The content below is taken from the original ( Google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to Spotify, Microsoft & others), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.

A year ago, Google rolled out “.new” links that worked like shortcuts to instantly create new Google documents. For example, you could type “doc.new” (without the quotes) to create a new Google Doc or “sheet.new” to create a new spreadsheet. Today, Google announced it’s is bringing the .new shortcuts to the rest of the web. Now, any company or organization can register their own .new domain to generate a .new shortcut that works with their own web app. Several have already done so, including Microsoft, which now has “word.new” to start a new word document, or Spotify, which who has “playlist.new” to start adding songs to a new playlist on its streaming app.

The domains are designed to get users straight to the action. That is, instead of having to visit a service, sign in, then find the right menu or function, they could just start creating.

However, some of today’s new domains aren’t quite as seamless as Google’s own. Because most Google Docs users are already signed in into to Google, it’s easy to jump right to creating a new online document.

But other services aren’t used as often. That means Medium’s “story.new” doesn’t let you immediately start writing your blog post, unless you’re already signed in to Medium. If not, it drops you on a “Join Medium” sign-up page instead. This doesn’t make it necessarily any easier to use Medium — a better use case would have allowed the user to just start writing, saving their text under a temporary account, then prompt them to join Medium upon exit or clicking “publish.”

Meanwhile, Microsoft’s word.new, Word.new, a direct rival to Google’s own doc.new, isn’t yet resolving. (Google tells us some of the shortcuts aren’t yet ready, but should be soon.)

Other participants include sell.new (eBay), canva.new and design.new (Canva), reservation.new (OpenTable), webex.new and letsmeet.new (Cisco WebEx meeting room creation), link.new (Bit.ly), invoice.new (Stripe’s dashboard), api.new (launch new Node.js API endpoints from RunKit), Coda.new (Coda), music.new (create personalized song artwork for OVO Sound artist releases and more) and repo.new (GitHub). more), and repo.new (GitHub.)

Spotify also picked up podcast.new, which takes you to Anchor, in addition to playlist.new.

Considering the lineup, it’s clear that there’s not as much of a gold rush for these action-based domains as there they are for other top-level domains. There are some fun use cases, like Spotify’s, and practical ones like word.new, Word.new, but others are less compelling because they drop you on sign-up/sign-in pages because sign up/sign in pages as they’re not everyday services.

And some are just odd land grabs. Like Ovo Sound, the record label founded by Drake, which snagged “music.new” — a domain that you would think would go to a larger streaming service. (In fact, it’s somewhat surprising that Google’s own music service, YouTube Music, didn’t grab that one for itself.)

Google says any company can register these domains, all of which are secured over HTTPS connections like .app, .page .page., and .dev domains are.

Through January 14, 2020, trademark owners can register their trademarked .new domains. Starting December 2, 2019, anyone can apply for a .new domain during the Limited Registration Period.

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Isolating objects in Photoshop can be a painstaking process. If you want to select simple objects, the marquee or lasso tools will get the job done quickly. But if you're working on a complex subject, like a dog with frizzy fur or a shirt with lots o…

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Weather: the bane of many motorists, transporters, agriculturalists, retailers, or just about anyone who has to deal with it—which is all of us. That said, we can embrace weather and use weather data to our advantage by integrating it into our daily lives.

Azure Maps is proud to share the preview of a new set of Weather Services for Azure customers to integrate into their applications. Azure Maps is also proud to announce a partnership with AccuWeather—the leading weather service provider, recognized and documented as the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world. Azure Maps Weather Services adds a new layer of real-time, location-aware information to our portfolio of native Azure geospatial services powering Microsoft enterprise customer applications.

“AccuWeather’s partnership with Microsoft gives all Azure Maps customers the ability to easily use and integrate authentic and highly accurate weather-based location intelligence and routing into their applications. This is a game-changer.”, says Dr. Joel N. Myers, AccuWeather Founder and CEO. “We are delighted with this collaboration with Microsoft as it will open up new opportunities for organizations–large and small–to benefit from our superior weather data based on their unique needs.”

The power of Azure Maps Weather Services

Bringing Weather Services to Azure Maps means customers now have a simple means of integrating highly dynamic, real-time weather data and visualizations into their applications. There are a multitude of scenarios that require global weather information for enterprise applications. For motorists, we can pick up our phones, or ask a smart speaker about the weather. Our cars can determine the best path for us based on traffic, weather, and personal timing considerations.

