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• Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin

  14-04-2020 23:40 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/04/inspired-design-decisions-herb-lubalin/
  
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• Digging into the Privacy Sandbox

  14-04-2020 22:39 via web.dev
  
  https://web.dev/digging-into-the-privacy-sandbox/
  
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• Google’s AutoML Zero lets the machines create algorithms to avoid human bias

  14-04-2020 22:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  It looks like Google‘s working on some major upgrades to its autonomous machine learning development language ‘AutoML.’ According to a pre-print research paper authored by several of the big G’s AI researchers, ‘AutoML Zero’ is coming, and it’s bringing evolutionary algorithms with it. AutoML is a tool from Google that automates the process of developing machine learning algorithms for various tasks. It’s user-friendly, fairly simple to use, and c
  
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• Why you need a digital-first approach for your brand design

  14-04-2020 21:17 via creative.onl
  
  https://www.creative.onl/posts/why-you-need-a-digital-first-approach-for-your-brand-design/
  
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• How to move Nintendo Switch games from the console to the SD card

  14-04-2020 20:38 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. Nintendo just updated the Switch with a useful new feature — namely, you can finally transfer some (though not all) of your game data from your console’s internal memory to the SD card. Here’s how you can do that. The Switch has long lacked — and desperately needed — the ability to transfer data from the console’s syst
  
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• Amazon stock hits new all-time high as coronavirus spurs demand

  14-04-2020 20:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon‘s share price has surged to a new all-time high on Tuesday, sending the ecommerce giant’s market cap beyond $1.1 trillion during intraday trade for the first time. Stock in the Seattle-based mega-corp traded for more than $2,280 on Tuesday afternoon. This beats Amazon‘s previous price record of $2,170.22 by 5%, which CNBC notes was set in February. [Read: Amazon warehouse worker tests positive for coronavirus day after Bezos visit] The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandem
  
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• Amazon shares hit new all-time high as coronavirus spurs demand

  14-04-2020 20:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon‘s share price has surged to a new all-time high on Tuesday, pushing the ecommerce giant’s market cap beyond $1.1 trillion during intraday trade for the first time. Stock in the Seattle-based mega-corp traded for more than $2,280 on Tuesday afternoon. This beats Amazon‘s previous price record of $2,170.22 by 5%, which CNBC notes was set in February. [Read: Amazon warehouse worker tests positive for coronavirus day after Bezos visit] The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandem
  
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• How a Kid's Perspective Improves Design Research

  14-04-2020 18:31 via ideo.com
  
  https://www.ideo.com/blog/how-a-kids-perspective-improves-design-research
  
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• Send in the clowns

  14-04-2020 18:12 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 compadres! One of the most interesting things about this pandemic is seeing how different countries are handling the details. In Mexico, where I live, the army and the police are patrolling the beaches to make sure people don’t disobey the public gathering order. In the US, people
  
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• OnePlus launches the 8 and the 8 Pro phones amid coronavirus pandemic

  14-04-2020 18:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Remember phone launches? Those events where companies launched new devices and people got excited? Me neither. But today, OnePlus decided to launch two new flagship devices: the OnePlus 8 and the OnePlus 8 Pro. The costlier OnePlus 8 Pro dons a new screen with a 120Hz refresh rate and a quad-camera setup on the back. The company has achieved high framerate through MEMC (Motion Estimation, Motion Compensation) chip, often used in TV for a smoother picture.  However, unlike the OnePlus 7 Pro
  
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• How AI helps scientists find reliable coronavirus research

  14-04-2020 18:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  As the world unites in the fight against COVID-19, scientists and researchers around the world are studying the novel coronavirus and publishing their findings in peer-reviewed journals and pre-print servers. Scattered across these research papers might be the pieces of the puzzle that will unlock the cure or vaccine for COVID-19 or new ways to treat patients and prevent the spread of the virus. Unfortunately, no single person can go through tens of thousands of documents, and the thousands mor
  
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• Rome: An Entire JavaScript Toolchain with Zero Third Party Dependencies

  14-04-2020 17:14 via romejs.dev
  
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• SoftBank warned of its biggest annual loss ever — then its share price pumped

  14-04-2020 17:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Japanese investment giant SoftBank has warned of its biggest annual operating loss ever after its tech-focused Vision Fund bled almost $17 billion last fiscal year. SoftBank blamed its poor performance on the “deteriorating market environment” in a shareholder letter published on Monday, albeit without explicitly naming the coronavirus pandemic. [Read: SoftBank wants to buy back 45% of its shares to survive the coronavirus] As a whole, SoftBank expects to report losses of more
  
