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Troy Hunt: I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base
Let me just cut straight to it: I'm going to open source the Have I Been Pwned code base. The decision has been a while coming and it took a failed M&A process to get here, but the code will be turned over to the public for the
How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis
In a deal that made few ripples outside the energy industry, two very large but relatively obscure companies, Rockwell Automation and Schlumberger Limited, announced a joint venture called Sensia. The new company will “sell equipment and services to advance digital technology and automation in the oilfield,” according to the Houston Chronicle. Yet the partnership has ramifications far beyond Houston’s energy corridor: It’s part of a growing trend that sees major tech companies teaming with oil giants to use automation, AI, and big data services to enhance oil exploration, extraction, and pr...
An Actually Useful Guide to Spending More Time Offline
If you’re struggling to detach yourself from your various devices during this pandemic—or, if you can't do that out of necessity, but would like strategies for constantly looking at a screen without wanting to crack it into pieces—here are some tips.
x171 : la croissance du poids de nos logiciels - Green IT
Selon notre étude, le couple Windows 10 et Office 2019 nécessite 171 fois plus de mémoire vive (RAM) que Windows 98 et Office 97. Pourtant, en 20 ans, nos usages n’ont pas changé. Nous continuons à écrire les mêmes textes et courriels, faire des additions et des multiplications, préparer des présentations qui sont pratiquement identiques […]
How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day | Tristan Harris - YouTube
A handful of people working at a handful of tech companies steer the thoughts of billions of people every day, says design thinker Tristan Harris. From Facebook notifications to Snapstreaks to YouTube autoplays, they're all competing for one thing: your attention. Harris shares how these companies prey on our psychology for their own profit and calls for a design renaissance in which our tech instead encourages us to live out the timeline we want. Check out more TED talks: http://www.ted.com The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the wo...
GOTO 2020 • HTML: How to Make Loveliness • Bruce Lawson - YouTube
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2020. #GOTOcon #GOTOchgo http://gotochgo.com Bruce Lawson - Author of "Introducing HTML5" and Editor of the W3C’s HTML5.3 Specification ABSTRACT You’re a PHP ninja. You’re a React god. You’re a magician with Sketch. But if your code is assembling HTML to get delivered to a user’s browser, how much do you know about HTML’s semantics? Choosing the correct HTML elements rather than vomiting a "div" or belching out a "span" can greatly enhance the end user’s experience, with no fragile extra code to write and maintain. One of the co-editors of the ...
Equal Entry Website Mistakenly Called Out as Inaccessible | Equal Entry
On July 2, 2020, a visitor to the Equal Entry website left us the following message: This accessibility Comment Web page May have 2 errors and 5 Alerts Suggested Screen TOOL and This Web Page [wav…
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Tatiana Mac: “System of Systems” — Clarity 2019 - YouTube
Design systems create an umbrella to to define the future of our design work. But design systems are not the biggest umbrella, so to speak—they exist under broader social, political, and infrastructural systems that affect the parameters, limitations, and variables of our system. Investigating design systems across many verticals, we'll look to see how design systems are impacted by the systems they live within. And beyond the verticals, we'll look to see how broader systems of power and oppression influence the design systems, and ultimately, the users who use the products defined by them....
The problems AI has today go back centuries | MIT Technology Review
In March of 2015, protests broke out at the University of Cape Town in South Africa over the campus statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes, a mining magnate who had gifted the land on which the university was built, had committed genocide against Africans and laid the foundations for apartheid. Under the rallying banner…
Why People Block Ads (And What It Means for Marketers and Advertisers)
HubSpot Research shares new data on why people use ad blockers and what marketers and advertisers need to do to keep people from blocking ads completely.
RAIL model enables designers and developers to reliably target the performance optimization work that has the highest impact on user experience. Learn what goals and guidelines the RAIL model sets out and which tools you can use to achieve them.
PRPL is an acronym that describes a pattern used to make web pages load and become interactive, faster. In this guide, learn how each of these techniques fit together but still can be used independently to achieve performance results.