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Project management training could be your fast track to a high-paying career. 2 days ago – Project management isn’t for everybody. Even for talented doers, sometimes all that admin and attention to every minute detail can be a drag. But if you’re a goal-oriented, process-driven type with a knack for leadership, project management could be the right direction. Of course, it doesn’t hurt...
The AirPods Pro have weaselled their way into my everyday life 2 days ago – I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with AirPods. On one hand, I adore their design and ease-of-use — but, on the other, I think lots of the people who use them are terrible. Well, friends, gather round; there’s something I have to tell you. Okay, let me take a deep breath. Here we go. I’m n...
Renault’s concept EV can make itself bigger to fit more batteries 2 days ago – Even though battery technology is moving forward, many EVs still struggle to match their gasoline counterparts for range. But French marque Renault thinks it’s got an idea to address that. Renault‘s 100% electric Morphoz concept can make itself longer to accommodate more batteries to increase its...
Steve Wozniak says he might be ‘patient zero’ for US coronavirus cases (Update: he’s not) a day ago – Update (8:21AM IST): Jessica Guynn, senior technology writer at USA Today, tweeted that Steve Wozniak’s spouse, Janet, told the publication hours after her husband went public that she only had a sinus infection — not a case of COVID-19 as he originally thought. It seems awfully irresponsible of ...
OnePlus teases a surprise announcement on March 3, and it’s not a phone a day ago – What could OnePlus be up to? While leaks and rumors about the OnePlus 8 have already started to make the rounds, it seems OnePlus has something else up its sleeve – and it’s neither a phone nor a commercial product. The company posted a short teaser video on its India and UK Twitter accounts show...
Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin hash rate hits all-time high’ 17 hours ago – Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Marie Curie used to say: Talk to a stranger on a bus! Bitcoin price We closed th...
New research sheds light on the big bang that was bigger than the Big Bang 17 hours ago – Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the full ‘Sprint‘ program here. The largest explosion ever seen in the history of the Universe ripped through a plasma cloud hundreds of millions of years ago, creating the most powerful ex...
Here’s how AI can help you sleep 11 hours ago – Modern life is turning us into sleep-deprived zombies. The traditional distractions of jobs, family, and friends have been exacerbated in recent years by irregular work, long commutes, smartphones, and all-night benders — leaving us with little time to snooze. And that’s without mentioning what k...
TNW reschedules 2020 event to October 1 & 2 11 hours ago – The spread of the Coronavirus has been top of mind for most of us recently. Over the past week especially, it’s become clear the number of new infections is growing, not slowing down. With that in mind, we have decided to reschedule TNW Conference 2020 to October 1 & 2. It’s a decision that w...
Is time broken? Physicists filmed a quantum measurement but the ‘moment’ was blurry 5 hours ago – They captured an instant in time, but the moment was blurry. That may sound like the lyrics to a sweet but ultimately nihilistic song from the grunge era, but in fact it appears to be one possible take away from an exotic new quantum physics experiment. The team set out to discover if the “ideal ...
Google just canceled the ‘physical’ portion of its I/O conference 5 hours ago – According to a report from 9to5 Google, the Mountain View company has officially canceled I/O, it’s annual developer’s conference amid concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus) global outbreak. The event was scheduled to take place on May 12-14, but has apparently been canceled with no imm...
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Ampere launches new chip built from ground up for cloud workloads 13 hours ago – Ampere, the chip startup run by former Intel President Renee James, announced a new chip today that she says is designed specifically to optimize for cloud workloads. Ampere VP of product Jeff Wittich says the new chip is called the Ampere Altra, and it’s been designed with some features that sho...
Datastax acquires The Last Pickle 14 hours ago – Data management company Datastax, one of the largest contributors to the Apache Cassandra project, today announced that it has acquired The Last Pickle (and no, I don’t know what’s up with that name either), a New Zealand-based Cassandra consulting and services firm that’s behind a number of popu...
