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• The Tiger King’s legal team politely asks Trump for a pardon with a ridiculous video

  08-05-2020 23:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  Alert: Spoilers for the Netflix docuseries “The Tiger King” ahead. “President Trump we are asking you today to please free Joe Exotic. He’s absolutely not guilty. And we’re going to be able to prove that. We’re asking for a pardon.” Eric Love, lead investigator for the Tiger King’s legal team. TMZ today revealed an exclusive video from the legal team of Joe Maldonado-Passage, AKA Joe Exotic the Tiger King, requesting a pardon for the disgraced for
  
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• Twitter is rolling out tweet scheduling feature to some users

  08-05-2020 19:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Twitter seems to be rolling out one of the most useful features everyone would want to use — scheduling. This feature would be quite handy for social media managers and news publications to handle their tweets. The new feature lets users schedule a tweet on a specific date and time. You can even look at your all your scheduled tweets in the scheduling window. Scheduling seems to be currently available only to some folks on Twitter for desktop. It’s not clear if this is just a test,
  
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• The Bitcoin Halving is imminent — here’s why it happens every 4 years

  08-05-2020 18:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bitcoin is nearing one of its most important milestones: The Halving (or Halvening), an automated event that cuts the monetary reward for mining BTC by 50%. Depending on who you believe, Halvings either cause Bitcoin‘s price to skyrocket, its hash rate to crash, or simply exist as a relatively boring exercise in economic theory. [Read: Gambling on Bitcoin with Trump’s $1,200 corona check was a good bet] Rather than debate whether the market has already “priced in” t
  
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• Twitch Roulette connects you with random streamers nobody wanted to watch

  08-05-2020 16:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  For every star Twitch streamer with thousands of viewers there are thousands of channels putting on a show for an empty audience. There’s no shame in it, that’s simply how things are. But now there’s an app that helps you encourage small-time streamers by randomly connecting you to channels with no viewers. Enter Twitch Roulette — it’s like Chat Roulette of sorts, but without any of the penises. That, and it has been specifically designed to filter through str
  
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• Raising capital during a crisis? This podcast interviews VCs on how to get it done

  08-05-2020 15:04 via thenextweb.com
  
  The coronavirus pandemic will have long-lasting effects on the global economy. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported the worst global economic decline since the Great Depression, projecting a $9 trillion loss in global GDP over the next two years. Despite the realities of a looming global recession, innovation has not faltered. But startups are now suddenly forced to acclimate to a very different world, and adapt their growth strategies accordingly, begging the question: how
  
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• Amazon and Microsoft won’t stop beefing over the Pentagon’s $10B ‘war cloud’

  08-05-2020 14:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  If the saga of the US government’s $10 billion ‘war cloud’ hadn’t already devolved into a soap opera, the latest tit-for-tat exchange between tech giants Microsoft and Amazon proves it. Amazon filed another formal protest over its lost bid on the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI) contract earlier this week — an ever-lucrative 10-year deal won by Microsoft in 2019 but has since existed only in legal limbo. Amazon‘s lawyers have
  
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• The Hygiene Hand touches dirty surfaces so you won’t have to

  08-05-2020 14:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Without getting too alarmist, it’s hard not to be a budding germaphobe these days. Between countertops, elevator buttons, credit card readers and just the friendly neighborhood building door handle, it’s tough not to instinctively recoil from touching just about anything right now.
  
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• Benefits & Uses of Search Engine Optimization Services in Baton Rouge

  08-05-2020 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nowadays, traditional marketing is considered to be an old-fashioned tool for attracting potential customers, since most businesses are oriented towards conquering the online market. Therefore, an increasing number of companies have commenced using search...
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• Thanks, I hate the new Google Docs sharing menu

  08-05-2020 14:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  I’m gonna say this loud and proud: the new Google Docs sharing menu is absolute wank. Yes, I know lots of people are gonna read the headline and say things like “who gives a shit?” and “grow up” and “who the fuck are you?” but they can do what they want. I’m on a mission. Nay, quest. The new Google Docs sharing menu is my One Ring and this article the Mount Doom I must cast it in. Don’t think too hard about that metaphor. [Read:&nb
  
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• Webinars are a marketing essential in 2020—here’s why

  08-05-2020 13:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  With the surge in video content on the web over the past decade, it’s probably no surprise that video has become a hugely critical piece in devising any marketing strategy. What may surprise you, however, is how astoundingly effective the simple webinar is over other video methods today.
  
