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Logitech’s new headset shows it’s serious about capturing the pro gaming market
Tim Cook on building Apple’s next campus: ‘We’re not doing a beauty contest kind of thing’
Google’s LinkedIn competitor adds a tool for recruiters to reach out to past applicants with new jobs
The person behind the Like button says software is wasting our time
How Europe’s new privacy rule is reshaping the internet
New York Auto Show 2018: the latest news and the fastest cars
Apple is creating a center in Chicago where teachers can train to code
Tesla defends Autopilot after fatal Model X crash
How badly designed electronic health records can put patients in danger
- Xiaomi goes after Alienware’s throne with a gaming laptop at ‘half the price’
While Xiaomi is best known for its Android phones and home appliances, the Chinese brand is now branching out into gaming gear, with a new laptop that promises high-end graphics capabilities – and it costs only half as much in China as an Alienware with similar specs there. The 15.6-inch Mi Gamin... - Xiaomi’s powerful Mi Mix 2S is both bezel-less and notch-less
At an event in Shanghai today, Chinese hardware maker Xiaomi unveiled the Mi Mix 2S, the iterative follow-up to its impressive borderless Android handset from 2017 – and thankfully, it hasn’t gone the way of many other phone brands borrowing the iPhone X’s notch. While the core bezel-less design ... - iPhone manufacturer Foxconn acquires Belkin, Linksys, and Wemo for $866m
- Uber hits a roadblock as Arizona suspends its autonomous car tests
- 26 of the 115 most popular VPNs are secretly keeping tabs on you
- An Uber driver just suffered an embarrassing loss to a flight of stairs
- Snapchat’s new Explore feature makes Maps a social experience
- 3 ways governments are leveraging tech to stay ahead of the curve
- Chrome OS looks to replace Android on tablets. Good riddance
- Digital evolution’s most beautiful (and terrifying) contribution is mutant AI
- Reddit ditches Bitcoin payment option in wake of Coinbase changes
Earlier this week, Reddit users discovered the site had removed Bitcoin as a payment option for those looking to upgrade to Gold membership. If the site’s admins are to be believed, there’s a slight hope it’ll bring the option back in future. Reddit Gold, the site’s premium membership, costs abou... - This tiny wearable knows what you’ve been eating, drinking, and smoking
A recent breakthrough in miniaturized sensor technology could end up taking a bite out of personal privacy. Researchers developed a wearable small enough to stick on a human tooth virtually unnoticed. And it’s capable of wirelessly transmitting data on any chemicals it comes in contact with. The ... - Apple announces Classkit, an app framework for classroom surveillance
- Apple announces $329 iPad with Pencil support to take on Chromebooks
- Hands-on: Huawei P20 Pro packs 3 cameras and a giant 40MP sensor
- TNW’s Big Spam: Today’s fungible stories
- Don’t get lapped by 1st graders… quit stalling and learn to code right now for under $6 per course
- How the ‘Deus Vult’ gaming meme turned far-right
- Lightning Network now has more active nodes than Bitcoin Cash
- Coinbase will support Ethereum ERC20 tokens on its exchange
- Watch out for the fake Poloniex phishing apps on Google Play
Avid cryptocurrency traders ought to be extra careful what apps they download from Google’s Play Store – especially if they do their trading on popular exchange desk Poloniex. ESET security researcher Lukas Stefanko has stumbled upon a malicious Poloniex copycat app designed to phish your credent... - Report: Apple Watch 4 to get a larger screen and longer battery life
As we edge past the first quarter of 2018, KGI Securities is firing up the Apple rumor mill with info about the company’s next smartwatch. The fourth-generation wearable is said to feature a display that’s 15 percent larger than the ones on existing models, which are available in 38mm and 42mm si... - This t-shirt repels all your body juices
- Prevent Facebook from tracking you all over the web with this Firefox extension
- Facebook reportedly shelving plans to unveil its smart speaker in May
- A man who once tried to marry his laptop now wants to pull the plug on internet porn
- Consumers prefer experiences over products, but what about personalization?
