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- All #TNW2018 talks are now podcasts for your aural pleasure a day ago – TNW is notoriously a treat for the eyes. Our mad Photoshop skillz are world class – but now we want to treat you… orally. We’re obviously referring to podcasts. In case you haven’t heard, we host an annual TNW Conference in Amsterdam. After this year’s roaring success, it dawned on us that some p...
- Google takes on Amazon and Microsoft with new cloud offerings for blockchain devs a day ago – Google is slowly gearing up to penetrate the blockchain space. Distributed ledger technology provider Digital Asset announced it has struck a collaboration with the Big G that seeks to bring its “blockchain platform and developer tools” to the Google Cloud Platform. Digital Asset has effectively ...
- Apple apologizes, issues fix for MacBook Pro throttling ‘bug’ a day ago – Apple continues to be a thorn in my side. After years of critical coverage — despite my affinity for the company — I was enamored with its recent updates to the MacBook Pro line. I said as much in a take that ran contradictory to that of my colleague, Callum. Whereas he looked at it as a minor “s...
- Microsoft developed an AI to catch Xbox Live cheaters a day ago – Microsoft recently filed for a patent for an AI that detects Xbox cheaters by combing through their gaming history for suspicious ranks or achievements. The patent application was published by the US Patent and Trademark Office last month. Unlike other efforts by the likes of Valve, this AI would...
- What Hollywood gets right and wrong about hacking 14 hours ago – Catherine Flick, De Montfort University Spoiler warnings for Mr. Robot, Arrow, and Blackhat… Technology is everywhere we look, so it’s no surprise that the films and TV we enjoy are similarly obsessed. That’s not to say they manage to get it right when it comes to portraying tech accurately howev...
- Guy Kawasaki – What I learned from working with Steve Jobs 14 hours ago – Many people have written about what lessons they learned from Steve Jobs or how he inspired them to dream bigger. But I wanted to hear it directly from someone with first-hand experience of what it was really like to have worked alongside the co-founder of Apple. I recently interviewed Silicon Va...
- Coinbase launches gift cards so you can spend your cryptocurrency at the mall 10 hours ago – Coinbase is putting a new spin on the cryptocurrency wallet and turning it into a gift card – well, sort of. The popular exchange desk has partnered with digital gift card provider WeGift to offer a direct route for customers to convert the funds in their wallets into currency for the high street...
- Twitter locks your account if you change your display name to Elon Musk 10 hours ago – In an effort to curb the cryptocurrency “giveaway” scam epidemic, Twitter will lock your account if you are not verified and change you display name to Elon Musk. Crypto-scammers and blockchain bandits are on the rise, and they will try anything to swindle unwitting victims into sending or wiring...
- A beginner’s guide to AI: Natural language processing 2 hours ago – This is the third story in our continuing series covering the basics of AI. While it isn’t necessary to read the first article, which covers neural networks, doing so may add to your understanding of the topics covered in this one. If you’d like to know how computers “see,” visit the second artic...A beginner’s guide to AI: Natural language processing 2 hours ago – This is the third story in our continuing series covering the basics of AI. While it isn’t necessary to read the first article, which covers neural networks, doing so may add to your understanding of the topics covered in this one. If you’d like to know how computers “see,” visit the second artic...
- Lyft contemplates ‘zen mode’ for those who want a quiet ride 2 hours ago – A Lyft executive today mentioned the company might consider adding a “zen mode” in future, that riders could use to indicate they weren’t in the mood to speak and the drivers should leave them in peace. To which I will say… could I have this now? Yesterday, maybe? The executive in question was Ta...
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- Guild Education raises $40M to offer employees education as a company perk 10 hours ago – Recruiting, hiring and retention can be one of the most costly parts of a company’s entire operation, and there’s a class of startups and companies that are increasingly getting funded to try to optimize one or more of those problems all at once — including a new big round for employee education ...
- Preparing Americans for the jobs of the future 11 hours ago – Rep. Jim Hines Contributor Share on Twitter Jim Himes represents Connecticut's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House and chairs the New Democrat Coalition. Alastair Fitzpayne Contributor Share on Twitter Alastair Fitzpayne is the Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Future of Work I...
- Chat app Line gets serious about gaming with its latest acquisition 11 hours ago – Line, the company best-known for its popular Asian messaging app, is doubling down on games after it acquired a controlling stake in Korean studio NextFloor for an undisclosed amount. NextFloor, which has produced titles like Dragon Flight and Destiny Child, will be merged with Line’s games divis...
- Peloton CEO John Foley will join us at Disrupt SF 7 hours ago – Half a decade after its founding, Peloton became a unicorn. During its short existence, the company has found tremendous success riding the wave of successful spin classes that includes the likes of SoulCycle and Flywheel. Peloton offered a unique take on the space, harnessing technology to provi...
- Only a few hours left on early-bird prices for Disrupt SF 2018 7 hours ago – Today’s the day, people. The door slams shut on early-bird pricing for Disrupt San Francisco 2018 as of midnight PST tonight. It’s time to stop procrastinating, time to dust off your credit card and time to invest in your professional future — at the best possible price. Magical connections can h...