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• How to Be Productive if You're Trapped in Self-Isolation

  14-04-2020 16:28 via thedesignest.net
  
  https://thedesignest.net/be-productive-self-isolation/
  
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• Holy sheet: Even YOU can budget… with Google Sheets

  14-04-2020 16:26 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. From your weight to your money, there’s a tracking app for everything nowadays. Sure, they can make our lives more convenient, and they give us a sense of control, but just the fact that they exist doesn’t mean we should actually use them. In fact, some are simply abusing our laziness to gather personal information for commercial purposes. Recentl
  
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• MIT scientists can ‘hack’ your dreams with sounds and smells

  14-04-2020 15:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  The thought of someone controlling our dreams may sound like a nightmare, but it’s already a reality. Yesterday, OneZero’s Tessa Love pulled back the curtain on a mysterious laboratory using wearable devices to influence our sleeping minds. The team at MIT’s Dream Lab believes that inserting sounds and scents into our dreams can make our waking lives better. Their research focuses on hypnagogia, the dream-like state between our conscious and subconscious minds, which we e
  
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• How to Buy a Domain Name That is Taken (9 Pro Tips)

  14-04-2020 14:56 via wpbeginner.com
  https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-buy-a-taken-domain-pro-tips/
  
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• Daily Distraction: Hola, learn a new language during this lockdown

  14-04-2020 14:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  If you were born in India like me, chances are that you speak more than a couple of languages at least. I can read, write, and speak three languages — Gujarati, Hindi, and English — fluently. Plus, I can understand and speak a couple of others partially. However, I always wanted to learn a foreign language. So after the first season of Narcos aired on Netflix, I was determined to learn Spanish. But, after using Duolingo for 10 days, I couldn’t continue the course, and I had to
  
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• Projects don’t have to bring a company to its knees. Learn how to tackle even the toughest assignments with this training

  14-04-2020 14:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  TLDR: Earn a full command of all the most popular methodologies with The Project Manager’s Essential Certification Bundle ft. Scrum, Agile and PMP. If you thought being a project management guru was a tough task before, consider what it takes to see an enterprise through to a successful conclusion in our current business environment. Never mind all the logistical hurdles and resource questions and timeline issues any major project faces right now. But can you corral an entire supply line
  
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• Launchrock can get your marketing page up and running in minutes with no coding required

  14-04-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  A digital presence is brand currency, so even if you’ve never built a marketing page before and have no idea what to do, Launchrock ($49.99, 87 percent off from TNW Deals) has the tools to get that page up and running in minutes.
  
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• Apple was the most imitated brand for phishing attacks in Q1 2020

  14-04-2020 13:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  Phishing is one of the most common attacking methods used by cybercriminals to dupe people into giving up data or money. Hackers often imitate popular brands as a front to trick people into believing that an email is sent by a genuine company. According to a report from cybersecurity firm Checkpoint, Apple is the most imitated brand for phishing scams in Q1 2020 followed by Netflix, Yahoo, and WhatsApp. Researchers at the firm said attackers tried to take advantage of the buzz created by the Cu
  
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• The Growth Process of a Product Designer

  14-04-2020 13:16 via dribbble.com
  
  https://dribbble.com/stories/2020/04/14/how-to-grow-as-a-product-designer
  
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• The Fonts in Popular Things Identified

  14-04-2020 13:16 via typewolf.com
  
  https://www.typewolf.com/blog/fonts-in-popular-things-identified-vol-1
  
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• Is the Future of WordPress Code-Free?

  14-04-2020 13:16 via speckyboy.com
  
  https://speckyboy.com/future-of-wordpress-code-free/
  
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• 8 Things NOT to do while designing website forms

  14-04-2020 13:16 via line25.com
  
  https://line25.com/articles/8-things-not-to-do-while-designing-website-forms
  
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• World Health Organization releases official COVID-19 coronavirus app

  14-04-2020 13:15 via androidpolice.com
  
  https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/04/13/world-health-organization-releases-official-covid-19-coronavirus-app/
  
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• How LastObject Broke Their Crowdfunding Goal in 22 Minutes

  14-04-2020 13:13 via shopify.com
  
  https://www.shopify.com/blog/lastobject-crowdfunding
  
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• Ford and VW’s top selling cars can be hacked