- Here’s how to find out if your employer can spy on your Slack conversations
- OnePlus 6 leak shows off wooden back and headphone jack
- The case for an artificially intelligent POTUS
- China takes on Hyperloop with 1000 km/h ‘super maglev’ train
Researchers at China’s Southwest Jiaotong University recently built a prototype for a “super maglev,” a track that carries a train at incredibly high speed using magnetic levitation (maglev). What makes it so super? According to the researchers it’ll be capable of supporting speeds up to 1000 km/... - TNW’s Big Spam: Is sweat pore poop?
Wednesday. Halfway there. Top trending tech news: 🔈 Facebook reportedly ditching its smart speaker plans (TNW)😮 Reddit dumped its Bitcoin payment option (TNW) 🇬🇧 PM Theresa May finally got an iPhone (BBC) What we’re talking about: This wearable is small enough to stick on a human tooth unnoticed ... - European MPs are pushing for an even more extreme ‘link tax’
- Tech giants are harnessing R programming — learn it and get hired with this complete training bundle
- How to make the most out of secure messaging app Signal
- Ripple donates $29 million worth of XRP to an American public school charity
- How blockchain will disrupt Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook
- Facebook makes its privacy tools easier to find
- Data shows you didn’t #DeleteFacebook, so make sure to change these settings
- Review: Far Cry 5 plays it a little too safe
- Is intelligent content insights the secret sauce for engaging content?
AI and privacy predictably dominated conversations at this year’s Adobe Summit, as both speakers and attendees tackled the elephant in the room. Thankfully, the “Summit Sneaks” sessions offered a little respite. Hosted by Leslie Jones of “Saturday Night Live,” experience creators had an opportuni... - Facebook severs relationship with third-party data brokers
In light of Facebook’s recent privacy woes, the company today pledged to take a meaningful step in righting past wrongs by shutting data brokers out of its multi-billion dollar ad platform. Facebook’s product marketing director Graham Mudd had this to say: We want to let advertisers know that we ... - Trump’s obsession with Amazon should worry you
- Facebook test gives users a private comment option for public posts
- Reverse engineering consciousness: Is the brain a quantum computer?
- Logitech’s new $89 headphones cut the nonsense for pro gamers
- We salute the developer who created an Alexa-controlled robot tank to deliver his beer
- Mario Kart and Monopoly don’t belong together
- Roli’s Songmaker Kit bundles its best music gear into one package
- PSA: Withdraw these 84 altcoins from Bittrex before they get delisted on March 30
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- This young lending startup just secured $70 million to lend $2 at a time
You don’t hear of many $2 loans in the United States, where $2 won’t buy you more than a chocolate bar. But in cities like Lagos, Nigeria, and Nairobi, Kenya, $2 has the buying power of roughly $40, making such “micro” loans useful when you’re running a small business. And borrowing $2 from a sta... - Google Cloud tackles applications performance monitoring
As Google builds out its cloud platform, it has been continually taking tools and services it has created in-house for its own team and putting them out in the world for its customers as products. Today, it added a key ingredient for developers building applications on the Google Cloud Platform w... - Waze officially launches its ad program for small businesses
With the launch of Waze Local, Google-owned navigation app Waze is offering small businesses a way to market themselves to consumers on the road. Waze has allowed larger brands to buy ads for years, and it’s been beta testing Waze Local since 2016. “It’s been a gradual strategy,” said Matt Phill... - BMW and Daimler agree to merge mobility service businesses
- LetsGetChecked raises $12M for its personal health tests
- Facebook makes its privacy, data downloading and deletion settings easier to find
- Facebook just lost another user — New Zealand’s privacy commissioner
- Palantir confirms a staff link with Cambridge Analytica
- Refugee charity turns to crypto with $1M donation from Ethereum’s founder and OmiseGo
- CardUp raises $1.7M to help small businesses get more out of their credit cards
- Princeton study finds very few affiliate marketers make required disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest
Convincing humans to buy products is a massive business called marketing, and few areas of marketing are growing as fast as influencer marketing. Influencers on platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube can command prodigious fees based on their audience size and engagement: some data sugg... - Over-the-top-only U.S. households nearly tripled since 2013, impacting TV ad dollars
