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- Why You’re Having More Weird, Vivid Dreams During the Pandemic
- Having Weird Dreams? There’s a Neurological Reason for That
- Young Student Reporter Who Interviewed President Obama Dies at 23
- Deadliest Warning Yet: China Pledges to Defeat the US in a Military Conflict
- Ready for Sports Betting on Your Phone? Florida Governor Strikes Historic Gaming Compact with Seminole Tribe of Florida
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- WhatsApp’s controversial new privacy policy is here – what you need to know
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| Why You’re Having More Weird, Vivid Dreams During the Pandemic Posted: 15 May 2021 11:10 PM PDT dWeb.News Article from Daniel Webster  An interesting side effect of the coronavirus pandemic is the number of people who say they are having vivid dreams. Many are turning to blogs and social media to describe their experiences. While such dreams can be confusing or distressing, dreaming is normal and considered helpful in processing our waking situation, which for many people is far from normal at the moment. While we are sleepingAdults are recommended to sleep for seven to nine hours to maintain optimal health and well-being. Read more: Having Weird Dreams? There's a Neurological Reason for That When we sleep we go through different stages which cycle throughout the night. This includes light and deep sleep and a period known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which features more prominently in the second half of the night. As the name implies, during REM sleep the eyes move rapidly. Dreams can occur within all sleep stages but REM sleep is considered responsible for highly emotive and visual dreams. We typically have several REM dream periods a night, yet we do not necessarily remember the experiences and content. Researchers have identified that REM sleep has unique properties that help us regulate our mood, performance and cognitive functioning. Some say dreams act like a defence mechanism for our mental health, by giving us a simulated opportunity to work through our fears and to rehearse for stressful real-life events. This global pandemic and associated restrictions may have impacts on how and when we sleep. This has positive effects for some and negative effects for others. Both situations can lead to heightened recollection of dreams. Disrupted sleep and dreamsDuring this pandemic, studies from China and the UK show many people are reporting a heightened state of anxiety and are having shorter or more disturbed sleep. Ruminating about the pandemic, either directly or via the media, just before going to bed can work against our need to relax and get a good night's sleep. It may also provide fodder for dreams. When we are sleep deprived, the pressure for REM sleep increases and so at the next sleep opportunity a so-called rebound in REM sleep occurs. During this time dreams are reportedly more vivid and emotional than usual. More time in bedOther studies indicate that people may be sleeping more and moving less during the pandemic. If you're working and learning from home on flexible schedules without the usual commute it means you avoid the morning rush and don't need to get up so early. Heightened dream recall has been associated with having a longer sleep as well as waking more naturally from a state of REM sleep. If you're at home with other people you have a captive audience and time to exchange dream stories in the morning. The act of sharing dreams reinforces our memory of them. It might also prepare us to remember more on subsequent nights. This has likely created a spike in dream recall and interest during this time. The pandemic concernsDreaming can help us to cope mentally with our waking situation as well as simply reflect realities and concerns. In this time of heightened alert and changing social norms, our brains have much more to process during sleep and dreaming. More stressful dream content is to be expected if we feel anxious or stressed in relation to the pandemic, or our working or family situations. Hence more reports of dreams containing fear, embarrassment, social taboos, occupational stress, grief and loss, unreachable family, as well as more literal dreams around contamination or disease are being recorded.
