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• SpaceX to launch 60 more Starlink internet satellites on Tuesday

  27-01-2020 21:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Elon Musk‘s SpaceX will launch 60 satellites this Tuesday as part of its ambitious Starlink program to provide world-wide broadband internet coverage. Plans to launch the satellites on Monday 27 January were scrubbed due to unfavorable wind conditions. Experts had forewarned that the odds would be about 50-50 for a Monday launch, but the weather appears to be more favorable Tuesday with Space.Com reporting an 80% likelihood winds will remain calm enough for the launch. The Starlink payloa
  
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• YouTube nabs Activision esports streaming deal from Twitch

  27-01-2020 20:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  Activision revealed over the weekend that it’d signed an exclusivity deal with Google, meaning YouTube will host the company’s esports tourneys for the foreseeable future. Up to now, Activision‘s had a contract with Twitch, the major player in the streaming space. This could be a big feather in Google’s heretofore underfed streaming game. Esports lives on @YouTubeGaming. Welcome to the family, Overwatch League, Call of Duty League, and Hearthstone Esports. Let’s ge
  
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• Scientists are reengineering viruses to fight antibiotic resistance

  27-01-2020 16:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  The world is in the midst of a global “superbug” crisis. Antibiotic resistance has been found in numerous common bacterial infections, including tuberculosis, gonorrhea, and salmonellosis, making them difficult – if not impossible – to treat. We’re on the cusp of a “post-antibiotic era,” where there are fewer treatment options for such antibiotic-resistant strains. Given estimates that antibiotic resistance will cause 10 million deaths a year by 20
  
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• The Eve Spectrum is a high-res, stylish gaming monitor at a great price

  27-01-2020 16:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  Choosing a monitor is a game of compromise. Want a 4K panel? Give up any dreams of a high refresh rate, or pay an exorbitant price. Want 240Hz? Kill the resolution and image quality. There are also vanishingly few options with a decent collection of ports, let alone ones that can run and transmit power via USB-C. The Eve Spectrum wants to fix all that. Eve first made waves with the Eve V – a Surface Pro lookalike that took basically everything people loved about Microsoft’s tablet a
  
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• The Eve Spectrum is a high-res, stylish gaming monitor at a great pice

  27-01-2020 16:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  Choosing a monitor is a game of compromise. Want a 4K panel? Give up any dreams of a high refresh rate, or pay an exorbitant price. Want 240Hz? Kill the resolution and image quality. There are also vanishingly few options with a decent collection of ports, let alone ones that can run and transmit power via USB-C. The Eve Spectrum wants to fix all that. Eve first made waves with the Eve V – a Surface Pro lookalike that took basically everything people loved about Microsoft’s tablet a
  
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• Sucks to be you, Dyson — company repays grant money back to UK government

  27-01-2020 16:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  It must suck to be Dyson at the moment. The UK government has recouped nearly all of its £8 million grant it gave to the British vacuum cleaner manufacturer to develop an electric vehicle, the Telegraph reports. Dyson was given the money back in 2016 as part of government plan to stimulate the economy and create jobs. In part, the money was going to help Dyson‘s development and expansion into the electric car market. The vacuum maker reportedly put $2.5 billion into developing its e
  
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• Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent

  27-01-2020 15:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Malicious cryptocurrency miners took control of Bitcoin Gold‘s blockchain recently to double-spend $72,000 worth of BTG. Bad actors assumed a majority of the network‘s processing power (hash rate) to re-organize the blockchain twice between Thursday and Friday last week: the first netted attackers 1,900 BTG ($19,000), and the second roughly 5,267 BTG ($53,000). Cryptocurrency developer James Lovejoy estimates the miners spent just $1,200 to perform each of the attacks, based on pric
  
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• Report: Tinder’s new panic button is sharing your data with Facebook and YouTube

  27-01-2020 15:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Last year, an investigation by ProPublica, BuzzFeed, and Columbia Journalism Investigations found more than 150 instances of sexual assault involving dating apps. Approximately 10 percent involved users being matched with dates who had previously been accused or convicted of sexual assault. Last week, Tinder took a small step to give users a peace of mind when meeting up with someone: Introducing a “panic button” — this feature shares a users exact location and connects them w
  
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• Essential Strategies to Increase Social Media Engagement

  27-01-2020 14:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The number of social media users today is in the billions and only set to increase in the next decades as more and more people are becoming connected by cellular technology. This revolution is...
  The post Essential Strategies to Increase Social Media Engagement appeared first on Skyje.
  
