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• Russian military hackers go after the Ukrainian quid that Trump tried to pro quo

  14-01-2020 22:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  The 2020 US Presidential campaign has officially kicked off in Russia. Russian leader Vladmir Putin’s military hackers recently launched a successful phishing campaign against employees at Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the ‘quid pro quo’ scandal that lead to Donald Trump‘s impeachment. According to a report from the New York Times, the Russian government‘s cyber warfare campaign against the Ukraine coincides with a boots-on-the-ground effort b
  
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• Spotify will finally bring Beyonce, Led Zeppelin, and more to Indian listeners

  14-01-2020 19:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Warner Chapelle, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, has finally ended its dispute with music streaming giant Spotify after almost a year in India. This development will now allow the streaming service to host artists such as Led Zeppelin, Beyonce, and more. Last year, just as Spotify was preparing to launch its music service in India, the Warner group took the company to the Bombay High Court over a licensing deal. Eventually, the Swedish company launched its music service without the War
  
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• Spotify solves dispute with Warner Chappell group in India (Updated)

  14-01-2020 19:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Update (15/01/2020): Earlier headline mentioned Beyonce and Led Zeppelin songs will be available in India. While these artists might be represented by Warner Chappell, their music was available under other labels. So until a deal with Warner Music group is struck, their music won’t be available in India.  Warner Chappell, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, has finally ended its dispute with music streaming giant Spotify after almost a year in India. Last year, just as Spotify was pr
  
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• RIP Windows 7: Microsoft ends support today

  14-01-2020 19:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  Pack up your things, Windows 7 users. It’s time to move on, as Microsoft today ends support of the venerable OS. So to the millions of people still running the OS: now’s really, truly the time to upgrade. According to Microsoft’s end-of-support article for the OS, your Windows 7 computer “will still function but Microsoft will no longer provide …. Technical support for any issues…. Software updates… [or] Security updates or fixes.” In fact, it&
  
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• Court lets Craig Wright wait for keys to ‘his’ $8.5B Bitcoin stash to be delivered

  14-01-2020 17:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Craig Wright, the man desperate to convince the world that he is Bitcoin’s creator, may have something to celebrate in his ongoing lawsuit against the Kleiman estate if the so-called “bonded courier” shows up. Basically, things are getting weird. Court documents shared by CoinDesk details how a US district judge has called several previously established facts into question. Judge Reinhart — who Wright insulted during a recent interview — had deemed it a fact that t
  
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• It actually happened — Akon just founded his own crypto city in Africa

  14-01-2020 16:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Akon really did it. He’s founded his own fucking city — Akon City — and cryptocurrency is reportedly set to power it. This is supposedly real. According to the rap star’s Twitter feed, an agreement between Akon and the country of Senegal has been finalized, which means that Akon City is officially here. Just finalized the agreement for AKON CITY in Senegal. Looking forward to hosting you there in the future pic.twitter.com/dsoYpmjnpf — AKON (@Ak
  
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• Check out how many hours you wasted gaming with PlayStation’s 2019 Wrap-Up

  14-01-2020 15:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  It’s that time of year: Sony is letting you look back at your 2019, and contemplate all the time you’ve spent playing games. Yep, PlayStation Wrap-Up is out (for those unfamiliar, it’s like Spotify Wrapped, but for games). Wrap-Up tallies the total number of games you’ve played, the hours you’ve wasted, the genres you prefer, and all the trophies you’ve won. The service is available starting from today, and you’ll have until February 14 to check it out.
  
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• Check out how many hours you wasted gaming with PlayStation 2019 Wrap-Up

  14-01-2020 15:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  It’s that time of year: Sony is letting you look back at your 2019, and contemplate all the time you’ve spent playing games. Yep, PlayStation Wrap-Up is out (for those unfamiliar, it’s like Spotify Wrapped, but for games). Wrap-Up tallies the total number of games you’ve played, the hours you’ve wasted, the genres you prefer, and all the trophies you’ve won. The service is available starting from today, and you’ll have until February 14 to check it out.
  