An increase in unusual or vivid dreams and nightmares is not surprising. Such experiences have been reported before at times associated with sudden change, anxiety or trauma, such as the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the US in 2001, or natural disasters or war. Those with an anxiety disorder or experiencing the trauma first-hand are highly likely also to experience changes to dreams. But such changes are also reported by those witnessing events like the 9/11 attacks second-hand or via the media. Problems solved in dreamsOne theory on dreams is they serve to process the emotional demands of the day, to commit experiences to memory, solve problems, adapt and learn. This is achieved through the reactivation of particular brain areas during REM sleep and the consolidation of neural connections. During REM the areas of the brain responsible for emotions, memory, behaviour and vision are reactivated (as opposed to those required for logical thinking, reasoning and movement, which remain in a state of rest). The activity and connections made during dreaming are considered to be guided by the dreamer's waking activities, exposures and stressors. The neural activity has been proposed to synthesise learning and memory. The actual dream experience is more a by-product of this activity, which we assemble into a more logical narrative when the remainder of the brain attempts to catch up and reason with the activity on waking. Please … go to sleepIf disrupted sleep and dreams are problematic or distressing for you, consider how your sleep schedule and behaviour has changed with the pandemic. Maybe seek advice for supporting your sleep and well-being during this time. My colleagues and I at the Sleep/Wake Research Centre have produced several information sheets on sleep during the pandemic. We are also conducting a survey concerning the sleep of people living in New Zealand. This explores factors affecting sleep during the pandemic, and participants can comment on their dreaming. The post Why You're Having More Weird, Vivid Dreams During the Pandemic appeared first on dWeb.News Daniel Webster dWeb Internet Cowboy  |
| Having Weird Dreams? There’s a Neurological Reason for That Posted: 15 May 2021 10:53 PM PDT dWeb.News Article from Daniel Webster  Our dreams’ weirdness might be why we have them, argues new AI-inspired theory of dreaming The question of why we dream is a divisive topic within the scientific community: it’s hard to prove concretely why dreams occur and the neuroscience field is saturated with hypotheses. Inspired by techniques used to train deep neural networks, Erik Hoel (@erikphoel), a research assistant professor of neuroscience at Tufts University, argues for a new theory of dreams: the overfitted brain hypothesis. The hypothesis, described May 14 in a review in the journal Patterns, suggests that the strangeness of our dreams serves to help our brains better generalize our day-to-day experiences. “There’s obviously an incredible number of theories of why we dream,” says Hoel. “But I wanted to bring to attention a theory of dreams that takes dreaming itself very seriously–that says the experience of dreams is why you’re dreaming.” A common problem when it comes to training AI is that it becomes too familiar with the data it’s trained on–it starts to assume that the training set is a perfect representation of anything it might encounter. Data scientists fix this by introducing some chaos into the data; in one such regularization method, called “dropout,” some data is randomly ignored. Imagine if black boxes suddenly appeared on the internal screen of a self-driving car: the car that sees the random black boxes on the screen and focuses on overarching details of its surroundings, rather than the specifics of that particular driving experience, will likely better understand the general experience of driving. “The original inspiration for deep neural networks was the brain,” Hoel says. And while comparing the brain to technology is not new, he explains that using deep neural networks to describe the overfitted brain hypothesis was a natural connection. “If you look at the techniques that people use in regularization of deep learning, it’s often the case that those techniques bear some striking similarities to dreams,” he says. With that in mind, his new theory suggests that dreams happen to make our understanding of the world less simplistic and more well-rounded–because our brains, like deep neural networks, also become too familiar with the “training set” of our everyday lives. To counteract the familiarity, he suggests, the brain creates a weirded version of the world in dreams, the mind’s version of dropout. “It is the very strangeness of dreams in their divergence from waking experience that gives them their biological function,” he writes. Hoel says that there’s already evidence from neuroscience research to support the overfitted brain hypothesis. For example, it’s been shown that the most reliable way to prompt dreams about something that happens in real life is to repetitively perform a novel task while you are awake. He argues that when you over-train on a novel task, the condition of overfitting is triggered, and your brain attempts to then generalize for this task by creating dreams. But he believes that there’s also research that could be done to determine whether this is really why we dream. He says that well-designed behavioral tests could differentiate between generalization