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How One Mom Leads Millions To Take On The NRA
2018-03-08

Her opposition brings guns to her events, yet Shannon Watts has led Moms Demand Action to a 93% success rate in beating the NRA in state legislatures. The day before the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012, Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom of five and former communications executive with...

Samsung Galaxy S9 Review: Iteration, not revelation
2018-03-08

With the Galaxy S9 Samsung, set its sights straight on the Pixel 2 – or more specifically, its camera. Let’s cut to the chase then: the S9’s camera doesn’t definitely beat Google’s, but it is a major leap over the S8. Depending on what you’re looking for, it may very well be one of the best smartphone...

The world’s first flying car you can buy is now on sale
2018-03-08

The Dutch company PAL-V is now taking orders for the PAL-V Liberty Pioneer Edition, which makes it the world’s first flying car you can actually buy, reports CNBC. The PAL-V Liberty Pioneer Edition is on display at the Geneva International Motor Show in Switzerland this week. It can hold two people and has a...

How Maple brought on-demand telemedicine to Canada
2018-03-08

Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day. To celebrate, TNW is running a series of profiles highlighting innovative companies led or founded by women. The story of Maple, a Canadian telemedicine startup, began with a journey. At the age of eleven, Roxana Zaman, the company’s COO and co-founder, fled Nicolae...

Axl Rose: “Tim Cook is the Donald Trump of the music industry”
2018-03-08

The Guns N’ Roses frontman took to Twitter this morning to proclaim that “Tim Cook is the Donald Trump of the music industry,” reports Business Insider. And that was it. Rose didn’t follow up the tweet with any further explanation of why Cook is the Trump of the music industry. Guns...

Sri Lanka blocks social networks amidst communal violence and State of Emergency
2018-03-08

The island nation of Sri Lanka is presently in the grips of communal violence following the alleged murder of a Sinhalese Buddhist by a group of Muslim men in the city of Kandy. The government has now imposed a State of Emergency (SoE) in an effort to curb unrest there, and citizens now find themselves cut off from...

Save $3000+ with 99% off this Quality Font Collection
2018-03-08

All designers love quality fonts, but they can often be far too expensive for the average designer to afford. This brand new Design Cuts bundle brings you a range of the world’s most popular fonts, from a select group of hugely respected type foundries. This is a unique chance to own these best-selling font families...

Facebook adds video calling to Messenger Lite on Android
2018-03-08

If you’re always running low on storage space on your Android phone, it can help to ditch some apps you don’t use often, and also switch to lightweight alternatives. Facebook Messenger is a great candidate for the latter, as the social network has another version that takes up less room. And it just got a whole...

Facebook just made it easier for female entrepreneurs to connect
2018-03-08

Facebook is reaching beyond marketing gimmicks for International Women's Day On March 8, the social media platform is launching practical tools for professional women "who are leading the way in their communities."  SEE ALSO: This International Women's Day, remember the importance of self-love First up,...

Oculus Rift users have been locked out of VR all day
2018-03-08

Software malfunctions. Hardware breaks. There’s all kinds of reasons why. But the folks over at Facebook-owned Oculus have to be a little red-faced today. That’s because, TechCrunch writes, every single Oculus Rift–the company’s high-end virtual reality headset–locked up today due to...

Travis Kalanick is back with a new job-focused investment fund
2018-03-08

The new fund, called “10100” (pronounced “ten-one-hundred”), will target job-creating companies in the real estate and ecommerce spaces, the ex-Uber CEO said in a tweet Wednesday: Some news… pic.twitter.com/urFBrb9aCV — travis kalanick (@travisk) March 7, 2018 The responses to...

Google is preparing Android for the notch phone invasion
2018-03-07

Now that Android phone makers large and small are doing their best iPhone X impressions*, Google wants to make sure sure its software is ready. The next major version of Android, codenamed “P,” will have built-in “display cutout” (read: notch) support, ensuring that app content...

