Wednesday, September 02, 2020

2 September - Technology - NextWeb / Tech Crunch / The Verge

The NextWeb
  • A notorious GPT-3-generated blog shows AI still can’t imitate human writing 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. Last week, many tech publications broke news about a blog generated by artificial intelligence that fooled thousands of users and landed on top...
  • Canyon’s electric car-bike hybrid concept might just be crazy enough to work 2 days ago  –  As we experience a global pandemic, the ever present climate crisis, and overcrowding in cities, the way we get around isn’t changing because it can, it’s changing because it has to.  Some vehicles of our near future appear to be more certain to succeed than others. Ebikes and electric cars are c...
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Swiss health insurer now accepts Bitcoin as payment’
  • Facebook threatens to block news if Australia doesn’t amend its new media law
  • It’s 2020, your team’s mental health and morale should be a priority by now
  • 3 biggest post-corona trends shaping the future of work
  • Oops! Apple let a piece of Mac malware run without warning
  • I tried a hand sanitizer-spraying watch and have never felt less clean
  • Review: Finally! Logitech G made some bright, colorful gaming accessories
  • I was excited for Neuralink. Then I watched Elon Musk’s stu
  • Here’s your COVID-19 horoscope (since you hate science so much) a day ago  –  Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the technology trying to stop its spread. You can subscribe here. Hola pandemic pals, When flu season hits this year, are we going to update the novel coronavirus to COVID-20? I’m on...
  • Pirated copies of ‘Tenet’ flood torrent sites — but you probably don’t wanna watch them 2 days ago  –  It’s been less than a week since Christopher Nolan‘s latest blockbuster Tenet hit theaters, but pirated copies are already circulating the internet. There’s one catch though: none of the leaked versions are in high quality. Several pirated copies of the movie have cropped up online over the past ...
  • Electronic skin that ‘feels’ pain could lead to smarter prosthetics and robots
  • Land Rover launched a phone because… actually I’ve got no idea why
  • With this training, Amazon doesn’t have to be your business competition. It can be your rocket fuel
  • We asked 3 CEOs what tech trends will dominate post-COVID
  • EVs aren’t worse for the environment than regular cars — so stop trying to prove it
  • How to find free-to-use images with Google Search
  • How Oxfordshire is using connected vehicles to predict accident hotspots
  • Apple might announce four iPhones and two watches this 
  • Boost your productivity with Gmail’s canned responses 20 hours 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. “How can I boost my productivity and procrastinate less?” This is a question I’ve asked myself countless times. Shall I ignore my emails, try and get through t...
    Boost your productivity with Gmail’s canned responses 20 hours 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. “How can I boost my productivity and procrastinate less?” This is a question I’ve asked myself countless times. Shall I ignore my emails, try and get through t...
  • New study suggests we all might be children of alien organisms 20 hours ago  –  Panspermia means “seeds everywhere,” and the concept represents the idea that life on Earth may have been seeded by biological lifeforms from outer space. This long-controversial idea recently received some experimental support from a new study out of Japan. These extremes of life were tested uti...
  • Hubble reveals Andromeda has made contact with our galaxy
  • Microsoft’s new deepfake detection tool rates bogus videos with a confidence score
  • Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 2 officially arrives on September 18 for $2,000
  • Nvidia’s new RTX 30XX cards will upset everyone who just bought a 2080 Ti
  • Thought experiment shows how we might be at the mercy of quantum jerks from another universe
  • Netflix is offering a selection of original films and shows for free
  • Watch the first ever demo of a self-powered electronic paper interface
  • The HÅG Capisco is a weird, beautiful chair for people who
  • Moderator of notorious dark web marketplace sentenced to 11 years 14 hours ago  –  Yet another individual associated with notorious dark web marketplace AlphaBay is going to jail. Bryan Connor Herrell, who served as a moderator, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison, the US Department of Justice has revealed. Back in January, Herrell pled guilty to conspiring to engage in a ...
  • Skoda launches its all-new Enyaq EV — here’s what you need to know 15 hours ago  –  Earlier this week, Volkswagen brand Skoda announced its first all-electric sports utility vehicle, the Enyaq IV. It’s the company’s second EV after its small city car, the  CITIGOe, which is basically just a rebadged VW e-UP! Anyway, it’s an exciting moment for Skoda fans, assuming there are some...
  • What beekeeping taught me about digital leadership
  • Pakistan blocks Tinder and Grindr for spreading ‘immoral content’
  • India bans 118 Chinese apps including PUBG
  • A pretty chart showing Norway and Sweden’s top EVs of the moment
  • These tech stocks still have a price above $1K — will they split?
  • Transformative AI, no-code, or low-code? The best approaches to deploying AI in your business
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Pornhub now accepts Bitcoin’
  • Netflix’ docuseries on Indian billionaires faces censorship
  • Disney sets a date for Mulan’s non-premium streaming debut 4 hours ago  –  If you really wanted to see the new live-action Mulan, but didn’t want to pay $30 premium to see it early this fall, there’s good news. Disney has now revealed when the film will be available to Disney+ subscribers at no additional cost. The film’s page on Disney+ was recently updated, saying “Wa...