Transportation companies can now feed weather information into dynamic routing algorithms to determine the best route conditions for their respective loads. Agriculturalists can have their smart sprinkler systems running connected edge computing informed of incoming rain, saving crops from overwatering, and conserving the delicate resource that is water. Retailers can use predicted weather information to determine the need for high-volume goods, optimizing supply chain.

Did you know that most electrical vehicle batteries lose a percentage of their charge when the temperature dips below freezing? With Azure Maps Weather Services, you can use current or forecasted temperatures to determine your vehicle’s range. Range can determine how far a car can drive along a route, set better expectatoins for estimated arrival times, determine if charging stations are close by, or find hotels that are reachable based on this reduction in battery life. Freezing temperatures also increase the duration a battery will take to charge—meaning more time spent at the charging station.

Having the insight of temperature drops at charging stations means having the ability to calculate the length of time a driver will spend at a charging station; which, in turn, allows charging station owners to recalculate productivity metrics for their respective stations based on weather conditions.

Azure Maps Weather Services in preview

Azure Maps Weather Services are available as a preview with the following capabilities:

• Weather Tile API: Fetches radar and infrared raster weather tiles formatted to be integrated into the Azure Maps SDKs. By default, Azure Maps uses vector map tiles for its web SDK (see Zoom Levels and Tile Grid). Use of the Azure Maps SDK is not required and developers are free to integrate the Azure Maps Weather Services into their own Azure Maps applications as needed.
• Current Conditions: Returns detailed current weather conditions such as precipitation, temperature, and wind for a given coordinate location. By default, the most current weather conditions will be returned. Observations from the past 6 or 24 hours for a particular location can be retrieved.
• Minute Forecast: Request minute-by-minute forecasts for a given location for the next 120 minutes. Users can request weather forecast in the interval of 1, 5 and 15 minutes. The response will include details such as the type of precipitation (including rain, snow, or a mixture of both), start time, and precipitation intensity value.
• Hourly Forecast: Request detailed weather forecast by hour for the next 1, 12, 24 (1 day), 72 (3 days), 120 (5 days), and 240 hours (10 days) for the given the given coordinate location. The API returns details such as temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation, and ultraviolet (UV) index.
• Quarter-Day Forecast: Request detailed weather forecast by quarter-day for the next 1, 5, 10, or 15 days for a given location. Response data is presented by quarters of the day—morning, afternoon, evening, and overnight. Details such as temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation, and UV index are returned.
• Daily Forecast: Returns detailed weather forecast such as temperature, humidity, wind by day for the next 1, 5, 10, 15, 25, or 45 days for a given coordinate location. The API returns details such as temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation, and UV index.
• Weather Along Route: Weather along a route API returns hyperlocal (one kilometer or less), up-to-the-minute weather nowcasts, weather hazard assessments, and notifications along a route described as a sequence of waypoints. This includes a list of weather hazards affecting the waypoint or route, and the aggregated hazard index for each waypoint might be used to paint each portion of a route according to how safe it is for the driver. Data is updated every five minutes. The service supplements Azure Maps Route Service that allows you to first request a route between an origin and a destination and use that as an input for Weather Along Route endpoint.

Using the Azure Maps Weather Service along a calculated route (using Azure Maps Route Service), customers can generate weather notifications for waypoints that experience an increase in intensity of a weather hazard. If the vehicle is expected to begin experiencing heavy rain as it reaches a waypoint, a weather notificationwill be generated, allowing the end product to display a heavy rain notification before the driver reaches that waypoint. The trigger for when to display the notification for a waypoint is left up to the product developer and could be based, for example, on a fixed geometry (geofence), or selectable distance to the waypoint.

Azure Maps services are designed to be used in combination with one another to build rich, geospatial applications and insights as part of your Azure Maps account. Azure Maps Weather Service is a new pillar of intelligence added to Azure Maps Location Based Services, Azure Maps Mobility Services, and Azure Maps Spatial Operations, all actuated via the Azure Maps Web, Android SDKs and REST endpoints.

These new weather services are available to all Azure customers, includeing both pay-as-you-go or enterprise agreements. Simply navigate to the Azure Portal, create your Azure Maps account and start using the Azure Maps Weather Service.

We want to hear from you

We are always working to grow and improve the Azure Maps platform and want to hear from you! We’re here to help and want to make sure you get the most out of the Azure Maps platform.

• Have a feature request? Add it or vote up the request on our feedback site.
• Having an issue getting your code to work? Have a topic you would like us to cover on the Azure blog? Ask us on the Azure Maps forums.
• Looking for code samples or wrote a great one you want to share? Join us on GitHub.
• To learn more, read the Azure Maps documentation.

