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• Sony is slowing PlayStation downloads in Europe and US

  27-03-2020 23:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sony today announced it was making a change to its PlayStation downloads in the US, mirroring a similar change in Europe earlier this week. Namely, it’s going to slow down or delay gameplay downloads in an attempt to help manage traffic during this time of social isolation. Since we’re all spending more time inside, working from home, and perhaps playing video games more than average (all day Doom Eternal binges in my house), we’re putting a strain on our internet. So mul
  
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• Ensuring Intercom’s business continuity during uncertain times

  27-03-2020 21:46 via intercom.com
  
  https://www.intercom.com/blog/intercom-business-continuity-covid-19/
  
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• Cat Drew: “You don’t have to be from a creative background to be a designer”

  27-03-2020 20:33 via designweek.co.uk
  
  https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/23-29-march-2020/cat-drew-you-dont-have-to-be-from-a-creative-background-to-be-a-designer/
  
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• Apple launches a COVID-19 information tool for the US

  27-03-2020 17:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple has launched a new screening tool for the US in partnership with CDC (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). The tool, available both as a website and an iOS app, acts as an information center for people across the country. The tool also allows you to answer a bunch of questions to determine if you need to quarantine, take a screening test, or contact a medical professional. If you go on Apple’s website, and answer its questions, it gives you only two options as a result:
  
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• Norwegian school ditches video calls after naked man ‘guessed’ meeting link

  27-03-2020 16:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  It’s not the lesson anyone expected. A Norwegian school is ditching popular video conferencing service Whereby after a naked man “guessed” the link to an online video tutorial and exposed his erect penis to a group of nine-year-olds. The despicable man addressed the students, encouraging them to talk to him as he engaged in lewd activities on camera, local broadcaster NRK reports. One of the student’s parents eventually noticed what was happening after seeing parts of th
  
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• Color Push

  27-03-2020 16:22 via colorpush.wetransfer.com
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• When design meets mental health-A chat with Headspace's Karen Hong

  27-03-2020 15:55 via dribbble.com
  
  https://dribbble.com/stories/2020/03/27/headspace-design-karen-hong
  
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• Our Essential List of Free Software for Remote Work

  27-03-2020 15:55 via puri.sm
  
  https://puri.sm/posts/our-essential-list-of-free-software-for-remote-work/
  
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• Not just another project for designers: meet a new poster platform promoting positivity

  27-03-2020 15:55 via itsnicethat.com
  
  https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/stay-sane-stay-safe-coronavirus-graphic-design-270320
  
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• Emergency Website Kit

  27-03-2020 15:55 via mxb.dev
  
  https://mxb.dev/blog/emergency-website-kit/
  
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• Businesses should limit, not disable, their sites during temporary closures, Google says

  27-03-2020 15:55 via searchengineland.com
  
  https://searchengineland.com/businesses-should-limit-not-disable-their-sites-during-temporary-closures-google-says-331661
  
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• Fantastic! CIA-funded Palantir is helping the NHS plan its coronavirus response

  27-03-2020 15:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has built a new data platform that tracks medical staff and resources to coordinate the UK’s coronavirus response. The system aims to merge the NHS’s vast but hugely fragmented datasets to predict where ventilators, beds, and staff are needed. This tricky task has been entrusted to one of the world’s most controversial tech companies: Palantir, the $20 billion data-mining giant funded by the CIA and used by Immigration and Customer
  
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• SEC halts $ZOOM after coronavirus traders confuse it for Zoom app

  27-03-2020 15:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Eager traders looking to cash in the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have flocked to purchase shares in video-calling platform Zoom – except some bought the wrong stock. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) tweeted Thursday it was suspending trade for Zoom Technologies — a relatively tiny holding company supposedly headquartered in Beijing — due to the confusion. [Read: People are skipping Zoom meetings by looping videos of themselves paying attention] Zoom Tec
  
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• Free Artistic Illustrations and Vector Art

  27-03-2020 14:54 via bulbman.art
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• What winemaking has taught me about artificial intelligence

  27-03-2020 14:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Like interwoven grape vines, the story of wine is laced throughout recorded history, dating as far back as China in 7000 B.C. The Egyptian pharaohs were said to have had a taste for the stuff. It was a central part of the culture in ancient Rome. Artificial intelligence (AI) traces its history to the 1950s with Alan Turing and the Dartmouth Summer Research Project, and only in recent years has it emerged as a technology poised to impact society on par with the industrial revolution in terms of
  
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• Human Compatible: A timely warning on the future of AI

  27-03-2020 14:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  The late Stephen Hawking called artificial intelligence the biggest threat to humanity. But Hawking, albeit a revered physicist, was not a computer scientist. Elon Musk compared AI adoption to “summoning the devil.” But Elon is, well, Elon. And there are dozens of movies that depict a future in which robots and artificial intelligence go berserk. But they are just a reminder at how bad humans are at predicting the future. It’s very easy to dismiss warnings of the robot apocaly
  
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• How to create a multilingual website in Webflow

  27-03-2020 14:00 via webflow.com
  
  https://webflow.com/blog/multilingual-website
  
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• Daily Distraction: How to get over the weekend blues

