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Rhea Moutafis @ The Next Web 2 place · 08/22/2021 02:00 EDT

Ignore what you’ve heard: techies make great CEOs

Data nerds, computer geeks, science morons, I’m speaking to you. It’s the ever-prevailing clichĂ©: the antisocial introverts who spend their days hacking away at some nerdy project that nobody understands. The freaks that push the frontiers of tech every day but still can’t keep up with the Kardashians. The clichĂ© goes further. If techies lack basic human skills like communicating effectively or cracking a funny joke, then they won’t make... Read more â€ș

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TNW Deals @ The Next Web 2 place · 08/21/2021 10:00 EDT

Protect your passwords with this management system and form filler

It seems like every website you sign on to these days requires a complicated password. But what if it didn’t have to be so hard, and what if your solution came at basically no cost? That’s exactly what you’ll get with a lifetime subscription to Sticky Password Premium, an award-winning password management and form filler solution. Sticky Password Premium is available for a limited time for just $29.99, but when... Read more â€ș

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The Conversation @ The Next Web 2 place · 08/21/2021 09:00 EDT

How a simple crystal could help pave the way to full-scale quantum computing

Vaccine and drug development, artificial intelligence, transport and logistics, climate science — these are all areas that stand to be transformed by the development of a full-scale quantum computer. And there has been explosive growth in quantum computing investment over the past decade. Yet current quantum processors are relatively small in scale, with fewer than 100 qubits — the basic building blocks of a quantum computer. Bits are the smallest... Read more â€ș

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The Conversation @ The Next Web · 08/21/2021 05:00 EDT

AI can now identify footprints — but forensic experts won’t get fired just yet

We rely on experts all the time. If you need financial advice, you ask an expert. If you are sick, you visit a doctor, and as a juror you may listen to an expert witness. In the future, however, artificial intelligence (AI) might replace many of these people. In forensic science, the expert witness plays a vital role. Lawyers seek them out for their analysis and opinion on specialist evidence.... Read more â€ș

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Napier Lopez @ The Next Web · 08/20/2021 23:03 EDT

Someone ported Super Mario 64 to play in a browser (again)

Super Mario 64 is the first videogame I can remember really playing seriously, and at the time its 3D world and movement was a technological marvel. Now you can play one of Nintendo‘s best from pretty much any modern Bowser browser — as if it were something as basic as Pong or Tetris. That’s technology for you. Someone managed to stick what appears to be a complete version of Mario... Read more â€ș

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Thomas Macaulay @ The Next Web · 08/20/2021 15:06 EDT

Atari claims Soulja Boy does not own the company

Soulja Boy made a stunning announcement to his legions of adoring fans on Wednesday. “I am now the owner of Atari,” the rapper revealed on Instagram. He also disclosed that the company was set to buy his own gaming business for a cool $140 million. The Crank Dat songwriter said Atari was “real proud” of his work with the SouljaGame consoles: I just signed two deals with Atari. I’m the... Read more â€ș

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Tristan Greene @ The Next Web 3 place · 08/20/2021 13:21 EDT

Analysis: Tesla’s humanoid robot might be Elon’s dumbest idea yet

Let’s just dive right in. Tesla held its much-ballyhooed “AI Day” yesterday which, as Shift’s Cate Lawrence pointed out earlier, was little more than a job fair. There were, however, a couple of interesting reveals. The good news was the company’s new AI chips. According to the supposed specifications and obligatory hyperbole, Tesla’s AI chips will be the world’s most powerful. It’s at least plausible that the AI team at... Read more â€ș

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Thomas Macaulay @ The Next Web 2 place · 08/20/2021 13:04 EDT

FTC lawsuit seeks to force Facebook to sell Instagram and WhatsApp

Facebook’s “special announcement” of a new VR meeting app was curiously timed. It arrived on the same day that the Federal Trade Commission made a fresh attempt to force the company to sell Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC filed an antitrust complaint on Thursday that alleges Facebook used an illegal buy-or-bury scheme to maintain its market dominance. The US competition regulator argues that Facebook repeatedly failed to develop meaningful innovations... Read more â€ș

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Mår Måsson Maack @ The Next Web · 08/20/2021 10:49 EDT

Italian dude gets a QR code tattoo to prove he’s covid-free

Smartphones always seem to run out of juice at the worst time. Luckily though, there’s an easy fix: use an age-old body modification scarring ritual to sear a permanent information conduit into your soft skin. Or at least that’s what one young Italian dude seems to believe. Earlier this week, tattoo artist Gabriele Pellerone tattooed a QR code of the client’s official EU covid certificate on their upper arm, Il... Read more â€ș

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TNW Deals @ The Next Web · 08/20/2021 10:00 EDT

Master the ins and outs of QuickBooks with this five-course bundle of classes

Running your own small business means the responsibility of taking care of the finances usually falls on you. That can be a time-consuming venture unless you learn bookkeeping skills with a trusted program like QuickBooks. Now you can get lifetime access to the program with a QuickBooks Self-Employed Bookkeeping Training Bundle. You’ll get five different classes and 30 hours of instruction to help you get comfortable with you company’s finances.... Read more â€ș

