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Fujifilm now lets you turn your camera into a webcam on macOS 3 days ago – A couple of months back, Fujifilm made it easier to turn your X-series mirrorless camera into a webcam — for Windows users at least. Well, Mac users no longer have to feel left out. The Japanese camera-maker has released its webcam software, X Webcam, for macOS. The app practically lets you conve...
Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin stable, trading at around $9.5K for two months’ 3 days 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 Kant used to say: If you love yourself, you won’t do drugs! Bitcoin price We clo...
The iOS 14 public beta is now available – here’s how to get it 3 days ago – As usual, Apple made betas for its latest mobile operating systems available immediately after WWDC, but these were aimed at developers. Starting today, less technical Apple enthusiasts can get their hands on the beta for the company’s latest and greatest software. iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 bring some...
Here’s how Facebook found disinformation networks tied to Bolsonaro and Roger Stone 3 days ago – Facebook has taken down disinformation networks linked to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and disgraced former Trump adviser Roger Stone, the company announced yesterday. The network connected to Bolsonaro was “involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior in Brazil” that sought to influence el...
Dataminr helped police surveil BLM protestors using their tweets 2 days ago – AI startup Dataminr helped law enforcement surveil the ongoing protests against police violence by analyzing tweets about the demonstrations, the Intercept reports. The company accessed the data through Twitter‘s “firehouse,” a real-time stream of all tweets on the platform that’s rarely provided...
Coronavirus has changed travel in European cities for good — here’s how 2 days ago – This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Ci...
Holy Sheet: Apply Einstein’s ‘8th wonder of the world’ to your money in Google Sheets 2 days ago – “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it… he who doesn’t… pays it,” Albert Einstein once said. For those who aren’t financial gurus, allow me to put this quote in layman’s terms: everyone who’s able to save up a little, and is patient enough, can get we...
Here’s how to manage your remote worker’s device security 2 days ago – One of the biggest consequences of COVID-19 for enterprises beyond 2020 will be the acceleration of the trend to working the majority of the working week from home. Already organizations were encouraged to look into it on the promise that each employee working from home would, on average, work an...
Learn how to build a website the old-fashioned way with this HTML and CSS primer an hour ago – TLDR: This Responsive Web Design Essentials course focused on HTML and CSS is the perfect coding introduction for new web creators. Back in the old days, serious web coders used to do the equivalent of walking barefoot through the snow three miles in both directions to get a website build finishe...
From floating guts to ‘sticky’ blood — here’s how to do surgery in space 4 hours ago – Earlier this year, it was reported that an astronaut in space had developed a potentially life-threatening blood clot in the neck. This was successfully treated with medication by doctors on Earth, avoiding surgery. But given that space agencies and private spaceflight companies have committed to...
From floating guts to ‘sticky’ blood — here’s how to do surgery in space 4 hours ago – Earlier this year, it was reported that an astronaut in space had developed a potentially life-threatening blood clot in the neck. This was successfully treated with medication by doctors on Earth, avoiding surgery. But given that space agencies and private spaceflight companies have committed to...
The coronavirus pandemic is expanding California’s digital divide 3 days ago – If every California student without an adequate internet connection got together and formed a state, it would contain more people than Idaho or Hawaii.
Gaming network Venn will launch with 20 hours of live programming on August 5, 2020 3 days ago – Venn, the company looking to be gaming’s answer to ’80s-era MTV, has revealed the first slate of shows to premier on the network when it launches August 5, 2020. Working out of studios in Playa Vista in Los Angeles and New York’s World Trade Center (coming in 2021), Venn intends to use 1,000 squa...
Hear from James Alonso and Adam Zagaris how to draw up your first contracts at Early Stage 3 days ago – You just got your first customer! You just hired your first employee! You just got your first VC investor! These are huge milestones in the life of a startup and are extraordinarily exciting. That is, until that first draft of the contract arrives in your inbox and you suddenly realize you are 30...
