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TNW Deals @ The Next Web · 11/18/2021 09:00 EDT

PDF Expert is an all-purpose tool for making your PDFs as friendly to edit as a Word doc

TLDR: This award-winning app can help you complete any PDF project, from editing to filling out forms to even creating PDFs of your own. PDFs pulled away as the primary web document format of the digital age in the early 90s because they offered high quality versions of those documents in a comparatively small file size. But while they looked great and didn’t take up much space, the downside of... Read more â€ș

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TNW Deals @ The Next Web · 11/18/2021 09:00 EDT

TLDR: With nearly 2,000 courses between them, the Stone River eLearning and StackSkills Unlimited Lifetime Membership Bundle offer all the training you need to learn virtually anything. 2021 is rapidly counting down to its final days, with 2022 just a few short weeks away. When you step back and think about everything you accomplished this year, are you happy with those results? Ask most people about their annual resolutions and... Read more â€ș

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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten @ The Next Web · 11/18/2021 08:31 EDT

Why professionalism is boring AF

On Monday, I received the draft of a new marketing campaign for a company I follow. It looked professional, but not in a good way. It was easy to imagine what kind of conversation preceded this campaign. Someone probably said, “I want it to look professional,” and so the marketers went with that. The campaign reflected a mature and professional organization. But it also looked like it could fit any... Read more â€ș

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Ivan Mehta @ The Next Web 1 place · 11/18/2021 07:54 EDT

Meta’s prototype devices give us a glimpse of the metaverse life

Facebook has rebranded itself to Meta, and is fully committed to building a metaverse. To achieve its grand vision, it’ll need to launch multiple groundbreaking devices, controllers, and supporting hardware. The company has already shown off some concepts and research projects in this area, and some of them are fascinating. Here’s a list of what we’ve seen so far: Haptic gloves In its series of prototype devices, gloves with haptic... Read more â€ș

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Ivan Mehta @ The Next Web 2 place · 11/18/2021 05:29 EDT

Instagram is late to the ‘rage shake’ party

Another day, another Snapchat feature lands up on Instagram. The Meta-owned app has now implemented a ‘rage shake’ feature that lets you shake your phone to report a bug. Last night, Instagram‘s chief, Adam Mosseri, announced this feature alongside another one that will let you delete a specific photo from a carousel. Pretty neat. You can watch the feature in action in the video below from the 55-second mark. You... Read more â€ș

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Cate Lawrence @ The Next Web · 11/18/2021 04:29 EDT

I’m calling it: 2022 is the year of circular design

I’m calling it. 2021 was the year of the electric vehicle. I predict, 2022 is the year of circular design.  We recently saw batteries makers Northvolt produce its first lithium-ion battery cell featuring a nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cathode produced with metals recovered through battery waste recycling. This is a big deal.  While this is a huge leap in battery innovation, we’re not entirely there yet. The company aims to produce cells... Read more â€ș

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Napier Lopez @ The Next Web · 11/17/2021 17:51 EDT

Apple will sell spare parts to fix your iPhone as pigs learn to fly

Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write, let alone in 2021: Apple today announced Self Service Repair, a program that will allow everyday customers to buy genuine Apple repair parts and tools to fix their own broken devices, starting with the iPhone 12 and 13. In related news, the domestic pig, Sus domesticus, has recently been spotted flying south for the winter. Seriously though, my mouth was agape as... Read more â€ș

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Tristan Greene @ The Next Web 3 place · 11/17/2021 15:08 EDT

How the laws of physics could prevent AI from gaining sentience

A renowned theoretical computer science expert recently released an astonishing physics pre-print paper that tosses fuel on the fiery debate over
 whether humans could use wormholes to traverse the universe or not. Don’t worry, I’ll explain what this has to do with self-aware robots in due course. Fun with physics First, however, let’s lay the foundation for our speculation with a quick glance at this all-new wormhole theory. The pre-print... Read more â€ș

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Cate Lawrence @ The Next Web · 11/17/2021 12:35 EDT

Lowering the age of a licence won’t solve the truck driver shortage

Think back to when you were a kid, and people asked what job you wanted to do when you grew up. Did you say a truck driver? Well, now, once you turn 18, you can become one. But why would you want to?  The Developing Responsible Individuals for a Vibrant Economy (DRIVE-Safe) is changing to allow 18-year-olds to drive trucks across states. While  48 out of 50 US states currently... Read more â€ș

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Ioanna Lykiardopoulou @ The Next Web · 11/17/2021 11:20 EDT

New extinguisher addresses unique challenges of fighting EV fires

Contrary to what many skeptics preach, there’s not enough data yet to confirm that EVs are more likely to catch fire than internal combustion engine cars. But there’s un irrefutable fact: when electric vehicles do catch fire, they burn fiercely and require a new skillset for emergency respondents to fight the flames. Austrian firefighting equipment manufacturer Rosenbauer has developed a special EV fire extinguisher, specifically designed to tackle the complexities... Read more â€ș

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TNW Deals @ The Next Web · 11/17/2021 09:00 EDT

