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Free Music-making Software Market Will Generate New Growth Opportunities in the next upcoming year Ableton, Adobe, Apple, Avid, MAGIX KSU | The…

The global research report titled Free Music-making Software market has recently been published by IT Intelligence Markets. The study provides an overview of current statistics and future predictions of the Free Music-making Software market. The base year considered for the study is 2020 and forecast period is 2025. The study complies effective research methodologies such as primary and secondary research methodologies for the presentation of its effective study. Top level industries have been profiled to get better insights into the businesses. The report also enlists significant market companies which provide useful market insights into product types, features, capacity, and productivity.

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In This Study, The Years Considered to Estimate the Size of Free Music-making Software Market are as Follows:History Year: 2014-2019Base Year: 2020Estimated Year: 2021Forecast Year 2021 to 2027

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Black And Latinx People Benefit From Free 7-Month Virtual Coding Class – PRNewswire

SEATTLE, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Reskill Americansislaunching tuition-free online software development training for historically underrepresented minorities throughout the U.S. Unlike other coding programs, Reskill Americansis solving the problem of access by eliminating typical barriers to entry such as tuition cost, prior software development knowledge, or other educational requirements.

The inaugural program begins March 15, 2021, and is accepting 1,000 participants who enroll by March 7, 2021. To get an opportunity to launch a career in tech, enroll at ReskillAmericans.org.

"We want to live in a world where the minority representation in the tech sector mirrors its representation in the U.S. population," said Femi Akinde, Co-Founder of Reskill Americans. "To address this, we've created a software training model that scales up access to thousands of underrepresented racial minorities to help them build a career in this growth industry."

Training Provides Participants Required Skills for Software Development Jobs

Participants can learn from anywhere, at any time, as long as they stay on track with weekly assignments. The program includes mentorship and provides participants the following:

Reskill Americans enables scaled-up access to tuition-free training in the U.S. by customizing a proven, low-cost online training model. HNG Tech, the African online training and virtual internship platform, has enrolled 25,000 students across Africa into various software development specializations. HNG Tech has secured sponsorships from Google, Slack and GitHub and has partnered with Oracle and Figma.

"My instructors were really good people who wanted to explain things to me," said Ore Ogundipe, who completed HNG's program and is now a software engineer for Azure at Microsoft. "I learned things from that period that I still apply every day in my job."

Reskill Americans is a diverse group of tech executives that each have more than 20 years of experience in the industry.

"Unlike most open online courses, our participants will get lots of individualized support: they are assigned a mentor to guide them through the program and there's a low student-to-instructor ratio," said Mike Koss, Co-Founder and CTO. Mike was a founding developer for some of Microsoft's most iconic programs in the 1980s, and focuses on curriculum and mentorship at Reskill Americans.

About Reskill Americans: We are a nonprofit that providestuition-freesoftware development training, mentorship and community tohistorically underrepresented racial minoritiesacross the U.S.We eliminate traditional barriers to access so that aspiring tech professionals with no prior experience can enroll in our rigorous, instructorled online program. Participants who complete our seven-month program are prepared for a career in technology, equipped with internship experience, interview skills, and a portfolio to show future employers.

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With one update, this malicious Android app hijacked millions of devices – ZDNet

With a single update, a popular barcode scanner app on Google Play transformed into malware and was able to hijack up to 10 million devices.

Lavabird Ltd.'s Barcode Scanner was an Android app that had been available on Google's official app repository for years. The app, accounting for over 10 million installs, offered a QR code reader and a barcode generator -- a useful utility for mobile devices.

The mobile application appeared to be legitimate, trustworthy software, with many users having installed the app years ago without any problems -- until recently.

According to Malwarebytes, users recently started to complain of adverts appearing unexpectedly on their Android devices. It is often the case that unwanted programs, ads, and malvertising are connected with new app installations, but in this example, users reported that they had not installed anything recently.

Upon investigation, the researchers pinpointed Barcode Scanner as the culprit.

A software update issued on roughly December 4, 2020, changed the functions of the app to push advertising without warning. While many developers implement ads in their software in order to be able to offer free versions -- and paid-for apps simply do not display ads -- in recent years, the shift of apps from useful resources to adware overnight is becoming more common.

"Ad SDKs can come from various third-party companies and provide a source of revenue for the app developer. It's a win-win situation for everyone," Malwarebytes noted. "Users get a free app, while the app developers and the ad SDK developers get paid. But every once in a while, an ad SDK company can change something on their end and ads can start getting a bit aggressive."

Sometimes, 'aggressive' advertising practices can be the fault of SDK third-parties -- but this was not the case when it comes to Barcode Scanner. Instead, the researchers say that malicious code was pushed in the December update and was heavily concealed to avoid detection.

