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• Why using AI to screen job applicants is almost always a bunch of crap

  17-01-2020 22:37
  
  Millions of potential employees are subjected to artificial intelligence screenings during the hiring process every month. While some systems make it easier to weed out candidates who lack necessary educational or work qualifications, many AI hiring solutions are nothing more than snake oil. Thousands of companies around the world rely on outside businesses to provide so-called intelligent hiring solutions. These AI-powered packages are advertised as a way to narrow job applicants down to a &ls
  
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• Horizon Zero Dawn needs to be the first of many PS4 exclusives on PC

  17-01-2020 20:15
  
  Rumor has it that Horizon Zero Dawn is about to become the first 1st-party PlayStation 4 exclusive game to make the jump to PC. Here’s hoping that, if it’s true, this rumor hopefully presages a closer relationship between PlayStation and PC… or, you know, any relationship at all. This rumor comes from a Kotaku report, which cites anonymous sources familiar with the plans. Granted, it is just a rumor at this point, but given that we’ve already seen Death Strand
  
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• Huawei P40 Pro leak shows off superzoom lens and reserved ceramic design

  17-01-2020 19:19
  
  With this year’s first batch of flagship phones right around the corner, the leaks are ramping up. Today’s victim: the Huawei P40 Pro. Ever-reliable leaker Evan Blass got his hands on some renders of the phone, matching up with earlier photos of the device in the wild. The leaked device appears to come in white and black options made from ceramic – notably more restrained than the multitude of gradient colorways we’ve seen from Huawei in the past (though I’m sure t
  
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• Bitcoin fans just turned their Tesla car into a full node

  17-01-2020 16:34
  
  Tesla cars are capable of a lot, from self-driving, smart summoning, and automatic parking — but what about running Bitcoin? As it turns out, they can do that too. Cryptocurrency fans have shared video footage of a Tesla car’s onboard computer system operating as a Bitcoin full node. Downloading full blocks to this @Tesla pic.twitter.com/j4L84QycxX — bcoin (@Bcoin) January 16, 2020 [Read: Accidental Tesla ‘butt dial’ upgrade highlights confusing futu
  
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• Thailand launches probe into $2.46M cryptocurrency pyramid ‘scam’

  17-01-2020 15:30
  
  Cryptocurrency investors who fell for an alleged pyramid scheme that resulted in losses of more than $2.46 million (THB75 million) have asked Thailand‘s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to investigate. According to the Bangkok Post, the cryptocurrency project, known as “Khung Nong Cryptocurrency Trading,” became famous in parts of the country in 2018. The scheme allegedly promised maximum returns of 8 percent per week, attracting individuals from Krabi, Tran
  
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• Oscar-nominated ‘1917’ leaks in massive screener dump

  17-01-2020 15:28
  
  It only hit theaters in December, but Sam Mendes‘ epic war flick 1917 has already leaked on the internet. The World War I-themed movie, which clinched a Golden Globe award for best movie and secured 10 Oscar nominations earlier this week, was one of six film releases leaked in a massive screener dump over the past 24 hours, TorrentFreak reports. This brings the total number of leaked screeners in 2020 to 16, which is a significant increase compared to an all-time low in 2019. For tho
  
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• Marley added noise-canceling to its Exodus headphones and I adore them

  17-01-2020 15:10
  
  I had the pleasure of trying out Marley’s Exodus wireless over-ear headphones last May. Despite not being the best-sounding cans I’ve ever used, they got plenty of use simply because of how stylish and comfortable they are. The company has updated that model with active noise-canceling (ANC) chops, Bluetooth 5.0 for better wireless connectivity, a padded headband, and a sleek new black finish. It also costs $50 bucks more. That pits the revamped Exodus headphones against some formid
  
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• Demand is surging for cloud admins. Join them with this $40 training in AWS, Azure & more

  17-01-2020 14:15
  
  Cloud administrator positions have risen over 25% the past five years, and you can get in on the expanding field now with the right background, like the coursework in The Essential Cloud and Networking Certification Training Bundle. Right now, it’s $39.99, over 90 percent off, from TNW Deals.
  
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• Craft brilliant web pages with no coding experience using this super simple software

  17-01-2020 14:00
  
  Blocs 3 may be one of the best examples of a web design app with a foot in both camps, especially for Mac users. Right now, you can check out the web creation versatility of Blocs 3 for yourself with this deal shaving 60 percent off the price, just $39.99 from TNW Deals.
  
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• Google’s new AI language model can comprehend entire books

  17-01-2020 13:47
  
  One of the prime challenges of a language-based AI model is to understand the context of the surrounding content. To solve this problem, Google has introduced a new model called Reformer, which understands the context of 1 million lines using just 16GB space. The company built this to solve problems of its old model Transformer — a neural network that compares words in a paragraph to each other to understand the relationship between them. Current models, support understanding of a few lin
  
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• VW knows it must become a tech company to compete with Tesla

  17-01-2020 13:23
  
  German marque, and the world’s largest car maker by sales, Volkswagen (VW) appears to be wising up to the changing landscape of the automobile world. In a meeting with more than 100 company managers in Berlin this week, VW CEO Herbert Diess said that the company will have to “slaughter some sacred cows” and transform into a tech company if it’s to survive, the FT reports. In other words, VW is going to have to retire beloved vehicles in favor of greener alternatives. It
  
