Friday, October 02, 2020

2 October - Technology - The Next Web / Tech Crunch / The Verge

The Next Web
  • Test your Python skills with these 10 projects 2 days ago  –  Did you know Python is known as an all-rounder programming language? Yes, it is, though it shouldn’t be used on every single project, You can use it to create desktop applications, games, mobile apps, websites, and system software. It’s even the most suitable language for the implementation of ar...
  • This AI advised me to read The Hunger Games to survive this ‘cruel world’ 2 days ago  –  If you’re unimpressed by the book recommendations provided by your tasteless friends, a new AI tool called GPT-3 Books could help revive your joy of reading. The system is the brainchild of Anurag Ramdasan and Richard Reis. The duo are the co-founders of Most Recommended Books, a repository of re...
  • Google’s Pixel 4a is the ideal Android phone for people on a budget
  • How Snapchat, Dropbox, and HubSpot helped employees adjust to COVID-19
  • Digital governance is the ‘new normal’ — here’s how we can keep it ethical
  • Lumen5 Video Maker can have you turning out cool social media videos in minutes
  • Kylie Jenner’s make-up company apologizes to customers for Shopify’s data breach
  • TNW2020: 8 sessions worth setting Google Calendar reminders for
  • 24 hours ’til TNW2020: My thoughts before hosting our 15th flagship event
  • Lynk & Co.’s car sharing-owning scheme will never cost mo
  • Mercedez-Benz’s GLE rated as Europe’s safest automated vehicle a day ago  –  With advancing technology, many new cars come equipped with automated features that appear to give them some degree of autonomous capability. The problem is, all these systems are slightly different and that has caused confusion and danger, and in some cases led to fatalities. Vehicle safety test...
  • Xiaomi’s Mi Smart Speaker is bass-heavy and surprisingly inexpensive a day ago  –  Amazon Echo and Google Nest (formerly known as Google Home) have mostly dominated the smart speaker space in India. These speakers are not exactly cheap by domestic standards in India. You’d have to spend anywhere between ₹3,500 ($47.50) to ₹5,000 ($68) to get their smallest speakers — namely, th...
  • TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky on why ‘caring’ about recycling isn’t enough
  • How data from Google Earth helps us understand the world, and ourselves
  • Elon Musk put a computer interface in a pig’s brain. Could future AI turn animals against us?
  • Google officially reveals the Pixel 4a 5G for $499
  • Google’s Pixel 5 costs $699 and packs major camera improvements
  • Google’s Nest Audio brings 50% more bass for $100
  • The new $50 Chromecast with ‘Google TV’ and a remote is now official
  • Dutch predictive policing tool ‘designed to ethnically profil
  • Microsoft’s $549 Surface Laptop Go could be its most compelling PC yet a day ago  –  I have a soft spot for the Surface Go. Despite being the least powerful device in Microsoft‘s Windows 10 lineup, the fact that Microsoft managed to fit a great display and a premium-feeling metal design into a package that starts at $400 led me to recommend it often for people looking for their f...
  • Fujitsu apologizes after Tokyo Stock Exchange suffers worst ‘crash’ in history a day ago  –  The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) suffered its worst service outage ever on Thursday when a technical glitch sent its entire system offline for the entire day. The exchange said a hardware fault discovered at around 7am local time eventually led to system-wide failure after backup infrastructure fai...
  • How to teach yourself computer science: A developer’s 100-hour journey
  • Google Photos’ new AI-powered editor will retouch your images for you
  • Here are the best Chrome extensions for web developers in 2020
  • From Yahoo! Pipes to Zapier: A brief history of web app automation
  • GM and Nikola’s deal didn’t go through on time, leaving the Badger’s future uncertain
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Jack Dorsey slams Coinbase CEO for overlooking its users’ societal issues’
  • 3 things I learned closing an acquisition during the pandemic
  • Google’s new machine learning tool turns your awful hum
  • You should call in sick more often — even if you’re WFH 12 hours ago  –  The dramatic rise in working from home due to coronavirus looks likely to become a permanent feature for many organizations, at least for part of the week. But while this brings many benefits to both employees and employers, it’s also likely to lead to more people working while ill. This is not g...
  • Google Maps adds new AR tools to help you get around town 15 hours ago  –  Not content to just launch new hardware this week, Google today revealed a few updates to Maps that should make the platform a bit more useful for getting around — and a little more futuristic, too. Specifically, Google is expanding the augmented reality (AR) capabilities within Maps. Last year, ...
  • Minecraft comes to Smash Bros… wait, what?
