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January 25, 2019

Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile carrier outside China, says it is temporarily halting purchases of Huawei equipment for the core of its new 5G networks (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)

Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: Vodafone, the world’s biggest mobile carrier outside China, says it is temporarily halting purchases of Huawei equipment for the core of its new 5G networks — Vodafone said it would pause the purchase of Huawei gear for use in the core of new 5G networks — LONDON—The world’s biggest

Bits: The Week in Tech: Silicon Valley Hobnobs in Davos

Controversy over a video uploaded to Twitter over the weekend revealed old fault lines, and why social media is so good at exposing them. Bits: The Week in Tech: Silicon Valley Hobnobs in Davos Source: NY Times Tech

January 25, 2019

Learn how to code by building 25 cool sites and apps in this $12 course

If you want to learn how to build websites…well then, why not just build some websites? You can live that philosophy with The Complete Web Developer Course: Build 25 Websites course, now on sale for only $11.99 (over 90 percent off) from TNW Deals. Learn how to code by building 25 cool sites and apps

January 25, 2019

Everybody hates cybersecurity professionals

What’s the worst job you’ve ever had? I’ll start. When I was 20, I spent six long months working as a Sharepoint developer for a massive UK-wide charity. Our team was small and horrendously overstretched, and I often helped out with helpdesk calls, where I’d inevitably spend much of my time explaining our stringent password

January 25, 2019

Medieval monster-drawing monks and why it’s ok to hate-follow shitty people on Twitter

What would a social media feed be without monsters? I’m talking figurative monsters here; your racist uncles, your Trumps, your worst influencers – people so terrible you have to read everything they say and see everything they post. Despite their awfulness, we can’t go without them. Buy why? My theory is that these people exist

January 25, 2019

Review: The Vivo Nex 2’s bet on dual displays somehow paid off

Chinese phone brand Vivo didn’t wait even six months after launching its first bezel-less phone to unveil its sequel at the end of November last year. While the first Nex came with a pop-up selfie camera to allow for a front fascia free of notches and other components, the Nex Dual Display Edition (which I

January 25, 2019

The controversies of blockchain governance and rough consensus

Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. The governance of blockchains is one of the most fascinating, contentious, and difficult topics to master, but it’s one we must try to understand as the network’s ability to adapt,

January 25, 2019

How to send files, links, and text from your phone to your desktop

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and connected services. Since the dawn of the internet, we’ve been sending stuff to ourselves. It might be a link to an article or a note to buy vegetables while returning

SNES Portable Leverages Flash Cart For More Games

Handheld consoles have to make a lot of design choices that their TV connected brethren don’t have to worry about. Battery life is important, as is screen visibility, and the games can’t be too bulky or unwieldy if you’re going to be carrying them around all day. [Chris] is no stranger to building handheld versions

January 25, 2019

Research firms: Facebook ad spend growth rate in UK may slow to 23.5% in 2019 to £3.47B, down from 27.9% in 2018; TV ad revenues may grow 1%, to £4.4B in 2019 (Seb Joseph/Digiday)

Seb Joseph / Digiday: Research firms: Facebook ad spend growth rate in UK may slow to 23.5% in 2019 to £3.47B, down from 27.9% in 2018; TV ad revenues may grow 1%, to £4.4B in 2019 — Ad budgets are flowing from Facebook back into TV in the U.K. But the inversion isn’t solely due

January 25, 2019

Venture capital is really male and really really white — Arlan Hamilton wants to fix it

Arlan Hamilton, CEO and founder of Backstage Capital, wants to see more color in venture capital. Backstage focuses on “investing in underestimated founders,” making Hamilton one of the few pushing for change in VC. Her story is fascinating, and has touched many — Arlan was homeless only three years ago, and had no formal education or experience in

Work Friend: When Your Meat Suit Is Angry With Some Other, Louder Meat Suit

Life is just enacting feelings until we expire. And nothing else matters. Work Friend: When Your Meat Suit Is Angry With Some Other, Louder Meat Suit Source: NY Times Tech

