Month: August 2021
Data scientists: don’t be afraid to explore new avenues
Ilyes Kacher Contributor Ilyes Kacher is a data scientist at autoRetouch, an AI-powered platform for bulk-editing product images online. I’m a native French data scientist who cut his teeth as a research engineer in computer vision in Japan and later in my home country. Yet I’m writing from an unlikely…
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Squarespace evades part of website builder patent lawsuit New Hero
Squarespace has managed to have one of the allegations against it dropped in a patent lawsuit involving its website builder. Back in September of last year, the Web 2.0 and mobile technology firm Express Mobile filed lawsuits against some of the biggest names in the ecommerce and technology industry including…
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OnePlus Buds Pro review: Much better
What does a company have to do to differentiate wireless earbuds in 2021? The near ubiquity of good hardware has made this an increasingly difficult question to answer. I’ve probably tested around 10 different sets of buds over the last year or so, and honestly, they were all pretty good.…
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Security hole in dating app Bumble exposed user location data Dating App
A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in the popular dating app Bumble that could have allowed an attacker to pinpoint the precise location of other users of the service. Robert Heaton, who works as a software engineer at the payments company Stripe, discovered the vulnerability in the dating app…
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Making a splash in the marketing world
“There are three common blunders that most SaaS marketers make time and again when it comes to clarity and high-converting content,” says Konrad Sanders, founder and CEO of The Creative Copywriter, “1. Not differentiating from competitors. 2. Not humanizing ‘tech talk.’ 3. Not tuning their messaging to prospects’ stage of…
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If your iPhone 12’s earpiece failed, Apple might fix it for free
Apple has announced a service program to fix failing receivers on iPhone 12 and 12 Pros (via 9to5Mac). The company says that non-Mini or Max phones made between October 2020 and April 2021 may have an issue where no sound comes out of the earpiece when making or receiving calls,…
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