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• Review: Devialet’s Phantom Reactor is the David to your subwoofer’s Goliath

  20-01-2020 23:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  I first listened to the minuscule Devialet Phantom Reactors in the company’s New York showroom in late 2018.  Back then, I wrote that they were one of the few speakers that have made me think ‘wow’ in a long time. After all, review enough speakers costing thousands of dollars, and you become at least a little jaded about what sounds good and what surprises you. After spending a few months with the Reactor – starting at $2,180 a pair for 600W, or $2,70
  
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• Create Your Own Logo Online for Free

  20-01-2020 23:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What Is Logo? For the identification of any company or organization, a very distinctive graphic representation along with the text, is known as a logo. It could be any symbol or name that is...
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• Scientists invent robot that climbs surfaces like Spider-Man

  20-01-2020 22:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  A pair of researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a device that allows humans or robots to scale walls like the Amazing Spider-Man. Researchers Xin Li and Kaige Shi developed a novel vaccuum suction unit capable of gripping rough, uneven surfaces. Until recently, if you wanted to suction-cup your way up a wall it’d have to be made of glass, slick marble, or some other unbroken surface. Standard vaccuum devices rely on an unbroken seal between the atmosphere and the ga
  
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• Snap founder says TikTok could dethrone Instagram

  20-01-2020 22:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Evan Spiegel knows a thing or two about the social space. For eight years, his startup, Snapchat, has been chasing giants in this space. And now he thinks a new competitor, TikTok, the short-form video app, has the potential to dethrone Instagram as the world’s third-largest social application — if you aren’t including chat platforms like Messenger, WhatsApp, or WeChat. During a fireside chat yesterday, at Digital Life Design (DLD), Spiegel responded to an audience member ques
  
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• Sundar Pichai offers a cryptic warning against over-regulating AI

  20-01-2020 20:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, wants the world’s governments to regulate artificial intelligence. In an opinion piece published in the Financial Times over the weekend, the big tech boss says: Now there is no question in my mind that artificial intelligence needs to be regulated. It is too important not to. Pichai‘s op-ed reads like a preemptive strike. It begins with an appeal to his status as an everyday person. He discusses his love for technolo
  
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• OnePlus 8 Pro leak confirms 120Hz display option

  20-01-2020 20:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  One of the OnePlus 8 Pro’s most anticipated changes is a move to a 120Hz display. That’s all but confirmed: OnePlus posted about the change in a forum post last week, and now a leak on TrueTech shows what appears to be a menu screen on the new phone giving you the option to set your screen’s refresh rate to either 60, 90, or 120 Hz. Previous OnePlus devices had been limited to 90Hz. That’s still better than most phones, mind you, which are stuck at an oh-so-2019 60H
  
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• Netflix snags international streaming rights to Studio Ghibli’s films

  20-01-2020 19:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  After years of keeping its movies to theatrical releases and DVDs, Studio Ghibli‘s apparently going all-in streaming. Today it revealed it’s partnering with Netflix to stream its films in just about every part of the world… except North America and Japan. From February 2020, 21 films from the legendary animation house Studio Ghibli are coming exclusively to Netflix. We’re proud to bring beloved, influential stories like Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle and My N
  
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• UK offers $130K for software that can trace Bitcoin, Ethereum, and (hopefully) Monero

  20-01-2020 17:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  The UK has opened a contract worth £100,000 ($130,000) to procure software to identify when cryptocurrency is used to avoid paying taxes. In particular, HMRC is seeking the ability to cluster cryptocurrency transactions, identifying those linked to service providers such as mixing, gambling, and dark market services. The contract, posted on January 17, notes the tool must track and trace Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, Tether, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Ethereum Classic — the latte
  
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• Here’s how to check your AirPods’ firmware version

  20-01-2020 16:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. If you’re an avid tech news hound, headphone enthusiast, or Apple follower, you might’ve heard about the recent issue with noise-cancelation on the AirPods Pro. Basically, a firmware update (the alluringly named 2C54) has reduced the effectiveness of this sound-supressing feature for many users. Now, you might be suffering from this very
  
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• Half-a-million Teslas could be recalled after sudden acceleration complaints

  20-01-2020 16:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Half-a-million Tesla vehicles could be recalled as part of an investigation by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). This follows reports the cars are accelerating suddenly without warning. The NHTSA said last week it will review a petition to recall 500,000 Teslas amid the sudden acceleration claims, Reuters reports. A number of Teslas are thought to be affected by the issue, including Model S‘ produced between 2012 and 2019, Model X‘s produced between 2016
  
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• How ‘WhatsApp group admin’ became one of the most powerful jobs in politics

  20-01-2020 16:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  When the British parliament asked the government in 2019 to publish the messages that key officials were sending to each other about Brexit via text message, email, Facebook, and messaging apps, it drew attention to the extent to which elected officials have been sidestepping official channels in their communications. The push came in September, when tensions over Brexit were high and there were concerns that the government was being dishonest about its motives for suspending parliament for fiv
  
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• Huawei CFO in Canadian court on fraud charges, faces extradition to US

  20-01-2020 15:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  China’s foreign ministry labeled Canada‘s detainment of smartphone giant Huawei‘s CFO as a “serious political matter,” and again called for her release ahead of the first extradition hearing later today, Reuters reports. Canadian authorities arrested Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, in December 2018 at the behest of the US. The incident angered Beijing considerably, and the event soon became the centerpiece of a trade war be
  
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• Radiohead launches digital ‘public library’ of the band’s archive

  20-01-2020 14:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  If you’ve ever spent hours trolling the web for information about Radiohead, today’s your lucky day. In a press release, the band announced they have created the Radiohead Public Library, a centralized collection of information and media. It states: The internet as a whole has never been a reliable resource for detailed or even accurate information re: Radiohead. Many sites that attempted to provide some measure of service have long since gone dark as well. The overall effect has be
  
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• For under $20, you can record and save all your music right to your devices.