  • Review: Logitech grabs the checkered flag with the G923 racing wheel
  • Twitter analysis suggests late nights make Trump angrier — and hurt his reelection odds
  • Yep, Twitter is down right now (Update: it’s back)
  • There’s a six-figure career in software development in your future. This training can be your gateway
  • Yes, you can make money and still be ethical
  • Microsoft made a $25 Bluetooth number pad for your Surface
  • The ARM-based Surface Pro X gets a faster processor an
  • An Agile Scrum product owner is your company’s MVP. This course can get you there 3 hours ago  –  TLDR: The Complete Agile Scrum Product Owner Masterclass Course teaches what it takes to lead a project from ideation to successful completion. In the world of project management as outlined by one of the most popular PM methodologies, the Agile Scrum product owner is basically the team’s quarter...
    An Agile Scrum product owner is your company’s MVP. This course can get you there 3 hours ago  –  TLDR: The Complete Agile Scrum Product Owner Masterclass Course teaches what it takes to lead a project from ideation to successful completion. In the world of project management as outlined by one of the most popular PM methodologies, the Agile Scrum product owner is basically the team’s quarter...
  • Beauty is in the app of the beholder 3 hours ago  –  I’m not a selfie guy. Raising my hand and pointing my phone at my own face never quite felt natural to me. Sure, I’ve done it a bunch of times, but it never really got any less awkward. It never felt like me. Because it wasn’t me. There has long been whispers about phone cameras secretly post-pro...
  • Growth hacking can make or break your startup business. This intro guidance can show the way
  • Musk has hinted at Tesla’s Indian entry for 4 years now — just do it already!
  • Facebook merging Messenger and Instagram chat only benefits Zuckerberg — not you
  • A beginner’s guide to the math that powers machine learning
  • How to perfect your fintech story and close your next funding round
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Ethereum miners were 6x more profitable than Bitcoin miners in September’
  • The UK really wants escooters — but needs lots of rules because people are reckless
  • Twitter wants to tackle its biased image cropping problem
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  • Google takes aim at ‘beauty filters’ with design changes coming to Pixel phones a day ago  –  Google is taking aim at photo face filters and other “beautifying” techniques that mental health experts believe can warp a person’s self-confidence, particularly when they’re introduced to younger users. The company says it will now rely on expert guidance when applying design principles for pho...
  • Hear how Porsche is preparing for the electric future at TC Sessions: Mobility a day ago  –  Detlev von Platen is a car guy, and in this age of new mobility, that’s important. Platen has been at Porsche for more than 30 years, and is currently on Porsche’s executive board as the sales and marketing executive. Before his current role, he led Porsche North America, where he oversaw incredi...
  • Google now has three mid-range Pixel phones a day ago  –  The Pixel has always been a mixed bag. The first-generation product was announced roughly this time four years ago, with Google finally offering a full-throated entry into the smartphone space after years of device partnerships. Of course, by 2016, the market was already mature — particularly for...
  • Microsoft enhances customer data platform as pandemic drives need for personalization
  • Twitter confirms some service flakiness today — now fixed
  • News apps in the US and China use algorithms to drive engagement, discovery
  • SAP continues to build out customer experience business with Emarsys acquisition
  • Macrometa, an edge computing service for app developers, lands $7M seed round led by DNX
  • Motif Foodworks preps commercial production for its first ingredient, improving the flavor of beef substitutes
  • Cisco acquires PortShift to raise its game in DevOps and 
  • Google Maps gets improved Live View AR directions a day ago  –  Google today announced a few updates to Live View, the augmented reality walking directions in its Google Maps app that officially launched last year. Live View uses your phone’s camera and GPS to tell you exactly where to go, making it a nice addition to the standard map-centric directions in si...
  • Bullpen Capital raises $130 million more to fund the far afield and misunderstood a day ago  –  Bullpen Capital, a now 10-year-old, venture fund in San Francisco that focuses on what it calls post-seed investing — it backs startups that have already raised up to $5 million and “aren’t quite ready for a $10 million check but another $5 million would make them dangerous,” says firm co-founder...
  • Ethel’s Club founder is launching Somewhere Good, a social platform that centers people of color a day ago  –  Naj Austin, founder and CEO of subscription-based physical and digital community Ethel’s Club, is building Somewhere Good to be a one-stop shop for people of color. Beyond being a place for people of color to connect, it’s also about creating a safe space for folks to be their authentic selves. “...
