There’s no doubt that the pandemic encouraged consumers to rethink their shopping habits, with over half now preferring to buy from brands directly. In fact, market growth of D2C in the US is expected to reach just under $175 million by 2023. As the market continues to grow and become increasingly competitive, a strong D2C growth strategy has never been more important for a brand to stand out. At Trinny London, we’ve worked hard to ensure we’re much more than just a makeup brand....

1. New privacy dashboard Android 12 will feature a privacy dashboard in your settings. It’ll mainly display what apps accessed your location, mic, and camera in the last 24 hours, and how many times. You can also easily review other accessed permissions — such as storage — by simply scrolling down further in the dashboard. Google said you can easily revoke these permissions through the dashboard as well. 2. More control over camera and mic sensors The upcoming version of Google’s operating system will also feature iOS style indicators for when an app is using the camera, mic, or both....

Having this many satellites in orbit can create problems, including space junk and the way they change our view of the night sky. But satellites provide a vital service. Many people are familiar with GPS, which helps us navigate. Some may know satellites provide crucial data for our weather forecasts. But satellites affect our lives in many ways – and some of these may surprise you. Spending money Whether you pay for your morning coffee using contactless payment, Google Pay, or even with cash withdrawn from an ATM, none of it would be possible without satellites....

To find out what small businesses can do to efficiently leverage 3D printing services — and what challenges teams may face when doing so — I asked a panel of YEC entrepreneurs the following: What is one thing small businesses could be doing to tap into 3D printing? Why would this approach be effective? What could go wrong? Here is what they said: Create merchandise Many businesses that operate online sell services instead of physical products....

This guide gives an introductory but comprehensive guide to Typescript any JavaScript developer would need to get started with it. What is Typescript, what is its type system, and how would it benefit you as a JavaScript developer to use Typescript in your next project? You will find answers to all these questions by the end of this article. Note: I may be a bit biased towards Typescript. There’s no project that I start where I prefer JS to Typescript....

In this post, we’ll take a look at every T version in comparison with its non-T counterpart launched earlier that year. Please note I’ve not counted for software updates as OnePlus has a record of making almost all software features available to the previous version. The OnePlus 3 v the OnePlus 3T In November 2016, OnePlus released a phone under the T series for the first time. The idea was to release two products per year, so the company can catch up with its rivals in the second half of the year....

Alex Fasulo is a freelance writer — and even in the teeth of a global pandemic and the explosion of a hand-to-mouth U.S. gig economy, she’s absolutely thriving. Fasulo is a regular on Fiverr Pro, offering her freelancing services as a ghostwriter on a variety of projects, including earning $1,000 a pop writing 10,000-word e-books. And it’s a business model that’s making Fasulo rich, netting her an income of $378,000 a year....

Also, hooks allow us to reuse component and state logic across different components. This was tricky to do before. Therefore, hooks have been a game-changer. In this article, we will explore how to test React Hooks. We will pick a sufficiently complex hook and work on testing it. We expect that you are an avid React developer already familiar with React Hooks. In case you want to brush up your knowledge, you should check out our tutorial, and here’s the link to the official documentation....

With the holiday season here, it’s a good idea to take any opportunity available to save a few dollars. It’s even more imperative when a deal is so good that it essentially pays you to do it rather than the other way around. So if you’ve held off on getting a Sam’s Club membership for some reason…well, this deal may be the offer that you’ve actually been waiting for all along....

The ARTUµ algorithm flew alongside a pilot aboard a U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane during a test flight on December 15. The system took control of sensor employment and tactical navigation on the aircraft, while the pilot flew the plane. “Together, they flew a reconnaissance mission during a simulated missile strike,” the Air Force said in a statement. “ARTUµ’s primary responsibility was finding enemy launchers while the pilot was on the lookout for threatening aircraft, both sharing the U-2’s radar....

AI Now’s 2019 report is out, and it’s exactly as dismaying as we thought it would be. The good news is that the threat of biased AI and Orwellian surveillance systems no longer hangs over our collective heads like an artificial Sword of Damocles. The bad news: the threat’s gone because it’s become our reality. Welcome to 1984. The annual report from AI Now is a deep-dive into the industry conducted by the AI Now Institute at New York University....

The sensor uses an advanced light convertor and AI to measure and correct the distortion of starlight caused by the Earth’s atmosphere. It will now be installed on the 8.2m Subaru telescope on the summit of Maunakea, Hawaii, one of the largest optical-infrared telescopes in the world. “The main way we identify planets orbiting distant stars is by measuring regular dips in starlight caused by planets blocking out bits of their sun,” said study lead author Dr Barnaby Norris in a statement....

Here’s a look at all iOS 15 features the company announced today at the event: Apple is introducing spatial audio to facetime to make you feel like you’re sitting in the same room as the other callers. A new voice isolation feature will separate your voice from background noise. And wide spectrum mode will let your mic pick everything around you. Facetime will also have portrait mode to blur your background....

Finland currently has a €2,000 ($2260) purchase subsidy from the Finnish government (with a maximum price of €50,000 or $56,000) for people buying a new electric car or signing a long-term lease agreement for an electric vehicle. This proposal leaves me with more questions than answers. Let’s take a look: Do women face gender discrimination in car buying? It’s worth remembering that many women have bad experiences making big-ticket purchases....

In their coverage, Holmes noted that Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner from Wisconsin owns more than $98,000 in stocks in all four companies combined; Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California has between $1,000 and $15,000 of stocks in Facebook, Apple, and Alphabet each, though she’s sold some of those shares recently; Rep. Steve Chabot of Ohio holds between $15,000 and $50,000 of Facebook shares. To be clear, it’s not illegal for lawmakers to own shares of the companies they’re investigating, but it could certainly lead to a perception of conflict of interest in this case....

Mark Gurman and Jon Prosser both said that we won’t see a new iPhone, and both of them agree on very few things. However, that doesn’t mean we won’t get to see some exciting devices. Here’s what you can expect from tomorrow’s Apple event: Two new Apple Watches Apple will release two watches this time: the Apple Watch 6 and an affordable model (the Apple Watch SE?) to replace the Apple Watch 3 and compete with the likes of Fitbit....

The report notes the device will be a successor to the iPhone SE, which was released in 2016. The phone will expectedly feature a 4.7-inch LCD display – just like the iPhone 8. It’ll also reportedly share some components with this year’s iPhones, such as the A13 chip. Reports of Apple releasing an iPhone SE 2 are not new, though. In 2017, plenty of stories indicated the company will release the much-awaited successor in 2018....

The company just rolled out the second beta version of the software, and folks on Reddit have noticed that Apple Music now has a swipe-to-add functionality. Here’s how it works: you can swipe on a song partially to add it to the queue. If you make a full swipe from left to right the song will play next. This is extremely helpful for quickly adding songs to your Now Playing list....

For many customers, Apple’s history of relying on its internal team to “think different” was no longer enough. The comments from Apple’s customers reminded me of a famous talk delivered by the late Steve Jobs about why culturally Apple prefers internal vs. external sources of innovation and why this offers a potential explanation for the frustration of Apple’s fans. In 1992, Steve Jobs delivered an interesting critique about the dangers of external thinking through his views of consultants....

Featuring the new M1 chip, designed for thin and light devices (obviously), Apple promises up to 3.5 times faster CPU performance and 5x graphics performance over the previous generation. It achieves this performance without a fan, ensuring the device is completely silent. The laptop can also allegedly run for 15 hours of wireless web browsing or 18 hours of video — 6 hours longer than before. And because it’s 2020, Apple says it can last twice as long on video calls too....