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• @property

  28-04-2020 23:55 via css-tricks.com
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• Design research is only as good as the action it enables

  28-04-2020 23:21 via uxdesign.cc
  
  https://uxdesign.cc/design-research-is-only-as-good-as-the-action-it-enables-843e09fb7d84
  
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• YouTube begins fact-checking searches in the US

  28-04-2020 23:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  YouTube today announced it will begin to provide fact-check search queries in the US. The video giant had previously rolled out the feature in Brazil and India last year, but today is the first time the feature is rolling out stateside. When you look up a piece of news or a potentially false claim on YouTube, you’ll now see a blue box labeled ‘independent fact check’ with a link to relevant information above the search results. The box both specifies the claim being made and t
  
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• LG reveals most of the Velvet’s specs ahead of May 7 launch

  28-04-2020 21:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  While other companies are busy trying to contain leaks, LG is often to be happy to just go ahead and reveal details about upcoming devices well before launch. Today the company revealed a full suite of specs for the upcoming LG Velvet, which is due to be officially unveiled on May 7th. We knew one of the key specs, the mid-premium Snapdragon 765 in particular, but today’s announcement also confirms that the phone will have: 8GB of RAM 128GB of storage MicroSD support 6.8-inch display 20.5
  
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• LG reveals almost of the Velvet’s specs ahead of May 7 launch

  28-04-2020 21:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  While other companies are busy trying to contain leaks, LG is often to be happy to just go ahead and reveal details about upcoming devices well before launch. Today the company revealed a full suite of specs for the upcoming LG Velvet, which is due to be officially unveiled on May 7th. We knew one of the key specs, the mid-premium Snapdragon 765 in particular, but today’s announcement also confirms that the phone will have: 8GB of RAM 128GB of storage MicroSD support 6.8-inch display 20.5
  
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• LG reveals almost of the LG Velvet’s specs ahead of May 7 launch

  28-04-2020 21:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  While other companies are busy trying to contain leaks, LG is often to be happy to just go ahead and reveal details about upcoming devices well before launch. Today the company revealed a full suite of specs for the upcoming LG Velvet, which is due to be officially unveiled on May 7th. We knew one of the key specs, the mid-premium Snapdragon 765 in particular, but today’s announcement also confirms that the phone will have: 8GB of RAM 128GB of storage MicroSD support 6.8-inch display 20.5
  
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• Variable Fonts: A 101 Introduction (+ Free Variable Fonts to Try)

  28-04-2020 20:41 via designshack.net
  
  https://designshack.net/articles/inspiration/variable-fonts/
  
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• Searching COVID-19

  28-04-2020 20:35 via searchingcovid19.com
  
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• Here’s your stupid horoscope made by smart AI

  28-04-2020 20:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apparently there are still some people who believe that horoscopes are legitimate. I’d like to sell each of them a share in the Brooklyn bridge (and direct them to some of our science articles here on TNW). But now is definitely not the time to be pissing off potential readers. So I’m meeting them halfway instead. I made OpenAI’s GPT-2 (one of the world’s most advanced AI-powered text generators) spit out horoscopes for all 12 zodiac signs. Accomplishing this was actuall
  
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• This haptic device uses strings to let you ‘feel’ objects in VR

  28-04-2020 19:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  A new haptic device simulates the feel of objects in VR by pulling on strings attached to a hand. The shoulder-mounted system is equipped with spring-loaded retractors like those used on neck cord ID badges. These retractors unwind a string to each fingertip, one to the palm, and another to the wrist. A motion sensor on the VR headset then tracks the user’s hand movements and sends the signals to the springs. When it senses that the user’s close to an object
  
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• How to write and conduct user interviews

  28-04-2020 18:50 via creative.onl
  
  https://www.creative.onl/posts/how-to-write-and-conduct-user-interviews/
  
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• How to find copyright-free images (and avoiding a stock photo subscription)

  28-04-2020 18:03 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. Whether you use them to demonstrate a point, provide evidence, or simply to break up a long block of text, images are undeniably a homestead in content creation. Unfortunately, not every image you stumble upon is free to use — not without risking getting yourself in legal trouble. Tons of stock photography services like Shutterstock, Getty Images,
  
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• 9 tech stocks trading at an all-time high during the pandemic

  28-04-2020 18:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has left a serious dent in the stock market, but not all industries have been hit hard. In fact, three of the eleven different industries represented in the S&P 500 index have already recovered: information technology, consumer staples, and health care. MIT alum Calvin French-Owen illustrated this perfectly by comparing stock data from the beginning of the plunge in February and now, and grouping it by industry: Grouping the stocks by industry, we start seeing
  
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• 8 tech stocks trading at an all-time high during the pandemic

