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• How to create (and switch between) multiple Gmail signatures

  01-05-2020 23:49 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. Google recently rolled out a new feature to all Gmail users — namely, that you could both have and switch between multiple email signatures. It’s easy, and you can take advantage of it to be a little more creative with your emails. Multiple signatures to swap between doesn’t, at first blush, sound like something terribly useful. But sup
  
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• Is AI already conscious?

  01-05-2020 22:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  The ultimate goal of most high-level AI research is the development of a general artificial intelligence (GAI). In essence, what we want is a synthetic mind that could function the same as a human were it placed into a physical vessel of similar capability. Most experts – not all – believe we’re decades away from anything of the sort. Unlike other incredibly complex problems such as nuclear fusion or readjusting the Hubble Constant, nobody really understands yet what GAI actua
  
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• Microsoft’s Surface Earbuds show up at FCC, hinting at release soon

  01-05-2020 21:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Microsoft’s Surface Earbuds, announced way back in October, just showed up in an FCC listing, suggesting the AirPods competitor could arrive any time now. The appearance of an FCC filing is one of the most reliable indicators a gadget is up for imminent release. The filing doesn’t reveal much we didn’t already know about the earbuds, although it does include the product’s (sparse) manual. The document confirms the pairing process — surprise, hold down a button for
  
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• Japanese aquarium asks you to FaceTime its frightened eels

  01-05-2020 19:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tokyo‘s Sumida Aquarium has noticed a bizarre side effect of the coronavirus pandemic — it’s making the in-house spotted garden eels afraid of humans. To compensate, the aquarium is attempting to bring humans in via technology in order to reassure the poor little sea noodles. Starting on May 3, you’ll be able to video call the eels. Apparently the eels are used to constant human attention, seeing them often outside their tanks. Now that the coronavirus is preventing
  
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• Streaming service Deezer built an AI to catch the explicit lyrics human censors miss

  01-05-2020 18:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Deezer has found a new way to expel the scourge of profanity turning innocent children into thugs, drug addicts, murderers — and worse. The streaming service has developed an AI technique that automatically detects explicit lyrics — just by analyzing the audio. Of course, a human could do the job, but that can be a lot of work, as podcaster Adam Buxton discovered when he valiantly tried to censor serial offenders NWA. Another problem is that record companies aren
  
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• Tesla stock crashes after Elon Musk tweets: ‘Tesla stock too high imo’

  01-05-2020 17:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla‘s stock price crashed Friday morning after the company’s maverick billionaire founder Elon Musk tweeted that he believed the stock was too high. Tesla stock price is too high imo — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020 Tesla stock opened at $755 on Friday morning, and by 11:20 ET had crashed by more than 8%. [Read: Elon Musk bought $45M in Tesla stock since ‘that weed joke’ — now it’s worth double] Musk tweeted his thoughts on $TSLA‘s value
  
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• Researchers tested 47 old drugs that might treat the coronavirus — these where the results

  01-05-2020 16:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  The more researchers know about how the coronavirus attaches, invades and hijacks human cells, the more effective the search for drugs to fight it. That was the idea my colleagues and I hoped to be true when we began building a map of the coronavirus two months ago. The map shows all of the coronavirus proteins and all of the proteins found in the human body that those viral proteins could interact with. In theory, any intersection on the map between viral and human proteins is a place where dr
  
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• Researchers tested 47 old drugs that might treat the coronavirus — these were the results

  01-05-2020 16:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  The more researchers know about how the coronavirus attaches, invades and hijacks human cells, the more effective the search for drugs to fight it. That was the idea my colleagues and I hoped to be true when we began building a map of the coronavirus two months ago. The map shows all of the coronavirus proteins and all of the proteins found in the human body that those viral proteins could interact with. In theory, any intersection on the map between viral and human proteins is a place where dr
  
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• Tesla pulls a slick sales move in China, lowers Model 3 price to fit new subsidy limit

  01-05-2020 15:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla has just dropped the price of its Model 3 in China so that it continues to be eligible for subsidy money. The news comes days after the Chinese government announced that it was reducing subsidies. The electric vehicle company announced the move earlier today, Reuters reports. Previously the standard Tesla Model 3 cost 323,800 yuan ($45,800), but with a 10% price reduction and a 20,250 yuan ($2,900) subsidy, it now costs 271,550 yuan ($38,463). [Read: Tesla’s self-driving tech will p
  
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• Xiaomi is collecting browser data even in incognito mode, researchers say

  01-05-2020 15:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  You might want to stay away from Xiaomi‘s browsers if you care about your privacy. The Chinese company has been caught recording a concerning amount of user activity in its Mi Browser Pro and Mint Browser apps, Forbes reports. Researchers found the two apps — which have collectively amassed over 15 million downloads on Google Play — gathered immense amounts of data about any website a user visits, even in incognito mode. Among other things, the browsers, which ship with Xiaomi
  
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• Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos compete to help NASA return humans to the moon

  01-05-2020 14:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  NASA has formally recruited tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to return humans to the Moon by 2024. The independent space agency revealed on Thursday it had awarded $967 million in deals to three US companies in relation to its Artemis project: Musk‘s SpaceX, Bezos’ Blue Origin, and IT firm Dynetics. The three firms will submit competing designs for a human landing system to be used in NASA’s Artemis project, and will only be paid once meeting specific developmen
  
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• Daily Distraction: Let go of stress with these free meditation sessions

  01-05-2020 14:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  People all over the world have been under lockdown for weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic. And it’s quite natural to feel anxiety or restlessness while being bombarded with bad news. Sometimes a few minutes of meditation can help you feel at peace and momentarily forget about all that’s going around the world. Back in school, I had yoga as a subject (perks of being in India), and meditation techniques were an important part of it. We used to gather in a large h
  
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• This service will let you create branding and marketing graphics you want in minutes — with no Photoshop skill required.