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This week Microsoft announced the general availability of Desktop Analytics, a new cloud service that integrates with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to provide insight and intelligence so organizations can make informed decisions about whether Windows endpoints are ready to be upgraded.

Desktop Analytics lets organizations access the telemetry collected from millions of Windows 10 devices to help migrating to new Windows 10 feature updates. Microsoft says that Desktop Analytics lets you do some remarkable things, such as:

• Get a comprehensive view into the endpoints, applications, and drivers under management in your ecosystem.
• Assess application and driver compatibility with the latest Windows feature updates and receive mitigation recommendations for known issues, as well as advanced insights for line of business apps.
• Optimize the set of pilot devices that adequately represents your overall estate using the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and the Microsoft cloud.

Goodbye Windows Analytics

Windows Analytics, the cloud service that Desktop Analytics is designed to replace, is being retired at the end of January 2020. Windows Analytics consists of three components: Upgrade Readiness, Update Compliance, and Device Health. Of the three, only Update Compliance will still be supported beyond the January cutoff. You can find more on Update Compliance here on Petri.

Customers already using Windows Analytics will be able to migrate existing administrator data to Desktop Analytics during the onboarding process. Although, it’s worth mentioning at this point that Desktop Analytics will only be available to customers with the following licenses:

• Windows 10 Enterprise E3 or E5 (included in Microsoft 365 F1, E3, or E5)
• Windows 10 Education A3 or A5 (included in Microsoft 365 A3 or A5)
• Windows Virtual Desktop Access E3 or E5

Desktop Analytics Integrates with System Center Configuration Manager

Desktop Analytics supports devices running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10 but Configuration Manager, version 1902, with client version 1902 and update rollup 4500571, are also required before you can use the service. For a complete look at the requirements, see Microsoft’s website here.

Desktop Analytics builds on what we developed with Windows Analytics by adding deeper integration with Configuration Manager and provides a ring-based approach to deployment using health signals. Soon we’ll also integrate Desktop Analytics into Microsoft Intune.

Desktop Analytics (DA) can surface potential compatibility issues with Windows 10 feature updates that might be caused by device hardware, apps, or drivers. Organizations can then act on information provided by DA to solve problems and create test rings for piloting new feature updates before rolling them out more widely in production. DA can automatically recommend which devices should be included in your test deployment rings; monitor the health of devices in your test deployment rings before, during, and after updates have been installed; and track how your deployment is progressing. DA uses various criteria to assess whether apps are compatible with a new Windows 10 feature update, including UAC violations, 16-bit binaries, driver dependency, non-DPI awareness, and more.

Migrate to Windows 10

Because DA supports Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, you can use the service to help with in-place upgrades to Windows 10. And once you’ve upgraded, continue using it to perform in-place upgrades to new Windows 10 feature updates. While traditional wisdom says that wipe-and-reload is the most reliable way to upgrade to a new version of Windows, it is more time-consuming, especially if you don’t have the infrastructure in place to redeploy apps and user settings automatically. Microsoft recommends performing in-place upgrades, both from earlier versions of Windows and to new Windows 10 feature updates. It says improvements in the upgrade process make it more reliable than in the past. There are some scenarios where in-place upgrades are not supported, like moving from a 32-bit to 64-bit version of Windows.

Windows 7 end-of-life is looming (January 2020), so Microsoft has clearly been working hard to get this tool out and make sure that large organizations still on Windows 7 have the right tools to migrate to Windows 10 as smoothly as possible. However, Microsoft is offering organizations the option to pay for security updates to Windows 7 after January 2020 or use its Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop service, where Windows 7 will also receive security updates for a short period to allow organizations extra time to migrate to Windows 10.

For more information on deploying Desktop Analytics with SCCM, see Microsoft’s website here.

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A common measurement for circuits is heat dissipation inspection. While single point thermometers do the trick, they can be quite annoying to use. Meanwhile, a thermal imaging camera is often out of the budget for hobbyists. How about building your own visual thermometer for cheap? That’s what [Thomas Fischl] decided to do, using an infrared thermal sensor array (MLX90640) connected through a PIC16LF1455 to a host computer. The computer handles the temperature calculation and visualization of hot spots, gathered from data collected by the IR pixel.

The interface board, USB2FIR, has full access to MLX90640 memory and can handle bulk transfer for faster data transmission of the raw sensor data collected by the pixel. A USB driver is needed to access the board – once the data is fetched, the visualizations can be created from a Matplotlib and TKinter GUI showing frame data and a real time heat map with minimum, maximum, and central temperature.

