro
  
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• NYC bill to rein in AI hiring tools looks like it was meant to backfire

  22-11-2021 20:23
  
  New York recently passed a bill providing guidelines for the operation of automated hiring software in the city. Allegedly, city council’s aim with this legislation was to protect New Yorkers from biased AI. But, from where we’re sitting, it looks like it’s going to do the exact opposite. Up front: The bill, dubbed int 1894-2020, was meant to address the issue of bias in AI software. Companies such as HireVue claim their algorithms can actually remove hiring bias – the s
  
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• Crypto bonds! Volcanoes! What we know about the first ‘Bitcoin City’

  22-11-2021 17:41
  
  Crypto bros could soon have a new dream destination. At a conference on Saturday, the president of El Salvador unveiled plans to build the world’s first “Bitcoin City.” Dressed in all white and donning a backward baseball cap, President Nayib Bukele looked more like a pop star than a politician as he described an ecological metropolis funded by Bitcoin-backed bonds. He compared his strategy to that of Alexander the Great founding cities that he humbly named after himself: The
  
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• Tesla’s app outage exposes the bigger problem of IoT

  22-11-2021 16:54
  
  Is there ever a week without some kind of fuck up at Tesla? If it was a lesser brand, I’d think it was a ploy for publicity, but the latest app bug was way too severe for that. Last Friday, the BBC wrote that about 500 users reported an error on the Tesla app at around 4:40 ET (10:40 CET) that left car owners unable to unlock the doors or start their cars. Since the company has no PR team (Elon sacked them), it was Elon Musk to the rescue. So he went on Twitter to keep stranded drivers up
  
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• Here are the most common passwords of 2021, is yours on the list?

  22-11-2021 16:11
  
  If you use “123456”, “password” or “qwerty” as a password, you’re probably aware that you’re leaving yourself vulnerable to hackers. But you’re also not alone – these are three of the top ten most common passwords around the world, according to a new report. In partnership with independent researchers, password management service NordPass compiled millions of passwords into a dataset to determine the 200 most commonly used passwords ar
  
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• JavaScript isn’t so mysterious. This training bundle explains it all at a pre-Black Friday sale price under $26

  22-11-2021 15:00
  
  TLDR: The 2022 Javascript Developer Bootcamp Certification Bundle features over 120 hours of intensive JavaScript training to turn any learner into an expert fast. Johnny-come-latelys to the coding scene can gush about their Pythons or their Ruby on Rails all they want. But when it’s all said and done, JavaScript still rules the programming roost. The venerable language has been the core of the web and web development for 25 years, with no real signs that its dominance will come to a clos
  
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• It’s the limited edition Mac Bundle, 12 apps gathered into our coolest Mac package this year

  22-11-2021 15:00
  
  TLDR: The Complete Limited Edition Mac Bundle is our best Mac package of the year, 12 killer apps on sale for an obscenely low price while it lasts. Every year, it’s one of TNW Deals’ most popular holiday season items, so it’s no surprise Mac users who have been good all year are now asking for the latest edition of The Complete Limited Edition Mac Bundle ($16.22 with code MACBUNDLE40).  Yep, it’s this year’s collection of 12 of the greatest and coolest Mac ap
  
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• 4 reasons why museums aren’t getting into the NFT game

  22-11-2021 13:55
  
  The eye-popping sale price of US$69 million on March 11, 2021, for a non-fungible token created by the digital artist Beeple sent shock waves through the art world. More multimillion-dollar sales of these digital assets that exist on a blockchain and are maintained on networked computers soon followed. At the same time, art museums have faced substantial financial shortfalls accelerated by a decline in visitors and donations induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have considered taking drastic
  
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• ‘Greenhushing’ is the new greenwashing in the EV industry

  22-11-2021 12:08
  
  We’ve been all-in from the get-go. Committed to total transparency about electric vehicles’ climate impact, and our progress towards a sustainable mobility. When we published our first Polestar 2 Life Cycle Assessment in 2020, including its full methodology, we encouraged other car makers to become more transparent about their products’ climate impact. Instead, several well-known brands released their own report that attempted to contradict ours. The Astongate scandal, as it b
  
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• WordPress 5.9 Delayed Until January 2022

  22-11-2021 01:09 via wptavern.com
  
  https://wptavern.com/wordpress-5-9-delayed-until-january-2022
  
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• JEdit – Programmer's Text Editor

  22-11-2021 00:45 via jedit.org
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