Editor's Pick: GIT CEO Adriana Gascoigne: More Women in Tech Means More Problems Solved

GIT CEO Adriana Gascoigne: More Women in Tech Means More Problems Solved

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	Prior to founding Girls in Tech, Adriana Gascoigne was one of very few women working at a startup. "I'd look around the room every day and see that there was a huge problem of representation. I knew we needed to change the culture of the company to recruit more women and benefit more women, but we also needed diversity in product development ... to make a better product," she recalled. [More...]

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The Morning After: Roborace's efforts to fill a starting grid with robots

It's Friday, March 03, 2017. Good morning! How's that weather? Friday has arrived -- and so will your Switch preorder if you’re lucky. Read our thoughts on its most important launch title, and while you’re at it, gaze at the prettiest Windows Phone that’s now turned Android, and how Roborace is turning robots into racecar drivers. This is the Nintendo Switch’s hit.   'Breath of the Wild' is the best 'Zelda' game in years   Nintendo has changed Zelda a lot for its Switch incarnation -- arguably the most since the series debuted. With a bigger world, exploration key to your progress, and weapons that you’ll need to keep an eye as they degrade, it’s a different spin on Link’s journey through Hyrule. But despite all that, Aaron Souppouris says that it remains unmistakably a Zelda game. It can’t do much without it.   Don’t forget your Nintendo Switch's day-one update   The Nintendo Switch can't do much out of the box. It can play game cards but that's about it. So, if you're getting a Switch tomorrow, you really should connect it to the internet and grab the day-one update, which adds support for the eShop, friends list and social-network. Fortunately, the update is a fast one.   Reboot without fear   Microsoft tries something new to stop poorly-timed Windows Updates   Security updates are very important, but an operating system that reboots itself or gets stuck in a lengthy patching process at the wrong time isn’t what anyone wants. Windows Update has caused that exact problem in the past, but Microsoft is testing out a way to avoid such problems in the future. Now, an icon in the Windows Settings page will show if your system is up to date, if it’s not, then you can schedule a time to update or snooze the update process for three days. Sponsored Content by StackCommerce How to master computer science, minus the student loans. A new challenger enters   LG’s prototype VR headset is a bulky Vive alternative   At GDC 2017 Nicole Lee tried out LG’s SteamVR headset and came away “suitably impressed.” It may not have a sleek design (yet), but its flip up eyepiece could be convenient during long VR sessions. It also has a camera lens for pass-through viewing and nicely-designed wand controllers. It seems like a viable Vive alternative, but there’s no way to know how far away LG is from putting this into production. Try a smartwatch with real watch hands   The MyKronos ZeTime is a different kind of hybrid timepiece.   One big problem with smartwatches is that users often have to choose between long battery life and an always-on screen to constantly display the time. The MyKronos ZeTime gets around that by slapping real watch hands on the face of a smartwatch. It uses a proprietary OS to display notifications and messages from your phone and can last three days on a charge. The device will launch on Kickstarter later this month for $199. Trinity and NuAns will try to go global once again.   The makers of the most stylish Windows Phone embraced Android NuAns’ classy Windows phone tied okay(ish) tech specs with Windows Phone software that no-one wanted. Fortunately, it came with customizable two-tone covers that used different materials and finishes to make one surprisingly gorgeous phone. That phone, however, never made it out of Japan. This time, the company’s back with the same design aesthetic, but with Android 7.1, a full HD display, faster processor and a more competent camera. The team is now looking to bring the Neo Reloaded to crowdfunding soon. Want to get away? Amazon’s server outage was caused by a typo We all make mistakes sometimes, but usually ours don’t bring down internet services around the world. Earlier this week one of the East Coast Amazon Web Services data centers suddenly had an outage, and the company explains it happened when a tech tried to take a few billing servers offline. Because of a mistyped command, “a larger set of servers was removed than intended.” Even worse, some of the systems hadn’t been rebooted in years, and took longer than expected to validate and run safety checks before they were usable again.  Roborace’s push to fill a starting grid with robots The journey to build driverless race cars One of the biggest challenges for Roborace’s Chief Design Officer Daniel Simon was an emotional one. For years, automotive design has revolved around some obvious fundamentals. A car needs a cockpit, for instance, and a steering wheel and pedals. But with the Robocar, Simon had an opportunity to break almost every design rule in the book. That’s just the start of the challenges facing a road race that involves no human drivers. But wait, there's more... 1. Chevy is the first major car company with unlimited LTE data 2. Gmail's size limit on incoming attachments grows to 50MB 3. Huawei P10 MWC 2017 camera test 4. LG G6 MWC 2017 camera test 5. Mike Pence used AOL email for state business while governor -- and yes, it got hacked The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

