Friday, March 05, 2021

5 March - Technology - NextWeb / Tech Crunch / The Verge

The Next Web

  • Border control systems are gearing up to use facial analysis tech — what could go wrong? 3 days ago  –  Developments in global border control technologies are providing innovative ways to address issues relating to migration, asylum-seeking and the introduction of illegal goods into countries. But while governments and national security can benefit from this, advanced surveillance technology create...
  • DJI’s new FPV drone goes 87 mph and looks stupid fun 3 days ago  –  DJI today announced its first real entry into the first-person view (FPV) drone category — and it’s quite different from any of the company’s other drones. Capable of going 140 kph (87 mph) but still offering many of the smart features available on the company’s other drones, the DJI FPV looks li...
  • Twitter now lets Android users try its Clubhouse-like Spaces
  • Armored Brigade’s latest DLC makes it a must-play for armchair generals
  • New research indicates the whole universe could be a giant neural network
  • National security commission led by ex-Google CEO urges US to ignore calls to ban autonomous weapons
  • 6 steps to build a data-driven company, according to experts
  • Volvo pledges to go ‘all-electric by 2030,’ following other manufacturers
  • Surprising growth strategies to boost your digital marketing campaigns in 2021
  • Microsoft announces AI-powered Teams speakers with titan
  • Oh great, now Netflix is copying TikTok too 2 days ago  –  By now we’ve seen that once a new social media format becomes popular, every app wants to copy it. We saw it happen after everyone and their mothers copied Snapchat’s ephemeral Stories, and now we’re seeing it happen with TikTok-style short videos (which themselves are just copies of OG Vines). S...
  • Necromancy: Scientists built a robot that can hear through a dead locust’s ear 2 days ago  –  A team of scientists from Tel-Aviv University have successfully given a robot the ability to hear sounds through the use of a dead locust’s ear. What? Seriously. A university press release highlighting the team’s work had this to say: Researchers at Tel Aviv University report that they have succe...
  • Nosy AI reads a 300-year-old sealed letter — without opening it
    2 days ago  –  Scientists have used an algorithm to read an unopened letter written 300 years ago — without breaking its seal. The note had been securely shut through an archaic process known as “letterlocking.” The method was used to secure written communications for centuries before the widespread adoption of...
  • EV battery degradation: A tale of triumph over anxiety
  • These fun STEM learning kits will get the kids busy for hours while you’re on Zoom calls
  • The race to net-zero is on — but no one wins if we take shortcuts
  • WhatsApp is reportedly working on ‘disappearing images’ — about fucking time
  • What’s sampling rate? And why does it matter for music?
  • Crazy scientists think weird and gloopy hydrogen ‘toothpaste’ is the fuel of the future
  • Avoid the culture shock: 5-step plan to transition from emp
  • Your company’s AI strategy is failing — here are 3 reasons why a day ago  –  Most companies are struggling to develop working artificial intelligence strategies, according to a new survey by cloud services provider Rackspace Technology. The survey, which includes 1,870 organizations in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, finance, retail, government, and heal...
  • From Google PPC to Facebook ads, this digital marketing mega-package covers it all a day ago  –  TLDR: The 2021 Complete Digital Marketing Super Bundle is a 14-course masterplan for conquering brand building with social media, digital content, SEO, and more. Feeling overwhelmed is the natural state for most entrepreneurs. With day to day sales and the supply chain and customer relations chew...
    From Google PPC to Facebook ads, this digital marketing mega-package covers it all a day ago  –  TLDR: The 2021 Complete Digital Marketing Super Bundle is a 14-course masterplan for conquering brand building with social media, digital content, SEO, and more. Feeling overwhelmed is the natural state for most entrepreneurs. With day to day sales and the supply chain and customer relations chew...
  • Photos of Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo leak ahead of its world premiere
  • Redmi Note 10 Pro first impressions: The screen is the star
  • The UK’s used EV market is finally coming of age, it’s time to buy
  • ‘Chief Awesome Officer’ is an actual job title — suck it, CEOs
  • WhatsApp finally brings voice and video calls to desktop
  • Thanks to the internet, we know what’s happening in Myanmar. But a communication blackout may be near
  • How to transfer your iCloud photos to Google Photos
  • Facebook to lift ban on political ads on Thursday
  • Twitter is testing the next best thing to the edit button — an undo send feature 14 hours ago  –  We’ve all been there, staring at a tweet where we made a huge typo. We’ve all also yelled, “Why wouldn’t you give us an edit button, Twitter?” while looking at our screens in frustration. We might not be getting an edit button anytime soon, but we might get the next best thing: an undo send butto...