and memorization and the effect of sleep deprivation on both. Another area he’s interested to explore is on the idea of “artificial dreams.” He came up with overfitted brain hypothesis while thinking about the purpose of works of fiction like film or novels. Now, he hypothesizes that outside stimuli like novels or TV shows might act as dream “substitutions”–and that they could perhaps even be designed to help delay the cognitive effects of sleep deprivation by emphasizing their dream-like nature (for instance, by virtual reality technology). While you can simply turn off learning in artificial neural networks, Hoel says, you can’t do that with a brain. Brains are always learning new things–and that’s where the overfitted brain hypothesis comes in to help. “Life is boring sometimes,” he says. “Dreams are there to keep you from becoming too fitted to the model of the world.” For more in depth research: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100244 Erik Hoel is also the author of The Revelations, a novel publishing April 6 from Abrams Books: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/revelations_9781419750229/. The post Having Weird Dreams? There’s a Neurological Reason for That appeared first on dWeb.News Daniel Webster dWeb Internet Cowboy  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Young Student Reporter Who Interviewed President Obama Dies at 23 Posted: 15 May 2021 10:19 PM PDT dWeb.News Article from Daniel Webster  He was the 11-year-old student reporter who gained national recognition from his interview with President Barack Obama at the White House in 2009. Damon Weaver has died of natural causes at age 23, Politico reports. Weaver was 23 died May 1, his sister, Candace Hardy, told the Palm Beach Post. Additional details were not released. He had been studying communications at Albany State University in Georgia. Weaver was only 11 when he conducted his iconic interview with Obama for 10 minutes in the Diplomatic Room on Aug. 13, 2009, asking questions that focused primarily on education. He covered asked the president about school lunches, bullying, conflict resolution and how to succeed. Weaver then asked Obama to be his "homeboy." The post Young Student Reporter Who Interviewed President Obama Dies at 23 appeared first on dWeb.News Daniel Webster dWeb Internet Cowboy  |
| Deadliest Warning Yet: China Pledges to Defeat the US in a Military Conflict Posted: 15 May 2021 09:46 PM PDT dWeb.News Article from Daniel Webster  Beijing, China — Amid tensions in the South China Sea and over Taiwan, China has issued a warning that the US will be defeated if the two superpowers go to war. United States President Joe Biden has a few major international issues to deal with right now. China’s Global Times, which is a Chinese Government news outlet, published an editorial revealing the threat in response to joint military drills carried out by the US. Citing Global Times editorial piece, Express.co.uk reported that the threat is in response to joint military drills carried out by the US. The US joined drills with Japan, Australia and France this week in a show of force against Beijing. Earlier on Thursday, China had described the military exercises in southern Japan involving troops and hardware from France, Japan, the United States and Australia as a waste of fuel, adding that the drill had “no impact” on the country. Chinese President Xi Jinping was "deadly earnest about [China] becoming the most significant, consequential nation in the world," President Biden said while addressing a socially-distanced gathering of lawmakers in the House chamber, with all the vaccinated attendees dutifully wearing their masks. "He and others – autocrats – think that democracy can't compete in the 21st century with autocracies, because it takes too long to get consensus," he said, appearing to veer off script, according to prepared remarks circulated by the White House before the speech.  China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea and has overlapping territorial claims with Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan. Beijing also claims full sovereignty over Taiwan, a democracy of almost 24 million people located off the southeastern coast of mainland China, despite the fact that the two sides have been governed separately for more than seven decades. “The Global Times put out an editorial saying the US would be defeated if any conflict broke out in the South China Sea. Many see the drills as a show of force aimed at China as Japan works towards consolidating military alliances in an effort to deter its neighbouring superpower,” said RT America’s Alex Mihailovich. He further said, “The drills appeared to irritate China rather than contain it.”Former UK MP George Galloway said that this would prompt an increase in military preparedness from China. “What a spur this must be to China’s own warship development. If they are not fools, they will be building so many warships right now that no-one will dare to steam up the East China Sea and threaten them in any way,” Galloway said. Earlier this week, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army released videos showing marines training for island landing drills in an apparent threat to Taiwan. Video footage released by the PLA Navy shows marines from the Eastern Theatre Command in a recent landing exercise for a simulated invasion, Express.co.uk reported. China has been increasing its maritime activities in both the South China Sea and the East China Sea over the past few months, partly in response to Beijing’s concerns over the increasing US military presence in the region because of escalating Sino-US tensions.  Asia News International contributed to this report The post Deadliest Warning Yet: China Pledges to Defeat the US in a Military Conflict appeared first on dWeb.News Daniel Webster dWeb Internet Cowboy  |
