Daily Deal: The Complete Microsoft Azure Course Bundle
The Complete Microsoft Azure Course Bundle has 15+ hours of video content and 6 eBooks on Azure Cloud solutions, integration, and networks. You’ll learn how to monitor and troubleshoot Azure network resources, manage virtual machines with PowerShell, use computer vision to detect objects and text in images, and much more. It’s on sale for $30.
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Author: Daily Deal
Date: 2020-11-10
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| Good News: Academics Can Make Their Articles Published In Top Journal Nature Freely Available As Open Access. Bad News: They Must Pay $11,000 For Each One (2020-11-25) | Two years ago Techdirt wrote about Plan S an initiative from top research funders that requires all work they support to be published as open access Its one of the most important moves to get publicly-funded work made freely available and as such has been widely welcomed Except by publishers of course who have enjoyed profit margins of 35-40% under the current system which sees libraries and other.. |
| Comcast Expands Its Bullshit Usage Caps…In The Middle Of A Pandemic (2020-11-24) | Contrary to what some try to claim broadband usage caps have always been bullshit They serve absolutely no technical function do not help manage congestion and exist exclusively to nickel-and-dime captive customers in monopolized US markets Worse they can be used by incumbent ISPs anticompetitively to hamstring competitors in the streaming video and other markets Comcast for years has been slowly .. |
| New Orleans PD Finally Admits It Uses Facial Recognition Tech After Denying It For Years (2020-11-30) | Another large American law enforcement organization has belatedly admitted it uses facial recognition tech after spending years denying it Last month it was the Los Angeles Police Department which had denied using the tech all the way up until 2019 But records obtained by the Los Angeles Times showed the department had used it 30000 times over the past decade When confronted the LAPDs assistant ch.. |
| How Our Biggest ISPs Are Failing Students During COVID-19 (2020-11-13) | Early in the pandemic one of our MediaJustice Network members reached out to us in hopes we could support a group of high school students in Baltimore who were trying to amplify their campaign The students are leaders in a Latinx and immigrant student organization called Students Organizing for a Multicultural and Open Society SOMOS and this was their first time organizing for digital equity When .. How Our Biggest ISPs Are Failing Students During COVID-19 |
| Inconceivable: TikToker Who Made Paint Mixing Very, Very Cool… Is Fired From Sherwin-Williams For Doing So (2020-11-24) | TikTok remains a somewhat fascinating service to me as different people experiment with using it to express all sorts of things in ways that are unexpected and often delightful A couple months ago I discovered that there appears to be an entire genre of TikTokers creating videos about mixing paint colors I know I know At first that sounds insane Who could possibly want to watch that? But some of t.. |
| Get $5 Off All Apparel In The Techdirt Gear Store! Sale Ends Tomorrow (2020-11-28) | Get $5 off all Techdirt apparel before the saleendstomorrownight Its the second day of our storewide Black Friday weekend sale in the Techdirt Gear store on Threadless! Weve knocked $5 off the price of standard face masks and all apparel including the popular trio of Nerd Mentality Nerd Mentality and Nerd Harder as well as our classic Techdirt logo gear and all our other designs The sale ends Sund.. |
| Daily Deal: The Unity 2D Game Developer Bundle (2020-11-02) | The Unity 2D Game Developer Bundle has 11 courses to help you learn how to create your own games Youll learn how to create awesome replicas of the games that dominated the early 80s and 90s Youll also learn how these groundbreaking titles function and recreate them with Unity 2D The bundle is on sale for $40 Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce A portion of all sa.. |
| US Military Is Buying Location Data From Data Brokers, Including Data Pulled From US App Users (2020-11-20) | As long as government agencies are buying location data from data brokers – possibly eluding warrant requirements while doing so – it makes sense the US military would be doing the same thing Joseph Cox reports for Motherboard that the American war machine loves location data pulled from phone apps just as much as CBP ICE and the Secret Service do Through public records interviews with developer.. |
| The Trump FCC Has Failed To Protect Low-Income Americans During A Health Crisis (2020-12-04) | As America struggles with a deadly and historic health crisis millions of Americans risk getting kicked offline due to economic hardship At a time when stable access to power broadband and water are essential for survival government agencies tasked with representing and defending the public welfare have been asleep at the wheel Millions of Americans risk losing access to essential utilities as ove.. |
| Daily Deal: Python For Beginners (2020-11-03) | Python is a high-level statically typed programming language that has become a trendsetter in the industry It offers an easy syntax and a wide support for APIs and external packages Python is extremely versatile it can be used for automation GUI Applications making websites making web apps and even for hacking! In the Python for Beginners course you are going to learn the basics of the Python lang.. |
