Web design news

• Modern Warfare was doing everything right, then it pay-walled death counts

  12-12-2019 22:32
  
  Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward appears to have broken its promise not to split up the Call of Duty community. As one Redditor noticed, the new Season One update comes with a purchasable content bundle featuring an in-game wristwatch that keeps track of its wearer’s death count. As far as we can tell, the only way to obtain this item is through a micro transaction using real money or purchasable in-game currency. Death counts – the number of times a player has died during a m
  
  Read more

• Microsoft redesigns over 100 icons, including the Windows logo

  12-12-2019 22:16
  
  Microsoft announced its new Fluent Design system way back in 2017, but it’s only recently that we’ve begun to see the new aesthetic take hold of Microsoft‘s software. After introducing a new suite of Officeicons last November, the company today revealed it has redesigned over 100 icons across its apps and services – including a refresh of the Windows logo. As with the Office icons last year, the new designs combine depth, gradients and soft edges for a decidedly more wel
  
  Read more

• Microsoft redesigns hundreds of icons, including the Windows logo

  12-12-2019 22:16
  
  Microsoft announced its new Fluent Design system way back in 2017, but it’s only recently that we’ve begun to see the new aesthetic take hold of Microsoft‘s software. After introducing a new suite of Officeicons last November, the company today revealed it has redesigned over 100 icons across its apps and services – including a refresh of the Windows logo. As with the Office icons last year, the new designs combine depth, gradients and soft edges for a decidedly more wel
  
  Read more

• Facebook wants to use your Oculus data for ads because of course it does

  12-12-2019 20:38
  
  Oculus this week revealed it’s rolling out a batch of new social features tied to Facebook. While the features themselves seem innocuous enough, they come with the caveat that you have to allow Facebook access to your Oculus data. Oculus‘s new features include chats with friends, Events and Groups that let you arrange multiplayer sessions with your friends, links you can share with your friends that let them join you exactly where you are in any given VR app — basically there&
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• EyeQue VisionCheck® helps you keep tabs on your eye health at home.

  12-12-2019 20:00
  
  Helping us see the world and all its beauty, the human eye is nothing short of a biological marvel, but it's also incredibly delicate. So, you'd best take care of it if you want to keep seeing the world and all its splendor down the road. While nothing beats a routine trip to the ophthalmologist, there are steps you can take to keep tabs on your eye health right at home, like theEyeQue VisionCheck ® monitor.
  
  Read more

• The iPhone is now the internet’s preferred porn streaming device

  12-12-2019 15:31
  
  The numbers don’t lie: Tons of people are ditching their desktops and laptops, and watching porn straight from their phones, or so suggest the figures from the internet‘s most visited adult entertainment platform, Pornhub. The site’s annual data review reveals that 76.6 percent of users consume smut via their phones. That’s a 5-percent increase compared to 2018’s 71.6 percent. The bigger news? The iPhone has finally become the world’s preferred porn
  
  Read more

• ING bank wants to give clients a compliant way to store cryptocurrency, report

  12-12-2019 15:29
  
  Major Dutch bank ING is developing technology so that its clients can safely store digital assets like cryptocurrencies, Reuters reports citing sources familiar with the matter. The firm then told reporters it sees “increasing opportunities” surrounding digital assets, both asset-backed and native security tokens. ING noted a focus on providing a compliant way to access the sector. Reuters‘ sources said that the custody project is operating out of its Amsterdam offices, but th
  
  Read more

• Why designers need to look beyond 2 genders

  12-12-2019 15:03
  
  Something I’ve been ruminating on for a long time is our lack of gender options when users register for products and services. I’m not the first one to notice this, but it’s still happening, and it’s more prevalent than we realize. While I personally identify as a cisgender female, I still care about this issue because it affects many good people, including the ones I care about. Max Masure wrote a great article on why cisgender people should be normalizing pro
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• A PMP certification can add 20% to your paycheck. For $79, this training can get you there.

  12-12-2019 15:00
  
  PMP certified project managers make about 20 percent more annually than their uncertified colleagues. In a position that routinely pays in the six-figure range, that adds up quickly. So investing in the right PMP certification training is really a sound investment in yourself that can pay off with tangible results.
  
  Read more

• Video: What’s new with the iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Max?

  12-12-2019 14:19
  
  Ahh, we’re still in that glorious, sweet honeymoon period with the new iPhones. It’s not been too long since they were released and, with Christmas just around the corner, you might be considering picking one up for yourself. Thing is, unless you spend a lot of time reading about Apple‘s devices (like sad, little loser me), it can be confusing to work out what separates them all. But don’t worry, we’ve got you. We’ve already put together videos on the differe
  
  Read more

• SEC: Crypto ‘entrepreneur’ illegally raised $42M, spent funds on dating and rent

  12-12-2019 13:39
  
  Cryptocurrency ‘entrepreneurs’ beware: US regulators haven’t forgotten about your dodgy initial coin offering (ICO). The SEC has just charged the head of a crypto startup for allegedly cheating investors out millions of dollars by lying about non-existent partnerships. The SEC’s complaint claims that between August 2017 and April 2018, UnitedData founder Eran Eyal fraudulently sold unregistered securities via an ICO for “Shopin Tokens.” Capital raised by
  
  Read more

• Neurons — a fuckton of them — are what make us smarter than other animals

  12-12-2019 13:02
  
  Here’s something new to consider being thankful for at the dinner table: the long evolutionary journey that gave you your big brain and your long life. Courtesy of our primate ancestors that invented cooking over a million years ago, you are a member of the one species able to afford so many cortical neurons in its brain. With them come the extended childhood and the pushing century-long lifespan that together make human beings unique. All these bequests of your bigger brain cortex mean y
  
  Read more

• NY wants to make it easier for cryptocurrency exchanges to list new tokens — but why?