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• Engineers bet on hydrogen-fueled zero emission rocket to break land speed record

  27-01-2020 14:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  Engineers behind the British Bloodhound Land Speed Record (LSR) vehicle are turning their eyes to hydrogen power for their next record attempt. The team plan to use a zero emission rocket powered by concentrated hydrogen peroxide, all that will be emitted is water and oxygen Motoring Research reports. [Read: New hydrogen trains could put an end to diesel] But how does it work? I hear you ask. According to the Bloodhound team, the rocket will use hydrogen peroxide, water with an extra oxygen mol
  
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• Report: Cloudflare provided CDN services to sites hosting exploitative child content

  27-01-2020 14:08 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. Cloudflare, a cloud company that provides security and content distribution services, provided CDN (Content Delivery Network) services to sites that host Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). CDN refers to a group of geographically distributed servers that host site data to provide faster
  
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• JavaScript devs are set to earn six figures in 2020. Here’s how you become one

  27-01-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  JavaScript is responsible for the functionality and interactivity of a website, and with the more than 180 lectures and over 20 hours of content found in this course, you’ll learn exactly why it’s become the all-purpose language tying the web together.
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin is now worth as much as Nike’

  27-01-2020 11:57 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 Isaac Newton used to say: Let’s get it! Bitcoin price We closed the day, January 26 2020, at a price of $8,596. That’s a respectable 2.77 percent increase in 24 hours, or $232. It was the highest closing price in three days. We’re still 57 percent below Bitc
  
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• Brexit saves UK from the terrible EU copyright laws it helped create

  27-01-2020 11:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Last year, the majority of EU states voted in favor of the controversial EU Copyright Directive, which its opponents say will greatly harm free speech online and open source initiatives. All EU countries have to implement it before June 2021, but now the UK — one of the member states that originally backed the legislation — has declared it will not adopt the directive as it’ll not be obligated to do so post Brexit, BBC reports. The remark about the decision, made by the countr
  
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• Amazon employees risk their jobs by criticizing the company for its role in climate crisis

  27-01-2020 11:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  In May last year, Amazon employees publicly pressured their employer to take action and responsibility for their contribution to the climate crisis in a rally outside of its stakeholders meeting. Since then, the company warned two workers that they could face termination if they continue to violate Amazon’s “external communications policy.” In a Medium post published by “Amazon Employees for Climate Justice” on Sunday, more than 350 workers put their jobs on the li
  
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• The single glass sheet iMac patent gives me hope Apple will focus on design again

  27-01-2020 11:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple has a reputation for exciting design — but I’m not sure how warranted that really is these days. Let me put it this way: When was the last time the company put out a product that looked like nothing else out there? You know, something as iconic and fresh as the iPod, as futuristic as the iMac G3, or as plain gorgeous as the iPhone 4? No, aside from a few vaguely interesting products (like the new cheese-grater Mac Pro) the majority of Apple’s new products have
  
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• Moonday Mornings: Ex-employee steals $715K in Bitcoin from cryptocurrency fund

  27-01-2020 10:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Welcome to Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. Let’s make haste and waste no time. Check it out. 1. Iran issues more than 1,000 cryptocurrency mining licenses According to a report from news.bitcoin.com, the Iranian government has reportedly issued more than 1,000 cryptocurrency mining licenses to businesses in the country since it began regulating the industry, news.bitcoin.com writes. [Read: Iranian gov reported
  
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• Scientists reveal why some people recognize faces better than others

  27-01-2020 10:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Do you never forget a face? Are you one of those people who can spot the same nameless extras across different TV programs and adverts? Are you the family member always called on to identify or match faces in old photographs? If so, you may be a “super-recognizer” – the term science uses to describe people with an exceptional ability to recognize faces. Over the past decade, psychologists have established that our ability to recognize faces varies a lot – much like the a
  
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• Samsung loses its #2 spot in India’s smartphone market to Vivo

  27-01-2020 09:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Samsung has long been among the largest smartphone brands on the planet and in many countries for years. It’s just lost its #2 spot in India to Vivo.  That’s important because India happens to have become a larger smartphone market (in shipments) than the US – making it a critical battlefield for brands to conquer. According to a report by analytics firm Counterpoint, Xiaomi maintained its position at the top with a comfortable lead, in terms of marketshare. Its Redmi ser
  
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• After nearly 6 months, Kashmir’s internet opens up – but only to 300 sites

  27-01-2020 06:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  After enduring the longest internet shutdown in a democracy, people in Kashmir are being allowed back online, but with major restrictions. On January 15, the state authorities allowed limited 2G access and broadband access to select institutes in a few areas. Over the weekend, it issued orders to restore 2G internet access to 301 sites across the region of Jammu and Kashmir, including a handful of news outlets. Just 301. The full list includes banking sites, travel book
  
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