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• Hasbro announces 7 new D&D games starting with Baldur’s Gate 3

  24-02-2020 23:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  It appears the 20-year-long wait for a follow up to the critically acclaimed Baldur’s Gate series is finally coming to an end this year. Hasbro this weekend revealed seven new video games are currently in development for its Dungeons and Dragons property. Kicking things off will be Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3, which is slated for an early-access launch on Steam sometime in 2020. The news comes from Dark Side of Gaming, whose staff reports: In 2020, Hasbro aims to release B
  
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• Beyond the Binary: 5 steps to designing gender inclusive fields in your product

  24-02-2020 22:38 via uxdesign.cc
  
  https://uxdesign.cc/beyond-the-binary-5-steps-to-designing-gender-inclusive-fields-in-your-product-ff9230337b4f
  
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• Chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov predicts AI will disrupt 96 percent of all jobs

  24-02-2020 22:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  IBM’s Deep Blue wasn’t supposed to defeat Chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov when the two of them had their 1997 rematch. Computer experts of the time said machines would never beat us at strategy games because human ingenuity would always triumph over brute-force analysis. After Kasparov‘s loss, the experts didn’t miss a beat. They said Chess was too easy and postulated that machines would never beat us at Go. Champion Lee Sedol’s loss against DeepMind’s A
  
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• Chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov predicts AI will disrupt 96% of all jobs

  24-02-2020 22:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  IBM’s Deep Blue wasn’t supposed to defeat Chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov when the two of them had their 1997 rematch. Computer experts of the time said machines would never beat us at strategy games because human ingenuity would always triumph over brute-force analysis. After Kasparov‘s loss, the experts didn’t miss a beat. They said Chess was too easy and postulated that machines would never beat us at Go. Champion Lee Sedol’s loss against DeepMind’s A
  
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• How to create an automated sales funnel

  24-02-2020 21:23 via gosquared.com
  
  https://www.gosquared.com/blog/create-an-automated-sales-funnel
  
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• Everything you need to know about Honor’s just-launched 9X Pro

  24-02-2020 21:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  Today in Barcelona, Honor — Huawei‘s youth-focused, entry-level brand — announced the launch of its new phone: the 9X Pro. We covered the previous device in this series — the Honor 9X — in a piece about how good budget phones have become in the past few years. And, let me tell you something for free, the new 9X Pro has made this market all the more crowded. Anyway, now the device has been properly announced, here’s everything you need to know about the Honor
  
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• Microsoft finally shows us the Xbox Series X’s guts

  24-02-2020 19:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft today gave us a look at the Xbox Series X’s specs, meaning we’re finally seeing what the next-gen consoles will have under the hood. And I can’t lie: it’s looking pretty good. Power + speed + compatibility = Xbox Series X 12 teraflops and so much more. Discover what the next generation of gaming means to Xbox: https://t.co/WWFJ6YkHzT#PowerYourDreams pic.twitter.com/RDlWXwVF8f — Xbox (@Xbox) February 24, 2020 According to Xbox head Phil Spencer, the XSX wi
  
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• Using HTML and JavaScript to Manipulate Videos

  24-02-2020 19:27 via flatlogic.com
  
  https://flatlogic.com/blog/using-html-and-javascript-to-manipulate-videos/
  
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• This AI suitcase could help visually-impaired people to travel

  24-02-2020 18:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  A group of Japanese companies is developing a suitcase-shaped robot that uses AI to help visually-impaired people to travel independently. The small navigation robot will scan the user’s location and map data to identify the best route to their destination. It will then guide them there through voice and haptic technology that transmits vibrations transmitted through the suitcase handle. While they travel, the suitcase will analyze data from video cameras and distance sensors to
  
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• Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, February 2020

  24-02-2020 18:04 via webdesignerdepot.com
  
  https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2020/02/introducing-15-best-new-portfolios-february-2020/
  
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• US: Allow tech giants to opt out of new global tax scheme, or face tariffs

  24-02-2020 17:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  US treasury secretary Stephen Mnuchin warned G20 members of retaliatory tariffs should negotiations for a global tax on tech giants fail, Reuters reports. “We’ve been very consistent in saying we think the digital services tax is discriminatory in nature against digital companies, and specifically a handful of US companies,” Mnuchin told reporters attending a G20 meeting in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. “The president was clear that we were proceeding with […] reciproca
  
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• Don’t miss Vimeo, Giphy, and Snapchat at TNW2020

  24-02-2020 17:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  As we browse the internet each day, we consume hours of video content, share silly GIFs with friends, and send ridiculous selfies. It’s safe to say our brains are hardwired to love images – we are visual creatures after all! That’s what makes Vimeo, Giphy, and Snapchat some of the tech world’s most successful companies – and they’re all coming to our tech festival on June 18 and 19.  The speaker lineup is filling up nicely for TNW2020 – with m
  
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• UK police are using AI to predict who could become violent criminals

  24-02-2020 16:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Police in the UK are using AI to identify future criminals in a pilot of a system that the government wants to roll out nationwide. The system uses a machine learning algorithm to predict which low-level offenders on a database of 200,000 criminals are likely to commit “high harm” crimes in the future. Risk scoring is already used operationally to assess the probability of individuals reoffending. The new system “seeks to do so in a far more rigorous and reliable way,” r
  
