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• Tech was supposed to fix tipping, so why are we more confused than ever?

  27-02-2020 22:46 via fastcompany.com
  
  https://www.fastcompany.com/90468686/tech-was-supposed-to-fix-tipping-so-why-are-we-more-confused-than-ever
  
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• Leaked EU legislation would force Apple to use removable batteries in its iPhones

  27-02-2020 20:33
  
  There was a time when virtually every phone had a removable battery – and then the iPhone was announced. As Apple’s trend-setting powers would have it, in 2020 there are virtually no high-end phones with removable batteries left. But if the EU has its way, those tides may soon be turning – Apple may have to make an iPhone with a removable battery for the first time. In leaked documents seen by Dutch publication Het Financieele Dagblad, the European Commission is show
  
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• Facebook just canceled its F8 developer conference because of coronavirus

  27-02-2020 20:26
  
  Facebook today announced the cancellation of its annual F8 developer conference due to fears over the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The annual conference was scheduled to take place in San Jose, California on May 5-6. Facebook announced the cancellation in a blog post Thursday morning. The company’s platform partnerships director, Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, wrote: This was a tough call to make — F8 is an incredibly important event for Facebook and it’s one of our favorite
  
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• Etsy’s new mandatory ad policy cuts into sellers’ profits

  27-02-2020 20:01
  
  Etsy this week revealed a new promoted advertising policy that essentially allows them to take a generous cut of sales, and sellers with successful stores won’t be able to opt out. The new measure will add yet another mandatory fee for sellers — if the advertising works, of course. According to Etsy’s announcement, it’s instituting a new Offsite Ads program, in which it’ll promote items on sites like Google, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. Whenever a buyer clic
  
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• Let’s Say You Were Going to Write a Blog Post About Dark Mode

  27-02-2020 19:56 via css-tricks.com
  
  https://css-tricks.com/lets-say-you-were-going-to-write-a-blog-post-about-dark-mode/
  
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• Eric Schmidt says Big Tech needs government help to keep up with China

  27-02-2020 19:43
  
  Eric Schmidt has called on the US government to “get back in the game in a serious way” so that the country can maintain its lead over China in the AI arms race. In an op-ed for the New York Times, the former CEO of Google argued that Americans had put “too much faith in the private sector” to drive technological advances — giving China the chance to catch up. Schmidt said his time as chairman of both the National Security Commission on AI and the Defense Innovatio
  
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• Spotify’s new iOS design makes it easier to navigate

  27-02-2020 19:22
  
  Spotify is rolling out a new design for its mobile app today, starting with iOS. Though the changes are relatively minor – don’t expect a major redesign – they should make the app a little simpler to navigate. The key aesthetic change is that Spotify is foregoing text on its buttons for larger, more prominent buttons. This makes the app a little more accessible and language-independent while looking a little cleaner too. For example, instead of the big ol’ ‘shuffle
  
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• How a Web Design Company Crowdfunded Millions and Completely Disappeared

  27-02-2020 18:54 via vice.com
  
  https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/3a854w/how-a-web-design-company-crowdfunded-millions-and-completely-disappeared
  
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• Robot uses AI to personalize teaching of autistic children

  27-02-2020 17:52
  
  Researchers have developed a new personalized learning robot for autistic children that uses machine learning to adapt its lessons to each kid’s changing needs. The University of Southern California team put a “socially assistive robot” called Kiwi in the homes of 17 autistic children and set the two-foot-tall, green-feathered robot to give each child personalized classes. Over the course of a month, the children played space-themed math games on
  
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• If you want to win everything, you have to be prepared to lose everything

  27-02-2020 17:42
  
  Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! At a dinner I hosted this week I had a discussion about preparing food. I enjoy hosting dinners and regularly cook for a dozen people at a time, and I’ve even cooked for groups of up to 150 people at my house. Someone asked me what my trick
  
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• $1 million per hour: Major music labels hit streaming milestone

  27-02-2020 17:10
  
  Streaming persists as a major money maker for music’s fat-cats. Not only did it account for 80% of the entire music industry‘s profit in 2019, streaming collectively earned Universal, Sony, and Warner almost $1 million per hour — per fucking hour. In fact, booming subscriber bases led to increased streaming revenues for the industry’s “Big Three.” Music Business Worldwide reports they hit $3.73 billion, $2.4 billion, and $2.21 billion respectiv
  
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• Baby monitor exploit allowed hackers to creep on your toddlers

  27-02-2020 15:59
  
  You might want to hold off copping this baby monitor to keep an eye out on your newly born — unless you’re fine with unknowingly streaming your toddler to total strangers on the internet. A severe vulnerability in iBaby Monitor M6S allowed hackers to snatch any saved pics or footage, access a live feed of the camera, and even glean your personal information, an investigation by PCMag and Bitdefender has found. The worst part? Anybody with an M6S and the necessary network skills
  
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• The 6 levels of autonomous driving, explained as fast as possible