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• Tesla nosedives in Norwegian consumer satisfaction rankings — but drivers stay loyal

  14-01-2020 14:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  According to recent figures, Tesla looks to be falling out of favor with Norwegian owners. In BI Norwegian Business School’s annual Customer Barometer survey, Tesla ranked 51st by satisfaction across all industries researched, and 12th among car makers. Norway‘s Tesla owners gave the company a satisfaction rating of 75.5 in 2019. This is down from the EV manufacturer’s 2018 rating of 82.8. A score of 100 represents the best possible rating a company could receive. Loyalty stil
  
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• Indian court demands data relating to university violence from WhatsApp, Google

  14-01-2020 14:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  In a ruling today, the Delhi High Court has asked Google and WhatsApp to store and provide data to the police relating to attacks on students by masked goons at Jawaharlal Nehru University. On January 5, a bunch of masked attackers entered the New Delhi-based university and attacked students with rods and destroyed property. The single person bench of Justice Brijesh Sethi asked for data of two particular groups: Unity Against Left and Friends of RSS. Screenshots of these groups
  
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• Dark matter could help us understand the origins of gamma radiation

  14-01-2020 14:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Afaint glow of gamma radiation — the unresolved gamma-ray background — fills the sky. This energy is not evenly distributed, as this light (much more energetic than can be seen by the human eye) is concentrated where the greatest amount of matter is found in the early Universe, while regions containing less matter exhibit lower emissions of radiation. This correlation between matter and the unresolved gamma-ray background, could help astrophysicists better understand the nature of d
  
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• MoneyWiz 3 is personal finance packed into one, up-to-the-second platform

  14-01-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Developed originally for Mac users, the world’s most advanced money software app MoneyWiz 3 Personal Finance is now available for both Mac and Windows users at 60 percent off its regular price, just $19.99 right now from TNW Deals.
  
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• Bitcoin’s price rose 87% in 2019 — here’s what happened in Q4

  14-01-2020 12:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Despite common fluctuations in price, Bitcoin‘s performance throughout 2019 was somewhat unremarkable. We’ve taken a closer look at the cryptocurrency‘s price movements, focusing specifically on its performance during Q4 2019. But, first, let’s briefly recap Bitcoin‘s performance during the first nine months of the year. Q1 recap Bitcoin was relatively stable from January to March 2019. It started the year off at $3,717 and a brief 9-percent increase
  
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• Google topped app downloads in Q4 2019, but Facebook dominated the year

  14-01-2020 12:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  For the first time in five years, Google has snatched the reins from Facebook to become the world’s top publisher of mobile apps — sort of. In the last quarter of 2019, Google amassed close to 850 million downloads compared to Facebook‘s nearly 800 million, according to data from app intelligence monitor Sensor Tower. Despite this minor triumph, Google still trails behind Facebook when it comes to overall downloads for the year. While the Big G raked in nearly 2.3 billion down
  
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• Podcast revolution: The rise of audio storytelling

  14-01-2020 11:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  The state of audio drama in 2020 is wildly different from ten years ago when audio, or rather radio drama, was in decline across much of the English-speaking world. Drama had been dropped from radio stations in the US, was being phased out from popular listening in Canada, and faced budget cuts in the UK and Ireland. The roots of the reinvention go back to the early 1980s. Adaptations like the BBC’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Lord of the Rings, and NPR/BBC’s Star Wars c
  
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• BMW kills off its i8 hybrid sports car to make way for all-electric models

  14-01-2020 11:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  German automaker BMW has confirmed the end is in sight for its i8 plug-in hybrid sports car. BMW will cease production of the i8 sometime in April this year, making way for the marque’s upcoming line of all electric battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs), Autocar reports. The flagship car of BMW’s electric/hybrid range first reached market back in 2014. Don’t worry though, if you loved the high-performance, high-economy sports car that was the i8, BMW is expected to fill the
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin options start trading on Chicago’s CME exchange’

  14-01-2020 10:53 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 Descartes used to say: Let’s get it! Bitcoin price We closed the day, January 13 2020, at a price of $8,144. That’s a minor 0.55 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$45.58. It was the lowest closing price in one day. We’re still 59 percent below Bitcoin‘s
  
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• How to implement a ‘threat model’ to beef up your organization’s security

  14-01-2020 10:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  In a world where cyber threats continue to grow in complexity and quantity each year, threat modeling is one of the most advantageous and practical tools organizations can use to shore up security.  What is a threat model? Simply put, this is a process designed to elevate an organization’s security posture by cataloguing all assets within a given system that need to be protected, identifying by whom and what directions they might be attacked, and how exactly they can be safeguarded.
  