  01-05-2020 14:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  And all that time spent is still no guarantee that your logo or clip art or animation actually looks any good. ITG.digital can help get all those artistically-challenged creators off the hook, offering customizable graphics to fit any situation in an extremely simple interface. Right now, a lifetime subscription to ITG.digital’s Online Illustrations Builder Pro plan is over 90 percent off, just $29.99 from TNW Deals.
  
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• Drug discovery might be the best use of AI to tackle the pandemic

  01-05-2020 13:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  In the four months since the novel coronavirus was first identified, a myriad of AI tools has popped up promising to fight the disease. The tech has predicted how the virus will spread, calculated ventilator demand, and searched for symptoms by analyzing X-rays, audio of coughs, body temperatures — and even feces. But most of its applications have been more hype than substance. As Neil Lawrence, the former director of machine learning at Amazon Cambridge, tol
  
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• ‘Strava Wankers’ pokes fun at the worst people in society — tryhards

  01-05-2020 12:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Welcome to Riding Nerdy, TNW’s fortnightly dive into bicycle-based tech, where we go into too much detail and geek out on all things related to pedal-powered gadgets. Since lockdown measures around the world have forced gyms and health clubs to close, many more people are exercising outside, where it’s free. The side effect is that everyone has seemingly pivoted to fitness tracking app, Strava. Seriously, the amount of notifications telling me my Facebook friends have just joined St
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin overtakes gold as best-performing asset of 2020’

  01-05-2020 11:40 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: Whip it, whip it, whip it! Bitcoin price We closed the day, April 30 2020, at a price of $8,658. That’s a minor 1.58 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$139.12. It was the lowest closing price in one day. We’re still 56 percent below Bitcoin&l
  
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• Coronavirus: What does it mean when the UK government says it’s ‘following the science’?

  01-05-2020 11:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  The UK government has said on many occasions that it is “following the science” in tackling COVID-19. Yet which science and which scientists are being followed is difficult to know as the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) minutes have not been made available. Studies of earlier pandemics show that most governments claimed to be following the science, but governments followed different approaches. Clearly, the same thing is happening in the current p
  
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• ‘Thanks in advance’ is the most effective email sign-off — here’s why

  01-05-2020 11:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  For all the energy you put into your mails, you’re neglecting the one element that’s most crucial in determining whether you’ll receive a reply: the ending. Tell me if this sounds familiar: You’ve spent hours deliberating over your email subject line and its content. Will this word get them to open my message? Am I rambling? How can I get my request across in the most concise and considerate way? You’ve worried about the first sentence, the second, and you’ve
  
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• YouTube rolls out personalized ‘topics filters’ on iOS and Web

  01-05-2020 10:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  YouTube is making it easier for you to watch videos on topics that you like. The streaming company is rolling out recommendation filters in the form of topic bubbles on desktop and iOS that’ll be situated atop your feed. The company said previously the feature was only available on Android. However, it’s rolling out to iOS and desktop users starting today. So you might see that appear on top of your feed anytime now. These topics are based on your viewing history and personalized re
  
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• It’s time we outgrew our fairytale fascination with tech unicorns

  01-05-2020 09:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  My 8-year-old daughter is certainly a lover of unicorns but even she questions their existence. In a business sense, a “unicorn” is a privately held startup company valued at over $1 billion which has experienced hyper-growth in a new or evolving market. Venture capitalists coined the phrase to express the rarity of these companies. The venture capital investment model is built around the premise of investing in a bunch of companies, one of which they hope will be a unicorn and will
  
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• 3 reasons why working from bed is actually good for productivity

  01-05-2020 08:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Over the past few months, I’ve shared advice on why you should give plenty of thought to your work setup, particularly if you’re working from home. The common thread across most articles has been to find a suitable workspace — a desk in your home office or a kitchen table — and adapt it according to your needs. Well, that’s all great but what if I told you that you could — and should — treat yourself and work from bed every once in a while? I’ve n
  
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• Hurray, the .org TLD won’t be sold off to a private company

  01-05-2020 06:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  ICANN, the non-profit that manages namespaces on the internet, announced today that it’s blocking the controversial sale of the .org registry to private equity firm Ethos Captial. It said the sale would’ve caused “unacceptable uncertainty” over the future of the world’s third-largest domain registry, which is largely used by non-profit organizations. In a blog post, the organization said it’s dedicated to making the right decision to ensure the
  
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• Intel unveils 10th-gen desktop CPUs, including 5.3GHz flagship

  01-05-2020 03:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Intel has spent the past several months updating its processor lineup to the 10th generation, and next up are desktops. The company today unveiled its 10th-gen consumer chips, including the new i9-10900K, capable of reaching up to 5.3Ghz with a base clock of 3.7Ghz. Intel claims the new processor can yield 10 percent more FPS than the already-zippy 9900K in PUBG, and is 18 percent faster at editing 4K video. It’s also 63 and 35 percent faster than the i7 7700K from 2017, respectively (the
  
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• Venus and Serena Williams take on Mario Tennis for charity

  01-05-2020 00:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Facebook Gaming today revealed the latest event in its campaign to be a virtual tennis tournament starring various celebrities and real-life tennis stars. If you’ve ever wanted to see Maria Sharapova try her hand at Mario Tennis (yes, really), well your time has finally come. The biggest names in tennis are grabbing their virtual rackets for the #StayAtHomeSlam, live on Facebook Gaming this Sunday (May 3), in partnership with @IMGTennis. Watch tennis legends like Venus & Serena Willia
  
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