  • Nintendo now lets you cancel Switch pre-orders — here’s how it works 6 hours 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. Nintendo recently updated its Switch eShop policies, making a change many fans have been requesting practically since the console released: the ability to canc...
  • Intel just changed its logo for the first time since 2006
  • Mighty Buildings’ 3D-printed homes might be a great solution to the housing crisis
  • iZotope’s new RX8 repair tool cleans up your noisy audio with AI
  • Intel announces 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPUs, promising meaningful processing and graphics gains
  • Trump plans to collect DNA, eye scans, and voice prints from immigrants
  • A beginner’s guide to the most popular Git commands
  • Baby Yoda returns in The Mandalorian Season 2 this October
  • Russia’s most notorious troll farm reportedly used deepfak

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  • Indonesian insurtech startup PasarPolis gets $54 million Series B from investors including LeapFrog and SBI 20 hours ago  –  PasarPolis, the Indonesian-based startup focused on making insurance policies more accessible in Southeast Asia, has closed a Series B round totaling $54 million. Investors include LeapFrog Investments and SBI Investment, both firms that focus on financial services; AlphaJWC; Intudo Ventures; and...
  • GM, Ford wrap up ventilator production and shift back to auto business a day ago  –  As the COVID-19 pandemic spread to the United States, a number of automakers and other manufacturers announced plans to retrofit factories to help ease the shortage of personal protective gear and ventilators. Now, two U.S. automakers have fulfilled their separate multi-million-dollar ventilator ...
  • Toss Lab raises $13 million Series B for its collaboration platform JANDI, the ‘Slack of Asia’ a day ago  –  As Slack ramps up its investment in Asia, Toss Lab, the South Korea-based creator of enterprise collaboration platform JANDI, is preparing to become a more formidable rival. The startup announced today that it has raised a $13 million Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia, the early-stage ventur...
  • Daily Crunch: Apple launches ‘Exposure Notification Express’ for COVID-19
  • Rocket Lab gains key FAA launch license for its US-based launch site
  • Amazon’s big redesign on iOS to reach all US users by month-end
  • Dell’s U3219Q 32-inch 4K monitor provides a perfect home office upgrade
  • What will a Wish IPO look like? We may know soon
  • Jeff Lawson on API startups, picking a market and getting dissed by VCs
  • Google’s AI-powered flood alerts now cover all of India an
  • A SonicWall cloud bug exposed corporate networks to hackers 15 hours ago  –  A newly discovered bug in a cloud system used to manage SonicWall firewalls could have allowed hackers to break into thousands of corporate networks. Enterprise firewalls and virtual private network appliances are vital gatekeepers tasked with protecting corporate networks from hackers and cybera...
  • Learn how to raise your first dollars at Disrupt 2020 15 hours ago  –  Deciding how to go about getting your initial funding is always a tricky subject, as the wrong move could adversely impact your young company. At Disrupt 2020 this September 14-18, we’ll showcase three amazing investors and experts who’ve shepherded multiple companies during their earliest stages...
  • Mulberry, the warranty service for direct to consumer brands, approaches $10 million ARR 16 hours ago  –  In the two years since Chinedu Eleanya founded Mulberry to be the warranty service for direct to consumer brands, business has boomed.  Already riding a shakeup in consumer behavior brought by the emergence of startup brands selling just about everything to just about everyone, Mulberry brought a...
  • India bans PUBG and over 100 additional Chinese apps
  • Point72, the firm investing hedge fund mogul Steven A Cohen’s personal wealth, gets into healthcare
  • India’s online learning platform Unacademy raises $150 million at $1.45 billion valuation
  • Microsoft launches a deepfake detector tool ahead of US election
  • Klaxoon teases new interactive meeting product for video calls
  • China’s logistics titan YTO nets close to $1B from Alibaba in overseas push
  • 3one4 Capital launches $100M fund to back early-stage st
  • CBP does not make it clear Americans can opt out of airport face scanning, watchdog says 8 hours ago  –  A government watchdog has criticized U.S. border authorities for failing to properly disclose the agency’s use of facial recognition at airports, which included instructions on how Americans can opt out. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), tasked with protecting the border and screening imm...
  • Submit your pitch deck to Disrupt 2020’s Pitch Deck Teardown 9 hours ago  –  Disrupt 2020 is a few weeks away and we’re looking for founders to submit their pitch decks. In the Pitch Deck Teardown, top venture capitalists and entrepreneurs will evaluate and suggest fixes for Disrupt 2020 attendees’ pitch decks. First impressions are everything, and pitch decks are often t...
  • 3 ways COVID-19 has affected the property investment market 9 hours ago  –  COVID-19 has stirred up the long-settled dust on real estate investing, which could paint a bright future with promising – yet different – projects for developers, startups and investors.
  • Deep Science: Dog detectors, Mars mappers and AI-scrambling sweaters
  • Hear E-Prix Champion di Grassi on the future of electric motor sports (including scooters)
  • Dear Sophie: Can we sponsor an H-1B university researcher for an EB-1B green card?
