The Next Web
Amnesty International calls for ban on facial recognition
3 days ago –
As advocates for facial recognition tout the tech’s potential to
track down the US Capitol rioters, a new Amnesty International campaign
has provided a timely reminder of the software’s dangers. The NGO has
shared a stream of examples of how the software amplifies racist
policing and threatens th...
Buying a second-hand EV? Do these 5 things first
3 days ago –
Welcome to SHIFT Basics, a collection of tips, explainers,
guides, and advice to keep you up to speed with mobility tech. While
owning an electric vehicle is still far from the norm in most of the
world, they’ve been around long enough for there to be a decent amount
of options now available on t...
WhatsApp will require a fingerprint or face ID to use its desktop apps
2 days ago –
WhatsApp is adding another layer of security to its web app
today, helping stop others from accessing your account when you’re not
looking. In an update rolling out soon, WhatsApp will begin to require
biometric authentication — such as a fingerprint or face ID — before you
can use the service on...
Work relationships are a lot harder to build on Zoom — but there’s a fix
2 days ago –
Workers who communicate with their colleagues mainly through
videoconferencing are far less effective at building relationships than
when the communication is done face to face, according to a study we
recently completed and just submitted for peer review. We also found two
important ways employe...
If you want to work in the cloud, you need to know AWS. This training can get you on your way
2 days ago –
TLDR: The 2021 Amazon Web Services Certification Training Bundle
explains everything it takes to build, run, and grow a cloud-based
system on the AWS platform. If you want to understand the true power of
the Amazon Web Services platform, look no further than recent events.
The upstart social medi...
Why cybersecurity needs an API-first mentality
2 days ago –
While software is eating the world, it’s also siloing data along
the way, stifling progress and innovation in the enterprise.
Cybersecurity is woefully behind other industries in embracing an
API-first mentality, and it’s finally reached a breaking point. In the
last year, research compiled in th...
How UK startups are keeping their EU connections alive after Brexit
a day ago –
For many startups across the UK, Brexit has been like trying to
put together new IKEA furniture with random pieces missing and blank
pages in the instruction booklet. With freshly published trade
negotiations being test-driven for the first time and the UK’s own new
national regulations in sever...
How an army of sewer robots can help us fix our clogged pipes
a day ago –
Hidden from sight, under the UK’s roads, buildings, and parks,
lie about one million kilometers of pipes. Maintaining and repairing
these pipes require about 1.5 million road excavations a year, which
causes either full or partial road closures. These works are noisy,
dirty and cause a lot of inc...
Vá! 3 billion years ago, Mars looked a lot like Iceland
2 hours ago –
More than three billion years ago, Mars was home to vast oceans,
and a new study shows this world may have once looked familiar —
especially to the residents of Iceland. The Curiosity rover has been
exploring Gale Crater on Mars since 2012. That region may have resembled
modern Iceland, careful e...
Netflix is testing a sleep timer for your late night binges
12 hours ago –
Have you ever binged on a TV show so much that you fell asleep
mid-episode? The last you want is for the show to keep on playing
indefinitely, potentially exposing you to spoilers once you wake up and
resume the show later (yes, this has happened to me before, and it
sucked). Fret no more: Netfli...
Tech Crunch
Daily Crunch: Robinhood restricts GameStop trading
2 days ago –
The GameStop stock saga continues, Apple releases more details
about its privacy changes and Qualtrics goes public. This is your Daily
Crunch for January 28, 2021. The big story: Robinhood restricts GameStop
trading Robinhood has responded to an upsurge in retail investors
buying shares in compan...
SoftBank earmarks $100 million for Miami-based startups
2 days ago –
Miami, an emerging startup hub, has a new check-writer in town:
SoftBank. The Japanese multinational conglomerate announced plans today
to invest $100 million, drawn from across its funds, into Miami-based
startups. Notably, SoftBank’s $5 billion Latin America fund is
headquartered in Miami, as w...
After soaring above $23B, Qualtrics’ founder and CEO reflect on a stellar debut
2 days ago –
Amidst the sturm und drang of l'affaire GameStop, the cloud
software vendor received a warm welcome from public investors.
Customer advisory boards are a gold mine for startup brand champions
19 hours ago –
Any startup that hopes to build a direct connection with its
customers should consider recruiting a group of users who will share
their experiences, insights and advice.
