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Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Binance launches Bitcoin mining pool’
2 days ago –
Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every
fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I,
Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past
24 hours. As Planck used to say: Buy low, sell high! Bitcoin price We
closed the day, April 2...
New Android ransomware threatens to ‘expose’ your porn escapades to the FBI
2 days ago –
No, the feds don’t care about the porn you may or may not have
downloaded — but hackers sure want you to believe so. There’s a new
Android ransomware that encrypts your files and poses as the FBI to
trick you into providing your credit card information. Dubbed Black Rose
Lucy, the malicious app a...
How deep learning can improve how we conduct scientific research
a day ago –
Whether we take it for granted or not, deep learning algorithms
have become an inseparable part of our daily lives. Personalized feeds,
face and voice recognition, web search, smart speakers, digital
assistants, email, and many other applications that we can’t part ways
with using deep learning a...
Chinese startups are being starved of venture capital — which should worry the West
2 days ago –
Through the centuries, China’s entrepreneurs accessed finance
from family and friends through social networks known as guanxi. Even
after the communist revolution, these networks helped to propagate a
thriving small business sector that invested in local services and basic
manufactured goods. In ...
WhatsApp is mulling offering loans to users in India
19 hours ago –
WhatsApp‘s payment ambitions in India might not just be limited
to peer-to-peer transactions. The company is looking into the
possibility of lending money to its users as well. Earlier this month,
in a regulatory filing, the company said it wants to “advance money or
give credit on such terms as ...
Leak: The budget-priced ‘OnePlus Z’ could launch in July
a day ago –
In the months leading up to the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro‘s launch,
we’d heard multiple rumors pointing to a ‘OnePlus 8 Lite,’ but that
clearly never came to fruition. But for those wanting a cheaper OnePlus
device, not all hope is lost. Leakster Max J today posted an image
teasing a ‘OnePlus Z’ to arr...
TNW Couch Conferences welcome tech experts to share strategies for the current crisis
14 hours ago –
The world today may seem unrecognizable, but our drive to come
together and create remains unchanged. Now is the moment to share our
knowledge, orient towards opportunity, and imagine a new collective
future. In the spirit of discovery, TNW – together with supporting
partner We Are Live – is exc...
This mega-bundle can get any new entrepreneur up to speed on digital marketing
14 hours ago –
The Complete Digital Marketing for Beginners Bundle ($44.99,
over 90 percent off from TNW Deals) is a smart place to start for anyone
ready to tackle the full gamut of what commerce in 2020 on the web
really looks like.
Lenovo made a new ThinkPad keyboard for your desktop – mouse nub and all
2 hours ago –
It’s no secret that ThinkPad laptops have historically had some
of the best keyboards on the market – better than many desktop ones. If
you’ve ever wished you could just chop the keyboard off your ThinkPad
and use it on for your desktop setup, Lenovo’s new $99 ThinkPad
TrackPoint Keyboard II has ...
The next Assassin’s Creed game is a Viking adventure called Valhalla
4 hours ago –
Ubisoft is taking advantage of a captive audience to give a
tantalizing glimpse of the next game in the Assassin’s Creed series. In a
reveal that dovetails with leaked details from months ago, we now know
that the next adventure in gaming’s own historical Magic School Bus
series will be set in th...
Tech Crunch
As Uber reportedly contemplates layoffs, a look back at its post-IPO financial performance
12 hours ago –
COVID-19 has changed how much people move around, hampering Uber's business.
Video app Marco Polo adds a subscription option amid coronavirus-led boost in usage
12 hours ago –
The coronavirus pandemic has sent record numbers of new users to
video chat apps. Now, video messaging app Marco Polo aims to capitalize
on the increases it’s also seeing to launch its new subscription
business, Marco Polo Plus. The service delivers a handful of new
features — including support f...
Squad hits desktop as the social screen-sharing app aims to become Gen-Z Zoom
13 hours ago –
Zoom is an enterprise software company built to help employees
meet virtually; it was never intended to be the social platform that
guided a disconnected world through a lockdown. On the back of a big
quarantine usage bump, Squad, a social screen-sharing mobile app popular
with teen girls, is loo...
As Uber reportedly contemplates layoffs, a look back at its post-IPO financial performance
12 hours ago –
COVID-19 has changed how much people move around, hampering Uber's business.
