Saturday, December 26, 2020

26 December - Technology - NextWeb / Tech Crunch / The Verge

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  • What the hell is a minimum lovable product? And why should designers care? 5 days ago  –  This article was written by Nick Babich and originally published on Built In. One of the most severe fears product designers have is the fear of creating products that nobody wants to use. So how do you minimize the risk of product failure? The answer is simple — invest time building a minimum pr...
  • Christmas is better with Tom Vasel’s YouTube board game reviews 5 days ago  –  It’s the holiday season. Time of relaxation, gifts, love, appreciation — and most importantly — board games. “More like bored games” I hear you whisper under your breath and snicker with your cool friends. How dare you, dear reader? This is my turf, where we play by my rules. So let me be crystal...
  • Pardon the Intrusion #33: SolarWinds unleashes a cyber storm
  • How triggerless backdoors could dupe AI models without manipulating their input data
  • Musicians earn less than 1 cent per stream — here’s what needs to change
  • How climate change made Venus impossible to inhabit
  • Zoho Creator is how to create basic business apps even if you don’t know how to code
  • Newly discovered Jupiter-like world could be the long-sought ‘Planet X’
  • Parallels Pro, Luminar 4, and more for $3.50 each? Here’s your last shot at a Mac owner’s dream bundle
  • Epidemologist explains why COVID-19 mutations shoul
  • 6 beefy bits of advice for the recently self-employed 4 days ago  –  Through choice or by necessity, some of us are becoming self-employed for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence from multiple countries suggests that self-employed workers are one of the groups hardest hit by the pandemic. Support offered by governments varies. Yet, for some, self...
  • All I want for Christmas are gadgets with regular names 4 days ago  –  Santa, if you’re reading this, please use your intense occult powers to do me a favor this festive season: stop companies naming their products incomprehensibly. Please? I’ll leave you some weed-laced cookies? Just make sure I get gadgets with regular names. This trend of ridiculously named hardw...
  • Report: The ‘Apple Car’ is still alive, and it may arrive in 2024
  • 4 personality types old-school carmakers can use to stay relevant
  • Can Apple’s rumored search engine ever compete with Google?
  • Psst, mobility nerds, here are the 4 books you HAVE to read
  • Data science is changing how business is done and this training will keep you ahead of the curve
  • Business is continuing its cloud migration. Train to become an Azure and AWS tech professional
  • How Netflix shapes mainstream culture, explained by data
  • 10 ultimate gift ideas for your favorite developer
  • This Adobe Creative Cloud training unlocks the essential skills you’ve been wanting to learn 2 hours ago  –  TLDR: The 2020 Adobe Graphic Design Certification School explores how Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator can be used for creating brilliant creative work. For young artists, the blank canvas can often be pretty terrifying. All that emptiness and possibility can create anxiety, but with som...
  • From religion to politics — here’s how genes influence our preferences 5 hours ago  –  Social media algorithms, artificial intelligence, and our own genetics are among the factors influencing us beyond our awareness. This raises an ancient question: do we have control over our own lives? This article is part of The Conversation’s series on the science of free will. Many of us belie...
  • How this startup is mapping India’s potholes using just your phone
  • Video games change the way you feel about the world — and yourself
  • Get some of the year’s best headphones and earbuds with one last Christmas discount
  • Meet the electrophone, the Victorian version of live-streaming
  • There’s a bunch of undiscovered exoplanets left – math can help us find them
  • Kids are ‘failing’ online learning
  • For two days, save extra on these 10 must-have apps you might not even realize you need
  • Los Angeles will soon have an ‘innovation zone’ for tes

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  • NASA opens new launchpad at Kennedy Space Center meant to serve multiple commercial launch customers 4 days ago  –  NASA has finished work on a new launchpad at its Kennedy Space Center in Florida — Launch Complex 48 (LC-48), a pad that will be able to support smaller launch vehicles than either LC-39A or B, or SLC-41, which currently host SpaceX, SLS and ULA launches, respectively. It’s designed to be able to...
  • With a $50B run rate in reach, can anyone stop AWS? 4 days ago  –  AWS, Amazon’s flourishing cloud arm, has been growing at a rapid clip for more than a decade. An early public cloud infrastructure vendor, it has taken advantage of first-to-market status to become the most successful player in the space. In fact, one could argue that many of today’s startups wou...
  • To win post-pandemic, edtech needs to start thinking big 4 days ago  –  If 2020 showed us how hard “Zoom school” really is, then 2021 should not be about creating more versions of Zoom schools.
