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But in recent years, the decade-old paradigm has received more and more criticism. Could it be that, four decades after object-oriented programming hit the masses, technology is outgrowing this paradigm? Is coupling functions with data that stupid? The main idea behind object-oriented programming is as simple as can be: you try to break a program in parts that are as powerful as the whole. It foll

Deep tech Why 90% of machine learning models never hit the market Most companies lack leadership support, effective communication between teams, and accessible data Corporations are going through rough times. And I’m not talking about the pandemic and the stock market volatility. The times are uncertain, and having to make customer experiences more and more seamless and immersive isn’t taking off

Design & Dev Why Python is not the programming language of the future sluggishness, runtime issues, and mobile app development woes doom its future It took the programming community a couple of decades to appreciate Python. But since the early 2010’s, it has been booming — and eventually surpassing C, C#, Java and JavaScript in popularity. But until when will that trend continue? When will Python

Plugged Suck it, Zuck — only 4% of US iOS users say ‘okay then’ to ad tracking I'm struggling not to shed a tear for poor Facebook At the end of the day, all Apple wants is your money. Sometimes though, this desire for cash manifests as something that’s actually positive for users. And Apple’s app tracking transparency is one of those things. With the launch of iOS 14.5, Apple included a feature t

Plugged Linus Torvalds wants Apple’s new M1-powered Macs to run Linux Earlier this month,  Apple revealed its own ARM-based M1 processor, along with new MacBooks and a desktop Mac Mini powered by this chip. Reviewers across the globe have been praising Apple’s first attempt, giving it high marks for performance and battery life. All this positive coverage has tempted many to take the plunge and bu

Early bird prices are coming to an end soon... ⏰ Grab your tickets before January 24 Last week, at the 49th CA/Browser Forum, a voluntary consortium of certification authorities, Apple announced that it’ll stop allowing HTTPS certificates on Safari with more than 13 months of validity, later this year. HTTPS certificates, based on the latest TLS encryption standards, ensure that your connection to

Early bird prices are coming to an end soon... ⏰ Grab your tickets before January 24, 2025 Facebook is reportedly building an operating system, reports The Information. It isn’t immediately clear exactly where it will be deployed, but the project could help the company move away from using Android to power its hardware. The company presently uses a modified version of Android on its Portal line of

Early bird prices are coming to an end soon... ⏰ Grab your tickets before January 24, 2025 Researchers at Google’s security group Project Zero have found an active vulnerability in Android that affects several popular devices including the Pixel 2, Huawei P20 Pro, and Xiaomi Redmi Note 5. A post from the security group suggests it found the bug last week, and attackers were exploiting it at that m

2 for 1 tickets for TNW Conference 2025 are HERE 🤑 This offer will only last as long as September does → Artificial intelligence systems represent a pretty exciting area of study: There is a good-sized call for people with the skills needed, and the technology is still developing and growing. However, it can be difficult to figure out how best to get involved with the tech, especially if you’re w

Mozilla’s set to launch a premium version of its revered Firefox browser this fall. In an interview with German media outlet T3N, the company’s CEO, Chris Beard, said that it’s aiming to launch the new version by October, with features like a VPN and secure cloud storage. The company’s already experimented with a VPN service by partnering up with ProtonVPN and offering a $10 subscription. Now, the

Design & Dev GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories Finally! GitHub is by far the most popular way to build and share software. That said, one weakness of the platform is that it limits who can create private repositories – that is, software projects that aren’t visible to the broader public, and are shared only with a handful of pre-defined collaborators – to paying users. New

Fintech and ecommerce Official Google account hacked to promote Bitcoin scam on Twitter Google is the latest one... In the latest in a string of cryptocurrency-related hackings on Twitter, attackers have breached an official Google account to promote a Bitcoin giveaway scam to its over 800,000 followers. The official G Suite Twitter account just blasted the following message to hundreds of thousan

As we set out on a two-hour drive, my pregnant girlfriend told me she didn’t want anyone, including ourselves, to share pictures of our child on social media. I was completely opposed, and we got into a heated argument. The argument lasted most of the ride home. I didn’t understand the problem with other people seeing our undoubtedly beautiful child, our happiness, and their evolution into personh

Update: October 23(4:33 AM IST/ 1:03 AM CEST): GitHub noted on its status blog that all the services are now up and running. Update: (3:26PM IST/ 11:56PM CEST) GitHub said that the majority of restore processes have completed. And they anticipate all data stores will be fully consistent within the next hour. Update (03:17PM IST / 11:47AM CEST): GitHub noted that it needs another 1.5 hours to recti

Early bird prices are coming to an end soon... ⏰ Grab your tickets before January 24, 2025 A security researcher has found out that due to a vulnerability in WebKit (a rendering engine used by Safari browser), it takes only a few lines of CSS code to crash an iPhone or an iPad. The code itself is not too complex and uses multiple nested elements like <div> tags inside a CSS effect called backdrop-

Early bird prices are coming to an end soon... ⏰ Grab your tickets before January 24, 2025 Google, which has been long known for defending freedom of internet, recently removed access to a feature that was widely used to bypass censorship; domain fronting. Activists claim Google is siding with censorship, while Google claims it was a regular update. But what is the bigger picture? Should Google ig

Fintech and ecommerce Microsoft launches ambitious blockchain project to help creators get paid But we have no clue what happened to its previous blockchain project It seems that Microsoft isn’t done experimenting with blockchain technology. Microsoft and Ernst & Young (EY) announced the launch of a blockchain solution for content rights and royalties management on Wednesday. The blockchain soluti

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → Today, 10 years after its public launch, GitHub sits at the center of all developer workflows. But reflecting on this first decade in business, it’s not unrealistic to think that it’ll be at the center of all workflows in the years to come. In fact, because of GitHub’s roots in the developer

Early bird prices are coming to an end soon... ⏰ Grab your tickets before January 24, 2025 Machine learning has a lot of buzz around it and business-leaders are eager to hire talent with experience in the field. But what does ‘machine learning’ actually mean? And if someone has it listed on their resume, how do you know if they are a good fit for solving business problems? What most people don’t r

Save over 40% when you secure your tickets today to TNW Conference 💥 Prices will increase on November 22 → Google Chrome does an okayish job of saving your logins on various sites, but dedicated password management apps are way better. If you’ve been meaning to switch, you’ll be glad to know that a recent update to the browser now lets you export your passwords so you can import them into a diffe

Design & Dev Report: 80’s kids started programming at an earlier age than today’s millennials Thanks BBC Micro! HackerRank has published its 2018 Developer Skills Report. The paper looks at a number things essential to understanding the developer landscape, and explores things like the perks coders demand from their workplaces, the technologies they prefer to use, and how they entered the software