동물농장 취재진이 23마리 아기백구네 집에 찾아갔을 때 제일 처음 맞이한 광경
오늘 내가 누울곳은 저기다……
Packagist, GitLab, and GitHubUpdater Plugin Work to Improve Support for Alternative Default Branch Names
In response to recent events, where American police officers have been charged with murder for the deaths of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks, along with the protests led by the Black Lives Matter movement, many repository owners are rejecting the use of the term ‘master’ for the default branch as oppressive terminology. As Git-based repository
Gutenberg Times to Hold Live Q&A on Block-Based Themes and Full-Site Editing
On Friday, June 26, Gutenberg Times will be holding a live Q&A on block-based themes and full-site editing. The Zoom webinar will begin at 18:00 UTC and last for around one hour, depending on how many questions are asked by viewers. The target audience of the event will be theme developers or anyone interested in
University of Wisconsin Offers Free Course on Creating WordPress Websites
The University of Wisconsin is offering a free self-paced course on Creating WordPress Websites for students through its Stevens Point branch. It is one of ten free courses offered to the general public in a catalog that includes courses on management, communication, personal finance, customer service, and small business marketing. Creating WordPress websites has become
Proposal to Rename the ‘Master’ Branch of WordPress-Owned Git Repositories
Yesterday, core contributor Aaron Jorbin proposed renaming the default “master” branch for all WordPress-owned Git repositories to “main.” The proposal comes among a flurry of related terminology changes that the larger tech community is considering around oppressive language. Based on the ongoing discussion in the comments of the proposal, the term “trunk” has gained popularity,
WebDevStudios Releases Block Scaffolding Tool for Developers
WebDevStudios released its custom block scaffolding tool to the public on Tuesday. It is a fork of the core WordPress script, which was rolled out in February alongside Gutenberg 7.4. The goal is to allow plugin developers to get started building without all the tedious setup required to build even the most basic block. The
자식들이 번호까지 바꾸고 도망가서 ‘찜질방’에서 3년째 지내고 있는 88세 할머니
지난해 5월 청와대 국민청원 게시판에 글이 올라왔다. 6명 자녀를 둔 88세 한 할머니 이야기였다. 자식들은 할머니 몰래 집도 이사를 가고 전화번호도 바꿔버리는 바람에 할머니는 아들 딸들의 집도 전화번호도 모르고 있다. 지난 2015년 함께 생활하시던 할아버지는 먼저 세상을 떠나셨다. 그 뒤로 누구의 보호도 받지 못하고 꼬부라진 몸을 지팡이에 의지한 채 노인학대 보호기관, 사설 쉼터, 지인의 집,
Trump’s data-hungry, invasive app is a voter surveillance tool of extraordinary power
Ahead of President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his 2020 re-election campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted about the event. “Just passed 800,000 tickets,” he wrote. “Biggest data haul and rally signup of all time by 10x. Saturday is going to be amazing!” Parscale’s numbers for the rally—originally scheduled for Juneteenth and still set to occur
The UK’s contact tracing app fiasco is a master class in mismanagement
There are advantages to being one of the world’s largest single-payer health-care systems. For the UK’s National Health Service, the NHS, big data is increasingly one of them. Its Recovery Trial, launched early in the coronavirus outbreak to collect information from across the system, has led to the discovery of dexamethasone as one of the
Our biggest questions about immunity to covid-19
We’re still not very sure how covid-19 immunity works. As we inch closer to a vaccine and pin our hopes on herd immunity to allow us to safely open up communities again, the uncertainties will only get more pressing. Here’s a look at some of the biggest questions we’re still trying to answer. How much
The global AI agenda: The Middle East and Africa
This report is part of “The global AI agenda,” a thought leadership program by MIT Technology Review Insights examining how organizations are using AI today and planning to do so in the future. Featuring a global survey of 1,004 AI experts conducted in January and February 2020, it explores AI adoption, leading use cases, benefits, and
Here’s how genes from covid-19 survivors could help you
Potential weapons against covid-19 include manufactured antibodies, serum transfusions from survivors, antivirals, steroids, and more than 100 vaccine candidates, some now advancing toward decisive tests in volunteers. But there’s another approach to battling the virus—one that hasn’t won much attention, but which in the future could become the fastest way to beat back a pandemic.
