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- Tech conferences have a garbage plastic swag problem
Trade shows are great fun. The real joy, however, isn’t found in the talks and roundtables, but in the promotional swag doled out by company representatives. Last week, I went to the IP Expo Manchester security conference, where I spent about two hours wandering through the event’s endless stalls... - Huawei’s plans for an Android alternative are crazy, but necessary
Huawei’s had a terrible time dealing with the US in 2018, and things are said to have gotten a whole lot worse last week, when the Department of Justice reportedly began investigating the Chinese telecom and hardware giant for allegedly having violated the country’s sanctions against Iran. That c... - This startup wants to create a merchandising and banking cryptoeconomy
- T-Mobile acquires Sprint for $26 billion to take on AT&T and Verizon
- Facebook rolls out its downvote button to more users
- On the shores of the Iberian Peninsula: A look inside Cascais’s tech scene
- Unlock the secrets of Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma project management for under $70
- 4 reasons why your startup should go to China RIGHT NOW
- How plastic-eating bacteria actually work
- Facebook is dropping key advertising tools — here’s how you adapt
- The next big Windows 10 update starts rolling out May 8. Here’s how to get it right now
Just as promised, the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, including new features like Timeline and Focus assist, is available starting today. But it won’t show up on your computer just yet. Although the update is technically available starting today, Microsoft won’t begin to roll out the OS automatical... - Researchers confirm tokens on Binance weren’t affected by ERC20 bug
Last week, a number of cryptocurrency exchange desks temporarily suspended trading after blockchain security company PeckShield discovered two critical vulnerabilities in multiple ERC20 tokens. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has however ensured that none of the ERC20 tokens... - Nintendo is making an RPG for your smartphone
- China’s Golaxy AI defeats top Go player too — but is it ready for DeepMind?
- Have I Been Pwned’s Troy Hunt will answer all your good questions about bad passwords
- How measuring performance with numbers kills innovation
- Join the Hard Fork ICO: Buy tickets to TNW Conference and make a profit
- Stop forgetting passwords and tighten your security all at once with Dashlane at 50% off
- UNICEF wants your CPU power to mine cryptocurrency for children in Bangladesh
- Hands-on: VanMoof’s new bike uses spooky sci-fi sounds to scare thieves
- Blockchain-powered Gagapay solves trust issues between companies and affiliate marketers
Digital advertising and marketing spend is tipped to finally equal that of traditional marketing by 2020 and will eventually surpass it. Marketers are only now fully harnessing the power and reach of digital marketing after a lot of teething problems that led to wasted budgets and missed targets.... - Telegram is now banned in Iran, affecting 40 million users
After being blocked in Russia last month, Telegram now finds its encrypted messaging service banned in Iran. The country’s judiciary arm has ordered Telegram’s site and app to be blocked by internet service providers across the country, citing national security concerns. That’ll affect some 40 mi... - The US lags behind 8 other countries in AI and automation readiness
- WhatsApp founder Jan Koum leaves company, cuts ties with Facebook
- Review: RHA’s newest headphones are affordable, competent earbuds for the gymrats among us
- Hollywood’s algorithms will determine tomorrow’s blockbusters
- You can buy the Galaxy S9 with 256GB of storage soon, but you probably shouldn’t
- This eco-friendly phone booth solves the biggest problem with open plan offices
- Stardew Valley multiplayer lets you turn your friends into laborers
- Twitter also sold data to Cambridge Analytica researcher Aleksandr Kogan
- Researchers are creating an antidote for alcohol poisoning
A team of researchers from universities in California and China is developing a pair of pills that break down alcohol in a person’s bloodstream. In a recently published white paper the group successfully demonstrated that it’s possible to speed up the sobriety process by aiding the liver in proce... - TNW’s Big Spam: Turn your friends into laborers
Happy Tuesday, you little gremlins. Tomorrow we have a TNW Answers session with “Have I Been Pwned?” creator and security expert Troy Hunt. You don’t need to wait til he’s online… ASK YOUR QUESTIONS NOW!!! Top trending tech news: 😮 Telegram is now banned in Iran (TNW) 😬 Twitter also sold data to ... - The Web runs on JavaScript, and here’s all the training you need for less than $3 a course
- Amazfit’s Bip is a solid $99 fitness tracker — but a mediocre smartwatch
- Here’s how you can host your own roundtable at TNW2018
- Deliveroo’s new London meal deals are so cheap, you’ll question their sustainability
- Redefining where, how and why we work
- Why I drive slowly
- FTC is hosting a workshop to teach people how to spot cryptocurrency scams
- Apple likely won’t merge iOS and macOS this year
- Instagram and WhatsApp are both getting group video calls soon
At its F8 conference yesterday, Facebook announced that it’s bringing group video chats to both Instagram and WhatsApp in future updates. On Instagram, you’ll soon find a new camera icon in your Direct conversation screens; tapping it will initiate an instant video call, and you can minimize it t... - Facebook is finally giving users the option to clear their history
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, today announced the site would introduce a feature which will grant users a measure of control over their data — specifically, giving them control over how much information from their history is shared without third-party apps. The feature, appropriately named “Clea... - Facebook Messenger is getting a clean new design. Here’s what it looks like
- Nobody knows how far off useful quantum computers are: Here’s why
- Here’s why thousands of AI researchers will boycott a science journal
- Are you ready to make friends with a robot? You’ll soon need to be.
