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Saturday, February 15, 2020

15 February - Technology - Next Web / Tech Crunch / The Verge

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  • US senators propose facial recognition ban (but not for police) 3 days ago  –  US senators have introduced a bill that would temporarily restrict the use of facial recognition technology — but their proposals fall short of a total ban. The Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence Act would place a moratorium on federal government use of facial recognition technology (FRT) unt...
  • Tesla finally returns Autopilot to second-hand Model S owner after secretly wiping it from his car 3 days ago  –  Tesla’s unsolicited removal of additional vehicle features appears to have been resolved, but it’s highlighted a much bigger issue with buying second-hand Teslas from third-party dealers. Last week, a report from Jalopnik revealed that Tesla surreptitiously removed the Enhanced Autopilot (EAP) an...
    Tesla finally returns Autopilot to second-hand Model S owner after secretly wiping it from his car 3 days ago  –  Tesla’s unsolicited removal of additional vehicle features appears to have been resolved, but it’s highlighted a much bigger issue with buying second-hand Teslas from third-party dealers. Last week, a report from Jalopnik revealed that Tesla surreptitiously removed the Enhanced Autopilot (EAP) an...
  • Government developers aren’t just nerds
  • Here’s why a photography side-hustle is more lucrative than you think
  • 5 Moon myths and how to debunk them yourself
  • This AI can perfectly dub videos in Indic languages — and correct lip syncing
  • How to break up with your phone, explained by a phone addiction researcher
  • Why laptops could be facing the end of the line
  • Puerto Rico’s government fell victim to a $2.6M email phishing scam
  • What I learned about PR pitching from the reporters I 
  • The new Moto Razr might be the hardest phone to repair ever 2 days ago  –  It turns out folding phones with bendy screens and complicated hinges are difficult to repair. Who’da thunk it? In fact, iFixit says the new Motorola Razr is the most difficult-to-repair phone that’s ever hit its desks. The device scores a 1 out of 10 on iFixit’s repairability scoreboard. The onl...
  • US accuses Huawei of stealing trade secrets and racketeering 2 days ago  –  In the latest escalation of the tensions between Donald Trump‘s government and China, the Department of Justice and FBI today announced 16 charges being brought against Huawei. Among these charges are conspiracy to steal trade secrets and racketeering. A press release from the DoJ claims says tha...
    US accuses Huawei of stealing trade secrets and racketeering 2 days ago  –  In the latest escalation of the tensions between Donald Trump‘s government and China, the Department of Justice and FBI today announced 16 charges being brought against Huawei. Among these charges are conspiracy to steal trade secrets and racketeering. A press release from the DoJ claims says tha...
  • The legendary Nintendo PlayStation is on auction, and it’s already at $48K
  • Uber test lets you dial a phone number for a ride – no app required
  • The dongle-hiding Lenovo ThinkBook 14 is great if you get the right screen
  • ‘Sensorized’ skin helps robots understand where the hell they are
  • NASA, PayPal, Reddit, and Spotify are coming to TNW2020 – don’t miss their talks
  • ‘Cool candidate’ Mike Bloomberg begs for your vote with Instagram memes
  • Police hunt Bitcoin extortionist after another letter bomb explodes in Amsterdam
  • Your first step to raising €1M: Fewer investors and big
  • Steam rolls out new feature to help you decide what game to play next 2 days ago  –  Steam is making it easier for gamers to pick the next title they want to play. The Valve subsidiary has rolled out a new recommendation feature called Play Next, KotakuUK reports. It’s not quite like Store recommendations, which suggest what title you should buy next. Instead, Valve relies on a n...
  • What’s venture capital and why does it matter for startups? 2 days ago  –  The term ‘venture capital‘ is often thrown about in the tech startup world, but do you know what it means and how it works? Could you explain it to people at a dinner party? If the answer to these questions is ‘no,’ don’t worry because Growth Quarters has you covered. The first thing you need to ...
