Sunday, April 18, 2021

18 April - Technology - The Next Web / Tech Crunch / The Verge

 The Next Web

  • How my stolen bike inspired an IoT innovation 4 days ago  –  This article was written by Pierre Regnier on The Urban Mobility Daily, the content site of the Urban Mobility Company, a Paris-based company which is moving the business of mobility forward through physical and virtual events and services. Join their community of 10K+ global mobility professiona...
  • This $110 Android tablet is perfect for watching Netflix, surfing the web, and more 4 days ago  –  TLDR: The Vankyo MatrixPad Z10 has 1080p resolution, a lightning-fast processor and everything a tablet needs to compete with the iPad — at almost a third of the Apple price. While a 2020 spend indoors probably wasn’t your idea of a good time, there were some who took the COVID-inspired lemons an...
  • Why we should be excited – and worried – about Neuralink’s brain-computer interface
  • Learning guitar is better than meditation: An ode to instruments
  • France is giving citizens $3,000 to get rid of their car and get an ebike
  • 3 reasons why I won’t hire you to join my tech startup
  • Leaked Android 12 features hint at iOS-style clipboard and location permissions
  • How Facebook’s ad system lets companies talk out of both sides of their mouths
  • Cargo bikes vs delivery vans: Urban Arrow on the future of logistics
  • Study: People trust the algorithm more than each other
  • Google Earth’s stunning new feature is a timelapse of the entire friggin’ planet 3 days ago  –  Google has worked to refine the accuracy, visuals, and functionality of Google Earth over the years, making it the closest many of us will ever get to travel the world. But today Google Earth is getting its biggest update in years with the addition of one new layer: time. The app is launching a f...
  • Charging stations vs battery swaps: What’s better for micromobility? 3 days ago  –  This article was written by Juan Btesh on The Urban Mobility Daily, the content site of the Urban Mobility Company, a Paris-based company which is moving the business of mobility forward through physical and virtual events and services. Join their community of 10K+ global mobility professionals b...
  • Google Docs acting weird? Turn off your adblocker
  • What Giant Radio Pulses could teach us about radio signals from beyond the Milky Way
  • Even toy car maker Matchbox is jumping on the EV trend
  • 4 questions you’ll need to answer to win VC funding
  • We finally know how the FBI unlocked the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone
  • TCL teased a phone that both folds and rolls, and I totally love it
  • Amazon’s new $120 Echo Buds are 20% smaller and cancel twice the noise
  • Review: The Nemesis DLC for Stellaris is a glorious add-on
  • PSA: Hit ‘/’ on Google results pages to return your cursor to the search box 3 days ago  –  9to5Google spotted a neat update to Google’s search engine on desktop: a handy keyboard shortcut to return your cursor to the search box, so you can edit your query or enter a new one. Say you’re on Google.com, and you enter a search term. After the results load, simply hit the / key to focus on ...
  • Review: Cozy Grove is what happens when game developers give a damn about players 3 days ago  –  Cozy Grove is an exploration and adventure game from developer Spry Fox. It was recently released on consoles and I managed to get my hands on a review copy for the Nintendo Switch. I normally don’t play these kinds of games but there was something special about this one: ghost bears. The big ide...
  • Billionaire clown Elon Musk drags the late Chris Farley into Tesla’s feud with Ford
  • Instagram apologizes after algorithm promotes harmful diet content to people with eating disorders
  • Twitter will reveal how its algorithmic biases cause ‘unintended harms’
  • Urbanista’s solar-powered ANC headphones never have to be charged
  • Your company cars should all be electric
  • Chaos isn’t always a bad thing
  • Great Wall Motors’ new EV is definitely, certainly, obviously NOT a VW Beetle
  • Keep your Android and iPhone at 100% with one of these 
  • How a theoretical mouse could crack the stock market 2 days ago  –  A team of physicists at Emory University recently published research indicating they’d successfully managed to reduce a mouse’s brain activity to a simple predictive model. This could be a breakthrough for artificial neural networks. You know: robot brains. Let there be mice: Scientists can do mi...
  • Amazon’s new algorithm will spread workers’ duties across their muscle-tendon groups 2 days ago  –  Amazon is often accused of treating staff like expendable robots. And like machines, sometimes employees break down. A 2019 survey of 145 warehouse workers found that 65% of them experienced physical pain while doing their jobs. Almost half (42%) said the pain persists even when they’re not worki...
  • Canadian police pull over car thinking driver is drunk — nope, it’s ‘self-driving’
  • Hell yeah, the Kindle lock screen can now display book covers
  • Screen record and capture lossless quality audio with this Mac app bundle on sale
  • Watch these crazy Germans put a Tesla motor in a vintage VW truck
  • Washington state effectively bans gasoline vehicles from 2030
  • Ferrari’s first all-electric sports car is coming in 2025
  • Here’s what’s happening with Google’s location tracking case in Australia
  • My treadmill desk makes me happier and more productive 
  • What we can learn from sequencing 1 million human genomes with big data 3 hours ago  –  The first draft of the human genome was published 20 years ago in 2001, took nearly three years and cost between US$500 million and $1 billion. The Human Genome Project has allowed scientists to read, almost end to end, the 3 billion pairs of DNA bases – or “letters” – that biologically define a ...
    Boston Dynamics’ latest robot doesn’t do backflips — and that’s a smart move 3 hours ago  –  Boston Dynamics has made a name for itself through fascinating videos of biped and quadruped robots doing backflips, opening doors, and dancing to Uptown Funk. Now, it has revealed its latest gadget: A robot that looks like a huge overhead projector on wheels. It’s called Stretch, it doesn’t do b...
  • Stream spin classes, HIIT training, and more with this fitness service on sale today
  • Here’s why we should never trust AI to identify our emotions
  • New to computer vision and medical imaging? Start with these 10 projects
  • Big Tech is pushing states to pass privacy laws, and yes, you should be suspicious
  • The MowRo is the electric lawn-mowing robot that liberates you from home landscaping duties
  • A love letter to Eve Online’s tutorial
  • The Flair 58 espresso maker is a coffee-lover’s dream machine
  • How to turn your ebike into a cargo-hauling car replacemen