  • I’m not a gamer but I really want Razer’s smart glasses — for work 16 hours ago  –  Razer‘s products are usually designed for gamers, and I, an Apple Arcade person, can’t claim to be one. I don’t sit on my gaming chair to fire up  a custom PC to play the latest titles with graphics settings at full blast. However, the company’s latest product has piqued my interest, and I imagin...
  • NASA figures we’ve got about a billion years before the sun kills us all
  • Leak: Here’s our first look at the Sonos Roam, a $169 Bluetooth speaker
  • Researchers discover huge security holes in Amazon’s ‘skills’ for Alexa
  • Microsoft brings vertical tabs to Edge and Bing gets better at visual search
  • The one question every leader should ask themselves
  • 4 new particles were found at CERN — and they could crack the secrets of nature’s laws
  • Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Sound solution aims to improve wireless audio on smartphones
  • Want to add augmented reality to your marketing? Aryel A
  • Scientists made an AI that reads your mind so it can generate portraits you’ll find attractive an hour ago  –  A team of researchers recently developed a mind-reading AI that uses an individual’s personal preferences to generate portraits of attractive people who don’t exist. Computer-generated beauty truly is in the AI of the beholder. The big idea: Scientists from the University of Helsinki and the Univ...
    Scientists made an AI that reads your mind so it can generate portraits you’ll find attractive an hour ago  –  A team of researchers recently developed a mind-reading AI that uses an individual’s personal preferences to generate portraits of attractive people who don’t exist. Computer-generated beauty truly is in the AI of the beholder. The big idea: Scientists from the University of Helsinki and the Univ...
  • Researchers developed an AI that scours existing drugs for new Alzheimer’s treatments 2 hours ago  –  Alzheimer’s disease is becoming increasingly prevalent as life expectancies lengthen. But the complexity of the condition makes it hard to find effective treatments. One way to expedite the search that’s yielded promising results is using AI to find existing drugs that could be repurposed to comb...
  • Smart cities: Tech is great, but don’t forget the people
  • Algorithm detects new mysterious layer inside Earth’s core
  • Learn one of the most popular coding languages with this $35 Python bootcamp
  • CDs are the most under-appreciated music format, fight me
  • Watch: Car-sharing platform CEO Niki Sie talks about the future of mobility
  • What are NFTs, and why are people paying millions of dollars for them?
  • Super shoes: Explaining athletics’ new performance-enhancing tech
  • How to generate buzz in a buzzless industry


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  • Coursera is planning to file to go public tomorrow a day ago  –  Coursera, an online education platform that has seen its business grow amid the coronavirus pandemic, is planning to file paperwork tomorrow for its initial public offering, sources familiar with the matter say. The company has been talking to underwriters since last year, but tomorrow could mark...
    Coursera is planning to file to go public tomorrow a day ago  –  Coursera, an online education platform that has seen its business grow amid the coronavirus pandemic, is planning to file paperwork tomorrow for its initial public offering, sources familiar with the matter say. The company has been talking to underwriters since last year, but tomorrow could mark...
  • Whatnot raises $20M for its livestreaming platform built for selling Pokémon cards and other collectibles a day ago  –  When I first wrote about Whatnot in February of last year, they were just getting started. Aiming to be the GOAT of collectible toys, they were focusing first on being the go-to trusted spot for buying and selling authenticated Funko Pop figurines. A few months later, as they expanded into catego...
  • Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power communications for 1B users a day ago  –  A lot of our communication these days with each other is digital, and today one of the companies enabling that — with APIs to build chat experiences into apps — is announcing a round of funding on the back of some very strong growth. Stream, which lets developers build chat and activity streams i...