  • To build responsibly, tech needs to do more than just hire chief ethics officers
  • Twitch launches Watch Parties to all creators worldwide
  • FB Messenger chief Stan Chudnovsky is coming to Disrupt
  • Peer Medical allows lung cancer patients to anonymously sh
  • SoftBank Vision Fund 2 leads $100 million Series C in digital therapeutics company Biofourmis 43 minutes ago  –  Biofourmis, which combines AI-based data analytics and biosensors to monitor the progress of medical treatments, has raised funding from one of the world’s most high-profile investors. The digital therapeutics company, which launched in Singapore and is now headquartered in Boston, announced toda...
  • Track autonomous vehicle testing in your state with this new tool from the US government 4 hours ago  –  The U.S. government rolled out a new online tool Wednesday designed to give the public insight into where and who is testing automated vehicle technology throughout the country. The official name of the online tool — Automated Vehicle Transparency and Engagement for Safe Testing Initiative tracki...
  • Daily Crunch: India bans PUBG and other Chinese apps 5 hours ago  –  India continues to crack down on Chinese apps, Microsoft launches a deepfake detector and Google offers a personalized news podcast. This is your Daily Crunch for September 2, 2020. The big story: India bans PUBG and other Chinese apps The Indian government continues its purge of apps created by ...
  • Facebook now lets you customize your Watch video feed with #Topics
  • Samsung’s got a new budget 5G handset and a fitness tracker with a two-week battery
  • FCC dings company for $164K after its false broadband claims distorted national report
  • Snapchat had a big August amid TikTok uncertainty
  • Venture capital LPs are the missing link to solving Silicon Valley’s diversity problem
  • Edtech startups find demand from an unlikely customer: Public schools
  • Hypatos gets $11.8M for a deep learning approach to docu

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  • Amazon deletes job listings detailing effort to monitor ‘labor organizing threats’ a day ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has deleted two job listings posted to its corporate employment website detailing “intelligence analyst” roles that involved, among other duties, monitoring “labor organizing threats” within the company. The listings, which were posted days ago, f...
  • Razer’s Blade 15 is a capable gaming laptop that’s $400 off at Amazon
  • Nuclear Throne developer Vlambeer is shutting down after a decade of games
  • OnlyFans confirms new caps on tips and pay-per-view content, but says the changes are unrelated to Bella Thorne
  • Apple releases iOS 13.7 with support for new automatic COVID-19 notification system
  • Gogo sells commercial in-flight internet business to bankrupt satellite provider
  • Dr Disrespect says his mysterious Twitch ban is causing him anxiety
  • The best laptop you can buy in 2020
  • Nvidia’s new RTX 3090 is a $1,499 monster GPU designed for 8K gaming
  • Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 GPU, priced at $699 and 
  • Intel announces its new 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPUs, available on laptops this fall 12 hours ago  –  Intel has officially announced its first 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors for laptops, which will feature the company’s new integrated Xe graphics, Thunderbolt 4 support, Wi-Fi 6, and a big leap in performance and battery life over the previous Ice Lake chips. The company claims that the new 11th G...
  • Biden should keep Facebook workers out of his transition team, groups demand
     12 hours ago  –  Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Earlier this week, a coalition of veteran and progressive groups demanded that the Joe Biden campaign commit that no Facebook executives or registered lobbyists would be appointed to the Biden transition team or future administration if elected. ...
  • T-Mobile adds faster midband 5G coverage to more than 80 new cities and towns
  • Here’s how to preorder the $1,999.99 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2
  • These four 360Hz gaming monitors support Nvidia’s new low-latency feature
  • Apple, Google, and Amazon respond to European tech taxes by passing on costs
  • The Mandalorian’s second season premieres on October 30th
  • Panasonic’s Lumix S5 is a more compact full-frame mirrorless camera
  • India bans PUBG Mobile, Alipay, Baidu, and more Chinese apps
  • Lucid Motors says its electric sedan can hit a quarter-mile
  • These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat an hour ago  –  Photo by Phil Esposito On Monday, Dana Simmons came downstairs to find her 12-year-old son, Lazare, in tears. He’d completed the first assignment for his seventh-grade history class on Edgenuity, an online platform for virtual learning. He’d received a 50 out of 100. That wasn’t on a practice ...
  • Windows 10 is getting a new touch keyboard with GIFs, emoji, and better voice typing
  • Go read John Boyega’s unfiltered interview about how Disney (and Star Wars) sidelined him
  • Verizon spent $1.9 billion to catch up on 5G spectrum
  • Mulan will be available to all Disney Plus subscribers for no extra fee on December 4th
  • How to transfer your Google Authenticator 2FA to a new phone
  • Western Digital’s fast 500GB NVMe SSD is down to its lowest price
  • Twitch now lets anyone host an online movie party with the Amazon Prime Video library
  • Samsung’s Galaxy Fit 2 can last for up to three weeks on a charge
  • Trump’s TikTok deal has hit a serious roadblock
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