The update was also signed with the same security certificate used in past, clean versions of the Android application.

Malwarebytes reported its findings to Google and the tech giant has now pulled the app from Google Play. However, this doesn't mean that the app will vanish from impacted devices, and so users need to manually uninstall the now-malicious app.

Transforming clean SDKs into malicious packages is only one method employed to avoid Google Play protection, with time checks, long display times, the compromise of open source libraries used by an app, and dynamic loading also cited as potential ways for attackers to compromise your mobile device.

Another interesting method, spotted by Trend Micro, is the implementation of a motion sensor check. In 2019, Android utility apps were found to contain the Anubis banking Trojan which would only deploy once a user moved their handset.

ZDNet has reached out to the developer and will update if we hear back.

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How This New Yorker Created a Vaccine Appointment Website for $50 – The New York Times

Huge Ma, a 31-year-old software engineer for Airbnb, was stunned when he tried to make a coronavirus vaccine appointment for his mother in early January and saw that there were dozens of websites to check, each with its own sign-up protocol. The city and state appointment systems were completely distinct.

There has to be a better way, he said he remembered thinking.

So, he developed one. In less than two weeks, he launched TurboVax, a free website that compiles availability from the three main city and state New York vaccine systems and sends the information in real time to Twitter. It cost Mr. Ma less than $50 to build, yet it offers an easier way to spot appointments than the city and states official systems do.

Its sort of become a challenge to myself, to prove what one person with time and a little motivation can do, he said last week. This wasnt a priority for governments, which was unfortunate. But everyone has a role to play in the pandemic, and Im just doing the very little that I can to make it a little bit easier.

Supply shortages and problems with access to vaccination appointments have been some of the barriers to the equitable distribution of the vaccine in New York City and across the United States, officials have acknowledged.

Statistics released recently by the city showed that the vaccine is disproportionately flowing to white New Yorkers, not the Black and brown communities that suffered the most in the pandemics first wave.

Only 12 percent of the roughly 210,000 city residents who are over 65 and were vaccinated were Black, for example, even though Black people make up 24 percent of the citys population.

The only way they are able to access those appointments is to use a very, very complicated tech platform that in and of itself marginalizes the elderly community that I serve, Ebon Carrington, the chief executive officer of Harlem Hospital, said at the end of last month. As a result, she said, white people from outside Harlem for weeks had filled most of her available slots.

So some volunteers in New York, as well as in states including Texas, California and Massachusetts, have tried to use their technological skills to simplify that process.

Jeremy Novich, 35, a clinical psychologist on the Upper West Side on Manhattan, started reaching out to seniors after realizing that his own older relatives could not have made appointments on their own.

The system is set up to be a technology race between 25-year-olds and 85-year-olds, he said. Thats not a race, thats elder neglect.

Along with two friends, on Jan. 12 he launched the Vaccine Appointment Assistance Team, a person-to-person effort that began by helping older people from local synagogues and expanded to help those who sign up via a phone hotline or web form. Because of high demand, the service which now has 20 volunteer caseworkers has stopped taking new cases for now, and the founders are thinking about partnering with a nonprofit to increase capacity.

The most ambitious online volunteer assistance effort in the city is NYC Vaccine List, a website that compiles appointments from more than 50 vaccination sites city, state and private. About 20 volunteers write code, reach out to community organizations and call inoculation centers directly to post the centers availabilities.

Dan Benamy, a software developer for Datadog and one of NYC Vaccine Lists founders, said that when he was searching last month for dates for his grandparents, he was struck at how labor-intensive the appointment system was.

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Im an engineer and an optimizer, so I was looking at this and saying it feels like we could maybe look at pulling this data together and aggregating it, so that it is faster and easier to find vaccines, he said.

Mr. Benamy reached out to a couple of friends and got to work. The site went live five days later, on Jan. 16.

Inspired by VaccinateCA, a volunteer-run vaccine finder site in California, NYC Vaccine List not only lists available city and state appointments, but also allows users to click through more directly to some available appointment times, saving precious minutes in which a slot could go to someone else.

In its effectiveness, the site is also offering a real-time glimpse at how brutally competitive the appointment process can be. At 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 28, for example, hundreds of openings popped up, including 45 at the citys Brooklyn Army Marine Terminal, and many more at a city-run site in the Bronx. Within 15 minutes, they were gone.

These sites do not solve all access problems, because they still require computer literacy and benefit only those who know about them. As of Feb. 8, NYC Vaccine List was getting about 16,000 visitors a day, which remains a fraction of the millions of qualified New Yorkers who need appointments, its founders said.

But by making the process more efficient, the sites are easing the way for hundreds who were struggling to find a slot. Their Twitter feed has been flooded with messages of gratitude, and NYC Vaccine List been labeled the hottest website in the city by Mark Levine, a city councilman. They recently added a Google translate feature to the site.