  • Announcing the Early Stage Pitch-Off judges
  • German insurtech platform Hepster raises $10M Series A led by Element Ventures
  • Google speeds up its release cycle for Chrome
  • How to successfully dance the creator-brand tango
  • TikTok launches ‘TikTok Q&A,’ a new feature for creators to engage with viewers’ questions
  • Microsoft Edge now starts up faster and gets vertical tabs
  • With $19M A round, Halo Dx combines data streams to bett
  • Indonesian logistics startup SiCepat raises $170 million Series B 17 hours ago  –  SiCepat, an end-to-end logistics startup in Indonesia, announced today it has raised a $170 million Series B funding round. Founded in 2014 to provide last-mile deliveries for small merchants, the company has since expanded to serve large e-commerce platforms, too. Its services now also cover war...
  • InsurGrid raises pre-seed financing to help modernize legacy insurance agents a day ago  –  Insurance agents spend hours handling paperwork and grabbing client information over the phone. A new seed-stage startup, InsurGrid, has developed a software solution to help ease the process, and make it easier for agents to serve existing clients — and secure new ones. InsurGrid gives agents a ...
  • Backed by Blossom, Creandum and Index, grocery delivery and dark store startup Dija launches in London a day ago  –  Dija, the London-based grocery delivery startup, is officially launching today and confirming that it raised £20 million in seed funding in December — a round that we first reported was partially closed the previous month. Backing the company is Blossom Capital, Creandum and Index Ventures, with ...
  • Daily Crunch: Square acquires Tidal
  • Making sense of the $6.5B Okta-Auth0 deal
  • Data is the world’s most valuable (and vulnerable) resource
  • A new asynchronous video startup, Weet, is helping employees communicate on their own schedule
  • Flourish, a startup that aims to help banks engage and retain customers, raises $1.5M
  • Inside Workvivo’s plans to take on Microsoft in the employee experience space
  • Will moving, ‘spatial video’ start to eat into square-box Zoo
  • Early-stage investor Mayfield shows how to scale up your biotech startup at TC Early Stage in April 5 hours ago  –  Founders in the earliest stages of startup life face a hefty learning curve. Just some of the core competencies you need to lock down include how to raise VC funding, recruiting the right people, finding product-market fit and building a killer go-to-market team. The list goes on and on…and on. Y...
  • Albertsons taps Tortoise for remote-controlled grocery delivery robots 6 hours ago  –  Albertsons Companies, the grocery giant that owns Safeway and Jewel-Osco, has launched a pilot program that will test grocery delivery using remote-controlled delivery robots developed by Silicon Valley startup Tortoise. The pilot will start at two Safeway locations in Northern California, althou...
  • The technology selloff is getting to be somewhat material 6 hours ago  –  Tech stocks are getting hammered today, with previously high-flying shares of software companies taking even more damage. For a sector that has enjoyed a year in the sun, recent trading sessions have punctured a period of market adoration. It is too soon to say that the market is repricing tech s...
  • YC-backed Pangea discusses growth, fundraising ahead of demo day
  • Understanding how investors value growth in 2021
  • SoftBank makes mountains of cash off of human laziness
  • Virgin Galactic Chairman Chamath Palihapitiya sells off remaining personal stake in the space company
  • Scrum Ventures launches new program to connect startups with Japanese corporations
  • How Pariti is connecting founders with capital, resources and talent in emerging markets
  • What China’s Big Tech CEOs propose at the annual parlia
  • Deep Science: AI adventures in arts and letters 28 minutes ago  –  There's more AI news out there than anyone can possibly keep up with, but you can stay tolerably up to date on the most interesting developments with this column.
  • How the Biden administration is approaching crypto regulations 34 minutes ago  –  Given the chaos created by the Trump administration, bitcoin fans are anxiously optimistic about how regulators will approach the cryptocurrency space during President Joe Biden’s administration.   
  • Tesla has closed its forums to launch a social platform and fans are not happy an hour ago  –  Tesla plans to shut down the forums section on its website as it launches a new social platform called the Tesla Engagement Platform, a move that’s raised the ire of a community of its most ardent supporters. Tesla first announced the new engagement platform with a notice at the top of its forums...
