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• Google now alerts you when search results suck

  23-04-2020 21:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google Search gets smarter every year, and the accuracy of the company’s search results has come a long way . But sometimes even the big G can’t find the information you’re looking for. Starting today, Google is rolling out a message to let you know when its not confident in its search results. According to the company. You’ll still get results and try to find the answers you want, but Google is basically warning you that it’s having trouble finding reliable r
  
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• AI detects plastics in the oceans by analyzing satellite images

  23-04-2020 19:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  An AI system has spotted plastic pollution in the sea by analyzing images from satellites orbiting the earth. The scientists behind the technique claim that it’s the first time patches of plastics in coastal waters have been detected via satellites. The system studies images collected by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellites to spot debris floating in the world’s oceans. These objects absorb and reflect light to produce a &ld
  
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• Millions of passwords for hit kid’s game Webkinz leaked online

  23-04-2020 19:06 via thenextweb.com
  
  Heads up to parents out there: Webkinz, that cute stuffed animal game for kids, was hacked earlier this month, with almost 23 million user accounts compromised. So, you know… probably time to change those passwords. ZDNet reports that, earlier this week, a hacker leaked a 1 GB file, which contained the usernames and passwords of 22,982,319 accounts. According to anonymous sources, the actual breach occurred earlier this month. Ganz, the company behind Webkinz, said in a subsequ
  
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• Connect with your remote team: A simple heart emoji goes a long way

  23-04-2020 17:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! I know these are tough times, and a lot of people are struggling with being locked at home. I also hear a lot of people worry about how difficult it is to care for families, or run companies remote, and dealing with all the anxiety that comes with
  
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• Why the distance of exoplanet Kepler-1649c from its sun can be threatening

  23-04-2020 17:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meet exoplanet Kepler-1649c — it’s the same size as Earth, and its distance from its sun is just right for life — and that may NOT be a good thing. Sitting roughly 300 light years from Earth, the exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbits a small, red star. Although this star does not give off much heat, the planet huddles close to it, like a camper close to an inadequate fire on a chilly night. This close to its parent star, Kepler-1649c is in the habitable zone of its solar system, where
  
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• Intel is destined to fail if Apple’s foray into computer chips succeeds

  23-04-2020 15:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Intel might be about to take yet another crushing blow to its processor business as Apple appears to be slowly (but surely) inching closer towards ditching its chips. The Cupertino behemoth is planning to start selling computers with its own ARM-based processors as early as 2021, Bloomberg reports. The new chips will be based on the same designs underpinning the iPhone and the iPad, according to sources familiar with the matter. [Read: Apple’s new $399 iPhone SE couldn’t have c
  
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• Elon Musk’s 420th Starlink satellite is more than just a weed joke

  23-04-2020 15:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  Elon Musk‘s internet-from-space project Starlink sent 60 new satellites into low-orbit without problem on Wednesday, bringing the total size of its constellation to — wait for it — 420. The SpaceX founder was quick to laud Starlink’s success with a cute tweet, complete with satellite and winky face emoji. There are now 420 operational Starlink satellites 🛰 😉 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 22, 2020 Musk’s apparent happiness is understa
  
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• This sweat-powered electronic skin can control your robotic limbs

  23-04-2020 15:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  Scientists have developed an electronic skin that converts sweat into energy to control a robotic arm. The flexible, rubber material is stuck on a person’s skin. It then uses embedded sensors to monitor their health and the nerve signals that control their muscles — without the need for a battery. “One of the major challenges with these kinds of wearable devices is on the power side,” said the device’s creator Wei Gao, an assistant pro
  
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• VCs spent a record €8.2B in Europe in Q1 2020 — but coronavirus dampens future expectations

  23-04-2020 15:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Venture capital investors poured €8.2 billion into European companies during the first quarter of 2020. According to PitchBook’s European Venture Report Q1 2020, the first three months of 2020 constituted the fourth-strongest quarter ever in terms of total deal value in Europe. Although 2020 got off to a good start, the coronavirus pandemic is expected to have a significant impact on deals in the ecosystem. It also threatens the flow of US capital into European tech companies. &ldquo
  
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• PR and marketing tips for companies in the COVID-19 era

  23-04-2020 15:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  The coronavirus has transformed the way we live, love, work, and do business. The way you conduct your public relations both externally and internally as a company during this time is vitally important for your reputation. As a respectable brand you can’t just continue business as usual. We’re living in a pandemic and everything you ever did before should be handled differently now, including your PR and marketing efforts. Brands are made up of human beings, and as such, we must act
  
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• PR and marketing tips for companies in the coronavirus era

  23-04-2020 15:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  The coronavirus has transformed the way we live, love, work, and do business. The way you conduct your public relations both externally and internally as a company during this time is vitally important for your reputation. As a respectable brand you can’t just continue business as usual. We’re living in a pandemic and everything you ever did before should be handled differently now, including your PR and marketing efforts. Brands are made up of human beings, and as such, we must act
  
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• Amazon India now allows local stores to sell groceries online

  23-04-2020 14:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon is partnering with local grocery stores in India to let them sell goods through the company’s ecommerce platform. Under the “Local Shops on Amazon” program, the firm aims to bring small brick and mortar stores online. The company said the project was in a pilot phase for the last six months with more than 5,000 stores onboard. Now, with the increasing demand for delivered groceries during the coronavirus pandemic, it has decided to formally launch the program. As a
  
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• Daily Distraction: Free puzzle games to challenge your brain

  23-04-2020 14:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Earlier this week, The New Yorker released a co-op mode for its popular online crossword puzzle. This new mode lets you solve puzzles along with your friends, and it’s quite addictive. I’ve already spent hours on this with friends, and I’m ready to give more of my time to this addictive creation. As a person with a great amount of anxiety, I’ve always liked puzzle games. They’re an excellent way to pass time when you’re on a flight, or when you’re waiti
  
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• LogMeOnce is the password manager so feature-heavy that it doesn’t even need a password.