  12-12-2019 12:16
  
  The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) wants to update its contentious BitLicense, which regulates cryptocurrency businesses based in or serving customers in the Big Apple. Proposed changes include publishing a list of approved assets on the NYDFS website. Any licensed digital asset provider would be allowed to offer these as long as it notifies the regulator first. The department also wants to devise a “proposed model framework” to allow companies to create thei
  
  Read more

• CHEAP: Go wireless for just $24.95 with JBL’s T450BT headphones (58% off!!)

  12-12-2019 12:15
  
  Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Are you tired of cords, but too stingy to shell out the big bucks for good wireless headphones? No worries, we’ve got just the deal for you. JBL’s wireless T450BT cans are now only $24.95 — a massive 58-percent discount off the original price of $59.95. Pretty sweet. The headphones sport a lightweight design, and a flat-foldable form factor which should make it easy to carry around any
  
  Read more

• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘66% of Bitcoin mining happens in China’

  12-12-2019 12:10
  
  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 Satoshi Nakamoto used to say: Do what you love and you’ll never work another day! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, December 11 2019, at a price of $7,217. That’s a minor 0.82 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$59.76. It was the lowest closing price in fifteen days.
  
  Read more

• Amazon Ring owners foil $400K Bitcoin extortion plot by removing batteries

  12-12-2019 11:50
  
  Hackers will do anything to get their hands on Bitcoin. In Texas, US, extortionists managed to breach home security cameras to demand cryptocurrency from an unsuspecting couple. Tania Amador, a 28-year-old who lives in Grand Prarie just outside Dallas, gave a video to local news which reportedly showed that her Ring security system had been hacked by cryptocurrency hungry scammers who demanded 50 Bitcoin ($400,000). “I was asleep and our Ring alarm was going off like an intruder had enter
  
  Read more

• Tencent-backed TikTok rival launches a children’s short video app

  12-12-2019 09:26
  
  After TikTok’s massive success on its home turf in China (where it’s known as Doyuin), its local competitors are gearing up to rival it by launching apps designed for specific audiences. A report from South China Morning Post suggests that TikTok challenger Kuaishou has launched a short video creation app aimed at children, called Kuaishou Qingchunji. The app focuses on educational and child psychology-based content. Plus, it has a curated news section for teens. The
  
  Read more

• The makers of TikTok are testing a new swipe-to-skip streaming music app

  12-12-2019 06:22
  
  TikTok owner ByteDance has just started testing its music streaming app, Resso, in India and Indonesia. The TikTok-styled app was quietly released at the end of the last month. A report from Bloomberg suggests the app was initially launched six months ago and has garnered over 27,000 users. Now, it’s available on the Google Play Store and the App Store in these countries. The app is free to use with a premium tier offering at Rs. 119 ($1.68) – the same as Spotify. I’ve sp
  
  Read more

• Former employee says Apple spied on his private messages

  12-12-2019 02:20
  
  Apple is currently suing a former employee for breach of contract and for poaching several employees for his own startup. The former employee, meanwhile, claims the company’s main evidence was obtained by monitoring his texts. The lawsuit, which Apple filed in a California court, alleges that Gerard Williams III breached an intellectual property agreement that prohibited him from doing anything to compete with the company. Williams, formerly the top architect of Apple‘s mobile chips
  
  Read more

• Netflix’s newest original is a scripted series about Spotify

  12-12-2019 00:50
  
  Netflix today announced its plan for a scripted series about “Swedish music sensation Spotify.” The series, based on the book Spotify Untold, will focus on the company’s origin story as it rose from European unknown to household name during the heyday of music piracy. “The story of how a small band of Swedish tech industry insiders transformed music — how we listen to it and how it’s made — is truly a tale of our time,” said Berna Levin, executive
  
  Read more

• Forza Horizon 4 becomes the latest game to get a Battle Royale mode

  12-12-2019 00:29
  
  Starting tomorrow, 12 December, Battle Royale fever hits… Forza Horizon 4? Developer Playground Games today announced the game’s upcoming free update will include a 72-car elimination race mode. And it looks awesome: Ah Battle Royale, the game mode that pits dozens of bloodthirsty maniacs against one another in a fight to the death. It’s become a near-ubiquitous staple of FPS games since Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds brought it to the mainstream and Fortnite made it a
  
  Read more

• Putting wheels on your new Mac Pro will cost you $400

  12-12-2019 00:25
  
  Apple must have just reinvented the wheel, considering it’s charging $400 to add a set of four casters to its new Mac Pro. You know, that computer that already starts at $6,000 and can be configured up to a whopping $53,000. The company noted you’d be able to get wheels for the Mac Pro way back at WWDC, but we didn’t expect quite this surcharge. Then again, we shouldn’t be so surprised, considering Apple sells a $999 stand for its $4,999 monitor.  And if you buy the
  
  Read more

Follow @NewsWebDesign on Twitter!