Wednesday, December 04, 2019

4 December - Technology - The Next Web / Tech Crunch / The Verge

The NextWeb
  • Apple follows Spotify and announces its own music awards 2 days ago  –  It seems that Apple is quite enjoying its foray into the entertainment industry. After launching its Apple TV+ streaming service with some high-profile shows, the company has now announced the Apple Music Awards. The awards are a mix of choices from editors and experts and the number of streams o...
    Apple follows Spotify and announces its own music awards 2 days ago  –  It seems that Apple is quite enjoying its foray into the entertainment industry. After launching its Apple TV+ streaming service with some high-profile shows, the company has now announced the Apple Music Awards. The awards are a mix of choices from editors and experts and the number of streams o...
  • Amazon unveils musical AI keyboard that teaches humans about machine learning 2 days ago  –  Last night, Amazon announced an AI-powered musical keyboard for developers at its re:Invent 2019 conference in Las Vegas. The keyboard, called AWS Deepcomposer, is available in physical and emulator form for folks to try their hand at machine learning. It has 32-keys in two octaves and pre-traine...
  • Riot Games resolves to pay $10M to settle gender discrimination lawsuit
  • ‘There are definitely registered sex offenders’ using Tinder, PlentyofFish, OkCupid says Match Group rep
  • Five things AI firms can learn from video games success
  • Scientists lured fish back to The Great Barrier Reef by making it sound alive
  • The Oneplus 7T 5G McLaren is now up for pre-order at T-Mobile
  • Report: TikTok limited the reach of users with visible disabilities
  • How babies can teach AI to understand classical and quantum physics
  • Report: Apple to use Mini-LED tech in 2020 for better i
  • Don’t trust Google Chrome’s incognito mode 2 days ago  –  Privacy is fast becoming a hard-to-earn luxury. As you browse through websites, it’s hard to shake off the creepy feeling that wherever you go, unseen eyes are watching you: Google, Facebook, your internet service provider, the government, the person sitting next to you, etc. Among the many priva...
  • These 5 killer app deals are still at their Cyber Monday price  2 days ago  –  We found five Cyber Monday deals that are still hanging around at a Cyber Monday price. If you like ‘em...well, it’s the season. Get yourself something nice. You’re worth it. 
  • Telegram shills refuse to accept OneCoin is a scam as websites go offline
  • Facebook’s new chatbot teaches employees how to answer difficult questions about the company
  • CHEAP: Drown the noise with $100 off the Jabra Elite 85h headphones
  • Pablo Escobar’s bro launches a $349 foldable phone. Its killer feature? Confidence
  • Scientists are underestimating the threat of invisible pollutants to wildlife
  • Ethereum dev to be released pending trial amid claims charges against him are exaggerated
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin’s price should be $150,000 now, according to John McAfee’s prediction’
  • South Africa’s central bank is setting up new rules for c
  • Amazon launches a portable Echo speaker for India a day ago  –  Amazon has just launched an Echo speaker with a battery pack in India. The device, called the Echo Portable Speaker Edition, is priced at Rs. 4,999 ($69.70). The new Echo device has a 4,800 mAh battery that can last up to 10 hours in a single charge. #JustLaunched Feedback from our Indian custome...
  • Watch: Performance-enhancing AI could change baseball forever a day ago  –  Meet Tipper, a convolutional neural network that lives on an Nvidia AI card. Its creator says it can predict whether a baseball pitch will land inside or outside of the strike zone. Tipper was developed by Nick Bild, a serial creator who seems to have an unquenchable thirst to create and innovate...
  • Vladmir Putin is extricating Russia from the world-wide-web
  • PlayStation awarded Guinness record for consoles sales on its 25th birthday
  • Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin step aside as Pichai becomes Alphabet CEO
  • Skydio 2 hands on: Drones just got fun again
  • Review: The WideWheel electric scooter is a blast and has power to spare
  • Resident Evil 3 Remake cover art leaks, and it’s amazing
  • We analyzed Pablo Escobar’s brother’s folding phone promo video
  • Danish bank staff banned from buying Bitcoin with their
  • Regional strengths are shaping AI’s evolution in Asia 16 hours ago  –  McKinsey estimates that by 2030, 70 percent of companies “might have adopted at least one of the five categories of AI like computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation and advanced machine learning.” The report estimates that AI has the potential to deliver “...
