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• Google Photos tests $8 feature to auto-print 10 photos every month

  03-02-2020 23:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google is apparently working on a subscription service that will print a selection of your photos monthly, then deliver them to you in neat 4×6 format. The trick is that Google will select which things to print from your Photos library. Depending on your lifestyle, it’ll either sound like a charming thing to get or a massive waste of money. A tipster, speaking to 9to5Google, said the big G is trialing the subscription service with select users in the US. We’ve contacted Google
  
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• Artist fakes Google Maps traffic jam with 99 phones

  03-02-2020 23:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google Maps changed GPS navigation forever, in part by making it accessible to everyone, in part by helping provide accurate traffic reports. Well, maybe not always accurate, if artist Simon Weckert has any say. Weckert managed to fool Google Maps into reporting non-existent traffic jams by wheeling around a cartful of 99 phones down the streets of berlin. Wherever Weckert went, a jam appeared. Weckert tried his scheme last summer, but only revealed the results this week for Google Maps&rs
  
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• Elon Musk to solve self-driving with a ‘Super Fun’ AI hackathon

  03-02-2020 21:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk yesterday announced that he’s throwing a “Super Fun AI Party/Hackathon” with Tesla engineers and a select group of invitees. Tesla will hold a super fun AI party/hackathon at my house with the Tesla AI/autopilot team in about four weeks. Invitations going out soon. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2020 This comes on the heels of last week’s fourth quarter earnings call, where Business Insider reports Musk admitted Tesla was at least a “
  
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• Flashpoint archived thousands of old Flash games because someone had to

  03-02-2020 19:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Adobe revealed in 2017 it would no longer be supporting Flash by the end of this year– which leaves the many stray Flash games out there (and those who play them) high and dry, right? There’s actually a site dedicated to not just saving those Flash games, but offering them for offline play. The site, called Flashpoint, is run by Blue Maxima, and essentially preserves many older bits of gaming ephemera for the users to play. If you know me at all, you know I’m a big f
  
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• BlackBerry phones are dead…. again

  03-02-2020 19:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  BlackBerry phones are dead. Again. I’m feeling a bit of déjà vu. In a quiet announcement on Twitter, TCL announced it would stop selling BlackBerry devices starting August 31, at the conclusion of its license. The company “has no further rights to design, manufacture, or sell any new BlackBerry mobile devices,” though the company says it will continue to honor warranties until 2022. pic.twitter.com/jhcfVHjVqL — BlackBerry Mobile (@BBMobile) February 3, 2020
  
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• MasterCard CEO on Facebook’s Libra: ‘I don’t understand how that works’

  03-02-2020 18:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  MasterCard chief exec Ajay Banga has lambasted Facebook‘s digital currency Libra, citing the social media giant’s apparently shaky attitude towards compliance for his company’s departure from the project back in October. In an interview with Financial Times, Banga noted he believed that key members of the Libra Association weren’t fully committed to “not do anything that is not fully compliant with local law,” particularly in relation to anti-money laund
  
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• AI-driven DNA evidence analysis has a transparency problem

  03-02-2020 16:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  DNA evidence often isn’t as watertight as many people think. Sensitive techniques developed over the past 20 years mean that police can now detect minute traces of DNA at a crime scene or on a piece of evidence. But traces from a perpetrator are often mixed with those from many other people that have been transferred to the sample site, for example via a handshake. And this problem has led to people being wrongly convicted. Scientists have developed algorithms to separate this DNA soup an
  
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• The Netherlands will give citizens up to $4,400 for buying new electric vehicles

  03-02-2020 15:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Netherlands will support greener forms of transport this year by giving drivers money towards the cost of a new electric vehicle (EV). This goes for private buyers of both new and used cars. According to a report from Dutch news organization RTL, if you live in the Netherlands and buy a new electric car after July 1 this year, you could receive €4,000 ($4,425) towards its cost from the government. If you buy a used, second-hand EV, you could be eligible for €2,000 ($2,211). [Read:
  
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• Coronavirus to hit China’s smartphone and LCD panel production hard

  03-02-2020 15:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  The ongoing coronavirus crisis in China is expected to disrupt local production of LCD panels and smartphones, causing prices to rise and supply shortages across the world. Leading LCD and OLED panel manufacturers in the country have stated they believe that the total capacity utilization for LCD fabs could be reduced by 10 percent, reports IHS Markit. That number could increase to more than 20 percent during February. An acute shortage of essential LCD modules in China could emerge, with sever
  
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• Is My Site Hacked? 6 Ways to Find If Your Site’s Been Hacked

  03-02-2020 15:00
  
  The nail biting. The endless coffee. The sleepless nights.
  You can’t keep it up, but you need to know: Is my site hacked?
  Good news, you don’t have to stay up all night, grind down your nails, or consume all the coffee in the building to find out if your website has been hacked. You have plenty of free (and trusted) tools that you can use to check your site.
  Keep reading to see if your website is still secure! Plus, learn about the six different ways you can check for a hacked site.
  
