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Transitions of any scale are often met with a mix of excitement and trepidation. One year ago, when we embarked on the journey to migrate the Black Belt Academy to our new Learning Management System (LMS), MindTickle, the stakes were high. We weren’t just moving files; we were migrating the learning legacy of over 90,000 partner individuals and protecting 300,000 learning records. Today, as we celebrate our one-year anniversary on the platform, those initial “migration jitters” have been replaced by a narrative of strategic collaboration, AI-driven innovation, and a transformed learning experience. A Strategic Alliance for Global Reach Our success…

In today’s rapidly evolving job market, technical expertise alone is not enough. Employers increasingly seek well-rounded candidates who combine strong technical skills with essential human skills—such as communication, collaboration, adaptability, and emotional intelligence. This need is even more critical in light of the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, which are transforming workplaces and reshaping job roles. Human skills: The critical edge in an AI-driven world While AI excels at automating routine tasks and analyzing vast amounts of data, it cannot replicate uniquely human abilities like empathy, creativity, critical thinking, compassion, and interpersonal communication. These human skills, or soft…

1/29/18 3:20 PM · 1 min read In this Swift tutorial, I’d like to give you an example about getting and parsing JSON data using URLSession and Codable protocol. DependenciesFirst of all just a few words about dependencies. From Swift 4 you don’t need any dependency to parse JSON data, because there are built-in protocols to take care of everything. If you are still using some kind of 3rd-party you should definitely ditch it for the sake of simplicity. By the way before you add any external dependency into your project, please think twice. 🤔NetworkingIf your task is simply to load…

Posted by Robert Clifford, Developer Relations Engineer and Manjeet Rulhania, Software EngineerA pillar of the Android ecosystem is our shared commitment to user trust. As the mobile landscape has evolved, so does our approach to protecting sensitive information. In Android 17, we’re introducing a suite of new location privacy features designed to give users more control and provide developers elegant solutions for data minimization and product safety. Our strategy focuses on introducing new tools to balance high-quality experiences with robust privacy protections, and improving transparency for users to help manage their data.Introducing the location button: simplified access for one time…

Device fabricationThe qubit device was fabricated on an isotopically purified 28Si buffer layer (20 nm thick), epitaxially grown at 380 °C via ultrahigh-vacuum electron-beam deposition on a p-type natural silicon substrate (50–100 Ω cm). This layer maintains a 29Si concentration below 130 ppm, effectively isolating qubits from the nuclear spin bath of the natural silicon substrate and enhancing spin coherence times. Using STM-assisted hydrogen depassivation lithography at 77 K (Scienta Omicron INFINITY SPM Lab), we deterministically patterned the hydrogen-passivated silicon surface with atomic precision. The exposed regions were then dosed with phosphine (PH3) at 5 × 10−7 mbar for 5 min (room temperature), followed by thermal incorporation at…

Modern applications must handle thousands (or even millions) of requests simultaneously and maintain high performance and responsiveness. Traditional synchronous programming often becomes a bottleneck because tasks execute sequentially and block system resources. Even the thread pool approach has its limitations, since we cannot create millions of threads and still achieve fast task switching. This is where asynchronous programming comes into play. In this guide, you’ll learn the fundamentals of asynchronous programming in Java, explore basic concurrency concepts, and dive deep into CompletableFuture, one of the most powerful tools used in Java application development services. What Is Asynchronous Programming? Asynchronous programming…

refurbed, Ireland’s leading online marketplace for refurbished goods, has launched an exclusive new partnership with GoPro,  the global brand recognised for its versatile action cameras. As part of this collaboration, refurbished GoPro products will be made available exclusively via refurbed in Ireland, Denmark and Sweden. This is refurbed’s first major consumer electronics (CE) brand partnership in the camera category, which shows the growth in demand for refurbished goods beyond smartphones and laptops. The partnership builds on a successful pilot phase, during which sales of GoPro products on refurbed increased by 195%, demonstrating strong consumer demand for high-quality refurbished cameras. This…

Since 2018, we’ve been tracking the evolving nature of corporate enterprise networks through our WAN Manager Survey. In this seventh edition, we collected 52 survey responses and conducted 13 interviews with WAN managers for additional insight into their network-related decisions and strategies.

A Preamble, sort of As we’re writing this – it’s April, 2023 – it is hard to overstate the attention going to, the hopes associated with, and the fears surrounding deep-learning-powered image and text generation. Impacts on society, politics, and human well-being deserve more than a short, dutiful paragraph. We thus defer appropriate treatment of this topic to dedicated publications, and would just like to say one thing: The more you know, the better; the less you’ll be impressed by over-simplifying, context-neglecting statements made by public figures; the easier it will be for you to take your own stance on…

Walking the halls at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando recently, one theme came through clearly: organizations have moved far past the question of whether they should invest in AI and AI agents. The conversation now is about how to operationalize AI safely and at scale. Nearly every leader I spoke with was experimenting with AI agents or planning to introduce them into their enterprise workflows. But when the conversation turned to the data those agents would rely on, I noticed that confidence dropped quickly. That gap between AI ambition and the reality of data readiness is something…