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• 3 Design Misconceptions You Should Get Rid Of

  29-01-2020 23:45 via blog.prototypr.io
  
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• Nintendo will stop accepting Wii repairs soon

  29-01-2020 22:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Like many a Nintendo fan, I still have fond memories of the Wii. I may never play it nowadays, but there was something innocent about that era when, for a brief time, it seemed like motion controls might actually become mainstream. If your Wii’s been collecting dust on a shelf or in storage like mine, now might be a good time to check if it still works. Nintendo of Japan recently released a statement saying it will no longer repair the aging console beginning March 31. The company is esse
  
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• MoviePass declares bankruptcy, is truly dead now

  29-01-2020 21:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  MoviePass is dead. Again. For real this time though: as reported by Deadline, the company declared bankruptcy today, and there’s no way it’s coming back. MoviePass shut down its services in September, but at the time, its parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics was still looking into a potential sale. There was at least a bit of a chance the service would be revived under new ownership. But MoviePass’ leadership has all resigned now. Moreover, the company has filed for Ch
  
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• You’re probably more susceptible to misinformation than you think

  29-01-2020 17:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Online misinformation works, or so it would seem. One of the more interesting statistics from the 2019 UK general election was that 88% of advertisements posted on social media by the Conservative Party pushed figures that had already been deemed misleading by the UK’s leading fact-checking organisation, Full Fact. And, of course, the Conservatives won the election by a comfortable margin. Internet firms such as Facebook and Google are taking some steps to limit political misinformation.
  
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• Q4 2019: Stellar gives away $16M, burns 50% of XLM — price still drops

  29-01-2020 17:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  XLM is the native cryptocurrency of the Stellar network, a blockchain-powered solution pitched to make cross-border payments more efficient. Stellar’s consensus architecture is relatively centralized when compared to Bitcoin. While this does allow it to process transactions with low fees and fast confirmation times, it does require users to place more trust in the network comparatively. Regardless of this sacrifice, Stellar is almost always listed in the top cryptocurrencies. XLM’s
  
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• Apple’s Q1 2020 financials were great — but it still needs a budget iPhone

  29-01-2020 16:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  If you’re an Apple follower, you’ll have seen the company just released its Q1 2020 financials. There’s a raft of interesting information in there, but without getting bogged down by numbers, let’s just get to the meat of it: iPhone sales were incredibly strong, growing 8 percent Wearables growth skyrocketed (Tim Cook said that if you collated the Apple Watch, Beats headphones, and AirPods sales, it’d match a “Fortune 150 company) — overtaking Mac reven
  
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• Google claims its new chatbot Meena is the best in the world

  29-01-2020 15:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  When was the last time you had a “conversation” with Siri or Alexa that was satisfactory? Maybe never. The primary reason is that while these assistants or bots have improved a lot, their conversational ability is still quite limited. But Google claims its new chatbot, called Meena, is the hot shit and it can talk to you about anything on earth — just like with any human. Google says the conversational neural network with 2.6 billion parameters can chat with people better
  
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• For $49, unlock the secrets of Lean Six Sigma and be a project management guru

  29-01-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  If you’ve never heard of Lean Six Sigma, it’s basically a distillation of Lean and Six Sigma, two of the most popular project management methods around. By using elements of both systems, Lean Six Sigma approaches any business project with the same philosophy: eliminating mistakes and waste leads to improved results and happy stakeholders.
  
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• Google paid out $6.5 million in bug bounties in 2019

  29-01-2020 13:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google handed out a record amount of bug bounty prize money in 2019 as part of its Vulnerability Reward Programs. In an announcement, the company revealed it rewarded security researchers who found kinks in its defenses $6.5 million last year — that’s nearly twice the amount Google paid for bug bounties in 2018 which amounted to a total of $3.4 million. This brings the total amount of rewards given since 2010 to $21 million. “We paid out over $6.5 million in rewards, doubling
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin rises another 5% in one day’

  29-01-2020 11:02 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 Hannah Arendt used to say: Talk to a stranger on a bus! Bitcoin price We closed the day, January 28 2020, at a price of $9,358. That’s a respectable 5.00 percent increase in 24 hours, or $446. It was the highest closing price in eighty-two days. We’re still 53 per
  
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• Google’s new AI model ‘listens’ to killer whales to help protect the species

  29-01-2020 10:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google‘s AI team has developed a new model to protect the endangered species of killer whales known as orcas in the Salish Sea. According to the Center for Whale Research, there are only 73 Southern Resident orcas — a subspecies of the killer whale — left in the world. So Google has teamed up with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to monitor their condition and alert experts in the event of sickness or accidents across 12 locations. Google‘s team trai
  
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• Google Translate will soon transcribe recordings in other languages

  29-01-2020 09:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  If you attend a lot of meetings and lectures, or simply interview people often, transcribing your audio recordings is perhaps the most tedious task in your workflow. . But we might soon have some help from Google. The search giant showed off a new transcription feature in the Google Translate app during an event at its San Francisco office last night. A report from The Verge noted that once the feature is rolled out, you can record audio in one language and get live transcription in anothe
  
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• Google is working on another chat app because it hasn’t failed enough already

  29-01-2020 04:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  I shouldn’t be surprised I’m writing this article in 2020, but Google is preparing to release another communications app. According to a report by The Information, Google’s new app – no name was provided – will bring together various parts of G Suite, including Gmail, Hangouts Chat, Hangouts Meet, and Google Drive. Here we go again. Add it to the long list of Google’s attempts to get people to talk to one another. Off the top of my head, there’s Gm
  
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• Too many game stores? Here’s how to get them all on Steam

  29-01-2020 01:19 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. Last year Epic Games launched its store platform, explicitly to compete with the entrenched goliath Steam. It did so in the apparent spirit of competition, and it wasn’t the only one. Rockstar debuted its own game launcher, and GOG launched the Galaxy 2.0 beta. The number of apps that conrtro Anyway, one of the problems caused by this competition i
  
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