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  • Business continuity planning is a necessity for your fund and portfolio 2 days ago  –  A business continuity plan does not have to be complicated or long, but it needs to tell you or your senior team how to keep big things moving forward and what's needed to get things done.
  • Katie Haun on saying yes to Coinbase and where a16z’s crypto fund is placing its bets now 2 days ago  –  Coinbase, the newly public cryptocurrency exchange, has had it share of ups and downs. Still, the nearly nine-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit got a lot right ahead of its highly successful direct listing this week, including, seemingly, inviting in former federal prosecutor Katie Haun to joi...
  • SpaceX wins NASA contract to develop human landing system for returning to the moon 2 days ago  –  The winner of NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) contract award is SpaceX, which bid $2.9 billion for the privilege of developing the means by which NASA astronauts will return to the lunar surface for the first time since the Apollo program. SpaceX was in the running alongside Blue Origin and Dyn...
  • Extra Crunch roundup: UiPath’s IPO filing, predicting revenue, how to pivot properly, much more
  • AI-driven audio cloning startup gives voice to Einstein chatbot
  • Data scientists: Bring the narrative to the forefront
  • Squarespace files for a direct listing on the NYSE
  • Tesla owners can now see how much solar or coal is powering their EVs
  • Apple Music streaming revenue detailed in letter to artists
  • Enterprise security attackers are one password away from y
  • Once VMware is free from Dell, who might fancy buying it? 3 hours ago  –  If you accept that VMware is in play, the prospective price tag means that the number of firms that could afford such a purchase are few and far between.
  • Consumer agency warns against Peloton Tread+ use, as company pushes back 21 hours ago  –  Almost exactly a month ago, Peloton CEO John Foley wrote an open letter about the the company’s treadmill. “I’m reaching out to you today because I recently learned about a tragic accident involving a child and the Tread+, resulting in, unthinkably, a death,” it begins. “While we are aware of onl...
  • Why it’s not surprising to see nine-figure AI rounds  a day ago  –  This week Scale AI raised a $325 million Series E. The company, as TechCrunch has written, works in the data labeling space. And it has been on a fundraising tear over the last few years.
  • What does it take to create a startup ecosystem?
  • How one founder build a startup around compassion and care facilitated by AI
  • Hear how StockX brought the sneaker scene to Detroit
  • Outdoor startups see supercharged growth during COVID-19 era
  • This Week in Apps: A surprising report on App Tracking, Apple event predictions, Instagram for kids
  • Daily Crunch: Squarespace files to go public
  • Peloton responds to concerns over Apple GymKit integratio

