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• How to create a user interview script

  31-03-2020 23:16 via medium.com
  
  https://medium.com/@rich24/how-to-create-a-user-interview-script-f0ee6ffd62b6
  
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• Zoom is being looked at by New York AG for privacy practices

  31-03-2020 21:53 via marketwatch.com
  
  https://www.marketwatch.com/story/zoom-is-being-looked-at-by-new-york-ag-for-privacy-practices-2020-03-30?mod=home-page
  
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• Gitlab features are moving to open source

  31-03-2020 21:32 via about.gitlab.com
  
  https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/30/new-features-to-core/
  
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• Best Infographic Makers In 2020

  31-03-2020 20:58 via marketsplash.com
  
  https://marketsplash.com/infographic-tools/
  
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• How to read RSS in 2020

  31-03-2020 20:17 via laurakalbag.com
  
  https://laurakalbag.com/how-to-read-rss-in-2020/
  
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• Facebook offers $100 million to help news outlets during coronavirus

  31-03-2020 20:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  Facebook revealed Monday it intends to commit $100 million to help rebuild media and new organizations that have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. These emergency funds are intended to help bolster local news outlets, but some news media reps say they would appreciate help that’s a little more consistent. The company revealed it’ll be distributing the funds via its Journalism Project, with the intention being smaller news outlets can use the money as emergency funding to he
  
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• Not Safe For Design, a creative challenge generator

  31-03-2020 19:17 via makeitpopgame.com
  
  https://www.makeitpopgame.com/generator/
  
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• An entrepreneur’s guide to startups battling COVID-19

  31-03-2020 18:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Around the world, communities, organizations, and governments, are waging the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak, hoping to turn the tide and help the public cope in the interim. Solidarity and mutually shared responsibility have proved critical in the very slow return to normalcy, as both private and public organizations look to each other for advice on how to best mitigate the effects of the pandemic.  The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently released its COVID Action Platform, with an a
  
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• Claims that AI detects coronavirus in X-rays aren’t convincing medical experts

  31-03-2020 18:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  X-rays reveal the horrific damage the coronavirus does to the lungs. Images released by the Radiological Society of North America show how the virus fills the lungs with sticky mucus. This makes it hard to breathe as there’s little space remaining for fresh air to enter. These effects have led a host of tech firms to release AI systems that can detect signs of the infection in the lungs. Their rationale is straightforward: AI, and in particular deep learning, has had some of its biggest s
  
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• What Should You Do When A Web Design Trend Becomes Too Popular?

  31-03-2020 18:07 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/03/web-design-trend-popular/
  
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• How to write UX copy that makes your product a joy to use

  31-03-2020 18:07 via vanschneider.com
  
  https://vanschneider.com/how-to-write-ux-copy-that-makes-your-product-a-joy-to-use
  
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• Exploring details in MinimaList, a fast and simple to-do app.

  31-03-2020 18:07 via uxdetails.com
  
  https://www.uxdetails.com/minimalist/
  
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• Cross-Cultural Design: 4 Ways to Get Started

  31-03-2020 18:07 via dribbble.com
  
  https://dribbble.com/stories/2020/03/31/guide-cross-cultural-design
  
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• Basecamp's Jason Fried on the Learning Curve of Remote Work

  31-03-2020 18:07 via 99u.adobe.com
  
  https://99u.adobe.com/articles/66044/basecamps-jason-fried-on-the-learning-curve-of-remote-work
  
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• Top 4 Tips on How to Build an Effective Design System

  31-03-2020 18:04 via djangostars.com
  
  https://djangostars.com/blog/design-system-development/
  
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• Podcasts for Creatives

  31-03-2020 18:04 via medium.com
  
  https://medium.com/interfacemag/podcasts-for-creatives-870ad9c6c57e
  
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• How to Build a Simple React app With Express API

  31-03-2020 18:04 via blog.alexdevero.com
  
  https://blog.alexdevero.com/build-react-app-express-api/
  
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• 55+ Best Free Fonts

  31-03-2020 18:03 via inspirationdesignresource.com
  
  https://www.inspirationdesignresource.com/55-best-free-fonts-1/
  
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• 10 Design Quotes That Will Change How You Look At Design

