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- PSA: PGP and S/MIME email clients may leak encrypted emails
If you’ve been using PGP or S/MIME to securely send and receive sensitive emails, you’ll want to stop using them right away, as a group of European researchers have found vulnerabilities in both standards. The security flaws that have been discovered could potentially leak the contents of the enc... - Lenovo is teasing a notchless all-screen phone
While most Android phone makers are going the way of the notch lately, I’m happy to report that Lenovo’s bravely trying a different approach with its next flagship. Over the weekend, the company’s VP Chang Cheng took to Weibo to share a sketch of the upcoming Lenovo Z5 (above) – and it’s all scre... - President Trump promises to grant ZTE a new lease of life
- How to avoid getting crushed by the big 5 in the struggle for attention
- UK adults may soon have to buy “porn passes” from corner shops to prove their age online
- Learn Excel and get Microsoft-approved certification — and the training is less than $10
- Thinking of investing in an ICO? Read this first
- Spotify is expanding in the Middle East, with its UAE launch this year
- Scientists shouldn’t reanimate decapitated human heads
- For the sake of productivity, developers need to learn to say “no”
- The NES Classic is coming back next month – good luck getting one this time
The NES Classic sold like hotcakes when it first went on sale back in 2016. And then, for reasons unclear, Nintendo decided to stop selling it. Sure, it had the SNES classic to sell as well, but why discontinue a product that was selling so well? The last we checked, Nintendo sold 2.3 million uni... - Golem creator Julian Zawistowski will answer all your questions about: 1) global decentralized supercomputers, 2) blockchain economy, and 3) more
What do you see as blockchain’s best use case? How does the Golem Project contribute to a more equal global economy? What do you see as the most exciting blockchain projects in development? What would you say to people who believe blockchain systems are untrustworthy? Ask all this and more to Gol... - This neural network turns pitch black images into bright colorful photos
- South Korea is inviting 80 EU startups to an all-expenses paid, three month program – sign up here
- Get your whole team on the same page with CloudApp, now over 90% off
- This nifty site lists all hot cryptocurrency meetups in your area
- My love-hate relationship with technology
- New DNA forensics are helping police find out who definitely didn’t do it
- Cross-platform Electron apps may be vulnerable to attack; update yours now
- German bank replaces SWIFT with Bitcoin for international loan transfers
- This app lets you trade Bitcoin without an internet connection – but there’s a catch
If you’re a cryptocurrency trader and often find often find yourself dealing with a spotty internet connection or none at all, there’s now a way to make transactions offline. goTenna, a decentralized communications startup based in New York, has partnered with Samourai Bitcoin Wallet to create an... - How to try Gmail’s AI-powered Smart Compose feature
If you’d like a little help writing emails, Google’s got you covered. Its Smart Compose feature for Gmail, which was demoed at the company’s I/O conference earlier this month, is now live, and you can try it now (or soonish). It works by suggesting words and phrases that it can autocomplete for y... - Ticketmaster plans to roll out facial recognition. What could go wrong?
- DeepMind’s AI taught itself to navigate like a mammal
- Here’s how to sue Apple over your MacBook’s crappy keyboard
- Google just made its cloud storage more affordable (and confusing)
- Leaked Xbox controller shows Microsoft is serious about accessibility
- Trump just appointed himself the White House’s top AI adviser
- BlackBerry’s next flagship arrives June 7
- Facebook suspends 200 apps in post-Cambridge Analytica clean-up
- Twitch lets you filter PUBG streams based on how many players are still alive
Twitch this week announced a new feature which allows viewers to filter streams in the popular battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds by the number of players left in the game. No one likes a chicken dinner when it’s cold. Be there for the big moments by watching @PUBG on Twitch with ou... - How to save your home WiFi from weak signals and evil hackers
Everybody seems to love Wi-Fi. So do I. After all, who doesn’t want to have seamless internet access, across different devices, while roaming around their house? But this apparent ease of installation and usefulness can make your Wi-Fi network slow and vulnerable to attacks. To help you out, here... - HTC is launching a blockchain-powered phone
- Google employees quit over the company’s military AI project
- Coinbase is luring Wall Street with new cryptocurrency investment tools
- Canonical finds hidden crypto-miners in the Linux Snap app store
- Monkey Island fans are begging Disney to sell the rights back to its creator
- Dutch national exam quizzes high school students on Bitcoin math
