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• What Elon Musk can learn from Bill Gates about handling a pandemic

  15-04-2020 23:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King Jr. There’s nothing quite like a global pandemic to separate competent leaders from those who are merely in charge. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, is one of the former. He’s spent years working with leading medical experts to develop a measured response to a situation exactly like the one we’re in. Despit
  
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• VFX artists explain why coronavirus took most of us by surprise

  15-04-2020 22:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  It’s hard for humans to understand exponential growth. We often hear the phrase tossed around colloquially when discussing coronavirus’ infectiousness — and how it seemingly grew into a pandemic out of no time –  but even if you excelled at high school algebra, chances are you’d have a hard time actually visualizing what that means. The VFX artists over at Corridor have put together a video to explain why COVID-19’s exponential growth meant the pandemic
  
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• Warren Buffett would’ve saved billions investing in fintech over banks

  15-04-2020 20:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  “Only invest in businesses that you understand.” It’s one of Warren Buffett’s main principles. And with his amazing track record, it doesn’t come as a surprise that it’s being adopted by both professional and retail investors all around the world. It indeed is a sound advice, but one could also argue that it adds risk to your portfolio if an industry of great importance now and with great promise for the future is totally ignored. With 89 years, the lege
  
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• NBC launches Peacock streaming service for Comcast customers

  15-04-2020 20:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  NBCUniversal today launched Peacock, its entrant in the streaming wars. While it’s only available to a limited number of select Comcast subscribers, it still officially marks the new platform’s introduction to the world, and it didn’t come a moment too soon. Peacock, officially announced in January and rumored about for some time before that, today rolled out to Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Flex subscribers. Those subscribers will have an early preview of t
  
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• Stanford teams up with Fitbit to develop wearables that detect coronavirus symptoms

  15-04-2020 19:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  Stanford Medicine researchers are developing algorithms that spot coronavirus symptoms in data collected by wearable devices. When the algorithms detect changes in heart rate or temperature that indicate the body’s fighting an infection, the device will instantly send the user an alert. Stanford professor Michael Snyder estimates that wearables make at least 250,00 measurements per day, which he plans to forage for signals that someone’s sick. “My lab wants to harness that dat
  
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• Apple launches the new iPhone SE with home button

  15-04-2020 17:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple has just released its iPhone SE (2020) — a sequel to the 2016 iPhone SE.  The much-awaited compact phone has a 4.7-inch screen and a starting price tag of $399. The phone was earlier rumored to release in March. However, the coronavirus pandemic pushed likely the launch date. It’s powered by the company’s latest A13 processor. The SE 2020 edition looks just like the iPhone 8 with a home button and Touch ID instead of Face ID. developing…For more gear, ga
  
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• Ingenuity saved Apollo 13 — it could save us from coronavirus as well

  15-04-2020 16:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  In 1970, the world stopped to root for the Apollo 13 crew. Entire families bunched around the TV, as thousands of people from different cultures gathered in prayer for the brave astronauts. It was a week filled with nail-biting tension. “If something can go wrong, it will usually be at the worst time.” It looked like Apollo 13 had been hit by Murphy´s law. Suddenly, NASA´s third attempt to land on the moon became the biggest and the most difficult rescue missio
  
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• Daily Distraction: How to visit museums from the comfort of your home

  15-04-2020 15:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  From when I was a kid, I’ve really liked visiting museums. If I’m traveling to a new city, I love to go to a museum that might tell me a story about the place. However, I’m not that much into art and paintings. So, I can’t really spend hours looking at famous artworks thinking about all the things that are wrong with my life. I’m a sucker for unusual museums. Last year, during my Euro trip, I loved going to the Sex Machines Museum in Prague and the Spy Mu
  
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• Scientists measured wind speeds on a brown dwarf 34 light-years away — here’s how they did it

  15-04-2020 15:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  Using a combination of the Very Large Array (VLA)— a cluster of 28 radio telescopes located in New Mexico — and NASA’s Spitzer space telescope, astronomers have made the first measurement of wind speeds on a brown dwarf. The finding not only grants researchers an insight into the atmospheres of brown dwarfs but as they exist as an intermediate between gas giant planets and stars, the team’s results could also help in the investigation of planets outside the solar system
  
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• MIT’s AI-powered device lets doctors monitor coronavirus patients remotely

  15-04-2020 15:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  A new device that uses AI to monitor coronavirus symptoms is helping doctors treat patients beyond the reach of infection. The box-like device emits wireless signals that bounce off human bodies before returning to the system. Algorithms then analyze changes in the signals to infer the person’s breathing rate, sleep patterns, and movements. The system, named Emerald, was developed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The researchers initially env
  
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• Airbnb was meant to IPO in 2020, but coronavirus has it borrowing billions

  15-04-2020 14:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Airbnb has opened its second billion-dollar loan in less than a week, casting more doubt on its ability to carry out an effective public listing this year. Sixth Street Partners and Silver Lake — the two funds who signed Airbnb‘s loan announced just days ago — are returning investors, the latter “one of the biggest players” of the new deal, according to Reuters citing sources familiar with the matter. The other private equity firms reportedly funding the
  
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• Keeper is one of the elite password manager apps — and right now, it’s almost 40% off

  15-04-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  In tech, it doesn’t get more reliable than PC Mag. So when they name Keeper Unlimited Password Manager ($53.99, 53 percent off a 3-year subscription from TNW Deals) an Editors’ Choice and 2019 Best of the Year pick and call it “an excellent experience across a ton of platforms and browsers (that) offers top-notch features,” you should pay attention.
  