  • Twitter’s POTUS account will reportedly be reset to zero followers when Biden takes over
  • Remembering the startups we lost in 2020
  • MIT Media Lab names Dava Newman as new director
  • Gift Guide: TechCrunch’s Favorite Things of 2020
  • Singapore-based open finance startup Finantier gets backing from Y Combinator
  • Boardable’s board management software for nonprofits raises $8 million
  • IAC plans to spin off Vimeo as an independent compan
  • TikTok parent ByteDance hiring for AI drug discovery team 3 days ago  –  ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, is entering the health industry as it seeks to diversify a business dependent on advertising and livestreaming sales. The company, which prides itself on content algorithms, has started seeking talent in AI drug discovery across Mountain View, Shanghai ...
  • Telegram, nearing 500 million users, to begin monetizing the app 3 days ago  –  Instant messaging app Telegram is “approaching” 500 million users and plans to generate revenue starting next year to keep the business afloat, its founder Pavel Durov said on Wednesday. Durov said he has personally bankrolled the seven-year-old business so far, but as the startup scales he is lo...
  • AI-driven energy startup Octopus hits $2B mark after $200M investment from Tokyo Gas 3 days ago  –  You’ve heard of challenger banks? Now meet the challenger energy suppliers. The U.K.’s Octopus Energy has attained a $2.06 billion valuation (£1.5 billion) after attracting a $200 million (£150 million) investment from Tokyo Gas, for a 9.7% stake, in order to launch a joint venture. Octopus will ...
  • On-demand logistics company Lalamove gets $515 million Series E
  • Chinese autonomous driving startup WeRide bags $200M in funding
  • TaskRabbit is resetting customer passwords after finding ‘suspicious activity’ on its network
  • Daily Crunch: Stimulus bill increases penalties for illegal streaming services
  • Substack explains its ‘hands-off’ approach to content moderation
  • Elon Musk claims he tried selling Tesla to Apple but Tim Cook wasn’t interested
  • Bandit ML helps e-commerce businesses present the
  • Dear Sophie: What’s ahead for US immigration in 2021? 3 days ago  –  Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand...
  • No rules, no problem: DeepMind’s MuZero masters games while learning how to play them 3 days ago  –  DeepMind has made it a mission to show that not only can an AI truly become proficient at a game, it can do so without even being told the rules. Its newest AI agent, called MuZero, accomplishes this not just with visually simple games with complex strategies, like Go, Chess and Shogi, but with v...
  • Fluent Forever raises $4.9M for its language learning system 3 days ago  –  Fluent Forever, a startup that uses a novel learning system to help its users master a new language faster, has raised a $4.9 million funding round led by Denver-based Stout Street Capital. Other investors in this round include The Syndicate, LAUNCH, Mana Ventures, Noveus VC, Flight.VC, Insta VC,...
  • The Biden administration can change the world with new crypto regulations
  • Nuro acquires autonomous trucking startup Ike
  • Heading into 2021: Venture fundraising, liquidity and the everything bubble
  • Voyager Space Holdings to acquire majority stake in commercial space leader Nanoracks
  • Nikola’s stock crashes after announcing cancelation of contract with Republic Services for 2,500 garbage trucks
  • Looking ahead after 2020’s epic M&A spree
  • Yayzy app automatically calculates the environmental i
  • Music made 2020 better, but we failed to make 2020 better for musicians a day ago  –  “Are you okay?” I don’t have a good answer to the question. Knowing full well that I’m talking back to an algorithm — even one asking the same question of everyone with a different band mad-libbed in — doesn’t soften the blow. Am I? Are we? Is anyone, really? In this case, it’s referring to […]
  • Daily Crunch: Alibaba faces antitrust probe 2 days ago  –  Chinese authorities investigate an e-commerce giant, Google may be tightening its grip on research and VCs weigh in on the year’s biggest surprises. This is your (briefer than usual) Daily Crunch for December 24, 2020. The big story: Alibaba faces antitrust probe China’s State Administration for ...
  • Not even 5G could rescue smartphone sales in 2020 2 days ago  –  This was going to be the year of 5G. It was going to be the year the next-generation wireless technology helped reverse some troubling macro trends for the industry — or at the very least helped stem the bleeding some. But the best laid plans, and all that. With about a week left in the […]
  • Elon Musk says SpaceX to double launch pad usage for Starship tests, Super Heavy flights coming in a ‘few months’
  • Use Git data to optimize your developers’ annual reviews
  • US seed-stage investing flourished during pandemic
  • National Grid sees machine learning as the brains behind the utility business of the future
  • Five VCs discuss what surprised them the most in 2020
  • The built environment will be one of tech’s next big platforms
  • Bristol’s Brightpearl raises $33M Series C round led by

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  • Telegram gets Discord-like group voice chats 3 days ago  –  Voice chats are now part of existing text chats, and operate as a persistent option to speak live with friends or family. As they’re always available, you can dip in and out of voice chats just like yo...