  20-01-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Audials One 2020 ($19.99, 66 percent off from TNW Deals) is software that gives you back the power of enjoying your songs, films and TV series your way.
  
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• UGH! Apple’s AirPods Pro firmware update has messed up noise-canceling

  20-01-2020 13:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  One of the best features of Apple’s new(-ish) AirPods Pro is their active noise-cancelation (ANC) functionality. While this has existed in a fair number of true wireless headphones before, the inclusion on an Apple bit of kit has made life better (and quieter) for a whole load of people. Unfortunately though, it looks like this comfort has been short lived. Recent posts on Reddit have claimed that AirPods Pro firmware update has made the earbuds‘ noise canceling worse. After se
  
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• We’re upping our game with 12 great themes for TNW2020 — check them out here

  20-01-2020 13:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  It’s hard to fathom that we’re in the year 2020. There’s something about those four numbers together that just sounds so futuristic. By now you’ve probably seen a lot of predictions for the wonderful things that will happen this year, not to mention that 2020 marks the 15th birthday of our flagship event. TNW2020, our tech festival in Amsterdam, brings people together from across the globe to discuss the emerging technologies shaping our future. Whether you’re a de
  
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• Byte Me #11: The Naked Philanthropist, brofanity, and muff candles

  20-01-2020 12:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Subscribe to our monthly Byte Me newsletter NOW! Welcome back to Byte Me, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3 Some updates from us: Cara is continuing to shock Britain with her football prowess — her team has moved up to a higher league. While Anouk’s trampolining classes have unfortunately been canceled, her terrifying cat is still very large. Gigi is going through a housing crisis, so she’s very tense, but going to the movies a lot — to continue
  
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• Australian bushfires didn’t just destroy specific species, but entire ecosystems

  20-01-2020 12:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  The sheer scale and intensity of the Australian bushfire crisis have led to apocalyptic scenes making the front pages of newspapers the world over. An estimated 10 million hectares (100,000 sq km) of land have burned since 1 July 2019. At least 28 people have died. And over a billion animals are estimated to have been killed to date. Of course, the actual toll will be much higher if major animal groups, such as insects, are included in these estimates. The impacts of climate change – in p
  
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• Reason for Concern: Only a Third of Organizations Stay PCI Compliant

  20-01-2020 11:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Most organizations have to deal with a wide range of data protection regulations, and the list is growing. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was the first of many new “regional” data protection...
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• Moonday Mornings: It’s 2020 and the OneCoin scam is still alive

  20-01-2020 11:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Welcome to Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines you shouldn’t miss. Take a look what happened over the last few days. 1. Canadian authorities issue new guidance for cryptocurrency exchanges The Canadian Securities Administration (CSA) issued new terms, which seek to determine which digital asset exchanges fall under derivatives law, last week. The “Guidance on the Application of Securities Legislation to Entities
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Crypto Twitter explodes over sceptic Peter Schiff losing all his Bitcoin’

  20-01-2020 11:10 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 Machiavelli used to say: To infinity, and beyond! Bitcoin price We closed the day, January 19 2020, at a price of $8,706. That’s a notable 2.63 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$235.20. It was the lowest closing price in five days. We’re still 56 percent below Bit
  
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• Sundar Pichai says AI should be regulated, asks governments to step up

  20-01-2020 09:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times today outlining the need for regulating AI. Pichai highlighted that deepfakes and “repressive uses of facial recognition” are of great concern at the moment. He added companies like Google can’t just build technology without regulation: Companies such as ours cannot just build promising new technology and let market forces decide how it will be used. It is equally incumbent on us to make sure that
  
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• Elon Musk: SpaceX will send NASA astronauts to space in Q2

  20-01-2020 06:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Elon Musk said last night that SpaceX plans to send NASA astronauts to space between April and June. The mission, dubbed as Demo-2, will see the crew rocket up to the International Space Station for several days. SpaceX just completed a successful uncrewed test of its Crew Dragon capsule’s in-flight launch escape capabilities last night. Watch live as SpaceX tests Crew Dragon’s in-flight launch escape capabilities https://t.co/lcfz0LS8O9 — SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 19, 2020 Spe
  
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• The next big privacy scare is a face recognition tool you’ve never heard of

  20-01-2020 06:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  The global debate on the use of facial recognition by governments and law enforcement just got a lot more intense. Over the weekend, the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill published an eye-opening piece detailing a relatively unknown firm offering facial recognition services to roughly 600 US law enforcement agencies, with an image library more than seven times larger than that of the FBI. It’s a Peter Thiel-funded company called Clearview AI, and its service matches faces from images you
  
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