  28-04-2020 18:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  The coronavirus pandemic has left a serious dent in the stock market, but not all industries have been hit hard. In fact, three of the eleven different industries represented in the S&P 500 index have already recovered: information technology, consumer staples, and health care. MIT alum Calvin French-Owen illustrated this perfectly by comparing stock data from the beginning of the plunge in February and now, and grouping it by industry: Grouping the stocks by industry, we start seeing
  
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• Disney is claiming anyone who uses a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to a Disney TOS

  28-04-2020 17:50 via twitter.com
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• Don’t drink bleach

  28-04-2020 17:38 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 my socially distant amigos,  What happens when “contact tracing” becomes ubiquitous surveillance? I’m asking for about 8 billion friends because I think most countries are about to start tracking citizens in order to facilitate a retreat from quarantine.  When it c
  
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• Coronavirus: Is this the moment of maximum risk?

  28-04-2020 16:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  It seems that the UK is over the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in terms of both cases and numbers. Many other countries are in the same situation. This is undoubtedly good news, but it’s perhaps not as good as many might hope. Indeed, in his first speech after recovering from COVID-19 on Monday, the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson called it “the moment of maximum risk”. Part of the reason he defined it as such is because the peak that the UK has passed is, in many sens
  
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• How deep learning can improve how we conduct scientific research

  28-04-2020 16:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  Whether we take it for granted or not, deep learning algorithms have become an inseparable part of our daily lives. Personalized feeds, face and voice recognition, web search, smart speakers, digital assistants, email, and many other applications that we can’t part ways with using deep learning algorithms under the hood. But how effective is deep learning in scientific research, where problems are often much more complex than classifying an image and requirements are much more s
  
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• Chinese startups are being starved of venture capital — which should worry the West

  28-04-2020 15:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Through the centuries, China’s entrepreneurs accessed finance from family and friends through social networks known as guanxi. Even after the communist revolution, these networks helped to propagate a thriving small business sector that invested in local services and basic manufactured goods. In the late 1970s and 1980s, when President Deng Xiaoping started to open up the economy, it didn’t take long to rekindle the innate entrepreneurial spirit that saw China’s traders conque
  
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• Here’s what Elon Musk needs to get his $750M payday from Tesla

  28-04-2020 15:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Elon Musk is close to a groin-thumping $750 million payoff now that Tesla stock has recovered much of its value lost since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began, Reuters reports. Tesla stock rose more than 10% after the company teased the re-opening of its Fremont, California car plant as early as this Wednesday this week. [Read: Elon Musk bought $45M in Tesla stock since ‘that weed joke’ — now it’s worth double] Those hopes were later dashed by a CNBC report th
  
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• Partech raises $100M to back startups supporting new post-coronavirus reality

  28-04-2020 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  French venture capital firm Partech has raised a $100 million Seed fund to invest in post-COVID19 trends in health, work, commerce, finance, mobility, and computing. Partech, which has in the past backed UK data startup Privitar and French fintech company October, will be scouting the European, US, and Asian ecosystems. [Read: What’s venture capital and why does it matter for startups?] “While 3 billion people are confined at home, digitalization is bound to dramatically accele
  
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• Daily Distraction: Make people bop to your tunes with these music-making tools

  28-04-2020 14:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  When I was in school, I discovered a software named Virtual DJ. It was a Windows app that allowed me to queue up songs and even provided some automated effects and tools to act cool in front of my friends. My love for the Virtual DJ carried over to college, and I used to be the resident DJ for all parties in my hostel. I knew jack shit about actual DJing back then, but the app allowed me to earn some street cred. I’ve always been fascinated by apps that let fools like me play around with
  
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• Survey: 39% of people won’t use ride-sharing services post coronavirus

  28-04-2020 14:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  With news that governments are looking to lift coronavirus lockdown measures in some parts of the world, thoughts are turning to what the world will be like in its “new normal.” One thing seems certain though, people are starting to think differently about the products they use, particularly when it comes to travel. A recent COVID-19 sentiment study conducted by automotive consumer advice group CarGurus found that car sales, in the long term, are unlikely to be affected by the pande
  
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• Holy sheet: How to create QR codes with Google Sheets

  28-04-2020 14:17 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. QR codes are a handy tool to bridge the offline with the online. Whether it’s to redirect an offline advertising campaign’s audience to your online destination, or to track your conference’s visitors while they’re moving from stage to stage, QR codes can be used for a wide variety of tasks. But how do you actually create and store them
  
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• MIT’s new wearable lets you control drones with Jedi-like arm gestures

  28-04-2020 14:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  A new robot control system created at MIT CSAIL lets you pilot a drone just by moving your arms. The system, called Conduct-A-Bot, measures arm movements through wearable motion sensors, and records muscle signals through electrodes attached to the skin. Algorithms then convert the muscle and motion data into different controls. Rotate your wrist, and the drone turns; flick your hand up to make it elevate; clench your fist, and the drone accelerates; stiffen your arm and watch it
  
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• If you’ve ever wanted to master Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign, here’s your chance.

