The Next Web
No one but Nintendo could’ve made ‘Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit’
5 days ago –
This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on
gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it (and our other great newsletters)
here. Greetings gadget fans. This week Plugged In was fed another
newsletter (Mad Cow Disease-style) and is feeling… well, weird. I’ve
spent a lot of time writing abo...
How the cloud has helped businesses survive COVID-19
5 days ago –
In late March 2020, the 2,000 employees of Barnsley Council, a
local authority in the Dearne Valley of Yorkshire, England had to switch
to home working, virtually overnight. The local authority used the
cloud to switch to a paperless and virtual expense management system,
streamlining back-office...
5 days ago –
Neither disinformation nor voter intimidation is anything new.
But tools developed by leading tech companies including Twitter,
Facebook, and Google now allow these tactics to scale up dramatically.
As a scholar of cybersecurity and election security, I have argued that
these firms must do more t...
Prop 22 passes: Uber and Lyft drivers will continue as independent contractors in California
4 days ago –
As part of the US election ballot, voters in California also
decided the fate of the state’s Uber and Lyft drivers by deciding to
have them classified as independent contractors. Reports say that 58% of
Californian voters voted in favor of Proposition 22, the proposal
backed by Uber, Lyft, and Do...
How Paris is tackling inequalities in its transport sector
4 days ago –
The issue of inclusivity in mobility is pressing on two sides.
On the service side, systems are largely designed following ‘standard’
commuting routes which often fail to address the diversity of people’s
needs, generating discrimination by omission. On the labour market side,
jobs in the transpo...
What3words is about to make millions of car satnavs more accurate and easier to use
3 days ago –
Thanks to a simple partnership between two mapping companies,
satnavs in millions of new cars across North America and Europe are set
to get an upgrade that should make them more accurate and far easier to
use. Last week, geolocation startup What3words and mapping conglomerate
HERE, which is majo...
This Martian asteroid might explain why planets are wet
3 days ago –
Water covers around three-quarters of Earth, and it can be found
on other worlds of the Solar System, including sub-surface deposits of
ice on Mars. One of the great questions in planetary science today is
attempting to understand how water came to exist on the surface of
planets, including Earth...
This ice giant shaped out solar system — here’s how
2 days ago –
Did a massive ice giant planet once orbit in the outer solar
system? And what could evidence for such a world teach us about the
original positions of Jupiter and Saturn? The ancient Solar System was
formed from a disk of gas and dust spiraling around the nascent Sun. At
first, most astronomers b...
How to protect your AI systems against adversarial machine learning
2 days ago –
With machine learning becoming increasingly popular, one thing
that has been worrying experts is the security threats the technology
will entail. We are still exploring the possibilities: The breakdown of
autonomous driving systems? Inconspicuous theft of sensitive data from
deep neural networks?...
10 books that’ll help you become a better software engineer
11 hours ago –
Today I’m answering one of your questions: what are the books
I’d recommend to learn more about programming? Before jumping into the
recommendations, let me clarify one thing. I did not read all the books
listed below. However, I read many of them, and those I didn’t read were
recommendations I g...
10 books that’ll help you become a better software engineer
11 hours ago –
Today I’m answering one of your questions: what are the books
I’d recommend to learn more about programming? Before jumping into the
recommendations, let me clarify one thing. I did not read all the books
listed below. However, I read many of them, and those I didn’t read were
recommendations I g...
This super bundle explains the Raspberry Pi and how to build and program your own robots
14 hours ago –
TLDR: The courses in The Ultimate Raspberry Pi and ROS Robotics
Developer Super Bundle lay out all the steps to conceive, build and
program scores of electronics and robotics projects. You’d be amazed at
what you could build all by yourself with the current state of today’s
DIY electronics revolu...
Tech Crunch
Huge delivery demand fails to stop Uber’s revenue from shrinking in Q3
2 days ago –
Despite surging delivery demand, Uber’s third-quarter ultimately
failed to meet investor revenue expectations in the third quarter. Uber
reported gross bookings of $14.7 billion in the period, a decline of
10% compared to the year-ago quarter. That level of platform spend
generated revenue of $3....
Bentley is making the shift to an all-electric lineup
2 days ago –
Bentley Motors, the ultra luxury automaker under VW Group, will
only produce plug-in hybrid and all-electric cars starting in 2026 with
an aim to drop all combustion engines in the next decade. The company
said Thursday its entire lineup will be all-electric by 2030. That plan,
known as Beyond 10...