  14-04-2020 12:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  A British consumer magazine is accusing the manufacturers of two of the most popular vehicles in Europe of being careless with the digital security of their cars’ connected features. According to a study by Which?, the Ford Focus Titanium Automatic 1.0L petrol and the Volkswagen Polo SEL TSI Manual 1.0L petrol have numerous security vulnerabilities that can expose sensitive personal data of the vehicles‘ owners. [Read: Remembering the Nucleon, Ford’s 1958 nuclear-powered conce
  
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• We might need to launch sex bots into space to keep astronauts ‘company’

  14-04-2020 11:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  The 2018 movie A.I. Rising explores how machines could fulfill desires and support humans during space travel. Lo and behold, it might contain the solution to problems related to space exploration. Astronauts, despite their rigorous training, remain humans with needs. For space exploration and colonization to succeed, we need to overcome taboos, consider human needs and desires and provide concrete, realistic solutions based on science rather than conventional morality. Can humans thrive for pr
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin halving search interest reaches all-time high’

  14-04-2020 11:38 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 Nietzsche used to say: Success is just a product of your motivation! Bitcoin price We closed the day, April 13 2020, at a price of $6,845. That’s a minor 1.73 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$120.57. It was the lowest closing price in seven days. We’re still 65 p
  
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• How math logic could test more people for coronavirus with fewer resources

  14-04-2020 11:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Rapid testing of patients is of great importance during a pandemic. But at a time when there aren’t enough COVID-19 tests or testing has been slow, is there a way to enhance the process? As a mathematician and engineer, I asked myself if there was anything a theoretician could do to help meet the demands of the World Health Organization to test as many patients as possible. Well, there might be a way to test many patients with a few test tubes. Instead of using one test tube to produce a
  
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• A cinematographer’s guide to looking good during a video call

  14-04-2020 10:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Welcome to our brave new working world, where you’re spending a lot of time remotely sitting in front of a camera, most likely your computer or cellphone camera, in a video conferencing app. As someone who has filmed a lot of interviews, I wanted to share some tips and tricks that I use when setting up situations so people look and sound great. Because no one signed up for this, but at least we can try to make the best of it. So let’s start at the top with… Oh, if you de
  
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• YouTube is testing a ‘chapters’ feature to help you navigate lengthy videos

  14-04-2020 10:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  If I’m watching a video on cooking, chances are that I want to skip some of it to get to the meat of it. Thankfully, it might be possible because YouTube is rolling out a new feature called Chapters to videos. First spotted by Android Police, the feature takes timestamps for description specified by creators, and automatically turns them into chapter markers for the video. You can see chapters in action in a video embedded below. This is HUGE for YouTube! Look at the timeline!!! It t
  
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• 4 tips to keep work out of your weekends during the pandemic

  14-04-2020 09:30 via thenextweb.com
  I’ve been working from home full-time for well over a year, but the coronavirus pandemic has got me questioning everything I thought I knew about working remotely. Working from home under lockdown is completely different to doing so in normal circumstances. And despite everyone’s very best efforts to keep sane and productive, it’s fair to say that it’s easy to lose track of time and let week days blur into weekends. [Read: How to manage anxiety if you’re working fro
  
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• Raspberry Pi’s $5 model is powering ventilators to fight coronavirus

  14-04-2020 08:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ventilators are in high demand as hospitals are looking to provide treatment to coronavirus patients in critical condition. Companies such as Tesla, Ford, and Foxconn are using their manufacturing facilities to produce these machines. To make these newly designed ventilators, a lot of manufacturers are using the Raspberry Pi Zero, a $5 computer developed for small scale projects. While a single-core 1GHz processor with 512MB RAM might not sound too powerful, it’s enough to power
  
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• The 5 fundamental steps to getting your startup ready for VCs

  14-04-2020 08:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  For entrepreneurs, venture capital outreach and fundraising can be more stressful than growing a business. VCs are notorious for being difficult to access and even more conservative with their time. In fact, a study found that VCs spend an average of just 3 minutes and 44 seconds reading and evaluating the average startup pitch deck.   To prepare for this process, it’s in your startup’s best interest to wait until the timing is right and prepare accordingly. In a perfect w
  
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• When Debugging, Your Attitude Matters

  14-04-2020 00:53 via jvns.ca
  https://jvns.ca/blog/debugging-attitude-matters/
  
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