Facebook says that it now uses the same techniques as bot removal to combat human trolls and spammers. The company told Reuters that this new approach is similar to what its security team uses to shut down networks of Russian troll farms. The social network is saying it’s handling notorious groups that engage in false mass reporting of posts or accounts to get them removed by moderators. It’s also targeting... Read more ›
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While most of the products at the iPhone 13 event were predicted by early rumors, there was one prominent prediction that didn’t show up: the AirPods 3. But don’t count it out just yet. A new report by DigiTimes Asia claims the AirPods 3 are not only coming — they are already in production. According to DigiTimes, shipments from components suppliers and assemblers have been ‘proceeding slowly,’ but it still... Read more ›
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Did you know Neural is taking the stage this fall? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of AI during TNW Conference 2021. Secure your online ticket now! A team of researchers at the University of Leeds recently made the startling discovery that many observable protoplanets are surrounded by the raw molecules necessary for life. Planets such as Earth are formed when the gravitational pull... Read more ›
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Apple just announced the iPhone 13 two days ago, but benchmarks are already starting to roll in. It should come as no surprise that the new phones are faster than their predecessors, but the results also show, once again, that Apple is roughly a generation or more ahead of its Android competition when it comes to raw power. For reference, using the popular Geekbench 5 metric, high-end Android devices with... Read more ›
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Did you know Neural is taking the stage this fall? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of AI during TNW Conference 2021. Secure your online ticket now! A team of researchers led by physicists at the University of Cambridge may have accidentally stumbled upon the biggest (as in, size-wise) discovery in the history of physics: dark energy. And not a moment too soon, as... Read more ›
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Boris is the wise ol’ founder of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! There’s a Seinfeld episode where George explains how he ‘works’ without actually doing anything. When Elaine and Jerry ask him how he gets away with doing nothing,... Read more ›
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Since EHang unveiled what it claimed to be the very first drone capable of flying a person at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2016, there’s been a huge interest in air taxis, passenger drones, and eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft. So I’ve decided to look at the main players in this exciting space, to explore their progress, and their USP. EHang (China) EHang plans to offer joyrides... Read more ›
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TLDR: The 2021 CompTIA Security Infrastructure Expert Bundle can help IT specialists learn the skills to ace four of CompTIA’s most critical cybersecurity exams. For those looking to bolster their career in cybersecurity, certification from CompTIA is premier recognition of your skills. Over the past four decades, the non-profit trade group has become one of the pre-eminent IT knowledge centers anywhere, offering the professional-grade testing and credentialing that have become... Read more ›
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TLDR: Clean up the entire data transfer process with this collection of three data collection, recovery, and deletion apps at almost 75 percent off. The average user should expect to have to buy a new computer every four years. That means most of us are usually in some stage of either thinking about or actively getting ready to buy a new laptop or PC. But even if your current rig... Read more ›
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Did you know SHIFT is taking the stage this fall? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of mobility during TNW Conference 2021. Secure your ticket now! Even though the transition to battery electric vehicles is at an early stage, we’re well aware of the need to recycle and reuse the precious metals and materials contained within lithium-ion batteries. Among the US recycling companies, Redwood... Read more ›
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Earlier this week, in an unprecedented step, Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees Wikipedia, banned seven editors based out of Mainland China over “infiltration concerns.” Plus, the non-profit revoked access of 12 editors from an “unrecognized group.” The foundation investigated an unofficial group of 300 Wikipedia power users, known as Wikimedians of Mainland China (WMC). It found out that some of the group’s editors were taking unfair advantage of their privileges to... Read more ›
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Streaming services such asTwitch andYouTube Live are now a significant part of popular entertainment. These sites host millions of “live streamers” and tens of millions of daily viewers. Streamers broadcast their lives and activities — often digital gaming — to audiences who interact and chat with them in real-time. Twitch, the dominant streaming platform, also currently houses around 150 channels offering the live broadcasting of real-money slot machine gambling —... Read more ›
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Aesthetically, the iPhone 13 is similar to last year’s model — apart from one key element: the camera placement. The iPhone 12 had vertically stacked lenses. On the iPhone 13, these are now diagonal. So, here’s the question we’re going to answer today: why? In my mind, there are two key reasons Apple has changed the iPhone 13 lens placement — and you can split these into technical and marketing.... Read more ›
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WhatsApp is one of the most used chat apps across the world with more than 2 billion monthly active users, and Facebook owns it. Till now, the social network hasn’t pushed too many ‘Facebook‘ features on this app. But that’s changing with a new feature company’s testing: business directory. The firm is testing this ‘Yellow pages’ like feature beginning in Sao Paulo, Brazil. WhatsApp’s head, Will Cathcart, announced this feature... Read more ›
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The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to head to space on Dec. 18, 2021. With it, astronomers hope to find the first galaxies to form in the universe, will search for Earth-like atmospheres around other planets and accomplish many other scientific goals. I am an astronomer and the principal investigator for the Near Infrared Camera – or NIRCam for short – aboard the Webb telescope. I have participated in... Read more ›
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Companies and consortiums have been waging war against passwords through security keys and authenticator apps for years now. Microsoft has taken one more step towards a passwordless future by allowing you to remove the password from your account altogether — so you won’t need it to sign into Windows, your email, or Outlook. The company offers options for alternative sign-in, such as the authenticator app or physical security keys. If... Read more ›
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We already know the Pixel 6 is going to be a watershed device for Google. The company already confirmed the device, including the fact that it’s using its own custom processor dubbed Google Tensor. But what we didn’t know was just how different it would be from anything else. Google may be paving its own, strange road to CPU design For a while, it seemed Google might just use a... Read more ›
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It. Never. Fails. Every time an AI article finds its way to social media there’s hundreds of people invoking the terrifying specter of “SKYNET.” SKYNET is a fictional artificial general intelligence that’s responsible for the creation of the killer robots from the Terminator film franchise. It was a scary vision of AI‘s future until deep learning came along and big tech decided to take off its metaphorical belt and really... Read more ›
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TLDR: The HaloLock Magnetic Wireless Car Charger grips your iPhone 12 like a glove, offering full adjustability and fast wireless charging for all your on-the-road adventuring. Car mounts and chargers are the quintessential unknown soldiers of your tech arsenal. They get little to no attention until something isn’t working quite right. Then they’re all you start thinking about. If your mount grip is too soft or too hard. If the... Read more ›
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What is my IP? It’s an odd question in most people’s minds, yet it’s one of the top ten most-searched questions on Google. Those who know what an IP address is will already know most of these searches are coming from people who understand what they’re searching for. But for the rest of us, a more relevant question might be: what is an IP address? Across the globe, there are... Read more ›
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