  31-03-2020 18:03 via vectornator.io
  
  https://vectornator.io/blog/graphic-design-quotes/
  
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• The night is always darkest before the dawn

  31-03-2020 17:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the technology trying to stop its spread. You can subscribe here. Hola quarantine buddies, In dark, uncertain times I’m often comforted by the words of wise people. No, I’m not talking about scholars and philosophers. I take my solace from my Hollywood heroes. Brandon Lee, as The Crow, famously once said “It can’t rain all the time,” a q
  
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• Meet the quarantined street photographers documenting life in ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’

  31-03-2020 17:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Since the 19th century, photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Joel Meyerowitz have been tirelessly roaming around to photograph life on the streets. Camera strapped in hand, these artists devoted thousands of hours seeking for beauty and meaning in the banalities of daily life. Although the proliferation of camera tech has drastically changed the landscape of street photography in the digital age, the tradition is continued by thousands of enthusiasts photographers who are
  
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• This tool erases web page text to reveal hidden poetry

  31-03-2020 16:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  Since TNW is a news site, we produce a lot of written text. For the most part that’s all valuable and relevant, but since I look at these walls of text for 40 hours a week, there are moments where they become overwhelming and stifling. I mean, just how much can you read about the exhilarating tech world every day? Luckily enough, I found the antidote to this textual stuffiness in a piece of computational art.  While looking into Nick Montfort’s portfolio of work, I discovered a
  
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• Animal Crossing’s Tom Nook is a patriarchal tyrant in raccoon form

  31-03-2020 16:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Like what seems like the rest of the world is doing right now, I’ve been playing the new Animal Crossing: New Horizons game on Nintendo Switch, and it didn’t disappoint. The game remains innocently filled with charm, but beneath the beautiful spring weather and soothing music is a thirsty raccoon puppeteering your every move — and his name is Tom Nook. Since downloading, I’ve religiously watered my flowers, donated countless fish and bugs to my local museum, and undergon
  
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• Holy sheet: Here’s how to grab a web page’s data with Google Sheets

  31-03-2020 16:22 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. Scraping data is all the rage nowadays. But what many don’t know is that you don’t need to be a fancy hacker to be able to collect data from websites. In fact, you don’t even need any coding skills. A multitude of tools such as browser extensions exist to alleviate the required technical knowledge. But even if that’s one hurdle too far
  
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• Daily Distraction: How to get fit within your four walls

  31-03-2020 16:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Over the weekend, I saw a ton of people on my Twitter timeline talking about Dalgona coffee. If you don’t know about this trend, it’s fine. Dalgona coffee is a frothy and creamy coffee that’s made by vigorously whipping coffee, sugar, and a little bit of water. Now, if you own a blender or electric whisker, it’s easy for you to enjoy this Instagram worthy delight. However, if you don’t own any of these gadgets, you need to use your hand and whip this mixture for a
  
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• The debut electric vehicle from former Tesla engineer faces delay

  31-03-2020 15:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  The first EV from Lucid Motors Inc., the car company setup by former Tesla chief engineer Peter Rawlinson, won’t be going ahead exactly as planned. Due to uncertainty spurred on by the outbreak of the coronavirus, the Lucid Air EV is not entering production on schedule and is being put on hold until later in the year, Silicon Valley Business Journal reports. [Read: Grab makes e-scooter and cab rides free for frontline coronavirus workers in the Philippines] The company had planned to publ
  
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• Coronavirus hype leads New York’s top lawyer to probe Zoom over security

  31-03-2020 15:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Zoom, the free conference calling app that’s found booming popularity amongst both users and stock traders during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, has now drawn the attention of New York attorney general, Laetitia James. James’ office sent the company a letter on Monday that requested the startup provide details of additional steps its taken to protect new users, which are especially important considering Zoom’s rough history with security flaws, the New York Times reports.
  
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• Here’s why Huawei’s P40 has US components despite the ban

  31-03-2020 15:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Remember when America effectively banned US companies from selling to Huawei? Well, it turns out things weren’t that simple, because a teardown has revealed Huawei‘s new P40 has US components. Yes, a Financial Times report showed that although Huawei‘s P40 phone has less American parts than its predecessor, the P30, there are still a few US components in there. But this is all a bit more complex than first impressions suggest. [Read: Huawei P40 Pro first impressions:
  
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• If you’re starting an online business, this suite of over 50 tools for the entrepreneur can help

  31-03-2020 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Zuitte suite of over 50 tools for entrepreneurs wants to be all things to all new business owners. Right now, a lifetime subscription to their service is just $199, over 90 percent off the regular price, from TNW Deals.
  