As the number of volunteers increases and we get these basic pieces up and running, we would love to make it accessible to as many people as possible, said Mr. Benamy, 36, who lives in Brooklyn.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has promised to improve the appointment system, which he called too cumbersome in a recent news conference, and the city upgraded one of its main scheduling sites to be more user-friendly last week.

Both the city and state also offer the option to schedule by phone. The states hotline recently added a special option for people 75 years and older, as well as a callback service. But operators at those hotlines make appointments at the same city or state run centers where most appointments are snapped up by those using the first-come, first serve web-based system.

Software developers peeking under the hood of some of the public scheduling sites were surprised to see just how messy it was back there. Paul Schreiber, 42, a freelance software engineer in Brooklyn, said he was chagrined to find misspellings and other errors in the code of the vaccine hub run for the first month by the city health department. The new website that rolled out on Feb. 1, he said, seemed substantially better.

Even grading on a very generous curve well, this is a government website, its not Amazon.com it was really bad, he said.

Mr. Schreiber has done some preliminary work on building his own appointment site and was looking at how he could incorporate the updates to the city-run site.

Some of the technological help has come from pure chance.

Adriana Scamparini, 45, a corporate lawyer who lives in the Gramercy area of Manhattan, spent 18 hours trying to make her father an appointment. After she did, she realized that a password she had used for an appointment site was saved on her phone, allowing her to bypass a public page that incorrectly stated no appointments were available.

She began reaching out to friends, family and her doorman to see if they knew older people who needed help. She set up email addresses for those who didnt have them. She printed out appointment forms and delivered them to peoples homes. She made about 30 appointments and personally accompanied seven people to a vaccination site in Lower Manhattan, mostly in the middle of the night when appointments were easier to get. For her efforts, she got tears of gratitude, cards and flowers.

I dont have a computer and I dont have Wi-Fi, said Mariley Carlota, a widow originally from Brazil who lives alone on the Upper East Side. She got her first shot at 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 19 thanks to Ms. Scamparini. She was like an angel for me.

Ms. Carlota had been scared to go to the doctor and go shopping. Now, she is scheduling her colonoscopy, her endoscopy and physical therapy for February. She cries at the thought that she will soon be able to go back to her church and her friends there.

Its like I won a lottery, she said.

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RapidSOS lands $85M to integrate connected devices, smart buildings with emergency responders – FierceHealthcare

This past year put a spotlight on the importance of faster and more effective emergency response.

That's something that RapidSOS has been working on for the past eight years. The company, which built a platform to make it easier for first response teams to do their jobs, just banked $85 million to scale its technology.

The need for critical, life-saving data was never more apparent than in 2020 when the world faced unprecedented emergencies, including the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, and domestic threats like the Christmas Day Nashville bombing.

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RapidSOSaims to transform emergency response and disaster management by connecting emergency data from digital health, smart buildings, security, connected vehicles, and app companies with emergency responders.RapidSOS provides their software free for 911 centers and works with connected device makers and technology companies to embed their technology into their emergency calling and SOS features.

The company's Series C funding round was led by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners. The investmentbrings RapidSOSs total funding to $200 million.

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2020 reminded all of us of the heroic work that first responders do in our most challenging moments, said Michael Martin, founder and CEO of RapidSOS in a statement. We spent the past eight years building the RapidSOS emergency response data platform in partnership with thousands of first responderscollaborating with leading technology companies to provide the right data, at the right place, at the right time to save lives across over 150 million emergencies annually.

Data from the RapidSOS platform was used in over 150 million emergencies during 2020, or on average, more than 400,000per day. In some cases, RapidSOS' technologybecame the critical link between citizens and first responders when traditional voice 911 circuits went down in major disasters or attacks.

Through the platform, RapidSOS provides data that supports over 4,800 emergency communications centers across the U.S., covering 92% of the population.

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RapidSOS currently links more than 350 millionconnected devices to emergency services and first responders.These devices, recognized as RapidSOS ready, transmit real-time location, health and medical information, connected building and alarm dataand more in an emergency.

For example, the RapidSOS platform connects crash impact and occupant data from the following sources with 911 and first responders in an emergency: connected vehicles, critical health and medical information from medical profiles, wearables and devices, and connected building/alarm, address, sensorand multimedia.

The medical ID feature on an iPhone also enables people to share medical information with 911. In collaboration with the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, and Direct Relief, RapidSOS launched the Emergency Health Profile, a simple and free way for anyone to share their health data with 911.

Insight has a history of backing category-defining companies, and RapidSOS has all the makings of one in the emergency response space, said Nikitas Koutoupes, managing director at Insight Partners. We are excited to have our team of software ScaleUp and platform experts help drive RapidSOSs mission.

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