Saturday, October 31, 2020

31 October - Technology - NextWeb / Tech Crunch / The Verge

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  • San Jose is building 880 km of bike lanes — but will they get more people cycling? 3 days ago  –  This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up...
  • My failed startup: Lessons I learned by not becoming a millionaire 3 days ago  –  Let’s start with the one minute version: I was part of the EF12 London cohort in 2019, where I met my co-founder. Together, we pursued an idea that I had for a while: A privacy-preserving medical-data marketplace and AI platform built around federated deep learning. The purpose of the platform wo...
  • Should a conscious robot get the same rights as a human?
  • Google is testing a nifty app comparison feature in the Play Store
  • Big Sur 11.0.1 developer’s beta is out — but where’s the general release?
  • Facebook is subverting democracy again — and it’s doing it on purpose
  • Samsung overtakes Xiaomi in Indian smartphone market after two years
  • Lenovo Legion 7i review: a great gaming laptop for grown-ups
  • AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 GPUs are a serious challenge to Nvidia’s dominance
  • Hands-on: The PS5’s DualSense controller is a weird, shak
  • HP Envy 15 review: A powerful content creator’s laptop without the bulk 2 days ago  –  HP’s Envy 15 laptop for 2020 is at once a practical and beautiful option for people who find themselves doing more than just running a browser and streaming music. The machine offers a bunch of configurations aimed at content creators — folks who work on imaging, audio, and video production — inc...
  • Google launches VPN service so Google One users can browse more privately 2 days ago  –  One of my favorite things about being a Google Fi subscriber is the service’s built-in VPN service; it’s a neat added layer of security, especially when connected to public Wi-Fi. I’ve also wondered why Google hasn’t made this service available more widely — but no more. Google today announced it...
  • Netflix just made its best two plans a bit more expensive
  • How to change your Messenger background and emoji
  • Ubisoft delays Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine due to COVID
  • Explore the Twitter interactions of US politicians with this social network tool
  • Being a paradoxical manager is a good thing — here’s why
  • Watch a Trump clone investigate deepfakes in a new show from the creators of South Park
  • TourBox can speed up all your Adobe Photoshop and Final Cut projects by putting the control entirely in your hands
  • Lithuania is paying people to trade in polluting cars for esc
  • To reach net-zero carbon emissions, we must address social inequalities 10 hours ago  –  With COP26, the UN’s climate change conference, on the horizon next year in Glasgow, all eyes are on securing the decarbonization of the global economy. What this will mean and how it will be achieved will be hotly debated before, during and after the conference. Thanks to COVID-19, the world has...
  • Aspiring to be a full time entrepreneur? Then you should probably consider these five growth tools 11 hours ago  –  Going it alone in the big bad world of business can be both nerve-racking and strangely freeing. Obviously, a one-man-band heaps a lot of responsibility on his or her own shoulders when every success or failure leans entirely on them. However, it does grant cagey thinkers the opportunity to work ...
  • This email marketing tool could turn all your campaigns into gold
  • Facebook charged Biden a higher price than Trump for campaign ads
  • The Backbone One is the best mobile gaming controller I’ve laid hands on
  • How to subscribe to Apple One from your iPhone or iPad
  • Report: Sony to buy Crunchyroll for nearly $1 billion
  • AI to help world’s first removal of space debris
  • Tesla short sellers have lost $27B betting against Elon Musk this year
  • Hushed is the second private phone number you’ve always 

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  • Space investors will see into the future at TechCrunch Sessions: Space a day ago  –  If the projections are to be believed, the amount of money swirling around the space industry is poised to grow considerably over the next decade. Consider that the aviation giant Boeing estimates that the aerospace market will reach $3 trillion in market size between now and 2029. It’s most cert...
  • Cloud infrastructure revenue grows 33% this quarter to almost $33B a day ago  –  The cloud infrastructure market kept growing at a brisk pace last quarter, as the pandemic continued to push more companies to the cloud with offices shut down in much of the world. This week the big three — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — all reported their numbers and, as expected, the news was ...
  • B8ta remains bullish on IRL shopping with new acquisition a day ago  –  Coronavirus cases in the United States are reaching new peaks. E-commerce is continuing to boom. And b8ta, a San Francisco startup that is betting on the future of physical retailers, is doubling down on its in-person footprint. B8ta offers shelf space to unique digital products, such as electric...
