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Here are 20 online courses for professionals, each less than $20

You may think it’s too late to learn the most sought-after professional skills of 2019, but you’d be wrong. Time moves fast but, come on, it doesn’t move that fast. Workplaces of 2020 will still be looking for many of the same skills. What we’re trying to say here is that, in the 21st century,…


You may think it’s too late to learn the most sought-after professional skills of 2019, but you’d be wrong. Time moves fast but, come on, it doesn’t movethat fast. Workplaces of 2020 will still be looking for many of the same skills. What we’re trying to say here is that, in the 21st century, it pays to continue your education and constantly sharpen your skills.

Here are 20 courses you can take online, in your own time, that are all available for less than $20 each. They all cover some of today’s most in-demand skills so you can leverage your learning into a promotion or a new job.

App Design and Development

Android users have access to more than 2.1 million apps. Apple users have access to more than 1.8 million. And those numbers just account for the leading app stores, not the dozens of third-party stores and thousands of third-party apps not available on the Google Play or the App Store. Apple may have coined “There’s an app for that” years ago, but it didn’t become really true until recently. Everybody wants an app these days and the design and development industry has become a multi-billion dollar affair. People who can create apps from scratch are in major demand, so what are you waiting for? Cut off a piece of that pie.

  • The Complete Guide to Designing a Mobile App— $14.99 (92% off $200)

  • The Complete iOS SDK Development Course— $12.99 (93% off $200)

Marketing

You’ve probably noticed how marketing has changed over the past few years, especially when it comes to social media. Marketers have gotten smarter, yes, but there are also more tools than ever to help companies reach the audiences they want to reach. From Facebook and Google to YouTube and Reddit

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Today’s Top Stories: Microsoft, Meta AI Gains Push Stocks Higher as Bitcoin Holds Steady

TLDR Microsoft shares rose about 3% after unveiling new Copilot AI tools, including an always-on AI agent. Meta’s Muse AI assistant drove roughly $200 billion in market value gains after 2.8 million downloads in 12 days. U.S. stocks traded near flat as investors weighed AI optimism against higher bond yields and oil prices…

TLDR Microsoft shares rose about 3% after unveiling new Copilot AI tools, including an always-on AI agent. Meta’s Muse AI assistant drove roughly $200 billion in market value gains after 2.8 million downloads in 12 days. U.S. stocks traded near flat as investors weighed AI optimism against higher bond yields and oil prices…
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Microsoft Culled Age of Empires Studio Before Handing It Over to Activision, With Nearly Half of All Staff Gone

Age of Empires studio World’s Edge lost almost half of all employees this week, as part of Microsoft’s latest round of job losses. The cuts form part of the 268 staff let go across the wider Xbox business, as part of a projected target of 3,200 job losses forecast over the course of this current

Age of Empires studio World’s Edge lost almost half of all employees this week, as part of Microsoft’s latest round of job losses.

The cuts form part of the 268 staff let go across the wider Xbox business, as part of a projected target of 3,200 job losses forecast over the course of this current financial year.

It was announced on Monday that World’s Edge would now be part of Activision, though details on how the studio’s employees had been impacted remained unclear. In the days since, however, staff have now reported via social media that nearly 50% of the company was now out of work, while its next project had been cancelled.

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“I am of course disappointed that this is the way the time with World’s Edge and Age ends for myself and many of my talented teammates that were also impacted — we had some great plans for what’s next,” wrote Adam Isgreen, formerly the company’s studio creative director, who had served at World’s Edge for 16 years. “I hope the team that remains can rise to the occasion down the line.”

“Our studio was reorganized to be under the Activision umbrella,” added Andrew Martz, formerly a senior software engineer at the studio. “As part of that reorg, our next project was cancelled and a large chunk of our studio was laid off. I was part of that layoff.”

“‘It was nice working with you’ was not a message I expected to get while on vacation,” wrote another laid-off staff member, former lead principal software engineer Greg Snook. “Like many others, I was cut loose from Microsoft today. Turns out my last day with building access is also my exact 25-year hire anniversary.”

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It’s unclear what’s next for World’s Edge under Activision, as well as the Age of Empires brand as a whole. While the studio oversaw development of the real-time strategy franchise, it relied on partnerships with external developers such as Relic Entertainment, which was the primary developer for Age of Empires IV. Launched in 2021 for PC, it has since now been ported to Xbox and PlayStation consoles.

Will Age of Empires 5 follow? It seems inevitable, though Activision’s ownership may see the studio’s remaining staff put to work elsewhere. A Halo strategy title, perhaps, now Activision is also overseeing Xbox’s main shooter brand? Time will tell.

Meanwhile, the Viking Sagas DLC for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition launched on Tuesday. It adds three brand new civilizations, 15 new single-player campaign scenarios, and more.

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Everyone assumed the Windows taskbar copied a rival OS. Microsoft says no

In a recent social media thread, Microsoft veterans Brad Silverberg, Joe Belfiore, and Dave Plummer shared a few anecdotes and clarifications about how the taskbar became part of Windows. The taskbar, first introduced with Windows 95, allowed users to keep track of multiple active programs simultaneously…

In a recent social media thread, Microsoft veterans Brad Silverberg, Joe Belfiore, and Dave Plummer shared a few anecdotes and clarifications about how the taskbar became part of Windows.

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Chrome Web Store extensions caught stealing crypto, browser data

Multiple extensions for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge delivered a malware framework that deployed modules to steal cryptocurrency, sensitive data, and browser history, as well as inject ClickFix lures. …

Multiple extensions for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge delivered a malware framework that deployed modules to steal cryptocurrency, sensitive data, and browser history, as well as inject ClickFix lures. …
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