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• Xiaomi, Samsung, and other phone makers poised to resume manufacturing in India

  08-05-2020 12:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  In March, when India announced its first lockdown to curb the coronavirus spread, major smartphone makers such as Xiaomi, Samsung, Oppo, and Vivo had to shut down factories. Now, as the country’s government is slowly lifting restrictions, these companies are set to resume their production. In a statement, Samsung, which has the world’s biggest smartphone plant in India, said that it has restarted production in a limited capacity: We have received requisite permissions to r
  
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• Here’s why we probably won’t see a COVID-19 vaccine in 2020

  08-05-2020 11:42 via thenextweb.com
  
  Donald Trump may be “very confident” we will have a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the year, but the rest of us should be more cautious. Billions of dollars are being spent trying to develop vaccines and treatments as a more permanent solution to the crisis than the lockdowns currently being enforced around the world. As of May 2020 there are 182 treatments and 99 different vaccines being developed globally. But, based on recent history, only one or two are likely to be transfor
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin close to $10,000’

  08-05-2020 11:39 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 Schopenhauer used to say: I got the horses in the back. Bitcoin price We closed the day, May 07 2020, at a price of $9,951. That’s a decent 7.44 percent increase in 24 hours, or $689. It was the highest closing price in seventy-eight days. We’re still 50 percent b
  
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• Should designers learn how to code?

  08-05-2020 11:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Did you know we have an online conference about product design coming up? SPRINT will cover how designers and product owners can stay ahead of the curve in these unprecedented times. A large section of the design community is locked in debate over whether designers should code. Some favor seeking out the unicorns who can do both, while others claim they don’t exist, or only get in the way. Many designers think that designers and developers need to collaborate, but each discipline should s
  
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• Xiaomi’s $46 streaming box might give the Amazon Fire Stick a run for its money in India

  08-05-2020 10:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Xiaomi already has a ton of affordable smart gadgets available in India to build out its ecosystem, including the Mi 4K TV and Mi Band fitness tracker . Today, the company has launched a 4K-enabled Android-TV streaming box in the country called Mi Box 4K for just ₹3,499 ($46). The box was originally launched in the US — under the name Mix Box S — in 2018 with a $60 price tag. Now, it has arrived in India at a significantly discounted price. The device has C
  
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• Elon Musk: Tesla will prioritize Cybertruck over Roadster

  08-05-2020 10:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla is currently working on two of the most hotly anticipated cars, not just for itself, but the whole auto market. However, it seems the electric vehicle (EV) maker can’t make both at once. Speaking on the Joe Rogan podcast yesterday — which was recorded over the past week — Musk said that the Tesla Roadster would have to take a backseat so the company can focus on its other vehicles. [Read: The low-down on the A-12 spy plane that Elon Musk and Grimes named their child afte
  
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• Microsoft bundled its beautiful Bing wallpapers into a free Android app

  08-05-2020 08:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bing might not be the top choice as a search engine for a lot of folks, but there’s no denying that it has some of the most beautiful wallpapers. Microsoft recently released a Windows app to put these wallpapers on your desktop, and now, there’s an Android app too. Till now, Google Play store only had unofficial Bing Wallpaper apps. However, this new app brings Bing’s official wallpaper gallery with additional features. The app shows a new image daily that you can set as
  
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• VCs spent $11.8B on mobility startups in Q1 2020, report says

  08-05-2020 08:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  VCs spent $11.8 billion on mobility companies across the globe during Q1 2020, representing an increase of 62% year-on-year (YoY). This is according to PitchBook’s Mobility Tech Q1 2020 report which says that much of this uptick was driven by three key deals. These included: Go-Jek’s $3 billion Series F round in March, Waymo’s $2.3 billion VC round in March, and Grab’s $886 million later-stage VC round in February. If these three deals were excluded, the data shows that
  
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• Google’s Read Along offline app can help your kids learn to read better

  08-05-2020 07:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  In a lot of countries across the world, schools are still closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. So, Google has launched a free Android app called Read Along to enhance the reading skills of children across 180 countries. The Read Along app helps children with reading and speaking of a language through visual and audio cues. The app assists in learning a language with storybooks containing dozens of chapters on different themes. It has a virtual assistant named Diya, which
  
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• Pardon the Intrusion #17: Hands up, this is a hold-up

  08-05-2020 06:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. In a short span of just a few weeks, a bunch of major firms including Chubb, Cognizant, Toll, ExecuPharm, Fresenius, and CPC Corp. have all become victims of ransomware attacks. What’s more, the coronavirus outbreak has proven to be an excellent opportunity for criminals to target hospitals, schools, and local
  
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• Nintendo Switch and Animal Crossing sales skyrocket in wake of quarantine

  08-05-2020 00:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nintendo today revealed its sales figures for the last quarter and holy mackerel, the Switch is doing gangbusters. In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the console and its new flagship game Animal Crossing New Horizons have ascended to global popularity, with the moolah to show for it. Nintendo has reported total Nintendo Switch sell in of 55.77 million as of March 31, 2020. 3.29 million units were shipped in the last quarter. Total sales of each model: Switch OG = 49.57mSwitch Lite =
  
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• Making Dark Theme Switcher With PostCSS

  08-05-2020 00:50 via css-tricks.com
  https://css-tricks.com/making-dark-theme-switcher-with-postcss/
  
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• Creating Choropleth Map Data Visualization Using JavaScript, on COVID-19 Stats

  08-05-2020 00:08 via anychart.com
  
  https://www.anychart.com/blog/2020/05/06/javascript-choropleth-map-tutorial/
  
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