  • California bill would require all self-driving vehicles to be zero emission by 2025
  • How and when to hire your first product manager
  • UK’s MHRA says it has ‘concerns’ about Babylon Health — and flags legal gap around triage chatbots
  • Dan Siroker’s new startup Scribe automates Zoom note-taking
  • How Rani Therapeutics’ robotic pill could change subcutaneous injection treatment
  • Address cybersecurity challenges before rolling out robotic process automation
  • Eco raises $26M in a16z-led round to scale its digital cryp

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  • Jeep’s 2022 Wagoneer will have Amazon Fire TV built in a day ago  –  Amazon’s Fire TV entertainment platform is going to hit the road in Jeep’s 2022 Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer SUVs, which will be the first to feature built-in Fire TV support. The upcoming Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer are set to be formally revealed on March 11th, but Jeep’s parent company, Stellan...
  • Hey now lets users create blogs and newsletters right from their emails
     a day ago  –  Alternative email provider Hey is expanding its offering with a new blog and email newsletter service, called Hey World, which is being offered as a free addition to all personal Hey subscribers, the company announced today. Using Hey World is incredibly simple: Hey users just need to send an ema...
  • Apple clarifies that iOS 14.5 won’t let you permanently choose a new default music service
  • Senators ask FTC to fight stalkers exploiting people search sites
  • YouTube will lift Trump’s suspension when ‘the risk of violence has decreased’
  • Porsche unveils a pair of ridiculously expensive electric bikes
  • I tried the Nuggs, and they tasted like memes
  • New funding models can help riskier games — and might change studios in the process
  • Turntable.fm is back from the dead — and now there are two
  • The days of knowing how big a movie is are seemingly ov
  • Vergecast: Microsoft’s new mixed reality platform and Square, Inc. buys Tidal 7 hours ago  –  Microsoft Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast The Vergecast, our chat show to discuss this week in tech news featuring our reporters and editors. This week, Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn start off the show with Billboard’s Micah Singleton to discuss the news of Jack Dorse...
  • Get a refurbished Oculus Quest with a one-year warranty for under $200 today
  • Tom Cruise deepfake creator says public shouldn’t be worried about ‘one-click fakes’
  • Unannounced Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti GPU appears on Asus’ website
  • TikTok is making it easier for creators to answer their fans’ questions
  • Getaround wants to help you start your own car-sharing business
  • Satechi’s latest USB-C hub supports 4K at 60Hz, and 100W pass-through
  • Google is speeding up Chrome’s release cycle to every four weeks
  • Here’s what Twitter’s rumored ‘undo send’ feature could look like
  • Tencent-branded RedMagic gaming phone launched with 1

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  • The PlayStation 5 is restocked at Best Buy [Update: Sold Out] 5 hours ago  –  Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Update March 5th, 2021 1:00PM ET: Best Buy has sold out of both the PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition models. If you are still looking for an Xbox Series S, it is still available on the retailer’s website. The PlayStation 5 has been out for over three months n...
  • Tesla launches a social platform and is closing its forums
  • Here’s where and when you can buy the Xbox Series S and Series X consoles
  • With Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon, I feel seen 
  • The Xbox Series X and S are available at Best Buy
     6 hours ago  –  Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Best Buy has randomly restocked supplies for both of Microsoft’s recently released next-gen consoles: the Xbox Series X and Series S. Like some other gaming gadgets released late last year, these consoles are extremely difficult to buy, but if you move qu...
  • Timnit Gebru was fired from Google — then the harassers arrived
  • Hogwarts Legacy developer leaves after controversy over reactionary YouTube videos
  • WandaVision finale: where do we go from here?
  • Here’s why it’s important to audit your Amazon Alexa skills (and how to do it)
  • Tim Wu, the ‘father of net neutrality,’ is joining the Biden ad
  • YouTube has terminated five Myanmar military-run channels as political unrest continues an hour ago  –  Photo by Aung Kyaw Htet / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images YouTube terminated five Myanmar military channels from its platform on Friday, Reuters reports. The removals include YouTube channels for the government-run Myanma Radio and Television (MRTV) network and the military-own...
  • A Silicon Valley school is using virtual escape rooms to evaluate prospective students
  • Lo-fi remixes of video game music is my new favorite genre
  • Hades almost starred its worst character
  • Paramount Plus is a powerful nostalgia machine, but it doesn’t feel necessary yet
  • What’s on your desk, Jay Peters?
  • John McAfee charged with securities fraud for ‘pump and dump’ cryptocurrency scheme
  • The best free password manager
  • Single-shot COVID-19 vaccine is popular at vaccination sites
  • Here’s where and when you can buy the PS5
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