Thursday, September 10, 2020

10 September - Technology - The Next Web / Tech Crunch /The Verge

The Next Web
  • IBM bets on AI and robotics to speed up drug discovery 2 days ago  –  So you’re interested in AI? Then join our online event, TNW2020, where you’ll hear how artificial intelligence is transforming industries and businesses. An end-to-end, integrated chemical research system unveiled by IBM last week gives us a glimpse of how artificial intelligence, robotics and th...
  • 5 ways SaaS businesses can extend cash runway during an economic slump 2 days ago  –  There is no doubt that COVID-19 has changed the financial and SaaS landscape. This year is going to call for more judgment and effort to navigate the uncertainties brought on by the pandemic. Navigating these uncertainties often spell chaos and the transition to a “new normal” is likely to pose a...
  • How to be appreciated for your hard work as a developer
  • Xiaomi’s $22 Redmi band is a first step to fitness — literally
  • Android 11: Here are the 8 best new features
  • Sonus Faber’s new Lumina speakers offer stunning design at a reasonable price
  • Android 11 rolls out today for the Pixel and more
  • Watch: This AI mashup of movie characters singing ‘All Star’ is the best DeepFake ever
  • How AI can give endangered elephants a fighting chance
  • A COVID-19 newsletter without any doom or gloom
  • Xbox Game Pass is adding EA Play games to its lineup a day ago  –  Microsoft today announced the impending addition of games from the EA Play subscription service to its own Xbox Game Pass. These new titles will be available to Game Pass subscribers at no additional cost. EA Play will join the Game Pass lineup “this holiday,” according to a Microsoft blog post –...
  • You’ll know how to find the valuable data and even make machines think for under $40 a day ago  –  TLDR: The training in The Deep Learning and Data Analysis Certification Bundle explores two of the most popular and most in-demand data skill sets that employers want. Data analysis. Deep learning. If you’re interested in learning about either topic, you probably already realize that with the sco...
    This AI crunched the numbers to make the perfect TikTok song — but is it though?
  • The UK government is paying influencers to promote the NHS test and trace service
  • Nintendo boosts Switch production by 20% ahead of rumored 4K console, report says
  • Coronavirus showed how broken public transport funding is — here’s how we fix it
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Just Eat customers in France can now order food with Bitcoin’
  • Astronomers witnessed the birth of the first intermediate black hole
  • Everything I want from Apple’s rumored AirTags
  • Here’s the most important thing digital leaders get right
  • 5 lessons I’ve learned working from home for 10 years 13 hours ago  –  Working remotely comes with a unique set of challenges across the board – mundanity, loneliness, increasingly blurred lines between working and living – and all of those are okay, as long as you know how to manage them. As someone who has been working from home for 10 years, I’ve learned the hard...
  • IFTTT introduces a paid plan, reduces free usage to 3 applets 14 hours ago  –  If This Then That (IFTTT), a web-based service that lets you set up useful task flows between popular apps (like sync photos you post on Twitter to your Dropbox storage) is adding a paid tier after a decade of being available for free. More importantly, it’s reducing free tier usage to three appl...
  • Follow Huawei’s 2020 dev conference livestream here
  • Apple is seeking damages from Epic over Fortnite ban
  • Dieselgate’s cost Volkswagen over $30 billion, now its former CEO faces conviction
  • Lucid unveils the Air, its luxury EV with up to 517-miles of range costing as much as $169K
  • Everything we expect to see at Huawei’s 2020 dev conference tomorrow
  • The Juiced HyperScramber 2 ebike goes 100+ miles per charge using a pair of massive batteries
  • Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will arrive a week early thanks to the Xbox launch
  • Xbox Series X and Series S launching November 10 for $49
  • 8 reasons why you should move your startup to Cork 8 hours ago  –  In a post-COVID recession, new global startup ecosystems are going to be vital to boosting the economy. Founders and entrepreneurs who are looking to relocate their startups should consider a number of factors, including a city with ready access to angel and venture capital funding, as well as a ...
  • Slack wants to make life easier for remote teams with its 5 new Workflow Builder templates 8 hours ago  –  Did you know Tamar Yehoshua, Slack‘s Chief Product Officer, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out their session on ‘Human-centricity: building products with customers’ here. Factors affecting our work settings and daily lives may be beyond our control at the moment, but we can shape how we ...
