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- Apple shares drop amid reports of low demand for iPhone X
Apple will slash its sales forecast for the iPhone X in the quarter to 30 million units, according to a report from Taiwan's Economic Daily. - Astronauts celebrate NASA’s 18th Christmas at International Space Station
The astronauts of Expedition 54 celebrated Christmas, 250 miles above the Earth this year, but being in space didn't stop them from exchanging gifts and sharing a big Christmas dinner. - Amazon acquires connected security camera, doorbell maker Blink
Blink tells customers “nothing changes for now” as it continues to sell its own recently launched products under the Amazon umbrella. - Want to protect your laptop from spies? There’s an app for that, courtesy Edward Snowden
- Canadian tech could benefit if Trump ends work permits for visa holder spouses: experts
- SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from California on satellite delivery mission
- Bitcoin’s roller-coaster ride could get even wilder, experts say
- Netflix Canada subscribers hit by phishing scam
- How to get news updates on the Google Home and Amazon Echo in Canada
- Apple sued by iPhone users after company admits it slows down old devices
- Ottawa backs artificial intelligence program looking for early suicide warning signs
An Ottawa-based firm has been tapped by the federal government for a three-month pilot project designed to look for warning signs for suicide before tragedy strikes. - Moncton amateur photographer captures amazing ‘light pillars’ phenomenon
Sophie Melanson snapped the photos outside her home in Moncton last Friday. It was the third time that week she had seen the bright light show. - Canada’s drone racing king doubles as McGill PhD candidate
Gabriel Kocher is Canada's top drone pilot — but that's just a side passion for the PhD candidate. - Year in Review: The Top Videos of 2017, part two
- Year in Review: The Top Videos of 2017, part two
- WhatsApp back up and running after hour-long global outage
- There’s nothing Apple can do to stop an Italian fashion brand from using Steve Jobs’ name
- Apple reduces replacement batteries to $35 to apologize for slowing down older iPhones
- More people using dating apps over the holidays
- Concordia graduates use drones to make geometric art
- Apple investigated by France for slowing down old iPhones
French prosecutors have opened an investigation into Apple over revelations it secretly slowed down older versions of its handsets. - Chernobyl’s nuclear wasteland transformed into solar field
A German-Ukrainian power company has installed hundreds of solar panels within the Chernobyl exclusion zone, as the Ukrainian government moves to reduce its energy reliance on Russia. - Apple pushes iOS software upgrade to fix Spectre security flaw
Apple Inc released an updated version of its operating system software to fix a major microchip security flaw that affected nearly all computer chips made in the last decade. - Apple needs to address iPhone addiction among young people: investors
- New rules let U.S. border agents access data on phones, laptops — but not on the cloud
- Meltdown and Spectre bugs: How to protect your devices from the security chip flaw
- Two Quebec law firms seeking class action lawsuit against Apple
- HP recalls batteries for Notebook computers, mobile workstations due to fire hazard
- Most computers, smartphones vulnerable to newly discovered security flaws
- What you need to know about hottest new app HQ Trivia
- BlackBerry unveils cybersecurity tool for cars Jarvis, upping bet on auto market
CEO John Chen called the program "game changing." - Reality Check: FBI head calls encryption an ‘urgent public safety issue,’ but is it?
In 2017, the FBI was unable to access data from close to 7,800 devices, despite possessing proper legal permission to obtain the information. - Some Canadian media prepared for Facebook changes, may be ‘devastating’ for others
The prospect didn't appear to weigh too heavily on Global News, an early and frequent adopter of Facebook as a distribution channel. - Facebook news feed changes will hurt ad revenues at first, but help business long term: experts
- Facebook is making sweeping changes to its news feed, here’s what to expect
- Canadians ready to ditch passwords for facial, fingerprint recognition: survey
- Webcam captures the moment powerful avalanche strikes in the Swiss Alps
- Good parenting best solution to stopping kids from getting addicted to phones: experts
- Intel CEO promises ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ security chip flaws will be fixed soon
- North Korea appears to be mining cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin, to fund regime: report
- Tim Cook makes surprise 1st visit to Canada as Apple CEO, meets Toronto students in coding class
Tim Cook surprised a class of children taking coding lessons at Apple's Eaton Centre in Toronto. - Spots open in expedition to Titanic wreck off Newfoundland
If you have an adventurous spirit and $130,000, you can apply to join the next deep sea dive to the wreck of the Titanic. - Why Canada is poised to become a prime destination for Bitcoin mining
It won't be long before cryptocurrency mining operations want to set up shop in the true north strong and free — if they haven't already. - Canada trialing use of Ethereum blockchain to enhance transparency in govt funding
- iPhone update will let you turn off battery slowdowns; experts suggest you think twice
- Authorities in Australia hail ‘world first’ drone rescue after 2 boys swept out to sea
- Apple CEO says next iOS update will allow users to disable iPhone slowdown
- Museum selfie: Google app tops charts but experts warn of privacy concerns
- Twitter accounts that Trump follows hacked by group calling itself ‘Turkish cyber army’
- Drunk droning now illegal in New Jersey
The Next Web
- 2018 is the year TVs became really interesting again
For all the buzzwords surrounding television, I’ve feel like TVs have been kind of boring for a while. I’ve attended CES four years in a row, and it seemed each event basically refreshed the same basic units with only mildly tangible improvements. Sure, I’d ogle at the bombastic displays setups a... - Clever coder uses AI to make disturbingly cool music videos
What happens when you take a perfectly good neural network and, figuratively, stick a screwdriver in its brain? You get melancholy glitch-art music videos that turn talking heads into digital puppets. A machine learning developer named Jeff Zito made a series of music videos using a deep learning... - Alexa needs to shut down sexual harassment by shutting down
- 5 Reasons Big-Name Brands Seek to Hire Creative, Millennial Minds
- Why proper community management might fix crypto market insecurities
- Gaming startup FaceIt explains why the world’s next star athlete will be a gamer
- Make 2018 the year you become a great photographer
- Startups, please don’t buy my email address
- This new blockchain-based platform wants to make sports betting less dodgy
- How to effectively launch your product on Product Hunt, according to science
- Why don’t electric cars look like the future?
