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• Microsoft will shut down Wunderlist on May 6, 2020

  09-12-2019 23:22
  
  It’s been a long time coming, but Microsoft is finally preparing to shut down Wunderlist. Over four years after the company purchased the popular productivity app and 3 years after it said it would shut it down, Microsoft has set a date for Wunderlist’s end: May 6, 2020. If you haven’t been keeping up, Microsoft bought Wunderlist in order to bolster its own attempts at making a productivity app, Microsoft To Do. Though met with a lukewarm initial reception, To Do has evol
  
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• Nvidia built an AI that creates 3D models from 2D images

  09-12-2019 21:11
  
  What if developing a 3D gaming world were as easy as snapping pics with your phone? Nvidia researchers recently developed an AI system capable of predicting a complete 3D model from any 2D image. Called “DIB-R,” the AI takes a picture of any 2D object – an image of a bird, for example – and predicts what it would look like in three dimensions. This prediction includes lighting, texture, and depth. DIB-R stands for differentiable interpolation-based renderer, meaning
  
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• Google Maps’ new Incognito mode comes to iOS

  09-12-2019 20:07
  
  Google normally keeps a record of your rough location, which can be handy if you want to remember a place you’ve visited recently, or get restaurant recommendations, but kind of creepy at other times. The company recently introduced an Incognito Mode in Google Maps to assuage your concerns, but so far it’s been exclusive to Android. That changes today. The company is rolling out incognito mode for iOS today. It works much the same as it does with Android. Simply open Google Maps, ta
  
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• You can finally buy the Mac Pro on December 10

  09-12-2019 19:45
  
  Apple kept us waiting until the last minute. In a sneaky bit of weekend news, the company sent out a Saturday email informing users the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR would be ‘available to order’ on December 10. 👀 pic.twitter.com/JUIFMMcWUF — Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) December 8, 2019 …And that’s about it. We don’t know exactly when these units will ship, although it’s possible at least some configurations could begin to go out immediately, c
  
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• Bioshock is back, says 2K Games

  09-12-2019 19:37
  
  Yes, the rumors are true: 2K Games is working on yet another entry in the BioShock series. Come on, you knew 2K Games wasn’t about to let one of its most acclaimed franchises stagnate forever. Today, 2K announced the founding of Cloud Chamber, its newest development studio. This team of storytellers has begun work on the next iteration of the acclaimed @BioShock franchise, which will be in development for the next several years. Learn more: https://t.co/vNkyXcBqwL pic.twitter.co
  
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• Google’s first ‘Pixel feature drop’ brings portrait mode to your old photos

  09-12-2019 19:08
  
  Google today announced some pretty neat news for Pixel owners. Starting today, the company will regularly update its Pixel devices through a series of Pixel feature drops meant to improve Pixels old and new. The company is kicking things off with a series of genuinely useful additions. Most notably, Google will now let you go back in time and add portrait mode to any of your old pictures of people. In other words, this isn’t just the ability to edit the amount of blur after taking a
  
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• Dev says MakerDAO attackers could turn $20M in Ethereum into $340M almost instantly

  09-12-2019 17:20
  
  A software developer claims to have found a way in which to make an “incredibly profitable” but “expensive” attack to steal all the Ethereum available in MakerDAO. Micah Zoltu described the potential attack in a blog post published on Monday, noting a successful attack could see the hacker “ride off into the sunset with $340 million worth of Ethereum.” “The problem is, Maker Foundation has decided that the appropriate value for this governance dela
  
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• FBI and US Marshals warn of heinous scammers demanding payments via Bitcoin ATMs

  09-12-2019 15:21
  
  The United States Marshals and Federal Bureau of Investigation don’t want you to forget about Bitcoin scammers pretending to be people they’re not. According to a tweet from late last week, the US Marshals has updated its warning about cryptocurrency scammers that coerce their victims to send them money through Bitcoin ATMs. UPDATED FRAUD ADVISORY – Spoofers using government phone numbers, government employees’ names,demanding payment via bitcoin ATMs: https://t.co/ZMBG3
  
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• Nvidia lawyer pushes court to dismiss cryptocurrency mining chip lawsuit

  09-12-2019 14:43
  
  Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia has argued that investors cherry-picked corporate statements while ignoring others that supposedly showed transparency, as a lawsuit over its failing cryptocurrency mining chips intensifies. Nvidia‘s legal counsel also claimed that investors can’t rely on “speculative expectations of third-party analysts” as the basis of their suit, which should be dismissed, Law360 reports. Spurned investors have alleged that Nvidia‘s financial re
  
