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Fujifilm’s new X-T200 camera uses gyro sensors to shoot steady 4K video
3 days ago –
Fujifilm has announced the successor to its
lightweight mirrorless interchangeable-lens X-T100 camera, the X-T200 —
and it comes with tons of improvements, including 4K video at 30 FPS and
built-in gyro sensors for steadier shots. The camera, which now sports a
revamped 24MP APS-C sensor with on-...
The latest Huawei P40 Pro color leak makes me want a Viennetta
3 days ago –
If you’re reading this from anywhere but Britain, Ireland,
equally cultured places, you might not know what a Viennetta is. And for
that, I both envy and pity you. [Read: These are the 6 best phones of
2019] Simply, it’s somewhere between a cake and an ice cream. They’re
constructed using what I ...
A beginner’s guide to the AI apocalypse: Wall-E syndrome
3 days ago –
This is the second article in TNW’s “A beginner’s guide to the
AI apocalypse” series highlighting the potential existential threats AI
poses to humankind. Read the first article, “Misaligned objectives,”
here. Artificial intelligence promises to revolutionize every facet of
technology from healt...
100 seconds to midnight: Why we’re closer to Doomsday than ever
3 days ago –
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a non-profit group dedicated
to monitoring the potential for global catastrophe, last night set the
Doomsday Clock forward. We’re now 100 seconds away from midnight. As
Douglas Adams was fond of writing: don’t panic. This doesn’t literally
mean we’ll all be dead...
Alleged BTC-e boss will be extradited to France over cryptocurrency fraud
2 days ago –
The man thought to be behind notorious cryptocurrency exchange
BTC-e, which is involved in a multi-billion Bitcoin fraud case, will be
extradited to France. According to a Greek news report, Alexander Vinnik
is facing allegations of laundering at least $4 billion through the
cryptocurrency exchan...
Get ready for the emergence of AI-as-a-Service
2 days ago –
SaaS and PaaS have become part of the everyday tech lexicon
since emerging as delivery models, shifting how enterprises purchase and
implement technology. A new “_” as a service model is aspiring to
become just as widely adopted based on its potential to drive business
outcomes with unmatched eff...
Watch this Sonic movie-themed Wiz Khalifa music video you didn’t know you needed
2 days ago –
I know next to nothing about Wiz Khalifa, but what I really
didn’t know was how much I needed this music video for ‘Speed me up,’ a
music video made for with the imminent Sonic the Hedgehog movie. In it,
Khalifa, Ty Dolla Sign, Sueco the Child, and Lil Yachty team up for a
surprisingly chill groo...
Google is testing how to make ads sneakier in search results
2 days ago –
Last year, Google introduced a small but meaningful change to
the way it presented search results on mobile – it started to display
favicons. This would, in theory, make it easier to visually distinguish
trusted sites from shady ones and ads. But when the company started to
implement a similar c...
Google is testing how to make ads sneakier in search results
2 days ago –
Last year, Google introduced a small but meaningful change to
the way it presented search results on mobile – it started to display
favicons. This would, in theory, make it easier to visually distinguish
trusted sites from shady ones and ads. But when the company started to
implement a similar c...
Study: 98% of kids in the UK can’t tell fake news from the truth
4 hours ago –
The 2019 general election is already being remembered as the one
where misinformation went mainstream. It was, of course, already on the
political agenda after the 2016 referendum and US election, with
growing numbers of academics and parliament sounding the alarm over
foreign actors using so-cal...
Grab this $200+ Adobe InDesign master class for under $40 today
8 hours ago –
In fact, anyone who dabbles in page layout, from book and
magazine publishing to creators of virtually any multi-page digital
documents, should know about the productivity and workflow hacks in
InDesign. You can get the full run-through on all those advantages with
The 2020 Adobe InDesign CC Mast...
Tech Crunch
Early-bird savings end next Friday on tickets to Robotics+AI 2020
2 days ago –
TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics+AI 2020 is gearing up to be one
amazing show. This annual day-long event draws the brightest minds and
makers from these two industries — 1,500 attendees last year alone. And
if you really want to make 2020 a game-changing year, grab yourself an
early-bird ticket and...