- will.i.am is judging the Chivas Venture Global Final at TNW Conference
- YouTube’s mobile incognito mode will soon let you watch weird stuff in secret
- Adobe’s XD app for interface design is now available for free
Adobe has unveiled a free starter plan for its XD app, which is aimed at UI and UX designers – allowing people to use it across platforms with all its features at no charge. XD previously cost a minimum of $10 a month for access to the app’s macOS and Windows software, as well as its mobile previ... - It’s almost certainly ‘Laurel’, not ‘Yanny’, according to science
The audio equivalent of ‘the dress‘, a photo from 2015 that was perceived by some as showing a blue dress and by others a gold one, is now doing the rounds on the web, and it seems to be dividing the internet right down the middle. In case you’ve been offline for the past several hours or need a ... - The Honor 10 is practically just a cheaper Huawei P20
- Facebook’s AI makes little headway in the fight against hate speech
- Seattle’s new ‘Amazon tax’ should serve as a model for all major cities
- Carnegie Mellon welcomes our robot overlords with first-ever AI undergraduate degree
- Twitter’s new policy on trolls is ‘out of sight, out of mind’
- Google’s Pixel Buds finally let you skip tracks with a double tap
- Scientists ripped a memory from one snail and injected it into another
- Cheaper VR is coming: will it be enough to kick-start consumer interest?
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- HPE buys Plexxi to expand its hybrid cloud solutions
Just days after Google announced that it would acquire Velostrata to help customers migrating more of their operations into cloud environments, HPE under its new CEO Antonio Neri is also upping its game in the same department. Today the company announced that it would acquire Plexxi, a specialist... - Microsoft announces the Surface Hub 2
Do you remember the Surface Hub? Chances are you forgot it even existed. And yet, Microsoft just announced a second version of the Surface Hub. The company hasn’t shared any specifications or price, but it won’t be available before 2019 — selected customers will test the Surface Hub 2 starting th... - Tim Cook told Trump China tariffs were the wrong move
In a new interview with Bloomberg television, Apple CEO Tim Cook says he addressed China trade tariffs in a late-April meeting with President Trump. “I talked about trade and the importance of trade, and how I felt that two countries trading together make the pie larger,” Cook said, adding that w... - Instagram has an unlaunched “time spent” Usage Insights dashboard
- Target’s next-day delivery service, Target Restock, launches nationwide with lower fees
- Instacart names David Hahn as new Chief Product Officer
- Vesper’s new microphone technology attracts millions from the biggest names in sound technology
- Lerer Hippeau raises a new $122M fund, plus $60M for follow-on investments
- Genoox raises $6M to help physicians better diagnose patients with genomic data
- BrainQ raises $5.3M to treat neurological disorders with the help of AI
- MemSQL raises $30M Series D round for its real-time database
MemSQL, a company best known for the real-time capabilities of its eponymous in-memory database, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series D round, bringing the company’s overall funding to $110 million. The round was led by GV (the firm you probably still refer to as Google Venture... - Tweetbot 3 arrives with a new look…and a reprieve from Twitter’s API changes
One of the more popular desktop clients for Twitter, Tweetbot, is today launching a completely rewritten version of its software, Tweetbot 3 for Mac. The updated app introduces new features like timeline filters, a new notifications view, an upgraded navigation sidebar, and more. At the same time... - Quarterback lets top esports gamers and streamers create their own fan-based leagues
In an effort to tie the top gamers and streamers more directly with their fans, a new company called Quarterback has just raised $2.5 million to create and manage fan-based leagues for the superstars of the esports and streaming world. The company raked in its seed round from investors led by Bit... - Music payments startup Exactuals debuts R.AI, a ‘Palantir for music royalties’
- Auth0 snags $55M Series D, seeks international expansion
- Facebook’s new transparency report now includes data on takedowns of ‘bad’ content, including hate speech
- BRD crowdraises $32 million to build financial services into a mobile crypto wallet
- WhatsApp revamps Groups to fight Telegram
- The Arch Mission Foundation and Astrobotic plan to send a microfiche library to the moon
- Founders Embassy equity-free accelerator aims to unlock the Valley for internationals
- Twitter algorithm changes will hide more bad tweets and trolls
Twitter’s latest effort to curb trolling and abuse on the site takes some of the burden off users and places it on the company’s algorithms. If you tap on a Twitter or real-world celebrity’s tweet, more often than not there’s a bot as one of the first replies. This has been an issue for so […] - Lynq is a dead-simple gadget for finding your friends outdoors