Google just released the first Android P preview. Here are the 6 biggest features so far
2018-03-07

Surprise! Google today released the first Android P preview, well ahead of its full unveiling at Google I/O in May. The build is strictly meant for developers, but it already contains an interesting glimpse of what’s to come. You can read Google’s full blog post here, but we’ve distilled some of the most...

5 things Facebook stole from BlackBerry, according to BlackBerry
2018-03-07

Blackberry revealed this week it was suing Facebook over several common pieces of message tech, several of which you use every day. Reuters reported the smartphone company is taking Facebook to court, claiming it holds the patent to specific pieces of common message tech, which Facebook allegedly ripped off. It also...

Hackers can use Cortana to open websites on Windows 10 even if your PC is locked
2018-03-07

A pair of independent researchers yesterday uncovered a particularly worrisome security vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows 10. If your PC’s OS was installed with default settings this could affect you. The simple “hack” involves activating Cortana via voice command to open websites on a PC that’s been...

Microsoft’s Windows 10 S is getting downgraded to a “mode”
2018-03-07

Next year, Microsoft plans to stop shipping Windows 10 S as a separate version of Windows. The stripped-down software, which can’t run programs from outside Microsoft’s app store, will instead become a “mode” of existing Windows versions, Microsoft’s operating systems vice president...

TNW’s Big Spam: Stop punching robots
2018-03-07

Wednesdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!! Top trending tech news: 😬 A researcher found 50k WordPress sites infected with crypto mining malware (TNW) 😮 Blackberry is suing Facebook over app patents (BBC)📷 Sony, Nikon, etc. have created a unified platform for smart cameras (TNW) What we’re talking about: We probably...

A bill would allow publishers to collectively bargain with Facebook and Google
2018-03-07

Representative David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island) is planning to introduce a bill that would exempt publishers from antitrust enforcement so they could collectively bargain together for better terms with Google and Facebook over distributing their content, reports Wired. The main driver behind the bill is the News Media...

Google Tez rivals WhatsApp and Paytm with messaging features in India
2018-03-07

Google has added a messaging service to its Tez payments app, which allows users in India to send and receive money directly to their bank accounts, reports the Economic Times. The feature is presently rolling out, and will soon become available to all 13.5 million users of the app. Google explained that the idea is...

Researcher finds 50,000 WordPress sites infected with cryptocurrency mining malware
2018-03-07

The cryptocurrency mining malware epidemic is getting out of hand: nearly 50,000 WordPress sites have been surreptitiously infected with crypto-jacking scripts, according to security researcher Troy Mursch from Bad Packets Report. Relying on source-code search engine PublicWWW to scan the web for pages running...

6 Great Ways To Boost Your Brand With Instagram Stories
2018-03-07

An Instagram executive offers helpful tips for how businesses can best supplement their photo feeds with the platform’s brand-building Stories tool. For brands, having a major presence on Instagram is a no-brainer. After all, it’s a free marketing tool on a platform whose growth continues to explode.Read...

The 9 deadliest jobs in the United States are...
2018-03-07

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released its analysis of fatality data from 2016 and found that the 9 deadliest civilian jobs in America in 2016 were (via CNBC): 9. Fishing workers: 24 fatalities 8. Refuse and recyclable material collectors: 31 fatalities 7. Aircraft pilots and flight engineers: 75...

23andMe has received FDA approval for a genetic cancer risk test
2018-03-07

The company has announced that it has officially received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to begin selling a direct-to-consumer testing kit for genes linked to some types of cancer, reports TechCrunch. The testing kit will look test for tests for BRCA1 and BRCA2–genes that are linked to higher...

Googlers are furious about their AI being used with military drones
2018-03-07

Gizmodo reports that Google employees are enraged at the company after discovering that the AI they built is presently being used by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to analyze the massive troves of video footage captured by military drones. It’s part of Project Maven, aka, Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional...

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