Vimeo raises $150M, while IAC is ‘contemplating’ a spin-off
2 days ago –
Vimeo has raised $150 million in new equity funding, announced
in conjunction with the third quarter earnings of its parent company
IAC. In a letter to shareholders, IAC CEO Joey Levin said the company
has “begun contemplating spinning Vimeo off to our shareholders.” “Given
Vimeo’s success, and i...
Amazon to invest $2.8 billion to build its second data center region in India
2 days ago –
Amazon will invest about $2.8 billion in Telangana to set up a
new AWS Cloud region in the southern state of India, a top Indian
politician announced on Friday. The investment will allow Amazon to
launch an AWS Cloud region in Hyderabad by mid-2022, said K. T. Rama
Rao, Minister for Information T...
PUBG Mobile plots return to India with Microsoft deal
2 days ago –
PUBG Mobile, the sleeper hit title that was banned in India two
months ago over cybersecurity concerns, is plotting to make a return in
the world’s second largest internet market, two sources familiar with
the matter told TechCrunch. The South Korean firm has engaged with
global cloud service pro...
China’s cash-burning video sector: How Kuaishou lost $1B in 6 months
2 days ago –
Rumors have been floating for months that ByteDance is going
public with TikTok and Douyin separately. Just last night, Bloomberg
reported that ByteDance is seeking a pre-IPO round of $2 billion at a
staggering valuation of $180 billion. Before any of that materializes,
ByteDance Chinese rival Ku...
Europe urges e-commerce platforms to share data in fight against coronavirus scams
a day ago –
European lawmakers are pressing major e-commerce and media
platforms to share more data with each other as a tool to fight rogue
traders who are targeting consumers with coronavirus scams. After the
pandemic spread to the West, internet platforms were flooded with local
ads for PPE of unknown and...
Funded by Connect Ventures, Purple Dot plans to take on Klarna-style purchase debt
a day ago –
In recent times startups have appeared offering credit at an
e-commerce basket checkout so that a customer can buy a product without
needing to pay right away. Klarna or Clearpay are the two most notable
in this field. But what if you flipped the model around so that
consumers could buy the item ...
French startups can apply to the Next40 and French Tech 120
a day ago –
Last year, the French government and the government-backed
initiative La French Tech unveiled an index of French startups so that
it would be easier to identify them. The 40 top-performing startups get
the label Next40, and the top 120 startups are grouped into the French
Tech 120 — it’s a play o...
Human Capital: The gig economy in a post-Prop 22 world
6 hours ago –
Welcome back to Human Capital and congrats on making it through
one of the hardest weeks of the longest year. Now that the Associated
Press has called the election in favor of Joe Biden, it should be good
news for DEI practitioners, who expressed some worry they’d be out of a
job if Trump was […]
Here comes the next IPO wave
7 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. Are you tired? I am. What a week. But, if you kept your
eyes off American politics and instead focused on the stock market, this
was not a week […]
The gig economy, cannabis and car data are tech-election winners in 2020
9 hours ago –
As the US settles in for some new form of national gridlock,
state and local propositions are busy defining how technology businesses
will be allowed to work (legally) in the US.
The Verge
Here’s where and when you can buy the PS5
a day ago –
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
Sony’s PlayStation 5 will be available starting November 12th, and if
you missed your chances of securing one on launch, (it’s ok, preordering
was a mess), you might be able to secure the console on launch day. Due
to the pandemic and high demand of the PS5, r...
Apple’s AirPods are $60 off this weekend
14 hours ago –
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
If you’re trying to get some holiday (or personal) shopping done ahead
of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, this week hosted several great deals
on wireless earbuds, tablets, and more that are still happening. Apple’s
ever-popular and reliable AirPods f...
Facebook says it will put groups on probation for violating its content rules
8 hours ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
In yet another attempt to slow the spread of misinformation on its
platform, Facebook plans to put groups on its platform with too many
posts that violate its content rules on a kind of probation, the company
said. First reported by The Washington Post, ...
( 'slow spread of misinformation' ; or as we plebian masses read it, expand upon and reiterate/regurgitate self righteous 'justifications' for censorship )
10 hours ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Netflix is testing a programmed linear content channel in France,
Variety reported. The channel, called Netflix Direct, will be available
to Netflix streaming subscribers and will provide content from its
existing streaming library in a linear format, mu...
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