Three-dimensional search engine Physna wants to be the Google of the physical world
19 hours ago –
In June of 1999, Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins invested
$25 million into an early-stage company developing a new search engine
called Google, paving the way for a revolution in how knowledge online
was organized and shared. Now, Sequoia Capital is placing another bet on
a different kind of ...
You can now give Facebook’s Oversight Board feedback on the decision to suspend Trump
19 hours ago –
Facebook’s “Supreme Court” is now accepting comments on one of
its earliest and likely most consequential cases. The Facebook Oversight
Board announced Friday that it would begin accepting public feedback on
Facebook’s suspension of former President Trump. Mark Zuckerberg
announced Trump’s suspen...
India plans to introduce law to ban Bitcoin, other private cryptocurrencies
2 hours ago –
India plans to introduce a law to ban private cryptocurrencies
such as bitcoin in the country and provide a framework for the creation
of an official digital currency during the current budget session of
parliament. In the agenda (PDF) published on the lower house website,
the legislation seeks t...
Despite Brexit and COVID-19, Irish investors remain bullish
7 hours ago –
"Dublin is a really vibrant startup ecosystem," said Michelle
Dervan of Rethink Education Management. "Young population. Lots of
government supports to encourage entrepreneurship."
The biggest exit for this L.A. venture firm may wind up being . . . canned water
8 hours ago –
Earlier this week, Science Inc, the 10-year-old, L.A.-based
incubator and venture firm, rolled out a blank-check company onto the
Nasdaq, raising $270 million for what firm founders Peter Pham and Mike
Jones say will be used to take public a company in the mobile,
entertainment or direct-to-consu...
The Verge
G4 will return with a weekly series on Twitch and YouTube
2 days ago –
The revival of G4, a network focusing on video games with
programs like X-Play and Attack of the Show!, is underway. The company
announced today that it’s launching weekly series B4G4 on Friday,
January 29th. The series will air on Twitch and YouTube.
B4G4 is part of the lead-up to the network’s ...
2 days ago –
Image: Brian Mueller
Carrot Weather — the entertainingly antagonistic weather application
from developer Brian Mueller — just got its latest version 5.0 update,
which brings a whole new (and far more customizable) design, removes the
upfront price tag in favor of more subscription tiers, ...
Gambling apps are coming to Google’s Play Store in the US and 14 other countries
2 days ago –
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge
An upcoming change to Google’s Play Store policies will allow gambling
and betting Android apps that use real money in 15 more countries,
including the US, according to 9to5Google. Currently, gambling apps are
only allowed in four countries: Brazil, F...
2 days ago –
Crayta’s timed Stadia exclusivity is coming to an end soon,
with developer Unit 2 Games confirming that the title will be making its
way to PC “very soon.” Originally announced as a “First on Stadia”
timed exclusive, Crayta’s jump to other platforms was always more a
question of “when” rather tha...
Now is the best time to play the Yakuza series (on Xbox)
a day ago –
For almost a decade and a half, the Yakuza franchise was all but
exclusive to Sony’s PlayStation consoles. Other than a Japan-only Wii U
remaster of the first two games, every single mainline entry or spinoff
was released solely on the PlayStation 2, PSP, PS3, or PS4.
Then Microsoft came along. A...
a day ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Facebook is planning to offer newsletter tools for independent
journalists and writers, The New York Times reports. These are thought
to include features for helping writers build a following using the
social network, curate their email lists, and m...
Facebook content moderators in Ireland demand work-from-home rights
20 hours ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Facebook content moderators in Ireland met with Deputy Prime Minister
Leo Varadkar today to demand work-from-home rights. They say the company
forced them back into the office, even as COVID-19 cases spiked.
“We should be working from home just lik...
20 hours ago –
Courtesy of Marvel Studios
Certain names have popped up again and again over the first few
episodes of WandaVision, but there’s one organization we haven’t
discussed yet: A.I.M.
Before diving into this week’s theories, however, let’s take a second to
acknowledge just where the show is wit...
After aborted SLS hot-fire test, NASA and Boeing will try, try again
13 hours ago –
Photo by NASA/Robert Markowitz via Getty Images
NASA will make another attempt next month to test-fire its massive
Space Launch System rocket after its first try was cut short, the agency
said Friday night.
The rocket’s 212-foot-tall core stage will try to fire its four engines
for eight ...
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