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• Marshall’s tiny new Uxbridge speaker comes with Alexa built-in

  25-03-2020 20:53
  Thanks to the popularity of Amazon’s Echo family, people have begun to expect voice assistant capabilities from their smart speakers, even ones meant primarily for audio. To that point, Marshall just announced the Uxbridge Voice, its latest Alexa-enabled speaker. As with Marshall’s previous wireless speakers, the Uxbridge features a stylish design that mimics the design of a classic guitar amp, albeit in a rather small form just 6.6 inches tall and 5 inches wide. The speakers come in
  
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• Here are games you can play with friends online while stuck at home

  25-03-2020 19:45
  
  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. Gaming is one of those great activities you can do with people without having to physically be in their presence. And since we’re all physically distancing ourselves from one another right now, there’s no better way to help keep each other amused than by playing some games together. So here are a few games you can play with your friends, each
  
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• AI is searching for unexploded Vietnam War bombs in Cambodia

  25-03-2020 19:22
  
  Researchers are using AI to search satellite images for unexploded bombs dropped in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The system uses object recognition algorithms that detect the unique features of bomb craters, including their shapes, colors, textures, and sizes. These algorithms then scan satellite images for signals of the craters. The Ohio State University team first used the system to find craters in a village in the province of Prey Veng, a heavily bombed area around 30 kilometers from th
  
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• YouTube may let you pick a default video quality setting on Android

  25-03-2020 18:03
  
  If you’re a bit of a pixel peeper, it can be pretty annoying to always have to change the quality settings on YouTube to get that crispy HD footage. This is especially true on mobile, where video streams often default to 480p. Good news then: YouTube may soon let you set a default quality setting on the mobile app. Or well, at least once the worst of coronavirus is over. XDA recently spotted code in the latest version of YouTube‘s Android app that suggests the company is preparing t
  
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• Snowden warns: The surveillance states we’re creating now will outlast the coronavirus

  25-03-2020 16:37
  
  Governments around the world are using high-tech surveillance measures to combat the coronavirus outbreak. But are they worth it? Edward Snowden doesn’t think so. The former CIA contractor, whose leaks exposed the scale of spying programs in the US, warns that once this tech is taken out the box, it will be hard to put it back. “When we see emergency measures passed, particularly today, they tend to be sticky,” Snowden said in an interview with the Copenhagen Internationa
  
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• How to watch Huawei’s P40 launch live on March 26

  25-03-2020 16:10
  
  After months of rumors, speculation, and coronavirus-induced uncertainty, Huawei has revealed it will host a livestream event for its upcoming P40 family of smartphones on March 26. While the date isn’t totally new – it had popped up on Huawei’s Weibo last week – we now have official confirmation the P40 will be revealed then and that the event will be publicly livestreamed.  The event will begin at 13:00 GMT/9:00 AM ET, and Huawei says the event will be stream
  
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• Bezos dumped $3.4B in Amazon shares just before coronavirus tanked the stock market

  25-03-2020 15:52
  
  In news that should hardly surprise anyone: those in charge of the US‘ biggest companies dumped billions of dollars worth of shares on the stock market just before it crashed. Top execs of public US companies sold roughly $9.2 billion worth of shares in their own companies between the start of February and the end of last week, Wall Street Journal reports. [Read: Online marketplaces are tanking worldwide – except for Amazon] Thousands of insiders reportedly made similar moves.
  
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• I’ve finally found the perfect EV — and it was made in 1953

  25-03-2020 15:40
  
  Cars of the future are almost certainly going to be powered by electricity. We’re not going to have much choice as governments around the world look to ban petrol and diesel powered vehicles in favor of EVs. On one hand, this is obviously great for the environment, but it makes me a little sad, because most contemporary EVs just sort of feel, the same. They all have bags of torque, accelerate swiftly, are silent, and are just generally a pleasure to drive. But where is the charm, noise, b
  
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• Algorithm researcher says ‘lying on YouTube is still a profitable business’

  25-03-2020 15:17
  
  TNW Answers is a live Q&A platform where we invite interesting people in tech who are much smarter than us to answer questions from TNW readers and editors for an hour.  YouTube, which has more than a billion users who watch over a billion hours of content per day, shows us limited data on the videos uploaded to the site including its number of views, likes, and dislikes — but the video-streaming site hides more in-depth stats about each video, like how often it recommends a vide
  