DocSend’s new pre-seed data shows how many founders you should have and how many investors you should meet 14 hours ago – DocSend has become one of the most popular tools for sharing venture fundraise decks, not only because of the control it offers, but also because of the analytics it can provide founders on how VCs read decks and where they might get stuck as they are perusing from slide to slide. The company has...
Equity Shot: What’s Elliott Management and why is it coming after Twitter and SoftBank? 11 hours ago – After a long Equity Shot hiatus, we're back to dig into Elliott Management's imposition into Twitter's world after sticking its nose into SoftBank earlier this year.
Target reports mixed fourth quarter, but notes same-day services grew more than 90% in 2019 11 hours ago – Target today reported mixed fourth-quarter results, but promising growth on the e-commerce side of its business. The retailer’s earnings per share came in at $1.69, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.66, but revenue fell short at $23.40 billion versus the $23.50 billion expected, as the c...
Looking for liquidity and cash, a16z-backed Accolade files for IPO 11 hours ago – Let's explore Accolade's IPO filing and start with what the firm does and its capital history. After that, we'll look at its (somewhat surprising) numbers.
Daily Crunch: Waymo raises $2.5B 8 hours ago – Alphabet’s self-driving car company raises its first outside investment, Robinhood goes down and Pixel phones get new gesture controls. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 3, 2020. 1. Waymo brings in $2.25B from outside investors, Alphabet This is the company’s first external investment, led by Si...
Boston Dynamics unveils OTTO Motors collaboration to bring our robot overlords to the warehouse 8 hours ago – Boston Dynamics, the undisputed heavyweight of technical robotics wizardry, unveiled a new collaboration with the warehouse autonomous material handling and transportation technology developer, OTTO Motors. Over the past year Boston Dynamics has moved from building the stuff of robotic uprising n...
The future of gig work could involve unions and co-ops 9 hours ago – The classification of gig workers for companies like Uber, Lyft, Instacart, DoorDash and Postmates has long been a topic of debate. Since California worker-protection bill AB 5 became law, some companies have gone to great lengths to continue classifying workers as independent contractors. Uber a...
Robinhood offers $15 discount, blames outage on record trades 2 hours ago – It wasn’t the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood’s massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks. Instead, the co-CEOs write that “the cause of the outage was stress on our infrastructure — which struggled with unprecedented load. That in tu...
Five, the self-driving startup, raises $41M and pivots into B2B, away from building its own fleet 2 hours ago – We are still years away from a time when fully-autonomous cars will be able to drive us from A to B, and the complexity of getting to that point is likely going to need hundreds of billions of dollars of investment before it becomes a reality. That hard truth is leading to some shifts in […]
Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools 2 hours ago – It turns out the virtual and augmented reality companies aren’t dead — as long as they focus on the enterprise. That’s what the Los Angeles-based extended reality technology developer Talespin did — and it just raised $15 million to grow its business. Traditional venture capitalists may have mad...
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How emergency declarations are helping governments respond to COVID-19 9 hours ago – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Emergency Operations Center | Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Two US states, Washington and Florida, are in states of emergency over COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that’s sickened over 90,000 people around the wo...
The earliest known deaths from COVID-19 in the US went undetected for a week 5 hours ago – Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images Two people who died last week in Seattle had undetected cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, The New York Times reported. One person was hospitalized on February 24th and died on February 26th. The other also died on Februa...
5 hours ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s fact-checking program is designed to stop false information from spreading. But being able to decide what’s true can also be a political weapon, and for the past few days, it’s been used in a fight over President Donald Trump’s coronavirus res...
WeChat has been censoring keywords about coronavirus, study finds 6 minutes ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge China’s most popular messaging app, Tencent-owned WeChat, has been censoring keywords about coronavirus since as early as January 1st, an analysis found. Popular Chinese livestreaming platform YY has been censoring coronavirus content, too. To make this ...
3 hours ago – Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images Monday night, a powerful tornado tore through Nashville, Tennessee and its surrounding counties, killing at least 23 people and leaving power and transportation systems in disarray. Part of that damage included facilities working for Dell, which operates cor...