Saturday, November 14, 2020

14 November - Technology - NextWeb / Tech Crunch / The Verge

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  • Tesla squeezes 5% more power into 2021 Model 3 with hardware improvements 4 days ago  –  Despite announcing its entirely new 4680 cells at its long-awaited battery day event in September, Tesla hasn’t given up on improving its current crop of 2170 power units. According to Electrek, Tesla has improved the energy density of its 2170 cells by around 5%. The 2021 Model 3 specification l...
  • 15 tips for hosting a virtual offsite for your remote team 4 days ago  –  It was January 2020 and our 140+ team had just gathered in a large hotel conference room for another one of our bi-annual offsites. Ahead lay the whole day and night of strategic team alignment and most importantly — relationship building. Today, several months and hundreds of Zoom calls later, a...
  • New MacBook Air has a 720p camera — but Apple says M1 chip will make it better?
  • Everything Apple announced at its ‘One More Thing’ Mac event
  • Xbox Series X review: Give this beautiful cinderblock games
  • Apple’s M1 MacBook Pro has ‘up to twice the battery life’ of the Intel one
  • About that vaccine
  • Warren Buffett might’ve just sold $5B worth of Apple stock
  • Mac Mini with Apple’s new M1 chip will ship for $100 less than the previous model
  • The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro have kept the he
  • Google Photos is ending free unlimited storage in 2021 — so what are your options? 3 days ago  –  Google did it again. It is shutting down one of the most popular features across its product universe: Google Photo’s free unlimited storage. The company said that it’s ending this service from June 1, 2021. After that date, all photos uploaded will count against your free data limit of 15GB. How...
  • Spider-Man: Miles Morales has a better hero than Peter Parker 3 days ago  –  Let me cut right to the chase: if you have any interest in the Spider-Man games, then get this game. Not only is it a delightful retread of its predecessor’s gameplay, it’s got a much more interesting, personable protagonist. Considering the previous protagonist was Peter Parker, that’s quite a f...
  • Everything you need to know about the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series S/X
  • New right-to-repair bill foils Tesla’s monopoly over its vehicle data
  • These courses will get your ready to ace Cisco’s network certification tests
  • Everything you were wondering about Apple’s new M1 chip
  • Texas voters green light $7.1B plan to overhaul Austin’s public transport
  • Mitsubishi Eclipse first to get offline What3words maps for off-grid navigation
  • Apple is still selling its Intel MacBook Pro and Mac Mini — here’s why
  • Workplaces still value beauty over brains — and this must
  • Twitter flagged 300,000 tweets for election misinformation 2 days ago  –  A little over a week after the US election, Twitter has revealed it has labeled over 300,000 tweets as election misinformation so far. “Approximately 300,000 tweets have been labeled under our Civic Integrity Policy for content that was disputed and potentially misleading,” wrote policy lead Vija...
  • NASA finally calls Voyager 2 spacecraft after ghosting it for months 2 days ago  –  NASA recently made contact with the Voyager 2 spacecraft for the first time in months. This ultra-long distance call was made using the only telescope in the world capable of communicating with the distant interplanetary explorer. Voyager 2, launched August 20, 1977, is now racing through space j...
  • It’s official: YouTube has canceled Rewind 2020
  • Apple’s macOS Big Sur is now available to download
  • Messenger and Instagram’s ‘Vanish Mode’ makes chats self-destruct with a swipe
  • WandaVision is finally coming to Disney+ on January 15
  • The new Chinese digital consumers your business needs to target
  • Netflix signs David Fincher in a 4-year exclusive deal
  • Inside the world’s first AI-powered satellite — and its fight against clouds
  • Cloud engineers are making close to $150K a year, here’
  • What Biden’s environmental plans mean for electric vehicles 12 hours ago  –  This article was originally published by Steve Schaefer on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy, including electric cars, fuel cells, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and advanced diesel and gasoline engines. ...
  • Start 2021 by learning every programming hot button, all in one giant uber-bundle of training 15 hours ago  –  TLDR: The Premium Learn to Code 2021 Certification Bundle collects 26 courses with training in dozens of major coding disciplines every programmer needs to know. While the latest U.S. jobs report shows the country slowly rebounding fiscally from the COVID-19 pandemic, don’t be fooled — the job ma...
  • We currently have no smart cities — by 2025 there’ll be 26
  • The PlayStation 5 launch games reviewed
  • How is COVID transforming the business of sports?
  • Elon who? Tesla’s Chinese rival NIO is up 1,200% this year
  • Why entrepreneurs need to stop glorifying persistence
  • If you know machine learning is important, but you’re not sure how, this training is for you
  • I cry at work — and you should too
  • Silent’ escooters forced to make artificial noise to warn UK pe