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• Facial recognition and AI will invade public privacy — but it can be done ethically

  25-03-2020 14:10
  
  We live in an age where we have unprecedented access to almost any information we need. With the emergence of new technology like artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition, big data, and more, the human experience is being changed forever. Almost anything you need is just a tap away; but this access comes at a price—data for data. A simple online search may seem harmless, but before you know it, you’re being bombarded with ads offering you exactly what you were looking f
  
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• 3 ways IoT is disrupting insurance

  25-03-2020 14:00
  
  Insurance is one of the oldest practices of human societies, practiced even before the first coins were minted. Chinese and Babylonian traders in the second and third millennia BC used very crude methods to protect their cargo against sunken ships and theft. Since then, the insurance industry has come a long way, but until recently, some of the fundamental challenges remained the same. Insurers had to rely on historical data and customer reports to calculate risks and determine prices, which ar
  
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• Turn your self-imposed quarantine into a career-redefining opportunity with these courses

  25-03-2020 13:30
  
  TLDR: Don’t waste all that time indoors. These 10 training packages can teach you an important skill with all this time on your hands. There are only so many episodes of The Office and Housewives you can watch. Only so many hours of web surfing you can do. Only so many times you can check your email. It’s gonna be a rough handful of weeks, folks. We better start deciding now on how all the inside time is going to be spent. For many, there’s no better use of all the free hours
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Brave browser adds support for Bitcoin’

  25-03-2020 13:20
  
  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 Foucault used to say: Buy low, sell high! Bitcoin price We closed the day, March 24 2020, at a price of $6,734. That’s a respectable 4.63 percent increase in 24 hours, or $298. It was the highest closing price in twelve days. We’re still 66 percent below Bitcoin&l
  
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• This is what’s it like to be a developer for the Dutch intelligence service 

  25-03-2020 13:18
  
  Being a developer for the Dutch intelligence service isn’t the easiest job in the world. But if you can cope with the secrecy and long screening process, it’s definitely an interesting one. “This job never gets boring.”  Today, she says, her name is Melanie. I’m speaking with a 30-something-year-old developer who works for the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Agency (or AIVD, in Dutch), which is why she cannot disclose her real name. Or any other person
  
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• India is building a coronavirus tracker app, fueled by your location data

  25-03-2020 13:16
  
  India is gearing up to launch an app to help users check if they have been in close contact with people infected with the coronavirus. The app is called CoWin-20, and is currently being tested on both iOS and Android. It will track your location and alert you if you are near a COVID-19 infected patient. A report from News18 noted that the testing is limited to a select group of users right now. CoWin-20 will use your location data and Bluetooth to gauge if you’ve been near a person who wa
  
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• The horrifying story of how we learned to keep organs alive outside the body

  25-03-2020 12:13
  
  Organ transplantation is one of the success stories of modern medicine. Around 139,000 transplants are performed annually across the world. One of the most recent success stories is a double-lung transplant for a patient with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in China. Successful organ donation is a fairly recent phenomenon, still only decades old. The first successful kidney transplant was performed by a group of surgeons led by Dr Joseph Murray in Boston in 1954 between the ide
  
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• The coronavirus pandemic isn’t making Facebook any money

  25-03-2020 12:01
  
  Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdowns might have all of us on social media more than ever, but business isn’t exactly booming for Facebook. In fact, the. COVID-19 pandemic is actually having an adverse affect on revenue, Facebook revealed in a blog post on Tuesday. “[…] [O]ur business is being adversely affected like so many others around the world,” said the social media giant. “We don’t monetize many of the services where we’re seeing
  
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• The coronavirus epidemic isn’t making Facebook any money

  25-03-2020 12:01
  
  Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdowns might have all of us on social media more than ever, but business isn’t exactly booming for Facebook. In fact, the COVID-19 epidemic is actually having an adverse affect on revenue, Facebook revealed in a blog post on Tuesday. “[…] [O]ur business is being adversely affected like so many others around the world,” said the social media giant. “We don’t monetize many of the services where we’re seeing increa
  
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• iOS 14 code hints at Apple’s clever CarKey feature arriving first on BMWs

