Recently, the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) announced it was running a new UX research degree program, launched this fall, developed in collaboration with Google. This is the first degree program in UX research, the school says. “Instructed by leading faculty and mentored by Google design leaders, students will be prepared to lead design sprints and find tomorrow’s solutions for today’s challenges. In the UXR program, students learn to use analytics, consumer data, and behavioral insights to generate opportunities to improve services and products end to end....

Verizon announced the collaboration with Google on Tuesday and said the RCS standard provides “a more interactive and modern messaging experience right from Messages by Google.” According to a statement from Verizon, Messages by Google will be preloaded onto every Verizon Android device by next year. Google and Verizon said the switch will offer consumers “higher-quality photos and videos, chatting over Wi-Fi or data, knowing when your message is read, enjoying more dynamic and engaging group chats, and securely chatting with other Messages users in available one-on-one conversations with end-to-end encryption....

The Sony TV brings 75-inches of great LED picture into your home theater and uses 4K HDR picture to give you life-like images while you’re watching your favorite films. This high-quality picture can also be attributed to the XR Contrast Booster 10 that enhances detailed blacks and peak brightness. Get over a billion colors, too, with the XR Triluminos Pro – a signature Sony tech feature that makes their TV models consistently part of our picks for best OLED TVs....

Novices should start with “Beginner Object-Oriented Programming in C# and .NET Core” which will teach you the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and allow you to advance as a developer. Then you can dive deeper into C# with the “Learn C# By Building Applications” course. It will help you to understand the concepts underlying C#6 & C#7 and how to use them to create real-life .NET Console apps. “Microsoft SQL Server & T-SQL Course for Beginners” will explain the benefits of SQL and the way data is stored by SQL Server....

But what if I told you there was an alternative? There is, and it’s been around since 1997. That alternative is Linux. Now, before you throw your arms up in the air in frustration, hear me out. Sure, there are tons of Linux distributions available to install for free. Those distributions range from the very basic to the incredibly complex and everything in between. Also: How to choose the right Linux desktop distribution Along with those varied versions of the operating system, there are numerous desktops you can opt to try....

SpyCloud, a security firm, highlights in a new report how people are struggling with passwords for multiple online accounts. Based on 1.7 billion username and password combinations it gathered from the 755 leaked sources in 2021, it estimates that 64% of people used the same password exposed in one breach for other accounts. Reused passwords are a potential security problem because if a password has been compromised once then hackers can use it to access other accounts if it’s been used as the sign-in for another site....

Every year, despite how well I know him, he surprises me. Last year, for example, I found out that Jeff was a great singer. He sang as one of the leads for Pega’s band, the Layer Cakes, who won the CRM Playaz Bring Your Own Band (BYOB) 2020 competition, which was global and fierce. Here are Jeff’s vocals (watch “Shut Up and Dance with Me”). He also builds cars. That’s a story for another day....

Another method is called the AppImage, which is a unique format for distributing Linux applications in such a way that they don’t require installation and can be run without admin privileges. In other words, you download the AppImage for an application and run it. That’s it. Also: Twitter turns its back on open-source development Well, sort of. There’s another step to take before you can run the application, which is part of what I want to talk about....

Financial advisors evaluate a client’s assets, cash flow, and liabilities along with their tax status and insurance coverage to develop financial goals. They also analyze financial data and maintain compliance with laws. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 5% employment growth for financial advisors between 2020 and 2030. Day-in-the-life of a financial advisor Financial advisors should have expertise in basic math, personal finance, and research. Advisors may specialize in financial planning, insurance, and retirement along with stocks, real estate, and taxes....

While researchers don’t understand everything about the quantum world, what they do know is that quantum particles hold immense potential, in particular to hold and process large amounts of information. Successfully bringing those particles under control in a quantum computer could trigger an explosion of compute power that would phenomenally advance innovation in many fields that require complex calculations, like drug discovery, climate modelling, financial optimization or logistics. As Bob Sutor, chief quantum exponent at IBM, puts it: “Quantum computing is our way of emulating nature to solve extraordinarily difficult problems and make them tractable,” he tells ZDNet....

