A federal judge in California told Google on Friday that the company must face a lawsuit over tracking users’ activities in Chrome‘s incognito mode. According to a report from Bloomberg, the big G had appealed to the court to throw out the case, but the judge rejected the request. Reuters noted that the suit seeks at least $5 billion in damages from the search giant — nearly $5,000 per user.... Read more ›
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TLDR: The Ultimate Adobe After Effects Pro Bundle explores how to integrate Hollywood-level special effects into video, images, graphic design, animation and more. It’s one of those shadowy corners of the Adobe Creative Cloud that frightens even some of its most ardent fans. Most Adobe users sink their teeth into perennial favorites like Photoshop or Illustrator or Premiere, but when you ask them about some of the less-explored apps under... Read more ›
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If Apple and other tech companies have their way, it will only become harder to have our phones and other devices repaired by third-party businesses. Smartphones and many other tech devices are increasingly being designed in ways that make it challenging to repair or replace individual components. This might involve soldering the processor and flash memory to the motherboard, gluing components together unnecessarily, or using non-standard pentalobe screws which make... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden’s executive order calling for a review of supply chains for critical products put a spotlight on the decades-long decline in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity. Semiconductors are the logic and memory chips used in computers, phones, vehicles, and appliances. The U.S. share of global semiconductor fabrication is only 12%, down from 37% in 1990, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. It might not seem important that 88% of... Read more ›
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‘Phrenology’ has an old-fashioned ring to it. It sounds like it belongs in a history book, filed somewhere between bloodletting and velocipedes. We’d like to think that judging people’s worth based on the size and shape of their skull is a practice that’s well behind us. However, phrenology is once again rearing its lumpy head. In recent years, machine-learning algorithms have promised governments and private companies the power to glean... Read more ›
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TLDR: Startups.com is where new businesses go to flourish, offering entrepreneurs masterclass videos, mentorship, and business development tools to help any idea succeed. You’ve got a great idea for a new business, one that’s going to light the world on fire. But even if your instincts are correct, there are still 100 reasons why the new endeavor won’t succeed. The saddest part is that a majority of those reasons don’t... Read more ›
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As people in the UK were settling down to watch the late evening news on February 28, a fresh news story, quite literally, appeared in the night sky. A large and very bright fireball was seen over southern England and northern France at 21:54 GMT. It was recorded by many doorbell webcams, so it was a very well-observed fireball. More importantly, it was also captured by the automated cameras of... Read more ›
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Nearly four years after it was first announced, Apple is discontinuing its original HomePod smart speaker. The company said it wants to concentrate on the $99 HomePod Mini. As TechCrunch noted, Apple took almost five years in building this device. It even built the largest anechoic chamber for commercial use in the US to test the device’s audio capability. When it launched, the audiophile community also noted that Apple’s speakers... Read more ›
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Yann LeCun, Facebook’s world-renowned AI guru, had some problems with an article written about his company yesterday. So he did what any of us would do, he went on social media to air his grievances. Only, he didn’t take the fight to Facebook as you’d expect. Instead, over a period of hours, he engaged in a back-and-forth with numerous people on Twitter. No it doesn't. Apparently, one can write about... Read more ›
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Welcome to Adventures with AI, a column exploring what happens when artificial intelligence takes control of everyday tasks. Eating out is one of my great pleasures; cooking is not. Unfortunately, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve been doing a lot of the latter and almost none of the former. Preparing meals has become paricularly tedious during London’s latest lockdown. So like an unhappy couple in a sexless marriage,... Read more ›
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DNA has been considered the gold standard of forensic evidence for more than 30 years, even as various types of junk science have fallen out of use. But in recent years, police and crime labs have stretched and expanded how they use genetic material to pin suspects—from tapping into private ancestry websites to creating police sketches of suspects’ faces. The latest practice to come under scrutiny is an obscure technique,... Read more ›
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TLDR: The All-In-One Microsoft Excel Certification Training Bundle explores how to use the popular data tool to its fullest abilities across 10 courses and over 50 hours of training. Microsoft Excel has been around for over three decades, but it wasn’t until last month that it became perfect. Well, at least enough for computers to recognize it as perfect anyway. Long the foundational spreadsheet program for any and all digital... Read more ›
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Ride-hailing apps Uber and Lyft are reportedly going to share the names of drivers that have been banned in relation to “serious” safety incidents — including sexual assault. The relationship will be managed by a company that specializes in background checks. Naturally, sharing the names of banned drivers is focused on improving rider safety, and ensuring that bans from platforms for serious safety incidents carry across companies. Unfortunately, this collaboration... Read more ›
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“Buy Zoom.” That’s what a good friend of mine told me he’d instructed his investment broker to do last March. I was impressed and irked. Why had I lacked the foresight and why had he not tipped me off? 12 months later, his monetary investment is probably equal to the number of hours I’ve spent on the video conference platform. My ROI? A stronger contact lens prescription, his… well, best... Read more ›
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The giant prehistoric Carcharocles megalodon (or Otodus megalodon for some researchers) was the largest predatory shark to ever swim in Earth’s seas. Scientific evidence points to megalodon having lived between 16 million and 2.6 million years ago, going extinct at the end of the Pliocene Epoch when the world’s oceans were much colder than today’s. Over the years, several research papers have estimated meg’s size. Its teeth are shaped like... 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. Google Maps is a great way to find your way around cities and towns of the world. However, it’s not perfect. You might find yourself at a dead-end in the app, while there’s a perfectly good road in front of you in reality. I... Read more ›
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The Netherlands, despite its small size, is rich in culture, history, and beautiful sights. The country is famous for its canals, colorful tulip fields, picturesque windmills, traditional clogs, a great variety of cheeses, and its bicycling culture. The Netherlands is also one of the leading electric vehicle markets, both in Europe and globally. In 2020, 21% of all newly registered cars were battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and 4% were plug-in... Read more ›
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It’s Friday, folks, and I’ve discovered a great way to get in the weekend mood that I think you’ll enjoy. Earlier in the week, Google Arts & Culture created a new digital exhibit celebrating different pioneers of electronic music. It also released an interactive 3D synth tool as a part of that — and it’s highly addictive. You can head to the site on your phone or desktop browser and... Read more ›
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Not a year goes by that a phone maker doesn’t try some kind of gimmick with the camera system. But Oppo’s new Find X3 Pro has a gimmick that’s actually pretty rad: a camera that is practically a microscope. Well, Oppo is calling it a ‘Microlens’ camera, but whatever you call it, it’s able to magnify objects up to 60x. That puts it more the territory of a basic microscope... Read more ›
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It’s a fact of life: Netflix passwords get shared. At this point, I’m pretty sure half of New York City has borrowed my Netflix password at one point or another, and so far, the streaming service has been rather nonchalant about password sharing. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has even gone on the record multiple times to say sharing a login is “a positive thing.” Now it seems the company is... Read more ›
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