Tuesday, April 09, 2019

9 April - Technology - Global / Google (CA) / Next Web

Global News
  • ‘Godfathers of AI’ trio, including 2 Canadians, win top computing prize 13 days ago  –  Their belief in the power of neural networks was once mocked by their peers.
  • Email tracking: Can someone tell when you open their email? 14 days ago  –  You might want to think twice before opening an email.
  • Apple launches news app in Canada, premium news subscription service 15 days ago  –  Apple News+ is available immediately in the U.S. and Canada in English and French. The paid service is coming to Australia and Europe later this year.
  • ‘I just stomped out SOS’: Alberta hiker saved by B.C. remote satellite camera technology
  • Pinterest pins hopes on Wall Street as it files for IPO
  • iPhone, iPad among the devices seized during arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou
  • Facebook stored passwords unencrypted, visible to employees on internal servers
  • Canada considering forcing social media companies to remove extremist content
  • Super Awesome Science Show recap: Science in translation
  • Anti-terror tech consortium flags 800 versions of New Zeala
  • U.K. proposes penalties on social media companies if harmful content spreads a day ago  –  Governments across the world are wrestling over how to better control content on social media platforms, often blamed for encouraging abuse, the spread of online pornography, and for influencing or manipulating voters.
  • Astronaut David Saint-Jacques’ family look up to him every day from home in Montreal 5 days ago  –  Four months into his six-month mission, David Saint-Jacques' family is coping without him, and say they are proud of all he is doing for Canada.
  • Microsoft’s ebook store closes, and will take all customers’ ebooks with it 5 days ago  –  Customers who purchased digital books from the Microsoft store will soon be forced to return them.
  • Australian passes law on jailing social media execs for violent content on their platforms
  • Can robots be funny? AI and humour is a growing research field
  • BlackBerry’s share price jumps after strong 4th-quarter, upbeat outlook
  • Saudis accessed private info on Jeff Bezos’ phone, security consultant says
  • The internet needs more regulation, Facebook CEO argues
  • Is it legal to secretly record phone calls like Jody Wilson-Raybould did? What you need to know
  • Boeing unveils software fix to 737 MAX anti-stall system in w

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  • Valve silences Borderlands review bombers with 'off-topic' fix - Gamasutra 19 hours ago  –x  GamasutraGearbox boss says Steam review bombing makes him “happy” about Borderlands 3 Epic Store deal  VG247Randy Pitchford comments on Borderlands' review bombing on Steam  PC GamerValve Steps in to Correct ‘Borderlands’ Steam Revie...
  • Resident Evil 2 DLC Provides Instant Access to All In-Game Unlockables - PlayStation Universe 19 hours ago    PlayStation UniverseResident Evil 2 DLC unlocks everything in the game  PolygonResident Evil 2 DLC unlocks all rewards so you don't have to  Videogamer.comResident Evil 2 Now Lets Players Pay to Unlock All Its Modes, Costumes...
  • Netflix Kills AirPlay Support - Thurrott.com
  • Dangerous Driving Review (PS4) - Push Square
  • Rumour: Nintendo Direct Rumoured For This Week Could Be A Perfect Send-Off For Reggie - Nintendo Life
  • TSMC to max-out 7nm production following orders from AMD, Apple and Nvidia - The INQUIRER
  • Marzocchi's Bomber Z2 Returns as an Affordable Trail Fork - Pinkbike.com
  • Pixel 3a appears on Google's online store, suggests we're close to launch - MobileSyrup
  • The Best Indoor Cameras for Smart Home Monitoring - Gizmodo UK
  • Apple now able to design 5nm A-Series chips for 2020 iPho
  • New Ford Mustang Performance Model Spied Exercising In Dearborn - Motor1.com 16 hours ago  –          2020 Ford Mustang 'entry-level' performance model possibly spied  Autoblog'Barn Find' 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 up for auction is frozen in time  Fox NewsAn "Entry Level" Ford Mustang Performance Model Is Coming to Ba...
  • [Update: March 2019] The best smartwatches for Android you can buy today - 9to5Google 16 hours ago  –  [Update: March 2019]Amazon Spring Sale: Huawei Watch 2 back to its lowest ever price  TrustedReviewsView full coverage on Google News
  • Last Chance For These Assassin's Creed PC Deals (Up To 70% Off) - GameSpot
  • Next Nintendo Direct could happen this week: Here’s what we expect - SlashGear
  • Bungie Take A Break: Why I Wouldn't Mind Skipping A Fall 'Destiny 2' Expansion - Forbes
  • A Big Warning For Anyone Playing 'The Elder Scrolls: Blades' Right Now - Forbes
  • Division 2 daily and weekly projects disabled due to bugged rewards - GamesRadar
  • How to buy Fortnite World Cup tickets - FortniteINTEL
  • Ikea and Sonos unveil Symfonisk bookshelf and table lamp speakers - MobileSyrup
  • Zipp 3ZERO MOTO MTB wheelset first ride review - BikeR
  • Anthem Report Prompts BioWare Response - GameSpot 13 hours ago  – GameSpotBioWare has issued a statement regarding the development of Anthem, in response to an article that explored development troubles that may have contributed ...
  • Overwatch event Storm Rising assembles Tracer, Mercy, Winston, and Genji - Destructoid 13 hours ago  –  Overwatch Storm Rising Event, Possible New Hero Teased  GameSpotOverwatch 2019 Storm Rising Archives event dates...  Dot EsportsOverwatch Archives is on the way, with a mission against Talon  Heroes Never DieSeek...
  • Fallout 76 Repair Kits raise new “pay-to-win” concerns - Ars Technica
  • How to Beat the Folding Screen Monkeys | Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Boss Guides - PolygonGuides
  • FINAL FANTASY X | X-2 – Tidus and Yuna – Nintendo Switch - Nintendo
  • Valve Stops Borderlands Review Bombing Over BL3 Epic Store Exclusivity - GameSpot
  • Ex-Valve Employee Says Epic Games is Saving PC Gaming - Comicbook.com
  • Sharp's first foray into foldable phones is aimed at gamers - MobileSyrup
  • Samsung to launch four Galaxy Note 10 variants on August 8th: report - MobileSyrup
  • How Amazon's Alexa Earbuds Could Become the AirPods 2