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• The 3 things you need to deliver a kick-ass presentation over Zoom

  15-04-2020 13:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  For many of us, Zoom has become the new conference room. There are three things that you need to master in order to deliver a presentation over video call to get decisions, get agreements, and get the movement you need to move your work forward. As a bonus, you’ll also be able to distinguish yourself as a key contributor. So, here’s how to deliver a great Zoom presentation in a nutshell: Structure your thinking before you create your slides Be as succinct as possible Use visual
  
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• Will a coronavirus vaccine change the minds of anti-vaxxers?

  15-04-2020 12:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Not long after the COVID-19 pandemic began, hopes for a vaccine were raised. Even US president, Donald Trump, a former vaccine skeptic, demanded a coronavirus vaccine, saying: “Do me a favor, speed it up, speed it up.” So where does that leave the “anti-vaxxers” – those who are critical or oppose vaccination. Will they now be quiet in the face of a real-life reminder of a time before vaccines controlled many diseases? During a pandemic, the position of those who op
  
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• India will let IT companies operate with 50% of staff in their offices from April 20

  15-04-2020 12:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Yesterday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation and extended the countrywide lockdown till May 3 to curb the coronavirus spread. However, according to guidelines issued but the government, there might be some concession for technology businesses from April 20, provided they’re not in a ‘hotspot’ area with a high number of COVID-19 cases. One of the key relaxations for IT companies will allow employees to work from the office at 50% capacity. In a state
  
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• Ensuring Europe’s tech startups survive the pandemic benefits us all

  15-04-2020 11:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  The last few weeks have seen unprecedented turbulence for startups. Despite years of effort and resources invested into building thriving tech hubs throughout Europe, the scale of the coronavirus pandemic has revealed the relative fragility of these smaller businesses. Financial support packages for this segment of the economy have been strong, typified by the UK Chancellor’s commitment to a £330 billion loan scheme. This, and similar measures across the continent, will come as a re
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Exchanges see 10% of Bitcoin withdrawn during coronavirus pandemic’

  15-04-2020 11:03 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: Let’s get this bread! Bitcoin price We closed the day, April 14 2020, at a price of $6,842. That’s a minor 0.01 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$0.84. It was the lowest closing price in eight days. We’re still 65 percent below Bit
  
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• Working from home? Get yourself a laptop stand and thank me later

  15-04-2020 10:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  Let me lay it out simply: If you’re working from home during the coronavirus lockdown, you should get a laptop stand. Honestly. Your body will thank you. Anyway, onto my deeply, deeply uninspiring journey. Here at TNW we were asked to work from home in the middle of March. Now, one of the great things about working here is our flexible remote working policy. When the lockdown happened, I didn’t think my work life would change that much. I mean, I write at home constantly, how differ
  
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• TQ becomes TNW: Why we have rebranded our tech hub

  15-04-2020 10:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  At TNW, we support several pillars of the tech industry: from media (this website, hi!) to flagship events, consulting, and cowork spaces. Today we’re excited to announce that our spaces, formerly known as TQ, will merge into the TNW brand. More than a name change, this rebrand is one way we’re expanding our support of the European tech ecosystem.  While having TQ as a standalone brand was important at the time of its creation, we know that we can do much more for our comm
  
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• Bumble lets you match with anyone in your country during the pandemic

  15-04-2020 10:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  Just because the world is ending, doesn’t mean your love life has to. Although dating might not be at the top of your to-do list while social distancing, yesterday Bumble released a bunch of new virtual dating tools to help you find a match during quarantine. These include adding a ‘Virtual Badge’ to your profile indicating you’re down to video call, send audio notes to matches, and expand your distance filter so you can chat with people across the country.  [Read:
  
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• Here’s why driverless vehicles still need wing mirrors

  15-04-2020 10:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  Last week, TNW reported on driverless autonomous vehicle company Nuro getting the go ahead to test its vehicles in some Californian cities. As I was reading up on the company, I watched one of its early promotional videos which featured a driverless autonomous delivery vehicle with wing mirrors. But why? Why would a vehicle packed with sensors and no space for a human driver require physical wing mirrors? At one point, I thought it was all part of a big conspiracy and the Nuro vehicle featured
  
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• GitHub is now free for all developer teams

  15-04-2020 08:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Popular software hosting and collaboration platform GitHub has made some of its core premium features free for everyone. The Microsoft-owned company said yesterday that an organization can now make private repositories for development without paying any fees. Up until now, if a firm wanted to host its private development on GitHub, it had to subscribe to one of the premium plans starting from $7 a month. Last year, the company made private repositories available for the free tier, users but wit
  
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• Thinking in Design Systems - Colors

  15-04-2020 00:59 via medium.com
  
  https://medium.com/relate/thinking-in-design-systems-colors-6af13af1c07a
  
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• Coronavirus means no new emoji in 2021

  15-04-2020 00:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Unicode Consortium announced last week that it was pushing the release of Unicode 14 back by six months. Now instead of a new batch of emoji coming out in 2021, we won’t see the new ones until 2022. The reason is — you guessed it — COVID-19. Specifically, the Consortium is delaying the release of Unicode Standard Version 14.0, which would include a new batch of emoji characters. Mark Davis, President of the Consortium, said in a statement that attempting to adhere to
  
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• Review (so far): The OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro check all the right boxes

  15-04-2020 00:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  The OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro have suffered no shortage of leaks in the months leading up to today, but they are now truly official. I’ve had the chance to go hands-on with the devices for about a few days before launch. While I’m not quite ready to write a final review — I haven’t been able to go out and take enough camera samples to be satisfied during the ongoing pandemic in New York — I’ve used the phones enough to give an early recommendation. We went over the
  
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