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• Relax My Dog may be the smartest purchase a dog owner can make. Right now, it’s over 50% off

  03-02-2020 14:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Fire up Relax My Dog on your home TV, iOS or Android device and your dog will be served a steady stream of looped video and music content created to put any canine breed at ease. 
  
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• MIT’s new smart surface can boost wireless signals 10 times

  03-02-2020 14:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  While the whole world is harping about “the age of 5G,” problems of adequate signal strength within homes and offices is still at large. To solve that, researchers from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT, have developed a software-controlled “smart surface” that can boose signal strength up to 10 times. The surface, named RFocus, is quite cost-effective and contains 3,000 antennas that can boose channel strength within office wa
  
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• Ludwig helps you fix your most disastrous sentences, and its’s also 60% off now

  03-02-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Ludwig sentence search engine is dedicated to making sure stuff like that preceding paragraph never happen in your writing. Even if your prose is structurally sound, but just needs a shot of professional-level pizzazz, the Ludwig treatment may be your answer. Right now, it’s also 60 percent off its regular price, only $119 from TNW Deals.
  
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• Scientists: Psychedelics have the potential to help us save the planet

  03-02-2020 13:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  In recent years there has been a resurgent scientific interest in the psychological effects of psychedelic drugs. Consider the example of recent trials in which psilocybin was administered to people diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression. Those involved reported significantly positive responses even six months later. Such studies point with increasing confidence to the therapeutic potential of psychedelics for treating depression, addiction, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PT
  
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• Forget Shakira and JLO, electric vehicles were this year’s Super Bowl stars

  03-02-2020 13:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  If there’s ever a running theme for Super Bowl adverts, this year’s was electric vehicles. The advertisement breaks in the NFL’s Super Bowl garner almost as much attention as the main event. With around 100 million viewers, Super Bowl ad spots are some of the most lucrative — and expensive — money can buy. [Read: Report: Hummer to be resurrected as an all electric pickup truck] We’ve seen iconic spots from the likes of Apple, Coca-Cola, Volkswagen, Budweiser,
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Nobel Prize-winning economist wants cryptocurrencies shut down’

  03-02-2020 10:53 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 Marie Curie used to say: Let’s get it! Bitcoin price We closed the day, February 02 2020, at a price of $9,344. That’s a minor 0.48 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$45.44. It was the lowest closing price in three days. We’re still 53 percent below Bitcoin&l
  
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• Moonday Mornings: Twitter adds custom Bitcoin emoji

  03-02-2020 10:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Hello Forkers, welcome to Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines you can’t afford to miss! Let’s see what happened this week: 1. Cybercriminals use Kobe Bryant wallpaper to cyptojack victims According to researchers at Microsoft’s Security Intelligence division, cybercriminals embedded a coin mining script in a digital wallpaper featuring the recently deceased basketball star Kobe Bryant. While the world m
  
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• Leaked video shows Samsung’s upcoming foldable clamshell in action

  03-02-2020 09:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  We are less than 10 days away from Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event, and we just got a first video leak of the upcoming Galaxy Flip Z over the weekend. Popular concept designer Ben Geskin posted a video on Twitter that featured what looks like Samsung‘s upcoming clamshell foldable. The short video shows off folding and unfolding of the device once, with its super tall screen in action. It also presents a small VGA display next to the camera to show time and notifications when the pho
  
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• How Chinese tech giants are assisting in the battle against coronavirus with AI

  03-02-2020 07:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  The coronavirus outbreak, which originated in China late last year, has become a global health hazard. Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global emergency with more than 14,500 registered cases across the world. Many countries across the world have issued travel advisories, and some have even banned or restricted people traveling from China. With scientists working hard to find out a cure for this deadly virus, Chinese tech giants Baidu and Alibaba have opened up their g
  
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