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• SXSW has officially been canceled amid coronavirus concerns

  06-03-2020 23:43
  
  South by Southwest, the huge music, technology, and film festival in Austin, has been canceled for the first time in 34 years. By now, the culprit is no surprise: Coronavirus. “After careful deliberation, there was no acceptable path forward that would mitigate the risk enough to protect our community,” said Dr. Mark Escott, Austin’s public health medical director.  [Read: TNW reschedules 2020 event to October 1 & 2] Several companies had already pulled out befor
  
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• The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland

  06-03-2020 22:49 via omarabid.com
  
  https://omarabid.com/the-modern-web
  
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• Airbnb's Jennifer Hom on building a meaningful career in illustration

  06-03-2020 22:03 via dribbble.com
  
  https://dribbble.com/stories/2020/03/06/jennifer-hom-illustrator-airbnb
  
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• Scientists say supermassive black hole once belched a crater into a nearby galaxy

  06-03-2020 20:44
  
  We’ve seen what happens when stars go supernova and suns explode but scientists believe the biggest explosion in the history of our known universe was the result of a black hole with indigestion. A team of researchers working out of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC recently conducted a detailed study of one our galaxy’s nearby neighbors, a galactic conglomerate called the Ophiuchus cluster. What’s interesting about this particular cluster is that it has a donut-s
  
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• How to check if your PC can handle the latest games

  06-03-2020 19:26
  
  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. It’s 2020 and games are looking better than ever. With hungry console makers beefing up their next-generation offerings, games can now take a truly monstrous amount of hardware power to run. So you with the two- or three-year-old laptop, or the desktop with the aging graphics card — what are you to do? Sure, you can lower your settings to pot
  
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• Consistent Backends and UX: Why Should You Care?

  06-03-2020 19:24 via css-tricks.com
  
  https://css-tricks.com/consistent-backends-and-ux-why-should-you-care/
  
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• This algorithm could improve emergency responses by removing lies spread on Twitter

  06-03-2020 18:00
  
  An algorithm that filters out misinformation spread on Twitter could help emergency services respond to natural disasters and disease outbreaks. The system uses AI to distinguish between legitimate reports and bot-generated messages in real-time to create a stream of only genuine information. It was created by researchers from the University of Adelaide and Aussie analytics agency Data61. The team had initially been building an algorithm that searches social media for signals that a major event
  
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• 9 JavaScript Tetris Games

  06-03-2020 17:28 via freefrontend.com
  https://freefrontend.com/javascript-tetris-games/
  
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• The Slideout Footer

  06-03-2020 17:05 via css-tricks.com
  
  https://css-tricks.com/the-slideout-footer/
  
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• Snapfont - Preview fonts on live websites

  06-03-2020 17:05 via getsnapfont.com
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• ‘Coronavirus is the black swan of 2020,’ warns Sequoia Capital

  06-03-2020 17:05
  
  Sequoia Capital, the seminal Silicon Valley venture fund, has urged its startups question every assumption about their businesses in order to survive the coronavirus threat. “Coronavirus is the black swan of 2020,” said Sequoia in a letter to founders and CEOs published to its Medium blog Thursday evening. “Black swans” are rare, unexpected events that heavily influence global activity. Often-cited examples include the advent of the personal computer, the internet, and t
  
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• 5 Biggest Non-Design Skills Designers Need in the 2020s

  06-03-2020 17:05 via webdesignerdepot.com
  
  https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2020/03/5-biggest-non-design-skills-designers-need-in-the-2020s/
  
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• Facebook Retargeting: How to Win Back Your Almost-Customers

  06-03-2020 17:04 via shopify.com
  
  https://www.shopify.com/blog/facebook-retargeting
  
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• 5 Tips to Create a Great Landing Page that Converts

  06-03-2020 17:04 via userguiding.com
  
  https://userguiding.com/blog/good-landing-page/
  
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• Can face masks really protect us from toxic pollutants?

  06-03-2020 17:00
  
  An estimated 28,000 to 36,000 deaths a year in the UK are attributed to long-term exposure to air pollution. Exposure to air pollution can cause a range of serious health complications, including lung cancer, heart disease, and stroke. Pollution can come from a variety of sources, including wood-burning fires and fossil fuels. But research shows that pollution from traffic might actually be worse for our health than pollution from any other source. While there’s a push to reduce levels of
  
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• Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff to work from home

  06-03-2020 16:07 via theverge.com
  
  https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/5/21166686/coronavirus-amazon-google-facebook-microsoft-twitter-seattle-staff-remote-work
  
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• This tool automatically removes the background from any video or GIF

  06-03-2020 14:57
  
  It’s pretty easy to isolate a background from an image, but things get trickier when we’re dealing with video — unless you use an app that does it automatically for you. Enter Unscreen. This free tool practically lets you drop any video or GIF, and then removes the background for you, leaving only the subject in. [Read: 3 easy ways to remove backgrounds from images] I tried the app with one of our own videos, and the result was surprisingly good. Don’t get me wrong,
  
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• Clearview AI can be fun — if you’re dirty, stinking rich

  06-03-2020 14:12
  
  After scraping the web for billions of our photos, making dubious claims of accuracy, and marketing its software to countries with authoritarian regimes, Clearview AI has somehow reached yet another new frontier in dystopian facial recognition. According to the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill, America’s elites have been using the software as a plaything. They include billionaire businessmen finding out who their daughters were dating, the kids of Texan investors checking out who else t
  
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• Data scientists are pushing the boundaries of analytics and making a fortune. This is how you can join them.