Video app Marco Polo adds a subscription option amid coronavirus-led boost in usage
12 hours ago –
The coronavirus pandemic has sent record numbers of new users to
video chat apps. Now, video messaging app Marco Polo aims to capitalize
on the increases it’s also seeing to launch its new subscription
business, Marco Polo Plus. The service delivers a handful of new
features — including support f...
Squad hits desktop as the social screen-sharing app aims to become Gen-Z Zoom
13 hours ago –
Zoom is an enterprise software company built to help employees
meet virtually; it was never intended to be the social platform that
guided a disconnected world through a lockdown. On the back of a big
quarantine usage bump, Squad, a social screen-sharing mobile app popular
with teen girls, is loo...
Determined AI makes its machine learning infrastructure free and open source
10 hours ago –
Machine learning has quickly gone from niche field to crucial
component of innumerable software stacks, but that doesn’t mean it’s
easy. The tools needed to create and manage it are enterprise-grade and
often enterprise-only — but Determined AI aims to make them more
accessible than ever by open-...
Marc Andreessen, Florence Nightingale and building in a vacuum
11 hours ago –
If we want to learn how to build in times of crises, it’s worth
looking at the innovators and entrepreneurs that tackled such complex
problems before us.
Atlassian co-founder and co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes is coming to Disrupt SF 2020
11 hours ago –
Atlassian is about as ubiquitous to software engineers as Google
is to the rest of us. The Sydney-based company, which launched in 2002,
develops tools and services for enterprise collaboration and marched
efficiently to a public offering in 2015. So it goes without saying that
we’re thrilled to ...
Tesla to reduce price of standard range Model 3 in China
2 hours ago –
Tesla said it will reduce the price of its standard range Model 3
vehicle in China to meet the government’s new eligibility requirements
for subsidies. This marks the second time this year that the automaker
has reduced the price. Several months ago, the base version of
China-made Model 3 was low...
Tesla pushes Tesla Semi deliveries to 2021
3 hours ago –
Tesla is pushing back plans to produce and deliver its
all-electric Class 8 truck until 2021, the company said in its quarter
earnings report Wednesday. The move puts the Tesla Semi two years behind
the automaker’s previous target. “We are shifting our first Tesla Semi
deliveries to 2021,” the co...
Instagram ‘pods’ game the algorithm by coordinating likes and comments on millions of posts
3 hours ago –
Researchers at NYU have identified hundreds of groups of
Instagram users, some with thousands of members, that systematically
exchange likes and comments in order to game the service’s algorithms
and boost visibility. In the process, they also trained machine learning
agents to identify whether a...
Disney is remaking its classic 1973 Robin Hood film as a CGI Disney Plus exclusive
19 days ago –
Following The Lion King, Mulan, and Aladdin, to name a few,
Disney’s 1973 classic animated film Robin Hood is the latest movie to
get a live-action remake. This one, however, is going straight to Disney
Plus.
Much like The Lion King, the new version of Robin Hood will “feature the
characters as ...
Amazon puts new Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods delivery customers on waitlist amid surging demand
16 days ago –
Photo by Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images
New customers signing up for Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods Market home
delivery will now need to make it through a waitlist before they can
order groceries. Amazon announced the new procedure yesterday, adding
that the company is “increasing capaci...
Amazon puts new Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods delivery customers on waitlist amid surging demand
16 days ago –
Photo by Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images
New customers signing up for Amazon Fresh or Whole Foods Market home
delivery will now need to make it through a waitlist before they can
order groceries. Amazon announced the new procedure yesterday, adding
that the company is “increasing capaci...
Instagram redesigns IGTV with creators as the focus
16 days ago –
Instagram
Instagram is updating its IGTV app today, likely in the hopes of
getting more people to use the service and promote creators making
longform videos. The company tells The Verge today that it’s completely
redesigned the homepage to feature a creator up top, tailored to each
user based...
Android phones will get the COVID-19 tracking updates via Google Play
16 days ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Google has confirmed that it will use the Google Play Services
infrastructure to update Android phones with the upcoming COVID-19
contact tracing system it is building in collaboration with Apple. It
should ensure that more Android phones will actually g...
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