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. Google’s Chrome is arguably the world’s most popular desktop browser. If you’re anything like me, you might have a huge number of tabs open all the time. So, it’s
Read MoreYou’ve used a computer before, right? And you’ve watched a video on that machine? Well, that means you probably know VLC. Not only is it the best video player ever, it’s also ad-free, open-source, and is run by the non-profit organization, VideoLAN. In other words, it’s a prime example of what the internet should be
Read MoreThe elder brother of late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar is launching a new cryptocurrency in a bid to boot US President Donald Trump from office. Less than a day after having a $50 million crowdfunding campaign for its Impeach Trump Fund pulled by GoFundMe, Escobar Inc. is running an initial coin offering (ICO) for a stablecoin pegged to
Read MoreThe nine-day blackout took down live sports and broadcast programming at the start of a busy TV season. Spectrum TV’s weeklong blackout ends as Charter and Tribune reach new agreement Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreAt CES, health, wellness and medical tech are big focuses once again. Blood pressure watches and DIY sonograms: CES 2019 was all about health – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe saw it here at CES 2019. Hands-on with Honor View 20's 48-megapixel camera and showstopping colors – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Nintendo 64 is a classic console now, and much loved, despite losing in commercial stakes to the dominating PlayStation from Sony. It’s one that doesn’t always get as much attention in the homebrew and hacker scene, compared to platforms like the NES and Game Boy. This means the tools required to work with the
Read MoreKaren Hao / MIT Technology Review: Survey: 41% of Americans somewhat or strongly support AI development, 82% want AI carefully managed, universities and US military most trusted to build AI — In 2018, several high-profile controversies involving AI served as a wake-up call for technologists, policymakers, and the public. Survey: 41% of Americans somewhat or
Read More{$inline_image}Matt Cox knew he would be criticized when he forced his 10-year-old daughter to walk 5 miles to school in 36-degree weather as her punishment for being suspended from the school bus twice for bullying. “I know a lot of you parents are not going to agree with this, but that is alright, because I’m
Read MoreWe could be seeing an updated XR, the Wall Street Journal reported. Apple reportedly plans to launch three iPhones in 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhy travel to the doctor’s when you can do ultrasounds anywhere? Pocket-size ultrasound machine changes game for telemedicine at CES 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAfter making billions of dollars and joining forces with Big Tobacco, Juul is trying to reinvent itself as a public-health crusader. The Shift: Juul’s Convenient Smoke Screen Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreFrustrated with the perverse incentives of fast growth, founders are criticizing the investment model that built the tech industry as we know it. More Start-Ups Have an Unfamiliar Message for Venture Capitalists: Get Lost Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Apple plans three new iPhones for 2019, including a high-end one with a triple rear camera, and the successor to the iPhone XR with a dual-camera — Three new iPhone models planned for 2019, including one with a triple rear camera — Apple Inc. AAPL .32% is planning to release three
Read MoreLulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Sources: Alibaba-backed AI startup Megvii, owner of facial recognition developer Face++, is considering an IPO in Hong Kong that could raise as much as $1B — – Owner of Face++ is said to consider Hong Kong as a destination — AI startup said to weigh raising at least $500 million
Read MoreIf you’ve been reading Hackaday for a while now, you might recall the tale of Pano Logic that we first covered all the way back in 2013. They were a company that put out some very interesting FPGA-based thin clients, but as occasionally happens in situations like this, the market wasn’t ready and the company
Read MoreThis article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. It’s very easy to misread and overestimate achievements in artificial intelligence. And nowhere is this more evident than in the domain of human language, where appearances can falsely hint at in-depth capabilities. In the past
Read MoreAccording to a report by TechCrunch and online safety firm AntiToxin Technologies, Microsoft’s Bing search engine surfaces images of child sexual abuse, and even suggests additional keywords in some cases. AntiToxin conducted its research between December 30 and January 7 with SafeSearch turned off. During that time, the researchers found that when people searched for certain terms
Read MoreLightning port compatibility is in the works for hardware-based authentication. iPhone set to match Android security with new Yubico hardware key – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreHe developed and popularized the sound you associate with the banjo. Google celebrates Earl Scruggs, banjo-picking pioneer – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMarcela Kunova / Journalism.co.uk: Quartz’s AI Studio has developed bots to help journalists with data analysis tasks, using machine learning to identify patterns in records and more — The US publisher offers reporters with no coding skills a set of free tools to help them write better data-driven stories Quartz's AI Studio has developed bots
Read MoreBellevue, Washington-based game studio Bungie – which created the massively popular Halo and Destiny franchises – is parting ways with its publisher, Activision, after eight years together. It’s keeping the rights to Destiny, though. The company, which has been around since 1991, noted in a blog post that it’s now “ready to publish on our
Read MorePaul Mozur / New York Times: Some Twitter users in China, of which there are 3.2M, face detention and threats in Beijing’s broad and punitive new censorship push — SHANGHAI — One man spent 15 days in a detention center. The police threatened another’s family. A third was chained to a chair for eight hours
Read MoreAmazon-owned IMDb launched a new movie streaming platform today called Freedive, and it’s basically Prime Video Lite. The ad-supported service is available from today in the US on the web, and via Amazon’s Fire TV devices. Amazon-owned IMDb launched a new movie streaming platform today called Freedive, and it’s basically Prime Video Lite for film buffs.
Read MoreThe Information reports that Amazon is putting together a game streaming service that will beam titles from the cloud right to your devices, so you can play without installing them, or even owning a powerful machine to run them. The service will see Amazon compete with Google – which is currently testing its Project Stream
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