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  • Vergecast: thoughts on Apple’s spring event, the Sonos Roam, and LG quitting smartphones 2 days ago  –  Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. This week, Verge editor Chris Welch joins Nilay and...
    Vergecast: thoughts on Apple’s spring event, the Sonos Roam, and LG quitting smartphones 2 days ago  –  Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. This week, Verge editor Chris Welch joins Nilay and...
  • Project CHIP will finally ship later this year
  • What to expect from Apple’s ‘Spring Loaded’ event
  • Amazon is finally realizing it has a labor problem
  • Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now
  • Why I left
  • How to celebrate Earth Day 2021
  • MSI Stealth 15M review: thin doesn’t always win
  • Why does Amazon hate its most enthusiastic smart home fans? 
  • Stromer ST2 e-bike review: too hot for Europe
  • Nobody is flying to join Google’s FLoC 2 days ago  –  Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Google is going it alone with its proposed advertising technology to replace third-party cookies. Every major browser that uses the open source Chromium project has declined to use it, and it’s unclear what that will mean for the future of adverti...
  • The Unicode Emoji Subcommittee is back, baby
  • Dogecoin is on a run, has escaped the yard, and is headed to the moon
  • Fitbit’s next fitness tracker looks fancy
  • Tesla settles with ex-engineer accused of stealing Autopilot source code
  • Apple Music pays a penny per stream on average
  • Peloton clarifies the Apple Watch GymKit mess
  • Project Veritas founder wants to sue Twitter for defamation over recent suspension
  • Five little Google Sheets tricks I taught my dad
  • This week’s best tech deals this week include AirPods Pro, 
  • Elon Musk says Starlink internet service should be ‘fully mobile’ by the end of this year 2 days ago  –  Photo credit should read Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images SpaceX’s new Starlink satellite internet service is in a very limited beta testing period right now, but the company is already thinking ahead: as first noted by CNBC, SpaceX has filed an application with the FCC for Starli...
  • New York State just passed a law requiring ISPs to offer $15 broadband
  • Android 12 may support a trash bin for deleted files, but it’s messy
  • An actual house is an NFT now
  • Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series to cost $465 million for first season
  • Facebook Oversight Board delays decision on Trump ban
  • Elon Musk’s SpaceX will build NASA’s lunar lander
  • Amazon drivers may soon build the furniture you purchase
  • TikTok teens roast pop-punk group for posting cringe
  • Six months later, there still isn’t a MagSafe car charger
  • Twitter having a partial outage Saturday morning a day ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It looks like problems on Twitter that began Friday night are persisting Saturday morning. People on the east coast of the US were reporting that while the page would load, they were unable to send tweets and DMs. As of 11 AM ET Saturday, the site w...
  • Peloton is fighting a recall request on its treadmill after a child died last month
  • Judge in Australia finds Google misled Android users about location data collection
  • Google Project Zero will give a 30-day grace period before disclosing security issues
  • Washington state lawmakers vote to phase out gasoline cars by 2030
  • Camera footage from wolf’s collar reveals a very good boy
  • Edward Snowden NFT sells for more than $5.4 million
  • Peak Design’s new magnet-powered phone case system delayed until August
  • Robinhood can’t handle the Dogecoin rally
  • You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a 
  • New Trailers: Army of the Dead, The Underground Railroad, Resident Evil, and more 18 minutes ago  –  Here come the zombies in Army of the Dead | Netflix I finished This is a Robbery, and I won’t spoil the ending but if you’re thinking there will be a huge reveal at the end, well, you might be disappointed. What I found interesting throughout the four-part series was how the storyline rel...
  • Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
  • Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe and co-inventor of the PDF, has died at 81
  • Federal investigators looking into breach at software code testing company Codecov
  • Roblox to introduce content ratings for games to better restrict age-inappropriate content
  • Google introducing a feature in Chrome 90 to create links to highlighted text on a webpage
  • Amazon has canceled its Lord of the Rings MMO game
  • NASA reschedules Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on Mars for Monday
  • CPSC urges people with children at home to stop using Peloton Tread Plus treadmill ‘immediately’
  • During Indianapolis shooting, FedEx cell phone policy mea
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