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• Self-styled ‘coyote of Wall Street’ gets 33 months in prison for $224K crypto fraud

  17-01-2020 13:14
  
  The operator of New-York based company CabbageTech has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding cryptocurrency investors in June last year. Patrick McDonnel, also known as Jason Flack, was also ordered to pay $224,352 in restitution fees. “Mr. McDonnell used his knowledge of virtual currencies to scam investors. While he thought he could outsmart law enforcement, his arrest, and today’s sentence shows, no matter where you are, what’s do
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin is now worth as much as McDonald’s’

  17-01-2020 12:01
  
  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 Faraday used to say: Money makes the world go around! Bitcoin price We closed the day, January 16 2020, at a price of $8,723. That’s a minor 1.00 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$88.68. It was the lowest closing price in two days. We’re still 56 percent below Bit
  
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• This genius combined every macOS 10 wallpaper into a psychedelic masterpiece

  17-01-2020 11:31
  
  I like to think that somewhere inside the bureaucratic labyrinth of Apple’s employee structure, there’s a single person with the world’s greatest job. Each year, they only have to do a single thing: Traverse the world and try to take a sick photo of a landscape for the latest macOS wallpaper. Does this job exist? Who knows, but I can dream. Anyway, one of the most fun (I use this term loosely) parts of new macOS releases is discovering what new photo they have as their ba
  
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• New Hampshire bill to allow taxes to be paid in Bitcoin falls short

  17-01-2020 10:52
  
  No, New Hampshire residents won’t be able to pay their taxes in Bitcoin or cryptocurrency. Public records show that a bill filed this time last year, which would allow government agencies to accept digital assets for tax payments, has been shuttered. [Read: This Canadian town is letting residents pay taxes in Bitcoin] Had the plans gone ahead, the US state of New Hampshire would have theoretically been ready to begin accepting tax payments in cryptocurrency after July this year.
  
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• Pardon the Intrusion #9: Privacy or security?

  17-01-2020 10:45
  
  Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. We’re starting off with some good news for a change! California’s landmark Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is now in effect — although, it won’t actually kick in for another six months. CCPA is somewhat similar to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU. What the law effectively me
  
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• WeWork can be salvaged — but its turnaround plan isn’t enough

  17-01-2020 10:00
  
  Yes, it’s possible to bring WeWork, a company Scott Galloway called “a shitty business” with no defensible IP and no technology, back from the brink of death. We got a brief glimpse into how it might do so from Softbank’s Masa Son, but understandably, many pairs of eyes rolled at any suggestion that the venture fund that enabled WeWork’s bad capital-burning habits might have a magic fix. He was right though — the solutions are simple. They’re also extre
  
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• Xiaomi India spins off POCO — but no word on its next product

  17-01-2020 09:05
  
  In 2018, Xiaomi launched its super-successful POCO F1 phone in India. The device was a tremendous hit amongst consumers by providing high-end specs at a sub-$300 price. After a long period of silence, Xiaomi India announced today it’s spinning off POCO into an independent sub-brand.  Manu Jain, Xiaomi India managing director, said the company felt it was the right time to let POCO operate on its own: What started as a sub-brand in POCO has grown into its own identity in a short span
  
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• Shanghai is testing facial recognition at pharmacies to catch drug abusers

  17-01-2020 08:43
  
  Every few days, China finds a new way to introduce facial recognition in people’s daily lives. According to a report from the South China Morning Post, Shanghai is testing face recognition terminals at pharmacies to catch folks attempting to buy controlled substances in substantial quantities, likely for resale. The report noted buyers of drugs containing sedatives and psychotropic substances will have to verify themselves through the terminal. The system will scan both pha
  
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• Alphabet joins the trillion-dollar club

  17-01-2020 06:29
  
  At last: Google‘s parent company, Alphabet, is now the fourth company in the US to attain a market value of more than $1 trillion, after Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft. The company achieved this milestone just over a month after Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped down from their respective CEO and President positions at Alphabet (founded in 2015), and handed the reins over to Google CEO Sundar Pichai last December (making him CEO of both Google and Alphabet). [Read: Pic
  
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• Facebook has reportedly shelved its plans to show ads on WhatsApp

  17-01-2020 06:05
  
  Good news! Facebook is dropping its plans to show ads on its popular messaging service WhatsApp. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, WhatsApp disbanded the team working on integrating ads on to the platform recently; even the code related to the project was deleted from the app. When Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion, Mark Zuckerberg said the company won’t push to introduce ads in the chat app. In 2016, the social media giant began sharing some user data
  
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• Pardon the Intrusion #8: Location trackers

  17-01-2020 05:45
  
  Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon the Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. Owning a mobile phone today is an open invitation to be tracked by telecom firms and any company you grant permission to access your current whereabouts. Granted, this has its advantages. Giving, say, Google Maps permissions to your location can help you quickly plot the route to your next destination, or find i
  
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• You can stream NBC Universal’s Peacock service for free

  17-01-2020 02:41
  
  NBCUniversal today revealed details about its streaming service, Peacock. Up to now, we’ve only had hints about this, the (please let it be) final entrant in the streaming wars and how it’ll differentiate itself from its competitors. The biggest difference in this case is that you could actually stream Peacock for free. Timeless shows and movies. Exclusive originals. Plus timely news, sports and pop culture. Perch here for a sneak peek of it all and make sure you sign up for updates
  
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