This LED floor lamp can bathe your room in 16 million colors — and you’ll barely know it’s there

TLDR: The Lamp Depot Minimalist LED Corner Floor Lamp casts up to 16 million colors and over 300 different lighting patterns to remake a room strictly through lighting. For their hundreds of different possible styles and configurations, lamps don’t always get loads of attention as central room decor. But it’s tough not to earn some attention when you’re not even sure that a lamp IS a lamp. That’s part of... Read more â€ș

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Thomas Macaulay @ The Next Web · 11/17/2021 08:01 EDT

Twitter’s auto-refresh fix could make wading through the cesspit worthwhile

Twitter may be a cesspit, but sometimes it’s worth trudging through toxic waste in search of buried treasure. If you find a pithy wisecrack or a memorable meme, dysentery doesn’t feel so awful. Unless, of course, Twitter’s auto-refresh vaporizes the tweet before you’ve pulled it out of the pigshit. After tormenting users with this issue for years, the bird app has finally shown some mercy. Twitter announced on Tuesday that... Read more â€ș

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The Conversation @ The Next Web · 11/17/2021 06:36 EDT

What does it take to create an object that travels at 1% speed of light?

Light is fast. In fact, it is the fastest thing that exists, and a law of the universe is that nothing can move faster than light. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second (300,000 kilometers per second) and can go from the Earth to the Moon in just over a second. Light can streak from Los Angeles to New York in less than the blink of an eye. While 1%... Read more â€ș

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Ioanna Lykiardopoulou @ The Next Web · 11/17/2021 04:23 EDT

If this self-driving library came to my town, maybe I’d read a damn book

I love reading books and that’s why I have a membership card for my city’s public library. Do I visit it often? No, I don’t. I’m normally too busy or lazy to leave the house just for that. For the same reasons, I have a stash of books that I did manage to borrow from the library, which I return long after the due date and end up paying some... Read more â€ș

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Karl Mansour @ The Next Web · 11/17/2021 02:30 EDT

Can we please stop talking about ‘digital transformation’?

I don’t want this to be my Jerry Maguire moment but to be honest, I’m sick of hearing the words ‘digital transformation.’ What does it even mean anymore? It’s such a hyped-up term, overused by a market saturated with evangelists spouting conceptual nonsense, amplifying its enigma-like existence (and profiting handsomely from it). It normally starts with the C-Suite coming back from a strategy week, a Silicon Valley trip, or a... Read more â€ș

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Napier Lopez @ The Next Web · 11/17/2021 00:37 EDT

Remember Windows Media Player? Microsoft is finally replacing it

When’s the last time you used Windows Media Player? What about Microsoft’s Groove Music app? If you’re anything like me, it was probably right after getting a new computer or completing a fresh install, when you tried to play some music or videos only to remember you haven’t installed foobar2000 or VLC yet. Needless to say, the antiquated Windows Media Player looks completely outdated with Windows 11‘s modern UI, and... Read more â€ș

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Tristan Greene @ The Next Web · 11/16/2021 20:49 EDT

IBM announces Call for Code 2021 grand prize winner

IBM and David Clarke Cause just announced Saaf Water as this year’s 2021 grand prize winner! Saaf Water is the first team from India to take the grand prize and their amazing story represents everything that’s good and necessary about the Call for Code challenge. Per an IBM press release: Saaf Water will receive $200,000 and support to incubate, test, and deploy their solution from the IBM Service Corpsand expert... Read more â€ș

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Tristan Greene @ The Next Web · 11/16/2021 18:11 EDT

Edward Snowden dunks on Search gurus in hilarious Twitter clapback

I don’t usually pass along Twitter gossip like it’s news, but it isn’t everyday the world’s most famous whistle-blower gets into a tissy with the underground rulers of all things search. Let me rewind: Edward Snowden, everybody’s favorite fugitive-turned-technology-critic, shot out a seemingly off-the-cuff post on Twitter today professing his disdain for the current state of internet search: Is it just me, or have search results become absolute garbage for... Read more â€ș

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Tristan Greene @ The Next Web · 11/16/2021 17:15 EDT

The metaverse isn’t a place – it’s a mandatory upgrade for reality

When Facebook announced it was changing its name to “Meta,” it was immediately clear the company was doing more than just pivoting – it was evolving. In the weeks since, the metaverse has become the hottest topic in tech. The last time I saw a planet-scale conversation about technology of this magnitude was when blockchain and cryptocurrency entered the mainstream periphery around the middle of 2017. Unfortunately, it seems like... Read more â€ș

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Thomas Macaulay @ The Next Web · 11/16/2021 14:31 EDT

Google Maps could help us survive the holiday shopping season

Christmas shopping is guaranteed to unleash my inner Grinch. The urgency, the icy temperatures, the emptying shelves, and the crowds — sweet Santa, the crowds! They turn my Yuletide glee into deep holiday blues. This year, however, Google Maps is delivering some festive help. The app has gift-wrapped a bundle of new features to help shoppers survive the holiday rush. First up is Area Busyness, which analyzes geographical data to... Read more â€ș

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