  • Poolside FM’s new app brings retro cool tunes to your iPhone for free
  • Swedes to build wind-powered transatlantic cargo ship (yes, it’s a sailboat)
  • Portland becomes first US city to ban companies from using facial recognition in public places
  • The UK wants to ban parking on pavements and improve accessibility
  • Nintendo is making a Fortnite-themed Switch console
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘More than 823K addresses now hold more than 1 BTC’
  • Germany wants to permit driverless cars across the country by 2022
  • How programmers are using AI to make deepfakes — and e
  • A beginner’s guide to AI: Separating the hype from the reality 18 minutes ago  –  An advanced artificial intelligence created by OpenAI, a company founded by genius billionaire Elon Musk, recently penned an op-ed for The Guardian that was so convincingly human many readers were astounded and frightened. And, ew. Just writing that sentence made me feel like a terrible journalis...
  • Ninja is back on Twitch — for real this time an hour ago  –  From Twitch to Mixer, and now back to Twitch once more: Tyler “Ninja” Blevins today revealed that, after his rather public break-up with the site one year ago, he’s returning to Twitch exclusively. I know, there wasn’t really much doubt, but it’s still good to know. A new chapter, only on @Twitch...
  • AI to take on human pilots in real-world fighter aircraft trials
  • Tesla crashed and bounced harder than any other tech stock this week
  • Stop giving your co-workers vapid compliments
  • TikTok says it’s committed to diversity — its history of censorship says otherwise
  • Mockuuups Studio makes it easier to create marketing assets. And right now, it’s just $40
  • The Dutch plug-in vehicle market is surging, sales up 75% YoY
  • Close-up shots of the Sun reveal popcorn-like sunspots
  • Are EVs too expensive? Here are 5 common myths, debun

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  • Here’s every angle of the all-electric Lucid Air in pictures a day ago  –  After years of development, Lucid Motors took the wraps off the Air, an electric luxury sedan that was unveiled Wednesday in a live-streamed event. The Air combines high-end features with eye-popping performance specs and technology that puts it in the same luxury category as a Mercedes S Class. ...
  • Lucid Motors’ second vehicle is an electric SUV, the Gravity a day ago  –  Lucid Motors provided Wednesday a peek of the next vehicle in its all-electric lineup — an SUV called the Lucid Gravity. The Lucid Gravity follows the Air, a luxury all-electric sedan that was revealed Wednesday in a live streamed event. The Gravity, which will have the same underlying vehicle pl...
  • Lucid Motors reveals its long-awaited Air electric sedan a day ago  –  Lucid Motors CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson had a clear vision for how to take an electric car to another level. The former chief engineer of the Tesla Model S just didn’t expect it to take quite so long. Today, nearly four years since the company first announced its intentions to produce electric v...
  • Daily Crunch: Taboola and Outbrain call off their merger
  • Instagram is building a product equity team and hiring a director of diversity and inclusion
  • B2B marketing company Metadata.io raises $6.5M
  • Facebook told it may have to suspend EU data transfers after Schrems II ruling
  • Three years later, Google Maps is back on the Apple Watch
  • Microsoft introduces monthly financing plan for its new Xbox consoles
  • Kinspire’s new app helps parents find screen-free activities 
  • PayPal, Visa expand Instant Transfers for fast payouts globally on all PayPal’s networks 9 hours ago  –  The COVID-19 pandemic continues to put huge stress on people’s and businesses’ finances, and in an effort to meet some of the crunch, today PayPal and Visa announced an expansion of a service to get cash into people’s hands faster. Instant Transfer — a service where PayPal lets people and busines...
  • Orchard real estate platform raises $69 million Series C led by Revolution Growth 10 hours ago  –  Orchard, the tech-forward residential real estate platform, has today announced the close of a $69 million Series C funding led by Revolution Growth. Existing investors FirstMark Capital, Navitas, Accomplice and Juxtapose also participated in the round, which brings the company’s total funding to...
  • Dgraph launches Slash GraphQL, a GraphQL-native database Backend-as-a-Service 10 hours ago  –  Dgraph Labs, the startup behind the popular eponymous graph database, today announced the launch of its Slash GraphQL service. Slash GraphQL is a fully managed GraphQL backend service that is, of course, powered by Dgraph. As Manish Jain, Dgraph’s CEO and founder (and one of the engineers behind ...