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Headline Scan
Twitter Adds Heft to Anti-Harassment Toolbox
USB-C Port, Curved Display Top Latest iPhone Rumor List
Zorin Desktop Is a Crowd Pleaser
Cloudflare Nips Cloudbleed Bug in the Bud
Nokia 3310 Pushes Nostalgia Buttons
Zero W Joins Raspberry Pi Family on 5th Birthday
Google's Jigsaw Launches Troll-Thwarting API
Mobile World Congress: Gigabit Wireless and the Anti-iPhone Set
Steamed Over Steam
DebianDog Is a Useful Pocket Pup

Today's Story Highlights

Twitter Adds Heft to Anti-Harassment Toolbox
Twitter on Wednesday announced that over the next few months it will
roll out changes designed to increase the safety of users, including the
following: Its algorithms will help identify accounts as they engage in
abusive behavior, so the burden no longer will be on victims to report
it; and users will be able to restrict their tweets to followers for a
set amount of time.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84345.html

USB-C Port, Curved Display Top Latest iPhone Rumor List
Apple poked a hornet's nest when it removed the standard headphone jack
from the iPhone 7. It may do it again by replacing the Lightning port
with USB-C in the next iPhone. The Lightning port, introduced in 2012,
is used to charge and connect accessories to the iPhone, but Apple
reportedly plans to swap it for USB-C, which the company has been
introducing into its computer lines.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84340.html

Zorin Desktop Is a Crowd Pleaser
Zorin OS developers on Tuesday released Version 12.1, offering Linux
users a patchwork of software and hardware updates with some performance
enhancements and bug fixes. Zorin 12.1 follows the introduction three
months ago of the project's 12 series. It is a minor update, but the
amount of tweaking applied makes it worth upgrading to the .1 release.
For instance, it has an updated hardware stack.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84341.html

Cloudflare Nips Cloudbleed Bug in the Bud
Cloudflare has fixed the Cloudbleed software bug responsible for a
buffer overrun problem that caused its edge servers to return private
information in response to some HTTP requests. That private information
included HTTP cookies, authentication tokens and HTTP POST bodies.
However, SSL private keys weren't leaked, said Cloudflare CTO John
Graham-Cumming in an online post.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84337.html

Nokia 3310 Pushes Nostalgia Buttons
HMD Global, owner of the Nokia phone brand, on Sunday reintroduced the
classic 3310 feature phone at the MWC, along with a line of brand new
Nokia smartphones that run on the Android platform. The relaunch of the
3310 is the reimagination of one of the world's best-selling feature
phones as a sleek, lightweight device that features 22 hours of talk
time and an entire month of standby time.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84336.html

Zero W Joins Raspberry Pi Family on 5th Birthday
Raspberry Pi turned 5 years old on Tuesday, and to mark the occasion,
the foundation announced a new member of the family, the Raspberry Pi
Zero W, and a case to go with it. Raspberry Pi Zero W adds wireless LAN
and Bluetooth capabilities to tiny computer's growing list of
capabilities. Priced at just $10, the device is affordable for anyone
who wants to take the Pi for a test drive.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84339.html

Google's Jigsaw Launches Troll-Thwarting API
A new tool is available to check the persistent harassment of online
trolls. Google's Jigsaw think tank last week launched Perspective, an
early stage technology that uses machine learning to help neutralize
trolls. Perspective reviews comments and scores them based on their
similarity to comments people have labeled as toxic, or that are likely
to result in someone leaving a conversation.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84335.html

Mobile World Congress: Gigabit Wireless and the Anti-iPhone Set
One of the biggest disappointments at this year's Mobile World Congress
is that the Samsung Galaxy 8 phone won't make it. The Galaxy line has
been the ultimate iPhone fighter. Rumors around the anniversary edition
of the iPhone suggest that it will do amazing, magical things, like 3D
selfies. OK, I'm really missing Steve Jobs at the moment -- who the hell
wants 3D selfies?!?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84331.html

Steamed Over Steam
Where would the PC gaming market be without Steam, the digital
distribution platform that was developed by Valve Corporation more than
a decade ago? It likely would be in worse shape than it is now, but
that's not to say it would be bad. First, despite the repeated cries
that "PC gaming is dead," the state of PC gaming is actually pretty good
and PC gaming is very much alive because of Steam.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84330.html

DebianDog Is a Useful Pocket Pup
DebianDog offers a lot of functionality and customization that frees
users from many of the restrictions of a Linux community tied up in
developmental red tape. DebianDog is fast and focused on getting work
done without a lot of distractions. However, it also is a disorganized
desktop environment that can leave new users floundering. Its look and
feel is eclectic, and documentation is sparse.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84328.html

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