16 May - The Next Web / Tech Crunch / The Verge

PSA: PGP and S/MIME email clients may leak encrypted emails2 days agoIf you’ve been using PGP or S/MIME to securely send and receive sensitive emails, you’ll want to stop using them right away, as a group of European researchers have found vulnerabilities in both standards. The security flaws that have been discovered could potentially leak the contents of the enc...

Lenovo is teasing a notchless all-screen phone2 days agoWhile most Android phone makers are going the way of the notch lately, I’m happy to report that Lenovo’s bravely trying a different approach with its next flagship. Over the weekend, the company’s VP Chang Cheng took to Weibo to share a sketch of the upcoming Lenovo Z5 (above) – and it’s all scre...

The NES Classic is coming back next month – good luck getting one this timea day agoThe NES Classic sold like hotcakes when it first went on sale back in 2016. And then, for reasons unclear, Nintendo decided to stop selling it. Sure, it had the SNES classic to sell as well, but why discontinue a product that was selling so well? The last we checked, Nintendo sold 2.3 million uni...

Golem creator Julian Zawistowski will answer all your questions about: 1) global decentralized supercomputers, 2) blockchain economy, and 3) morea day agoWhat do you see as blockchain’s best use case? How does the Golem Project contribute to a more equal global economy? What do you see as the most exciting blockchain projects in development? What would you say to people who believe blockchain systems are untrustworthy? Ask all this and more to Gol...

This app lets you trade Bitcoin without an internet connection – but there’s a catchabout 24 hours agoIf you’re a cryptocurrency trader and often find often find yourself dealing with a spotty internet connection or none at all, there’s now a way to make transactions offline. goTenna, a decentralized communications startup based in New York, has partnered with Samourai Bitcoin Wallet to create an...

How to try Gmail’s AI-powered Smart Compose featurea day agoIf you’d like a little help writing emails, Google’s got you covered. Its Smart Compose feature for Gmail, which was demoed at the company’s I/O conference earlier this month, is now live, and you can try it now (or soonish). It works by suggesting words and phrases that it can autocomplete for y...

Twitch lets you filter PUBG streams based on how many players are still aliveabout 17 hours agoTwitch this week announced a new feature which allows viewers to filter streams in the popular battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds by the number of players left in the game. No one likes a chicken dinner when it’s cold. Be there for the big moments by watching @PUBG on Twitch with ou...

How to save your home WiFi from weak signals and evil hackersabout 18 hours agoEverybody seems to love Wi-Fi. So do I. After all, who doesn’t want to have seamless internet access, across different devices, while roaming around their house? But this apparent ease of installation and usefulness can make your Wi-Fi network slow and vulnerable to attacks. To help you out, here...

Adobe’s XD app for interface design is now available for freeabout 2 hours agoAdobe has unveiled a free starter plan for its XD app, which is aimed at UI and UX designers – allowing people to use it across platforms with all its features at no charge. XD previously cost a minimum of $10 a month for access to the app’s macOS and Windows software, as well as its mobile previ...

It’s almost certainly ‘Laurel’, not ‘Yanny’, according to scienceabout 3 hours agoThe audio equivalent of ‘the dress‘, a photo from 2015 that was perceived by some as showing a blue dress and by others a gold one, is now doing the rounds on the web, and it seems to be dividing the internet right down the middle. In case you’ve been offline for the past several hours or need a ...

HPE buys Plexxi to expand its hybrid cloud solutionsabout 19 hours agoJust days after Google announced that it would acquire Velostrata to help customers migrating more of their operations into cloud environments, HPE under its new CEO Antonio Neri is also upping its game in the same department. Today the company announced that it would acquire Plexxi, a specialist...

Microsoft announces the Surface Hub 2about 19 hours agoDo you remember the Surface Hub? Chances are you forgot it even existed. And yet, Microsoft just announced a second version of the Surface Hub. The company hasn’t shared any specifications or price, but it won’t be available before 2019 — selected customers will test the Surface Hub 2 starting th...

Tim Cook told Trump China tariffs were the wrong moveabout 19 hours agoIn a new interview with Bloomberg television, Apple CEO Tim Cook says he addressed China trade tariffs in a late-April meeting with President Trump. “I talked about trade and the importance of trade, and how I felt that two countries trading together make the pie larger,” Cook said, adding that w...

MemSQL raises $30M Series D round for its real-time databaseabout 17 hours agoMemSQL, a company best known for the real-time capabilities of its eponymous in-memory database, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series D round, bringing the company’s overall funding to $110 million. The round was led by GV (the firm you probably still refer to as Google Venture...

Tweetbot 3 arrives with a new look…and a reprieve from Twitter’s API changesabout 17 hours agoOne of the more popular desktop clients for Twitter, Tweetbot, is today launching a completely rewritten version of its software, Tweetbot 3 for Mac. The updated app introduces new features like timeline filters, a new notifications view, an upgraded navigation sidebar, and more. At the same time...

