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Bit manipulation in JavaScript is complicated by the way it attempts to be type-free, but it can be done. In this extract from my forthcoming book, we take a look at how to work with bits in a browser. 
Pivot tables are one of Excel's most powerful features. Used in the context of data processing a Pivot table can be used to summarize, sort, reorganize, group, count, total or average data stored in a database. For time-saving, efficient pivot tables that help create outstanding reports, here’s the ultimate guide to using pivot tables. 
From a technical point of view you have to feel sorry for Huawei. Headed for mobile phone dominance it had the rug pulled out from under its feet with the withdrawal of Android. So what to do? A new operating system? But which, what, where? Confusion reigns. 
It's World Emoji Day, when apparently there's a 'global celebration of emojis', along with emoji events and awards for various categories of emoji. If your response is a cynical 'seriously?', #WorldEmojiDay was apparently Twitter's top trending item in 2015, proving either that this really is a thing, or that Twitter users have finally lost the plot. 
Google has released a developer preview of a JavaScript SDK for Local Home. The SDK provides an easier way for developers to connect users' home devices to Google Assistant and to run their actions locally.
Finland's educational system is famous for three reasons: its pedagogical outlook, its technological excellence and its openness to the world. 
The PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Aurora Serverless is now generally available, offering an alternative to the MySQL version. 
The latest version of JavaScript compiler Babel 7.5 has been released with the ability to parse and transpile F# and similar pipelines. Support has also been added for dynamic imports, as well as experimental support for TypeScript namespaces. 
This is an interesting story if you are into math and computing. The Ramanujan Machine seeks inspired formulas for the fundamental constants. This potentially tells us something about the constants and, perhaps, the nature of computation. 
What if tools powered by Neural Networks could save artists considerable amounts of time, or even enrich their work? 
When ISPA, a organization that considers itself the voice of the UK Internet Industry, nominated Mozilla for its 2019 Internet Villain Award, it unleashed a barrage of complaints. This led it to withdraw not just the nomination but also the entire category. 
Microsoft has released TensorWatch, an AI debugging and visualization tool, under open source on GitHub. TensorWatch can be used to create custom visualizations, UIs and dashboards. 
We've grown accustomed to hearing about Python being used for pretty much everything, albeit mostly for data science. It's time to consider it for robotics too. 
Google has made available an open-source cryptographic tool called Private Join and Compute. The tool uses secure multi-party computation (MPC) to augment the core PSI protocol.