The hardware isn’t complicated, since the board relies on several ICs for processing the sensor data and immediately sends over the data to be processed externally. With some modifications – a 3D-printed enclosure, for instance – this can easily be made into a discreet tool for heat detection.

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Windows PE  is a small version of Windows 10, which is primarily used to install, deploy, and repair Windows 10 for desktop editions. It means it doesn’t have all the features including the ability to capture or take a screenshot.  […]

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The content below is taken from the original ( Why per-seat pricing needs to die in the age of AI), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.

Pricing is the most important, least-discussed element of the software industry. In the past, founders could get away with giving pricing short shrift under the mantra, “the best product will ultimately win.” No more.

In the age of AI-enabled software, pricing and product are linked; pricing fundamentally impacts usage, which directly informs product quality. 

Therefore, pricing models that limit usage, like the predominant per-seat per month structure, limit quality. And thus limit companies.

For the first time in 20 years, there is a compelling argument to make for changing the way that SaaS is priced. For those selling AI-enabled software, it’s time to examine new pricing models. And since AI is currently the best-funded technology in the software industry — by far— pricing could soon be changing at a number of vendors.

Why per-seat pricing needs to die in the age of AI

Per-seat pricing makes AI-based products worse. Traditionally, the functionality of software hasn’t changed with usage. Features are there whether users take advantage of them or not — your CRM doesn’t sprout new bells and whistles when more employees log in; it’s static software. And since it’s priced per-user, a customer incurs more costs with every user for whom it’s licensed.

AI, on the other hand, is dynamic. It learns from every data point it’s fed, and users are its main source of information; usage of the product makes the product itself better.Why, then, should AI software vendors charge per user, when doing so inherently disincentivizes usage? Instead, they should design pricing models that maximize product usage, and therefore, product value.

Per-seat pricing hinders AI-based products from capturing value they create

AI-enabled software promises to make people and businesses far more efficient, transforming every aspect of the enterprise through personalization. Software tailored to the specific needs of the user has been able to command a significant premium relative to generic competitors; for example, Salesforce offers a horizontal CRM that must serve users from Fortune 100s to SMBs across every industry. Veeva, which provides a CRM optimized for the life sciences vertical, commands a subscription price many multiples higher, in large part because it has been tailored to the pharma user’s end needs.

AI-enabled software will be even more tailored to the individual context of each end-user, and thus, should command an even higher price. Relying on per-seat pricing gives buyers an easy point of comparison ($/seat is universalizable) and immediately puts the AI vendor on the defensive. Moving away from per-seat pricing allows the AI vendor to avoid apples-to-apples comparisons and sell their product on its own unique merits. There will be some buyer education required to move to a new model, but the winners in the AI era will use these discussions to better understand and serve their customers.

Per-seat pricing will ultimately cause AI vendors to cannibalize themselves

Probably the most important upsell lever software vendors have traditionally used is tying themselves to the growth of their customers. As their customers grow, the logic goes, so should the vendors’ contract (presumably because the vendor had some part in driving this growth). 

Tethering yourself to per-seat pricing will make contract expansion much harder.

However, effective AI-based software makes workers significantly more efficient. As such, seat counts should not need to grow linearly with company growth, as they have in the era of static software. Tethering yourself to per-seat pricing will make contract expansion much harder. Indeed, it could result in a world where the very success of the AI software will entail contract contraction.

How to price software in the age of AI

Here are some key ideas to keep top of mind when thinking about pricing AI software:

• Start by using ROI analysis to figure out how much to charge

This is the same place to start as in static software land. (Check out my primer on this approachhere.) Work with customers to quantify the value your software delivers across all dimensions. A good rule of thumb is that you should capture 10-30% of the value you create. In dynamic software land, that value may actually increase over time as the product is used more and the dataset improves. It’s best to calculate ROI after the product gets to initial scale deployment within a company (not at the beginning). It’s also worth recalculating after a year or two of use and potentially adjusting pricing. Tracking traditionally consumer usage metrics like DAU/MAU becomes absolutely critical in enterprise AI, as usage is arguably the core driver of ROI.

While ROI is a good way to determine how muchto charge, do not use ROI as the mechanism for how to charge. Tying your pricing model directly to ROI created can cause lots of confusion and anxiety when it comes time to settle up at year-end. This can create issues with establishing causality and sets up an unnecessarily antagonistic dynamic with the customer. Instead, use ROI as a level-setting tool and other mechanisms to determine how to arrive at specific pricing.

