Monday, June 15, 2020

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

The Next Web
  • 3 personal growth tips I’ve learned in my 12 years as a developer an hour ago  –  My first real job in programming started on July 5, 2007, which means I have just over twelve years of experience as I write this. It’s a lot more than nothing, but probably not much more than something. Ten years seems to be about the right amount of time to get good at something, though some am...
  • Demand for scooters trebles as Brits look to avoid public transport an hour ago  –  As coronavirus lockdown measures lift, commuters in the UK are shunning public transport in favor of personal options like sit-on scooters and mopeds. According to figures from online vehicle marketplace, AutoTrader, inquiries for mopeds and scooters in the first week of June were three times wha...
  • Github plans to replace racially insensitive terms like ‘master’ and ‘whitelist’
  • We created near-sentient algorithms — but now they’re devolving into bigots
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘JPMorgan flips, says Bitcoin is maturing’
  • Lotus to make one last gasoline car before pivoting entirely to electric drivetrains
  • Here’s how to keep you and your team motivated — even remotely
  • TikTok-owner Bytedance shuts down its Vigo short video app
  • Designers! Read this definitive guide on how to build apps for kids
  • Bird now cleans its shared scooters way more often for 
  • Project management requires a steady hand. This PRINCE2 Agile training can give you that a day ago  –  TLDR: The Accredited Project Management Bundle proves how two great project management philosophies can work seamlessly together in this 3-course package. Projects that don’t require some level of risk are seldom projects worth doing. By that criteria, it’s no wonder that major business projects ...
  • What are my photos revealing about me? a day ago  –  For years, tech savvy people have known that photos shot on your phone contain lots of information that you may not want revealed. The specific model of phone you use and the precise time and location of where the photo was shot are all saved in the photo’s metadata. This information can be viewe...
  • The key to Google search success isn’t rocket science. It’s right here
  • Who am I buying from when I shop online?
  • Road Test: The all-electric Mini Cooper is fun, adorable, and as good as it gets
  • Corporations controlling territory in space? New US rules say ‘YES PLEASE’
  • The key differences between rule-based AI and machine learning
  • The foldable Samsung Galaxy Z Flip is a hit, so why not let us give you one for free
  • Software developers make over $100,000 a year. If that’s a paycheck you want, this can help get you there
  • Quark matter — the fifth state of matter within neutron 
  • Sound United is planning to buy hi-fi audio company Bowers & Wilkins 2 days ago  –  You might not be familiar with Sound United, but if you’re at all interested in high-end audio, you’ve probably heard about its sub-brands including the likes of Denon, Polk Audio, Marantz, and others. Today the parent company announced its intent to acquire perhaps its most notable property yet:...
  • Getting started with Google Stadia: Everything you need to know 2 days ago  –  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. It’s been quite some time since Google launched Stadia, its cloud gaming service, to the world at large. After being exclusive to those who purchased a control...
  • Am I queer enough? How to find your Pride online
     3 days ago  –  Welcome to TNW Pride 2020. We’ll be covering tech-related Pride stories and putting a much needed spotlight on the LGBTQPIA+ STEM community and its history all throughout the month of June. I’ve been out for exactly two weeks and, let me tell you, I’m exhausted. Before June, I was a technology jo...
  • This bundle with 1k+ games just raised $5 million for racial justice
  • This AI turns your blurry photos into creepy HD faces
  • Bankrupt Hertz targets Robinhood traders in plot to dump $1 billion in stock
  • How Mars may have lost several systems of rings over billions of years
  • How my amateur woodwork made me a better CEO
  • The magic of mediocre technology
  • Tesla should be worried about Ford’s all-electric F150 
  • Facebook axes Workplace feature that blocked trending posts containing ‘Unionize’ 3 days ago  –  Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are under a lot of pressure for letting US President Donald Trump‘s inflammatory posts stay up on the platform. While the company has put on a ‘free speech champion’ face to defend its stance, a new report from The Intercept suggests that it recently pitched a tool to...