New report outlines potential roadmap for Apple’s ARM-based MacBooks 2 days ago – When Ming-Chi Kuo offers up a new report, Apple followers listen. The latest offering from the analyst adds key detail to the potential roadmap for Apple’s recently announced push into its home-baked ARM-based processors. Once again, Kuo notes that a 13.3-inch MacBook will arrive in the fourth qu...
Five reasons to attend TC Early Stage online 2 days ago – TC Early Stage on July 21 and 22 will virtually bring together 50+ experts across startup core competencies to give you the tools you’ll need to be able to keep building your business and protect your assets. If you’re on the fence about attending, here are just five reasons why you should get yo...
Rivian raises $2.5 billion as it pushes to bring its electric RT1 pickup, R1S SUV to market 2 days ago – Rivian, the electric vehicle company aiming to become the first to bring an EV pickup truck to market, has raised $2.5 billion in a round led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. New investors Soros Fund Management LLC, Coatue, Fidelity Management and Research Company an...
Tech at Work: DE&I at Facebook, Prop 22 and gig worker earnings 2 days ago – Hey, ya’ll. I’m experimenting with a bi-weekly roundup that looks at the state of labor in tech. We’ll use this space to explore topics related to diversity, equity and inclusion, the future of work, issues relating to pay equality, notable personnel changes and much more. This week, we’re lookin...
A recapitalization reckoning 2 days ago – If you’re an angel who invested in a startup that was meant to go public in 2014, you might be getting a little bit impatient. High-risk, high-reward investing has lost its shine in this environment: the stock market is a mess these days, and you want your cash back. Enter recapitalization events...
Rackspace preps IPO after going private in 2016 for $4.3B 2 days ago – After going private in 2016 after accepting a $32 per share, or $4.3 billion, price from Apollo Global Management, Rackspace is looking once again to the public markets. First going public in 2008, Rackspace is taking second aim at a public offering around 12 years after its initial debut. The co...
Startups Weekly: The world is eating tech 19 hours ago – Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT). Subscribe here. You could almost hear the internet cracking apart this week as international businesses pulled away from Hong Kong and the US considered a ban on TikTok....
Original Content podcast: Yep, ‘Hamilton’ is still very good 21 hours ago – With the release of “Hamilton” on Disney+, Jordan and Darrell finally got to watch the musical biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton — albeit in recorded form, rather than live on-stage. And as we discuss on the latest episode of the Original Content podcast, they were pretty delighted ...
This Week in Apps: US ponders TikTok ban, apps see a record Q2, iOS 14 public beta arrives a day ago – This week we dig into the news of a possible TikTok ban in the U.S. Also, both Android and iOS saw beta launches. We also look at the coronavirus' impact on the app economy in Q2, and more.
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PC shipments surge as the world gets serious about working from home 2 days ago – Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has made it more difficult to buy a new laptop recently, and we’re now starting to see how PC shipments have been affected. While PC shipments declined sharply during the impact to manufacturing in Q1, both IDC and Ga...
The visual storytelling of Run The Jewels 2 days ago – Images: Run The Jewels | Illustration by Alex Castro El-P and Tim Saccenti break down the art of Run The Jewels Continue reading…
Supreme Court will hear Facebook robocalling case 2 days ago – Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Facebook’s defense after an appeals court determined it violated anti-robocalling rules. The court will examine whether Facebook’s automated alert texts count as an “automatic telephone dialing system,” establishing a clearer...
2 days ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon says that it will not ask employees to remove popular social video-sharing app TikTok from their mobile devices, despite sending an email calling for workers to delete the app earlier on Friday. As first reported by The New York Times on Friday, A...
Samsung’s 5G Galaxy Z Flip may have been fully revealed in these latest leaks 2 days ago – We knew a 5G variant of Samsung’s vertically folding Galaxy Z Flip clamshell was on the way, after the first images leaked earlier this month. Now, we have an entire leaked video and a set of rumors about the new “Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G” that seems to leave nothing to the imagination — and sugg...
How to watch Ubisoft’s Forward game conference 10 minutes ago – Ubisoft is hosting a digital press conference to show off what would have been its slate of E3 game announcements. The event is called Ubisoft Forward, and though it’s a strange time for the studio to announce new projects — amid several high-level execs leaving the company after being accused of....