  23-04-2020 14:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  With LogMeOnce Password Manager ($9.99 for one-year of Professional Plus Plan access from TNW Deals), you don’t even have to remember a master password...because there is no master password.
  
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• If you’d like $1,000 in DoorDash credit, we’ve got a little proposition for you.

  23-04-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Paying for a rock and roll, bring-it-to-me-now lifestyle every night is why those with lots of disposable cash and youngsters who just love to spend were such heavy users. But if you win The $1,000 DoorDash Gift Card Giveaway, you’ll be able to eat like a king for days — and we’ll foot the bill.
  
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• This special hydrogel could cool and recharge EV batteries at the same time

  23-04-2020 13:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  One of the main consideration when building an electric vehicle is how to deal with excess heat build up in battery packs. To ensure the safe operation of lithium ion batteries must be cooled to an optimal temperature. But what if that heat could be turned back into electricity? It might sound farfetched, but a group of scientists has developed a “gel” — a thermogalvanic gel to be precise — that can simultaneously cool batteries and turn heat into electricity. [Read: Alt
  
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• Twitter is testing a feature to let you see quoted retweets

  23-04-2020 11:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  You’ve all seen “sco pa tu mana” and “bambooclat” tweets on your timeline. Those templates are made for quote retweets. But, right now there’s no way you can see all quoted tweets right now. However, Twitter might be solving that problem soon. The company’s product lead, Kayvon Beykpour tweeted today that the social network is rolling out a test that lets you see retweets with comments — meaning all quote retweets. When you’ll tap on re
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘$1,200 Bitcoin purchases hit crypto exchanges, equivalent of stimulus’

  23-04-2020 11:33 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 Machiavelli used to say: Let’s add the milk of data to the cereal of understanding! Bitcoin price We closed the day, April 22 2020, at a price of $7,117. That’s a respectable 3.45 percent increase in 24 hours, or $237. It was the highest closing price in two days.
  
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• Here’s how you can ‘reset’ your sleep cycle during lockdown

  23-04-2020 09:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  You might have noticed your normal sleep pattern has changed. Some of us may be sleeping more, and some of us may be sleeping less. Life has changed dramatically for many of us, with our usual daily routine – including commutes, meal times, and the amount of time we spend outside – being altered because of self-isolation. All of these changes impact our natural circadian rhythm, which is an essential internal “clock” that plays a key role in regulating our sleep pattern.
  
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• 5 signs your company culture won’t beat the pandemic

  23-04-2020 09:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  As the novel coronavirus causes global disruption and economic uncertainty, culture at work has never been more important. Culture normally has a massive impact on morale and productivity, but during a crisis it can be the difference between business perseverance and a total business breakdown. Even pre-COVID-19, company culture has shown a huge impact on hiring and retention. One report found that 35% of staff in the US and 40% in Canada wouldn’t accept a position at a company with a poo
  
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• Google introduces improved AI to address gender bias in translate

  23-04-2020 09:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  For years, Google Translate showed gender bias by associating gender-neutral jobs to a particular gender: a doctor to male and a nurse to female. In 2018, the search giant addressed that problem by providing a translation in both genders for sentences in a gender-neutral language like Turkish. Yesterday, Google’s AI team released a new model that’s more scalable — meaning it can be applied to translate phrases in other languages. This new rollout brings support for g
  
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• Motorola’s Edge+ shows there’s still a place for a headphone jack on a flagship phone

  23-04-2020 07:47 via thenextweb.com
  
  I appreciate Motorola‘s inventiveness with designs like the modular Moto Z family. I appreciate the value it brings with its Moto G family. And the new Moto Razr is one of the first examples of our future full of folding phones. But for all the interesting phones Motorola makes, it hasn’t made a phone I’d really want to buy in years — as in, a real, honest-to-goodness flagship to go up against the Pixels, Galaxies, and iPhones of the world. The new Edge+ changes that. At
  
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• Google Duo majorly improves low-bandwidth video quality with new codec

  23-04-2020 02:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  From Zoom, to Skype, to Google Meet, there’s no shortage of apps you can use to video call your loved ones during these days of isolation. But one of the simpler ones is Google Duo, the big G’s alternative to Apple’s Facetime. Today the company announced a slew of updates that make the app a more reliable solution for your video calls Perhaps chief among them is a new AV1 compression algorithm that appears to improve video quality rather dramatically. Here’s one sid
  
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• Here’s how to enable 2FA to keep your Nintendo Switch safe

  23-04-2020 00:19 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. Your Nintendo account is what allows you to buy games on your Switch, and it’s likely linked to some form of payment. So you really don’t want it to be compromised. Luckily, Nintendo offers two-factor authentication (2FA), though you’ll need to have an authenticator app. Recently, we’ve heard several reports that Nintendo accounts
  
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