  • Is the Great 2020 Tech Rally slowing?
  • NowThis partners with Calm to offer a soothing Election Day live stream
  • Smartphone shipments dip in China for Q3, led by Huawei decline
  • Illinois is taking a data-driven approach to its mask-wearing ad campaign
  • UK watchdog reduces Marriott data breach fine to $23.8M, down from $123M
  • Under Armour to sell MyFitnessPal for $345 million, after acquiring it in 2015 for $475 million
  • AOL founder Steve Case, involved early in Section 230, s
  • Big tech’s ‘blackbox’ algorithms face regulatory oversight under EU plan a day ago  –  Major Internet platforms will be required to open up their algorithms to regulatory oversight under proposals European lawmakers are set to introduce next month. In a speech today Commission EVP Margrethe Vestager suggested algorithmic accountability will be a key plank of the forthcoming legisla...
  • Facebook is limiting distribution of ‘save our children’ hashtag over QAnon ties a day ago  –  Facebook today confirmed that it will be limiting the distribution of the hashtag “save our children.” Over the past several months, the phrase — and ones like it — have become associated with QAnon. These terms have served to provide a kind of innocuous cover for the popular online conspiracy th...
  • New GV partner Terri Burns has a simple investment thesis: Gen Z a day ago  –  In 2015, then-Twitter product manager Terri Burns penned a piece about staying optimistic despite the sexism and racism that exists expansively within tech. “America has broke my heart countless times, but I believe that technology can be a tool to mend some of the woes of the world and produce t...
  • Teachers are leaving schools. Will they come to startups next?
  • E.ventures opens new office in Paris
  • Daimler invests in lidar company Luminar in push to bring autonomous trucks to highways
  • Uber Eats faces discrimination allegations over free delivery from Black-owned restaurants
  • Teampay adds $5M to its Series A at higher valuation after growing ARR 320% growth since the round
  • Passion Capital backs UK fertility workplace benefits provider, Fertifa
  • Reliance Jio Platforms tops 400M subscribers, explores exp
  • Human Capital: Uber Eats hit with claims of ‘reverse racism’ 7 hours ago  –  With less than one week left until the election, DoorDash made a late contribution of $3.75 million to try to ensure California’s gig worker ballot measure Prop 22 passes. Meanwhile, Coinbase is looking for a head of diversity and inclusion and Uber was hit with claims of reverse racism. All that...
  • Is Wall Street losing its tech enthusiasm? 7 hours ago  –  One way to consider how far public valuations rose for tech startups, especially those with a software core in 2020, is to ask yourself how often you heard about a down IPO this year.
  • MG Siegler talks portfolio management and fundraising 6 months into the COVID-19 pandemic 8 hours ago  –  This week, GV General Partner (and TechCrunch alum) MG Siegler joined us on Extra Crunch Live for a far-ranging chat about what it takes to foster a good relationship between investor and startup, how portfolio management and investing has changed as the COVID-19 crisis drags on, and what Siegler...
  • The 2020s promise better tech solutions to humanity’s biggest problems
  • This Week in Apps: Facebook Gaming skips iOS, TikTok goes shopping, Apple One bundles arrive
  • Equity shot: Boo! It’s the Halloween earnings special!
  • Here’s how to start a venture fund if you’re not rich
  • TikTok stars got a judge to block Trump’s TikTok ban
  • Cough-scrutinizing AI shows major promise as an early warning system for COVID-19
  • Apple acknowledges AirPods Pro issues, will replace those


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  • The Mandalorian is back, and with it a reason to open Disney Plus again 2 days ago  –  Photo by Francois Duhamel / Lucasfilm Ltd. If you haven’t opened your Disney Plus app since The Mandalorian ended in December 2019, you’re not alone. It wasn’t long after The Mandalorian’s first season ended that op-eds and tweetstorms started to appear decrying Disney Plus as an empty wastel...
  • Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War needs up to 250GB of space on PC
  • Apple added a secret button to your iPhone, and you may not have even noticed
  • LG offers 5G for less with $359 mid-range K92 5G handset
  • Mokumono Delta S electric bike review: totally untubular
  • Tesla raises price of ‘Full Self-Driving’ option to $10,000
  • Samsung rolls out SmartThings Find globally for locating all your Galaxy gear
  • The Oculus Quest 2 was preordered five times as much as the original
  • Samsung regains top smartphone vendor spot as Xiaomi 
  • Vergecast: this week’s Section 230 hearing and the season of weird gadgets 2 days ago  –  Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge This week on The Verge’s flagship podcast, The Vergecast: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) yells at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, gadget makers are going to QVC, and it is weird phone season once again. Hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk to Verge senior reporter Adi Rober...
  • Spider-Man: Miles Morales is getting an incredible animated Into the Spider-Verse suit
  • Lenovo’s Chromebook Duet with 128GB of storage is cheaper than ever at Best Buy
     2 days ago  –  Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge It has been a busy few days when it comes to covering deals. Both Best Buy and Amazon launched a deluge of early Black Friday deals, letting you take care of some holiday shopping (for your family or just you) before the calendar flips over to November. Definit...
  • Halloween isn’t risk-free, but it can be lower risk
  • Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1 million miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix
  • The Verge guide to The Mandalorian
  • Sony is reportedly close to buying Crunchyroll for nearly $1 billion
  • It’s time to build a better internet
  • The host of Scam Goddess is in for the long con
  • DropLabs’ EP-01 speaker shoes make for an excellent V
  • The best laptop you can buy in 2020 a day ago  –  Image: William Joel/The Verge The best laptop for you, from ultraportables to high-powered editing machines Continue reading…
  • Budget roundup: the latest low-cost cameras
  • Here are the best Kindle deals right now
  • The US is one of the world’s biggest sources of plastic pollution
  • Here’s our best look at ray tracing on the Xbox Series X
  • Discord is getting a cool Halloween ringtone from hyperpop duo 100 gecs
  • How to sign up for Apple One
  • Instagram nixes the ‘recent’ tab from hashtag pages ahead of election
  • Apple One now available, bundling Apple’s services into a single subscription
  • Russian hacker group reportedly targeted state Democrati
  • Woot is selling refurbished Pixelbook Go laptops that don’t have Google branding 14 hours ago  –  Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Woot is selling a batch of refurbished Pixelbook Go laptops starting at $530 for the base model with an Intel Core m3 processor, 64GB of storage and an FHD touchscreen display (usually $650 new), going up to $790 for the Core i7 model with 256GB of storage and...
  • It’s Halloween, so here are some mischievous skeletons
  • Playdate, the tiny handheld with a crank, is delayed to early 2021
    a day ago  –  You’ll have to wait a bit longer for Panic’s odd little handheld: In an update published today, the company announced that Playdate will slip from its original 2020 window and now ship in early 2021. The device is the software developer’s first piece of physical hardware, a handheld with a uniqu...
  • Ubisoft detailed which of its PS4 games won’t work on PS5, but now it’s not sure
  • In its latest confusing decision, Twitter reinstates The New York Post
  • Apple will replace AirPods Pro for free with faulty noise cancellation, static or crackling
  • Starbucks says nearly a quarter of all US retail orders are placed from a phone
  • TikTok ban once again blocked by judge, this time thanks to three influencers
  • iPhone 12 camera replacement issues could hint at further restrictions on third-party Apple repairs
  • The Mandalorian is better the less like Star Wars it gets
  • The Biden-Harris campaign has launched a ‘Build Back Better’ map in Fortnite 9 hours ago  –  No Malarkey Station appears in the Biden-Harris campaign’s new Fortnite map | Biden campaign With just a few days to go before the November 3rd presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign has launched a new custom map in Fortnite. First reported by Mashable, the “Build Ba...
  • Watch the AR concert that opened up the 2020 League of Legends World Championship
  • The first laptops with Intel’s Iris Xe Max graphics are now available to order
  • Apple ordered to pay VirnetX $502.8 million in patent trial
  • A Swiss cheese approach to pandemic safety
  • Lower East Side Ecology Center is accepting e-waste at NYC pop-up sites through November
  • Google Meet will now let you use custom backgrounds on video calls
  • Sean Connery, star of the James Bond films, dies at 90
  • League of Legends spinoff Ruined King will launch on consoles in ‘early 2021’
  • Best Buy’s three-day sale on OLED TVs, headphones, and 
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