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects 22% employment growth for market research analysts between 2020 and 2030. A major increase in organizational data usage and applications drives those new jobs. Here, we explore data analyst jobs and what it takes to land them. What do data analysts do? Data analysts fill many roles. Their main duties typically include: Collecting, mining, and analyzing sales and market information Assessing marketing effectivenessEvaluating consumer purchasing habits and patternsDesigning data collection and evaluation toolsCreating projections and reports based on their findings...

Check out the benefits of having a business savings account and checking account, seven reasons why you will need an account, mistakes to avoid, what you will need, and how to choose the right account. Benefits to having a business account You may be wondering why a business checking account or savings account is different from your personal bank account and why you should go through the trouble of setting one up....

While the idea of using passwords such as QWERTY, 123456, and PASSWORD might seem like a joke these days, they are still commonly found in data dumps of stolen credentials published online. Major online service providers now often enforce strong passwords with lower-case and capital letters, numbers, and special characters and may also encourage and enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA). However, businesses may not impose the same standards. In addition, ghost and forgotten accounts, hardcoded credentials, and the re-use of username and password combinations are still common problems today....

There’s a clear list. And here it is. MacOS Monterey hardware compatibility list iMac - Late 2015 and lateriMac Pro - 2017 and laterMacBook - Early 2016 and laterMacBook Air - Early 2015 and laterMacBook Pro - Early 2015 and laterMac Pro - Late 2013 and laterMac mini - Late 2014 and later That’s it. Some features of the new release won’t be available to Intel-based Macs, but the list of features is small and hardly going to get many Mac users clutching at their pearls....

But, as they quickly discovered, the new OS has several new requirements for PCs to support its new hardware and virtualization-based security features. These features are critical for securing both consumer and business workloads alike from more sophisticated malware and exploit threats that are currently evolving in the wild. Also: Microsoft just blew up the only reason you can’t use a Linux desktop As it turns out, all of these features are already built-in to Windows 10 if you are running the 20H2 release (Windows 10 October 2020 Update)....

A survey of 1,000 remote workers by insurance tech company Reli Exchange found that 75% of employers had instructed staff to return to on-site work at least part of the time. Of these, 26% said they were choosing not to comply with their bosses’ in-office mandates, even if it meant getting fired. Older Millennials and younger Gen Xers (35 to 44) were the least likely to comply with return-to-office orders, the survey found, suggesting that employees have become accustomed to the benefits of greater flexibility offered by remote- and hybrid-working arrangements....

Floating in a tin can? The clearest signs of a new era, beyond ownership and control, were in the changing relationship between astronauts and spacecraft. We have become used to thinking of astronauts as death-defying heroes. They not only head out into the unknown but they do it atop a barely controlled explosive device containing, as those of us who followed the Apollo program like to think, less computing capacity than our mobile phones....

Back in 2011, when McDonald’s announced it would install 800 self-serve kiosks across France to take orders and payment, the company was criticized for scheming to cut out thousands of jobs. Since then, McDonald’s has increased self-serve kiosks across the country, the continent, and now the world. What happened to hiring? By 2017, McDonald’s France was hiring 20% more people per year than before the kiosks were installed. So much for the prophesied conflict between people and technology....

CIOs who want to get the best from their tech teams must make sure their staff feel engaged in the work they complete. Five experts give their best-practice tips for keeping IT professionals happy and productive. 1. Give your people a sense of purpose Michael Cole, CTO of golf’s European Tour and Ryder Cup, says the best way to keep people engaged is to give them a strong sense of purpose....

Software engineer Christopher Swenson filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the NSA for access to its Python training materials and received a lightly redacted 400-page printout of the agency’s COMP 3321 Python training course. Swenson has since scanned the documents, ran OCR on the text to make it searchable, and hosted it on Digital Oceans Spaces. The material has also been uploaded to the Internet Archive. There doesn’t look to be anything controversial in the documents, which contains course material sessions that would take between 45 and 90 minutes to complete in a class setting....