  • Microsoft Finally Admit You Don't Really Need To 'Safely Remove' USB Flash Drives Anymore - UNILAD 2 hours ago  –  e  UNILADWindows Is Giving Up on Getting You to 'Safely Remove' USB Drives  GizmodoMicrosoft confirms you really, really don’t need to ‘safely remove’ USB flash drives anymore  The VergeWindows 10 is about to ...
  • Microsoft pushes Windows 10 May 2019 Update to the Release Preview ring - Ghacks Technology News 4 hours ago  –  g  Ghacks Technology NewsMicrosoft's Windows 10 May 2019 Update can be downloaded now: Here's how  PCWorldWindows 10 update problems: Why Microsoft’s battle isn’t over yet  ZDNetMicrosoft releases final Windows 10 May 2019 Upda...
  • Get A Better Look At The Labo VR Update Coming To Super Mario Odyssey - Nintendo Life
  • Huawei Open to Providing 5G Modems for Sale to Apple for iPhones [u] - iPhone in Canada
  • Video Game Release Dates For April 2019: PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, And PC - GameSpot
  • Apex Legends dev gives update on the future of cross-platform play - Dexerto
  • Borderlands 3's Four New Vault Hunters' Abilities And Skills Confirmed - GameSpot
  • The Origin of Mortal Kombat's Scorpion - IGN
  • HTC unpublished 14 of its own apps in the last three months - MobileSyrup
  • Toddler Locks His Dad Out of His iPad for 49 Years - iPhon


