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Throughout Black History Month, we’re partnering with agency owner Derek Walker on a series that highlights the ideas, perspectives and successes of Black advertising professionals. Today we’re highlighting Winston Peters, founding partner of My?berLife Consulting Group, a consultancy based in New York. He’s also an adjunct professor at Manhattan College. Below, in his own words,…Read More

While Clubhouse lets users customize the kinds of notifications they’ll receive from the audio chat application (and choose how frequently to receive them), as of this writing, there is no way to turn off notifications completely from within the app (they can only be paused for up to a week at a time). If you…Read More

JavaScript’s reduce is one of the most useful array methods that should be in a developer’s arsenal. Introduced in ES5, it’s somewhat similar to for…each and map methods that are used with arrays, but improves on their performance and simplicity in specific situations. The reduce method executes a callback function that we provide on each element stored in an array and outputs the final value the operation generates. It’s a cleaner way of iterating over and processing the data stored in an array. Currently, it’s supported by all of the major browser versions, and is available in Node.js from version 10.0 upwards.…

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Twitter’s great for sharing stolen memes, vapid opinions, and occasionally interesting news. But some of the toilet humor and “edgy” hot takes you tweeted in the past might not suit your new image as a wise-cracking sage. If some malicious cyber-stalker digs them up, you could end up publicly-shamed, dumped, or even unemployed. Unfortunately, Twitter doesn’t provide a way to bulk-delete tweets (assholes). Instead, the site suggests you manually remove the offending tweets, one-by-one. But that can be a grueling task, littered with humiliating reminders of the past. [Read: How do you build a pet-friendly gadget? We asked experts and animal owners] A more…

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Otello has agreed to sell its mobile advertising unit AdColony to Digital Turbine in an estimated $400 million deal. Digital Turbine, a Nasdaq-listed company that specializes in delivering content on Android devices, announced the agreement, brokered by investment bank Luma Partners, earlier this morning. While the transaction was announced as a “total estimated consideration of…Read More

Monolithic change will accompany Apple’s App Tracking and Transparency framework when enforcement begins this spring. Ad targeting, measurement, monetization and data will be stripped of their Rosetta Stone, Apple’s IDFA–and the app ecosystem eagerly searches for answers on how to drive and calculate ROI with advertising. As competing methodologies take root and begin to battle…Read More

TLDR: The winner of The Complete Bitcoin Investment Giveaway takes home $10,000 in crypto-seed money with the training to grow that nest egg, all for the cost of an entry. What’s better than winning $10,000 in cryptocurrency as the uber winner of The Complete Bitcoin (BTC) Investment Giveaway Contest? Well, the fact that those winnings also come with the means to turn that $10,000 into $15,000, or $20,000, or even more. Talk about the gift that keeps on giving… To get involved, you only have to enter the free and simple drawing. Just enter your name and if you’re the…

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This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it here. Hey, P— Hey, P— Hey, P— Fuck. Let me stand still for a second… Hey, Plugged In is back again, and this time we’re talking about portable CD players.  Longterm readers will know I’m a man of many “phases” and, currently I’m in what I’d call my Compact Disc Renaissance™. I’d like to talk about this further (and believe me, there’s little more I want to do right now) — but that’d ruin the exciting bit of 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖙 we’ve got lined up for you in the next edition of Plugged In (SIGN UP HERE). See what I did, Mom? That’s a teaser. This is a professional…

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TLDR: The Backend Developer Bootcamp Bundle includes five courses cover C#, APIs, SQL, object-oriented programming and other core skills in creating your own awesome web apps. Front-end development gets all the press. It’s the forward-facing, sexy part of web design that gets people talking. All those colors and sleek navigation menus and other whiz-bang features of a web page or app are eye catching and instantly garner the lion’s share of attention. But oh, don’t forget about that unassuming back-end developer. Because once you scratch the surface sheen of a new digital creation, it’s the true functionality and built-in abilities…

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This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has granted the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) a Record of Decision for its East San Fernando Valley light rail transit project, certifying that the scheme has satisfied federal guidelines for environmental analysis. The decision paves the way for the authority to seek federal funding for the design and construction…

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