- Seattle Food Tech looks to replace the chicken nugget with a plant-based copycat 7 hours ago – Christie Lagally spent half of a decade working on planes as an aerospace engineer — but now she’s trying to attack the food industry head-on with a hopeful attempt to change the way we eat chicken. That’s the aim of Seattle Food Tech, which looks to create what effectively looks and feels like a...
- Google takes on Yubico and builds its own hardware security keys 6 hours ago – Google today announced it is launching its own hardware security keys for two-factor authentication. These so-called Titan Security Keys will go up against similar keys from companies like Yubico, which Google has long championed as the de facto standard for hardware-based two-factor authenticati...
- Google brings its search technology to the enterprise 6 hours ago – One of Google’s first hardware products was its search appliance, a custom-built server that allowed businesses to bring Google’s search tools to the data behind their firewalls. That appliance is no more, but Google today announced the spiritual successor to it with an update to Cloud Search. Un...
- Snark AI looks to help companies get on-demand access to idle GPUs 6 hours ago – Riding on a wave of an explosion in the use of machine learning to power, well, just about everything is the emergence of GPUs as one of the go-to methods to handle all the processing for those operations. But getting access to those GPUs — whether using the cards themselves or possibly through s...
- Dodged questions from Facebook’s press call on misinformation 5 hours ago – Facebook avoided some of the toughest inquiries from reporters yesterday during a conference call about its efforts to fight election interference and fake news. The company did provide additional transparency on important topics by subjecting itself to intense questioning from a gaggle of its mo...
- The Traeger Timberline 850 turns BBQ from art to science 5 hours ago – This review took a lot of pork. Over the last few months, I’ve used the Traeger Timberline 850 several times a week. Cooking on this grill is easier than using an oven. With a little bit of planning, a person can simultaneously grill a flock of chickens, a couple of pork butts and a load […]
- Virtru teams up with Google to bring its end-to-end encryption service to Google Drive 5 hours ago – Virtru, which is best known for its email encryption service for both enterprises and consumers, is announcing a partnership with Google today that will bring the company’s encryption technology to Google Drive. Only a few years ago, the company was still bolting its solution on top of Gmail with...
- Qualcomm says it will drop its massive $44B offer to acquire NXP 18 minutes ago – Qualcomm today said it wouldn’t extend its offer to buy NXP for $44 billion today as part of its release for its quarterly earnings, and instead be returning $30 billion to investors in the form of a share buy-back. So, barring any last-second changes in the approval process in China or “other ma...
- Zbiotics says it’s bioengineered a hangover cure 36 minutes ago – Y Combinator backed Zbiotics has spend two years developing what they’re billing as the world’s first genetically engineered probiotic. The startup’s initial product isn’t exactly world-changing but it might just save your day — given they’ve invented an elixir of ‘next day’ life: Aka a hangover ...
- Facebook sees mixed Q2 earnings with slowest-ever growth, stock tanks an hour ago – Facebook has hit a wall. The social network succumbed to the public backlash over its handling of fake news, privacy, and digital wellbeing to miss some of Wall Street’s estimates, showing mixed results in its Q2 2018 earnings. GDPR, Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before congress, and more scandals ...
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- Three unanswered questions about threats and hoaxes on Facebook 12 hours ago – Another day, another high-profile outrage spreading virally on Facebook. This time around it’s our frequent subject here Alex Jones, of Infowars, who yesterday went on a rant in which he tiptoed very close to the line of calling for violence against special counsel Robert Mueller. Charlie Warzel ...
- Custom mouse pad maker alleges her Republican congressman betrayed his promise to support net neutrality 7 hours ago – The founder and owner of CustomMousePad.com, Jennie Stewart, came forward yesterday with what she believed was a promise from a Republican congressman to save net neutrality. Last month, Stewart alleges that she was assured by Rep. Don Young (R-AK) that he would sign the Democrat-led discharge pe...
- Google announces its own security key for stronger logins 4 hours ago – Today at the Next conference, Google announced a new product called the Titan Security Key, currently available to Cloud customers and scheduled for general sale in the coming months. The key is used to authenticate logins over Bluetooth and USB, similar to existing offerings from Yubico and othe...
- Amazon is making it easier for all Alexa devices to work together 3 hours ago – Amazon first introduced Echo Spatial Perception (ESP) to its first-party Echo devices nearly two years ago. ESP makes sure that only the Echo device closest to you in your home will respond, and it’s ideal if you have multiple Echo devices. While Amazon has been trying to expand this feature to t...
- HBO has finally greenlit that Deadwood movie 26 minutes ago – David Milch’s Deadwood, HBO’s best Western, ended 12 years ago after an impressive three-season run: while it was airing, it won eight Emmys and oodles of critical acclaim, and found a devoted audience to boot. (The show charts the development of a fictional frontier outpost in the 1870s in the v...
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