Electric cars were supposed to be the future – or at least look like it. So now they’re here, why do they still look like ordinary petrol and diesel cars and not dazzling props from a science fiction film? Before they hit the market and became relatively mainstream, many imagined (or at least, ho... - TigerVPN protects you online anywhere, anytime. And right now, it’s an extra $15 off
In the age of hacking and cyberthieves, a virtual private network (VPN) offers some of the most comprehensive peace of mind possible...so secure yourself and your family with TigerVPN coverage for a lifetime. In addition to its sale price, we’re even knocking another $15 off the price, down to ju... - Limited talent pool is standing in the way of driverless cars
- Get to the top of Google searches with SE Ranking for over 90% off
- AI will turn the workforce into hyper productive business centaurs
- Apple CEO becomes latest tech bigwig to warn of social media’s dangers
- Boats and bros: Bitcoin’s millionaire millennials smell like the 1980s
- Twitter says over 600k people interacted with Russian propaganda accounts
- Stop doing this.
- ‘Bloggergate’ fiasco leads Dublin hotel to ban bloggers in the most hilarious way possible
- This Android live wallpaper brings you a bird’s eye view of your location
I’m all about beautifying the interface on my Android phone, and so I’m happy to report that I’ve just come across one of the best tools for livening up your wallpaper. All you need to do is move around! Skyline, a fairly new live wallpaper app, grabs 3D terrain data from Mapbox for your exact lo... - 8 influencer outreach techniques to focus on in 2018
Marketing in the twenty-first century is almost entirely about being aware of discussions about and tangential to your brand, responding to and being a part of that conversation, and leveraging those discussions to connect people who have a problem with the solution to that problem. Online influe... - Beat Saber will make Star Wars fans want to strap on their VR headsets – and dancing shoes
- Amazon’s cashier-less grocery store opens to the public today
- Why a Bitcoin future will always end up in centralization
- These are the best apps you’ve probably never heard of
- Be a software AND hardware whiz with this Full Stack Web Development training
- 6 things you should negotiate for as a freelancer (that aren’t money)
- Decentralization 2.0: Beyond the semi-monopolies of Uber and Airbnb
- Interfaces are dying, so your brand needs a bigger personality
- BitConnect promoters are still targeting naive investors in Indonesia
Bitcoin investment website BitConnect might have closed down its fraudulent lending and exchange platform, but its task force of dedicated promoters are still at it – and are now targeting gullible “investors” in Indonesia and other parts of Asia. Duped BitConnect community members have tipped of... - Master promoting and selling online with this digital marketing masterclass—only $9
Digital marketing has advanced by leaps and bounds this century, and it’s time to know all the inside info that can push your business to the next level with the Growth Hacking with Digital Marketing Masterclass. Right now, you can get all this in-depth training for only $9 from TNW Deals. - Top-level domains are evolving — and marketers should take notice
- Bitcoin.org has abandoned its claims for fast transactions at low fees… for now
- 6 signs you’re ready to take your startup to the US
- Opera’s smartphone browsers now protect users against cryptojacking
- I trained an AI to copy my voice and it scared me silly
- HQ Trivia officially launches UK version
- Got questions for the former CEO of Apple? John Sculley is joining us on TNW Answers
- The disruption of future media is already happening
- Linux creator slams Intel for crappy Meltdown/Spectre patches
Intel’s had a (mostly) crappy start to the year, thanks to the revelation of Meltdown and Spectre, two major security flaws affecting a wide range of its processors that are present in hundreds of thousands of devices around the world. It’s working to release fixes for them, but Linux creator Lin... - Auto expert says now is the time to buy a Tesla — before the company goes out of business
Auto industry veteran Bob Lutz has been around the automotive block. Now 85, Lutz has worked for the who’s-who of the automotive industry including BMW, Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors. And while Lutz is high on Tesla’s automobiles, he doesn’t think that’s going to be enough to save the compan... - How I fight innovation block as I get older
- Rupert Murdoch’s crazy idea to fix Facebook might just work
- A Reddit mattress conspiracy theory got even weirder after top comment got deleted
- Missed Tinder connection leads to campus-wide search for the girl of this guy’s dreams
- AI rips objects from video and reimagines them in 3D AR
- Ethereum scammers disguised as Vitalik Buterin are out to steal your coins
- Here’s how to remove the bias from your UX design
- Copywriters command big paychecks, and this $19 training package will get you there
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