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• Your home isn’t smart, it’s just connected — here’s why

  26-12-2019 21:00
  
  Just like how certain types of technology and operating systems give way to new, updated versions and become outdated, so does the terminology we use to describe them. We no longer refer to appliances like washing machines or water heaters as ‘automated,’ because in our world today, we just know and expect them to be automated. The more technology advances, the farther away we get from having to specify that a piece of technology is “manual” or “analog” vs. &
  
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• The 10 video games that defined the 2010s

  26-12-2019 17:00
  
  The games industry has undergone several serious changes in the last few years. YouTubers and are now the bread-and-butter of game advertising, mods are almost as interesting as the games they’re changing, and battle royale is effing everywhere. So where’d these changes come from? They came from a few games that, through their impact and popularity, changed the gaming industry as a whole. I won’t lie to you: trying to rank influence is really difficult. There are so many games
  
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• Here’s how law enforcement catches cryptocurrency criminals

  26-12-2019 15:00
  
  When Satoshi Nakamoto first created Bitcoin, they probably had no idea that it would go on to become the dark web’s favorite cryptocurrency — or that it would, in fact, pave the way for other coins that would eventually be used to fulfill other illicit purposes. The links between cryptocurrency and crime have long been documented. Silk Road’s infamous collapse after it was shut down by law enforcement in 2013, for example, highlighted how the technology was being exploited by
  
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• We forced an actual designer to review our writers’ DIY article images

  26-12-2019 11:00
  
  Here at TNW we do something most other large tech sites don’t: get our writers to create their own article images. If you take a quick glance at other big news outlets, you’ll see the majority of images have a very stock photo feel to them. But not at TNW. Here, we’re all about DIY article images. Why? Well, by making our own visual art, we — the writers —get to add another element to our stories. We can stretch our creative muscles, use the medium of image to high
  
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• 12 ear-tingling podcasts we LOVED in 2019

  26-12-2019 09:00
  
  Right now, there are more than 700,000 active podcasts and more than 29 million podcast episodes, as illustrated by Music Oomph. So it’s no wonder 2019 feels like ‘the year’ for podcasts as a Twitter user perfectly illustrated in a meme: Starting a podcast in 2019 pic.twitter.com/Lrx39rXNSp — Mike Camerlengo (@MCamerlengo) October 19, 2019 As thousands of podcasts are uploaded to streaming platforms every day, searching for a new series or episode isn
  
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• How birds drop ‘unnecessary’ genes can help us understand evolution

  26-12-2019 03:00
  
  Humans, the latest tally suggests, have approximately 21,000 genes in our genome, the set of genetic information in an organism. But do we really need every gene we have? What if we lost three or four? What if we lost 3,000 or 4,000? Could we still function? Humans have variation in their genomes, but the overall size does not vary dramatically among individuals, with the exception of certain genetic disorders like Down’s syndrome, which is caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21 and all
  
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• Why your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI

  26-12-2019 01:00
  
  If you share your home with a dog or a cat, look at it carefully and you will get a good overview of everything we don’t know how to do in artificial intelligence. “But my cat does nothing all day except sleep, eat and wash herself,” you may think. And yet your cat knows how to walk, run, jump (and land on her feet), hear, see, watch, learn, play, hide, be happy, be sad, be afraid, dream, hunt, eat, fight, flee, reproduce, educate her kittens – and the list is still very
  
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