We provide small group classes that meet over live video chat where learners are connected with teachers and classmates who share their interests. We’re growing fast: over 30,000 families have enrolled in classes, and we’re doubling our team this year. We came together because we wanted to make a difference in education, and saw the opportunity to empower learners, teachers, and parents.

Earlier today, a Swiss lawyer named Martin Steiger published a factually incorrect article about ProtonMail on his blog, alleging, among other things, that “ProtonMail voluntarily offers assistance for real-time surveillance.” Not only have we informed him multiple times that his claim is false, but the alleged source of his story, a Swiss public prosecutor, has also refuted these claims (this is hidden at the bottom of Mr. Steiger’s article). Steiger’s interpretation is different from the one taken by the Swiss government agency tasked with enforcing the law, whose directives we are legally obligated to comply with.

AdNauseam is a lightweight browser extension that blends software tool and artware intervention to actively fight back against tracking by advertising networks. At the same time, AdNauseam serves as a means of amplifying discontent with advertising networks that disregard privacy and enable bulk surveillance. In light of the industry’s failure to address the excesses of network tracking, AdNauseam allows individual users to take matters into their own hands, offering active defense against surveillance, profiling and potential discrimination.

Until that transaction commits or is rolled back, no other connection can write to the database (in older versions of SQLite, it used to be the case that readers were blocked, too, but thanks to the addition of write-ahead logging, readers can co-exist with the writer and vice-versa). The object has a method, which is called by the writer thread when results are ready, and a corresponding method which is used behind-the-scenes to block the caller while the query is in-flight. Because all write queries are executed using the same connection, and because the write queries may arrive in the queue out-of-order (when multiple threads are issuing writes at the same time), it is impossible to predict how a multi-statement transaction would play out.

If you use Gmail, Maps, Search and other Google products, chances are the company has a lot of information about you stored on its servers. Here’s how to tell Google what to automatically do with all of your private information if you stop using Google products for a pre-determined amount of time, like if you die. Google will let you start to configure what it should do if you stop using its services.

The replacement API gives extension developers much of the same capabilities, but moves evaluation of the network requests out of the extension’s JavaScript and into the browser engine itself. None of my own extensions that use the API today could be re-implemented using the proposed API, despite most of their usage of the API center around redirecting requests using simple dynamic redirect rules. The API is also terrible to work with as developers can’t even use their browser’s own developer tools to inspect all the changes that their extensions are capable of making to a request.

(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday banned apps on its app store that facilitate the sale of marijuana or related products, as part of a change to its content policy. Developers only need to move their shopping cart option outside the app to comply with the new policy, a Google spokesperson told Reuters. “Google’s decision is a disappointing development that only helps the illegal market thrive, but we are confident that Google, Apple and Facebook will eventually do the right thing,” a spokesperson for Eaze, a marijuana delivery app, said.

Last batch, we tried something new – we built an investor portal designed to help great investors meet our companies. Note that these numbers are based only on companies that successfully raised a Series A in the last batch. On average, the companies that raised As had 30 coffee meetings with individual investors.

We’ve built an automated, paperless 401(k) that makes it possible for small and medium-sized businesses to offer a 401(k) benefit to their employees — something that only 14% of them are able to do today. In doing so, we’re empowering businesses of any size to safeguard the financial futures of their employees. As an employee benefits company, benefits are very important to us, and Human Interest’s philosophy is to be generous when it comes to employees’ wellness.

Waterfox does not collect ANY telemetry, meaning you don’t have to worry about any tracking or usage information about what you do inside YOUR browser. The only thing that Waterfox sends back is your OS and browser version to check for updates. Waterfox is one of the few fully customizable browsers, allowing you to modify and extend it any way you please.