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• A meltdown of epic proportions before CES 2018 | #PNWeekly 286

  05-01-2018 22:20 via youtube.com
  
  
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• YouTube’s problematic Content ID says white noise is copyrighted

  05-01-2018 21:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  A YouTube content creator recently found his video the subject of multiple content claims, meaning several people are trying to claim ownership of white noise. Sebastian Tomczak a.k.a “littlescale”, a music technologist based in Australia, told TorrentFreak he received several complaints on his video, which he created via a noise generator. My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims! :) pic.twitter.com/dX9PCM1qGx — Sebastian Tomczak (@littlescale) January 4, 2
  
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• New Open Source Mobile OS Puts Privacy Front and Center

  05-01-2018 21:33
  A renowned Linux innovator has developed a new mobile OS, called "Project eelo," in an effort to provide a level of data privacy that traditional Android and iOS devices fail to offer. Eelo will allow mobile phone users to regain control over their personal information at a price they can afford, said Gael Duval, who created Mandrake Linux back in 1998. Apple has become too expensive, too boring and is "going crazy with its products," he said, while Google has "become too big" and is capturing t
  
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• Is 2018 the year wires and cords become obsolete?

  05-01-2018 20:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Technological innovation tends to unfold exponentially and ruthlessly; whenever a new technology takes over, an old one falls out of popular usage and becomes obsolete. For example, once email became adopted by the vast majority of the working world, snail mail became a nostalgic relic of the past (for most individual communications). By the time Blu-ray discs gave us a platform for high-definition video, VHS tapes were long dead. It’s hard to predict what technology will next go obsolete
  
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• CrackBerry Podcast - 2017 Reflections and 2018 Predictions!

  05-01-2018 20:24 via feeds.crackberry.com
  To kick off the first CrackBerry podcast of 2018, we figured it was only right to reflect on some of best highlights from 2017 and share our predictions for 2018.
  To kick off the first CrackBerry podcast of 2018, we figured it was only right to reflect on some of best highlights from 2017 and share our predictions for 2018. 2017 was a pretty jammed pack year, so there was a lot to discuss. Go ahead, hit play and settle in for the next hour. As always, we'll get the audio posted up in a bit here
  
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• MrMobile goes hands-on – with a cell tower

  05-01-2018 19:58 via feeds.crackberry.com
  Come along as MrMobile scopes out two unique cell towers!
  Fun fact: when I was selling mobile phones back in 2004, I would spend the store's slow days taking online training courses reserved for my employer's engineers, fascinated by the networks that made mobile phones work. Fourteen years (and a change of careers) later, my network curiosity still burned strong. So I asked AT&T to let me go hands-on with a cell site – and to my great surprise, the carrier said yes!Come along as I sco
  
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• US driverless car lead vanishing as China and UK put pedal to the metal

  05-01-2018 19:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  The question is no longer “when are driverless cars coming,” but where. While the US and China are locked in a head-to-head showdown to see which will flood its roads with safe AI-driven vehicles, a dark horse emerges. The UK may be playing tortoise to their hares. Before we can talk about the Queen’s plans, however, we’ll need to bring up last year’s most improved player in the space: China. The People’s Republic is again revving its engines with state-spons
  
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• Reddit admits its email provider was hacked to steal Bitcoin Cash tips

  05-01-2018 17:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  Following a brigade of spooked Redditors reporting hacked accounts and missing Bitcoin Cash tips, Reddit has now revealed the results of its internal investigation – and it doesn’t look good. A hacker purportedly breached the platform’s third-party password reset system, forcing access to the accounts of multiple victims. While the malicious agent was able to access the password recovery emails distributed by Reddit’s third-party software provider, Mailgun, the individua
  
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• Use social media like a marketing pro, and learn how for only $29

  05-01-2018 16:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  There are plenty of examples of small to mid-range companies using the right social platform exposure to fuel dizzying growth. It’s not magic, and it can be learned. Get the background you need to master the means of communicating in 2018 with the Silicon Valley Social Media Marketing Course, now available for only $29 from TNW Deals.
  
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• Multiple Bitcoin debit card providers suspend service under orders of Visa

  05-01-2018 14:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Bitcoin community is reeling after several pre-paid crypto debit card providers abruptly suspended service. The companies affected include Bitwala, Cryptopay, Wirex, and TenX. These services allow individuals to spend cryptocurrencies — predominantly Bitcoin — in traditional brick-and-mortar establishments through a debit card issued by one of the major providers, Visa and MasterCard. Following an announcement from our card issuer on behalf of Visa Europe, Bitwala cards are take
  
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• No, Mark Zuckerberg did not say Facebook will be adding Bitcoin

  05-01-2018 14:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  In an awfully hackneyed new-years-resolution post, every-day-normal-guy Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook to lay out some of the goals he hopes the popular social media company will accomplish over the course of this year. But despite the rumors, adding Bitcoin to its platform was not on the agenda. “[W]e currently make too many errors enforcing our policies and preventing misuse of our tools,” the tech mogul said. “These issues touch on questions of history, civics, polit
  