The number of U.S. households using only over-the-top streaming services to access TV programming and movies has nearly tripled over the past five years, according to a new report (PDF) from the Video Advertising Bureau out today. While on its own, that figure sounds impressive, the report points... - Energy-saving Bitcoin rival Chia raises from A16Z, plans mini-IPO
Bram Cohen invented torrenting. Now he’s building a cryptocurrency called Chia that doesn’t waste electricity like Bitcoin, and top investors are lining up. Chia has just raised a $3.395 million seed round led by AngelList’s Naval Ravikant and joined by Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock and more. The... - Silver Lake is buying a $500M stake in Credit Karma in a massive secondary round
- Salesforce introduces Integration Cloud on heels of MuleSoft acquisition
- It was not consent, it was concealment
- ARKit-only apps top 13 million installs, nearly half from games
- Volkswagen’s Atlas Tanoak concept is a short-bed pickup truck dream
- Einride’s autonomous trucks will be Nvidia-powered, and deliveries start this fall
- Ubiquity6 nabs $10.5 million from top investors to build a deeper augmented reality
- Equifax taps former GE exec Mark Begor as its new CEO
It’s been seven months since a major data breach sent shares of Equifax tumbling, and the company is still pulling itself together. On Wednesday, the credit bureau announced it was appointing former GE exec Mark Begor to take over the troubled company’s affairs. The hire comes six months after Eq... - GoDaddy to move most of its infrastructure to AWS, not including domain management for its 75M domains
It really is Go Time for GoDaddy . Amazon’s cloud services provider AWS and GoDaddy, the domain registration and management giant, may have competed in the past when it comes to working with small businesses to provide them with web services, but today the two took a step closer together. AWS sai... - Hulu releases a new trailer for The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2
We’re exactly 28 days away from the premiere of The Handmaid’s Tale Season 2. That may seem like a long time, but Hulu has mercifully released a new trailer. The first season ended on the same note as Margaret Atwood’s novel by the same name, with Ofred in a van not knowing whether she was […] - Sony cuts PlayStation VR bundle price by $100
- Solomon Hykes leaves Docker, the company he founded
- Neighbor, a p2p self-storage marketplace, bags $2.5M seed
- Hire by Google makes it easier to find the right job candidates
- Spoke looks to create a simpler workplace requests management tool
- Siren raises $3.4 million for smart socks that track diabetic health
- Pandora takes on Spotify with dozens of personalized playlists built using its Music Genome
- Review: 2018 Lincoln Navigator
Michigan saw a historic amount of snowfall in 2018. And it’s not done. It’s snowing as I write this and it snowed nearly every day since I took delivery of this burgundy 2018 Lincoln Navigator. Excuse the dirty car shown in the photos. That’s life in the Midwest: half the year it’s impossible to ... - Uber Freight lead, Lior Ron, has left the company
Lior Ron, Uber’s head of freight operations, has left the company, a source familiar with the situation told TechCrunch. “We remain fully invested in and excited about the future of Uber Freight,” an Uber spokesperson said in a statement to TechCrunch. “Since launching in Texas, we have introduce... - DocuSign unveils IPO filing
DocuSign has unveiled its IPO filing, confirming our scoop from last week. The company had previously filed confidentially and the timing of the filing revelation implies that DocuSign is hoping to go public in late April. Founded in 2003, the San Francisco-based e-signature company has been an ... - Netflix adds former White House security advisor Susan Rice to its board
- Security flaw in Grindr exposed locations to third-party service
- Cruise’s CTO, a former Uber manager, is out
- Hide 3D paintings anywhere with AR app Artopia
- Scotty Labs raises $6 million for remote-controlled autonomous car platform
- Microsoft can ban you for using offensive language
- Your Google Home can now stream music to any Bluetooth speaker
- Bumble is suing Match Group for $400M for fraudulently obtaining trade secrets
Two weeks ago Match Group (Tinder’s parent company) sued Bumble for patent infringement and misuse of intellectual property. Bumble has now returned the favor by filing a separate lawsuit accusing Match of multiple improprieties in regards to interactions between the two companies over the past f... - SF Motors reveals first two EVs, aims to ship its first SUV by next year
SF Motors has revealed its first two models, electric vehicles aiming for 2018 production and 2019 street dates. The electric vehicle technology company with a headquarters in Silicon Valley, as well as a globe-spanning R&D footprint and manufacturing facilities in both China and the U.S., an... - Facebook will cut off access to third party data for ad targeting
