The teenage joy of late-night gaming sessions faces an uncertain future in China. Tech giant Tencent has launched a time-sensitive facial recognition system that prevents minors from binging on video games after dark. The platform, called âMidnight Patrol,â arrives amid a moral panic over gaming addiction among children in China. Under-18s are now barred from gaming between 10PM and 8AM, and must register for games using their real names and... Read more âș
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Welcome to SHIFT Basics, a collection of tips, explainers, guides, and advice to keep you up to speed with mobility tech. As weâre moving towards a more sustainable transportation model, electricity will gradually replace petrol and diesel in our cars. Personally, I canât wait for the EV domination, but I caught myself wondering: do I really know how an electric engine works? Turns out, there were indeed some gaps in... Read more âș
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Nextdoor is the latest company seeking to go public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The neighborhood social network said the deal would give the business an equity value of around $4.3 billion. Up front: Nextdoor announced its plan after usage surged during lockdowns. The app, which neighbors use to communicate with each other, reported a 50% annual growth in daily active users last year. Instead of... Read more âș
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TLDR: The Espresso WFH Touchscreen Display and Accessories Bundle helps turn any device into an on-the-go work or playstation you can use virtually anywhere. Weâre all looking for more versatility these days from virtually everything. Nowhere is that more evident than with our powerful mobile devices. We want them to do everything, but considering we have to pack more and more gear with us to get everything done, weâd like... Read more âș
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A âproâ version of the Nintendo Switch has been rumored forever â and now itâsâŠÂ kinda here? But also not? Anyway! Say hello to Nintendoâs OLED Switch. Or the Nintendo Switch (OLED model) if you prefer dumb names. Thatâs right you beautiful people, a new Nintendo Switch will be hitting the shelves on October 8. It will come with a 7-inch OLED screen (YES!) and has a recommended retail price... Read more âș
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The Big Apple versus The Big Orange. The City of Dreams versus The City of Angels. Iâm referring, of course, to the ongoing rivalry between New York City and Los Angeles. Hilarious âsurveyâ videos and talk shows will give you one picture of the cities. My colleagues and I decided to take a more serious look at the differences between the cities, so we studied what everyone else was talking... Read more âș
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Weâve already been blown away by Rimacâs breathtaking Nevera, the all-electric hypercar that goes 0-60mph in just 1.85 second. But hereâs another bombshell from the Croatian automaker⊠Rimac announced on Monday that itâs taking over the 110-year-old Bugatti brand from Volkswagen to form a joint venture, called Bugatti Rimac. And if thatâs not the best match in the automotive world, I donât know what is. Seriously. Credit: Bugatti RimacThe Bugatti... Read more âș
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The Indian government has said that Twitter has lost its intermediary status, and in turn its âsafe harborâ in the country as it has failed to comply with the latest social media policing rules. The authorities argued in Delhi High court that the social network has lost its immunity as per Indiaâs IT rules. Twitter has failed to appoint local officers including a chief compliance officer, a grievance officer, and... Read more âș
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A Belgian artist has devised a novel way to catch misbehaving politicians: automatically tagging the rogues who use their phones at work. Dries Depoorter is using AI to monitor YouTube videos of Flemish government meetings. When the stream starts, his software uses machine learning to find phones in the footage, and facial recognition to identify politicians using the devices. Videos of the distracted lawmakers are then posted to the Twitter... Read more âș
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XTube, a pornography site, owned by MindGeek, will shut down permanently on September 5. At the time of publishing, there is no definitive statement on why XTube, part of the Pornhub Network, is closing. But the clues are there. MindGeek has controversially become the largest pornography business in the world. It both owns adult video platforms â such as Pornhub, RedTube, and YouPorn â and production companies, like Brazzers Digital... Read more âș
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Four days after the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill, a member of the âNot My Presidentâ Facebook group wrote in a post, âremember, our founding fathers were seen as terrorist [sic] and traitors.â A fellow group member commented, âIâll fight for whatâs right, this corruption has to be stopped immediately.â Three months later, Facebook recommended the group to at least three people, despite Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbergâs repeated promise... Read more âș
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Todayâs world of software development is different from the proprietary software of years past. Open source enables speed, agility, and flexibility. APIs connect disparate processes into ecosystems of solutions that easily plug into each other and speak a shared language. While software development itself is now extremely collaborative, Iâd say the process of hiring and upskilling talent in this world is just the opposite. Itâs fragmented with siloed teams and... Read more âș
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June has come and gone, but not without providing us with some insights on the ever-changing car market. Specifically, What Car has revealed the stats of the new car sales in the UK and the best-selling car is⊠well, weâll get to that. First, letâs talk about fuel. Petrol vs. Diesel vs. Electricity Out of the 186,128 vehicles sold, 59% were powered â unsurprisingly â by petrol. So letâs call... Read more âș
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Last week, GitHub launched a new AI-powered tool called Copilot thatâs meant to help developers out by suggesting snippets of code automatically. The tool was developed in conjunction with OpenAI by training the system on publically available source code of different projects. On paper, this feels like any other AI projectâs training method. But several people took to Twitter criticizing GitHubâs move and calling it a copyright violation. âIâm leaving... Read more âș
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If you record music or podcasts on your computer, you might be familiar with Audacity. Itâs a free, open-source, and cross-platform app that helps you record and edit audio over multiple tracks. The softwareâs new privacy policy â after the Muse group acquired it in April â came into effect on July 2. The change notes that Audacity will collect more data from you, including operating system version, processor, country... Read more âș
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If you record music or podcasts on your computer, you might be familiar with Audacity. Itâs a free, open-source, and cross-platform app that helps you record and edit audio over multiple tracks. The softwareâs new privacy policy â after the Muse group acquired it in April â came into effect on July 2. The change notes that Audacity will collect more data from you, including operating system version, processor, country... Read more âș
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Samsung had a pretty quiet Mobile World Congress event, but it did tell us weâd learn more about its upcoming Google-approved smartwatch at its next Unpacked event. Unfortunately, the company didnât tell us when exactly that would be, but a new report from Korean publication DigitalDaily News (via 9to5Google) claims the next Unpacked will take place on August 11, at 10 AM ET. According to the report, Samsung will be... Read more âș
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Deep neural networks will move past their shortcomings without help from symbolic artificial intelligence, three pioneers of deep learning argue in a paper published in the July issue of the Communications of the ACM journal. In their paper, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun, recipients of the 2018 Turing Award, explain the current challenges of deep learning and how it differs from learning in humans and animals. They also... Read more âș
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TLDR: The 2021 Google SEO and SERP Business Marketing Bundle is a one-stop deepdive into the steps for earning top results in Google searches and driving traffic to your content. Keyword research, backlinking and other tried and true tactics for optimizing search results still matter. But itâs grown increasingly tough for brand and website managers to keep up with the changing factors that determine how a search engine will evaluate,... Read more âș
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Friends, it appears OnePlus is going to launch a tablet. Its name? The OnePlus Pad. Let us all raise our fists to the heavens in honor of the person who got paid to come up with this moniker. OnePlus hasnât released any public details about the device, but it registered the âOnePlus Padâ name with the European Union Intellectual Property Office, also known as EUIPO. This was first spotted by... Read more âș
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