- Facebook now lets anyone create an AR experience
- Facebook’s Oculus Go is finally available, starting at $199
- Atari reveals games lineup and pricing for its new VCS console
- Roger Ver’s Bitcoin.com no longer labels BCH as the real Bitcoin
Tech Crunch
- Toast launches a new handheld device and kitchen display system for restaurants
Toast, the Boston-based technology developer for the restaurant industry, has launched a new handheld point-of-sale device and a kitchen display system to integrate the front and back of any restaurant. Using the devices, any waiter can become an expert on menu offerings at the touch of a button.... - Entrepreneurs and VCs are a big part of Gold House’s inaugural list of 100 influential Asian America
Gold House is a new nonprofit seeking to support Asian Americans in business and culture, and today it’s launching a tried-and-true initiative to bring big names together — a list. The A100 list names 100 of the most influential Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Not surprisingly, it’s got Ho... - Watch Facebook’s F8 keynote live right here
Facebook is hosting its F8 developer conference in San Jose this week. The event comes at an interesting time for the company. In response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it made a couple of sudden changes to how developers can access some data on its platform. We expect Facebook co-founder a... - Frontier Car Group raises another $58M for its used-car marketplace for emerging economies
- Facebook announces way to ‘Clear History’ of apps and sites you’ve clicked
- Google is launching .app domains, the first TLDs secured with built-in HTTPS, on May 7
- Google launches Cloud Composer, a new workflow automation tool for developers
- Alexa can remember birthdays and other things for you now
- Attack of the clones
- Google’s pricey Clips ‘smart camera’ gets a $50 discount
- Facebook and Instagram Stories open to sharing from other apps
Facebook is recruiting help to make its Stories more interesting than Snapchat’s. Starting with Spotify, SoundCloud and GoPro, third-party apps can now let their users share to Facebook Stories and Instagram Stories. Rather than screenshotting, users will be able to hit a button to share a photo ... - Facebook is launching a new Groups tab and plug-in
Facebook is rolling out a new Groups tab and plugin, announced CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his opening keynote at Facebook’s F8 developer conference this morning. The addition of the new Groups tab on Facebook will make groups a more central part of the Facebook experience, the CEO explained. “In ... - Oculus TV is the VR set-top streaming box you never knew you needed
Alongside the launch of the Oculus Go headset today, Oculus announced that it is working on a new element of its in-headset experience that will appeal to users interested in binging TV inside VR. It’s called Oculus TV and the company hopes that it will evolve to become a quick-and-easy way for V... - $199 Oculus Go VR headset goes on sale today
- Facebook tiptoes into translation within Messenger
- Facebook announces dating feature for meeting non-friends
- Facebook reopens app reviews on its platform
- Check out these awesome workshops at TC Sessions: Robotics May 11 at UC Berkeley
- Lyft partners with Udacity to hire self-driving car engineers
- Google accused of using GDPR to impose unfair terms on publishers
- Just 48 hours left until Disrupt SF 2018 price hike
We’re rounding the far turn and heading into the home stretch, folks. You have a mere 48 hours left to snag the best pricing available on passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2018, which takes place September 5-7 at Moscone Center West. Right now, you can save up to $1,800, but once the calendar click... - Facebook wants weird ‘VR memories’ to take you back to your childhood
While Facebook execs had plenty of updates to share at Tuesday’s F8 keynote, there were far fewer announcements focused on the weird and experimental things that Facebook is trying to leverage AI and VR to do. That was, until the company made its last announcement for something it’s calling “VR m... - WhatsApp’s stories hit 450M users, stealing the globe from Snapchat