| Posted: 15 May 2021 08:35 PM PDT dWeb.News Article from Daniel Webster   By Daniel Webster, dWeb.News Tallahassee, Fla. – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a historic gaming compact between the State of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The agreement will generate the state a minimum of $2.5 billion in new revenue over the next five years and an estimated $6 billion through 2030. If the gaming compact is ratified by the state Legislature next week and later approved by federal regulators, it would make Florida the largest state in the nation to legalize sports betting. Additionally, the Tribe would be the exclusive operator of the digital sports books in Florida for the next 30 years. The Tribe would also be allowed to build three more casinos on tribal property in coming years. In exchange for all the components of the agreement, the Tribe would give the state a minimum of $500 million in annual payments, an amount that could go up as the market and profits expand. Most notably, the compact modernizes the gaming industry through the authorization of sports betting in Florida through the Tribe. The agreement also provides protections for pari-mutuel operations and the opportunity to participate in sports betting offered by the Tribe. "This historic compact expands economic opportunity, tourism, and recreation, and bolsters the fiscal success of our state in one fell swoop for the benefit of all Floridians and Seminoles alike," said Governor DeSantis. "Our agreement establishes the framework to generate billions in new revenue and untold waves of positive economic impact. I would like to thank Seminole Tribe of Florida Chairman Marcellus Osceola Jr., Senate President Wilton Simpson, and House Speaker Chris Sprowls for their collective commitment to modernizing the gaming industry in the state of Florida and setting the bar for the rest of the nation." "The Seminole Tribe of Florida is committed to a mutually-beneficial gaming compact with the State of Florida and looks forward to its approval by the Florida Legislature, the Seminole Tribal Council and the U.S. Department of the Interior," said Marcellus Osceola Jr., Chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. "The Tribe wants to express our sincere thanks to Governor DeSantis, Senate President Simpson, House Speaker Sprowls and many others who have worked hard to negotiate a historic agreement that cements our partnership with the state for decades to come." This arrangement, however, brazenly flouts the 1988 federal law which allows states and Indian tribes to enter into compacts for Class III gaming activities, such as sports betting. That federal law—known as the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (or "IGRA" for short)—mandates that any gaming activities authorized under a tribal-state compact occur only "on Indian lands," which is specifically defined by IGRA to mean "all lands within the limits of any Indian reservation" or any lands held in trust by the United States for the benefit of any Indian tribe. The new compact, however, authorizes an extensive amount of gambling off tribal lands—essentially every online sports bet made in State of Florida and all sports wagers initiated from state-licensed pari-mutuel facilities. This "off-reservation" piece will likely spawn two parallel litigation tracks—one brought in a Florida state court asserting that sports betting outside of Indian lands violates the Florida Constitution's prohibition against non-voter-approved casino gambling, and the other filed in a federal court contending that the same activity also violates IGRA's strict requirement that all "gaming activity" occur solely on Indian land. "The historic new thirty year gaming compact Governor DeSantis and the Seminole Tribe of Florida executed today restores the State's relationship with the Tribe, preserves and offers new opportunities for Florida's legacy pari-mutuel industry, and provides substantial new revenues for the State of Florida," said Senate President Wilton Simpson. "I'm grateful to Governor DeSantis for his leadership in finalizing this compact and look forward to our upcoming special session to address legislation related to the implementation of this monumental agreement and to ratify the compact." "For years, there has been much ambiguity around the compact with the Seminole Tribe of Florida," said House Speaker Chris Sprowls. "Today, we thank Governor Ron DeSantis for bringing that to a conclusion and for giving us the opportunity to address this key issue for our state. Thank you also for the work of Chairman Marcellus Osceola Jr. and the contributions of Senate President Simpson. We look forward to reviewing the compact in an upcoming Special Session." Larger and more expansive than any other gaming compact in U.S. history, the agreement increases the projected revenue to the State of Florida from the Seminole Tribe from no revenue to over six billion dollars over the next decade, with a guaranteed minimum of two and a half billion dollars during the first five years.  “We Seminole have lived in Florida for thousands of years. Our ancestors were the first people to come to Florida. Our ancestors were connected by family and culture to others across North America, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi river, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes. They are now called the Mississippian Culture, and their traditions still exist among the Seminole and other tribes today,” the Tribe states. “We were in Florida when the Spanish arrived. They met our ancestors, who they called by different names; the Miccosukee people, the Muscogee people, the Calusa people, and other Native American tribes,” according to the Tribe’s website. “The Spanish brought with them diseases that devastated our ancestors. Within one hundred years the new diseases had killed nine out of ten of the Native People of the Americas.” By some estimates, sports betting is expected to create over 2,200 jobs for Floridians. A copy of the compact is available HERE. The post Ready for Sports Betting on Your Phone? Florida Governor Strikes Historic Gaming Compact with Seminole Tribe of Florida appeared first on dWeb.News Daniel Webster dWeb Internet Cowboy  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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| WhatsApp’s controversial new privacy policy is here – what you need to know Posted: 15 May 2021 12:40 PM PDT dWeb.News Article from Chris Smith  Facebook announced plans to update the WhatsApp terms of services last October, but it was WhatsApp's subsequent notifications in early 2021 that shocked users, telling them they'll have to agree to share more data with Facebook or risk losing access to WhatsApp. The backlash was immediate and brutal, with millions of people downloading competing chat apps like Signal and Telegram in January. Facebook mounted a massive defense, delaying the terms of service change deadline to May 15th in order to better explain the planned changes. Facebook has made it clear since January that WhatsApp will not lose the default end-to-end encryption that all chats and calls get, and the company recently announced that WhatsApp users who do not agree to the new privacy policy will not be banned from the platform. But there's no way to reject the terms or block Facebook from collecting data starting May 15th. Now that the deadline has arrived, your options are limited. You can accept the new terms and continue using WhatsApp just like before, or you can ignore the prompt and either delete the app or use it in a significantly limited capacity. Today’s Top DealAirPods Pro are finally back in stock at Amazon… at the lowest price of 2021!Price: $197.00
Facebook has never truly explained what sort of data will collect or why it needs that data, causing plenty of confusion in the process. The e-commerce user data that Facebook wants from WhatsApp will only be there if users choose to use WhatsApp as a vehicle for buying goods or staying in touch with companies. A report from The Guardian details Facebook's intentions better than Facebook did or would ever want to. Analysts have told the paper that the real reason this privacy policy change is vital for Facebook is simple: The company wants to turn the service into the western equivalent of WeChat. That's a popular chat app in China that also handles various other tasks. Users can buy and sell products on the platform, pay for utility bills, play games, and even contact essential government services. Facebook has been looking to turn WhatsApp into an "everything app" since 2014 when it purchased the chat app for nearly $20 billion. The Guardian also points out that Facebook's plan to have users accept the new terms might succeed. Stats from global research platform Appinio show that 95% of Britons have the app installed, yet less than 25% of users know about the planned privacy policy change. Only 15% say they no longer "want" to use the app as a result, but many will likely stick around even after the May 15th changes are enforced. Going forward, WhatsApp users will be able to browse catalogs of products from small businesses, contact companies, and complete purchases. All of that will happen inside the app while Facebook undoubtedly gathers plenty of data. Users who disagree with the new terms will no longer be able to take advantage of some WhatsApp features. Starting Saturday, they'll be unable to dismiss the screen that asks them to accept the new terms. They'll still receive calls, but replying to messages is only possible via notifications. In the future, even those limited features might go away to the point where the app would be unusable. A German regulator has already issued an injunction, looking to prevent Facebook from processing WhatsApp data in the country. Facebook contested the order, saying that it will still roll out the new privacy feature. The German watchdog urged peers from other European countries to take similar action. Today’s Top DealAirPods Pro are finally back in stock at Amazon… at the lowest price of 2021!Price: $197.00 Facebook has made it clear since January that WhatsApp will not lose the default end-to-end encryption that all chats and calls get, and the company recently announced that WhatsApp users who do not agree to the new privacy policy will not be banned from the platform. But there's no way to reject the terms or block Facebook from collecting data starting May 15th. Now that the deadline has arrived, your options