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Last week, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that Neil Chandran, a Las Vegas resident, was arrested over allegations of fraud. The 50-year-old owns companies operating under the “ViRSE” brand, including Free Vi Lab, Studio Vi, ViDelivery, and ViMarket. SEE: Metaverse: Momentum is building, but companies are still staying cautious Chandran’s companies developed virtual-world technologies, including their own cryptocurrency, for use in the companies’ own metaverse. ViRSE calls itself “the virtual universe of people, places, and content accessible from any internet-enabled device on this planet....

VMware rolled out its Tanzu portfolio in late 2019, and executives later said the company is “all-in on Kubernetes.” According to Ajay Patel, VMware already has “hundreds” of customers adopting the Tanzu portfolio each quarter, VMware’s SVP and GM of the Modern Apps and Management Business Group. The portfolio has customers in a range of industries, including the US Army Software Factory, Cerner, Humana and Voya Financial. The company has also encouraged Kubernetes adoption with Kube Academy, the free educational program it launched in 2019....

In the past, I always purchased my phones outright and then sold them on Swappa at a couple of hundred dollars loss. I figured that a couple of hundred dollars justified the use for six months to a year and find the users of Swappa to be a trustworthy bunch. You might even be able to sell your gear locally through Swappa if you are apprehensive about shipping an expensive phone to a potential buyer....

At PyCon 2022, the annual conference for its community of “Pythonistas” – and the first in-person meet-up for Python contributors since 2019 due to the pandemic – developers revisited the idea of running Python code in the browser. In the browser, Python hasn’t supported compilation to the WebAssembly (Wasm) runtime, a widely supported IC3 web application standard that compiles code written in Rust, C, C++, and Go into a binary format, which allows web apps to act more like a desktop application outside the browser....

Also: The best video streaming services There’s only one itty-bitty little problem. How do you find the shows and movies you want to watch on all those streaming services? It’s not easy. Ye old TV Guide that used to live by every television in the land doesn’t cut it anymore. Fortunately for us, there are some half-a-dozen applications and services that make it possible to easily search across over 100 streaming channels for our favorite TV shows and movies....

The new features include a lower minimum deposit of $500 – down from $5,000 – expanded access to globally diversified portfolios, and a streamlined digital experience. Wells Fargo recently rebuilt its mobile app to be more intuitive, and investors can access the robo-advisory platform within it. Consumers looking to sign-up as Intuitive Investor customers are required to have a Wells Fargo checking or savings account. Robo-advisory platforms manage portfolio investments on behalf of the investor....

Overall, Western Digital’s non-GAAP EPS was $2.30. Second quarter revenue was $4.83 billion, up 23% year-over-year. Analysts were expecting earnings per share of $1.87 on revenue of $4.26 billion. “I’m proud of the Western Digital team for delivering another quarter of strong results that exceeded guidance, even in the midst of ongoing supply chain disruptions and COVID-related challenges,” CEO David Goeckeler said in a statement. “While we continue to experience strong demand across our end markets, these challenges continue to present a headwind to near-term results....

Also: Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscriptions now available for purchase Because it’s a subscription offering, those desktop programs are updated automatically when a new version is available. If your subscription is current, you get the latest versions, with security releases monthly and feature updates every six months, on the same calendar as Windows 10. Microsoft 365 is available in Family and Personal editions (previously known as Office 365 Home and Personal, respectively) that are intended for use by families, students, and individuals for personal, non-commercial use....

That’s obviously a fairly broad definition, which is why you will sometimes see arguments over whether something is truly AI or not. Modern definitions of what it means to create intelligence are more specific. Francois Chollet, an AI researcher at Google and creator of the machine-learning software library Keras, has said intelligence is tied to a system’s ability to adapt and improvise in a new environment, to generalise its knowledge and apply it to unfamiliar scenarios....

The role of an industrial engineer varies by industry. Most identify the best ways to integrate people, equipment, and information in the workplace. They also design new plans, routes, and frameworks to save money, maximize energy use, and improve overall quality. Read on to learn more about industrial engineering, the degrees you can earn, and the classes you can take. What is industrial engineering? Industrial engineering involves finding ways to make systems and processes work more efficiently and effectively....

