Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Rob is the CTO at Applause , helping leading brands quickly release high-quality digital experiences. In my last piece , I described the metaverse as an evolution of the internet and a series of evolving standards. The experience of the user becomes central, and the technology must be frictionless. While “what is the metaverse?” is still a question that can’t easily be answered, almost every industry vertical is thinking about what it means for them. Retailers are looking at ways to embed AR/VR experiences into shopping, as well as the sale of digital products, and media and entertainment companies will have to offer entertainment on new devices and mediums. The gambling industry is grappling with the fact that online casinos do not have to follow the same regulations as in-person options, which will impact the popularity of AR/VR casinos, and the use of cryptocurrency for in-game betting is also sure to rise. … [Read more...] about Testing The Metaverse
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When Your Business Ships Bad Code, Users Lose Faith In Security
Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Justin Dolly is the Chief Security Officer for Sauce Labs , the leading provider of testing solutions that deliver digital confidence. Consider this scenario: Sales and marketing are yelling at engineering to deliver the features they promised to a customer. Product is pressuring the team to hit a release date that is quickly approaching. Engineering is rushing to hit a deadline and only then does someone suggest a security analysis. What happens? There will be some bugs in the code. Sound familiar? Balancing Customer Experience And Security Working with complex code, it is highly likely that there is a large amount of potentially vulnerable code in the wild that can affect security. If that code is already partially flawed, is it likely to lead to a perfect customer experience? One of the prevailing ideas is that this can all be fixed in production; it can, but what happens when a user encounters … [Read more...] about When Your Business Ships Bad Code, Users Lose Faith In Security
10-year-old girl died doing a TikTok choking ‘challenge’. Her mother is suing the video platform
Nylah Anderson liked to dance along to TikTok and share the platform's short videos. Then, in early December, TikTok's "Blackout Challenge," which dared people to choke themselves until they almost passed out, allegedly caught 10-year-old Nylah's attention in her personalised TikTok feed. Nylah hung her mother's purse by strapping it to a hanger in the closet of her Chester home. She placed her head between the bag and the shoulder strap, putting pressure on her neck, according to court documents. The girl passed out before she could free herself and by the time her mother found her, Nylah was unconscious. The girl died five days later in a children's hospital. Nylah's mother, Tawainna Anderson, sued TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance Inc, in federal court in Philadelphia late last week, accusing the social media platform of being a "dangerously defective" product whose algorithm fed the viral challenge to her daughter's "For You Page," leading to Nylah's death. TikTok's … [Read more...] about 10-year-old girl died doing a TikTok choking ‘challenge’. Her mother is suing the video platform