In a surprise change, Facebook will give up one major data source that the company uses to help advertisers target relevant users on the platform. The company just announced that it will end a feature called Partner Categories, launched back in 2013 out of a partnership between Facebook and major... - San Francisco will regulate electric scooter sharing
- Festo’s latest bio-inspired creations are a robo-bat and rolling robo-spider
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang clarifies Uber is not using its Drive platform
- The Las Vegas strip’s first legit esports arena just opened for business
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise to move HQ to San Jose
- Boeing reportedly hit by Wannacry ransomware
- Tesla is overusing automation in Model 3 final assembly, analysts say
The Verge
- Apple, everyone needs more free iCloud storage
During yesterday’s education-focused event that saw the introduction of a new iPad, Apple executive Greg Joswiak revealed that the company is upgrading the amount of free iCloud storage given to students. Previously, managed student accounts had the same 5GB as regular consumers, but now, Apple i... - Nissan’s new Altima offers highly automated driving without the sticker shock
- Facebook responds to privacy crisis by making privacy tools easier to find
- Apple leans on multimedia to convince schools that iPads are better than Chromebooks
- Focal’s Listen Wireless headphones now come in olive, purple, and blue
- Meet the ‘Lady Gaga of Mathematics’ helming France’s AI task force
- The OnePlus 6 will have a notch, and here’s why
- How to choose between Apple’s iPad and iPad Pro
- Sony PSVR bundles now start from $299 in the US and Europe
- Huawei’s wannabe AirPods look and feel good
Snapchat is reportedly working on third-party access controls
- Barnes and Noble’s new app makes finding your next read less overwhelming
For publishers and authors, book discovery is a continual challenge. Sites like Amazon, Goodreads, and Smashwords contain hundreds of millions of books, which makes the task of connecting a reader to the right read difficult amid the clutter. This week, Barnes and Noble released a new app called ... - Uber scaled back the number of sensors on its self-driving cars: report
- More Alexa-enabled lamps are coming
- Rare galaxy found without any dark matter
- Apple CEO Tim Cook pounds the privacy drum in wake of Facebook scandal
- Watch the first trailer for the BBC’s adaptation of The City and The City
- Here’s what to expect at the 2018 New York Auto Show
- VW’s Cross Sport concept will hypnotize you with its glowing LED grille
- The Handmaid’s Tale season 2 looks even more harrowing than the first in this new trailer
- Dragon Quest XI is finally coming to North America in September
- Subaru will use facial recognition technology to detect driver fatigue
The new Subaru Forester, one of the brand’s best-sellers in the US, made its debut at the New York International Auto Show today. With it comes EyeSight, Subaru’s driver-assist technology, and an interesting new safety feature that is totally new to the automaker’s lineup: facial recognition. Du... - Annual BBC report says the service is struggling to keep up with Netflix and Amazon
- The Halide camera app for iPhone X shows we don’t have to fear the notch
- Don’t buy a third-party dock for your Nintendo Switch
- Nier: Automata’s director explains why he wants to ‘continue to fail’
- Pandora launches automatically generated personalized playlists
- Consumer genetic tests may have a lot of false positives
- How a creative think tank in Austin is developing a new generation of interactive storytellers
- Google Home can now play music through your other Bluetooth speakers
- ‘Selfie medicine’ might help people take their pills — at the cost of their privacy
- Facebook will no longer allow third-party data for targeting ads
Facebook announced today that it’s disabling a form of advertising targeting called Partner Categories, which allowed prominent third-party data aggregators like Experian and Acxiom to provide clients with offline data like purchasing activity to inform ad targeting. The move comes amid the fallo... - Westworld’s hosts just took over HBO to reveal a new trailer is coming tomorrow
- Uber’s fatal self-driving crash: all the news and updates
- Boeing production plant hit with WannaCry ransomware attack
- Genesis’ Essentia is an electric GT with an awesomely retro-futuristic ‘bubble’ roof
- Xiaomi’s Mi Gaming Laptop comes with Nvidia GTX 1060 graphics and costs $1,430
- A Palm smartphone reboot is reportedly coming to Verizon later this year
- Facebook temporarily blocks new apps from joining its platform
- Otto co-founder Lior Ron leaves Uber
- Activists say Airbnb makes New Orleans housing shortage worse
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