  27-02-2020 15:11
  
  Welcome to Shift Basics, a collection of tips, explainers, guides, and advice to keep you up to speed with mobility tech. Autonomous driving isn’t quite as clear cut as it sounds. Despite many vehicles claiming to have self-driving capabilities, they aren’t all the same. As it happens, the industry (Society of Automotive Engineers, SAE) has settled on separating self-driving cars into five classes or levels — six if you include cars that have no automation at all. [Read: These
  
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• NASA’s InSight lander discovers active faults in Mars’ crust

  27-02-2020 14:33
  
  Most space missions investigate the surface or atmosphere of a body. But NASA’s InSight probe, which landed on Mars in November 2018, is different – it is the first mission dedicated to studying the interior structure of the planet and whether it gives rise to “marsquakes.” Now the results from its first ten months on the Martian surface have been published in a series of papers in Nature Geoscience and Nature Communications (see an overview here). InSight touched d
  
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• This AI needs your help to identify child abusers by their hands

  27-02-2020 14:10
  
  Scientists are developing a system that can identify suspected pedophiles just by analyzing their hands. Researchers from Lancaster University and the University of Dundee plan to train computers to extract anatomical features from photographs and hands. Algorithms will then scan the database of images to find the details that match a pair of hands to those of a suspected criminal. The project has been named H-Unique, as it’s based on the premise that if human hands are all uniq
  
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• These headphones deliver the audio and comfort of models twice their price

  27-02-2020 14:00
  
  Headphones are practically required to be more versatile now than ever before. They need to be prepared to connect wirelessly for Bluetooth connectivity, while still allowing for more audiophile-centric wired connections. They need to have a built-in mic for use with your phone. They need to be sturdy enough to provide superior sound and survive in the outside world, while being lightweight enough that they aren’t a burden when you’re heading from place to place.
  
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• IT pros need to know ITIL 4—and this course can get you there

  27-02-2020 14:00
  
  If you have any aspirations of working in high-stakes business IT administration, then ITIL 4 needs to be in your skillset. Thankfully, we can help you out with that with training in The ITIL 4 Executive Review Course, now on sale for 80 percent off, down to just $95 from TNW Deals.
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin drives 50% of Cash App’s revenue’

  27-02-2020 13:36
  
  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 Aristotle used to say: Let’s get this bread! Bitcoin price We closed the day, February 26 2020, at a price of $8,820. That’s a worrying 5.54 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$517.77. It was the lowest closing price in thirty days. We’re still 56 percent belo
  
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• 3 years later, Google Earth finally works on Firefox, Edge, and Opera

  27-02-2020 12:11
  
  After nearly three years of waiting, Google Earth finally works on browsers other than Chrome, including Firefox, Opera, and the Chromium-based Edge. “After six months of a public beta, we are now making Google Earth accessible on Firefox, Edge, and Opera browsers,” Earth software engineer Jessi Beck and lead manager Jordon Mears announced in a blog post. “This was made possible by moving Google Earth for Chrome onto WebAssembly (Wasm), the W3C web standard for bring
  
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• What fictional alien encounters can teach us about our own reality

  27-02-2020 11:29
  
  The prospect of contacting sentient aliens is a staple of science fiction. Of course, we have yet to (knowingly) find any; and it’s not impossible (albeit unlikely) that we are the only sentient beings in the universe. Still, speculating about how contact with an alien race might go is something we tend to enjoy. Here are some fictional first contact scenarios and some thoughts on whether they are, at all, plausible. The massive invasion — Independence Day I can’t believe this
  
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• Toyota saddles up for self-driving future with $400M investment into Pony.ai

  27-02-2020 10:53
  
  One of the world’s largest car makers, Toyota, has further demonstrated its intent on supporting self-driving vehicles. The Japanese carmaker is planning to invest $400 million into Pony.ai, a Chiense self-driving car startup that’s based across Silicon Valley in the US and Guangzhou in China, Bloomberg reports. [Read: New algorithm for self-driving vehciles has a bold ‘collision-free guarantee’] With the latest round of funding, Pony.ai is reportedly now valued at aroun
  
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• Why you should re-think your ‘one size fits all’ content strategy

  27-02-2020 09:00
  
  The doctor’s words still echo in your mind. Your fingers tremble as you sit down to learn more about the diagnosis your loved one just received. You know there’s a long road ahead, and finding out more about the disease is the first step forward. You have the internet and the pamphlets the doctor handed to you in the waiting room. You’re all set. Except you’re overwhelmed, emotional, and you can’t understand most of it. This might be a dramatic way to get into how
  
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• Apple is opening an online store in India this year, and a physical store in 2021

  27-02-2020 06:46
  
  At its annual shareholder meeting, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, said the company is planning to sell iPhones in India through its own online store this year. He also added that the first Apple store in the country will open in 2021. According to reports last August, the company was originally planning to inaugurate its physical store this year in Mumbai. While Cook didn’t provide a timeline for the launch of the online store, TechCrunch noted last month that the tech giant could star
  
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• How to get a refund for a played game from GOG

  27-02-2020 01:49
  
  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. GOG today revealed a new refund policy in which it would accept returns on games for up to 30 days after the purchase, even if they’ve already been played. This would make it one of the few gaming platforms that I know of that accepts refunds for games that have been played to excess  — even Steam will only accept returns if you&rsq
  
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