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• The GorillaPod Vlogging Kit is an all-in-one light and sound setup for mobile creators

  02-03-2020 23:53
  
  Joby’s GorillaPod system has long been one of the most versatile ways of stabilizing your phone for photo and video capture, but today the company announced a new suite of devices aimed at creators. If you’re not familiar with the GorillaPod, it’s essentially like a camera tripod, except the four ‘legs’ can be shaped and wrapped around all sorts of objects instead of just serving as a stand – and you can attach accessories to the legs too. Chief among the new
  
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• Huawei P40 leaked hands-on shows off a familiar design

  02-03-2020 23:46
  
  Huawei is expected to reveal the P40 and P40 near the end of this month, so it’s not surprising we’ve already seen the designs leak their way onto the interwebs. But today an entire hands-on with the device surfaced, giving a good idea of what the former device may look like. Digital Trends got its hands on the prototype, which, in a peculiar turn of events, was apparently set down on a table by a Huawei staff member during the Mate Xs’ launch. Digital Trends then asked i
  
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• Steve Wozniak says he might be ‘patient zero’ for US coronavirus cases (Update: he’s not)

  02-03-2020 22:41
  
  Update (8:21AM IST): Jessica Guynn, senior technology writer at USA Today, tweeted that Steve Wozniak’s spouse, Janet, told the publication hours after her husband went public that she only had a sinus infection — not a case of COVID-19 as he originally thought. It seems awfully irresponsible of Mr. Wozniak to have gone to the press with this news without properly checking his facts. Bryan Menegus at Gizmodo articulates this succinctly in his latest piece. Our original story fo
  
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• Steve Wozniak says he might be ‘patient zero’ for US coronavirus cases

  02-03-2020 22:41
  
  Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and his wife Janet may have been exposed to COVID-19 (coronavirus) during a recent trip to China. The first confirmed case of coronavirus in the US was reported on January 21. Woz says he and his spouse returned from their trip on January 4, meaning they could be among the first people infected with the virus to expose the general public to it in the US. Checking out Janet’s bad cough. Started Jan. 4. We had just returned from China and may have both been pa
  
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• OnePlus teases a surprise announcement on March 3, and it’s not a phone

  02-03-2020 22:35
  
  What could OnePlus be up to? While leaks and rumors about the OnePlus 8 have already started to make the rounds, it seems OnePlus has something else up its sleeve – and it’s neither a phone nor a commercial product. The company posted a short teaser video on its India and UK Twitter accounts showing some kind of odd contraption that’s to be announced on March 3. It’s definitely not a phone: 2020 is the year of surprises. Can you guess what's coming up? pic.twitter.com/EW
  
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• Alibaba’s new AI system can detect coronavirus in seconds with 96% accuracy

  02-03-2020 22:15
  
  Chinese technology giant Alibaba recently developed an AI system for diagnosing the COVID-19 (coronavirus). Alibaba’s like Amazon, Microsoft, a video game company, and a nation-wide healthcare network all rolled into one with every branch being fed solutions from the company’s world-class AI department. Per a report from Nikkei’s Asian Review (h/t TechSpot), Alibaba claims its new system can detect coronavirus in CT scans of patients’ chests with 96% accuracy against vir
  
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• Google’s second ‘Pixel drop’ adds better selfies, more emoji, and new gestures

  02-03-2020 21:42
  
  Back in December, Google released its first ‘Pixel feature drop,’ adding a variety of features to its phones well after launch — including models from years past. At the time, the company promised us it would regularly drop new features, building on the idea that the strength of Pixel phones is in their software — that the phones would continue to get better over time since they get updates straight from Google. Today, the company delivered on the promise of further Pixe
  
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• Death Stranding is coming to PC and bringing Half-Life content with it

  02-03-2020 19:53
  
  Death Stranding is coming to PC, eight months after its debut on the PS4 last year. Hideo Kojima’s beautiful oddity of a game will arrive on June 2, and it’s bringing along some strange crossover content — namely, from Valve’s Half-Life series. The PC port will include a new photo mode, much like God of War (albeit in this case the silly facial expressions actually feel marginally closer to being in character). It’ll also support ultrawide monitors.
  
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• Vatican’s AI ethics plan lacks the legal restrictions it needs to be effective

  02-03-2020 19:13
  
  Microsoft and IBM have added a divine touch to their AI ethics efforts by signing a new pledge endorsed by his holiness the Pope. The so-called “Rome Call for AI Ethics” promises to develop technologies that protect the planet and all its people by honoring six principles: transparency, inclusion, responsibility, impartiality, reliability, and security and privacy. These noble values are already common in corporate AI ethics initiatives, including Microsoft’s own. Bu
  
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• Facebook Messenger on iOS is now twice as fast and a quarter the size

  02-03-2020 19:01
  
  Facebook just introduced a lighter, more streamlined UI for Messenger last week. But omitted from that initial news was the fact that Facebook didn’t just cut out unnecessary features from Messenger; on iOS at least, it rebuilt the app from the ground up. The company officially revealed the redesigned version of its iOS app today. Dubbed Project LightSpeed, Facebook essentially started from scratch to reduce the iOS app’s code from over 1.7 million lines of code to just 360,000
  