  • IonQ claims it has built the most powerful quantum computer yet
  • Teenage Engineering’s OB-4 ‘magic radio’ is a weird and beautiful wireless speaker
  • Facebook Groups to gain suite of new tools for managing discussions, surfacing public content
  • Ro makes the weight loss product Plenity commercially available to everyone in the US
  • Pixie Labs raises $9.15M Series A round for its Kubernetes observability platform
  • With $18M in new funding, Braintrust says it’s creating a fairer model for freelancers
  • The Spectrum Equity-backed video education platform Kaj
  • Daily Crunch: Google commits $1B to pay publishers 20 hours ago  –  Google is paying a lot of money for its news licensing program, Microsoft announces an affordable laptop and Facebook says it won’t accept ads casting doubts on the election. This is your Daily Crunch for October 1, 2020. The big story: Google commits $1B to pay publishers Specifically, CEO Sunda...
  • There’s a way to pick the absolute best images for your content: Apply AI 21 hours ago  –  Is there a data-driven — or even better, an AI-driven — process for gaining deeper insight into which images are more likely to engage users?
  • Facebook sues two companies engaged in data scraping operations 21 hours ago  –  Facebook today says it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in an international “data scraping” operation. The operation extended across Facebook properties, including both Facebook and Instagram, as well as other large websites and services, including Twitter, A...
  • Section 230 will be on the chopping block at the next big tech hearing
  • What if the kernel is corrupt?
  • Oracle’s TikTok and Zoom deals won’t move cloud market share needle significantly
  • Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time
  • Facebook won’t accept ads that ‘delegitimize’ US election results
  • Last chance to demo at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 — package sales end tomorrow
  • Working for social justice isn’t a ‘distraction’ for mission-foc
  • Indianapolis-based Malomo raises $2.8 million to turn order tracking into a branded customer experience 5 hours ago  –  Yaw Aning named Malomo, the service he launched for small businesses to turn their order-tracking services into branded customer experiences, as a tribute to his mother, who was a small business owner herself. “Malomo” means flowers in Swahili and it was the name of Aning’s mother’s small soap-ma...
  • Zynga completes its acquisition of hyper-casual game maker Rollic 5 hours ago  –  Zynga announced in August that it would be acquiring Istanbul-based Rollic, developer and publisher of hyper-casual gaming hits like Go Knots 3D and Tangle Master 3D. Today, it says the deal has closed. To be clear, Zynga doesn’t completely own Rollic yet. Instead, it has purchased 80% of the com...
  • American stocks drop in wake of president’s COVID-19 diagnosis 6 hours ago  –  American stocks are selling in the wake of President Trump, and members of his family and a key staff member, testing positive for COVID-19. The news, which came overnight, is weighing heavily on all major American indices, but heaviest on tech shares. As of the time of writing, here’s where the ...
  • Twitter may let users choose how to crop image previews after bias scrutiny
  • Paired picks up $1M funding and launches its relationship app for couples
  • Blossom Capital appoints Carmen Alfonso Rico as its newest partner
  • Nintendo’s new RC Mario Kart looks terrific
  • A PC gaming site had to ban political troll mods for games, because nowhere is safe
  • Spain’s startup ecosystem: 9 investors on remote work, green shoots and 2020 trends
  • Digital vote-by-mail applications in most states are inacce
  • Coinbase lets you withdraw funds to your debit card 23 minutes ago  –  Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is adding a new way to withdraw funds from your Coinbase account. If you’ve added a compatible debit card to your account, you can transfer USD, EUR or GBP to your bank account nearly instantly. There are some drawbacks, and the main one is that you’ll pay a lot o...
  • Kaleido’s Unscreen is dead simple drag-and-drop background removal for video 2 hours ago  –  Removing the background of a video you’ve shot can be a real pain if you don’t have the kind of tools and setup used by professionals — and even then it isn’t as easy as it should be. Kaleido’s one-step background removal tool for images, remove.bg, has graduated to full motion video with the com...
  • Watch SpaceX launch a GPS satellite for the US Space Force live 2 hours ago  –  SpaceX is set to launch a GPS-III satellite for the U.S. Space Force using a Falcon 9 rocket, with a target launch time of 9:43 PM EDT (6:43 PM PDT). That opens a 15-minute launch window, and so far weather is looking relatively good, which will hopefully help SpaceX end a recent string of launch...