  • How to find coronavirus testing centers in India using Google services 3 days ago  –  Google today announced that users in India can search for coronavirus testing centers through Search, Assistant, and Maps. The company has worked with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and MyGov to list these centers. Here’s how you can find a test center: Go to Google Search or Maps ...
  • URL bug lets you skip YouTube ads and paywalls by adding an extra period
  • Playstation 5: All the games announced at Sony’s big event
  • Scientist says we haven’t found ET yet because we’re doomed to destroy all life
  • Sony reveals the PlayStation 5 — and it’s gorgeous
  • AI gladiators fight thousands of duels so we can learn how weaponry evolves in nature
  • OpenAI to sell its headline-grabbing text generator as an API
  • Twitter wants to let you react with emoji — but why?
  • How a healthy hacker mindset can make you a better
  • WhatsApp is testing a nifty search-by-date feature 3 days ago  –  WhatsApp is currently testing a bunch of useful features including message search by date and better storage management. Last night, WABetaInfo revealed that the search by date feature will allow you to quickly go to a particular date in a conversation. So, it’ll be easier for you to recall what ...
  • Why you should just hire an expert instead of paying for an online course to grow you business 3 days ago  –  This might shock you, but the e-learning industry will kill millions of businesses. Before you buy an online course, you should consider your options. I’ll lay it out for you and you can decide for yourself. I’m not against e-learning or online courses. In fact, my company offers courses and we h...
  • If you’re forgetting files and constantly disorganized, this training could just your whole mindset
  • The Last of Us Part 2 is a phenomenal send-off for this console generation
  • Microsoft’s pause on facial recognition sales could speed up federal rules
  • Uber is scrapping its unusable Jump ebikes — and the mobility industry just doesn’t care
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin falls more than 5%, in tandem with financial markets’
  • How to step up your programming skills with Python machine learning
  • Big tech may have stepped up during COVID-19, but we can’t let it gobble up startups
  • Alibaba is overflowing with cheap mail-order electric ca

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  • Interstellar Technologies’ privately-developed MOMO-5 rocket falls short of reaching space 2 days ago  –  Private launch companies seeking to lower the coast of reaching space continue to develop new vehicles, and the latest to attempt a trip to space is Interstellar Technologies (IST), a Japanese private launch company founded in 2003. The company first launched a vehicle in 2017, but the launch did...
  • Startups Weekly: A Silicon Valley for everyone 2 days ago  –  Many in the tech industry saw the threat of the novel coronavirus early and reacted correctly. Fewer have seemed prepared for its aftereffects, like the outflow of talented employees from very pricey office real estate in expensive and troubled cities like San Francisco.
  • India’s Reliance Jio Platforms to sell $250 million stake to L Catterton 2 days ago  –  Speaking of Reliance Jio Platforms, the top Indian telecom operator said on Saturday it has secured another investment. L Catterton, a U.S. private equity firm will invest $250 million for a 0.39% stake in Jio Platforms, becoming the ninth investor to back the Indian firm at the height of a globa...
  • So you want to talk about race in tech with Ijeoma Oluo
  • Gillmor Gang: Love & Fear
  • India’s Reliance Jio Platforms to sell $600 million stake to TPG
  • This Week in Apps: Android 11 beta, Snapchat’s makeover, Apple’s WWDC20 plans
  • SpaceX launches 58 more Starlink satellites and 3 Planet Skysats for first rideshare launch
  • Rocket Lab successfully launches its 12th Electron, carrying NASA and NRO payloads
  • Lo Toney has some ideas about how to (really) bring V
  • Forget the casino, bankrupt Hertz can now sell up to $1 billion in stock 2 days ago  –  Hertz, the rental car company that is going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, can now sell up to $1 billion in stock as it seeks to tap into one of the hottest tickets in town: traders with an appetite for short-term speculative bets. The decision Friday by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for ...
  • Imaging startup Light is exiting the smartphone business 3 days ago  –  Light’s push into smartphones was an inevitability. Sure, the startup turned heads with its pricey L16 camera, but these days mobile photography is almost exclusively the domain of the handset. Early last year, the answer arrived in the form of the trypophobia-inducing Nokia 9 PureView. In a cate...