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• How Netflix uses psychology to perfect their customer experience

  09-12-2019 14:30
  
  If there’s a company that’s synonymous with seamless customer experience, it’s Netflix. It has become the defacto entertainment source for many. So much so that 15 percent of the world’s web traffic goes to Netflix. But when your experience is industry-leading, how do you evolve it without disappointing customers? The answer lies in experimentation, built on proven psychological principles. And because Netflix is a subscription service, you can quickly discover
  
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• Byte Me #10: Very old dildos, deadly lipstick, and a tanned asshole

  09-12-2019 14:05
  
  Welcome back to Byte Me, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3 Sorry, we’re late this month. Since we last spoke, Anouk went to Thailand, Cara trained with Chelsea FC, and Georgina started her new role as *editor + content creative.* WHO SAYS WOMEN CAN’T HAVE IT ALL??? Each month, our gloriously gifted designer, Saïna, illustrates a weird comment or tweet we receive from one of TNW’s misogynistic, or just funny, readers. Here&
  
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• OnePlus finally ditches its terrible TV remote for a new design

  09-12-2019 13:09
  
  In September, weeks before launching its first TV, OnePlus‘ CEO Pete Lau tweeted the picture of its remote. The design confused the hell out of me. It had volume buttons on the side like a smartphone, and no mute button. At a OnePlus briefing days later, I got to use the remote, and it didn’t change my opinion. It was clunky and didn’t work half the time. Also, its buttons and functions were terribly confusing. The company is finally fixing it with a new design that has dedica
  
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• Bitcoin ransomware locks 10 years’ worth of government data in Argentina

  09-12-2019 12:58
  
  Bitcoin-hungry hackers have attacked a data center in Argentina which houses local government files. According to Alicia Bañuelos, the country’s Minister of Science and Technology, the attack took place on November 25. In an interview with Agencia de Noticia de San Luis — a local government digital news outlet — on December 2, Bañuelos said the center had already recovered 90 percent of the encrypted data. Some 7,700 GB — approximately 10 years worth data &
  
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• The climate crisis threatens gender equality in Africa

  09-12-2019 12:24
  
  People who directly depend on the natural world for their livelihoods, like farmers and fishers, will be among the greatest victims of the climate crisis. In vulnerable hotspots, such as the arid lands of Kenya and Ethiopia, farming communities are already struggling with droughts and water scarcity that kill their cattle and threaten their very survival. The glacial-fed river basins of the Himalayan mountains, or the deltas of Bangladesh, India , and Ghana, are increasingly prone to floods, la
  
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• CHEAP: Say YES to fun AND fitness this Xmas with $70 off the Fitbit Versa 2 smartwatch

  09-12-2019 11:54
  
  Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Ahh, December. On one hand, it’s a terrible month. It’s cold, it’s dark, it rains all the fucking time — it’s pretty grim when you think about it. But, on the other, it’s glorious. There’s a festive cheer in the air, holidays are on the horizon, and people actually seem to want to meet up and have fun. And then you have the indulgences. My god, the indulgences. The d
  
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• Moonday Mornings: IRS readies to tax your cryptocurrency — no matter what

  09-12-2019 11:17
  
  Welcome to Monday, it’s the start of another week and that means it’s time for Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. Take a look. 1. New cryptocurrency tax form from IRS According to CNBC, the US Internal Revenue Service has released a new tax form, asking cryptocurrency traders to declare their holdings. The IRS’ new “Schedule 1 for the 2019 tax season,” asks tax payers if they received, sold, sent, exchanged
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Ermahgerd, there’s a Bitcoin node in the International Space Station now’

  09-12-2019 10:36
  
  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 Descartes used to say: Crack open this tasty lobster! Bitcoin price We closed the day, December 08 2019, at a price of $7,564. That’s a minor 0.17 percent increase in 24 hours, or $13. It was the highest closing price in seven days. We’re still 62 percent below Bi
  
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• OnePlus might finally introduce a mid-range phone next year

  09-12-2019 10:23
  
  OnePlus has increasingly grown every year with better and more flagship models. But with that growth, prices of their phones have increased too. The company hasn’t released a mid-range phone since launching the OnePlus X in 2015. However, this might change next year. A bunch of renders published by 91mobiles in partnership with OnLeaks suggest the company will release a OnePlus 8 ‘lite’ in 2020. The renders indicate the phone will have a punch-hole display – 6.4-inc
  
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