  27-03-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Yay, Friday! … is what I usually feel whenever Friday afternoon rolls around, as I mentally make plans to hang out with friends or go out and play football. Sadly, that’s not an option this time around as most of us are residents of lockdown town. However, to cure these weekend blues, I’m gonna leave you with a ton of stuff that you can explore while you’re trying to take a break from the gruesome news cycle. Get your creative juices flowing. Apple is giving a 90-day fr
  
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• Twitter sees 900% increase in hate speech towards China — because coronavirus

  27-03-2020 12:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  US President Donald Trump has often labeled the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus.” However, he’s not alone in blaming China, the origin of the COVID-19, for failing to contain the deadly disease. The pandemic has led tons of people online to constantly abuse the country and its citizens, even spitting racial slurs. A report from L1ght, a company that specializes in measuring online toxicity, suggests there has been a 900% growth in hate speech towards China and Chinese people
  
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• Europol is chasing hackers exploiting the coronavirus pandemic

  27-03-2020 12:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Europol wants you to rest assured it’s pursuing cyberbaddies seeking to steal your personal data and savings by exploiting the coronavirus crisis. In a new report, the agency pinpointed some of the most common tactics hackers employ to lure in victims during the pandemic. Europol notes the increased fear around the outbreak has made people more susceptible to scams. It also doesn’t help there’s an increased demand for goods since supply chains are facing difficulties. The
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin price stabilizes around $6,700’

  27-03-2020 12:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 Hannah Arendt used to say: Prepare to open the imaginary money chest… Bitcoin price We closed the day, March 26 2020, at a price of $6,716. That’s a minor 0.61 percent increase in 24 hours, or $41. It was the highest closing price in one day. We’re still 66
  
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• World’s smallest dinosaur discovered in a 99-million-year-old piece of amber

  27-03-2020 09:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  The head of a flying dinosaur that is hardly bigger than a bee hummingbird has been discovered in 99-million-year-old amber. The piece of polished amber, just 31mm by 20mm by 8.5mm, was found in Kachin Province of northern Myanmar, an area becoming increasingly well-known for its remarkable amber-encased fossils. This exciting little fossil micro-dinosaur named Oculudentavis khaungraae is from the middle of the Cretaceous period, from a stage known as the Cenomanian. The skull looks remarkably
  
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• Houseparty who? Google Duo now supports 12 people on a video call

  27-03-2020 08:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  As video calling services are growing more popular during the coronavirus crisis, Google is expanding the number of people you can chat within a group call on its Duo app from eight to 12. The company’s senior director of product & design, Sanaz Ahari, made the announcement on Twitter just a few hours ago. Thankfully, this is a server-side rollout, so you don’t need to manually update the app on your phone to enable this new functionality.  We are grateful that Duo is
  
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• How I grew my third startup faster than ever before

  27-03-2020 08:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  It was six times quicker to launch Rnwl, my current startup, than my previous one. The level of complexity, product novelty, and financial requirements are particularly similar between the two. Yet this time it took me just four months to build the product, the team and the funding to a satisfactory level whereas it took nearly 24 months to get to a similar position with my previous startup, SyndicateRoom (SR). What was it that allowed me to deliver so much faster? And why is it that serial ent
  
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• Zoom’s iOS app is sending your data to Facebook, because privacy is a myth

  27-03-2020 07:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Zoom’s video conferencing app has grown more popular than ever lately, while people are staying home to flatten the curve. But you should know that there’s a major privacy concern with the service. Last night, Vice reported that Zoom‘s iOS app is nonconsensually sending data to Facebook — even if you don’t have a Facebook account. What’s more shocking is that the company’s privacy policy makes no mention of it. Plus, the app doesn’t make it clear
  
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• Pardon the Intrusion #14: There is some honor among thieves

  27-03-2020 04:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  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. If you own a smartphone, you’re probably being tracked as part of a surveillance system. As the coronavirus pandemic accelerates, governments worldwide have turned to technology such as phone tracking and facial recognition to battle the virus and contain the outbreak. These are unprecedented times we live in.
  
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• Apple now offers 90-day trials for Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X

  27-03-2020 04:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple is taking advantage of the fact a whole lot of people are working from home these days by offering 90-day trials for both Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X for the first time. For those of you who are stuck at home and have extra time in this strange age of coronavirus, perhaps its time to learn a new skill. If you have a Mac, of course. The company previously only offered a 30-day trial for Final Cut Pro X. As someone who has gone through a myriad of 30-day trials in his cheapskate lifetim
  
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• 4 Tips To Better Manage Remote Teams

  27-03-2020 03:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Working with a remote team is a special partnership. If you think about it, each teammate is working from a different location, time zone, city, workspace, etc. to meet the same workplace goals as...
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• Here are some mobile and browser games you can play online with friends

  27-03-2020 01:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  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. So you’re trying to keep yourself occupied while locked down, quarantined, and otherwise isolated? You want to have some fun and keep in touch with friends, naturally — here are a few games that you can play with your friends despite your separation. Recently we discussed various other online PC and console games you can play with your friend
  
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