  • North Korean hackers may be behind malware distributed by cryptocurrrency trading platform 16 hours ago  –  A new macOS malware packaged by a cryptocurrency trading platform has been uncovered by security researchers. The malware is believed to be the work of notorious North Korean hacking group Lazarus. Security researcher Dinesh Devadoss tweeted their discovery of the malware yesterday. A detailed an...
  • ZapReader can get you reading up to 3 times faster—and it’s over 90% off
  • These are the 6 best phones of 2019
  • Fired Google employees will charge the company with ‘unfair labor practices’
  • These new technologies will soon answer our biggest questions about the universe
  • CHEAP: Lighten the mood with $20 off the Nintendo Switch Lite
  • Google rolls out a chat feature in Google Photos — use it before it’s axed
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin’s market cap is now on par with Netflix’s’
  • Drugs hidden in child’s toy lead police to massive $1
  • Microsoft may release two Xbox consoles next year 4 hours ago  –  A new reports suggests that, contrary to what Microsoft employees have been saying for months, there are two Xbox models coming out in the next console generation. If the information is correct, Microsoft is making a cheaper and less-powerful console to compliment its powerhouse, Project Scarlett...
  • Elon Musk testifies he wasn’t calling the person he accused of marrying a preteen a pedophile 4 hours ago  –  “I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out what’s actually going on and stop defending child rapists, you fucking asshole.” Elon Musk in an email to Buzzfeed dated 30 August, 2018. In another sign of just how ridiculous the US justice system has become, Elon Musk‘s lawyers are...
  • Even Facebook’s employees don’t trust it with their financial info
  • Samsung to reportedly announce S10 and Note 10 ‘Lite’ this month
  • Pichai is a mistake
  • Sony killed PlayStation handhelds, but there’s always hope in smartphones
  • Uber will soon let you ‘favorite’ drivers (in California, at least)
  • DATA: Robinhood users are really bad at portfolio diversification
  • iPhone 11 Pro collects location data even when it shouldn’t, researcher says
  • This new app is leveraging blockchain to help sexual 

    •  Tech Crunch
  • In a first, Amazon launches a battery-powered portable Echo speaker in India a day ago  –  After launching nearly a dozen Echo speaker models in India in two years, Amazon said on Wednesday it is adding a new variant to the mix that addresses one of the most requested features from customers in the nation: portability. The e-commerce giant today unveiled the Echo Input Portable Smart S...
    In a first, Amazon launches a battery-powered portable Echo speaker in India a day ago  –  After launching nearly a dozen Echo speaker models in India in two years, Amazon said on Wednesday it is adding a new variant to the mix that addresses one of the most requested features from customers in the nation: portability. The e-commerce giant today unveiled the Echo Input Portable Smart S...
  • Carbon dioxide emissions are set to hit a record high this year (it’s not fine, but not hopeless) a day ago  –  Carbon dioxide emissions, one of the main contributors to the climate changes bringing extreme weather, rising oceans and more frequent fires that have killed hundreds of Americans and cost the U.S. billions of dollars, are set to reach another record high in 2019. That’s the word from the Global...
  • ( Kindly note : IPCC reports are political agendas and qualify as Fake News )
  • AWS launches discounted spot capacity for its Fargate container platform a day ago  –  AWS today quietly brought spot capacity to Fargate, its serverless compute engine for containers that supports both the company’s Elastic Container Service and, now, its Elastic Kubernetes service. Like spot instances for the EC2 compute platform, Fargate Spot pricing is significantly cheaper, bo...
  • Progressive VCs and private equity are using tech and analytics to revolutionize investing
  • This 16-game arcade for AIs tests their playing prowess
  • Setting politics aside, Sequoia raises $3.4 billion for US and China investments
  • Fronted, from former Bud, Monzo and Apple employees, wants to make life easier for renters
  • Instagram still doesn’t age-check kids. That must change.
  • Gift Guide: TechCrunch writers recommend their favorite reads from 2019
  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai is taking over as CEO of 
  • Nintendo’s Switch just had its best sales week in the US 10 hours ago  –  Nintendo today noted that the Switch just had its best-ever sales week in the States. Over the course of Thanksgiving week, the three-year-old console moved more than 830,000 units. That brings the system up to a combined 17.5 million units in the U.S., by Nintendo’s count. It’s pretty impressive...