The feature is called Firefox View. Essentially, Firefox view is a new tab in the web browser that displays all tabs from all of the browsers that are connected to your Firefox account. For example, you might have Firefox installed on a desktop, a laptop, and your mobile phone. You probably also have tabs open on each instance. With this new feature, it’s an absolute no-brainer to move between Firefox instances and have access to all the currently open tabs....

Also: How to create your first Lemon8 post Lemon8 is not a new app; it’s just new to US social media users. Still, a week after it blew up, the app is number one in the App Store for lifestyle apps. The number one spot in this category is a big jump from an app that never reached the Top 200 Overall Charts in the US prior to last month, according to TechCrunch....

“It’s not a matter of if you’re going to be attacked – it’s just when, and what is the next one,” Matthew Davis, the president of GDI Insurance Agency, tells ZDNet. For Davis and his team, that inevitable hack came in 2019. Their remote IT provider was hacked and then the attackers deployed ransomware to the IT company’s clients’ systems – nearly 400 businesses were impacted in total. SEE: These are the cybersecurity threats of tomorrow that you should be thinking about today The attack shut down the agency and its four locations, with servers and computers crashing....

The Meta company announced it is rolling out functionalities such as being able to react to a message with emoji, sharing files larger than 2GB in size (a significant leap from the previous 100MB limit), as well as a doubling of the default maximum size of group chats. The group size functionality will increase the size cap from 256 to 512 members. However, this specific functionality will be on hold for Brazilian users until the presidential elections, which will take place in October....

Thanks, guy. Developers are in short supply. Here are the skills and programming languages employers need This isn’t the first time a developer deliberately sabotaged their own open-source code. Back in 2016, Azer Koçulu deleted a 17-line npm package called ’left-pad, ‘which killed thousands of Node.js programs that relied on it to function. Both then and now the actual code was trivial, but because it’s used in so many other programs its effects were far greater than users would ever have expected....

“AI systems must be carefully designed to reflect the diversity of socioeconomic and health-care settings and be accompanied by training in digital skills, community engagement, and awareness-raising. Systems based primarily on data of individuals in high-income countries may not perform well for individuals in low- and middle-income settings,” WHO wrote in its Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health (PDF) report. “Country investments in AI and the supporting infrastructure should therefore help to build effective health-care systems by avoiding AI that encodes biases that are detrimental to equitable provision of and access to healthcare services....

With these advances, many more people are choosing credit over cash. In fact, there were 44.7 billion credit card payments in the United States worth $4.0 trillion in 2018 – an increase of 11 billion payment and $930 billion since 2015, according to The Federal Reserve Payments Study 2019. On the whole, the study found that credit card payments grew at an annual rate of 9.9% by number and 9....

So where’s the competitive advantage in IT? Turn to DevOps, which organizes software development and delivery into rapid delivery to the business, can actually help organizations differentiate themselves from the competition. This comes at the urging of Nicole Forsgren and Jez Humble, both with DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) in a timeless podcast hosted by Andreessen Horowitz. “It seems obvious – developing and delivering software with speed and stability drives things like profitability, productivity, market share,” says Forsgren....

In terms of concept, it’s brilliant. If a user owns both a Mac and an iPad, why not use that iPad screen to support the Mac? When I did my big hurricane-escaping move across country in 2017, I traveled with my MacBook Pro and my iPad. Every night when we stopped at a new hotel, I went down into the lobby and did my work day (at night). I used the Mac, but I also used the iPad as a second screen, looking things up in Safari on the iPad as a reference for what I was writing....

Take the example of one IT leader who I spoke with recently: “We’re pushing the boundaries in other areas, such as artificial intelligence, but Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are not on our radar at the moment.” While the use of some emerging technologies – such as using the cloud to help people collaborate or using big data to run analytics – can often be related to a clear business case, the most obvious use of cryptocurrencies – paying for goods and services – still isn’t as widespread as many observers might have anticipated when Bitcoin launched in 2009....