Vivo beats Samsung for 2nd spot in Indian smartphone market
2 days ago –
Samsung, which once led the smartphone market in India, slid to
the third position in the quarter that ended in December, even as the
South Korean giant continues to make major bets on the rare handset
market that is still growing. 158 million smartphones shipped in India
in 2019, up from 145 mil...
Facebook’s dodgy defaults face more scrutiny in Europe
2 days ago –
Italy’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched
proceedings against Facebook for failing to fully inform users about the
commercial uses it makes of their data. At the same time, a German
court has today upheld a consumer group’s right to challenge the tech
giant over data and privacy issu...
Kraftful raises $1M to help smart home companies make better apps
2 days ago –
If a thousand companies make their own smart light bulb, do a
thousand companies also have to design a light switch app to control
them? Kraftful, a company out of Y Combinator’s Summer 2019 class,
doesn’t think so. Kraftful builds the myriad components that an
IoT/smart home company might need, ...
A founder’s guide to recession planning for startups
2 days ago –
Founders can’t afford to wait until the midst of a downturn to figure out their game plans.
Daily Crunch: Goldman Sachs calls for diverse boards
2 days ago –
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most
important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox
every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Goldman
Sachs says it won’t take startups public without at least one ‘diverse’
director; it should go ...
Original Content podcast: Apple’s ‘Little America’ chooses uplift over anger
2 hours ago –
“Little America,” a new anthology series on Apple TV+, has been
widely described as the best show on the fledging streaming service.
Here on the Original Content podcast, we aren’t ready to go quite that
far, particularly since a couple of us are big fans of “See.” But we
were pretty impressed. T...
Sundance: In Miss Americana, Taylor Swift demotes the Internet
4 hours ago –
In nearly a decade of attending Sundance, I’ve never seen a
scene like the premiere of the documentary Miss Americana, detailing the
last year and a half or so of Taylor Swift’s life. The crowd before
letting into the theater was huge, blistering with rumors about whether
or not there was so many...
Startups Weekly: Tech layoffs spread (a bit)
a day ago –
Are January layoffs just a few post-WeWork jitters? TechCrunch
has found itself writing about layoffs at a few notable tech companies
this week — and not just Softbank-backed ones. The focus is very much
profits, as Alex Wilhelm summed up on Thursday, especially after the
failed WeWork IPO and su...
The Verge
Now, you can use generative placeholder images for your web project
2 days ago –
The tool can be used to generate art in various styles,
including the abstract artist Piet Mondrian. | Image: Generative
Placeholder
Generative Placeholders is a new tool that lets you embed
autogenerated placeholder art into a website that changes with every
page refresh. It only requires a b...
2 days ago –
In today’s digital age, it sometimes feels like hardware has
taken a back seat to the software that drives our devices. Button of the
Month will look at what some of those buttons and switches are like on
devices old and new to appreciate how we interact with them on a
physical, tactile level.
Th...
More developers are making games for next-gen consoles than streaming services
2 days ago –
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen consoles are both expected to launch
later this year, and developers are gearing up with new games. According
to GDC’s new annual survey, developers are more likely to be working on
a game for the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X, p...
2 days ago –
It’s hard to make a bad choice, but Apple and Jabra remain the standouts
Continue reading…
If you’re feeling nervous about the coronavirus, you’re not alone
2 days ago –
Photo by Maverick Asio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Your risk of catching the new coronavirus is probably low if you
haven’t recently been to Wuhan, China (where the virus originated) or
been in contact with people who were there recently. But you might still
be anxious about the s...
2 days ago –
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge
Google is backtracking on a controversial search engine redesign,
announcing today that it will experiment with some elements of the new
look in response to user feedback.
Google made one of the biggest changes to how it displays search results
in the com...
Motorola on the Razr’s folding screen: ‘bumps and lumps are normal’
2 hours ago –
Today’s the day that the Motorola Razr is available for pre-sale
for $1499, exclusively on Verizon. Motorola originally said that it
should begin shipping on February 6th, but it looks like it’s already
backed up to the 14th on Verizon. Alongside the pre-order launch,
Motorola has posted a series...
a day ago –
Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
The weekend is a good time to catch up on everything, including deals
that you might have missed throughout the week. Below, you’ll find a mix
of new sales we think are worth pointing out and a few ongoing offers
that have already been featured in our coverage....
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