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  • Angel/Devil: Is Borderlands 3 worth a trip to the Epic Games Store? 4 days ago  –  2K Games revealed this week that Borderlands 3, the latest entry in the much-loved co-op shooter series, will be released on the Epic Games Store as a timed exclusive. Does this mean you should buy it there? Well that’s a tricky question, with both sides having some reasonable arguments in their ...
  • We’re losing control of tech’s future – here’s how we can reclaim it 4 days ago  –  We seem to be at a crossroads when it comes to the future of tech. Advancements in fields like artificial intelligence raise dangers we need to collectively address as a society, before it’s too late. Will we embrace tech for better or for worse? James Bridle, a multimedia artist and best-selling...
  • TNW2019 Daily: How to become a volunteer
  • For better or worse, we’re still obsessed with Bitcoin’s price
  • I took a virtual walk in the blockchain so you don’t have to
  • Video: Welcome to the wild world of… wood sander racing?
  • Here’s your chance to win a free Samsung Galaxy S10
    4 days ago  –  Even if you've mustered into the iOS or Android armies, there isn’t anyone who isn’t down with tech for free...so get your hands on the hottest phone on the market now for nothing by winning one in our TNW Deals’ Samsung Galaxy S10 Giveaway.
  • Bitcoin’s creator totally turns 44 today – happy birthday, Satoshi Nakamoto
  • Bosch’s new blockchain smart fridge is a pretty dumb idea
  • ContentsDeal project is putting copyright on the blockchain
  • We can’t fix the data scientist talent shortage with $40 online courses 2 days ago  –  The demand for data scientists is at an all time high. In fact, a recent LinkedIn study found that US-based business need more than 150,000 data scientist jobs filled. And they need them right now. The reason for this demand lies in the massive amounts of data that businesses in every industry ar...
  • Why corporate acquisitions could be good for the open source community 3 days ago  –  Open source is all over the media, IBM announced its acquisition of Red Hat, one of the largest in tech history, for $34 billion. Microsoft announced its agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion. It seems the world’s largest companies are either releasing or acquiring their own open-source so...
  • Why Facebook will have a hard time becoming the next WeChat
  • Timelinr is $50 project mapping tool to help complete tasks on time
  • CHEAP: Don’t miss out on a 4TB Seagate portable hard drive for only $84
    CHEAP: Don’t miss out on a 4TB Seagate portable hard drive for only $84 3 days ago  –  Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Everyone needs an external hard drive – especially one that’s portable. So, when Seagate‘s 4TB external hard drive has 30 percent off and is down to only $84, you best take notice. Yes, this is the lowest pric...
  • Scientists are beefing over which one of our senses is most important
  • Brands know they need to personalize — but many haven’t figured out how
  • The dark age of adventure games — and the gems it produced
  • Viveport Infinity is good – here’s how HTC can make it great
  • Report: Amazon is making an Alexa-powered AirPods comp
  • South Korean police use AI to bust $19M Bitcoin-fuelled pyramid scam a day ago  –  South Korean police have caught the masterminds of a Bitcoin-fuelled Ponzi scheme responsible for generating almost $19 million in revenue. The scam, called “M-Coin,” is said to have targeted those with poor understanding of the technology – mostly elderly people, retirees, and housewives – with ...
  • Lady Bits #2: On genderless Siri, shitty NASA, and clitoris games a day ago  –  Welcome back to Lady Bits, our newsletter… And whoever else wants to read it. Today, we talk about genderless voice assistants, NASA being shit, and what the fuck happened during the Lady Bits launch. the bloody news Physicist Dr. Jess Wade has written over 500 biographies of women scientists on ...
  • Moonday Mornings: Cryptocurrency market at 5-month high, Paxful under fire, and more
  • Here’s why you can’t use AirPlay with Netflix right now
  • UK to regulate social networks to curb the spread of harmful content
  • Google accidentally revealed its mid-range Pixel 3a phone is on the way
  • Your business’ website is outdated — here’s how to fix it
  • Building a second product is hard, here’s how not to be a one-hit wonder
  • Earn an accredited Excel certification with this $50 data analyst training
  • CHEAP: 33% off Apple’s 64GB iPhone X makes it… pretty 
  • TNW2019 Daily: Over 300 speakers confirmed! 19 hours ago  –  Fun fact: 31 days is the gestation period of a baby chipmunk, and it’s also the amount of days left until TNW Conference! Coincidence? Probably. 300 speakers and counting 300 is the name of a movie, and it’s also the amount of speakers we have confirmed so far for TNW Conference! That’s definitel...
  • Danish hustler jailed for laundering $500,000 worth of dirty Bitcoin 19 hours ago  –  Bitcoin is not as anonymous as you might think. A Danish man has been handed a prison sentence after using the digital currency for ill-gotten gains. The 33-year old has been sentenced to four years and three months after pleading guilty to laundering dirty Bitcoin, a local police report states. ...
  • Average life of a dead Google product is just four years
  • Stop trying to solve Brexit with blockchain
  • Become a Cisco-savvy IT pro with this $20 training
  • EU proposal requires platforms to delete ‘terrorist content’ in 1 hour or face fines
  • Mercifully, the GPS ‘millennium bug’ was a massive letdown
  • Snapchat’s reinventing itself to fight Instagram
  • CHEAP: Find tranquility with $100 off Bose QuietComfort 25 headphones
  • DOOM speedrunning is a complicated, frustrating sport
  • China wants to destroy ‘wasteful’ Bitcoin mining 6 minutes ago  –  China, one of the world’s most prominent blockchain and cryptocurrency forces, wants to put an end to “wasteful” Bitcoin mining. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has added cryptocurrency mining to its latest list of industries it wants to restrict, or eliminate, Reuters repor...
  • Opera releases its browser with built-in cryptocurrency wallet to everyone an hour ago  –  Opera’s long-awaited web-browser, Reborn 3, which features an integrated cryptocurrency wallet is officially launching today. According to the announcement, the cryptocurrency wallet in the Opera computer browser syncs with the cryptocurrency wallet in the Opera browser for Android. Opera says th...

  • Ikea’s new smart speaker looks like a HomePod crossed with a lamp
  • Windows 10 now lets you pull out USB drives without ‘safely removing’ them
  • New York vows to keep trying after Orwellian facial recognition program fails
  • Ian Goodfellow’s hiring hints at what Apple’s next ‘one more thing’ could be
  • Yes, there’s a subreddit that skewers those targeted Facebook t-shirt ads
  • You can now try Microsoft’s Chromium-powered version of Edge
  • 9 design ideas for the future of digital dating
  • Bitcoin wallet Electrum hit by DoS attack from 140,000-str
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