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- Ethereum’s creator is mad at Facebook for not removing fake profiles of him
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has been dealing with tons of fraudulent Twitter impersonators seeking to steal cryptocurrency from naive investors – but it seems the trend has gradually caught on to other social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook. The young entrepreneur has taken to Tw... - This British CEO turned a Chinese proverb into a business model
This interview is part of our series of Growth Stories. We interviewed the founders and CEOs of 20 of the fastest growing startups in Europe. We asked them about their companies, their companies’ culture, and their lives, trying to understand how these three factors played a role in the achieveme... - This site guesses exactly who you are based on just 15 questions
- Glitch Rewind wants to make version control easy for everyone
- Analogue’s Super Nt console is the ultimate gift for Nintendo-obsessed 90s kids
- This Chrome extension silences tabs before they annoy you
- iOS 11.3 lets you prevent Apple from throttling your aging iPhone
- Should businesses comment on politics? Here’s what eight entrepreneurs have to say.
- Canon’s new 120-megapixel sensor captures incredibly detailed video
- Top Facebook exec defended data collection in leaked 2016 memo: ‘Maybe someone dies’
- These clumsy robots prove AI is far from perfect
When a person screws up we call it human nature. So what does it mean when a machine that’s trying to imitate our intelligence makes a mistake? According to the doomsayers, it means robots could attack us because of faulty reasoning – and that’s scary. But, it’s hard to fear a machine that can be... - Study shows social media echo chambers might actually be a good thing
A group of researchers, as part of a social experiment, paid liberals and conservatives on Twitter to follow a bot for a month that tweeted political views from the other side. Shockingly, rather than softening their own views or learning to understand the opposition, most participants dug in dee... - VR exhibit allows the blind to ‘see’ art thanks to special gloves
- Sex cam site launches CockBlockchain to put the ‘ass’ in crypto-assets
- Using cryptocurrency to fight spam is a terrible idea
- OnePlus teases PeiCoin cryptocurrency, ‘launching’ on April 1
- Dell’s new XPS 13 laptop is a tiny beautiful workhorse
- Alchemy-powered ICO: ‘Blockchain is good for money, but useless as technology’
- AI is better than you at hiring diversely
- Ever wanted to create animation, but didn’t know how? This program makes it easy
- Exploring a controversial net neutrality opinion: Not all data should be treated equally
Washington recently became the nation’s first state to pass net neutrality legislation, a law in which violations by all internet service providers (ISPs) are enforceable, under Washington’s Consumer Protection Act. Net neutrality, or the principle that all internet data must be treated and deliv... - New Google Maps mini-game makes finding Waldo easier than ever
Starting today you can use Google Maps on Android, iOS, and desktop to assist you in finding everyone’s favorite hide-and-seek champion, Waldo. To start the search, you’ll need to update the mobile app (or visit Google Maps on the web) and press play when presented with a waving Waldo. For Androi... - Blockchain isn’t the only tech behind Bitcoin
- PC Mag called this VPN “outstanding” — and at this price, we can see why
- 5 easy steps to take your online business global
- The ‘Roomba of toilets’ exists only to clean your skid marks
- Blockchain is the key to fair distribution of wealth in the sharing economy
- Apple’s macOS 10.13.4 brings full external GPU support to recent MacBooks
- Apple doesn’t understand what makes Chromebooks great
- Reddit slams first Sea of Thieves player to reach ‘Pirate Legend’ status
- Report: Google to launch a cheaper Pixel phone this summer
Remember when Google sold Nexus phones? Back then, the stock Android experience also meant an affordable price, something which was has disappeared since Google started directly competing with the iPhone and Galaxy series with its Pixel phones. Now it seems the company could be looking to recaptu... - Leak: This is what the LG G7 could look like
LG smartphones are having a weird year. After skipping its usual flagship launch at Mobile World Congress, rumors suggested LG threw out the G7’s original design and came up with something else entirely. A new leak may give us our clearest look at what might be the phone’s final design. The CAD r... - Asimov’s laws of robotics need an update for the workplace
- Is automation leaving women and minorities behind?
