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• Google launches TensorFlow for quantum computers

  09-03-2020 22:20
  
  Google today launched TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ), an open-source library for prototyping quantum machine learning models. Quantum computers aren’t quite mainstream yet, but when they arrive they’ll need algorithms. TFQ fills that Gap by making it possible for developers to create hybrid AI algorithms that use both classical computing techniques and quantum computer circuit simulations. According to a blog post from Google AI: TFQ provides the tools necessary for bringing the quantum c
  
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• Airlines increasingly reliant on ‘ghost flights’ during coronavirus outbreak

  09-03-2020 21:17
  
  Industry analysts expect demand for air travel to hit its lowest point since the 2008 financial crisis. This year, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), carriers could lose upwards of $113 billion in revenue if coronavirus continues to spread. With demand down, some carriers have had to take the losses on the nose, electing to fly empty planes to their destinations — rather than cancelling the flight — in order to avoid losing coveted take-off and landing
  
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• Facebook warns misleading video of Biden supporting Trump is ‘partly false’

  09-03-2020 21:09
  
  Shortly after Twitter began labeling misleading political videos, Facebook is following suit with its own disclaimer on such content. Twitter first used the ‘manipulated media’ label on an edited video of Joe Biden shared by White House social media director Dan Scavino and retweeted by Donald Trump. In the video, a Biden speech is edited to make it seem like he is saying “we can only re-elect Donald Trump.” While no words were altered, the full sentence was “we ca
  
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• How Influencer Marketing Is Changing the Sales Game

  09-03-2020 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Influencer marketing is an important tactic today when it comes to getting your product or service seen by a larger audience. When done right, collaborating with social media influencers can quickly increase the awareness...
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• Can an SSL Certificate affect your sites SEO?

  09-03-2020 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Would you be okay if you know the website you are currently surfing on is attempting to phish and obtain information and logins from you? Never. The number of internet users worldwide has increased...
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• Rare Nintendo Playstation sells at auction for $360k

  09-03-2020 18:52
  
  The bids are in, finally. After a good long sweat to see what the final number would be, the Nintendo PlayStation has finally been sold. And the price tag is a whopper — though the buyer is probably not who you’re expecting it to be. In case you missed it, the never-released prototype console was sold at Heritage Auctions this month. With a winning bid of $300,000 ($360,000 with the buyer’s premium), the Nintendo PlayStation is now one of the most expensive gaming items ever s
  
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• Jack Dorsey still Twitter’s CEO thanks to billion-dollar hedge fund deal

  09-03-2020 18:09
  
  Jack Dorsey‘s reign as Twitter‘s CEO will continue, thanks to a new billion-dollar deal signed by the social media giant and two major investment firms. The move will see tech-focused fund Silver Lake invest $1 billion in Twitter directly, while Elliott Management enters a “co-operation agreement” with Twitter to be disclosed at a later date. Twitter will then use that money as part of a $2 billion share repurchase scheme, according to the related press release. Execs fr
  
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• Google’s AI-powered smart glasses help the blind to see

  09-03-2020 17:58
  
  A Dutch startup has teamed up with Google Glass to create a set of AI-powered spectacles that help blind and visually-impaired people to see. The glasses extract visual information from images of people, belongings, and public transport, and then speaks about them out loud. It can read text from books, name friends by analyzing their faces, and describe surroundings such as train signs and street hazards. The wearer could use the glasses to read a recipe from a cookery book, get to the grocery
  
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• Amazon to sell its cashierless Just Walk Out tech to third party stores

  09-03-2020 15:43
  
  Amazon is readying to sell its cashier-less technology that powers its Go stores to other retailers, Reuters reports. The e-commerce giant launched a website on Monday for its new Just Walk Out service, which allows brick-and-mortar stores to eliminate check outs — for an undisclosed fee. Just Walk Out subscribers will receive Amazon-installed tech including smart shelf sensors (that can be retrofitted), ceiling cameras, a branded turnstile, as well as access to round-
  
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• Coronavirus is a breeding ground for conspiracy theories – and that has serious consequences

  09-03-2020 15:00
  
  The novel coronavirus continues to spread around the world, with new cases being reported all the time. Spreading just as fast, it seems, are conspiracy theories that claim powerful actors are plotting something sinister to do with the virus. Our research into medical conspiracy theories shows that this has the potential to be just as dangerous for societies as the outbreak itself. One conspiracy theory proposes that the coronavirus is actually a bio-weapon engineered by the CIA as a way to wag
  
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• Psychology of Color [Infographic]

  09-03-2020 14:44
  
  Perhaps no choice is as vital to marketing as color. Whether you are selecting the color for a product or for your email marketing campaign, color has a tremendous impact on all of us. Subconsciously, we associate different colors with different things.
  This infographic examines the psychology of color and looks at some common associations of different colors. It shows the overall importance of color to consumers and characteristics of many individual colors, and it also helps show the connectio
  
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• China tests AI that predicts earthquakes better than lousy humans

  09-03-2020 14:02
  
  China is developing an earthquake prediction system that uses AI to measure seismic activity in one of the world’s most quake-prone countries. The system developed by the University of Science and Technology of China and the China Earthquake Administration analyzes vast volumes of seismic data to automatically predict impending earthquakes. It’s currently being tested in the provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan in the southwest of China, the South China Morning Post reports. The mou
  
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• Weblium can save you thousands on web freelancers. This deal saves you $140 alone.