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• LSQ Software Engineer Ishita Mandhan: Find Your Community

  05-01-2018 14:00
  "Girls in Tech is a global nonprofit. We focus on engagement, education, and empowerment of girls and women in technology," said Ishita Mandhan, a software engineer at LSQ and program director for Girls in Tech. "It's important to provide the support network to help women to develop their careers in STEM fields. Girls in Tech's Global Classroom "teaches girls and women around the world. It's a free-for-all course where you can learn to build a website, and it takes a holistic approach," she said
  
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• These are the worst video games of the last 35 years

  05-01-2018 13:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Rumour has it there is a site somewhere in New Mexico where you could once find definitive proof of ET. This hallowed ground is not Area 51 but a former landfill site that until recently contained truckloads of unsold cartridges of E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, the video game that spectacularly bombed when it was released 35 years ago in December 1982. Huge numbers of copies of this game were sent back because consumers found the game so unenjoyable. This was all that could be said for a much-an
  
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• Amazon’s 2018 Product Roadmap: What To Expect

  05-01-2018 12:33
  Michael Grothaus05/01/2018 - 1:02pmWhat will 2018 bring from the tech giant?In 2017 Amazon went from being one of the bigger tech players to becoming a company that could become the biggest player in tech in the near future, according to many analysts. It seems like the year just ended saw a company that could do no wrong. Besides retaining its top spot of the largest online retailer in the west, the company put out a succession of updated and new products that flew off the shelves–includi
  
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• BitConnect handed an ’emergency’ cease and desist order from Texas Securities Board

  05-01-2018 12:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  It could all be game over for BitConnect. The Texas State Securities Board has handed the bullish cryptocurrency lending investment platform a cease and desist letter, ordering them to shut down its operations and its BitConnect Coin (BCC) within 30 days of receiving the notice. The letter, which is addressed to a company branch registered in London under the British Companies House, essentially demands that BitConnect stop selling its BCC assets in Texas “until the security is registered
  
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• Got questions for a tech titan? Women Who Tech’s Allyson Kapin is joining us on TNW Answers

  05-01-2018 10:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  What is the future of digital activism? How can I increase awareness of my non-profit in a crowded space? How can we build more inclusive startups and get more women in tech? What strategies should we be utilizing to address harassment in tech that will actually make a difference? Her organization’s latest survey revealed that out of 350 women founders surveyed, 44% experienced harassment in tech. You can ask all this and more to Allyson Kapin, CEO and founder of
  
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• Samsung’s Exynos 9810 CPU is OFFICIAL (And She’s A Monster)

  05-01-2018 10:24
  Richard Goodwin05/01/2018 - 9:24amSamsung’s brand new Exynos 9810 CPU is now official and will soon find itself up and running inside the Galaxy S9Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 CPU will power A LOT of Galaxy S9 handsets in 2018. Other versions of the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 9, however, will run Samsung’s own Exynos 9810 chipset, though no one is 100% sure of how the split will work just yet.
  Samsung has developed the Exynos 9810 in order to better compete with Apple’s iPhon
  
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• The Nintendo Switch is KILLIN’ IT In the US – Fastest Selling Console of ALL TIME

  05-01-2018 10:09
  Richard Goodwin05/01/2018 - 9:09amThe Nintendo Switch is the fastest selling games console of ALL TIME in the USIt’s official: Nintendo is BACK. The company’s latest console, the Switch, is now the fastest selling games console in US history, cementing the company’s comeback and putting to bed any fears that the once-great games company had lost its touch.
  Released on March 3, the Switch has now sold in excess of 4.8 million units in the USA. This is more than the Xbox. More th
  
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• iPhone major losses over battery issues, OnePlus 5T Sandstone & more - Pocketnow Daily

  05-01-2018 04:13 via youtube.com
  
  
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• That’s not how any of this works: Optimistic tech reporting isn’t going to ruin AI

  05-01-2018 00:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Winter is coming, but fear not. According to the experts, we won’t need Jon Snow to save us — it’s only coming for our machines. Gary Marcus, an AI expert and Professor of Psychology at NYU, Tuesday published a fascinating white-paper. It basically serves as a list of reasons why he thinks deep learning is shit and the community should abandon it and start over. Which is something he and others seem to firmly believe: Deep Learning is not enough, and we need to start over &mda
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg vows to ‘fix’ Facebook — does he know what’s broken?

  05-01-2018 00:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Mark Zuckerberg today posted his annual New Year’s resolution post on Facebook, and this time he’s using it to address the elephant in the room — namely, Facebook’s bad publicity in 2017. In his post, Zuck vows to “focus on fixing these important issues.” So what are the issues he’s talking about? Just to recap the things that concerned everyone the most in 2017, it was the year we learned Facebook’s influence could be used for destructive ends &m
  
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