- 6 reasons why Latin American valuations are lagging behind Silicon Valley
- South Africa has an untouched $10M fund for internet accessibility
- Get a lifetime of WordPress themes that don’t look like everybody else’s site for over 80% off
- Build teams for ‘radical innovation’ to save your company’s creativity
- Every blockchain needs a tool for auditing its smart contracts
- Improving your emotional intelligence can earn you a raise — here’s how
- Intel unveils its Core i9 processors for faster gaming and video editing on laptops
At an event in Beijing today, Intel showed off its latest 8th-gen Core i9 processors that are designed to allow for improved gaming and graphics-intensive content creation tasks on laptops. Based on the Coffee Lake platform, the new chips promise to deliver up to 41 percent more FPS (frames per s... - Apple reportedly plans to ditch Intel’s processors entirely by 2020
Apple has been developing specialized chips for handling certain functions in its phones and computers for the past couple of years, and it’s now planning to take things up a notch: Bloomberg reports that the company is gearing up to make all its processors in-house by 2020, and ditch its long-ti... - Rant: In-app browsers are annoying and mostly useless
- Dating app Grindr exposed user HIV statuses to at least two third-parties
- Military documents reveal how the US Army plans to deploy AI in future wars
- Nearly 40% of American gamers play at work
- Tesla’s biggest problem is human error
- Trump’s wall won’t stop China’s AI
- Zuckerberg claps back against Apple CEO’s ‘glib’ commentary
- Learn the way apps get you information with this API Mastery training for just $29
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- Alibaba to buy all remaining outstanding shares of local delivery service Ele.me
As expected since February, Alibaba will buy all outstanding shares of Ele.me that it doesn’t already own. Best-known for food deliveries, Ele.me claims to be China’s biggest online delivery and local services platform. In an announcement, Alibaba said the deal values Ele.me at $9.5 billion. Alib... - Cloudflare’s new ‘privacy-focused’ DNS service speeds up your web browsing
Cloudflare decided to use April Fool’s Day (4/1) to share some news about four 1’s that could help speed your internet browsing. The company announced today that it’s launching a DNS service for consumers called 1.1.1.1 The company’s tool — which is not some super nerdy April Fool’s joke — will a... - What Apple’s education announcements mean for accessibility
Steven Aquino Contributor Share on Twitter Steven Aquino is a freelance tech writer and iOS accessibility expert. More posts by this contributor At this month’s WWDC, Apple unveiled refined accessibility tools The pleasure and the pain of the accessible smart home From an accessibility news stand... - China’s 9-ton Tiangong-1 space station will burn up tonight, but no one knows quite where
- STEAMRole is like Tinder for mentorship
- DARPA wants new ideas for autonomous drone swarms
- Charting the adoption of direct startup investments by family offices
- Nostalgia eats itself in ‘Ready Player One’
- Patterns, Predictability, and the Rise of Donald Trump
- ‘Highly critical’ CMS bug has left over 1 million sites open to attack
- Tesla is now worth less than Ford
Tesla’s stock price is falling and in doing so, has retreated on milestones it set last year. As of publication, the company’s value is less than Ford’s for the first time in a year. At current levels, Tesla’s market cap is $42.063 billion while Ford is trading at $43.588. It was a year ago tomor... - Walmart brings its partnership with JD.com into the food business
Walmart is bringing its partnership with JD.com into its grocery business. The Chinese physical store will stock products that customers can also buy through its Walmart virtual storefront on the Chinese electronic marketplace, JD.com, according to a report in Reuters. Walmart first partnered wit... - Tesla makes Autopilot easier to use in the Model 3
The Model 3 now has a new way to control Autopilot. The company recently sent out an update that moved the controls from the center infotainment stack to the steering wheeling. Previously, drivers had to use the large screen to change Autopilot’s speed and cruise distance and in doing so, require... - Shorter, skippable ads will be coming to YouTube
- Alexa users can now donate to charity with their voice
- Zuckerberg fires back at Tim Cook, opens up about fake news
- Publishing blockchain startup, Po.et hires VP of engineering
- SiFive gets $50.6M to help companies get their custom chip designs out the door
- Atlassian’s two-year cloud journey
- COSMIQ maker Deepblu launches a booking platform it calls the “Airbnb of diving”
- Microsoft launches AI and entry-level software development courses