  28-04-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Adobe Creative Cloud remains the venue of choice for any graphics professional, so learn how to use these industry-shaking apps to their fullest potential with the training in The 2020 Adobe Graphic Design Certification School. You can get this in-depth instruction right now at over 90 percent off its regular cost, only $49 from TNW Deals.
  
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• Onfido’s CEO on how to play the fundraising game — stage by stage

  28-04-2020 12:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  I first spoke to Husayn Kassai, CEO and co-founder at Onfido, in the Summer of 2016, four years after it was first set up. At the time, the startup, co-founded by three young Oxford University graduates, had raised an undisclosed sum from Salesforce Ventures, Talis Capital, and several angels. [Read: Darktrace’s co-CEO on trusting AI to fight cyberattacks on our behalf] Fast forward four years and Onfido — which helps businesses verify peoples’ identities using a photo-based i
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Binance launches Bitcoin mining pool’

  28-04-2020 12:16 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 Planck used to say: Buy low, sell high! Bitcoin price We closed the day, April 27 2020, at a price of $7,795. That’s a minor 1.51 percent increase in 24 hours, or $116. It was the highest closing price in forty-six days. We’re still 61 percent below Bitcoin‘
  
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• New Android ransomware threatens to ‘expose’ your porn escapades to the FBI

  28-04-2020 12:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  No, the feds don’t care about the porn you may or may not have downloaded — but hackers sure want you to believe so. There’s a new Android ransomware that encrypts your files and poses as the FBI to trick you into providing your credit card information. Dubbed Black Rose Lucy, the malicious app accuses victims of storing porn on their phone, and threatens their details have been uploaded to the FBI Cyber Crime Department’s data center. It also comes with a list &ldq
  
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• Blind users struggle with state coronavirus websites

  28-04-2020 10:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  Every state in the U.S. has launched at least one website with updates about the novel coronavirus outbreak. Unfortunately, the majority are difficult or unusable for visually impaired users, according to a survey conducted for The Markup by the web accessibility group WebAIM. Forty-one of the 50 state pages we surveyed contained low-contrast text, which can be challenging for users with low vision, including seniors, who are at higher risk in the outbreak. For instance, South Dakota’s co
  
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• Study: Teslas cover more miles in their first 3 years than other auto brands

  28-04-2020 08:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  According to new figures from a British motoring research organization, Tesla owners drive more miles per year in their EVs than drivers of any other car brand. To uncover this statistic, the RAC Foundation analyzed UK Ministry of Transport test data from 516,936 vehicles over the first three years of their life, AutoExpress reports. [Read: Americans don’t ‘get’ electric vehicles or self-driving tech — but it’s not their fault] Over the first three years’ of
  
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• Twitter is winding down its SMS-based system for delivering tweets

  28-04-2020 08:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Twitter is shutting down its service that let you use the social network over text messages. Twitter was originally built in mind keeping 140 character limit of text messages. So, it even built on top of SMS in 2010. Last year, Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked, and folks behind it used Twitter via SMS feature to tweet not so subtle slurs from his account. Later, the company disabled the compose feature for this service in select regions. [Read: Scientists think we’ll finally solve n
  
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• DJI announces the $799 Mavic Air 2 with a 48MP camera and longer flight time

  28-04-2020 03:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  DJI today revealed its latest consumer drone, the Mavic Air 2. The followup to the popular Mavic Air — now two years old — the new model aims higher in nearly every respect. It has a better camera, better battery life, and better video capabilities. Despite this, it’s retailing for the same $799 launch price as its predecessor. For budding aerial photographers and videographers, the most important change may be the new camera. The Mavic Air 2 features a 48 megapixel, 1/2-inch
  
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• The TickTime is a clever productivity gadget that just works

  28-04-2020 01:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  With so much of the world’s workforce shifting to remote labor, a whole lot of people are trying to figure out how to be productive at home for the first time. Well, I’ve been working from home for years, and I still haven’t totally figured out the puzzle. There are no shortage of apps designed to help you be more productive, but I’m not sure anything I’ve tried has had as much potential as a little gadget called the TickTime. The concept is simple but clever. If y
  
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• Scientists think we’ll finally solve nuclear fusion thanks to cutting-edge AI

  28-04-2020 01:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Scientists believe the world will see it’s first working thermonuclear fusion reactor by the year 2025. That’s a tall order in short form, especially when you consider that fusion has been “almost here” for nearly a century. Fusion reactors – not to be confused with common fission reactors – are the holiest of Grails when it comes to physics achievements. According to most experts, a successful fusion reactor would function as a near-unlimited source of energ
  
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