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Hello there!

Bit of a gap between newsletters — sorry about that. But, the good news is that this week’s Raspberry Pi Weekly is, therefore, a bumper issue packed full of wonderfulness!

Have a great weekend!

Peace,

Alex

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Wait, the London Show is on 26th October! What’s going on? If you read the London Show preview, you’ll notice that Adrian Lees is planning to launch a major new application, with no details available as yet about what it is – so the nature of that application is a mystery. Five days before the […]

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Volvo Group has established a new dedicated business group focused on autonomous transportation, with a mandate that covers industry segments like mining, ports and moving goods between logistics hubs of all kinds. The vehicle maker has already been active in putting autonomous technology to work in these industries, with self-driving projects — including at a few quarries and mines, and in the busy port located at Gothenburg, Sweden.

The company sees demand for this kind of autonomous technology use growing, and decided to establish an entire business unit to address it. The newly formed newly-formed group will be called Volvo Autonomous Solutions, and its official mission is to “accelerate the development, commercialization and sales of autonomous transport solutions,” focused on the kind of transportation “where there is a need to move large volumes of goods and material on pre-defined pre-defeined routes, in receptive flows.”

Their anticipation of the growth of this sector comes in part from direct customer feedback, the automaker notes. It’s seen “significant increase in inquires from customers,” according to a statement from Martin Lundstedt, Volvo Group’s president President and CEO.

Officially, Volvo Autonomous Solutions won’t be a formal new business area under its parent company until January 2020, but the company is looking for a new head of the unit already, and it’s clear they see a lot of potential in this burgeoning bourgeoning market.

Unlike autonomous driving for consumer automobiles, automobiles, this kind of self-driving for fixed-route fixed route goods transportation is a nice match to the capabilities of technology as they exist today. These industrial applications eliminate a lot of the chaos and complexity of driving in, say, urban environments and with a lot of other human-driven vehicles on the road, and their routes are predictable and repeatable.

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Following a period of beta-testing by a small group of volunteers, ROOL is proud to announce that our GitLab is now accepting sign-ups for anyone wanting to contribute to developing RISC OS. Dive in, the water’s lovely and warm!

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At AWS re:Invent 2018, we announced a new line of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances: the A1 family, powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton processors. This family is a great fit for scale-out workloads e.g. web front-ends, containerized microservices or caching fleets. By expanding the choice of compute options, A1 instances help customers use the right instances for the right applications, and deliver up to 45% cost savings. In addition, A1 instances enable Arm developers to build and test natively on Arm-based infrastructure in the cloud: no more cross compilation or emulation required.

Today, we are happy to expand the A1 family with a bare metal option.

Bare Metal for A1

Just like for existing bare metal instances (M5, M5d, R5, R5d, z1d, and so forth), your operating system runs directly on the underlying hardware with direct access to the processor.

As described in a previous blog post, you can leverage bare metal instances for applications that:

• need access to physical resources and low-level hardware features, such as performance counters, that are not always available or fully supported in virtualized environments,
• are intended to run directly on the hardware, or licensed and supported for use in non-virtualized environments.

Bare metal instances can also take advantage of Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Amazon CloudWatch, and other AWS services.

Working with A1 Instances
Bare metal or not, it’s never been easier to work with A1 instances. Initially launched in four AWS regions, they’re now available in four additional regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).

From a software perspective, you can run on A1 instances Amazon Machine Images for popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Debian, and of course Amazon Linux 2. Applications such as the Apache HTTP Server and NGINX Plus are available too. So are all major programming languages and run-times including PHP, Python, Perl, Golang, Ruby, NodeJS and multiple flavors of Java including Amazon Corretto, a supported open source OpenJDK implementation.

What about containers? Good news here as well! Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS both support A1 instances. Docker has announced support for Arm-based architectures in Docker Enterprise Edition, and most Docker official images support Arm. In addition, millions of developers can now use Arm emulation to build, run and test containers on their desktop machine before moving them to production.

As you would expect, A1 instances are seamlessly integrated with many AWS services, such as Amazon EBS, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Inspector, AWS Systems Manager and AWS Batch.

Now Available!
You can start using a1.metal instances today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Sydney). As always, we appreciate your feedback, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch via the AWS Compute Forum, or through your usual AWS support contacts.

— Julien;

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GetNir is a command-line tool for Windows that receives tab-delimited or comma-delimited data from other NirSoft tools through Standard input (stdin) , finds and extracts the desired values according to the specified filter expression and column names, and then sends these values to the Standard output (stdout).

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