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• 2020 will mark the death of the chatbot as we know it

  23-12-2019 21:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Most of us have had the misfortune of interacting with a badly configured chatbot. Whether to return faulty clothes or complain about an incorrect phone bill, we are often left feeling even more frustrated than we were beforehand.  Many businesses viewed these chatbots as a cheap panacea to all customer service problems but, in reality, this idea never came to fruition. In the last year or so, businesses should have realized that the idea of the chatbot as a magical one-size-fits-all solut
  
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• 2019 was a huge year for quantum computing

  23-12-2019 17:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  2019 was the biggest year for quantum computing since, well, ever. It’s the year IBM put a quantum computer in a box and Google claimed its Bristlecone system reached quantum supremacy. But perhaps most exciting was the incredible research happening in universities and think-tanks around the globe. From warp drives to time travel, scientists around the world released one breakthrough paper after another. Let’s have a look back. When 2019 was a young year and most of us were still ho
  
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• Hackers steal $480,000 worth of NULS cryptocurrency from its dev team

  23-12-2019 15:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Hackers ransacked accounts belonging to the development team of an obscure blockchain earlier today, stealing $480,000 worth of an obscure token known as NULS. The NULS team confirmed the attack in a tweet posted this morning. In total, two million NULS ($480,000) were taken. Of that stash, the team reported that more than half a million tokens have been liquidated via cryptocurrency exchanges. That amount equates to roughly $131,600. The team plans to “hard fork” the bloc
  
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• How to design better buttons

  23-12-2019 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  A button is an interactive element that results in the action described on it. If it says “save” on a button, clicking it will most likely “save” something. It’s also one of the most important interactive elements of any digital product. It can lead to a purchase, download, send, among other important actions. Digital buttons are also descendants from real-world buttons, like on a TV remote, record player, or game controller. The most important thing to k
  
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• ProjectDue helps keep your business affairs straight — and right now, it’s over 90% off

  23-12-2019 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  ProjectDue is a complete business suite of features that can help streamline the operations that can get a growing business off-track. A lifetime subscription to ProjectDue’s complete set of services is on sale now for hundreds of dollars off the regular price, down as low as $29.99 from TNW Deals.
  
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• Moonday Mornings: Alleged billion-dollar Bitcoin launderer extradited to France

  23-12-2019 12:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  It’s almost New Year’s, but there’s still room for one more Moonday Mornings — Hard Fork’s roundup of weekend cryptocurrency news that you might’ve missed. While I’ve got you here, props for sticking it out this year, faithful cryptocurrency fan. It hasn’t been easy: Bitcoin sure has copped it this year, and so has pretty much every single altcoin. Anyway, here’s the news. Disney blocks Justin Sun’s TRON trademark Disney has
  
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• 2019’s juiciest crypto drama: The saga of OneCoin’s $4B ‘cryptocurrency’ scam

  23-12-2019 11:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  As far as cryptocurrency scams go, OneCoin is probably the one that rules them all. US prosecutors have alleged that the Ponzi scheme raked in approximately $4 billion, defrauding investors from all over the globe. In China alone, law enforcement agents recovered 1.7 billion yuan (US$267.5 million) and prosecuted 98 people. Dr Ruja Ignatova, the scam’s spearhead, has been missing since 2017. Sebastian Greenwood, her co-founder, was extradited from Thailand to the US following an oper
  
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• The UAE is reportedly spying on millions of ToTok messenger users

  23-12-2019 09:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  The New York Times reports that ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, isn’t quite what it seems on the surface. While it promises “FREE, fast, and secure calling and messaging,” it’s reportedly being used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to try to track users’ chats and listen in on their calls. The news comes from US intelligence officials who spoke to the NYT. The publication noted that this is part of a trend among authoritarian governments that are look
  
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• US Navy officers can’t use TikTok on government-issued phones because it’s a ‘cybersecurity threat’

  23-12-2019 09:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Reuters reports that last week, the US Navy banned TikTok from government-issued mobile devices, as it represented a “cybersecurity threat,” and employees were ordered to remove the app “to safeguard their personal information.” The bulletin noted that devices that had the short video sharing app installed would be blocked from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet. The move, according to a Pentagon spokesman who issued a statement to Reuters, is part of an effort to “add
  
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• All I want for Xmas is the ability to message myself on WhatsApp

  23-12-2019 09:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  WhatsApp is probably my most used mobile app and it’s crying out for a space for me to set reminders, save important documents, and generally talk to myself to take it from a good app to a great app. For me, if WhatsApp had a little more functionality to help me organize my life, it’d become more than just an app I used because everyone else does, it would be one of my favorite apps.  I mostly use WhatsApp to keep in touch with my friends and family who are spread all over the
  
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• You can now stream every Radiohead album for free on YouTube

  23-12-2019 05:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  We’re late to this by a bit, but I still think it’s important to share: Last Friday, English rockers Radiohead have made their entire discography, dating back to 1993, available to stream on YouTube. That includes every record from the band’s debut, titled Pablo Honey, to 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool — as well a couple of bonus discs like the OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017 reissue, In Rainbows Disk 2 from 2009, and ‘Ill Wind’, a b-side track from Radiohead&
  
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• How do you teach a car that a snowman won’t walk across the road?

  23-12-2019 03:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Picture yourself driving down a city street. You go around a curve, and suddenly see something in the middle of the road ahead. What should you do? Of course, the answer depends on what that ‘something’ is. A torn paper bag, a lost shoe, or a tumbleweed? You can drive right over it without a second thought, but you’ll definitely swerve around a pile of broken glass. You’ll probably stop for a dog standing in the road but move straight into a flock of pigeons, knowing tha
  
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• How I used app store optimization to get my game downloaded 2M times

  23-12-2019 01:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  A couple of years ago, I wanted to turn my theoretical app store optimization (ASO) knowledge into a working skill. So I decided to develop a mobile game. My goal was to validate the hypothesis that in the super-competitive mobile gaming market, you can launch a product that will grow into something large solely through organic traffic. Let me say right away that I validated this hypothesis: a mobile game we created over the weekend ended up amassing over 2 million downloads, and received over
  
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