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TNW Deals @ The Next Web · 08/20/2021 10:00 EDT

With this training, you can learn to play the piano, guitar, and ukulele for under $30

TLDR: The Piano, Guitar, and Ukulele for Beginners Software Bundle can help even first time players pick up and master three instruments through insightful video lessons led by experts. Imagine walking out on stage and sliding behind a piano to start playing your favorite song to an enthusiastic crowd. When the song reaches your first chorus, you get active, moving out from behind the piano to grab a guitar and... Read more â€ș

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Ivan Mehta @ The Next Web 3 place · 08/20/2021 07:40 EDT

Twitter finally kills annoying feature that created accidental DM groups

Remember that time when you wanted to share a tweet with two people and accidentally created a group? Yep. To share a tweet with two people, you had to share with one of them first, and repeat the process again. It was annoying. Thankfully, the social network is fixing it with a new DM feature. The firm said last night that it’s rolling out a new feature to its iOS... Read more â€ș

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The Conversation @ The Next Web · 08/20/2021 07:08 EDT

Twitter’s plan to let users flag ‘misinformation’ only amplifies existing bias

Over the past year, we’ve seen how dramatically misinformation can impact the lives of people, communities and entire countries. In a bid to better understand how misinformation spreads online, Twitter has started an experimental trial in Australia, the United States and South Korea, allowing users to flag content they deem misleading. Users in these countries can now flag tweets as misinformation through the same process by which other harmful content... Read more â€ș

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Cate Lawrence @ The Next Web · 08/20/2021 06:53 EDT

Tesla’s AI day was really just a job fair 

On Thursday Tesla held Tesla AI day. If you were looking for a great big product showcase by the automaker, you’d be left disappointed. Beyond anything else, it was a job fair.  Remember those days where you turn up to some event, put on a nametag, and talk to people sitting at tables about why you should work for their company? Well, Tesla did just this following a bunch of... Read more â€ș

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The Conversation @ The Next Web · 08/20/2021 03:30 EDT

Bored mathematicians just calculated pi to 62.8 trillion digits

Swiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences GraubĂŒnden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the number of digits of pi – a staggering 62.8 trillion figures. By my estimate, if these digits were printed out they would fill every book in the British Library ten times over. The researchers’ feat of arithmetic took 108 days and 9 hours to complete, and dwarfs the previous record of... Read more â€ș

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Rajat Bhargava @ The Next Web · 08/20/2021 03:00 EDT

Product-led growth means changing your whole business — not just the ‘product’

One of the hottest trends in the startup ecosystem is product-led growth (PLG). The PLG approach to introducing a solution to the market is focused on the end-user. Initially, many B2B founders viewed PLG as more of a go-to-market motion where providing a freemium offering would enable a company to be product-led. However, this is not enough. End-users aren’t simply the people who use the product and decide whether to... Read more â€ș

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Ivan Mehta @ The Next Web · 08/20/2021 02:01 EDT

Tesla’s making humanoids — but you can overpower them

Elon Musk has done it again! The “Technoking” of Tesla has announced another product that billionaires fantasize about: humanoids. At the company‘s AI day, he revealed that the car-making firm is making a prototype humanoid, and it’ll be called Tesla Bot — the internal codename of the bot will be Optimus. Shocking.  Musk claimed that Tesla is “arguably the biggest robotics company” because its cars are “semi-sentient robots on wheels.”... Read more â€ș

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Tristan Greene @ The Next Web · 08/19/2021 17:37 EDT

Don’t be scared: Scientists figured out how fear works

A team of scientists in Beijing have discovered novel inferences concerning the learned fear response in humans. Relax, this is a good thing. Learned fear is a condition that scientists don’t know a whole lot about. The human brain is mysterious and the fear response is believed to occur in parts of if that are incredibly difficult to scan with non-invasive measuring devices. Up front: You can’t just slap an... Read more â€ș

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Napier Lopez @ The Next Web · 08/19/2021 17:34 EDT

OnlyFans’ porn ban sounds even dumber than Tumblr’s

As with Tumblr, I’ve never really used OnlyFans. But you don’t have to be on the platforms to recognize the obvious thing both apps have in common: banning porn is a dumb idea. OnlyFans today announced (via Bloomberg) that it will bar creators from posting sexually explicit content starting in October. While some nude photos and videos will still be allowed, the move comes off as misguided at best and... Read more â€ș

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Tristan Greene @ The Next Web · 08/19/2021 15:43 EDT

Facebook’s Metaverse is just AOL for people who play Beat Saber during lunch

One of the most iconic scenes of the Star Wars film franchise is the moment lovable droid R2D2 rolls up to Obi Wan Kenobi and offers him a virtual reality helmet. Oh you don’t remember that scene? It’s the one where Kenobi fiddles with the straps of his headset for three full minutes on screen before mumbling “hang on, it’s blurry. Wait. What am I supposed to be seeing? Is... Read more â€ș

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