WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.24.3.34. What’s new in this update? This is a bug-fix update that addresses an issue with fingerprint lock! Common questions Answers Changelog about? Fingerprint lock Status? Fixed Compatibility? WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.3.34 is marked as a…
Human resources has gone through many iterations over the years. During the Industrial Revolution, it was the personnel department, with a focus on tracking workers’ hours and skills. In the mid-20th century, it became human resources, with an emphasis on treating people fairly and driving productivity. And as the internet came of age in the…
YouTube Music is rolling out a new “personal radio” feature that lets you broadcast daily playlists based on your favorite tunes for others to play. The new feature, discovered by a Reddit user last week, is starting to appear on some YouTube Music user channel pages — where you’d normally go to check out your…
Authors: Bingfeng Xia and Xinyu Liu Background At LinkedIn, Apache Beam plays a pivotal role in stream processing infrastructures that process over 4 trillion events daily through more than 3,000 pipelines across multiple production data centers. This robust framework empowers near real-time data processing for critical services and platforms, ranging from machine learning and notifications…
Garry Tan, whose success in Silicon Valley has likely inspired many of the founders he mentors, is once again attracting attention for his posts on the social platform X. On Friday night, the Y Combinator president, investor, and former entrepreneur, published a post that might have prompted some to wonder if his X account was…
Here’s what people who weren’t there don’t know about the moment the dot-com bubble burst: there was no single moment. The date was different for everyone, and the range varies a lot more than you think. So far as I was concerned, the dot-com economy crashed on the morning of January 11, 2000. That’s when…
Co-authors: Max Kanat-Alexander and Grant Jenks Today we are open-sourcing the LinkedIn Developer Productivity & Happiness Framework (DPH Framework) – a collection of documents that describe the systems, processes, metrics, and feedback systems we use to understand our developers and their needs internally at LinkedIn. Now more than ever, developers are navigating so much change and…
YouTube is giving creators access to an improved tool, “Erase Song,” which allows a copyrighted song to be removed without affecting other audio in the video. Announced earlier this week and rolling out now, an updated version of “Erase Song” is available to creators. The option was previously available in beta, but not to all…
Rewind to 2017: Herschel “Guy” Beahm IV, known online as Dr Disrespect, was the face of Twitch. He was one of the most-watched streamers online and had landed a major exclusivity deal with Twitch. There seemed to be no stopping the Doc. However, in June 2020, Twitch permabanned Dr Disrespect without warning. For the past…
Ever wonder what it’s like to write code at Meta’s scale? On the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Dustin Shahidehpour and Katherine Zak, two software engineers at Meta, to talk about their careers and what it’s really like to ship code at Meta. Why does Meta have…
Nearly two years after the layoffs across X’s trust, safety and security teams, Elon Musk’s social media company is now trying to hire new employees to help moderate content and secure its platform, according to X’s official job listings. In the last month, X posted two dozen job openings evenly split across its safety and…
Do you love uncertainty? Wish that there were more of it in the talent world? If you said “yes,” you’re likely in the minority. Most people — even adventurous ones — struggle with uncertainty. And the talent world has dished up an extraordinary amount of it over the past few years, from the pandemic to…
If you missed our stories this week about the latest updates to WhatsApp beta for Android, iOS, and Desktop, this is a good time to catch up thanks to our summary. Among the 8 stories and concepts we shared, the best news of the week is about additional text formatting tools for messages, a new…
Skills-first hiring will become more achievable There are many benefits to hiring for skills over pedigree. “Focusing on skills and past experience and performance,” says Stacy Donovan Zapar, founder of The Talent Agency, “is a much more accurate predictor of success and will lead to stronger, more diverse teams that have both the breadth and…