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If you’re wading into Linux waters for the first time, chances are you’ve started with Ubuntu (here’s a guide for installing it!) It’s by far the world’s most popular desktop Linux distribution, it’s a snap to use, and it’s so entrenched in the ecosystem that almost any question you

Susanna Harris was sitting in her lab class for her graduate program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she received an email that told her she had failed what she describes as “the most important exam in grad school,” the doctoral qualifying exam.

Perhaps the most defining characteristic of social media is that it only rewards speaking, not reading. Every metric, from “likes” to “followers” are prefaced upon the primacy of publication. Even influencers are defined as those whose posts are the most read, rather than those who read the

In a world ruled by social media, posting a wrong status update has sometimes even turned out to be fatal. There have been reports where a post on something as simple as a relationship status change has resulted in suicide, especially among teenagers. People have also faced arrest for

Geoff Meads, managing director of the U.K.-based Presto Web Design, has experienced one of the most diverse musical journeys of any CE Pro All-Star Band member. Meads started his music career at age seven learning guitar. Building on his foundation of music education, he also studied brass and took various

India’s software exporters may lose their competitive edge on falling incentives and rising tax rates, industry executives said, and urged the government to extend the policy benefits of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) beyond April 2020, reduce corporate taxes for large companies and review the buyback tax introduced in the Budget. The top 150 companies contribute

A handful of IT consulting firms have scored contracts with the Department of Defence as part of a $28 million investment into defence innovations. Adelaide-based Solinnov, Sydney-based Clearbox Systems and Adelaide-based Consunet were among the 15 Australian small businesses to receive contract wins to help develop “cutting-edge

For more than a year, a company called Corellium has been offering hackers a virtual iPhone. For a price, you could summon up a virtual iPhone on your computer, changing the model or iOS version through a simple menu tab. Now, Apple is suing to shut that

Ele.me and Koubei, Alibaba’s two key consumer services units, have jointly rolled out an open operating system for brick-and-mortar stores and supermarket chains in an effort to improve their efficiency, the company said on Monday. Why it matters: The launch of the system marks another step forward in

Software companies must navigate a matrix of monetization & deployment models. The software business was supposed to be getting easier. Not just the programming and application development side of the equation, but the way we consume it too. While low-code no-code platforms bid to try and alleviate