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• Scientists discovered a new way to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria

  24-02-2020 15:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  Since their discovery in 1928, antibiotics have become a common way of treating infections caused by bacteria, fungi, and other microbes. To treat an infection, a doctor usually prescribes a course of antibiotics (such as penicillin) for us to take. This drug is usually contained in a capsule then swallowed, where it dissolves in the stomach. There, the antibiotic goes to work, destroying all bacteria in the stomach (including the good bacteria, which help our body function). The antibiotic is
  
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• 3 ways AI is transforming the insurance industry

  24-02-2020 14:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  As AI, big data, and the internet of things (IoT) find their way into every aspect of our lives, many industries are undergoing a transformation. “Insurance executives believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will significantly transform their industry in the next three years, with insurers investing in AI to empower agents, brokers and employees to enhance the customer experience with automated personalized services, faster claims handling and individual risk-based underwriting processe
  
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• Yes, coders still need to know Java. If you need a refresher, consider this training

  24-02-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The list of programming languages is lengthy. Most are irrelevant or hyper-specialized, though, so you can really only say a fraction matter to most modern-day coders. And among those disciplines that carry the bulk of the load with programmers today, the most critical may be one that’s been around for a quarter-century: Java.
  
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• Leak shows EU police aim to create an international facial recognition database

  24-02-2020 13:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  EU police forces plan to build a network of national police facial recognition databases that spans across every member state, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept. The report from national police forces of 10 EU member states, led by Austria, called for new EU legislation that would enable this interconnected database to be created “as quickly as possible.” The document was circulated among officials last November. The Intercept reports that preparatory wo
  
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• Why the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft looks like a snowman

  24-02-2020 12:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Just over a year ago, courtesy of NASA’s New Horizons mission, we were treated to images of 2014MU69, a small object 6.6 billion kilometers from the sun – making it the most distant object to have ever been visited by a spacecraft. It was described, variously, like a snowman, a bowling pin, or a peanut. What we were seeing was a picture of one of the oldest and most primitive bodies in the solar system. New Horizons took only a handful of minutes to fly past the object at its closes
  
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• Byte Me #12: Lost IUDs, Jess Bezos, and a hidden vagenda

  24-02-2020 11:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Subscribe to our monthly Byte Me newsletter NOW! Welcome back to Byte Me, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3 Some updates from us you certainly didn’t ask for: Cara went through some uterus troubles when she thought her vagina swallowed her IUD — turns out, it just wandered around a little too much, so all is well. Anouk continues to shine as publisher, but her usual hair-removal studio went bankrupt, so now she’ll be a hairy puss forever. Gig
  
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• It’s 2020 and tech still sucks at diversity – here’s how we fix it

  24-02-2020 11:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  The tech industry, which is ironically synonymous with innovation and progress, has a deep-rooted problem: A lack of diversity.  It’s a well-known fact that male entrepreneurs tend to raise more money for their startups than their female counterparts. According to Atomico’s State of European Tech 2019 report, which polled over 1,200 founders across Europe, nearly a quarter of respondents said they had experienced discrimination on factors ranging from ethnicity to age.  As
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Data suggests number of Bitcoin tweets affects trading volume’

  24-02-2020 10:38 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 Ada Lovelace used to say: Let’s get it! Bitcoin price We closed the day, February 23 2020, at a price of $9,924. That’s a respectable 2.70 percent increase in 24 hours, or $261. It was the highest closing price in four days. We’re still 50 percent below Bitc
  
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• Digital transformation projects don’t fail because of a shortage of ‘tech’

  24-02-2020 10:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  The promise of digital transformation is to evolve into a more agile and enduring organization by taking advantage of advances in AI, cloud computing, data sharing, and increased connectivity. You might break into new markets, advance in your industry or design entirely new business models and services. But the statistics are sobering: Only 28% of major corporations are succeeding in their digital transformation efforts, according to Michael Gale in Forbes. Why do so many of these projects fail
  
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• Safari will soon reject any HTTPS certificate valid for more than 13 months

  24-02-2020 07:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  Last week, at the 49th CA/Browser Forum, a voluntary consortium of certification authorities, Apple announced that it’ll stop allowing HTTPS certificates on Safari with more than 13 months of validity, later this year. HTTPS certificates, based on the latest TLS encryption standards, ensure that your connection to a particular website is safe and secure. Any certificate issued after September 1, with more than 398 days of validity, will be rejected by Apple‘s bro
  
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• Pardon the Intrusion #11: No more passwords

  24-02-2020 05:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. Here’s a double dose of good news for those who value their personal device security. (So, hopefully everyone.) First off, Google has open-sourced its security key technology, allowing anyone to build their own hardware security key for the strongest level of two-factor authentication (2FA). Because, as we all
  
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• Samsung temporarily shuts down a factory in South Korea due to Coronavirus

  24-02-2020 04:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Coronavirus has caused plenty of manufacturing units in China to stop production. Now, the deadly virus is affecting manufacturing in other countries too. Samsung has temporarily shut down its factory in Gumi, South Korea. According to a report by Reuters, the company found a confirmed case of Coronavirus in the factory last week. Due to the fast-spreading nature of the virus, the Korean giant decided to close the factory till February 24; the floor where the affected person worked, will b
  
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