Defunct cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX’s should enter bankruptcy proceedings in a bid to minimize costs and facilitate the recovery of assets for creditors, according to a report by Ernst & Young (EY), its court appointed monitor. Additionally, the report says that Gerald Cotten, the exchange‘s late founder, appeared to mix personal and business affairs, and that he
Read MoreSleek and convenient, Apple’s wireless earbuds are an engineering marvel. But they are difficult and expensive to maintain. Tech Fix: Apple AirPods Review: The Perfect Earbuds, Except They Don’t Last Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreVarious communities have finally been represented in emoji form, from interracial couples to the trans community and those living with disabilities. But while there seems to be an emoji to represent everyone and everything, a significant group has been completely left out — people with Afros. Writer an emoji activist Rhianna Jones is on a
Read MoreThere are a lot of retrocomputers out there sitting in garages and attics, and most of them need work. After thirty or forty years, you’re looking at a lot of corrosion, leaking caps, and general wear and tear. When it comes to extreme refurbishment, we haven’t seen anyone better than [Drygol], and this time he’s
Read MoreYesterday, Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen published a devastating piece charting how the once-innocuous YouTube became the world’s most effective radicalization machine, in the process becoming a haven for conspiracy theorists and actual honest-to-god paedophiles. The reason is… well, it’s not even remotely surprising. In short, YouTube sacrificed good governance and responsible stewardship at the altar of
Read MoreWhatsApp’s group conversations can be awfully annoying when you’re dragged into them without your consent. It’s finally rolled out a fix for that, in the form of a new setting that lets you choose who can add you to group chats – and thankfully, there’s also a way to put a stop to this nonsense
Read MoreApple’s credit card won’t work without your iPhone. Period. The new Apple Card won't let you switch from iPhone to Android, probably ever – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe technology industry has, at least, for the past forty years, been something of a sausage-fest, with men dominating almost all tiers of the workplace. A new report from infosec industry group, the (ISC)2, shows that’s gradually changing. Not only are women representing a larger swathe of the cybersecurity workforce, they’re also accomplishing great things
Read MoreNew York Times: Singapore introduces draft bill that requires sites to take down fake news raising concerns among human rights advocates over repression — HONG KONG — Singapore introduced draft legislation on Monday that it said would combat false or misleading information on the internet … Singapore introduces draft bill that requires sites to take
Read MoreAt TNW, we’ve talked a lot about the absolute lack of compact phones. While I’m using the ‘compact’ iPhone Xs as my daily driver, there are plenty of people who want smaller screen size. According to a report from DigiTimes, Apple’s taken notice and is planning to release a 5.4-inch phone in 2020. The report notes that
Read MoreThe latest Samsung Galaxy flagship phone uses an in-screen camera (weirdly, there isn’t a single universally accepted term, as it’s often referred to as a “punch-hole camera” or “cutout camera”) instead of a notch. And it goes without saying that the Internet has had a lot of fun with it, creating wallpapers that use the
Read MoreCommentary: Rest in peace, sweet prince. Google Inbox was the Gmail we desperately needed — but now it's dead – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Raspberry Pi is a great platform for running retro video games, and with the addition of some buttons, a TFT screen and some speakers it’s relatively inexpensive and easy to get a working console up and running. If you have access to even a cheap 3D printer, a good-looking DIY console is well within
Read MoreThe latest stop-motion stunner from Laika Studios is bursting with charm. Missing Link: Hugh Jackman Bigfoot romp will charm your socks off – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWinter is coming for one of television’s most-pirated shows. On Monday, security firm Kaspersky released a new report diving into the means by which hackers are ruining your favorite pirated TV shows. Game of Thrones, as you might have guessed, was chief among them, making it a risky move to pirate the TV show without additional
Read MoreAirPods charging on the back of your iPhone could be a beautiful thing. iPhone 11 might get two-way charging and bigger battery – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBut in his internet vision, you’ll have to pay for services no longer subsidized by advertising. Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to give you your data back – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe all know that quantum computing is coming, but it is hard to know how to get started with it. [Mtreinish] suggests Qiskit — an Apache Licensed SDK for developing quantum applications. He has a presentation he gave in Singapore that you can see below, and a notebook you can go through on GitHub. If
Read MoreIf Google were a TV show, it’d undoubtedly be Game of Thrones. Like Game of Thrones, it’ll introduce a prominent new character (app) that has the potential to change everything, only to see it killed off in the next season. The most recent victims: Inbox and Google+, two apps that were once seen as game-changers
Read MoreThe work of Nobel Prize winner Gerard Mourou could potentially solve (or at least mitigate) a major problem in the energy industry: nuclear waste. And the solution? Lasers, that which we hope will be the answer to every question. Before you get too excited (and I know you are, because lasers), the lasers won’t be coming
Read MoreThe night is dark and full of malicious files. Game of Thrones has the most malware of any pirated TV show – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreZack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Security researcher finds massive spam operation in an unsecured server, now inactive, which sent 5M+ emails over 10 days that 160K+ people clicked through — Five million emails in ten days — For ten days in March, millions were caught in the same massive spam campaign. Security researcher finds massive spam
Read MoreThe Qs Inspiration electric sedan concept will make its debut in Shanghai in April. Infiniti is channeling the 1989 Q45 in its new Qs Inspiration concept – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreIna Fried / Axios: Facebook says it will stop asking for email passwords to verify new accounts; previously, it used them to verify accounts whose email addresses didn’t use OAuth — Responding to criticism, Facebook says it will stop asking users for their email passwords as a means of verifying some new accounts. Facebook says
Read MoreRani Molla / Recode: Research: white and Asian women paid 3% less than white and Asian men in same tech jobs last year; Latinx and black women paid 9% and 11% less than white men — Paying women less will cost tech companies plenty. — Happy Equal Pay Day, a holiday whose date, April 2
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