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  • Sote wants to be Africa’s shipping logistics gateway 2 days ago  –  The twenty-first century could be a period of unprecedented economic growth and social change for the African continent, which is poised for explosive change — but much of that change is predicated on an outmoded trade infrastructure that hasn’t changed much since the beginnings of the last centu...
  • Amazon faces lawsuit alleging failure to provide PPE to workers during pandemic 2 days ago  –  Christian Smalls, a former Amazon warehouse employee, filed a lawsuit against the company today alleging Amazon failed to provide personal protective equipment to Black and Latinx workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The class action suit alleges Amazon failed to properly protect its warehouse w...
  • InFeedo raises $3.2 million led by Bling Capital 2 days ago  –  A Y Combinator-backed startup that is helping major companies efficiently listen to how happy — or unhappy — their employees are just raised a new financing round from some high-profile executives. InFeedo, a four-year-old “people analytics” SaaS startup with headquarters in Gurgaon, said on Thur...
  • OthersideAI raises $2.6M to let GPT-3 write your emails for you
  • L’Oréal rolls out a line of ‘virtual makeup’
  • Amazon’s in-garage delivery is now available in 4,000 US cities
  • Facebook’s Snapchat-like ‘Vanish Mode’ feature arrives on Messenger and Instagram
  • Nana nabs $6M for an online academy and marketplace dedicated to appliance repair
  • Are subscription services the future of fintech?
  • PayPal says all users in US can now buy, hold and sell cryp

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  • Daily Crunch: Apple releases macOS Big Sur 2 days ago  –  The latest Mac operating system arrives, Amazon faces a lawsuit over PPE and Disney+ turns one. This is your Daily Crunch for November 12, 2020. The big story: Apple releases macOS Big Sur This update, which was first announced five months ago at WWDC, includes a number of design changes that con...
  • Twitter labeled 300,000 US election tweets — around 0.2% 2 days ago  –  Just over a week after the U.S. elections, Twitter has offered a breakdown of some of its efforts to label misleading tweets. The site says that from October 27 to November 11, it labeled some 300,000 tweets as part of its Civic Integrity Policy. That amounts to around 0.2% of the total number of...
  • Personal finance startup Truebill raises $17M 2 days ago  –  Truebill, a startup offering a variety of tools to help users take control of their finances, announced today that it has raised $17 million in Series C funding. When I first wrote about the startup in 2016, it was focused on helping users track and cancel unwanted subscriptions. Since then, it’s...
  • Netflix’s latest experiment is a TikTok-like feed of funny videos
  • Th O’s r ptinal, th dllrs r mndtry
  • Gifting a gadget? Check its creep factor on Mozilla’s ‘Privacy not included’ list of shame
  • PSA: macOS is a little broken this morning, with many non-Apple apps hanging at launch
  • Disney+ has more than 73M subscribers
  • Conflicts in California’s trade secret laws on customer lists create uncertainty
  • As public investors reprice edtech bets, what’s ahead for t
  • Kyklo raises $8.5M to bring electrical distributors online 2 days ago  –  Kyklo, a startup that helps wholesale distributors of electrical and automation products launch e-commerce stores, is announcing that it has raised $8.5 million in seed funding. The industry may sound a bit arcane, but it’s one that founders Remi Ducrocq (Kyklo’s CEO) and Fabien Legouic (CTO) kno...
    Kyklo raises $8.5M to bring electrical distributors online 2 days ago  –  Kyklo, a startup that helps wholesale distributors of electrical and automation products launch e-commerce stores, is announcing that it has raised $8.5 million in seed funding. The industry may sound a bit arcane, but it’s one that founders Remi Ducrocq (Kyklo’s CEO) and Fabien Legouic (CTO) kno...
  • The VC and founder winners of DoorDash’s IPO 2 days ago  –  After years of rumors and high-flying headlines, we finally have the S-1 for DoorDash. Alex has covered the primary details, but I figured it would be good to dive in so we can see who is raking in the returns on the country’s delivery startup champion. DoorDash’s filing indicates that the compan...
  • Nintendo’s Switch dominates US console sales ahead of PlayStation/Xbox launches 2 days ago  –  Another banner month month for Nintendo hardware sales, per the latest figures from NPD. The firm puts Switch sales (including the standard and Lite models) at 735,000 units in the U.S., making the best October for a Nintendo console since the Wii sold 807,000 units in October 2008. It’s been a g...
  • Onfido’s Husayn Kassai steps back, brings in new CEO ahead of a planned IPO
  • DoorDash files to go public
  • Microsoft says hackers backed by Russia and North Korea targeted COVID-19 vaccine makers
  • Using the GoPro Hero 9 Black and Zeus Mini to improve my manual driving skills
  • This fintech-focused VC firm just closed a $75 million debut fund; backers ‘came out of the woodwork’
  • The US government sends mixed messages about TikTok’s future
  • More voting software FUD falls flat after Trump highlights d
  • Human Capital: Amazon and CZI face labor disputes as Biden promises gig workers better protections 6 hours ago  –  Welcome back to Human Capital. In this week’s edition of HC, you’ll read about the latest labor struggles at Amazon and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, President-Elect Joe Biden’s promises to gig workers, a primary care network for Black people and people of color and more. Lastly, I pulled out s...
  • As COVID surges, what can data tell us about Airbnb’s recovery? 8 hours ago  –  This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here. DoorDash filed to go public on Friday, meaning we’ll have at least one more unicorn IPO before 2020 comes to a close. For a high-level look at its nu...
  • DoorDash IPO bets that the pandemic has accelerated change 10 hours ago  –  DoorDash has become the go-to delivery choice for millions of people cooped up during the pandemic this year. Will they stay as life returns to normal after the vaccine? What will be "normal," anyway?
  • This Week in Apps: Conservative apps surge, Instagram redesigned, TikTok gets ghosted
  • These Stanford students are racing to get laptops to kids around the U.S. who most need them
  • Bonus: An extra week to save on tickets to TC Sessions: Space 2020
  • NextView Ventures closes its fourth fund with $89 million
  • Google pulls the plug on Expeditions VR app, migrates tours to Arts & Culture
  • Uber in talks to sell ATG self-driving unit to Aurora
  • Extra Crunch roundup: Inside DoorDash’s IPO, first-person