  • Scientist trains AI to write messages of love on candy hearts
    Scientist trains AI to write messages of love on candy hearts 2 days ago  –  A scientist has marked Valentine’s Day by teaching a neural network to compose romantic messages for candy hearts. Janelle Shane, who in her day job creates computer-controlled holograms for studying the brain, collected genuine messages printed on the heart-shaped sweets to use as training data....
  • How to restore WhatsApp messages when you get a new phone AND a new number
  • Instagram is testing a way to display posts in chronological order
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Man charged with operating $300M money-laundering Bitcoin ‘mixer’’
  • 1 in 10 Americans admit to using ‘stalkerware’ to monitor their partners
  • Google’s Area 120 is bringing lightweight games to low-powered devices
  • Canon announces the EOS R5, fixing the original’s biggest problems
  • Half-Life: Alyx comes out on March 23. Here are all th
  • Facebook just released a Pinterest-style app called Hobbi a day ago  –  Facebook doesn’t exactly need any more presence in the social media business, but that isn’t going to the stop the company from trying. As first reported by The Information, an experimental product team within Facebook recently released a Pinterest-style app called Hobbi. The app’s description – ...
  • AI interviewer asks Billie Eilish the weirdest questions a day ago  –  Billie Eilish has fielded countless interview questions during her meteoric rise to fame, but this week was the first time that they’ve been asked by a bot. Fresh from sweeping the boards at the 2020 Grammy Awards , the 18-year-old songstress sat down with the AI interviewer in a video for Vogue ...
  • Nope, I refuse to believe this leaked Pixel 5 prototype is real
  • Why Tinder’s new safety features won’t end harassment on the platform
  • These 15 matchmaking and social media startups want to change how we connect
  • Want to take your partner on a romantic EV road trip? Head to Norway
  • Google’s new AI can intelligently crop videos for any screen size
  • How to read a best-selling book in 12 minutes
  • This mini Street Fighter II arcade cabinet is retro gaming goals
  • Amazon stalls Microsoft’s $10B ‘war cloud’ contract wit
  • How to build a survival base in Minecraft 10 hours ago  –  I spend a lot of time trawling the ever-growing world of Minecraft looking for cool things to build and today I found this very cool survival base in Minecraft tutorial and it is a big one! This build tutorial has been created with teamplay in mind. Each section is color-coded. This helps players...
  • Data centers generate the same amount of carbon emissions as global airlines 11 hours ago  –  Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring how tech can help achieve the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) this year? Check out the full ‘Sustainable Societies‘ program here. Digital technologies are often put forward as a solution to environmental dilemmas. Th...
  • Check out four of the best VPN, cloud storage and software deals on sale for Presidents’ Day  
  • AWS experts are making a fortune. This $26 training can help you join them
  • What designers can learn from Etsy’s minimalist icons
  • The Nvidia-Activision divorce is what cloud gaming critics fear
  • Facebook Lite gets Dark Mode while the main app is still waiting
  • Report: Microsoft’s Surface Book 3 will arrive this spring
  • Facebook changes its ad rules over Bloomberg’s cringey memes
  • Report: The PS5 is so expensive to make, Sony may s

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  • Instagram prototypes ‘Latest Posts’ feature 2 days ago  –  Instagram users who miss the reverse chronological feed might get a new way to see the most recent pics and videos from who they follow. Instagram has been spotted internally prototyping a “Latest Posts” feature. It appears as a pop-up over the main feed and brings users to a special area showing...
  • Innovaccer wants to be the service that unifies all healthcare data 2 days ago  –  The holy grail for technology companies working in the healthcare industry is becoming the gateway for all healthcare data. Big legacy providers like Epic and Cerner are trying to reach out to hospital networks to hoover up all of their data. Google is interested in it. Salesforce is interested i...
    Innovaccer wants to be the service that unifies all healthcare data 2 days ago  –  The holy grail for technology companies working in the healthcare industry is becoming the gateway for all healthcare data. Big legacy providers like Epic and Cerner are trying to reach out to hospital networks to hoover up all of their data. Google is interested in it. Salesforce is interested i...
