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• Disney+ looks more like Netflix every day, and that’s a good thing

  26-11-2019 23:28
  
  Disney today added another missing feature to its Disney+ streaming platform — and with it, the platform is starting too look an awful lot like its fellow services, namely Netflix. I have praised the features of Disney+ before — such as its transparency on when its missing movies would be added. But for all the features I liked, there was a big one missing: a Continue Watching option. To be clear, Disney+ originally had this feature, and took it out to fix bugs. Today
  
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• Disney+ looks more like Netflix every day, and that a good thing

  26-11-2019 23:28
  
  Disney today added another missing feature to its Disney+ streaming platform — and with it, the platform is starting too look an awful lot like its fellow services, namely Netflix. I have praised the features of Disney+ before — such as its transparency on when its missing movies would be added. But for all the features I liked, there was a big one missing: a Continue Watching option. To be clear, Disney+ originally had this feature, and took it out to fix bugs. Today
  
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• Floppy disk signed by Steve Jobs is up for auction and valued at $7,500

  26-11-2019 23:20
  
  Floppy disks aren’t worth much nowadays considering, you know, no one uses them. But then again, that floppy might be worth something if it happens to be signed by Steve Jobs. Such an item is currently up for bidding at RR Auction with an estimated value of $7,500. The current highest bid stands at $4,600, with 7 bids so far.  but considering you could spend more on a new MacBook, I expect the price to climb higher. The disc is said to contain a copy of Macintosh System Tools Version
  
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• Incels and AI: Can machines fill the void?

  26-11-2019 23:14
  
  A couple of weeks ago a Redditor posting under the name levonbinsh on the r/MediaSynthesis subreddit revealed that he’d fallen in love with GPT-2, the controversial text generator developed by OpenAI. Levonbinsh describes himself as a lonely person who “passed through a lot of phases,” including being ‘red-pilled,’ joining the incel movement, and at one point identifying with ‘Men Going Their Own Way,’ after spending a lifetime (he’s 23) sexless a
  
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• Xbox’s Project Scarlett won’t do VR because ‘no one’s asking for it’

  26-11-2019 19:49
  
  Phil Spencer, Xbox head honcho, said in a recent interview that Microsoft has no plans to push Xbox Scarlett into the virtual reality space — because apparently no one is waiting for them to do so. Spencer, speaking with Stevivor, was in part responding to a derisive remark he’d made in 2016, in which he dismissed VR available at the time as “demos and experiments.” While he said he doesn’t mean to diminish the work of VR developers, he said he still has reservatio
  
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• The Honor View30 Pro packs flagship specs for $550

  26-11-2019 19:22
  
  Huawei often offers some of its best deals through its Honor sub-brand, and this year seems no different. The company today announced the View30 and View30 Pro –  packing flagship specs and design at a palatable price. Well, at least in China. With Huawei phones still not allowed to use Google services, it’s not clear when V30 family will make its way west (the ‘View’ series is normally sold as the ‘V’ series in China). If and when the devices leave
  
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• Bitcoin fraudsters target head of $230B fund in latest Facebook scam

  26-11-2019 16:36
  
  The head of a $230 billion investment fund is the latest high-profile individual targeted by Facebook’s Bitcoin fraudsters. Ho Ching, chief executive of Singapore‘s Temasek, has been featured in ads for a bogus cryptocurrency trading program, The Straits Times reports. The ads include logos of reputable local media outlets to boost their credibility, and promise incredibly lucrative returns on any investments made. One ad reportedly features a fake article that details a call betwee
  
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• CHEAP: Yell ‘OK BOOMER’ and grab PlayStation 4 Pro Fortnite Neo bundle for just $299

  26-11-2019 15:31
  
  Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! The holidays are coming up. So there’s no better time to plant your bottom on a sofa and playing games for endless hours? A sweet deal that will let you that. The PlayStation Pro 4 1TB bundled with Fortnite Neo Versa is available for just $299, down from $440. With this bundle, you also get 2,000 V-Bucks – an in-game currency for Fortnite which lets you buy outfits, glide
  
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• These 10 Black Friday deals all under $20

  26-11-2019 14:30
  
  From co-workers to neighbors to all those other casual acquaintances you see every day, there are probably plenty of people in your life who you’d like to gift with a little something this holiday season. Of course, once you’re buying presents for workmates, your kid’s teacher and the mailman, all that holiday good cheer really starts to add up.
  