If you've ever been hiking or skiing, gone to a music festival or state fair, you know how easy it is to lose track of your friends, and the usually ridiculous exchange of "I'm by the big thing"-type messages. Lynq is a gadget that fixes this problem with an ultra-simple premise: it simply tells ... - Amazon Sumerian, a platform for building AR, VR and 3D apps, is now open to all
Last November, AWS announced a new product called Amazon Sumerian, a toolkit and platform for developers to build “mixed reality” apps — that is, using virtual reality, augmented reality and 3D — without needing to have any specialised programming or graphics skills. And today, after running the ... - Google’s Pixel Buds learn some new tricks
- Blogger gets a spring cleaning
- Sarah Guo breaks through at Greylock, becoming one of the first female general partners in the firm’s 53-year history
- Canal+ gives up on its cable box, switches to Apple TV
- AT&T’s DirecTV Now live TV service launches a DVR, upgrades the app with new features
- Google Compute Engine now offers VMs with up to 3844GB of memory
- Zuckerberg again snubs UK parliament over call to testify
- White House sheds cyber coordinator role
The White House has opted to eliminate the cyber coordinator role on the National Security Council, in what some see as a step back in strong cybersecurity policy. The duties formerly performed by the coordinator will be taken up by the other two senior directors of the NSC's cyber team. - Yes, HTC is working on a ‘blockchain phone’
A few weeks ahead of its latest flagship announcement, HTC just revealed another piece of hardware. While the Taiwanese company has consolidated much of its mobile offerings in recent years, it announced today at the Consensus 2018 blockchain conference in New York that its upcoming Exodus handse... - Society needs the Artificial Intelligence Data Protection Act now
On December 31, 2015, I published my original call to arms for society’s rational regulation of artificial intelligence before it is too late. - First CubeSats to travel the solar system snap ‘Pale Blue Dot’ homage
- Super wearable WHOOP launches $30 subscription service — wearable totally included
- Amazon’s cashier-less Go stores are coming to Chicago and San Francisco
- Tushy is the simple bidet for every toilet
- Verizon names Los Angeles as the second of four cities to receive 5G rollout before 2019
- Lime is reportedly trying to squeeze up to $500 million out of VCs
- Lyft also ends arbitration policy for sexual assault claims
- Prices increase tomorrow for TC Tel Aviv
If you want to keep pace with the rapid advancements taking place in mobility, then pack your bag and head to TC Tel Aviv 2018. Israel’s on the leading edge of this rapidly changing frontier, and we’re going deep for a day-long intensive on June 7. The time for procrastinating is over because you... - Sign up today to get 2-4-1 Disrupt Berlin Innovator passes
We’re verrückt aufgeregt — crazy excited — to host Disrupt Berlin 2018 on November 29-30. This marks our sixth visit to this great city, and it’s easy to understand why. Berlin represents the racing heartbeat of Europe’s startup scene, which continues to innovate and evolve at a rapid pace. Our 2... - Hear from the executives of Innoviz and Oryx Vision about the eyes and ears of the new automobile in Tel Aviv
The success of the autonomous vehicle revolution relies on complicated systems of sophisticated sensors working in harmony to provide the magic of sight to machines. In Tel Aviv, we’ll hear from experts in the field as they discuss the technological marvels that are the driving force behind the t... - China’s Didi pares back ‘hitchhiking’ car service following passenger murder
- Aircall raises another $29 million
- The new AI-powered Google News app is now available for iOS
- Roku suffers major outage affecting Netflix, YouTube and other channels
- Mercari, Japan’s first unicorn, files to raise $1.1B in Tokyo IPO
- Amazon Prime members now get 10% off sale items at Whole Foods, plus other weekly discounts
- Watch a laser-powered RoboFly flap its tiny wings
The Verge
- Deadpool 2 proves the first movie was no fluke
When the original Deadpool arrived in theaters, it was a breath of fresh air. Comics fans may have already been familiar with the smart-assed “merc with a mouth,” but in the context of modern superhero movies, both the character and the self-referential style of the 2016 film were a subversive de... - Fujifilm made its first ever square format analog Instax camera
- Amazon Go’s cashier-less stores are coming to Chicago and San Francisco
- Jake Paul’s influencer circle begins to crumble as his dad comes aboard
- Panasonic made a rugged point-and-shoot with an electronic viewfinder
- Tesla rejected more advanced driver monitoring features on its cars
- Nintendo is making a special edition Famicom Mini loaded with manga games
- Guillermo del Toro is making a horror series for Netflix
- Facebook data on 3 million users reportedly exposed through personality quiz
- Google Drive is now Google One, with cheaper paid storage plans
- Why are there so many different blood types?