Quarterback lets top esports gamers and streamers create their own fan-based leaguesabout 17 hours agoIn an effort to tie the top gamers and streamers more directly with their fans, a new company called Quarterback has just raised $2.5 million to create and manage fan-based leagues for the superstars of the esports and streaming world. The company raked in its seed round from investors led by Bit...

Twitter algorithm changes will hide more bad tweets and trollsabout 15 hours agoTwitter’s latest effort to curb trolling and abuse on the site takes some of the burden off users and places it on the company’s algorithms. If you tap on a Twitter or real-world celebrity’s tweet, more often than not there’s a bot as one of the first replies. This has been an issue for so […]

Lynq is a dead-simple gadget for finding your friends outdoorsabout 15 hours agoIf you've ever been hiking or skiing, gone to a music festival or state fair, you know how easy it is to lose track of your friends, and the usually ridiculous exchange of "I'm by the big thing"-type messages. Lynq is a gadget that fixes this problem with an ultra-simple premise: it simply tells ...

Amazon Sumerian, a platform for building AR, VR and 3D apps, is now open to allabout 15 hours agoLast November, AWS announced a new product called Amazon Sumerian, a toolkit and platform for developers to build “mixed reality” apps — that is, using virtual reality, augmented reality and 3D — without needing to have any specialised programming or graphics skills. And today, after running the ...

White House sheds cyber coordinator roleabout 10 hours agoThe White House has opted to eliminate the cyber coordinator role on the National Security Council, in what some see as a step back in strong cybersecurity policy. The duties formerly performed by the coordinator will be taken up by the other two senior directors of the NSC's cyber team.

Yes, HTC is working on a ‘blockchain phone’about 11 hours agoA few weeks ahead of its latest flagship announcement, HTC just revealed another piece of hardware. While the Taiwanese company has consolidated much of its mobile offerings in recent years, it announced today at the Consensus 2018 blockchain conference in New York that its upcoming Exodus handse...

Society needs the Artificial Intelligence Data Protection Act nowabout 11 hours agoOn December 31, 2015, I published my original call to arms for society’s rational regulation of artificial intelligence before it is too late.

Prices increase tomorrow for TC Tel Aviv37 minutes agoIf you want to keep pace with the rapid advancements taking place in mobility, then pack your bag and head to TC Tel Aviv 2018. Israel’s on the leading edge of this rapidly changing frontier, and we’re going deep for a day-long intensive on June 7. The time for procrastinating is over because you...

Sign up today to get 2-4-1 Disrupt Berlin Innovator passesabout an hour agoWe’re verrückt aufgeregt — crazy excited — to host Disrupt Berlin 2018 on November 29-30. This marks our sixth visit to this great city, and it’s easy to understand why. Berlin represents the racing heartbeat of Europe’s startup scene, which continues to innovate and evolve at a rapid pace. Our 2...

Hear from the executives of Innoviz and Oryx Vision about the eyes and ears of the new automobile in Tel Avivabout an hour agoThe success of the autonomous vehicle revolution relies on complicated systems of sophisticated sensors working in harmony to provide the magic of sight to machines. In Tel Aviv, we’ll hear from experts in the field as they discuss the technological marvels that are the driving force behind the t...

Deadpool 2 proves the first movie was no flukea day agoWhen the original Deadpool arrived in theaters, it was a breath of fresh air. Comics fans may have already been familiar with the smart-assed “merc with a mouth,” but in the context of modern superhero movies, both the character and the self-referential style of the 2016 film were a subversive de...

Why are there so many different blood types?about 19 hours agoDo you know your blood type? If you haven’t been in any medical situations where blood type is important, you might not. I certainly don’t, even though I’ve been fascinated with blood since I was a sophomore in high school. That year, I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. That meant, among many t...

Twitter will hide more bad tweets in conversations and searchesabout 17 hours agoTwitter will begin using a wider range of signals to rank tweets in conversations and searches, hiding more replies that are likely to be abusive, the company said today. Comments from users that have often been blocked, muted, or reported for abuse will be less visible throughout the service, CE...

This illustrated collection of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea books finally does the series justiceabout 14 hours agoThe illustrated collection of Earthsea novels was a painstaking collaboration and one of the legendary author’s final projects Continue reading…

Samsung’s gold and burgundy Galaxy S9s look lovely, but aren’t coming to the US about an hour agoAs a fan of HTC’s Solar Red U11 and Nokia’s bright yellow Lumia 1020, I’ve been known to favor phones clad in warmer colors, so Samsung’s newly announced Sunrise Gold and Burgundy Red Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus variants have me intrigued. Samsung is introducing a new satin gloss finish for the gold ed...