  • 7-month-old Simsim secures $16M for its social commerce in India 2 days ago  –  Simsim, a social commerce startup in India, said on Friday it has raised $16 million in seven months of its existence as it attempts to replicate the offline retail experience in the digital world with help from influencers. The Gurgaon-based startup said it raised $16 million across seed, Series...
  • Maniv Mobility General Partner Olaf Sakkers is coming to TC Sessions: Mobility
  • Getting tech right in Iowa and elsewhere requires insight into data, human behavior
  • Facebook’s latest experiment is Hobbi, an app to document your personal projects
  • Nvidia’s Q4 financials look to brighter skies with strong quarterly revenue growth
  • Soylent shakes up its executive team, naming Demir Vangelov as its new CEO
  • LinkedIn will sunset Sales Navigator for Gmail, formerly known as Rapportive, on March 18
  • MIT showcases soft robotic sensors made from flexible
  • Blue Origin’s new rocket engine production facility opens on Monday a day ago  –  Blue Origin is opening its new rocket engine production center in Huntsville, Ala. on Monday, the company said today on Twitter. The new Huntsville facility will be able to produce its rocket engines at a much higher rate than is currently possible, which will be useful as the company is using it...
  • Bloomberg memes push Instagram to require sponsorship disclosure 2 days ago  –  Instagram is changing its advertising rules to require political campaigns’ sponsored posts from influencers to use its Branded Content Ads tool that adds a disclosure label of “Paid Partnership with.” The change comes after the Bloomberg presidential campaign paid meme-makers to post screenshots...
  • PhotoSquared app exposed customer photos and shipping labels 2 days ago  –  Popular photo printing app PhotoSquared has exposed thousands of customer photos, addresses and orders details. At least 10,000 shipping labels were stored in a public Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage bucket. There was no password on the bucket, allowing anyone who knew the easy-to-guess web add...
  • This co-op wants to put money back into patients’ hands
  • Tradeshift cuts headcount by three figures in effort to turn towards profitability
  • Alibaba Cloud revenue reaches $1.5B for the quarter on 62% growth rate
  • Big meditation money, new VC funds, and how do you value Airbnb?
  • Virgin Galactic relocates SpaceShipTwo ‘VSS Unity’ to its spaceport for preparations ahead of commercial flights
  • Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics
  • Tamatem, the games publisher for the MENA market,
  • Vodafone Idea shares tumble 23% after India orders it to pay billions in dues a day ago  –  Shares of Vodafone Idea fell by more than 23% on Friday after India’s apex court ordered the country’s second-largest telecom operator and Airtel, the third-largest telecom network, to arrange and pay billions of dollars in dues in a month. In a strongly worded judgement, the Supreme Court reject...
  • Class action suit against Clearview AI cites Illinois law that cost Facebook $550M a day ago  –  Just two weeks ago Facebook settled a lawsuit alleging violations of privacy laws in Illinois for the considerable sum of $550 million. Now controversial startup Clearview AI, which has gleefully admitted to scraping and analyzing the data of millions, is the target of a new lawsuit citing simila...
  • Tinder founder funds sex tips app Lover a day ago  –  Want to spice up the bedroom without paying for pills or awkward visits to a sex therapist? A new app called Lover lets you take a sexual personality quiz, explore carnal knowledge tutorials and discretely figure out which turn-ons you share with your partner. Built by board-certified sexual medi...
  • SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is now in Florida to prep for its first flight with astronauts onboard
  • General Catalyst leads $6 million investment in team productivity startup Range
  • Married co-founders are a startup’s secret weapon
  • 6 strategic stages of seed fundraising in 2020
  • Why startups are raising more venture debt as VC dollars near all-time records
  • Tesla locks in stock surge with $2B offering at $767 per share
  • Better know a CSO: Dropbox head of security Justin 
  • Can we debate free will versus destiny in four pages? 6 hours ago  –  The informal TechCrunch book club (which is now a whole week off schedule thanks to the news cycle — let’s see if we can catch up here shortly!) is now venturing into the very, very short story What’s Expected of Us, the third piece in Ted Chiang’s Exhalation collection. If you’re one of those pe...