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• Why smartphone gambling is on the up among African millennials

  26-11-2019 14:03
  
  When one talks about young Africans using smartphones, the dominant narrative is that these gadgets serve mostly as platforms for connection so that users can communicate and share greetings and information via text and images. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Signal take pride of place in that description, despite their murkier side. What has perhaps been overlooked is how smartphones are also affecting other facets of young people’s lives. One area is the ever-growing communi
  
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• How smartphones get African millennials addicted to sports betting

  26-11-2019 14:03
  
  When one talks about young Africans using smartphones, the dominant narrative is that these gadgets serve mostly as platforms for connection so that users can communicate and share greetings and information via text and images. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Signal take pride of place in that description, despite their murkier side. What has perhaps been overlooked is how smartphones are also affecting other facets of young people’s lives. One area is the ever-growing communi
  
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• Stantinko botnet caught using YouTube to mine Monero cryptocurrency

  26-11-2019 13:54
  
  The Stantinko botnet, which is thought to have infected at least 500,000 devices worldwide, has now added cryptomining to its toolset — and it’s been using YouTube to evade detection. According to researchers at cybersecurity solutions provider ESET, the botnet’s operators are now distributing a module which mines privacy-focused coin Monero. The botnet, which is known to have been active since at least 2012 and typically targets users in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhsta
  
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• Crypto firm that raised $12.7M with ICO admits it ran out of money, closes doors

  26-11-2019 12:31
  
  A cryptocurrency startup that settled with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its illegal token sale has shut down. Washington-based Gladius Network said last week that it had “ceased operations effective immediately and has filed for dissolution.” “Despite our best efforts, the company no longer has funds to continue operations. Our code will remain available on GitHub for the next three months. We still believe in the power of our technology, and if anyone
  
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• Your ads aren’t working — fix them with AR and VR

  26-11-2019 12:00
  
  Can anyone recall the ads they saw when they last opened their browser? Almost no one does. With increasingly more ads on all platforms, people have become blind to advertising, or worse — almost half of the population is now using ad blockers. The ad industry is in crisis, struggling to reach their audience, let alone engage them. Brands need to figure out a way to appeal to a new generation of customers who are more receptive to experience than intrusive advertising. Luckily, immersive
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin network shifts the equivalent of almost 1,000 tons of gold in one day’

  26-11-2019 11:27
  
  Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Baudriallard used to say: The long and winding road awaits! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, November 25 2019, at a price of $7,146. That’s a minor 1.50 percent increase in 24 hours, or $106. It was the highest closing price in one day. We’re still 64 percent belo
  
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• Racehorse fund owned by accused OneCoin money launderer enters voluntary liquidation

  26-11-2019 10:59
  
  Last week, the brother of the estranged OneCoin figurehead Dr Ruja Ignatova pleaded guilty to money laundering and fraud charges. He also accused the founder of a racehorse investment firm of stealing $110 million (€100 million) from the scheme. Amer Abudlaziz’s investment firm Phoenix Thoroughbreds issued a statement yesterday “categorically” denying that it was funded by money stolen from the OneCoin scam, The Irish Field reports. However, the US government says that in
  
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• Google fires 4 activist employees over alleged ‘data-security’ violations

  26-11-2019 10:48
  
  Last week, over 200 Google employees and supporters protested outside the tech giant’s HQ offices in San Francisco over the suspension of two activist employees.  Rebecca Rivers and Laurence Berland were put on leave for allegedly violating the company’s policy by accessing and sharing confidential documents — fellow Google employees contested the company’s reasoning, saying Berland and Rivers had done so only because they were involved in various activism efforts w
  
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• Why growing babies outside the womb raises ethical concerns

  26-11-2019 10:42
  
  The idea of growing babies outside the body has inspired novels and movies for decades. Now, research groups around the world are exploring the possibility of artificial gestation. For instance, one group successfully grew a lamb in an artificial womb for four weeks. Australian researchers have also experimented with artificial gestation for lambs and sharks. And in recent weeks, researchers in The Netherlands have received €2.9m ($4.66m) to develop a prototype for gestating premature babi
  
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• Ford VP challenges Tesla’s Cybertruck, Musk says ‘bring it on’

  26-11-2019 02:00
  One of the more impressive demos from Tesla‘s Cybertruck unveil was a tug-of-war contest where it pulled a Ford F150 uphill. Effective of a clip as it was, many have doubted the contest, indicating the Cybertruck was helped by its higher weight, increased friction, or some other variable. Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson even chimed in: Electric vehicles are famously heavy – over both axles. It’s all about the weight borne by spinning tires. That’s the source of tractio
  
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• Battleborn, gaming’s perpetual also-ran, to shut down in 2021

  26-11-2019 01:32
  
  The end of an era — albeit not a particularly eventful era: 2K Games today revealed it was starting to sunset its first-person hero shooter Battleborn. The game will officially go offline in 2021, but the features will start disappearing as early as this coming February. The developers revealed the news on the official Battleborn Twitter, saying that the game will become unplayable on January 2021. Once that happens, it won’t be playable in anyway — no single-pl
  
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