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• Feeling lonely working from home? This nifty noise generator will re-create an office ambience

  31-03-2020 14:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Are you working from home as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and missing the hustle and bustle of office life? If so, this noise generator is for you! MyNoise is a noise generator that will help you re-create an office-like ambience in the comfort of your own home — and you really are spoilt for choice. [Read: Take it from me (and researchers): Open offices suck] You can choose from various presets — such as air conditioning, chatty colleagues, copy machine, printer and scanner
  
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• Researchers explain why social distancing is so hard for many of us

  31-03-2020 14:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  For many people, the most distressing part of the coronavirus pandemic is the idea of social isolation. If we get ill, we quarantine ourselves for the protection of others. But even among the healthy, loneliness may be setting in as we engage with pre-emptive social distancing. There is some great advice out there about how to stay connected at such times. But why is the act of social distancing so hard for so many of us? The answer probably has more to do with our evolutionary history than peo
  
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• Concerts Might be Canceled, But You Can be Your Own DJ with These Ableton & Logic Pro X Courses

  31-03-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  From Kanye West to mortal enemy Taylor Swift and everyone in between, artists are all producing music from home right now — the difference is having the right tools to do the job right. With the training in The 2020 Music Production with Ableton Live 10 & Logic Pro X Bundle ($49.99, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals), you’ll have all the knowledge to use two of the most powerful music producing software packages anywhere and more.
  
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• Canva Pro can save you hours building your own digital graphics. It’s on sale now for $12.99.

  31-03-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Canva Pro is a simple graphic design environment that produces results that look anything but simple. You can try out Canva Pro for three months and see what an impact it can have on all of your digital media work with this offer to get two-thirds off your price, just $12.99 from TNW Deals.
  
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• Houseparty offers $1M bounty for proof of hacking ‘smear campaign’

  31-03-2020 13:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  In the past couple of weeks, video calling apps such as Zoom and Houseparty have gained tremendous popularity thanks to worldwide lockdowns. But with increasing fame, experts have raised privacy and security concerns related to these apps. Various claims of the Houseparty app being hacked, has left users in a serious conundrum about the app’s security. Meanwhile, the company had to issue a clarification and even offer a $1 million bounty to anyone who uncovers the source of the misin
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin and S&P 500 Index highly correlated during coronavirus liquidation’

  31-03-2020 12:07 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 Sloterdijk used to say: Time to learn some stuff about Bitcoin! Bitcoin price We closed the day, March 30 2020, at a price of $6,429. That’s a decent 8.51 percent increase in 24 hours, or $504. It was the highest closing price in two days. We’re still 67 percent b
  
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• Grab makes e-scooter and cab rides free for frontline coronavirus workers in the Philippines

  31-03-2020 11:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  Essential workers in the Philippines are getting a helping hand from mobility company Grab in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. In an update to users last week, Grab said it has deployed 50 e-scooters to local governments specifically use by health care workers and other essential employees. [Read: UK takes next step toward world of e-scooters, self-driving cars, and autonomous drones] Workers in Manila, Quezon City, San Juan, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Marikina, and Pasig will have the chance t
  
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• Entrepreneurs must warm up to AI — or risk their own ‘AlphaGo loss’

  31-03-2020 11:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  The evolution of AI continues apace. Deep learning has established its place in the world of tech but its next iteration is Evolutionary AI, which, as well as driving AlphaGo to victory over world Go champion Lee Sedol, is now available for commercial solutions. Following his defeat, Sedol announced his retirement, concluding that the AI technology driving his virtual opponent was now of such a standard that he could no longer beat it. This is a profound moment for a few reasons. An AI-based sy
  
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• 5 quick tips to help manage your startup’s cash flow

  31-03-2020 10:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  Keeping tabs on cash flow can be tricky even for the most established companies, but for tech startups cash really is king. With this in mind, we’ve put together some general, common sense tips to help you get to grips with your cash flow. Follow the money First things first, you can’t possibly manage your cash flow if you don’t know where your money is coming from and where it’s being spent. With this in mind, it’s crucial that you get to grips with your inflow an
  