are limited. You can accept the new terms and continue using WhatsApp just like before, or you can ignore the prompt and either delete the app or use it in a significantly limited capacity. Facebook has never truly explained what sort of data will collect or why it needs that data, causing plenty of confusion in the process. The e-commerce user data that Facebook wants from WhatsApp will only be there if users choose to use WhatsApp as a vehicle for buying goods or staying in touch with companies. A report from The Guardian details Facebook's intentions better than Facebook did or would ever want to. Analysts have told the paper that the real reason this privacy policy change is vital for Facebook is simple: The company wants to turn the service into the western equivalent of WeChat. That's a popular chat app in China that also handles various other tasks. Users can buy and sell products on the platform, pay for utility bills, play games, and even contact essential government services. Facebook has been looking to turn WhatsApp into an "everything app" since 2014 when it purchased the chat app for nearly $20 billion. The Guardian also points out that Facebook's plan to have users accept the new terms might succeed. Stats from global research platform Appinio show that 95% of Britons have the app installed, yet less than 25% of users know about the planned privacy policy change. Only 15% say they no longer "want" to use the app as a result, but many will likely stick around even after the May 15th changes are enforced. Going forward, WhatsApp users will be able to browse catalogs of products from small businesses, contact companies, and complete purchases. All of that will happen inside the app while Facebook undoubtedly gathers plenty of data. Users who disagree with the new terms will no longer be able to take advantage of some WhatsApp features. Starting Saturday, they'll be unable to dismiss the screen that asks them to accept the new terms. They'll still receive calls, but replying to messages is only possible via notifications. In the future, even those limited features might go away to the point where the app would be unusable. A German regulator has already issued an injunction, looking to prevent Facebook from processing WhatsApp data in the country. Facebook contested the order, saying that it will still roll out the new privacy feature. The German watchdog urged peers from other European countries to take similar action.facebook, WhatsApp The post WhatsApp's controversial new privacy policy is here – what you need to know appeared first on dWeb.News Daniel Webster dWeb Internet Cowboy  |
| Posted: 15 May 2021 10:40 AM PDT dWeb.News Article from jaydiaz2013  Faster product delivery is the need of the hour today for IT businesses to stand strong in the competitive environment. Choosing the right testing methodology between agile testing vs. traditional testing is crucial to accomplish faster product delivery and fulfill customer expectations. Let's explore the traditional and agile testing principles in more detail in terms of their features, advantages, disadvantages, along with the benefits of agile testing methodology over the traditional method. What is Traditional Testing?The conventional approach calls in the testing team after the completion of the development processes. The team needs to take the detect-clean-release approach towards the applications at this point. Traditional testing approach follows a tight plan, which cannot be changed at any point. They look into a lot of documentation and specifications before leaning their support to the next team. The question now is whether this testing tactic works for your business or not. Here are a few pros and cons that should help you know. Advantages of Traditional TestingHigh-Quality Products: The products are thoroughly tested before release. Every bug, small or big, is detected, solved, and committed before users interact with the solution. The results are high-quality and reliable. Disadvantages of Traditional TestingSingle Point-of-Control: In the traditional testing method, the project manager is responsible for all aspects of testing. As a result, the entire project's onus falls on a single person, proving to be a disadvantage for time-consuming and enterprise-grade tasks. What is Agile Testing?The agile testing methodology is a set of practices and tactics that allow the developer team to connect with the testing team at the start of the project. The continuous integration of the various groups allows for quicker releases and better iterations, thus resolving the project's errors right from the beginning of the process. It also facilitates continuous improvement in software testing. While the traditional testing method is incremental, agile is continuous and concludes with the project's deployment. Advantages of Agile TestingCost-Efficient: You don't wait till the end of the project to resolve the errors. As a result, you will save a lot of resource time and the number of resources involved. It will eventually result in cost and effort savings. Disadvantages of Agile TestingNot Predictable: You cannot easily determine the delivery time or cost and efforts involved. Difficult to assess the amount of effort required for a particular test. Critical Differences Between Traditional Testing and Agile Testing ApproachesHaving understood how the two approaches work, it is essential to know the critical differences between them. The ApproachThere is