  • This Week in Apps: YouTube TV cancels Apple’s rev share, more bad news for mobile voting, WhatsApp hits 2B users 8 hours ago  –  Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads in 2019 and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019, accordin...
  • Startups Weekly: A pre-IPO list of unicorn companies that also generate lots of revenue(!) 9 hours ago  –  [Editor’s note: Want to get this weekly review of news that startups can use by email? Just subscribe here.]  My colleague Alex Wilhelm has been researching the companies that are both getting impressive valuations and also generating annual recurring revenues of around $100 million on more. Thes...
  • The drunken HQ Trivia finale before it shut down was insane
  • Silicon Valley Community Foundation challenges donors to address local problems
  • ‘Capitalism generates a lot of wealth depending on the situation’
  • Living with the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip
  • Astronomers warn of ‘worrisome’ light pollution from satellite constellations
  • HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
  • Rocket Lab will launch a satellite to the Moon for NASA

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  • Flip phones deserve a shot because phones all look the same now 2 days ago  –  Photo by Avery White for The Verge As more folding phones get released, I’m seeing more people ask an important and honest question: does anybody really need this? There are many different answers but I think the most important one is simply this: not at the prices we’ve seen so far, no. But i...
  • Samsung’s busted union buster quits
  • India’s proposed internet regulations could threaten privacy everywhere
  • Spot is surprisingly good at pulling Adam Savage in a rickshaw
  • RFID sensor is powered by dirty diapers
  • Google appeases Stadia subscribers with the first new game announcements since launch
    Google appeases Stadia subscribers with the first new game announcements since launch 2 days ago  –  Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Following a troubled launch last year, Google has announced that five specific new games will arrive on its cloud gaming service Stadia “in the coming months,” finally giving us some additional titles we can look forward to playing. Sure, Google alre...
  • Sony reportedly battling to keep PlayStation 5 price down
  • Facebook quietly releases a Pinterest clone
  • Robert Pattinson’s Batman revealed in new teaser video
  • What you need to know about the Australia bushfires  
  • Vergecast: Motorola Razr review, Samsung’s Galaxy S20 event, and T-Mobile and Sprint allowed to merge a day ago  –  Photo by Avery White for The Verge There are a few things in this episode of The Vergecast that you don’t want to miss. In a busy week that included a foldable phone review, a Samsung hardware event, and a huge merger, we’ve got the perfect people to discuss all of this on our podcast. Execut...
  • I climbed onto my roof for this Pearl Jam app
  • Facebook won’t catalog sponsored Mike Bloomberg memes as political ads
  • We still haven’t seen the Galaxy Home — and that’s a good thing
  • Netflix’s first Stranger Things 4 trailer teases the return of a missing friend
  • Windows 10X has already been installed on a MacBook and a Surface Go
  • How to use Brave’s tools to protect your privacy while browsing
  • Trump’s impeachment is over — but what about the podcasts?
  • Watch Final Fantasy VII Remake’s gorgeous new opening movie
  • PS4 game Dreams is an amazing creation tool with an
  • Here are a few great Presidents’ Day deals 13 hours ago  –  Photo by Avery White for The Verge Presidents’ Day is a US holiday that takes place on Monday, February 17th, this year. And like most US holidays, it has been co-opted by retailers as a shopping holiday. We’ve been tallying up the best deals on a variety of tech products in the lead-up to Pre...
  • 10 new trailers you should watch this week
  • You can blame Nvidia, not just Activision Blizzard, for their GeForce Now falling-out
     a day ago  –  Image: Nvidia When we learned that Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service was losing access to every Activision Blizzard game only one week after leaving beta, I’ll admit my first thought was that maybe a short-sighted, money-grubbing corporation had decided to take its ball and go home. Th...
  • Google removes alleged spying app ToTok from the Play Store for a second time
  • Fortnite now lets you Rickroll your friends
  • Apple now lets you shop directly in augmented reality
  • Redbox launches an ad-supported streaming TV service
  • Facebook cancels global marketing conference due to the coronavirus outbreak
  • Blizzard moves previously canceled Overwatch League games from China to Korea
  • HQ, maker of the once-popular HQ Trivia, is shutting d
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