  • With $2.7M in fresh funding, Sora hopes to bring virtual high school to the mainstream
  • Announcing the TC Pitch-Off: Mobility startups
  • Bolt Threads partners with Adidas, owners of Balenciaga and Gucci, and Stella McCartney on mushroom leather
  • Tesla delivers 139,300 vehicles in Q3, beating expectations
  • Asana’s strong direct listing lights alternative path to public market for SaaS startups
  • Elon Musk says an update for its Starship spacecraft development program is coming in 3 weeks
  • Air quality monitoring service Airly raises $2 million as fire

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  • Amazon’s palm reading starts at the grocery store, but it could be so much bigger a day ago  –  Earlier this week, Amazon unveiled Amazon One: new technology for its Amazon Go stores that lets shoppers pay for their groceries by scanning the palm of their hand. By analyzing the shape of your hand and the unique configuration of veins under your skin, Amazon says its technology can verify yo...
  • Facebook will start surfacing some public group discussions in people’s News Feeds and search results
  • Surgeon Simulator 2 is now free for NHS surgeons
  • You won’t need Disney Plus to watch Mulan starting next week
  • Apex Legends crossplay launches in beta next week
  • Android 101: how to tweak your multitasking pane
  • Google keeps adding Pixel features it claims it didn’t need: 2020 edition
  • The best games of 2020
  • Hades is a roguelike with hot gods to kiss and kill
  • Hello Kitty is getting a new, adorable Tamagotchi treatment
  • Facebook will fight QAnon by adding ‘credible’ info to #savethechildren hashtag 21 hours ago  –  Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images Facebook is taking additional steps to restrict militia movements and the QAnon conspiracy movement. The company will reject ads that “praise, support or represent militarized social movements,” including militias and anarchist groups as well as QA...
  • Google will turn selfie retouching off by default with the new Pixel phones
  • YouTuber and beauty mogul Jeffree Star accused of sexual misconduct, new report alleges
  • A lot of older Macs won’t be able to watch 4K Netflix this fall because of a missing chip
  • Comcast updates its xFi Pod mesh Wi-Fi extenders with faster speeds and fewer pods
  • The Apple Watch heart monitor sends too many people to the doctor
  • The best laptop you can buy in 2020
  • NASA is about to launch an upgraded microgravity toilet to the International Space Station
  • Game modding site Nexus Mods is banning US political mods for the rest of 2020
  • Amazon’s Alexa app will soon work as an in-car display for 
  • 10 things we learned about Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, Nintendo’s mixed reality racer 17 hours ago  –  One of Nintendo’s more intriguing upcoming games is Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit. Developed by Velan Studios, it’s a title that follows the likes of Labo and Pokémon Go, attempting to take Nintendo’s playful experiences and translate them into the real world. In this case, Home Circuit is both a...
  • Sega’s Game Gear Micro is visibly smaller than the Dreamcast’s VMU
    18 hours ago  –  I can’t put it better than SEGAbits: “Famitsu magazine took the photo we all wanted to see.” The photo is of Sega’s upcoming Game Gear Micro — perhaps the most ridiculous miniature gaming nostalgia bomb ever announced by virtue of the exorbitant price you’ll pay to carry just four games at a time...
  • Google’s Stadia Controller now supports USB-C headsets and headphones
  • Verizon’s LTE-based home internet is now in 48 US states, and it could be your last resort
  • Conservative activist Jacob Wohl charged with running election robocall scheme
  • Google will give you the new Chromecast for free if you pay for one month of YouTube TV
  • Facebook moderators at Accenture are being forced back to the office, and many are scared for their safety
  • The UK’s health system plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions
  • Gmail mistakenly removed the button that lets you triage loads of emails at once, but it’s coming back
  • Google Maps’ AR directions will soon show landmarks to h
  • Watch SpaceX launch an updated GPS satellite for the US Space Force 44 minutes ago  –  Late Friday night, SpaceX is slated to launch a new upgraded GPS satellite for the US Space Force from Cape Canaveral, Florida — the latest spacecraft intended to help modernize the current GPS fleet. This will be the fourth GPS satellite of its kind to launch in the last three years, and the thi...
  • Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis shows the limits of relying on testing alone
  • Galaxy Z Fold 2 survives dirt durability test that its predecessor couldn’t
  • Netflix’s Emily In Paris is a fun getaway with your most stressful friend
  • Vergecast: a run through the Pixel 5 event
  • Here are the email apps iOS 14 now lets you set as default
  • Twitter plans to change how image cropping works following concerns over racial bias
  • Apple Watch SE review: pay a lot less to give up only a little
  • Tesla delivered 139,300 vehicles in the third quarter, smashing its previous record
  • Crash Bandicoot 4 is a charming, challenging throwback
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