a core difference between the way these two work. While the traditional model is more predictable and phased in its technique, the agile methodology is iterative and adaptive. The latter works need-based and defines the processes according to the testing needs. It is quite flexible while the traditional approach is not. PhilosophyThe agile philosophy is test-first, while the traditional method works on the development-first method. In agile methodology, the testing is conducted along with the development and after the product's first release. As a result, the user's feedback is also incorporated for an effective launch. Traditionally, testers used to get involved in the project only after the development was completed. The test cases were planned, defined, and then used to identify bugs and fix them. Core TaskThe two differ in the core work appointed to them as well. For Agile, the target is to accelerate the release of the product without compromising on the quality. As a result, the developer and testers collaborate to release a minimum viable product before releasing the actual software solution. The release is phased into several sprints and milestones. Traditional approaches are used to cater to the entire project development. They would ensure that the whole project is developed, tested, and then released. They concentrated on releasing high-quality and reliable products. ProcessThe modern methodology refers to a sprint-based process, which is iterative and continuous. As a result, the testing is conducted alongside the development, and both are continuous across the iterations. However, the traditional method differs in the process as well. The planning phase defines how many features need to be added to the system. Once the components are added and the documentation is ready, the product goes to the testing team. The modules go through unit testing, regression, and system testing. User FeedbackFeedback is essential for agile testing. The method approves and incorporates the user feedback at the end of every release to make it more user-centric. The development and testing cycles are short. The conventional approach demands input at the end of testing, after the release of the product. The system incorporates the feedback and upgrades in the next version of the project. Team WorkAgile methodology thrives on the collaboration of the various teams—developing and testing teamwork together to release a sprint or product. In the case of traditional testing processes, the two groups worked in silos. After you completed the development, you hand over the project to the testing team with the requisite documentation. As a result, the whole project was done without inputs or the presence of team members. Continual ImprovementModifications to the project are made continuously, during the development stage, in agile methodology. The changes are taken in the subsequent sprint testing itself. Agile method enables QA in product development to continuously integrate and continuously deliver. Risk ManagementThe traditional testing method did not give importance to the risks involved. It was averse to the risks, as the bugs were identified and cleaned only after the development. It not only delayed the product release but also involved high costs and resource allocation. The timeliness of identifying and preventing the risks in Agile methodology leads to cost-efficient and resource-efficient processes. DocumentationAs the teams worked in silos, documentation proved to be the only communication mode between developers and testers. From the business requirements to the code components, you need to mention everything in the documentation. The agile methodology allowed collaboration and real-time communication between the teams. As a result, the paperwork required was minimal, and the collaboration extensive. Why is Agile Testing Preferred Over Traditional Software Testing Approach?The advantages are clear, and so are the differences. Let's take a look at why more businesses are preferring agile methodology over conventional software testing approaches. Increased FlexibilityAgile testing methodology allows the teams to be more flexible with their testing approaches. They don't need to stick to plan A from the start, even if it does not work for them. They can adapt on-the-go, which makes it easier for them to develop and test products faster. It overthrows the top-down approach and accommodates all the last minute changes with ease. Collaborative ApproachThe units don't work in silos, which means the chance of getting a quality product faster is higher with agile. Your teams are a single unit, and they collaborate and call for changes as and when required. The users and clients are also part of the process, making the approach reliable and offering superior quality assurance services. Better AccountabilityThe sprint-based testing method allows for quicker bug detection and faster resolution. You will notice that the feedback is immediately incorporated in this case. The onus of failure, as well as success, falls on each individual within the team. They are more accountable and empowered, which results in successful projects. Quicker ReleasesWhen you embrace the agile methodology, you are also accepting the sprint-based evolution of the projects. As a result, you will be letting the products into the market faster. Even the updates and newer versions of the sprints are released at an accelerated speed. On-the-go FeedbackThe