  • Huawei phones will start running on HarmonyOS in 2021
  • Curio, the curated audio platform for journalism, has closed $9M Series A funding
  • Times Internet is growing despite influx of US tech firms in India
  • Portland passes expansive city ban on facial recognition tech
  • Groww, an investment app for millennials in India, raises $30M led by YC Continuity
  • Lucid lets shoppers customize cars like a video game character
  • Former NSA chief General Keith Alexander is now on Amazo
  • Qovery lets you deploy your application without managing your cloud infrastructure 6 hours ago  –  Remember how Heroku was a big breakthrough when it was first released? Qovery wants to do it again by building an abstraction layer between your code and your cloud infrastructure. You push code in a git repository and Qovery manages your services for you. “It’s a container-as-a-service platform ...
  • India’s Zomato raises $100M from Tiger Global, says it is planning to file for IPO next year 6 hours ago  –  Indian food delivery startup Zomato has raised $100 million from Tiger Global and is preparing for the next phase of its journey: an IPO. Tiger Global financed the capital through its investment vehicle Internet Fund VI, according to a regulatory filing. Info Edge, a major investor in Zomato, con...
    India’s Zomato raises $100M from Tiger Global, says it is planning to file for IPO next year 6 hours ago  –  Indian food delivery startup Zomato has raised $100 million from Tiger Global and is preparing for the next phase of its journey: an IPO. Tiger Global financed the capital through its investment vehicle Internet Fund VI, according to a regulatory filing. Info Edge, a major investor in Zomato, con...
  • Facebook returns to its roots with Campus, a college student-only social network 7 hours ago  –  Facebook is getting back to its roots as a college-focused social network. The company announced today the launch of a new social networking platform, Facebook Campus, which offers college students a private place to connect with classmates, join groups, discover upcoming campus events, get updat...
  • NASA is looking to buy moon dirt from private companies — no return shipping required
  • Microsoft Surface Duo review
  • Robinhood’s financial news team launches its first video series
  • Carbon Health to launch 100 pop-up COVID-19 testing clinics across the US
  • EU lawmakers say it’s time to go further on tackling disinformation
  • StackRox nabs $26.5M for a platform that secures containers in Kubernetes
  • Unity launches its Cloud Content Delivery service for game

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  • The Lucid Air is a luxury electric sedan with the speed and power to rival Tesla a day ago  –  517 miles of range, 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds, and a price tag that starts at $80,000 Continue reading…
  • Google’s Waze lays off 5 percent of its workforce, closes offices in Asia and Latin America
  • Google’s Fundo lets creators get paid by hosting virtual meet-and-greets
  • White House reportedly moves to eliminate COVID-19 security theater at airports
  • Verizon will let you watch NFL games for free with three of your friends
  • AMD’s next-generation Zen 3 CPUs and Radeon RX 6000 ‘Big Navi’ GPU will be revealed next month
  • Twitch brings custom esports competitions to streamers in closed beta
  • Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors
  • The highs, lows, and epic sandworm cameos of the first Dune trailer
  • Chinese embassy demands Twitter probe after ambassador
  • Huawei updates MateBook X laptop with 10th-Gen Intel CPUs and Wi-Fi 6 support 8 hours ago  –  The MateBook X can be configured with up to an Intel 10th-Gen i7 CPU. | Image: Huawei As part of its developer conference today, Huawei has announced that updated versions of two of its laptops, the MateBook X and MateBook 14, are getting a global release following their launch in China. The M...
  • Instagram is testing three new designs to make room for Reels and shopping
  • Walmart begins testing drone deliveries for household goods and groceries
  • Fortnite special edition Nintendo Switch announced for Europe
  • Huawei’s HarmonyOS is coming to smartphones
  • IFTTT introduces Pro subscriptions, limits free version to three applets
  • Your move, PS5
  • Portland passes strongest facial recognition ban in the US
  • Xbox Game Pass for PC is doubling its price next week
  • A year later, Amazon’s voice assistant alliance still hasn’t
  • Ubisoft CEO says ‘real change will take time’ while announcing diversity initiative 4 hours ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ubisoft is expanding its diversity inclusion efforts with two programs aimed at women and “individuals from underrepresented groups,” the company said today. Ubisoft announced the news ahead of its Way Forward event. In a separate video, CEO Yves Guillem...
  • Android 11 Go is available today, and it will launch apps 20 percent faster
  • Ninja returns to Twitch
  • Democrats unveil new agenda for economic recovery and climate action
  • Annapurna brings its best games together in a beautiful box set
  • Welcome to the next generation of gaming
  • Here’s a better look at the Game & Watch handheld launching in November
  • Microsoft’s new Xbox Series S is surprisingly small in size and price
  • A first look at Microsoft’s new Xbox Series X console
  • Sony’s 55-inch A8H OLED TV is down to $1,500 at Amazon
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