  • Nearly half a billion users played Among Us in November
  • Roast your own Spotify listens with this snarky AI
  • SEC says third-largest cryptocurrency was sold all wrong
  • Substack says readers and writers are really in charge of moderation
  • Sony says it’s already seeing some benefits from WarnerMedia’s big HBO Max bet
  • A OnePlus smartwatch is finally coming in 2021
  • Verizon’s nationwide 5G can be slower than its LTE network, tests show
  • Google and Nickelback really want you to look at your photographs
  • Steam’s winter sale is live — here are the best games
  • Samsung’s deleting ads that mocked Apple for not including a charger in the box 3 days ago  –  Photo: Samsung (via 9to5Google) an ad that makes fun of Apple for not including a charging brick with the iPhone 12 — the same thing it’s rumored to be doing with its Galaxy S21 phones. The Facebook post was made by Samsung Caribbean back in October, and i...
  • Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond are finally coming to HBO Max in January
  • Monitoring COVID-19 vaccine safety means sorting signal from noise
  • Into the Spider-Verse is leaving Netflix, and it plays into 2020’s biggest streaming problem
  • The ACLU is suing for more information about the FBI’s phone-hacking lab
  • Zoom may launch an email service and calendar app to compete with Google and Microsoft
  • The CDC says the top global health story of 2020 was mosquitoes
  • The government blacklisted DJI drones, but some drone companies are more confused than worried
  • Asus ROG Strix Scar 15 review: powerful portable gaming
  • Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra S Pen support confirmed by
  • Cyberpunk 2077’s 1.06 update is here to reduce your fear of corrupted savegames 3 days ago  –  Cyberpunk 2077 is still fighting its way through some terrible (and hilarious) glitches, but developer CD Projekt Red is killing the nastiest bugs fairly quickly: today’s just-released 1.06 hotfix should keep your PC save files from getting irrevocably corrupted if they grow larger than 8MB in si...
  • Google reportedly asked employees to ‘strike a positive tone’ in research paper
  • Andrew Yang is running for mayor of New York City
  • Daft Punk releases ‘complete edition’ of their stunning Tron: Legacy score
  • Today I learned that the iOS calculator has a scientific mode
  • Venture back into the underworld to curl up in front of Hades’ excellent Yule log
  • Trump vetoes $740 billion defense bill after Section 230 complaints
  • I have not played Cyberpunk 2077 but it’s my favorite game of the year
  • Tesla’s success helped aim a fire hose of cash at EV startups in 2020
  • Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 2 leak suggests better 
  • Warner Bros. believes that theaters will still exist in 2023 2 days ago  –  Warner Bros. ruffled some feathers when it announced it would release all of its new 2021 movies simultaneously on HBO Max, but the company seems to be betting that theaters won’t become an apocalyptic wasteland. Variety reports that the company plans to release Furiosa, the prequel to Max Max: F...
  • Amazon Echo Frames review: listen to these specs
  • Here’s an HDMI-themed holiday podcast to listen to this season
  • Tony Robbins claims he saved his employee from COVID — she says that’s a lie
  • Here’s when you can watch Wonder Woman 1984, Soul, and Bridgerton on Christmas Day
  • Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Pro said to cost $199
  • Five easy ways for Elon Musk to combine his companies into a superconglomerate
  • Nuro can now charge for robot deliveries in California
  • The Queen’s Gambit Funko Pops immortalize the show in plastic
  • Verge readers can get two years of PlayStation Plus fo
  • 10 great games from 2020 for your new Nintendo Switch 35 minutes ago  –  Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge We’re now at a point where you can comfortably describe the Nintendo Switch as “mature.” It’s no longer a new device, but one several years into its life, with a robust and varied line-up of games available. There’s a good chance you picked up a...
  • Apple iCloud sign-in and activation aren’t working for some users
  • 10 great games from 2020 for your new gaming PC
  • Tesla’s new Boombox feature will let car owners fart at unsuspecting neighbors
  • So you got a 5G phone, but is your plan ready?
  • Investor sues CD Projekt over bungled CyberPunk 2077 launch
  • 10 great games from 2020 for your new Xbox
  • US requires negative coronavirus test from UK travelers
  • 9 great games from 2020 for your new PlayStation 5
  • GoDaddy wins our 2020 award for most evil company 
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