feedback plays a prominent role in ensuring quality solutions. The modern testing approach calls for user feedback along with the development processes. Eventually, you will be able to release better products faster as you know what the user wants. It is a user-centric approach. Wrapping It UpTo successfully implement modern testing practices, you need to outsource software testing to a partner who works with enterprise-grade software systems for unmatched performance. via Technology & Innovation Articles on Business 2 Community https://bit.ly/33Jn8dq Faster product delivery is the need of the hour today for IT businesses to stand strong in the competitive environment. Choosing the right testing methodology between agile testing vs. traditional testing is crucial to accomplish faster product delivery and fulfill customer expectations. Let's explore the traditional and agile testing principles in more detail in termsideas, innovation, management, technology, Technology & Innovation Articles on Business 2 Community The post What Is the Difference Between Agile Testing vs. Traditional Testing? Are You Making the Right Choice? By Mitul Makadia appeared first on dWeb.News Daniel Webster dWeb Internet Cowboy  |
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| BlackSky Earth-observing satellites lost due to anomaly during Rocket Lab launch Posted: 15 May 2021 08:41 AM PDT dWeb.News Article from Alan Boyle  Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle rises from its pad in New Zealand. (Rocket Lab via YouTube) Two satellites for BlackSky's Earth observation constellation were lost today when the second stage of Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle suffered an anomaly, just minutes after liftoff from New Zealand. Rocket Lab said the mission failure was under investigation. "The issue occurred shortly after stage two ignition," the company said in a tweet. The live stream for launch showed what appeared to be a successful launch at 11:11 p.m. New Zealand time (4:11 a.m. PT), followed by a stage separation that went according to plan. However, it looked as if the second stage's rocket engine shut down and failed to push the satellites to orbit. Previously: Seattle's space industry plays leading role in building BlackSky's Earth-observing networkThe satellites were built by Tukwila, Wash.-based LeoStella for BlackSky, which splits its staff between offices in Seattle and Herndon, Va. Pre-launch logistics for the mission were handled by Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. "We are deeply sorry to our customers Spaceflight Inc. and BlackSky for the loss of their payloads," Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck said in a statement. "We understand the monumental effort that goes into every spacecraft and we feel their loss and disappointment." In a tweet, Spaceflight Inc. said it was a "sad day." "We are devastated for our customer @BlackSky_Inc at the loss of this mission," the company said. We've reached out to Spaceflight Inc., BlackSky and LeoStella and will update this story with any further information. Rocket Lab — which has its U.S. headquarters in Long Beach, Calif., but launches its Electron rockets from New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula — said it would work closely with the Federal Aviation Administration to investigate the anomaly, identify the root cause and correct the issue for future missions. "On one of our toughest days, our team operated with professionalism and worked swiftly to ensure the anomaly was managed safely," Beck said. "We will learn from this, and we'll be back on the pad again." BlackSky and LeoStella have several more satellites in the pipeline for Rocket Lab launches scheduled later this year. The anomaly investigation seems certain to force postponement for those launches. This mission, nicknamed "Running Out of Toes," marked the 20th orbital launch attempt for Rocket Lab, a space startup that's preparing for a blank-check merger deal valued at $4.1 billion. Seventeen of those attempts have been successful. The two previous failures came in 2017 after Rocket Lab's first liftoff (due to a software glitch) and last July during the launch of multiple satellites (due to a faulty electrical connection). Today's mission was also meant to test procedures that will eventually allow for reuse of the Electron rocket's first-stage booster. That part of the mission, which involved a "soft splashdown" of the booster into the Pacific Ocean and its recovery from the sea, appeared to meet Rocket Lab's expectations. Two satellites for BlackSky's Earth observation constellation were lost today when the second stage of Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle suffered an anomaly, just minutes after liftoff from New Zealand. Rocket Lab said the mission failure was under investigation. "The issue occurred shortly after stage two ignition," the company said in a tweet. The live stream for launch showed what appeared to be a successful launch at 11:11 p.m. New Zealand time (4:11 a.m. PT), followed by a stage separation that went according to plan. However, it looked as if the second stage's rocket engine shut down and failed to… Read MoreSpace, BlackSky, Rocket Lab, Satellite, Satellites, spaceflight The post BlackSky Earth-observing satellites lost due to anomaly during Rocket Lab launch appeared first on dWeb.News Daniel Webster dWeb Internet Cowboy  |
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