Microsoft today launched two new courses in its online education program for developers: an entry-level software development class and an AI course for more advanced developers who want to expand their knowledge of machine learning. It’s no secret that there aren’t enough data scientists and mach... - Utah education technology unicorn Pluralsight files for IPO
In an unusual move, Pluralsight has announced that it filed confidentially for IPO. Companies typically stay quiet until they make the filings public, unless reporters break the news first. But it’s no surprise to those who have been following Utah’s tech scene that Pluralsight is planning to lis... - NTSB is ‘unhappy’ about Tesla publicly disclosing details of fatal crash
Tesla provided some more details on Friday about the fatal crash involving one of its Model X vehicles, but the National Transportation Safety Board isn’t particularly happy about that, The Washington Post first reported. “In each of our investigations involving a Tesla vehicle, Tesla has been ex... - Facebook shows off a new avatar system, but it’s still just for VR
- WTF are CDRs? (other than a potential trillion-dollar market)
- ESPN’s streaming service, ESPN+, to launch April 12
- Microsoft launches 2 new Azure regions in Australia
- Activist investors Elliott snag 10.3 percent stake in Commvault
- Music app Genius launches its own take on Stories, aided by YouTube
- 82Labs raises $8M to create a better hangover recovery drink
- Here are the five things I learned installing a smart mirror
I recently received a review unit of the Embrace Smart Mirror. It’s essentially a 24-inch Android tablet mounted behind a roughly 40-inch mirror. It works well when third-party software is installed. Here’s what I learned. It’s impossible to get a good photo of the smart mirror I tried a tripod, ... - Lyft Line may be prepping for launch in Toronto
Lyft seems to be gearing up to launch its carpooling service, Line, in its first international city. This comes after Lyft launched its standard, Plus, Premier, Lux and SUV services in Toronto back in December. “With the response we’ve had since coming to Toronto, the growing network of riders an... - Fitbit is crashing after a pretty rough note from Wall Street
Fitbit shaved off another roughly 10% of its value in trading today after a downgrade from a Wall Street firm, which will once again throw on more skepticism as to whether or not Fitbit can be a viable business in the smartwatch market. The note came from Morgan Stanley this morning, which said i... - SpaceX launch will bring science and supplies to ISS and return with a glitchy Robonaut
- Markets drop sharply as China implements new tariffs against US
- Grindr sends HIV status to third parties, and some personal data unencrypted
- Apple, in a very Apple move, is reportedly working on its own Mac chips
- Google is banning all cryptomining extensions from its Chrome Web Store
- Quintacorn Robinhood’s free crypto trading rolls out in Cali, 3 more states
- The International Space Station is getting a new printer
- Uber’s India rival Ola could add public transport services following latest acquisition
The rumors are true, India’s Uber rival/potential-future-M&A-buddy Ola has acquired transportation startup Ridlr in an undisclosed deal. Mint reported the imminent transaction last week, describing it as a fire sale, and today Ola confirmed the deal. The terms are undisclosed so you can make ... - What to expect when Spotify goes public Tuesday
Digital music giant Spotify is joining the stock market on Tuesday, making it the biggest consumer tech company to go public since Snap debuted early last year. But unlike Snap, Spotify isn’t doing an IPO. The “o” part of IPO stands for offering and Spotify isn’t raising any money. Instead, exist... - Insider raises $11M to help internet marketers do better internet marketing
Insider, a service that aims to help brands go about their internet marketing with greater efficiency and success, has landed an $11 million investment led by Sequoia India. The startup is originally from Turkey where it began life in 2012 as a platform that helped optimize online marketing campa... - Walmart reportedly in talks to acquire prescription delivery service PillPack
- Elon Musk just took charge of Model 3 production, saying it’s his ‘most critical’ job right now
- Skydio R1 review: a mesmerizing, super-expensive self-flying drone
- Self-care apps are booming
- Instagram suddenly chokes off developers as Facebook chases privacy
- Google AI and search chief John Giannandrea steps down
- California DMV has new regulations for self-driving car companies
The Verge
- Hyperspektiv is a photo app that produces glitchy, psychedelic images