Do you know your blood type? If you haven’t been in any medical situations where blood type is important, you might not. I certainly don’t, even though I’ve been fascinated with blood since I was a sophomore in high school. That year, I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. That meant, among many t... - This nonprofit plans to send millions of Wikipedia pages to the Moon — printed on tiny metal sheets
- Spigen’s new iPhone X cases prey on your nostalgia for retro Apple gadgets
- Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2 is designed for an office of the future
- Master & Dynamic’s MW50+ headphones can convert between on-ear and over-ear styles
- Uber CEO: our future won’t just be cars
- Astell & Kern put a charmingly crooked screen on its latest music player
- Logitech’s new G305 wireless mouse has a pro-level sensor for a budget price
- Watch Ariana Grande, Jimmy Fallon, and The Roots play her new single with Nintendo Labo
- Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the scientist who studied the mysterious desert lines of Peru
- Twitter will hide more bad tweets in conversations and searches
Twitter will begin using a wider range of signals to rank tweets in conversations and searches, hiding more replies that are likely to be abusive, the company said today. Comments from users that have often been blocked, muted, or reported for abuse will be less visible throughout the service, CE... - How casual MCU fans experienced Avengers: Infinity War
- Oppo’s India-only sub-brand is shamelessly going after Xiaomi’s Redmi line
- Toys ‘R’ Us is selling off its intellectual assets, including kinky domain names
- If Facebook wants to appeal to teens, it might start by rethinking its new ‘Youth Portal’
- With immense patience, you can make a pinball machine out of Lego
- The Honor 10 is exactly the budget Huawei P20 Pro we were expecting
- Changing your Facebook relationship status still means something in 2018
- Zuckerberg won’t go to UK for data privacy testimony, despite threat of future arrest
- Facebook’s first content moderation report finds terrorism posts up 73 percent this year
- This illustrated collection of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea books finally does the series justice
The illustrated collection of Earthsea novels was a painstaking collaboration and one of the legendary author’s final projects Continue reading… - Google Wifi will soon have a feature that shows which device in your home is struggling to connect
- Kickstarter’s debuting new badges so backers know how far along a project is
- Ecuador reportedly spent $5 million protecting — and spying on — Julian Assange
- This gorgeous indie game is like a Ghibli film brought to life
- Following Uber’s lead, Lyft is also allowing alleged victims of sexual assault to pursue cases in open court
- France’s Canal+ now offering Apple TV as a cable box replacement
- HTC officially announces a new blockchain-powered phone
- DirecTV Now launches DVR features to all customers alongside redesigned app
- Tweetbot 3 for Mac adds a dark mode, timeline filters, and video previews
- Samsung’s gold and burgundy Galaxy S9s look lovely, but aren’t coming to the US
As a fan of HTC’s Solar Red U11 and Nokia’s bright yellow Lumia 1020, I’ve been known to favor phones clad in warmer colors, so Samsung’s newly announced Sunrise Gold and Burgundy Red Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus variants have me intrigued. Samsung is introducing a new satin gloss finish for the gold ed... - This Japanese foldable E Ink typewriter is coming to the US
- The Justice Department and FBI are reportedly investigating Cambridge Analytica over Facebook scandal
- Google is delaying a Chrome audio update that broke countless web games
- The new AI-powered Google News app is now available on iOS
- Solo: A Star Wars Story — our spoiler-free review
- Yanny or Laurel? The science behind the audio version of The Dress
- Samsung’s Galaxy S9 now supports Google’s ARCore
- Robert Downey Jr. is making a YouTube Red series about artificial intelligence
- Netgear is releasing its Arlo security light to catch intruders on your lawn
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