  • 3 perspectives on the future of SF and NYC as startup hubs 3 days ago  –  It has been an incredibly tough period for everyone the past few months as the global COVID-19 pandemic has wiped out whole industries from the economic map. While tech has been among the most resilient industries in the face of this cataclysm, the extreme mobility of the industry’s workforce beg...
  • Internet Archive ends free e-book program, following publisher suit
  • ‘The money is still there,’ says APX managing director Jörg Rheinboldt
  • WarnerMedia tries to simplify HBO branding by sunsetting HBO Go and renaming HBO Now
  • NASA taps Kathy Lueders to lead its human spaceflight efforts
  • You can help a Mars Rover’s AI learn to tell rocks from dirt
  • Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan respond to Chan Zuckerberg Initiative scientists’ open letter on Trump
  • Volkswagen launches home EV charging system sales 
  • BLCK VC co-founder Sydney Sykes talks specific actions firms can take to be more inclusive 3 days ago  –  BLCK VC is on a mission to double the number of Black venture capitalists out there by 2024. The reason behind it shouldn’t need explaining — only 2% of all partner-level VCs are Black, and 81% of VC firms don’t have a single Black partner. It’s no surprise then, that the startup ecosystem that i...
  • The complicated calculus of taking Facebook’s venture money 3 days ago  –  Facebook is reportedly getting into the venture capital game, but for young entrepreneurs working in social media, ignoring or deleting that particular friend request could be the right call. According to a report in Axios, the company is building up a corporate fund under the auspices of its “Ne...
  • Daily Crunch: Snapchat is getting mini apps 3 days ago  –  Snap announces a bunch of new features, Moderna prepares for the final-stage trial of its coronavirus vaccine and Sony shows off the PlayStation 5. Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 12, 2020. 1. Snapchat debuts Minis, bite-sized third-party apps that live inside chat Snap Minis are lightweight th...
  • Two weeks left to save on TC Early Stage passes
  • Snapchat looks to maintain its own friendships — with devs
  • Facebook’s ‘Deepfake Detection Challenge’ yields promising early results
  • Computex 2020 is officially canceled
  • Cue Health’s portable, fast COVID-19 test gains FDA emergency approval
  • Pipo Saude raises $4.6 million to bring healthcare benefits management services to Brazil
  • Why are unicorns pushing back IPOs when the Nasda
  • In spite of an uncertain economy, US video game sales remain strong 3 days ago  –  May marked another extremely strong month for gaming sales, according to the latest figures from NPD. Between software, hardware, accessories and game cards, Americans spent around $977 million. That’s a 57% jump since the year prior and the highest it’s been for the month since 2008, when the co...
  • Join us for a live Q&A with Plaid CEO Zach Perret June 18 at 10 a.m. PDT/1 p.m. EDT 3 days ago  –  Extra Crunch Live, TechCrunch’s chat series for Extra Crunch members, is tacking toward founders after bringing on a host of investors: on Thursday, June 18, Plaid CEO Zach Perret will join us for a conversation. Plaid, known for APIs that connect fintech applications with users’ bank accounts, c...
  • Take Facebook money and get cloned 3 days ago  –  Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. After a pretty busy week on the show we’re here with our regular Friday episode, which means lots of venture rounds and new venture capital funds to dig into. Thankful...
  • UK competition watchdog launches investigation into Facebook’s $400M acquisition of Giphy
  • Byta, the private music sharing service for pre-releases and more, raises seed round
  • Spike raises $8 million to make your email look like a chat app
  • This startup just raised $12 million from top VCs to offer financial planning as an employee perk
  • Zoom admits to shutting down activist accounts at the request of the Chinese government
  • Gauging growth in the most challenging environment in decades
  • Apple TV+ to release Tom Hanks naval drama ‘Greyho

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  • How to watch the PC Gaming Show and Future Games Show today, June 13 2 days ago  –  Image: Summer Game Fest Even if the world’s biggest video game expos have been canceled this year, we’re being treated to an unprecedented array of virtual events in their place — and today, what’s been dubbed the Summer Game Fest will continue with the PC Gaming Show and the Future Games Show...