Snapchat neglected the international market in its early years, and now WhatsApp has snatched that growth opportunity. WhatsApp’s clone of Snapchat Stories, WhatsApp Status, now has 450 million daily active users. That’s compared to just 191 million daily users on all of Snapchat as of today’s di... - Smart dresser helps dementia sufferers put their clothes on right
- Goldman Sachs CFO Martin Chavez and Roblox CEO David Baszucki to hit up Disrupt SF
- Instagram’s ‘Explore’ section is getting a makeover
- Facebook’s AR camera effects platform comes to Instagram
- Facebook’s Crisis Response now lets people share first-person accounts from disaster zones
- Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise version, now has 52 SaaS apps and bots, opens up for more integrations
- Instagram launches video chat
- In-app purchases are coming to Facebook’s Instant Games on Android and the web
Facebook is adding support for in-app purchases to its Instant Games platform, the company announced during a session on gaming at its F8 developer conference this afternoon. The feature will allow game developers to add another form of monetization beyond advertising to their games on select pla... - Cisco is acquiring business intelligence startup Accompany for $270M
Cisco just announced an agreement to acquire Accompany, which uses artificial intelligence to build databases of people and relationships at companies. Founder and CEO Amy Chang has compared the product to a digital chief of staff or personal assistant, giving executives the context they need bef... - Eliot Peper’s Bandwidth is a riveting novel exploring the dark side of feeds and geopolitics
The feed is the greatest psychological and mental manipulation tool that has ever been invented. Every day, billions of people open apps and scroll through algorithmically selected content designed to emotively engage us. Through the feed, we enter an intellectual stupor, downloading information ... - Snapchat scrambles to fix failed redesign, moves Stories to Discover
- Apple says it will return $100B to investors with a massive new program after a strong Q2
- Snapchat slips in Q1 to its slowest user growth rate ever, shares fall 15%
- Match stock is tanking in light of Facebook’s dating play
- New Oculus Venues app organizes live VR events under one roof
- Facebook will soon bring 3D photos to the news feed
- Oculus hopes Boggle will help VR users get social in updated Rooms app
- Thousands of academics spurn Nature’s new paid-access Machine Learning journal
Nature, one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world, has just announce plans to create a Machine Intelligence imprint, and researchers are not happy. The field has been doing fine with open-access journals — why clog it up with the paid-access model everyone has been trying to es...
( Clogging it up is exactly the mission statement for politically correct presentations. Luckily, it also seems to be a ticket to richly deserved oblivion. ) - New Bigscreen update streams your desktop to the Oculus Go
Oculus says that its new Go headset already boasts support for more than 1,000 titles out of the gate as of today. One of the most interesting of the small subset of those that I’ve taken a look at today has been the latest update for Bigscreen, which brings the previously PC-only VR desktop stre... - Birchbox ownership changes hands after beauty business does recap
Beauty-in-a-box brand Birchbox has changed up its ownership structure. The New York-based startup, which has raised almost $90 million in funding from noted venture firms like Accel Partners and First Round Capital, has a new majority owner in hedge fund Viking Global, sources confirm to TechCrun... - Everything Facebook launched at F8 and Why
- Facebook’s Free Basics program ended quietly in Myanmar last year
- A CEO known publicly for the power of smiling was just ousted for intimidating employees
- The BBC will run its first podcast ads, powered by Acast
- ‘SmartLens’ app created by a high schooler is a step towards all-purpose visual search
- Facebook wants to fix the ‘Happy Birthday’ spam problem by using Stories
- What do Meltdown, Spectre and RyzenFall mean for the future of cybersecurity?
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