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• Scientists working with Google just published the most detailed brain scans ever created

  22-01-2020 21:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google and its partners at the Janelia Research Campus today released the largest, most detailed set of brain scans ever published. The project encompasses nearly one-third of the brain of a fruit fly and includes detailed mappings for more than 25 thousand neurons featuring more than 20 million synapses. The best part: it’s all been released open-source to the public. This is a great day for science. These aren’t the kind of brain scans you might be thinking of. The scientists didn
  
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• Uber test allows California drivers to set their own fares

  22-01-2020 21:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Uber this week announced it’s testing a feature that will allow drivers in parts of California to set their own fares. It’s not doing so out of generosity, but more to try and comply with a new law. According to the Wall Street Journal, the test means that drivers taking airport fares in Santa Barbara, Sacramento, and Palm Springs can increase their fares by 10 percent in increments, up to about five times what the usual Uber fare would be. Reportedly they can also decrease their fa
  
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• Xbox Series X photos allegedly leak on Twitter

  22-01-2020 19:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Leaked photos of a console purported to be the new Xbox Series X show us what the back of the console looks like. Considering these are the first photos we have that seem even somewhat legit, seeing the rear end of this particular console is actually kind of exciting. The images first surfaced on Neogaf, and later appeared on Twitter. They show the front and back of a black rectangle that looks very much like the renders Microsoft itself showed during the reveal at the Game Awards. @IdleSloth19
  
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• Vodafone ditches Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ to focus on M-Pesa

  22-01-2020 16:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Vodafone has bailed on Facebook‘s cryptocurrency project, Libra, to focus on expanding its own solution for faster cross-border payments beyond Africa. The telecommunications giant is the latest in a string of companies to have left the Libra Association, alongside Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, and Ebay, CoinDesk reports. [Read: Facebook’s Libra ‘cryptocurrency’ is turning into a soap opera — and it’s gonna be a long season] Libra, a stablecoi
  
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• Data sharing is key to an AI-driven medical revolution

  22-01-2020 16:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  It is not often that one witnesses a transformational advance in medicine. But the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the early detection of disease is exactly that. I was a co-author of the paper recently published in Nature showing that an AI system developed by Google was better at spotting breast tumors than doctors. Now, researchers in the US have reported that AI-supported laser scanners are faster than doctors at detecting brain tumors. These are very exciting develop
  
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• Jeff Bezos’ WhatsApp hack is a stark reminder of how anyone can be hacked

  22-01-2020 15:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Last night, The Guardian and Financial Times published reports citing it’s “highly probable” that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS), played a key role in hacking Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos’ phone in 2018. The hack shows how easy it is to get control of a top executive’s data. But we’ll get to that later, let’s first look at the history and methodology behind the hack. An encrypted video file sent by the pr
  
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• Sonos will stop updating its oldest speakers and hardware in May

  22-01-2020 15:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Compared to most hardware companies, Sonos has done an admirable job of keeping its speakers up to date, regularly shipping updates to its various products. But there’s only so long the company can keep it up. This week Sonos revealed it would stop updating some of its oldest products in a few months: This coming May, these legacy products—our original Zone Players, Connect, and Connect:Amp (launched in 2006; includes versions sold until 2015), first-generation Play:5 (launched 2009
  
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• Cryptocurrency hackers stole less money in 2019, despite higher activity

  22-01-2020 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Cryptocurrency criminals ramped up their activity last year, carrying out more hacks but stealing less money. According to blockchain analysis company Chainalysis, 2019 saw more cryptocurrency hacks than any other year to date. [Read: Here’s how law enforcement catches cryptocurrency criminals] However, none of the 11 hacks that took place last year came close to matching previous heists in terms of scale (think Mt. Gox‘s $473 million collapse in 2014 or Coincheck’s $534
  
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• Don’t update Twitter for Android — it crashes (but you can fix it)

  22-01-2020 14:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Are you struggling to fire up the Twitter app on Android? You’re no the only one. Tons of people are reporting the app crashes at launch after getting the latest update (8.28.00). Don’t fret, though: there’s a way to fix it. Twitter has already confirmed this blunder on — you guessed it — Twitter, but an official fix is still on the way. In the meantime, there are a few workarounds you can try to get the app to run as expected. Obviously, the easiest way to avoid t
  
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• CompTIA certifications hold the keys to IT’s top careers. Prep to ace them with these courses

  22-01-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  It’s all about having the right certification of your talents. In tech, that means a seal of approval from CompTIA, which you can attain with the background offered in The Complete 2020 CompTIA Certification Training Bundle. Right now, it’s $89, over 90 percent off, from TNW Deals.
  
