TLDR: The Fundamentals of Product Design eBook Bundle by O’Reilly features five books detailing the steps for creating successful products that people want to buy. Design is often a very ephemeral thing. A creator builds a website or an app or another web experience based on an almost instinctual feel for what looks good, what works well, and what they think users will enjoy and embrace. While that innate design... Read more ›
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TLDR: The 2021 Complete Amazon Side Hustle Bundle explores the steps for launching a successful Amazon side business for a regular passive income without hours of work per day. It’s easy to look at the gargantuan size of a company like Amazon and be intimidated. After all, the world’s 3rd largest company partners with institutions like the U.S. Postal Service and Goldman Sachs and the NFL. But the bulk of... Read more ›
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Residents of Nottingham are going to witness a UK first: a wireless charging electric vehicle trial. Nine electric taxis will roam the streets of the city, named after the trial itself, WiCET (Wireless Charging of Electric Taxis). WiCET is a demonstration project funded by the UK Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV), as one of Innovate UK’s portfolio of on-street wireless charging (OSWC) projects. The etaxi fleet will consist of... 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! In a first-in-human study, a minimally-invasive brain implant has elicited a sense of touch in the fingertips of two people. Researchers have previously electrically stimulated folds of the brain, called gyri, to restore some generalized sensation to... Read more ›
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It’s hard to remember a time when travel required printed or hand-drawn maps, blowing in the wind as you struggle to locate yourself and the nearest train station. Today’s maps not only provide direction but help us find and sometimes even pay for our choice of transport — without a card in hand! This week Google shared what appears to be its next major feature with members of the Google... Read more ›
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Since the pandemic, working from home has become the new norm, but there’ll be a pinch of sadness when we eventually go back to the office. On the upside we’ll see our colleagues again and we’ll stop wearing pj’s all day long, but on the downside we’ll lose a significant benefit: the lack of commuting. A survey by Hubble showed that 79% of respondents consider the lack of commute as... Read more ›
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It’s hard to miss the flashing lights of fire engines, ambulances, and police cars ahead of you as you’re driving down the road. But in at least 11 cases in the past three and a half years, Tesla’s Autopilot advanced driver-assistance system did just that. This led to 11 accidents in which Teslas crashed into emergency vehicles or other vehicles at those scenes, resulting in 17 injuries, and one death.... Read more ›
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If you think your manager treats you unfairly, the thought might have crossed your mind that replacing said boss with an unbiased machine that rewards performance based on objective data is a path to workplace happiness. But as appealing as that may sound, you’d be wrong. Our review of 45 studies on machines as managers shows we hate being slaves to algorithms (perhaps even more than we hate being slaves... Read more ›
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Google Play Store ratings can be a helpful indicator when you’re comparing similar apps while deciding which one to download. But reviews and ratings of an app from all over the world might not be useful for you. So Google is changing things up. Starting November, it will display local ratings of an app on Android. Notably, local would mean the country your device and account are registered in. This... Read more ›
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Remember the time when Facebook forced us to download Messenger to chat with friends make calls? Now, the company wants to bring video and voice calling back to the main app. According to a report from Bloomberg, starting this week, some users will be able to make voice and video calls directly from the app. While currently, this is just a test, the company said this feature will “reduce the... Read more ›
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Prominent leaker Marc Gurman is at it again with another Apple rumor. This time around he’s corroborating earlier reports of a new Mac Mini with a few more details: it’ll come with more ports, a new design, and the M1X processor. And it’s coming “in the next several months.” The information comes from Gurman’s Power On newsletter; here’s the relevant quote in full: The Mac mini is used for more... Read more ›
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I haven’t been a huge fan of OnePlus’ various earbuds so far. They’ve either been uncomfortable, had poor controls, or didn’t sound that great. The one thing they’ve always had going for them is a low price tag. The OnePlus Buds Pro, the company’s first model with noise-canceling — which are clearly ‘inspired’ by the AirPods Pro — finally get it right. Well, mostly. But at $150, it’s hard to... Read more ›
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The universe started with a Big Bang. Everything that was ever going to be anything was compacted into a tiny ball of whatever-ness and then it exploded outward and the universe begin expanding. At least, that’s one way of looking at it. But emergent new theories and ages-old philosophical assertions are beginning to find a foothold in cutting-edge quantum physics research. And it’s beginning to look more and more like... Read more ›
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NASA’s Perseverance rover may be hogging the headlines, but its predecessor is also capturing new insights about Mars. Since August 2012, the Curiosity buggy has been studying whether the red planet could have once supported microbial life. To mark the rover’s ninth year on Mars, NASA has created a 360-degree tour of Curiosity’s current home on Mount Sharp. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSThe car-sized rover was designed to explore Mars’ Gale crater. The... Read more ›
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The growing use of emotion recognition AI is causing alarm among ethicists. They warn that the tech is prone to racial biases, doesn’t account for cultural differences, and is used for mass surveillance. Some argue that AI isn’t even capable of accurately detecting emotions. A new study published in Nature Communications has shone further light on these shortcomings. The researchers analyzed photos of actors to examine whether facial movements reliably... Read more ›
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The growth of electric vehicles on the road means we need more EV charging stations. But research this month has raised a big old red flag regarding the security of electric vehicle charging. Researchers from Pen Test Partners explored six home electric vehicle charging brands and public EV charging networks and found significant problems. They found vulnerabilities in Project EV, Wallbox, EVBox, EO Charging’s EO Hub and EO mini pro... Read more ›
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TLDR: The 2021 Become a Freelance Writer Bootcamp Bundle is your step-by-step guide to building a lucrative and thriving career as a work-for-hire writer. Over the past two years, the rest of the world has caught up to a fact that freelance writers have known for a long time. Working remotely — and often on your own timeline — is a pretty great job perk. Of course, for all that... Read more ›
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For startup founders, passion for the product comes naturally. You’re probably your first customer, and so it’s easy to build something that you think customers will want. But when it comes to growing your business, designing great products requires more than your own intuition. It requires establishing a customer-obsessed mindset. In my first startup, we were building a platform to buy and sell solar renewable energy credits. It was a... Read more ›
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Have you ever wondered if you’re just a character in some elaborate simulation? You shake the thought off because you’re a real person, living a real-life, in a concrete reality. But can you be certain that you are? Isn’t it at least possible that your body and that the world around you are nothing but illusions? This is the conundrum that Guy, played by Ryan Reynolds, finds himself in the... Read more ›
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. If you’re using WhatsApp as your primary chat app, it lets you archive old conversations, so they don’t appear in your inbox. However, if there’s a new message in any of those conversations, you will see it back in your inbox. Thankfully, WhatsApp has... Read more ›
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