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  • Facebook is now using AI to sort content for quicker moderation 2 days ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has always made it clear it wants artificial intelligence to handle more moderation duties on its platforms. Today, it announced its latest step toward that goal: putting machine learning in charge of its moderation queue. Here’s how moderation...
  • Where to buy the iPhone 12 mini and 12 Pro Max
  • Apple is astonishingly confident in its new M1 Mac processors
  • Nintendo’s new Game & Watch handheld proves the company goes its own way
  • Spider-Cat officially ‘takes a pet, like no problem’ in Spider-Man: Miles Morales
  • Elon Musk says he’s tested positive and negative for COVID-19
  • ‘No evidence’ voting in the US ‘was in any way compromised,’ says Department of Homeland Security
  • This leaked icon may show what Apple’s rumored over-ear headphones look like
  • Apple might appease antitrust concerns by suggesting third-party apps to new iPhone owners
  • Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple
  • Travis Scott’s PS5 ‘unboxing’ is a strangely cool short movie a day ago  –  Image: YouTube The PlayStation 5 finally launched yesterday, and to accompany the release, rapper Travis Scott made an epic 10-minute video celebrating the new console. The video, “A Travis Scott + Cactus Jack Experience - PS5: Unboxing Reimagined,” doesn’t actually feature an unboxing at all ...
  • US flails against TikTok injunction with new CFIUS deadline change
  • Here’s how much Rivian’s electric truck and SUV will cost when they come out in 2021
  • An Amazon warehouse organizer is suing the company for racial discrimination
  • Vergecast: Two more iPhones, Apple’s ‘One More Thing’ event
  • DaVinci Resolve beta is now available for Arm-powered Macs
  • DoorDash files for IPO and hints at driverless future
  • Honda’s new Legend sedan will drive itself on busy highways in 2021
  • Here are the best Kindle deals right now
  • Must-have games for Nintendo Switch are discounted ahe
  • The Mandalorian’s new episode questions what a Mandalorian actually is a day ago  –  Lucasfilm Ltd. What makes a Mandalorian a Mandalorian? It’s a question that’s becoming increasingly important on The Mandalorian (shocking, I know), especially as our titular lead (Din Djarin, aka “Mando”) continues in his quest to find other members of his people. Mandalorians who, as we lear...
  • Sewage is still ‘America’s dirty secret’
  • Failure to launch: how we struggled to buy the PS5 and Xbox Series X
  • Apple HomePod mini review: playing small ball
  • Guide to streaming: from Disney Plus and HBO Max to NBA League Pass and Crunchyroll
  • How to stream HBO Max
  • Google is reportedly working on linking up Nest Audio speakers with Chromecast streaming devices
  • Google is shutting down its VR field trip app Expeditions
  • Zoom to lift 40-minute meeting limit on Thanksgiving for longer family hangouts
  • GM recalls 68,000 electric Chevy Bolts over battery fire
  • Social app Parler apparently receives funding from the conservative Mercer family 6 hours ago  –  Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Social media app Parler receives financial backing from conservative hedge-fund investor Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, The Wall Street Journal reported. The app, founded as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook which bills itself as “vi...
  • Amazon customer support team makes geography fail and inadvertently unites Ireland
  • US gives Qualcomm approval to sell 4G chips to Huawei despite sanctions
  • Microsoft says hackers from Russia and North Korea attacked COVID-19 vaccine makers
  • Uber reportedly may sell its self-driving car division to rival Aurora
  • Netflix’s The Liberator is another war story too focused on spectacle
  • The COVID-19 pandemic hits new highs and new lows
  • The Sonos Move speaker is cheaper than ever at several retailers
  • Hasan Minhaj joins The Morning Show following Netflix’s cancellation of Patriot Act
  • Oculus rolls out support for 90Hz games in first big Ques
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