  25-03-2020 11:54
  
  Back in early February, Apple source code revealed it was working on a new feature to unlock your car, creatively called CarKey. And now, if iOS 14 code is anything to go by, we may have got an insight as to what cars will get it first. [Read: EVs are better for the environment than cars — even when charged by coal-generated electricity] According to the iOS 14 source code — seen by 9t05Mac — cars from German automaker BMW could be the first to support Apple‘s CarKey. Wh
  
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• Why some countries were better prepared for coronavirus than others

  25-03-2020 10:40
  
  As much of the world gets used to social distancing, school closures and restrictions in movement in response to the coronavirus pandemic, obvious questions are being asked about how governments and companies can prepare themselves for these sorts of extreme events. One technique that has gained prominence in helping business people and officials deal with events that have a low probability but high impact is called scenario analysis or scenario planning. There are a number of different methods
  
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• I’m so bored I got excited about installing the iOS 13.4 update

  25-03-2020 10:16
  
  It shows the state I’m currently in that when I saw the iOS 13.4 update on the iPhone this morning I did a little fist bump in bed. Am I proud? No, but if I’m going to survive this lockdown, I need to take the little victories where I can. But yeah, Apple’s iOS 13.4 update is here, so go download it I guess? It’s not like there’s anything better to do. What’s that? Yeah, you’re right! It’s not just iPhones that are getting this update. A
  
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• 9 tips to perfect your ‘working from home’ morning routine

  25-03-2020 10:00
  
  If you work from home, getting your morning routine down to a tee will have a huge impact on how you work — and feel — for the rest of the day.  Ultimately, it’s about doing what works for you, but here are a few pointers that will hopefully help you start your day right.  Wake up at the same time When you work from home, it can be tempting to stay in bed until the very last minute possible.  While it’s OK to treat yourself and do this on the odd occa
  
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• Your startup’s culture should revolve around quality-focused product development

  25-03-2020 08:00
  
  Launching a high-quality product that clients would love has never been more important. When it comes to quality assurance, tech companies can no longer rely solely on QA teams to simply cover the maximum percentage of scenarios.  Previously, quality was thought of something that QA engineers would take care of. Quality and user focus didn’t used to be a shared responsibility. Now, what experience shows is that this model can be one of the key reasons for cross-department conflicts l
  
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• Pornhub’s Premium service goes free worldwide to cure your lockdown blues

  25-03-2020 06:19
  
  After offering free subscriptions in Italy, Spain, and France, adult entertainment site Pornhub is making its subscription free for everyone across the world — with a view to help to flatten the curve amid lockdowns around the world. The company said it’s extending the free Pornhub premium support, which unlocks select content to everyone across the world until April 23. Stay home and help flatten the curve! Since COVID-19 continues to impact us all, Pornhub has decided to
  
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• Pornhub’s Premium goes free worldwide to cure your lockdown blues

  25-03-2020 06:19
  
  After offering free subscriptions in Italy, Spain, and France, adult entertainment site Pornhub is making its subscription free for everyone across the world — with a view to help to flatten the curve amid lockdowns around the world. The company said it’s extending the free Pornhub premium support, which unlocks select content to everyone across the world until April 23. Stay home and help flatten the curve! Since COVID-19 continues to impact us all, Pornhub has decided to
  
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• Pornhub is making its service free worldwide to cure your lockdown blues

  25-03-2020 06:19
  
  After offering free subscriptions in Italy, Spain, and France, adult entertainment site Pornhub is making its subscription free for everyone across the world — with a view to help to flatten the curve amid lockdowns around the world. The company said it’s extending the free Pornhub premium support, which unlocks select content to everyone across the world until April 23. Stay home and help flatten the curve! Since COVID-19 continues to impact us all, Pornhub has decided to
  
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• Walmart-owned Flipkart temporarily closes in India as the nation goes under lockdown

  25-03-2020 05:49
  
  Last night, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced a 21-day long nationwide lockdown in the country to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. That’s upturned a lot of how India operates. This morning, Walmart-owned Flipkart said that it’s temporarily suspending all its delivery services. The megastore’s site is also closed at the moment; the homepage displays a message letting users know about the company’s decision, and all products are labeled &ls
  
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