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• Dear Meta CTO: Yes, people are awful, but your algorithms make them worse

  14-12-2021 22:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta’s incoming CTO, Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, is making quite the splash. The kind of splash you make by cannonballing into your swimming pool, soaking all your guests, and then blaming them for getting wet. In a Sunday interview with Axios on HBO, Bosworth was grilled about misinformation on social media. The Facebook veteran mounted a stern defense of his company. According to Bosworth, it’s not platforms that are responsible for misinformation — it’s their u
  
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• Solving top four car user interface problems with good design

  14-12-2021 20:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  The automotive human-machine interface is the prime point of interaction between driver and car. Drivers use HMI to set climate preferences, change car suspension settings, play favorite music, and do dozens of other things. With the ongoing integration of computer systems into vehicles, automotive HMI is quickly becoming an integral part of the vehicle. Users often evaluate car experience based on the experience they have with HMI.  The design of automotive HMI should be humane-first, and
  
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• How to design human-machine interfaces for vehicles of the future 

  14-12-2021 20:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  A human-machine interface (HMI) is an interface that allows us to interact with a digital system. No matter what HMI we design, we need to enable users to take advantage of all that a system offers.  For almost two decades, the personal computer was the first thing that came to mind when we heard about digital HMI. But the situation changed, and today HMI is an integral part of many devices we use daily — mobile phones, smartwatches, IoT devices, and even cars. Car HMI design is a re
  
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• The GPU shortage is so intense people are stealing them from display units

  14-12-2021 16:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  Despite GPU shipments increasing by 25.7% year-on-year, people are so desperate for the hardware they’re cracking open computers at electronics stores to get at them. To combat this, some retailers have gone to the length of zip-tying display machines to dissuade thieves: This is the world we live in. Happy now? (Credit: TeslaDude7172) The photo above was taken by Reddit user TeslaDude7172 at the Costco in Dedham, Massachusetts. They told me that “two of the three PCs with removable
  
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• Toyota U-turns and doubles down on EV lineup

  14-12-2021 15:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Toyota has been known for resisting the EV transition, but things are about to change big time. In a surprising move, the company announced on Tuesday that it would have 30 EV models available by 2030, aiming to sell globally 3.5 million electric vehicles by the same year.  Plus… it will invest $18 billion (¥2 trillion) in battery development.  And wait for it: Toyota will fully electrify its luxury sub-brand Lexus by 2035. In fact, Lexus wants its EVs to account for 100% o
  
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• Not all black holes are black — and researchers found more than 75k of the brightest

  14-12-2021 15:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  When the most massive stars die, they collapse to form some of the densest objects known in the Universe: black holes. They are the “darkest” objects in the cosmos, as not even light can escape their incredibly strong gravity. Because of this, it’s impossible to directly imageblack holes, making them mysterious and quite perplexing. But our new research has road-tested a way to spot some of the most voracious black holes of all, making it easier to find them buried deep in the
  
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• Oppo’s monocle-style Air Glass wearable looks fit for a Bond villain

  14-12-2021 12:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  If I were a spy, I’d surely want Oppo‘s new Air Glass in my gadget bag, or rather on my face. No, that’s not a typo, Oppo‘s ‘assisted reality’ headset can be worn only on one eye — kinda like a monocle. But it looks cool nonetheless. Looks are half of the appeal of the fashionable wearable, with a sleek frame and flowing lines. The whole setup weighs just 30 grams. Oppo’s unit can easily snap to prescription glasses with magnets. Oppo’s Air
  
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• What 4 successful entrepreneurs want you to know before you start your business

  14-12-2021 11:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  There’s a Dutch saying that goes ‘Op een roze wolk zitten’. Or in English, ‘to sit on a pink cloud.’ It’s used to describe someone who’s euphoric. Nobody’s actually perching on a wad of candyfloss-colored cumulus. Starting your first company feels like riding the pink cloud. Anticipation, mixed with fear, loaded with excitement and possibility. According to Techleap’s Thinking Bigger report, Dutch people place more value on starting a compan
  
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• Private escooters banned on London’s public transport over fire concerns

  14-12-2021 10:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates, follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Privately owned e-scooters will be banned on all Transport for London (TfL) services from next week after an exploding battery caused a f
  
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• This is what banking will look like in 10 years

  14-12-2021 09:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  Banking has always been a strong and stable pillar of society. However, the COVID-19 global pandemic forced the entire industry to focus on digital services amidst work from home orders in various parts of the globe. Since the lockdown in early 2020, we have seen a 72% rise in the use of fintech apps in Europe and an exponential increase in cryptocurrency prices due to an influx of large scale institutional investors. With the need to find new and better solutions to cater to customers, the onc
  
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• What it’s like to go global early with operationally intensive businesses

  14-12-2021 08:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  If you launch a startupin your home country, you might discover it’s a pretty small market. Naturally, you start thinking about expanding into new countries, and if your business isn’t dependent on physical processes — great! — you can launch globally basically from day one. But what to do if your business is a platform of management crowdsourced couriers with vast amounts of transactions and physical processes: couriers move in the physical world using different types o
  
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• Apple’s new AirTags-detecting Android app can’t automatically tell you if you’ve been bugged by a rogue tracker

  14-12-2021 07:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Update (14/12/2021): Apple has finally released an Android app called Tracker Detector, so you can find rouge AirTags around you, even if you don’t have an iPhone or an iPad. The app uses Apple’s Find My network to detect AirTags and compatible devices, but there’s no background scanning. That means you have to manually open the app and scan for AirTags around. Looking at the early user reviews on the Play Store, people are furious.  Early user reviews of Apple’s Ai
  
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• Apple’s new AirTags-detecting Android app can’t automatically reveal if you’ve been bugged

  14-12-2021 07:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Update (14/12/2021): Apple has finally released an Android app called Tracker Detector, so you can find rouge AirTags around you, even if you don’t have an iPhone or an iPad. The app uses Apple’s Find My network to detect AirTags and compatible devices, but there’s no background scanning. That means you have to manually open the app and scan for AirTags around. Looking at the early user reviews on the Play Store, people are furious.  Early user reviews of Apple’s Ai
  
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• Following Apple, Microsoft made it easier to buy Surface repair tools

  14-12-2021 03:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  A few weeks ago, Apple announced it would begin to sell spare parts for you to fix your own iPhone, in one of the biggest wins for the right to repair movement in years. Now, in a smaller, but still welcome move, Microsoft has partnered with iFixit to sell tools designed to make it easier to fix Surface devices. It’s a sign that the industry is maybe, just maybe, actually listening to user feedback. (Or these companies are just preparing for imminent pressure from governments. Either way,
  
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