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• Tesla driver arrested for flossing at 84 mph on autopilot

  10-01-2020 22:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Autonomous driving looks set to be a part of our motoring future. Whilst it sounds great, there might be one thing it can never account for: the stupidity of some drivers. Ok, “stupidity” might sound strong, but traveling at high speed without paying full attention isn’t exactly a good idea, as one Tesla driver in Ontario found out this week. According to a tweet from the Ontario Provincial Police, a 58-year-old Tesla driver was stopped by Burlington officers for travelling at
  
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• The Xbox Series X won’t have exclusive games at launch

  10-01-2020 20:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  An Xbox exec revealed today in an interview that the Series X, Microsoft’s next-gen offering, won’t have exclusive games until at least a year after the console launches. Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, told MCV that the company wants all games to be playable on both Xbox One and the Series X: As our content comes out over the next year, two years, all of our games, sort of like PC, will play up and down that family of devices. We want to make sure that if someone invests in
  
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• Google purged 1.7K malicious ‘Joker’ apps from the Play Store

  10-01-2020 16:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  No, we’re not talking about the movie. Google has removed 1,700 instances of family of billing fraud malware dubbed Bread, but also known as Joker. The best bit? These Big G says the apps were nixed before users could even download them. The bad news? They still made their way to the Play Store. What’s special about the Bread malware, which Google has been tracking since 2017, is it continued to evolve along with the Play Store’s defensive mechanisms. “Bread apps were fo
  
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• Facebook is reportedly planning to launch TikTok competitor in India by May (Update)

  10-01-2020 15:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  Update (11/01/2020): A Facebook spokesperson said in an email statement to TNW the company has no plans to launch Lasso in India as of now, “Lasso is currently available in the US, Mexico, and Colombia — we don’t have plans to expand to India or Indonesia at this time.” Facebook might launch its ambitious app Lasso to fight off TikTok in India this year. According to a report from Entrackr, the social network giant is planning to launch the short video app by mid-ye
  
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• Facebook is reportedly planning to launch TikTok competitor in India by May

  10-01-2020 15:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  Facebook might launch its ambitious app Lasso to fight off TikTok in India this year. According to a report from Entrackr, the social network giant is planning to launch the short video app by mid-year. The American tech company launched Lasso in the US in 2018 and later introduced it to Mexico last year. According to app analytics company Sensor Tower, the app has been downloaded nearly half a million times in the US and over 2.2 million times in Mexico.  Facebook would sure want to
  
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• Jeopardy! adds Bitcoin ransomware to its GOAT tournament

  10-01-2020 14:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bitcoin appeared on last night’s Jeopardy!, when three champions fighting to be crowned Greatest of All Time were quizzed on cybersecurity. The world’s most popular cryptocurrency was the correct answer for the category’s $800 question: “A ransomware attack that encrypted 3,800 city of Atlanta computers demanded 6 of these digital items to unfreeze them.” Contestant James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler, answered it successfully. #cybersecurity o
  
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• This QuickBooks training will shore up your business accounting for under $30

  10-01-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  With the training in The 2020 Quickbooks Pro Mastery Bundle ($29.99, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals), you can take steps to ensure you’re always in touch with and tracking your basic accounting, while using pro tips to keep your bookkeeping time to a minimum.
  
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• These earbuds run circles around AirPods—and you’ll save over 50%

  10-01-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Thankfully, the PaMu Slide Mini Bluetooth 5.0 headphones are decidedly not cut-rate earbuds. In fact, they sound better, have a longer battery life and, at $59.99 (59 percent off right now from TNW Deals), are yes, a heck of a lot cheaper than a pair of Apple AirPods.
  
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• CES: Fiat’s modular battery concept car envisions a future I want to live in

  10-01-2020 13:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  In an unexpected and shock reveal, Japanese electronics manufacturer Sony released its Vision-S concept car to world at CES this week. Sony? Making a car? WHAT!?!  Last year Tesla also unveiled its Cybertruck. An angular, steel, supposedly bulletproof electric utility vehicle designed in line with Musk’s dystopian vision of the future. But there are more realistic — and more important — concepts on display at CES, like Fiat’s Centoventi electric concept car. Italian
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin upgrade makes transactions up to 75% cheaper, 2.5 times faster’

  10-01-2020 11:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 Jane Didion used to say: Whip it, whip it, whip it! Bitcoin price We closed the day, January 09 2020, at a price of $7,879. That’s a notable 2.51 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$203.23. It was the lowest closing price in two days. We’re still 60 percent below Bi
  
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• Alleged head of $3.5M crypto mining scam bought stake in nightclub

  10-01-2020 10:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  A man in the US is being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for allegedly running a fraudulent cryptocurrency mining operation. According to a complaint dated January 8, Donald G. Blakstad swindled more than $3.5 million from investors using three separate companies. The businesses included a vehicle parts holding firm, an oil and gas firm, and “Energy Sources International” (ESI), a purported cryptocurrency mining operation where Blakstad was the only employe
  
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• Microsoft’s new message scanning tool can help identify sexual predators in chatrooms

  10-01-2020 10:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  For the ongoing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can protect individuals against sexual assault and harassment, and how it can help and support survivors. Mircosoft released a tool known as “Project Artemi” yesterday to catch traps laid out by sexual predators online for children. The tool will be available to companies that offer chat function at no cost.  The company has developed this tool in partnership with The M
  
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• India’s apex court says indefinite internet shutdowns violate rules – but Kashmir is still offline

  10-01-2020 06:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  In a landmark judgment, India’s apex Supreme Court said indefinite intern shutdown violates the country’s telecom laws. The government must pass an order describing the reason and duration of the shutdown. The order won’t directly affect the ongoing internet shutdown of Kashmir. However, the government has to produce a restrictive order detailing the shut down within a week. For now, people in the region will be still offline. The bench said the internet is a major part of the
  
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• You’re going to want this latest version of Firefox, trust us

  10-01-2020 01:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Mozilla has pushed out an update to patch a critical vulnerability in Firefox. It’s urging users to update as quickly as possible — and it’s joined in that warning by the US government. Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 reported the zero-day exploit. Mozilla claims to be aware of “targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw,” though it doesn’t say exactly how it’s being abused. It describes the problem as “Incorrect alias informati
  
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• SpaceX plans to blow up a rocket over the Atlantic Ocean next week (and you can watch it live)

  10-01-2020 01:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX and NASA are working together to blow up a rocket over the Atlantic Ocean. The experiment, called an in-flight abort test, will likely lead to the destruction of a Falcon 9 rocket in what SpaceX is referring to as “rapid scheduled disassembly.” That test was supposed to happen this week but has since been pushed to January 18 to allow “additional time for spacecraft processing,” NASA said earlier this week. The test intends to demonstrate that the Crew Dragon spac
  
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