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• Google wants to reduce your screen time with… an envelope?

  22-01-2020 13:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  On average, people spend four hours on their phone every day. It should come as no surprise that we’re all probably addicted to our phones, but don’t worry it’s not all our fault — apps are literally designed to keep us hooked.  Yesterday, in a bid to get you off your phone, Google launched three new experimental apps as part of its ‘Digital Wellbeing Initiative’ — the company’s showcase of ideas and tools that help people find a better balan
  
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• If you’re a slave to your smartphone, the MP02 4G wants to break those chains. Now, get $50 off.

  22-01-2020 13:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The siren call of your smartphone is real. That’s why the folks at Punkt took a hard stand against the distraction and divisiveness of modern smartphone tech with the MP02 4G mobile phone. It’s on sale now at $50 off the regular price, just $299.99 from TNW Deals.
  
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• Shorting Ethereum before Q4 2019 would’ve been a good idea — here’s why

  22-01-2020 12:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ethereum is the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. It was created because its co-founders wanted to fulfill the need to build a platform that would enable users to write decentralized applications and use the Ethereum blockchain as a world computer. Ethereum has been credited with making smart contracts a key part of the blockchain conversation and showing the world how blockchain technology can be used far beyond the applications of just cryptocurrency. [Read: 
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Jack Dorsey’s Square Crypto builds dev kit to boost Bitcoin adoption’

  22-01-2020 12:27 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 Aristotle used to say: Crack open this tasty lobster! Bitcoin price We closed the day, January 21 2020, at a price of $8,745. That’s a minor 1 percent increase in 24 hours, or $86. It was the highest closing price in two days. We’re still 56 percent below Bitcoin&
  
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• WhatsApp finally gets dark mode on Android — here’s how to enable it

  22-01-2020 12:06 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. WhatsApp is finally getting dark mode on mobile — but only for Android for the time being, so iPhone users will have to wait a little longer. There’s another catch: the feature works solely through the app‘s latest beta version, which is already available on Google Play. Those signed up for the beta program should actually get the updat
  
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• An astrobiologist explains why invisible aliens could be among us

  22-01-2020 10:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Life is pretty easy to recognize. It moves, it grows, it eats, it excretes, it reproduces. Simple. In biology, researchers often use the acronym “MRSGREN” to describe it. It stands for movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, and nutrition. But Helen Sharman, Britain’s first astronaut and a chemist at Imperial College London, recently said that alien lifeforms that are impossible to spot may be living among us. How could that be possible? While life
  
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• Tesla becomes America’s first $100B publicly listed carmaker

  22-01-2020 10:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Elon Musk appears to have built a venerable financial fortress around his electric vehicle company Tesla. On Tuesday it became the first US carmaker, that publicly sells shares, to be valued at over $100 billion. Late last night, at around 2330 CET (1730 EST) Tesla‘s share price jumped to $554. This bumped the company’s overall market capitalization to over $100 billion. [Read: Tesla says there’s no unintended acceleration in its vehicles, blames short seller] Tesla‘s va
  
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• Why Jeff Bezos was booed in India after promising a million jobs and a billion dollars

  22-01-2020 10:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  Last week, Jeff Bezos landed in India, paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at the Raj Ghat memorial in New Delhi, and flew kites with locals. Those were among the only uncontroversial moments of his visit to a country where he wasn’t really welcomed with open arms this time. What went wrong? Hours before one of the world’s richest men arrived in India, the Competition Commission of India (CCI), opened an investigation into anti-competitive practices of Amazon and its Walmart-owned r
  
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• Report: India will force WhatsApp, Telegram to trace sensitive messages back to their originators

  22-01-2020 07:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  In its upcoming intermediary rules — which will govern the policing of content on digital platforms with more than 5 million users — India is looking to enforce traceability on apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, and Telegram, to help authorities sniff out people stirring up controversies online. Reports by TechCrunch and Economic Times suggest the government will ask social media platforms to find the originator of a potentially problematic message. ET’s article note
  
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• Valve makes all Half-Life games free in anticipation of Alyx

  22-01-2020 01:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  In preparation for the triumphant return of the Half-Life series in the form of the upcoming Alyx VR sequel, Valve is making all the previous games free-to-play. Now you can get up to date on this older series before it makes its big comeback. Prepare for Half-Life: Alyx by revisiting City 17 and the war against the Combine. The full Half-Life collection is free to play on Steam from now until Half-Life: Alyx's release in March. https://t.co/giz801AKfu pic.twitter.com/tCLxyr
  
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