Below are four courses, unlocked through December 31, 2023, that tech pros around the world have been taking to develop business-critical soft skills: 1. Communication: Communication Skills for Modern Management, with Jean Marie DiGiovanna 2. Teamwork: Teamwork Essentials: Stand Out as a Valuable Team Member, with Shadé Zahrai 3. Problem-solving: Strategic Thinking Tips to Solve…
YouTube’s newly appearing ambient mode enhances the viewing experience, bringing on-screen colors to the previously black edges of the screen. Unfortunately, it can be a little distracting in practice. This quick guide will show you how to turn YouTube’s ambient colors off. While the average size of smartphones has increased in mostly one direction, video…
Have you ever Googled yourself and been surprised by the old social media images, usernames, and other dusty internet relics it unearths? Maybe the results are a bit more specific, like a former address or even a phone number. No one wants their personal contact information online for all to see without their knowledge —…
This is interesting. Under the E.U.’s new Digital Services Act (DSA) regulations, large online platforms, including the biggest social apps, now need to provide regular updates on their active users in the E.U. region, along with various other key transparency updates. Which TikTok reported this week, providing new insights into how many people are using…
WhatsApp has just submitted a new update through the TestFlight beta Program, bringing the version up to 23.23.1.70. The version marked within WhatsApp Settings is 2.23.23.70 and the TestFlight build is 23.23.1 (531383450).What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is rolling out a new privacy feature to protect the IP address in calls, and it’s available…
“Twitter Money 2023: How to Make Money on Twitter” 1. Twitter’s Business Model2. How to Make Money on Twitter3. Twitter’s Revenue Streams4. Twitter’s Monetization Strategy5. Twitter’s Advertising Products6. Twitter’s Merchant Platform7. Twitter’s Future Plans “Twitter Money 2023: How to Make Money on Twitter”Twitter is a microblogging and social networking provider that allows its users to…
Earlier this month, I joined 1,500 of my fellow talent leaders at Talent Connect in New York City. The tagline for the conference was “Work changes today,” which underscores the unrelenting change and uncertainty in the modern workplace. Whether it’s the demographic shifts in the workforce, transformative technology like generative AI, or the need to…
Fidias Panayiotou, a YouTuber known for doing challenges, is currently under investigation for being a suspected train fare dodger. The controversy surrounding Fidias Panayiotou Panayiotou uploaded a now-deleted YouTube video entitled “I Travelled Across Japan For Free” — where he hid in the train’s bathroom and pretended to be sick when caught. In this video,…
It looks like Threads might be getting an API soon. Threads user Donna Lowe asked if there was a “Thread-deck-type thing yet,” and technology reporter Casey Newton responded by saying, “No, because there isn’t an API yet. Hopefully someday.” In response, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said, “We’re working on it. My concern is that it’ll…
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Meta has a very large monorepo, with many different programming languages. To optimize build and performance, we developed our own build system called Buck, which was first open-sourced in 2013. Buck2 is the recently open-sourced successor. In our internal tests at Meta, we observed that Buck2 completed builds approximately 2x as fast as Buck1. Below…
X, formerly known as Twitter, is introducing two new tiers for its subscription offering in order to bring in additional revenue. The social media giant is adding a new Premium+ tier that costs $16 per month and offers the “largest reply boost” and removes ads from the For You and Following feeds. The tier also…
When a company is described as dynamic, you often also hear about innovation — how, for example, that business was on top of the latest wave of technology or the hottest consumer trends. But what if we’ve got it all wrong about what it takes for a company to be dynamic? According to a new study…
Last year, thousands of people on social media shared a YouTube video featuring a song composed for the Weather Channel's hurricane “storm alert” in 2006. It wasn’t the first time: originally uploaded in November 2019, the piece has resurfaced on Reddit and social media multiple times in the nearly 20 years since it was written,…