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• Quantum cognition theory explains why humans make stupid decisions

  28-01-2020 21:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Scientists from the University of Science and Technology in China have a quantum physics-based answer to the ultimate question: If humans are so smart, why do we all make so many stupid choices? Psychologists and casinos have spent untold resources trying to figure out why humans don’t always make the correct choices, even when the consequences are apparent. Theoretically, we’re all capable of making simple, smart choices – but who among us hasn’t made a regrettable deci
  
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• A line of Atari-branded gaming hotels are on their way to US cities

  28-01-2020 20:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  In this week’s unexpected-but-completely welcome bizarre news, Atari — yes, that Atari, children of the 80s — is putting its name on a line of gaming-themed hotels. I don’t know about y’all, but I’m definitely spending my next Vegas trip in Chateau Atari. Atari is working with the GSD Group to build the hotels in eight major cities. GSD will be doing the work of actually building the hotels, as this is essentially a licensing deal that gives them the use
  
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• Amazon Engineer: ‘Ring should be shut down immediately and not brought back’

  28-01-2020 19:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  An Amazon software engineer named Max Eliaser is calling for the shutdown of Ring, the doorbell camera company Amazon paid $2 billion for in 2018. Hundreds of Amazon employees recently banded together to form Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an organization dedicated to holding the company’s feet to the fire when it comes to taking the steps necessary to face the global climate crisis. The group published a post on Medium yesterday sharing its members’ views on climate change,
  
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• Dyson’s Lightcycle Morph is a versatile task light that kinda looks like a lightsaber

  28-01-2020 19:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Dyson may be best known for its vacuums, but recently it’s been branching out into lighting too. The company has released a few task lamps over the years, and today it’s announcing its most versatile lighting solution yet, the Lightcycle Morph. Before we go on, here’s the obvious caveat to any Dyson Product: It’s expensive, starting at $650. You probably don’t need a $650 light, but if the price doesn’t make you cringe too much, read on. [Read: The Dyson
  
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• How to use Facebook’s ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ tool

  28-01-2020 19:02 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. Facebook today completed its global rollout of the “Off-Facebook Activity” tool, a process it started last August. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called it a “Clear History” button in the past, and that’s a fair description: it lets you manage the information Facebook collects on your from other sites and apps. The platform has not
  
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• RealityEngines’ AI could help small businesses overcome the data gap

  28-01-2020 18:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  RealityEngines.AI today came out of stealth to launch an autonomous AI generation service aimed at startups and medium to large enterprises that have put off adopting AI due to a shortage of data or personnel. What’s interesting here is the that the company’s taken on the data gap between big tech and wee startups. One of the biggest bars to AI adoption for businesses is a lack of data. It’s relatively easy for Google or Facebook to collect gobs and gobs of data, but what if y
  
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• RealityEngine’s AI could help small businesses overcome the data gap

  28-01-2020 18:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  RealityEngine.AI today came out of stealth to launch an autonomous AI generation service aimed at startups and medium to large enterprises that have put off adopting AI due to a shortage of data or personnel. What’s interesting here is the that the company’s taken on the data gap between big tech and wee startups. One of the biggest bars to AI adoption for businesses is a lack of data. It’s relatively easy for Google or Facebook to collect gobs and gobs of data, but what if yo
  
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• UK’s high court orders crypto exchange Bitfinex to dox recipients of $860K in Bitcoin

  28-01-2020 16:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  The UK’s high court has reportedly ordered cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex to freeze $860,000 worth of Bitcoin that had flowed through its platform en route to ransomware hackers. The funds were part of $1.2 million paid by a Canadian insurance company that had fallen victim to a malware strain known as BitPaymer, which locks computer systems and demands Bitcoin in exchange for a decryption tool. Once systems had been brought back online, researchers tracked the funds to find some h
  
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• 124 years after the first speeding ticket and regulations still can’t keep up with tech

  28-01-2020 16:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Just yesterday TNW wrote about the Bloodhound land speed record vehicle that’s trying to break the 1,000 mph (ca. 1,609 km/h) barrier. But have you ever stopped to think about people who were breaking speed limits over a hundred years ago? As it happens, today marks the 124th anniversary of what is generally regarded as the first speeding ticket issued in Britain, and the driver was going a paltry 8 mph (13 km/h). Yes, about as fast as a good jog. [Read: Engineers bet on hydrogen-fueled z
  
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• Going Beyond Sales: 7 Types of Website Conversions to Optimize for on Your Website

  28-01-2020 15:20
  
  If you’re looking to grow your business online, it’s time to start setting up different types of website conversions to help your company succeed. Whether you’re looking to earn more email subscribers or sell more products, you can set conversion goals that grow your business.
  On this page, we’ll discuss what a conversion goal is, seven types of website conversions, and four steps for setting up your conversion rate goals.Keep reading to learn more or give us a call at 88
  
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• Salty Mars water could hold proof of primitive life

  28-01-2020 15:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Curiosity rover on Mars has sampled ancient lake deposits from Gale Crater on the Red Planet, showing water that once existed there was dense with salt and minerals. By studying mineral deposits on Mars, researchers hope to better understand the composition of water on the surface of that world in the ancient past. Water, on Earth or on Mars, leaves distinctive chemical traces, and examination of mineral deposits can reveal significant information about long-lost seas. Researchers study the
  
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• The EU’s dull-ass fight with Apple over the Lightning connector sucks

  28-01-2020 14:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  It looks like the day is coming ever closer: Apple and the EU are going to head out to the car park, strip down to the waist, and get into a good, old-fashioned fist fight. Rather than this being about dull things like “paying the proper amount of taxes,” or “having the right-to-repair my goddamn phone,” this is about something far, far more important: Mobile phone charging cables. Specifically, Apple’s Lightning connector. This topic has been floating around for s
  
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• Data skills could soon be more important than people skills. Train up with these courses

  28-01-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The ability to use raw data to read the true impact of business decisions has become a game-changer, a skill you can learn with The Data Analytics Expert Certification Bundle ($49, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals).
  