  09-03-2020 13:00
  
  It’s absolutely not impossible to just do web design yourself, even if you’ve never touched a line of code before. Weblium Website Builder Pro was built with the novice developer in mind — and right now, a lifetime subscription to their service is almost 75 percent off, just $49.99 from TNW Deals.
  
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• Norway pushes to electrify all domestic flights by 2040

  09-03-2020 11:48
  
  Those that live in the most northern part of Norway could see electric planes in the skies in the next 10 years. A report from state-owned Norwegian airport operator Avinor and the country’s Civil Aviation Authority published this month, says electric planes could be a boon to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and tackling climate change, The Barents Observer reports. [Read: Want to take your partner on a romantic EV road trip? Head to Norway] In the Northern most section of the country,
  
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• Scientists set up new telescopes dedicated to finding aliens

  09-03-2020 11:17
  
  As humanity’s quest to discover aliens continues, a team of researchers has set up two prototype telescopes at Lick Obersevtory near San Jose, specifically for finding the extraterrestrial. These telescopes are part of hundreds of telescopes that are going to be installed called Panoramic SETI (PANOSETI). The team is led by UC San Diego physicist Shelley Wright, and consists of researchers from UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, University of California Observatories and
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin plunges alongside global markets’

  09-03-2020 11:09
  
  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: Fight the power! Bitcoin price We closed the day, March 08 2020, at a price of $8,108. That’s a worrying 8.98 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$800.08. It was the lowest closing price in fifty-six days. We’re still 59 percent below Bit
  
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• Almost half of Indian startups don’t hire women to save on maternity costs

  09-03-2020 10:47
  
  Globally, a lack of diversity is one of the biggest problems the tech industry faces, despite a significant growth in the number of women working in the tech industry, female representation has stalled over the last decade. While the West has made some steps towards gender equality, other countries still lag behind, such as India. Roughly 40% of Indian women complete higher education and join the workforce, but drop out within the decade because of family commitments. It’s been proven tim
  
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• Here’s your last chance to win a free iPhone 11, AirPods and charging pad

  09-03-2020 10:00
  
  Your shot at taking home this prize pack is simple. Just sign up to enter -- and yeah, you’re entered. It’s that easy. Get picked, and the iPhone and other goodies are yours.
  
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• John Oliver roasts Disney-owned Hotstar for making cuts to his show in India

  09-03-2020 09:07
  
  Disney-owned streaming video service Hotstar came under fire from the popular host of the eponymous late-night show “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” last night, for censoring supposedly controversial content from the program in India. While Hotstar didn’t air Oliver’s critical episode on India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it made edits to few other episodes containing references to drugs and sex that might reflect ‘poorly’ on Disney. In an e
  
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• How Slack keeps employees focused while being a distracting app

  09-03-2020 09:00
  
  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? Nir Eyal, who authored this piece, is one of the speakers. Check out the full ‘Impact‘ program here. If there’s one technology that embodies the unreasonable demands of the always-on work culture that pervades so many companies today, it’s Slack. The group-chat app can make users feel te
  
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• Trump’s tweet with doctored Biden video earns Twitter’s first ‘manipulated media’ label

  09-03-2020 07:31
  
  Last month, Twitter released a set of rules to identify and label tweets with manipulated media, as a way of battling misinformation on its platform. Last night, it tagged the first tweet with “manipulated media” — a doctored Joe Biden video retweeted by the US President Donald Trump. The edited video, originally tweeted by White House social media director Dan Scavino on Saturday, shows Biden talking about re-electing Trump in at an event in Missouri.  Sleepy Joe
  
  
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• Trump’s retweet with doctored Biden video earns Twitter’s first ‘manipulated media’ label

  09-03-2020 07:31
  
  Last month, Twitter released a set of rules to identify and label tweets with manipulated media, as a way of battling misinformation on its platform. Last night, it tagged the first tweet with “manipulated media” — a doctored Joe Biden video retweeted by the US President Donald Trump. The edited video, originally tweeted by White House social media director Dan Scavino on Saturday, shows Biden talking about re-electing Trump in at an event in Missouri.  Sleepy Joe
  
  
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• Focus on the client-side to protect your company from Magecart attacks

  09-03-2020 07:00
  
  Magecart refers to a cyber-crime syndicate that specializes in cyber-attacks involving digital credit card theft by skimming online payment forms. Gaining mainstream media attention over the last year or so, their most recent high profile attack was on photography retailer, Focus Camera. Their website got hacked by Magecart attackers who injected malicious code that stole customer payment card details – the script loaded at checkout to capture billing information and send it to the attack
  
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• Pardon the Intrusion #12: Private by default

  09-03-2020 05:17
  
  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. It’s always good to see more consumer tech companies stepping up to protect our privacy and security. Previously, it was Apple, now it’s Mozilla‘s turn. The company behind the Firefox browser has begun rolling out encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for US users by default. If you’re outside the US
  
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