  06-03-2020 14:00
  
  Since the average data scientist is making over $110,000 a year, it’s definitely a skill worth knowing. You can understand all the principles with the expansive 2020 All-in-One Data Scientist Mega Bundle of training, now just $39.99, over 90 percent off, from TNW Deals.
  
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• A love letter to the OnePlus Bullets Wireless 2 earbuds — the only reliable thing in my life

  06-03-2020 13:59
  
  I’ve always had a habit of keeping my headphones plugged into my phone. I used them to take calls, play music, and watch videos any time I wished. It was fantastic. But with the demise of the headphone jack and my dislike of dongles, I can’t keep a pair of plugged in. So, I switched to the next best thing: Wiress buds. This meant I had to find a pair that suited how I wanted to use them. I’m just gonna say it: Airpods are not the solution. I know a lot of you might be marching
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘New York power plant makes $50K a day mining Bitcoin’

  06-03-2020 11:36
  
  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 Stephen Hawking used to say: Let’s get it! Bitcoin price We closed the day, March 05 2020, at a price of $9,078. That’s a respectable 3.63 percent increase in 24 hours, or $318. It was the highest closing price in eight days. We’re still 54 percent below Bit
  
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• How the IEEE 802 group helped shape the modern internet with Ethernet and Wi-Fi protocols

  06-03-2020 10:35
  
  Our life is surrounded by internet services and it’s hard to imagine not being connected to the web one way or another. It’s also worth thinking about technologies such as Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which are responsible for all the heavy lifting involved in sending that dumb meme to our friends around the world in a split second. These standards are defined by an organization known as the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802 group. It was formed 40 years ago in Feb
  
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• Nearly 90% of Americans don’t trust self-driving cars

  06-03-2020 10:20
  
  According to a recent survey from the American Automobile Association (AAA), most American‘s don’t trust self-driving cars. Of those surveyed, just 12% of drivers in the US would trust riding in an autonomous vehicle. [Read: British Airways is testing self-driving wheelchairs at JFK and Heathrow] Six in every 10 Americans say they want a clearer understanding of who would be legally responsible in the event of a self-driving vehicle crash. Around half (49%) are still curious about h
  
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• Amazon trees are actually organic time capsules for human history

  06-03-2020 10:13
  
  Tropical forests are one of the world’s largest carbon stores and they help regulate the global climate. But they’re being erased at a terrifying rate. Deforestation claimed an area the size of Belgium in 2018. These habitats are often cleared to make way for palm oil plantations and grazing pasture for livestock. For most forests, destruction on this scale is a fairly modern phenomenon. Tropical forest ecosystems tend to have very high biodiversity, but often in the places you&rsqu
  
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• How a simple whiteboard can supercharge your productivity

  06-03-2020 09:45
  
  I’ve been reading about all sorts of digital tools we’re meant to change the way we think, plan, and work for years. But none of them have actually come close to making me more productive. While many of my peers swear by productivity-focused apps, I like to keep my iPhone and work life separate for a hint of work-life balance. So even though I wholeheartedly embrace the digital times we live in, I find myself increasingly resorting to more, ahem, analogue methods. Having spent some
  
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• DuckDuckGo wants devs to use its list of web trackers to protect your privacy online

  06-03-2020 07:34
  
  Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has released a new service, called the Tracker Radar, to block unwanted trackers that collect your browsing data. The service is an open-sourced and continuously updated list of common trackers with details such as tracking behavior, prevalence, ownership, fingerprinting behavior, cookie behavior, and privacy policy. DuckDuckGo says anyone can make use of this tool: individuals can use it through the company’s mobile browser or deskt
  
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• Growth hacking is BS — here are 3 tips for sustainable growth instead

  06-03-2020 07:00
  
  Nowadays, it’s hard to browse a tech site, attend an event, or open your LinkedIn without being smacked in the face with a new ‘growth hacking’ technique promising startup founders a low-cost, high return, silver bullet to get their struggling businesses booming.  The only problem is, if it seems too good to be true, it’s generally because it is. If it wasn’t, nine out of ten startups wouldn’t fail in their first year.  Essentially, ‘growth ha
  
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• Sonos abandons ‘Recycle Mode’ on old speakers after much backlash

  06-03-2020 02:02
  
  Back in October, Sonos introduced a new ‘trade up‘ program that offers existing Sonos users a 30 percent discount to buy a new speaker if they recycle an eligible older model. Problem was, qualifying for the program required users to put their old devices in a new ‘Recycle Mode’ which would permanently prevent the devices from working. This did not go over well. While it seemed like a fairly innocuous move at first glance, it meant that users were limited in how the
  
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• Twitter expands hate speech guidelines to include disability, illness, and age

  06-03-2020 01:21
  
  Twitter today updated its rules on hate speech to include dehumanizing language against several new groups of people — specifically those with disabilities, of different age groups, and those with diseases. We continuously examine our rules to help make Twitter safer. Last year we updated our Hateful Conduct policy to address dehumanizing speech, starting with one protected category: religious groups. Now, we’re expanding to three more: age, disease and disability. For more info: &m
  
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