Firefox: The Evolution of a Brand

Firefox: The Evolution of a Brand

Today we’re introducing the Firefox parent brand — an icon representing the entire family of products. The Firefox design system includes everything we need to make product and web experiences today and long into the future. The end of the beginning

The Firefox brand exploration began more than 18 months ago, and along the way we tapped into many talents.

Source: blog.mozilla.org

Books to Understand Economics

Books to Understand Economics

But we’ve also included books on the various economic theories, both macro micro economics, the history theory of money, investing your finances, and much more. Combining economics, political theory, history, philosophy, and practical programs, Smith assumes that human self-interest is the basic psychological drive behind economics and that a natural order in the universe makes all the individual, self-interested strivings add up to the social good. “Chronicling the rise and fall of the efficient market theory and the century-long making of the modern financial industry, Justin Fox’s “The Myth of the Rational Market” is as much an intellectual whodunit as a cultural history of the perils and possibilities of risk.

Source: filmlifestyle.com

Decision Disagreement Framework – How We Encourage Disagreements at Matter

Decision Disagreement Framework – How We Encourage Disagreements at Matter

Prior to bringing stakeholders together, the person who raises the decision disagreement must list 2 to 3 initial resolution options to discuss as a team. Example 2: Appropriate for the Decision Disagreement Framework

Design created a new user experience with a filtering option for sorting through a list of items. In this scenario, engineering could use the decision disagreement framework to productively and efficiently meet with key stakeholders (engineering, design, and product) to decide how to move forward in a way that is best for the business.

Source: matterapp.com

Cause of hardening of the arteries – and potential treatment – identified

Cause of hardening of the arteries – and potential treatment – identified

The team, led by the University of Cambridge and King’s College London, found that a molecule once thought only to exist inside cells for the purpose of repairing DNA is also responsible for hardening of the arteries, which is associated with dementia, heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke. Supported by funding from the British Heart Foundation, the researchers found that poly(ADP ribose), or PAR, a molecule normally associated with DNA repair, also drives the bone-like calcification of arteries. Having discovered the links between DNA damage, PAR, bone and artery calcification, the researchers then looked into a way of blocking this pathway through the use of a PARP inhibitor.

Source: www.cam.ac.uk

A Field Guide to Transmission Lines

A Field Guide to Transmission Lines

The number of energy-carrying wires on them is three or fewer (per circuit, some distribution poles carry more than one three-phase circuit) and they tend to hold other equipment on them as well, such as transformers, fuses, switches, and even telephone and cable lines. For the transmission lines, though, which handle bulk power, the voltages can be as high as 500 kV and still carry thousands of amps of current. Another advantage of steel is that it can be easier to produce structures with more than one pole (supporting the wires via a crossarm of some sort) for the largest of transmission lines.

Source: hackaday.com

Chinese Cash Is Suddenly Toxic in Silicon Valley, Following U.S. Pressure

Chinese Cash Is Suddenly Toxic in Silicon Valley, Following U.S. Pressure

Silicon Valley startup Pilot AI Labs Inc. signed a Chinese-backed venture-capital firm as its first big investor. The U.S. startup hoped to sell more of its artificial-intelligence software to the U.S. government after working with the Pentagon, according to people familiar with its operations, and worried its effort could be hurt by the investor’s ties to China’s government. The chairman of the Chinese-backed investor, Digital Horizon Capital, was asked to sell back its stake, said…

Source: www.wsj.com

1Password introducing support for U2F security keys

1Password introducing support for U2F security keys

You can now use U2F-compatible security keys as a second factor for your 1Password account. You can add your security keys now by heading over to the 1Password web app and visiting our new Two-Factor Authentication page. Offer expires June 12, 2019 at 8 a.m. PST.Get your YubiKey

How it works under the hood
WebAuthn is a pretty neat implementation based on public key crypto, and resolves security vulnerabilities like phishing.

Source: blog.1password.com

Chronicles of the Rings: What Trees Tell Us

Chronicles of the Rings: What Trees Tell Us

Other sources — lake sediments; ice core samples; coral; the otolith, or ear bone, of fish; and even the shells from living and long dead geoducks, a large bivalve with a snakelike appendage — add to the broader picture. Experts are using the shell ring information, combined with tree ring data, to understand how climate drives ocean productivity and the species mix of fish, to assist fisheries managers. An event in 774-775, first found in Japanese cedar trees and since found globally, is the strongest cosmic ray event in the tree ring record, a magnitude larger than the Carrington event, a solar storm in 1859, and apparently noted by people alive at the time.

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Day the Music Burned

The Day the Music Burned

With recourse to the master, a recording’s “picture” can, potentially, be improved; the record can snap into sharper focus, its sound and meaning shining through with new clarity and brilliance. “Sgt. Pepper’s” is one of the most famous recordings in history, but the version most listeners know is the stereo mix, which was of secondary importance to the Beatles, their producer George Martin and his engineer, Geoff Emerick. It was the mono mix that consumed the Beatles’ attention, and it is to those materials that the box set’s producer, Martin’s son Giles, returned, creating a fresh stereo mix from the mono masters.

Source: www.nytimes.com