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I loved the iPhone 12 event so much I hate it

This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it (and our other great newsletters) here. That’s right, it’s the twelfth edition of Plugged In — which is sort of relevant, because this week we’re getting festive. Nah, fuck all that Father Christmas noise, this is about the iPhone 12 event. That’s right, we’re going

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An overview on the current state of AI-driven battery research, which until recently was hampered by a lack of data but is now poised to pick up the pace (Daniel Oberhaus/Wired)

Daniel Oberhaus / Wired: An overview on the current state of AI-driven battery research, which until recently was hampered by a lack of data but is now poised to pick up the pace  —  Improving batteries has always been hampered by slow experimentation and discovery processes.  Machine learning is speeding it up by orders of

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Profile of Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and ex-Sequoia partner Matt Huang, whose VC firm Paradigm moved all $400M of its initial capital into Bitcoin in 2018 (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Profile of Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and ex-Sequoia partner Matt Huang, whose VC firm Paradigm moved all $400M of its initial capital into Bitcoin in 2018  —  Covering venture capital, software and startups  —  An aggressive Bitcoin trade got crypto VC shop Paradigm flying out of the gate. Profile of Coinbase

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Free P2P VPN

People use a VPN — virtual private network — for a lot of reasons. However, for many people it is synonymous with hiding your network traffic, one thing that VPN can do. FreePN is a relatively new open source project that aims to build a free peer-to-peer VPN network. Like TOR, it is decentralized. Right

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Google will discontinue its Trusted Contacts app Dec. 2, pointing users to Maps features instead; the app helped users check on contacts during emergencies (Ian Carlos Campbell/The Verge)

Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: Google will discontinue its Trusted Contacts app Dec. 2, pointing users to Maps features instead; the app helped users check on contacts during emergencies  —  The suggested alternative is a stripped-down Google Maps feature  —  Google will discontinue its emergency location sharing app Trusted Contacts … Google will discontinue

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Hackaday Links: October 18, 2020

Remember subliminal advertising? The idea was that a movie theater operator would splice a single frame showing a bucket of hot buttered popcorn into a movie, which moviegoers would see and process on a subconcious level and rush to the concession stand to buy the tub o’ petrochemical-glazed starch they suddenly craved. It may or

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Audio, which struggled for decades as a media category, is breaking out now, as tech enables new content formats as well as new monetization and delivery models (Matthew Ball/MatthewBall.vc)

Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.vc: Audio, which struggled for decades as a media category, is breaking out now, as tech enables new content formats as well as new monetization and delivery models  —  As most of the major media categories — music, video and video games — have existed for decades, we tend to forget that

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