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• Blockchain companies dished out nearly $1M in bug bounties last year

  14-01-2020 09:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Just because it’s blockchain doesn’t mean it’s safe. According to figures shared with crypto news outlet The Block, blockchain companies dished out nearly $1 million in bug bounties on HackerOne in 2019. Over the course of 2019, white-hat hackers and bug finders were awarded a total of $968,504. Back in 2018, blockchain firms dished out $878,504 in bug bounties, Hard Fork reported at the time. In outright value of paid bug bounties, this represents a small but still notable 10
  
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• Twitter is experimenting with new solutions to reduce toxicity

  14-01-2020 09:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  One of the biggest challenges Twitter has right now is to reduce abuse and bullying on its platform. Last week, the company’s head of product, Kayvon Beykpour, sat down with Wired editor-in-chief Nicholas Thompson during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to discuss toxicity on the platform, the health of conversations, and more. Through the interview, he revealed some aspects of Twitter’s work to tackle abusive and offensive content. Beykpour said
  
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• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticizes India’s discriminatory CAA law

  14-01-2020 05:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  It’s rare for CEOs of tech companies to take a stance on political issues, particularly when they aren’t directly affected. Satya Nadella bucked the trend today, as he criticized India’s controversial Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) that excludes Muslim refugees from obtaining citizenship in India (while the privilege is granted to refugees of other persecuted minorities). Talking to BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, at an event in Manhattan yesterday, the Ind
  
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• Samsung’s Galaxy S20 ‘Ultra’ 5G might pack 16GB of RAM

  14-01-2020 03:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  Do you need 16GB of RAM on your phone? No. Do you want 16GB of RAM? Sure. That seems to be the logic Samsung is following with the Galaxy S20. Rumors about the S20 are now pouring in at a relentless pace, and now XDA‘s Max Weinbach – who just leaked images of the S20+5G –  says the top-end ‘Ultra’ configuration could come with as much as 16GB of RAM. To put that in perspective, as Engadget points out, that’s more than PCs. Most people are happy with 8GB
  
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• Report: Apple will give Macs a ‘Pro Mode’ to boost performance

  14-01-2020 02:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple is all about balance, constantly striving to find that sweet spot among performance, build, simplicity, noise, and price. But sometimes you just want raw power, and it seems Apple is listening. 9to5Mac spotted code in the macOS Catalina 10.15.3 beta that heavily suggests Apple is considering a ‘Pro Mode’ that would delimit fan speeds and energy-saving measures. Text in the code notes “Apps may run faster, but battery life may decrease and fan noise may increase.” I
  
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• Sony to skip E3 again, leaving the floor open for Xbox to shine

  14-01-2020 02:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sony today revealed that, like last year, it wouldn’t be participating in E3. Apparently E3 isn’t the right venue for the PlayStation 5. That might be the biggest favor Sony’s ever done Microsoft. The company said in a statement to IGN that it no longer thought E3 was the best showcase for PlayStation: After thorough evaluation SIE has decided not to participate in E3 2020. We have great respect for the ESA as an organization, but we do not feel the vision of E3 2020 is the ri
  
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• Apple starts replacement program for faulty iPhone battery cases

  14-01-2020 00:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple has opened a replacement program for iPhone battery cases, specifically those for the iPhones XS, XS Max, and XR. So if you have one of those, and it’s not working, you’re in luck. The company says this is because it’s confirmed there are “charging issues” with the X series battery cases — namely, that it doesn’t charge. Either the case won’t consistently charge when plugged in, or it won’t charge the phone. If you have either of those
  
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