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• Scientists are working on new ways to recycle chemicals from electronic waste

  31-03-2020 10:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Our connected consumer society generates a lot of electronic waste, around 50 million tonnes per year worldwide. It is even currently the waste that shows the strongest growth from one year to the next. The value of the raw materials included in this waste is estimated at 50-60 billion euros, depending on materials prices. Legislation and recycling channels for this waste are organized in many countries, thanks to extended producer responsibility systems, but currently, only 20% is re
  
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• Hubble telescope discovers Galaxy-ripping quasar tsunamis in space

  31-03-2020 09:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Quasar tsunamis discovered by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope erupt in the most energetic outflows of material ever seen. This outpouring of energy wrecks havoc with galaxies in which these enigmatic objects reside, altering the evolution of these families of stars. Quasars are energetic cores of galaxies, composed of supermassive black holes fed by vast quantities of gas, stars, and planets. These bodies are capable of emitting a thousand times as much energy as the entire galaxie
  
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• Google offers comprehensive coronavirus datasets to researchers for free

  31-03-2020 09:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  One of the ways scientists and researchers are trying to understand and find a solution for coronavirus is through building AI models. To foster these efforts, Google Cloud is offering free datasets for researchers under the COVID-19 Public Dataset Program. Last night, the company the company revealed an open repository of coronavirus-related databases, including ones from Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE), Global Health Data from the World Bank, and
  
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• Startup post-mortem: 5 lessons from a failed business venture

  31-03-2020 09:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  In 2015, I started my startup Memoratic along with my co-founders. We created an educational platform that aimed to solve a few of the complex problems of our educational system. By streamlining communication between educational institutions, teachers, parents, and students the platform tried to provide incentives to improve performance at the individual and organizational levels. [Read: Lessons learned from my company’s crisis] Despite our lack of knowledge in the industry, we thoug
  
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• Here’s why YouTube videos are maxing out at 480p in India right now

  31-03-2020 07:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  Last week, YouTube said that it’s defaulting video quality to 480p worldwide to save bandwidth, because more people are watching videos during lockdowns in various countries. Videos will start playing at 480p, but could change it manually to higher streaming resolution. However, in India, the company is capping streaming quality at 480p on your phone — while using WiFi and mobile data. The development, first noticed by XDA Developer comes as the country is amidst a 21-day lockd
  
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• Microsoft takes on Grammarly with new Editor extension for Chrome and Edge

  31-03-2020 05:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Today, Microsoft announced it was rebranding Office 365 as Microsoft 365 as it sought to expand its feature set beyond work life. Among the most interesting of those new features is Microsoft Editor, the company’s challenger to Grammarly. While Microsoft has had spelling and grammar correction in Word and other Office apps for as long as I can remember, Microsoft Editor doubles down on the feature by offering up AI-powered writing suggestions that go well beyond the usual fare. Moreover,
  
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• Report: Nintendo to release several remastered Mario games this year

  31-03-2020 02:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nintendo is apparently going to celebrate the 35th anniversary of its most beloved character by releasing multiple Mario classics on the Switch, including Super Mario Sunshine, which hasn’t been available since the GameCube days. And it couldn’t come at a better time. Insiders apparently leaked the details to both Eurogamer and VGC. The games won’t just be released on the Switch — they’ll evidently be remastered as well. The games in question include not only
  
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• Branding esports: the head of Mother Design talks Andbox, Subliners and the Covid-19 impact

  31-03-2020 01:09 via itsnicethat.com
  
  https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/branding-esports-mother-design-andbox-subliners-and-covid-19-impact-graphic-design-300320
  
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• It’s official: The OnePlus 8 series will be revealed April 14

  31-03-2020 00:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  We knew the time was coming soon, but OnePlus today revealed the OnePlus 8 series will be announced on April 14 at 11AM ET. The teaser refers to the OnePlus 8 ‘series,’ seemingly confirming earlier comments from CEO Pete Lau that we’d see both a regular and a ‘Pro’ version of the phone. This is somewhat in contrast to last year, where OnePlus had a somewhat convoluted release tactic, in which different configurations of the phones were released in different regions
  
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