Новости за 04.03.2021

It’s no secret that Sonos is planning to announce something next week — the company sent virtual event invites to the press, and we’ll be tuning in. But it turns out we didn’t have to wait that long to get a good look at the product; a report by The Verge extensively details the new Sonos Roam, images and all. Just as predicted by earlier leaks, the Sonos Roam is a more compact Bluetooth speaker than the Sonos Move — the type of speaker you might keep in a backpack. It’s also a lot cheaper, coming in at $169... Читать дальше...

You might want to place a moratorium on using Alexa’s ‘skills’ until Amazon can sort out some gaping privacy holes in its third-party access. According to a study published today by a team of researchers from North Carolina State University, your personal data – including, potentially, your banking information and contact lists – could be at risk if you’ve installed any third-party skills from the Alexa skills marketplace. First things first: Skills are Alexa’s versions of apps. They’re useful for... Читать дальше...

Microsoft is today announcing several updates for its Edge browser and Bing search engine, aimed at making your browsing experience a little more seamless — and differentiating themselves a bit from Google’s offerings. Perhaps most notably, Edge now supports vertical tabs. These hang out on the left side of your browser as icons, but then expand to full title sizes when you hover over them. The idea is that it can make it easier to see all your tabs in one place, as tab hoarders you can clearly scroll through all their tabs... Читать дальше...

Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! I know a business coach who always starts his sessions by asking his clients a single question: ”Who would you be if you weren’t you?” What he means is; if you didn’t have your current job and responsibilities, and if you wouldn’t have invested time and energy in your current career... Читать дальше...

This month is a time to celebrate. CERN has just announced the discovery of four brand-new particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva. This means that the LHC has now found a total of 59 new particles, in addition to the Nobel prize-winning Higgs boson, since it started colliding protons – particles that make up the atomic nucleus along with neutrons – in 2009. Excitingly, while some of these new particles were expected based on our established theories, some were altogether more surprising. Читать дальше...

Chipmaker Qualcomm is launching a new end-to-end audio solution called Snapdragon Sound to bring high-quality wireless audio on phones. Smartphone audio is not always at its best when you’re listening to music or playing games through wireless earbuds. You might experience quality drops, glitches, or latency issues. Snapdragon Sound aims to solve all these problems with series of existing and new hardware and software solutions, including processors, DACs (Digital to Analog Convertors), and codecs. Читать дальше...

TLDR: Aryel AR Marketing is a first of its kind web platform that allows businesses and brands of any size to launch their own cool new augmented reality marketing campaign. Remember Pokemon Go? Of course you do. For a couple months back in 2016, it was practically the only thing anybody was talking about. Heck, this very website even ordered its employees to start playing (no really, we did! Sort of…)  Whenever you saw someone in public seeming to wander aimlessly with eyes locked on a smartphone screen... Читать дальше...

Most companies are struggling to develop working artificial intelligence strategies, according to a new survey by cloud services provider Rackspace Technology. The survey, which includes 1,870 organizations in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, finance, retail, government, and healthcare, shows that only 20% of companies have mature AI/machine learning initiatives. The rest are still trying to figure out how to make it work. There’s no questioning the promises of machine learning in nearly every sector. Читать дальше...

TLDR: The 2021 Complete Digital Marketing Super Bundle is a 14-course masterplan for conquering brand building with social media, digital content, SEO, and more. Feeling overwhelmed is the natural state for most entrepreneurs. With day to day sales and the supply chain and customer relations chewing up so much of any given day, it’s easy for other facets of running a successful small operation to take a backseat.  With so much to get done, if digital marketing isn’t your area of expertise, it’s not... Читать дальше...

After months of beta testing, WhatsApp today finally launched voice and video calls on its desktop app. The app only supports one-to-one calls for now, but the company plans to add group calls in the future. All the calls are end-to-end encrypted to keep your secrets safe from devious eavesdroppers. The new feature will help the platform capitalize on the explosive growth in video calls since the COVID-19 outbreak. Downloads of video conferencing apps such as Zoom hit record highs during the pandemic, and WhatsApp got its own big bump in usage.