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• Leak: The Pixel 4a looks better than the actual Pixel 4

  03-01-2020 22:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Serial phone leaker OnLeaks has a good record of creating fairly accurate renders of phones before they are released. If his new Pixel 4a leak turns out to be accurate, Google’s next midrange phone might end up a better-looking phone than its actual flagship devices. OnLeaks shared the images in partnership with 91mobiles last week, showing off a device that looks a lot like the lovechild of a Galaxy S10e and Pixel 4. Most notably, the phone doesn’t have the big forehead presen
  
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• Design challenges in the age of AI, and how to overcome them

  03-01-2020 21:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Design is an ever-evolving field. So much so that it’s hard to keep track of design job titles. Originally, product designers designed industrial products while graphic designers focused on print as a medium. As a creative field, Design found its Analogy with architecture; it was required to be functional, usable, and predictable, while also being beautiful, emotional, and novel. Designers considered business priorities, user needs, and material constraints amongst other factors, and
  
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• Samsung reveals S10 and Note 10 Lite, its new budget flagships

  03-01-2020 18:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  As smartphone hardware gets ever better, the days of needing the beefiest specs and most features are long gone, as attested by phones like the Moto G series and the Pixel 3a. Samsung seems to have gotten the memo, as today it revealed the Galaxy S10and Note 10 ‘Lite.’ These phones make small compromises to the specifications to achieve a lower price point. At first glance, the actual specs don’t seem that far off from a flagship, especially for the S10 Lite. Both phones
  
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• Here’s what AI experts think will happen in 2020

  03-01-2020 17:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  It’s been another great year for robots. We didn’t quite figure out how to imbue them with human-level intelligence, but we gave it the old college try and came up with GPT-2 (the text generator so scary it gives Freddy Krueger nightmares) and the AI magic responsible for these adorable robo-cheetahs: But it’s time to let the past go and point our bows toward the future. It’s no  longer possible to estimate how much the machine learning and AI markets are worth, bec
  
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• Small businesses live and die by simple accounting. Learn QuickBooks Pro for $30

  03-01-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  You can find out why QuickBooks remains the go-to small business accounting platform with the training in The 2020 QuickBook Pro Mastery Bundle, now just $29.99 from TNW Deals.
  
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• Dodgy Google Chrome extension reportedly causes $16K crypto theft

  03-01-2020 13:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  A malicious Google Chrome extension reportedly cost one user around $16,000 worth of cryptocurrency. A bogus extension called “Ledger Secure,” that passes itself off as a cryptocurrency wallet, is believed to be responsible for the loss, Decrypt reports. The app allegedly sends a user‘s seed phrase back to its creators. With the seed phrase, bad actors can access another individual’s cryptocurrency illegitimately. In @hackedzec's case, 600ZEC were taken from his Ledger N
  
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• For its next magic trick, OnePlus will make rear cameras ‘disappear’

  03-01-2020 13:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Days before the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), OnePlus gave a glimpse of its upcoming concept phone — and its disappearing rear camera tech.  The phone, designed in partnership with carmaker McLaren, uses electrochromic glass to make the camera invisible. For the uninitiated, electrochromic glass is a type of glass that can change its tint based on power supplied to it.  We’re bringing the #OnePlusConceptOne to #CES2020, but you don’t have to wait: y
  
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• CHEAP: Treat your ears with $170 off these Bowers & Wilkins wireless headphones

  03-01-2020 12:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! I’m not a sound elitist. I’ve spent most of my life relying on cheapo audiogear, and while I have occasionally had the opportunity to treat my ears to the sonic pleasures of well-built cans, I still find it difficult to justify splurging big on upper tier headphones. But when there’s $170 off Bowers and Wilkins‘ PX wireless cans, I’m willing to make an exception. Yep, that&rsquo
  
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• Segway teases electric motorbike and it screams like a banshee

  03-01-2020 12:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Segway, the brand known for making those self-balancing transportation devices for Silicon Valley nerds, is going out on a limb into the motorcycle market. In an overly dramatic video, spotted by industry magazine Visor Down, Segway teased its Apex electric motorcycle. The Apex is reported to have a 0-100 time of 2.9 seconds and top out at 201kph (ca. 125mph). Sadly though, there has been no mention of the kind of range that the batteries will deliver. That’s kind of an important statisti
  
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• Firefox will now let you delete your collected data

  03-01-2020 10:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Firefox browser will now let you delete all data it collects in its upcoming version rolling out on January 7. The company is taking this step to comply with The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which came into effect on January 1.  The new act — akin to Europes General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — gives a right to people in California to know and control personal data collected by websites. While CCPA will give folks in California more command over
  
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• Google lifts ban on Ethereum wallet app it thought was mining cryptocurrency

  03-01-2020 10:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  On Wednesday, Google restored Ethereum app MetaMask, after it mistakenly removed it from its Play Store. Earlier this week, Google backtracked on its ban of Ethereum app and wallet MetaMask after removing it from its Play Store just a week earlier. The wallet app conveyed the U-turn in a tweet on New Year’s Day. Happy New Year! Upon careful consideration, Google has permitted The MetaMask mobile app back on the Google Play (Android) store! Thanks to all the believers in an open web for sp
  
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• Visual accessibility will be a priority in 2020 — here’s how to adapt your site

  03-01-2020 09:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Few people think much about web accessibility. Even fewer people understand it, and without understanding there won’t be empathy or change. However, a string of high-profile class action lawsuits in 2019, like the one against Beyonce’s management company, brought the issue to light — and I expect we’ll see a lot more companies prioritizing web accessibility in 2020. At the same time, the US and many European countries are more rigorously enforcing their by-laws applying
  
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• Dell will soon let you control your iPhone through its laptops

  03-01-2020 07:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  In a bid to make their devices more attractive to iPhone users, Dell will soon allow app mirroring for iOS on its laptops. The functionality will be available through an update to Dell Mobile Connect, a software that was released in 2018 for Android users to connect their phones to laptops. In addition to app mirroring, you’ll be able to transfer files from your iPhone wirelessly as well. This makes it easier for you to transfer your photos and files without any cable. In an earlier
  
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• 5 ways laptops should evolve over the next decade

  03-01-2020 05:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Laptops have changed a lot in over the course of the past decade. The MacBook Air was once revolutionary, now it’s just another slim laptop. The entire ‘ultrabook’ category of high-performance thin laptops has basically just become ‘mainstream laptop’. And Microsoft’s Surface line helped redefine the way we use our mobile PCs and their form factor altogether. But I’m hoping for more radical changes the next decade. Here’s some of what I expect &nd
  
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• Disney Plus is quietly dropping titles from its streaming catalog (again)

  03-01-2020 04:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Disney’s fabled Vault was where fans of classic releases like Cinderella or The Little Mermaid, got their fix. Every few years Disney would open the Vault, releasing a classic title to DVD or Blu-Ray before quietly locking it away again for years as a way to drum up interest. It was a genius move that many thought would go extinct with the release of Disney Plus. It hasn’t. When the calendar flipped a page to 2020, users started noticing that films were going missing from the Disney
  
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• LG patent shows one of the smartest folding phones yet

  03-01-2020 02:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  LG’s G8x may not have gotten as much traction as the Samsung Galaxy Fold or Surface Duo, but I thought its second screen case was a clever way of adding utility without sacrificing everyday use or burning a hole in your wallet. Now it seems LG isn’t giving up on the idea. A patent unearthed by LetsGoDigital shows off what appears to be another take on the extra-screen case, except this time the case uses a huge flexible panel. For reference, LG’s current dual-screen
  
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