    Nintendo’s Switch just had its best sales week in the US 10 hours ago  –  Nintendo today noted that the Switch just had its best-ever sales week in the States. Over the course of Thanksgiving week, the three-year-old console moved more than 830,000 units. That brings the system up to a combined 17.5 million units in the U.S., by Nintendo’s count. It’s pretty impressive...
  • YouTube warns creators of subscriber count declines amid purge of closed accounts 11 hours ago  –  YouTube is warning creators they may see their subscriber numbers decline this week as the result of a purge that will remove closed accounts from YouTube metrics. Closed accounts could refer to those that were willingly shut down by users or those that YouTube shut down for policy violations — l...
  • GitGuardian raises $12M to help developers write more secure code and ‘fix’ GitHub leaks 12 hours ago  –  Data breaches that could cause millions of dollars in potential damages have been the bane of the life of many a company. What’s required is a great deal of real-time monitoring. The problem is that this world has become incredibly complex. A SANS Institute survey found half of company data breac...
  • Korean e-commerce leader Coupang hires Alberto Fornaro as its new chief financial officer
  • Instagram finally launches 13+ age checkups
  • Reddit’s monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019
  • Dataiku is now worth $1.4 billion following secondary round
  • Toyota leads $50 million investment in autonomous shuttle startup May Mobility
  • Kustomer raises $60M for its omnichannel-based CRM platform
  • Delphia wants to turn your data into investment capital

    •  The Verge
  • Apple acknowledges random shutdown issue with some 2019 13-inch MacBook Pros 13 hours ago  –  Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge As noted by MacRumors, Apple has acknowledged an issue with some entry-level 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro machines in which the laptop “keeps shutting down.” This concerns the model with a Touch Bar and two Thunderbolt 3 / USB-C ports that Apple released...
  • Google’s Focus mode is out of beta on Android 10 and has arrived on Android 9 Pie phones
  • There’s no quick fix to find racial bias in health care algorithms
  • The dark side of electronic waste recycling
  • The PlayStation 3 was Blu-ray’s ultimate Trojan horse
  • Plex launches its free movie and TV streaming service
  • Watch SpaceX launch its last cargo mission to the space station of 2019
  • The portable PlayStations were Sony at its most ambitious
  • James Bond returns to action in the first trailer for No Time to Die
  • Why Final Fantasy became the face of Sony’s first Pla
  • The Expanse season 4 settles down for an anti-colonial disaster 11 hours ago  –  A year ago, The Expanse was canceled. News of its doom arrived while its third season was airing on SyFy, the reported rationale being that the rights agreement between its production company and its host network was not terribly profitable for the latter. In about two weeks, the show was saved b...
  • TED launches global climate initiative with help from YouTube
  • Microsoft planning second next-gen Xbox that’s cheaper and less powerful
  • Halo: Reach becomes a Steam most-played game on launch day
  • Instagram will ask new users to provide their birthdays
  • The Google Home Max is cheaper than ever at Walmart, and it includes a Home Mini for free
  • Amazon’s new ‘AI keyboard’ is confusing everyone
  • Peloton drops its digital membership price and launches Fire TV and Apple Watch apps
  • This robot lets you remotely surveil your cat and track its daily step count
  • Analogue and Hyperdub have teamed up for a limited 
  • Nintendo brings more SNES and NES games to Switch, including Star Fox 2 2 hours ago  –  Photo by Andrew Webster / The Verge Nintendo is adding the first new retro games to its Nintendo Switch Online service since the program expanded to include Super Nintendo titles. The most notable new addition is Star Fox 2, the long-lost Star Fox sequel that Nintendo dug out of its archives f...
  • The rise, disappearance, and retirement of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
  • TikTok’s parent company sued for collecting data on kids
  • Frozen 2’s biggest song, Into the Unknown, is now available on YouTube
  • Why Rian Johnson wanted to make Knives Out a modern-day whodunit
  • Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765 chip could usher in the first affordable 5G phones
  • BMW reverses decision to charge vehicle owners an annual fee to use Apple CarPlay
  • Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 865 promises 5G, camera, and gaming improvements
  • NASA spacecraft unraveling Sun’s mysteries as it spirals closer to our star
  • The Nintendo Switch had its best US sales week ever t
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