  • Twitter reinstates Zero Hedge account saying its earlier suspension was ‘an error’
  • SpaceX launched more Starlink satellites on Falcon 9, and three Planet SkySats hitched a ride
  • Here are some Father’s Day deals that are happening now
    2 days ago  –  Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Father’s Day in the US is coming up on Sunday, June 21st. That’s next week, so you still have time to do some shopping. Given that the COVID-19 pandemic still has many retail stores shuttered, we recommend doing most of your shopping for dad online. Though, if...
  • 7 new trailers to watch this week
  • Big tech companies are responding to George Floyd in a way they never did for Michael Brown
  • Tenet and Wonder Woman 1984 delayed by Warner Bros.
  • Vergecast: Android 11 beta, PS5 reveal, and big tech halts facial recognition for police
  • Another innovative company has given up on revolutionizing mobile photography
  • WarnerMedia is getting rid of the HBO Go app
  • Elon Musk has two Las Vegas casinos asking for Boring Company tunnels 3 days ago  –  Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Elon Musk’s Boring Company is already looking to dig more tunnels in Las Vegas, Nevada, after it finished excavating the first two under the city’s convention center last month. Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom tweeted a map last week that shows a p...
  • The PS5 is huge, according to internet detectives
  • Bikes can be a tool for protest — and police brutality
  • Insomniac confirms Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a standalone PS5 game
  • Go read this Wall Street Journal article about New York’s missteps combatting the coronavirus
  • Go read this BuzzFeed News story about how Peloton workers feared for their safety
  • Facebook contest reveals deepfake detection is still an ‘unsolved problem’
  • Beats Solo Pro noise-canceling headphones are $70 off for the first time
  • Verizon has new student discounts on unlimited plans for college students
  • It’s hard to figure out how often people without symptoms
  • Rollerball imagined a completely different future of fame 3 days ago  –  via IMDb The Verge is a place where you can consider the future. So are movies. In Yesterday’s Future, we revisit a movie about the future and consider the things it tells us about today, tomorrow, and yesterday. The movie: Rollerball (the 1975 original, not the 2002 remake) The future: Corpor....
  • Sony’s surprise PS5 Digital Edition sets up a next-gen price war
  • Sony’s PS5 reveal was the best look yet at next-gen gaming
  • Zoom plans new blocking features to comply with requests from Chinese government
  • Watch astronaut Leland Melvin and Bill Nye discuss racial injustice and space exploration
  • YouTube says gaming ad views to fundraise for Black Lives Matter violates policies
  • Spanish soccer returns with computer-generated crowds, and it actually works
  • Evan Spiegel on maps, Minis, and the future of Snapchat
  • Veteran chip engineer Jim Keller leaves Intel after just two years
  • The Last of Us Part II is uncomfortable and exhausting, 
  • New T-Mobile CEO tweets ‘Bye-bye, Tucker Carlson,’ won’t sponsor him anymore 3 days ago  –  Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images T-Mobile’s new CEO tweeted “Bye-bye Tucker Carlson” multiple times this week and said his company will no longer sponsor Carlson’s Fox News show after Carlson made racist comments Monday evening. Sievert’s tone in these tweets appears to be an attempt t...
  • VW’s first mass-market EV suffers delay thanks to software struggles
  • The PlayStation 5’s design is being relentlessly mocked on Twitter
  • Snap CEO Spiegel says the company won’t release diversity numbers publicly
  • There’s a simple trick to watch YouTube videos without any ads
  • Watch the 24 biggest trailers from the PS5 event
  • Itch.io’s amazing 1,500-game charity bundle surpasses $5 million goal
  • The PS5 is getting a camera, charging dock, headphones, and media remote accessories
     4 days ago  –  Sony officially revealed what the PlayStation 5 console will look like. Alongside it, the company also announced a range of accessories for the new console, including a wireless headset, a camera, a media remote, and a charging dock for the DualSense controller. Details on the new accessories are...
  • Sony announces PlayStation 5 Digital Edition with no disc drive
  • Resident Evil Village revealed at Sony’s PlayStation 5 
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