New Asus ROG RTX-powered laptops coming Jan. 29 – CNET

The ROG Zephyrus S and ROG Strix SCAR II Edition have been updated with Nvidia’s latest ray-tracing GPUS. New Asus ROG RTX-powered laptops coming Jan. 29 – CNET Source: CNet

2019 Subaru Forester Touring: Granola never looked so good – Roadshow

The new-generation Subaru Forester doesn’t stray too far from the functional aesthetic of the previous models, but it’s loaded up with new tech and more premium cabin quality. 2019 Subaru Forester Touring: Granola never looked so good – Roadshow Source: CNet

January 25, 2019

How DeepMind’s AI defeated top players at StarCraft II

DeepMind previously took on the challenge of beating world champions at the Chinese game of Go. It’s also gotten astonishingly good at Chess and Shogi, and has wiped the floor with the best AIs developed for those games. In August 2017, the Alphabet-owned firm decided to take on a much bigger and more complex challenge:

January 25, 2019

Coinbase partners with TurboTax, will allow its customers to upload their transactions, gains, and losses in 2018 to TurboTax Premier to help file crypto taxes (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Coinbase partners with TurboTax, will allow its customers to upload their transactions, gains, and losses in 2018 to TurboTax Premier to help file crypto taxes — Coinbase customers who need to file taxes in the U.S. this year can get a boost from TurboTax, the tax-filing software offered by Intuit Consumer

Robot Can’t Take Its Eyes Off The Bottle

Robots, as we currently understand them, tend to run on electricity. Only in the fantastical world of Futurama do robots seek out alcohol as both a source of fuel and recreation. That is, until [Les Wright] and his beer seeking robot came along. (YouTube, video after the break.) A Raspberry Pi 3 provides the brains, with an

January 25, 2019

Apple’s new gas detection patent hints at an apocalypse-ready iPhone

If you’ve watched recent movies about apocalyptic conditions wiping humans off the face of the earth, you’ve probably come across characters building underground bunkers they can burrow into in order to survive. These bunkers are often shown to be fitted with sensors (usually fictional ones) to detect different kinds of danger – an earthquake, an

January 25, 2019

Unsealed documents show Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children who played video games into spending their parents' money (Nathan Halverson/Reveal)

Nathan Halverson / Reveal: Unsealed documents show Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children who played video games into spending their parents’ money — Facebook orchestrated a multi-year effort that duped children and their parents out of money, in some cases hundreds or even thousands of dollars … Unsealed documents show Facebook orchestrated a

Silent Stepper Drive Makes A Nicer Watch Winder

Mechanical watches are great in that they never need batteries, but they are simultaneously less than great in that they will lose time if not worn or otherwise regularly agitated. The ridiculous solution to this is the watch winder, which automatically rotates your mechanical watches for you, while you’re not wearing them. This is probably

January 25, 2019

Amazon's Rekognition mistakes women as men 19% of the time, and darker-skinned women as men 31% of the time, more than similar services from IBM and Microsoft (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

Natasha Singer / New York Times: Amazon’s Rekognition mistakes women as men 19% of the time, and darker-skinned women as men 31% of the time, more than similar services from IBM and Microsoft — In new tests, Amazon’s system had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM

Microsoft Bing is back online in China

Bing is back online after reportedly being blocked due to an accidental technical error. Microsoft Bing is back online in China Source: ZDNet Microsoft

Driver-assistance systems have too many different names, AAA study says – Roadshow

AAA says the various names are confusing to drivers and car shoppers. Driver-assistance systems have too many different names, AAA study says – Roadshow Source: CNet

This self-driving robot delivers food to George Mason students

Starship Technologies has partnered with George Mason University and deployed 25 autonomous delivery robots across campus. This self-driving robot delivers food to George Mason students Source: Washington Post Tech

January 24, 2019

Microsoft acquires Citus Data, which develops an open-source extension for PostgreSQL that turns it into a distributed database (Tom Krazit/GeekWire)

Tom Krazit / GeekWire: Microsoft acquires Citus Data, which develops an open-source extension for PostgreSQL that turns it into a distributed database — Databases continue to be one of the most competitive areas of cloud computing, and Microsoft strengthened its database story Thursday with the acquisition of Citus Data. Microsoft acquires Citus Data, which develops

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