Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday condemned one of Missouri’s largest newspapers for exposing a flaw in a state database that allowed public access to thousands of teachers’ Social Security…
Application development tools haven been improving for decades and are to the point where many applications no longer require the skills of a highly trained software engineer: When I was…
Low-code platforms allow ordinary people to develop extraordinary apps that solve everyday business problems. Source: The untapped potential of citizen developers This has been underway for quite some time as…
The Australian government says its COVIDSafe app identified 2,827 potential close contacts from 37,668 encounters in NSW and Victoria. Only 17 cases in NSW were identified separately to manual contact…
US President Joe Biden will soon sign an executive order that will give farmers the right to repair their own tractors, said Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary in a…
The goal of Youtube, obviously, is to increase the percent of time you spend watching Youtube, and their ads every few minutes: New research published today by Mozilla backs that…
They expect 70% of applications to be developed by their internal users rather than software specialists: We started with our center of excellent last year, where we got some experts…
Facebook’s head of Instagram said the service plans to start showing users full-screen, recommended videos in their feeds. “We’re no longer a photo-sharing app or a square photo-sharing app,” Head…
Smart phone contact tracing apps are a technology whose time never arrived: Months after agency officials said they were actively “assessing the results” of a trial conducted at Oregon State…
This part of the post was written on September 4th, but not published until December 30. On September 4th, the UW IHME disease modeling team projected 410,000 deaths in the…