Mohamed Mattar was a 26-year old engineer and graduate of London’s Brunel University when he was shot by the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) while attempting to protect two women. He was one of the estimated over 100 casualties of that day, June 3rd, when the Transitional Military Council (TMC) attempted to clear the sit-in protest in front of their headquarters. Yet, unlike the many killed in what has come to be called the Eid Massacre, Mattar has become a symbol for the #BlueForSudan social media campaign where thousands of people have replaced their profile pictures on Instagram, Twitter, and…
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(Bloomberg) — Dropbox Inc. unveiled the biggest overhaul yet to the way users experience its software as it seeks to push further into the productivity market dominated by Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. Dropbox is promoting a new desktop workspace and updates to its web site and mobile app to combine different files, work software and teams of employees. Customers will be able to create, access and share Google documents, spreadsheets and slides and open Microsoft Office files, according to a presentation by Chief Executive Officer Drew Houston at an event Tuesday in San Francisco. The company also announced deals with other…
As an engineer, one of your biggest challenges during your career centers around taking that “idea”, those early sketches, and bringing them into product production. Let’s face it, the path needed to bring an idea into fruition can be time-consuming, expensive, and even a bit risky. You want to build something that has a focused value, that lasts, and that is safe. Not to mention, if you want to build something of this caliber, there is a good amount of testing involved. The minds at ANSYS understand this tremendously and have made it their mission to put the power of simulation in…
Microsoft had a bunch of Xbox Game Pass news in today’s massive E3 2019 press conference, including four new games that are available to play as part of the subscription right now. Batman: Arkham Knight, Metro Exodus, Hollow Knight, and Borderland: The Handsome Collection are all now part of Xbox Game Pass. I think I already have each of these, but not all on Xbox One X. Arkham Knight was a decent game with too much Batmobile. Metro Exodus is a bit janky but still great. And Hollow Knight is a fantastic 2D action-platformer that you really don’t want to miss. More Borderlands before Borderlands 3 comes out is also fun. The Handsome Collection consists of…
Mumbai: Police stopped a 19-year-old man, resident of Pune, from committing suicide Saturday after his social media behaviour indicated that he was going to take the extreme step, an official said here. The cyber cell of Maharashtra police was tipped off that there was a possibility that the man — whose name was not disclosed — was going to end his life, the police official said. After scanning his social media accounts, the cyber cell tracked down his location and alerted Pune police, he said. Pune police reached the spot within thirty minutes and stopped him from taking any extreme step.…
Customer journey mapping and creating more personalized interactions with your customers requires a systematic approach to both data collection and data management. On the data collection side, this means capturing as much first-party data about your customers as possible. On the data management side, this means unifying all your first-party data — website data, email data, customer support data, sales data and so on — into one single view of the customer. But what if, like many direct-to-consumer brands, you’ve established your brand presence on a social media platform? The appeal of these platforms — particularly Facebook, Instagram and YouTube…
At Apple’s big World Wide Developers Conference, creativity was the theme, with new devices and plenty of improvements aimed at creative professionals and developers. But there was also a new operating system announced in iPadOS, along with news of iOS 13, watchOS 6, MacOS 10.15 and tvOS 13 updates. And that’s not to mention the death of the iconic iTunes app. iTunes is being replaced by three separate apps on the new MacOS Catalina operating system.CREDIT:AP What was once iTunes will soon be Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV. iPhone and iPad users will be used to this separation,…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple, beset by falling iPhone sales, announced upcoming changes to its phone and computer software intended to highlight its increasing emphasis on digital services and to further position it as a fierce guardian of personal privacy. The revisions previewed Monday during a conference in San Jose, Calif., included a new feature that will let people log into apps and other services with an Apple ID instead of relying on similar sign-in options from Facebook and Google — two companies that mine data to sell advertising. Apple said it won’t collect tracking information about users from that…
Hit by the triple whammy of delay in GST refunds, unfavourable forex and end of trade privilege to Indian firms, the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector wants the government to offer incentives in the upcoming Union Budget so that it can cope with the tough times. The industry body has proposed to the Finance Ministry to re-introduce some of the pre-GST era incentives and provide cheaper finance to meet capex and working capital requirements. It has also asked for lowering interest cost to 4-5 percent to make the industry competitive. “After the roll-out of Goods and Services Tax (GST), all…
If you want to stay in the US, you’ll likely have to share your internet presence. As proposed in March 2018 (and to some extent in 2015), the country now requires virtually all visa applicants to provide their social media account names for the past five years. The mandate only covers a list of selected services, although potential visitors and residents can volunteer info if they belong to social sites that aren’t mentioned in the form. Applicants also have to provide previous email addresses and phone numbers on top of non-communications info like their travel statuses and any family involvement in terrorism. Some diplomats and…