Did you know SHIFT is taking the stage on Sept 30 and Oct 1? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of mobility during TNW Conference 2021. Secure your ticket now! Mumbai, the western city of India, has put out a tender to purchase 1,900 EV buses that will add to its existing fleet of 386. With this, the financial capital of India aims to... Read more ›
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Design, at its heart, should be about making things better. Whether aesthetically or experientially, the craft should operate as a seamless bridge between a product’s function and the person operating it. The thing is, I’m just not sure that’s the case any longer. Over the past few years, it seems that design has become less user focused, concentrating far more on keeping us addicted and hooked, rather than actually improving... Read more ›
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Join Lauren Razavi onstage at TNW 2021 as she moderates a panel on ‘Hustle Culture and the Burnout Generation.’ Silicon Valley has been the startup capital of the world for a generation – but that doesn’t guarantee it will retain that title in future. As the Silicon Valley playbook is uploaded to the cloud, other startup cities are taking advantage, but we have the opportunity to update our thinking as... Read more ›
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Facebook is using one of its most engaging places on the site to spread positive stories about the company: the News Feed. That’s right. Over the past couple of months, the social network has amplified — under the fitting name of Project Amplify — stories written by the firm to bolster its image. According to a report from the New York Times, after a meeting in January, Facebook took multiple... Read more ›
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The Specialized Turbo Vado SL is one of the best ebikes I’ve reviewed, but that unit was meant to provide a gentle assist over a regular bike, rather than helping you blaze up the steepest hills without breaking a sweat. I’ve been curious what the company’s heavier, more powerful models were capable of, and I got to see just that prior to the launch of the new 2021 Turbo Vado... 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 ticket now! Apple’s walled garden for AI tends to keep the Cupertino company out of critical media’s crosshairs. So it’s a bit of a shock when a story breaks demonstrating that the house that Jobs and Woz built is just... Read more ›
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Amazon delivery drivers were involved in at least 60 accidents resulting in 13 deaths between 2015 and 2019. And that was before drivers were being forced to make dangerous decisions by in-vehicle AI cameras and crappy algorithms. Up front: Motherboard ran a horrific article (great reporting, horrifying topic) about Amazon‘s third-party driver surveillance system. The skinny is that thousands of drivers across the US are being monitored by AI systems... Read more ›
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Amazon today announced the latest version of its Kindle Paperwhite ($140) — it’s most popular Kindle — with at least four major updates that might actually make the Paperwhite a better buy than the more expensive Oasis. Actually, Amazon announced not just one new Kindle Paperwhite, but three: there are new ‘Signature’ ($190) and Kids ($160) models too. More on these in a bit. A bigger, warmer display The new... Read more ›
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If you’ve ever emailed a resort in Fiji or Vanuatu about that long-awaited holiday, it’s likely your email traveled through an undersea internet cable. Such cables carry much of the internet traffic around the globe, in conjunction with underground fiber connections, satellites, and microwave links. For Pacific Island countries, undersea internet cables can be crucial. The number of Pacific Island countries with such connections has increased substantially in recent years.... Read more ›
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TLDR: The Rytr AI Writing Tool can help any writer get a whole lot faster, generating solid AI-crafted text for virtually any usage need in seconds. Sometimes, even the best writers can use a bit of a boost. There are only so many ways a person can put a collection of words together on a page before they all start deteriorating into mush and completely losing their power. Nobody wants... 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 ticket now! It seems like everyone is obsessed with Mars these days. Three space missions were sent to the planet last year. More than 10 million people asked their names to be etched onto a NASA rover currently driving across... Read more ›
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Christian Erfurt, the CEO and co-founder of Be My Eyes, who was interviewed for this article, is speaking at TNW2021 this year! You can get tickets for the event here. As if it isn’t enough of a challenge to build a business that makes money, Christian Erfurt took on a more difficult proposition six years ago. He co-founded a company with a view to assist people with vision impairment, while... Read more ›
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Tech companies like Apple and Google want to measure your health in multiple ways possible. But they’re running out of physical attributes to gauge such as heart rate, steps taken in a day, and blood oxygen. So the focus might shift to mental health, and that’s a slippery slope. According to documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Apple is working on a set of features to detect depression and... Read more ›
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Through social distancing mandates, lockdown measures and restrictions on gatherings, and services, the pandemic has brought about widespread changes to how modern societies function. And everyone has become more reliant on smartphones. One study found smartphone use increased by 70 percent during the first few months of the pandemic. And a recent Canadian survey found more than 40 percent of respondents are spending even more time on their phones this... Read more ›
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Choosing which programming language to specialize in is a moment that can really define your career. Whether you’re a newbie or you’re picking up a second language, you need to know which ones are most in demand and what you can do with them. That’s why we’re doing a series on the top jobs for the most common programming languages, starting with Python. There are so many programming languages out... 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! This month, we took a step closer to the next wave of air mobility with UK start-up Urban-Air Port announcing a partnership with the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Division of Hyundai. They’re developing the blueprint and foundations for... Read more ›
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Picture this. You’re standing on the train while looking at your email, and want to change the song very badly. You can reach your earbuds to do it, and opening the music app to do it is very cumbersome. And if your buds don’t support certain gestures, good luck doing that. Thankfully, I found this nifty Android app called Media Bar that lets me do that directly from the status... 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! Royal Mail has committed to the full electrification of its vehicles by 2030, and, in June, added 3,000 electric vans to its fleet, achieving an impressive tenfold increase. Now, the British postal service will start trialing twelve micro... Read more ›
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After its IPO in July, trading platform Robinhood is now said to be planning to load up its app with new features like a cryptocurrency wallet. According to a report by Bloomberg, the company is testing a new function that’ll allow you to store and transfer digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The report noted that the wallet feature was spotted in the app’s beta version on iPhones, 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 ticket now! Artificial intelligence is far too often a solution looking for a problem. So it’s refreshing when someone manages to find the perfect way to apply a simple AI trick to a huge problem plaguing humanity. And that’s exactly... Read more ›
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