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• Time travel is possible – but only if you have an object with infinite mass

  28-01-2020 13:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  The concept of time travel has always captured the imagination of physicists and laypersons alike. But is it really possible? Of course, it is. We’re doing it right now, aren’t we? We are all traveling into the future one second at a time. But that was not what you were thinking. Can we travel much further into the future? Absolutely. If we could travel close to the speed of light, or in the proximity of a black hole, time would slow down enabling us to travel arbitrarily far into t
  
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• You can now bother Google for tech support with #AndroidHelp

  28-01-2020 12:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  No, it’s not a scam: Google is officially providing Android tech support over Twitter now. In an announcement on — yep, you guessed it — Twitter, Google encouraged users to contact the company with any Android-related technical difficulties they might be experiencing using the hashtag #AndroidHelp. Until now, users mostly had to rely on Google’s support forums for such requests. “Today Google is announcing that you can get Android assistance on Twitter by tweeting
  
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• Bill Gates owns a lot more Apple stock than you might think

  28-01-2020 12:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  Chronologically speaking, the life work of Bill Gates can be divided into two main areas of interest: first and foremost building and leading Microsoft to become the number-one software company in the world, and secondly using the wealth he accumulated for philanthropy through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Based on data from 2019, Bill Gates is believed to still own 330 million shares of Microsoft, accounting for roughly $55B worth of Microsoft stock, or 4.3% of the total company. He
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin edges up as global markets take coronavirus beating’

  28-01-2020 12:00 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 Sloterdijk used to say: Let’s add the milk of data to the cereal of understanding! Bitcoin price We closed the day, January 27 2020, at a price of $8,909. That’s a respectable 3.63 percent increase in 24 hours, or $312. It was the highest closing price in eight da
  
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• It’s 2020 and hacking wallets is still a PR stunt for cryptocurrency startups

  28-01-2020 11:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  You’d have thought by now that cryptocurrency startups would know to focus on their tech rather than PR stunts. But sadly not. An Israel-based startup is offering a $250,000 bounty for anyone that can crack its supposedly ‘unhackable’ Bitcoin cold wallet and extract the funds. It’s like Bitfi all over again. [Read: Watch this 15-year-old hacker play DOOM on John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ crypto-wallet] The cybersecurity startup GK8 has put around $125,000 (
  
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• Singapore tightens AML restrictions on cryptocurrency companies

  28-01-2020 10:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Cryptocurrency businesses operating in Singapore will need to register and be licensed to continue serving customers in the country. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Tuesday that the Payment Services Act will now be enforced. First passed in January last year, the act gives the regulator supervisory authority over all paymentbusinesses in the country. [Read: Singapore’s financial regulator wants its banks and blockchains to be friends] Companies now have a month to r
  
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• Ring’s Android app reportedly sends data to third-party trackers

  28-01-2020 07:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ring, the Amazon-owned security camera company, has been caught in another privacy mishap. A report published by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) earlier today, suggests Ring’s Android app sends a ton of personally identifiable information (PII) to third-party trackers without explicit user consent. The report suggests the app (version 3.21.1) sends data to four trackers including Facebook’s graph API, a ‘deep linking’ platform called Branch, and analy
  
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• How to back up your Google Docs (in case Drive goes down again)

  28-01-2020 01:40 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. As some of you probably know, Google Drive and its accompanying suite of apps, like Docs and Sheets, went down for a while earlier today. Considering Google Drive has over one billion users, that’s a lot of people suddenly without access to their critical documents. While this particular outage appears to have been no big deal, and nothing of subst
  
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• Why the smartest AI is still dumber than a toddler — and how we can fix that

  28-01-2020 00:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Artificial intelligence is, undeniably, one of the most important inventions in the history of humankind. It belongs on a fantasy ‘Mt. Rushmore of technologies’ alongside electricity, steam engines, and the internet. But, in it’s current incarnation, AI isn’t very smart. In fact, even now in 2020, AI is still dumber than a baby. Most AI experts – those with boots on the ground in the researcher and developer communities – believe the path forward is through c
  
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• Leak: Motorola takes on the Galaxy Note with new stylus-enabled phone

  28-01-2020 00:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  The new bendy Motorola Razr might be the most exciting device from the venerable phone company in years, but that doesn’t mean it’s all its working on. Notoriously reliable leaker Evan Blass tweeted what appears to be a press render of an upcoming Motorola phone with a stylus. Yep, a stylus. The Galaxy Note is finally getting a bit more competition. Though a few challengers have appeared over the years, no phone has really managed to make the stylus a highlight the way Sam
  
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