I love a good photo app, but there are so many in the App Store that it’s hard to know where to begin. If you’re looking for a photo- and video-editing app that does something a little different than the standard Instagram-like filters, a glitch-inducing app called Hyperspektiv might be a nice al... - 16 new science fiction and fantasy books to read this April
- Telegram has raised a total of $1.7 billion from its two pre-ICO sales
- This 2011 visual novel predicted how privacy would change in 2018
- April Fools’ Day 2018: the best (and lamest) pranks
- Hello from the Magic Tavern is a hilarious improvised fantasy epic in podcast form
- Cloudflare launches 1.1.1.1 DNS service that will speed up your internet
- Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in April
- Court rules that musician wrongly suffered hearing loss while rehearsing music for Apocalypse Now attack scene
- Snapchat throws shade at Facebook with Russian bot filter
- BMW and Daimler are putting their differences aside to beat Uber
BMW and Daimler, once bitter rivals, announced that they would merge their mobility businesses in an effort to stave off competition from tech upstarts like Waymo and Uber. The new company will include businesses in car-sharing, ride-hailing, parking, and electric-vehicle charging. The deal mean... - You can now donate to charity by asking Amazon’s Alexa to send money
- Far Cry 5 has the best video game dog
- Facebook may soon let users appeal if a post was wrongly removed
- Netflix’s European users can access their home catalog throughout the EU
- Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next
- Badly implemented AI could ‘jeopardize democracy,’ says French president Emmanuel Macron
- China’s out-of-control space station harmlessly breaks up over the Pacific Ocean
- Niantic settles class action lawsuit following last year’s disastrous Pokémon Go Fest in Chicago
- The grilles (both real and faux) of the 2018 New York Auto Show
- Google may release a mid-range Pixel smartphone in India this summer
Last year, 9to5Mac reported that Google was working on a budget version of its Pixel smartphone, which wouldn’t be sold in the US. Between then and now, the Pixel 2 launched with no budget phone to be seen, but a new report out of India claims the device is coming this summer. The Economic Times ... - Apple will reportedly ditch Intel chips in Macs as early as 2020
- Tesla is making over 2,000 Model 3s a week, as crucial deadline approaches
- Fortnite is now open to everyone on iOS
- Apple applies for patent that lets riders virtually fight zombies or hang glide in self-driving cars
- ESPN+ will launch on April 12th for $4.99 per month
- Mark Zuckerberg calls Tim Cook’s comments on Facebook ‘extremely glib’
- Why this online simulator lets you nuke your backyard
- Facebook will force advertisers to prove they have user consent for ad targeting over email
- Google is equipping more rural school buses with Wi-Fi and Chromebooks
- Trump’s EPA officially starts the fight to lower vehicle emissions standards
The Environmental Protection Agency is calling for a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions standards for model year 2022-2025 cars and light trucks. The agency said today that the standards — which were put in place by the Obama administration in 2012 — are “not appropriate and should be revised.... - SpaceX launches its 11th used Falcon 9 rocket on trip to the International Space Station
- John McAfee reveals he charges $105,000 per promotional cryptocurrency tweet
- Google’s machine learning software can now categorize ramen by shop
- Malaysia just made fake news illegal and punishable by up to six years in jail
- Waymo and Honda reportedly will build a self-driving delivery vehicle together
- The Walking Dead has transformed Negan into a likable and even redeemable villain
- Facebook updated its VR avatars to look more ‘lifelike’
- Acer’s $899 all-in-one desktop comes with Qi wireless charging station
- Don’t worry about coffee’s cancer risk — or its health benefits
- Intel is bringing its most powerful Core i9 processors to laptops
Ever since Intel announced its first Core i9 processor for desktops last year, it’s only been a matter of time until the company brought that branding to laptops, too. Today, Intel is announcing its first Core i9 chip for laptops, with what it claims is “the best gaming and creation laptop proces... - Here’s Xiaomi’s voice assistant, Xiao AI
- John Harrison’s super-accurate clock helped solve the longitude puzzle
- Instagram abandons its Apple Watch app
- Reddit begins rolling out first redesign in a decade
- Snapchat is making a bid for your parents, missing the entire point of Snapchat
- Valve quietly hides Steam Machine section from its game store after years of neglect
- Grindr exposed its users’ HIV statuses to two other companies
- Samsung rounds out its laptop line with cheaper Notebook 3 and Notebook 5
- YouTube channel pages were down all afternoon
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