Boris is the wise olâ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech â from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! What is the purpose of a company? The simple and most common answer is: create shareholder value. I mean, itâs all just about the money in the... Read more âș
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Ola, an Indian-based e-scooter company, is setting its sights on serious global expansion. After its proposed India launch in July, a company executive told PTI it plans to introduce its vehicle to Europe. Ola will focus particularly on Mediterranean countries such as France, Italy, and Spain, but also plans to bring its scooter to Germany and the UK. This news further cements the companyâs lofty ambitions. In April, Ola unveiled... Read more âș
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Ancient humans stored information in cave paintings, the oldest we know of are over 40,000 years old. As humans evolved, the emergence of languages and the invention of writing led to detailed information being stored in various written forms, culminating with the invention of paper in China around the first century AD. The oldest printed books appeared in China between AD600 and AD900. For over a millennium, books remained the... Read more âș
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If youâre planning to reply âFUCK YOU!â or something similar to a tweet, Twitter will make you think twice â literally. Starting today, the social network company is rolling out new prompts that aim you to stop from posting mean replies. Twitter started this experiment last May with a limited set of users on iOS. Now itâs expanding to all users on Android and iOS. The company said that this... Read more âș
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Tesla is to make yet another change to its referral program, sources told Electrek. Having spent over $23 million in free Supercharging miles last quarter alone, the company is seriously rethinking its reward policy. Tesla launched the program back in 2015 to promote its vehicles through its user base. But giving credit or prizes to new buyers and owners who referred new sales proved to be too costly. In 2019,... Read more âș
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South Koreaâs Krafton Inc â rights holders of the PlayerUnknownâs BattleGround (PUBG) game â released a teaser for a new game called Battlegrounds Mobile India specially made for the country. Last September, the Indian government banned PUBG and 118 other Chinese apps over data security concerns. The IP holding company tried to distance itself from China-based Tencent, the distributors of the game in India, in order to get the ban... Read more âș
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Facebookâs quasi-independent Oversight Board on May 5, 2021, upheld the companyâs suspension of former President Donald Trump from the platform and Instagram. The decision came four months after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg banned Trump âindefinitelyâ for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The board chastised Facebook for failing to either set an end date for the suspension or permanently ban Trump and gave the... Read more âș
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Belgian ebike maker Cowboy came on to the scene a few years back, and has quietly been making a solid name for itself as a maker of app-driven âsmartâ ebikes. Now, the company has just announced its next generation ebike, the Cowboy 4. Itâs the fourth generation, in case that wasnât clear. Credit: CowboyThe Cowboy C4 looks largely the same as its predecessor. Except it now comes with mudguards, and... Read more âș
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Google is finally paying attention to making Android on tablets more useful with a new hub called Entertainment Space. This feature combines all things entertainment â videos, TV shows, movies, games, and books â under a new page. The new hub will live on the left side of the home screen that you can access just with a swipe. Once you sign into apps that you subscribe to, youâll start... Read more âș
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In something of a surprise reveal, Nintendo today announced Game Builder Garage, a Switch title that aims to make it easy to create your own games. Somewhat like the PS4âs Dreams, Game Builder Garage lets you create games without having to write any code. Instead, it uses visual programming, allowing you to connect and interact with creatures calls âNodonsâ â a play on a ânodeâ in the programming sense, one... Read more âș
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Facebook is launching a new feature today to help you keep in touch with your local community: Neighborhoods. Itâs essentially the social networkâs take on dedicated community social network appslike Nextdoor. Youâll have to be 18 years or older to join, as well as confirm your neighborhood (the app gives you the option of a few nearby locations). The company gives you the option of adding âinterests, favorite places, and... Read more âș
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Simulating the universe is difficult. There are, after all, potentially infinite variables to consider. Scientists typically use supercomputers to crunch data at the cosmological level, but a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon recently figured out a way to use the same machine learning technology used to teach AI to paint or create music like a human to run advanced simulations on graphics processing units (GPUs). Yes, the same hardware... Read more âș
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TLDR: The 2021 Complete Computer Science Training Bundle includes more than 210 hours of instruction in todayâs hottest data science fields like artificial intelligence and machine learning. If you ever stared at lines of computer code and felt like you were trying to decipher a foreign language, the state of Arkansas apparently agrees with you. Under a bill currently being considered by Arkansas lawmakers, courses like programming, AP Computer Science... Read more âș
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Facebookâs Oversight Board has upheld the platformâs decision to ban Donald Trumpâs accounts, but says the company broke its own rules by imposing an indefinite suspension. Trumpâs Facebook and Instagram accounts were suspended indefinitely in the wake of the US Capitol riots over fears that he would use the platforms to encourage further violence. The social network had already blocked Trump from posting for 24 hours, but then extended the... Read more âș
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TLDR: The Mastering Linux Development Bundle features 7 courses and over 30 hours of training in using and creating with the Linux operating system to run your own systems safely. If you only looked at the current market share for computer operating systems, it would be easy to completely overlook Linux. Windows is at 75.55 percent, OS stands at 16.5 percent, all while Linux only holds a small 1.97 percent.... Read more âș
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Luxury car brand Bentley plans to phase internal combustion engines out this decade. It has set 2025 as the year it will fully embrace electric power, CAR Magazine reports. The beginning will be marked with the Electro-luxe SUV, the carmakerâs first all electric car. Bentleyâs EV will employ the Volkswagen Groupâs Artemis platform, led by Audi. âWith Artemis weâre right in there at the beginning, helping define it. Weâre not... Read more âș
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Facebook is notorious for generating creepily personal ads from reams of user data, but most people donât understand how the system works. Now, an attack ad campaign by Signal has shone some light on the opaque surveillance dragnet. The privacy-focused messaging app tried to buy âmulti-variant targetedâ ads on Instagram to show what parent company Facebook knows about its users. The campaign aimed to expose how Facebookâs array of services... Read more âș
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New South Wales Transport Minister Andrew Constance declared his support of the EV transition, stating that the Australian government should provide bigger incentives, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The minister proposed several measures, including subsidizing car parks with charging stations, waiving stamp duty, and giving access to transit lanes for drivers of electric cars. Credit: James AlcockTransport Minister Andrew Constance says that NSW should subsidize electric vehicles. He also added... Read more âș
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Todayâs rapid pace of technological advancement, with the rise of technologies like AI, machine learning, blockchain, and IoT, has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives. And the fast-growing global startup scene is at the forefront of this change, making our lives better, faster, and more efficient. But itâs the innovative young startups from emerging markets that have the potential to create the biggest impact. As of 2018,... Read more âș
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