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• Apple can sell devices in India because of Trump administration, says Tim Cook

  02-03-2020 17:35
  
  Apple chief exec Tim Cook has revealed the Trump administration helped the company gain approval to sell smartphones in India for the very first time, BusinessInsider reports. In a television interview, Cook confirmed the White House lobbied with the Indian government to amend laws restricting Apple from selling devices in the country unless it partnered with a local third-party retailer. “[…] We did not want to do that, we wanted to maintain control over our brand and so forth. Bu
  
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• How to repair a toxic work culture with ‘psychological safety’

  02-03-2020 15:41
  
  Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to bringing the biggest names in tech to showcase inspiring talks from those driving the future of technology this year? Check out the full ‘Impact’ program here. Nir Eyal, who authored this piece, is one of the speakers. Check out the full ‘Impact‘ program here. When Harvard’s Leslie Perlow began to study The Boston Consulting Group, she was well aware of the firm’s round-the-clock reputation.
  
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• Alphabet’s AI-powered camera system will help fish live their best lives

  02-03-2020 14:30
  
  Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is bringing AI under the sea to help fish farmers develop more sustainable practices. The project, dubbed Tidal, uses underwater cameras connected to computer vision software to analyze fish behaviors that the human eye can’t see. In a blog post, Tidal general manager Neil Davé said the system could monitor thousands of individual fish habits to understand their eating patterns and movements. It will also collect information on their en
  
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• Project management training could be your fast track to a high-paying career. 

  02-03-2020 14:00
  
  Project management isn’t for everybody. Even for talented doers, sometimes all that admin and attention to every minute detail can be a drag. But if you’re a goal-oriented, process-driven type with a knack for leadership, project management could be the right direction. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that even entry level project managers make a nice living with an even higher upside once you gain some experience. 
  
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• The AirPods Pro have weaselled their way into my everyday life

  02-03-2020 13:32
  
  I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with AirPods. On one hand, I adore their design and ease-of-use — but, on the other, I think lots of the people who use them are terrible. Well, friends, gather round; there’s something I have to tell you. Okay, let me take a deep breath. Here we go. I’m now undeniably a terrible person, and it’s all down to the AirPods Pro. When Apple first announced the latest version of its true wireless earbuds, I was intrigued, but far
  
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• Renault’s concept EV can make itself bigger to fit more batteries

  02-03-2020 11:56
  
  Even though battery technology is moving forward, many EVs still struggle to match their gasoline counterparts for range. But French marque Renault thinks it’s got an idea to address that. Renault’s 100% electric Morphoz concept can make itself longer to accommodate more batteries to increase its range. [Read: Tesla’s Long Range Model S gets a boost to run 390 miles between charges] In its standard “city” guise, the Morphoz has a 40 kWh battery. But for those poten
  
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• How VR is bringing ancient cities back to life

  02-03-2020 11:08
  
  Around 3,300 years ago, the port city of Ugarit was a vibrant urban center, located strategically on the overland network linking Egypt with Asia Minor and on the route between Persia and India in the east and Greece and Cyprus in the west. The city’s origins date back to 3000BC and the first alphabet and alphabetic writing system are believed to have developed there in the 14th century BC. Today Ugarit is a Bronze Age archaeological site in northwest Syria, first excavated in 1929. It ca
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Virgin Galactic chair says you should have 1% of your assets in Bitcoin’

  02-03-2020 10:56
  
  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 Machiavelli used to say: Money makes the world go around! Bitcoin price We closed the day, March 01 2020, at a price of $8,562. That’s a minor 0.43 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$37.30. It was the lowest closing price in thirty-five days. We’re still 57 percent
  
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• Twitter’s new stakeholder reportedly wants to remove CEO Jack Dorsey

  02-03-2020 08:25
  
  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s job at the microblogging platform is reportedly at risk, as Elliott Management, a new major stakeholder in the company is looking to have him replaced, according to Bloomberg. The $40 billion hedge fund, which is a major activist investor (the kind of investor that acquires a stake in a company in order to influence its direction in business) led by billionaire Paul Singer, isn’t keen on Dorsey serving as CEO at both Twitter and Square simultaneously. Read:
  
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• 4 data points that will help your startup grow

  02-03-2020 07:00
  
  Over the last two years, my startup has helped 12 companies accelerate their growth — a mix of startups, scaleups, and corporates. Being slightly obsessed with data, my team and I collected quite a bit of it along the way. We now use this data to predict what the future is more than likely going to look like, and what our clients need to prepare for as a result. We’ve got 12 main market indicators that we look to when planning for future growth. Today I’m going to sh
  
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• India will finally allow inflight Wi-Fi after all these years

  02-03-2020 06:23
  
  Did you know that India and North Korea are the only two countries that don’t allow inflight Wi-Fi? It’s a shitty exclusive club to belong to — but it looks like India is finally canceling its membership, as the government has published new rules that allow the service on commercial flights. That’s from The Economic Times, which has reviewed a copy of the government’s notification. Quartz noted back in 2016 that while many international airlines offer Wi-Fi on boar
  
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