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How to stop Uber, Hulu, Pornhub, and more from selling your data
2020-01-07

California’s new privacy law’s most powerful and controversial feature is the right to stop companies from selling data they collect on you to other companies. Here’s how you can take advantage. On January 1, the country’s biggest online privacy law came into force. The California Consumer...

Designers need to get paid. Let’s ban ‘exposure’ once and for all
2020-01-07

Designer Jay Liu’s “Exposure Currency” takes businesses to task for offering designers and artists “exposure” instead of cold hard cash. If you’ve ever been asked to create something for free in exchange for “exposure,” you’re not alone. One 2016 survey...

Facebook vows to crack down on ‘misleading’ deepfakes
2020-01-07

Facebook today announced it will ban misleading manipulated media — including Photoshopped images and deepfakes. This announcement comes right on time, ahead of the upcoming US presidential elections this year.  The declaration of the new policy comes just before Monika Bickert, Vice President, Global Policy...

Netflix and Sephora in the same day? What is Goop’s secret nonstick ingredient?
2020-01-07

Gwyneth Paltrow, the guru of glam wellness, is having a great day, backlash be damned. It’s been a great day for Goop. Both Netflix and Sephora announced they have inked deals with Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand.Read Full Story

Why your favorite celebs are ditching Twitter for an app you’ve never heard of
2020-01-06

For two decades, we’ve been told that stars are just like us. Now celebrities are taking back their power. Will the internet ever be the same? When Kerry Washington was flying to the Toronto International Film Festival to support her film American Son in September, she had a problem. She was on a red-eye, and...

Top Tech for Designers & Creatives in 2020
2020-01-05

With the new year on the horizon, the newest technology is right around the corner. Join us for a look at what's hot for designers & creatives in 2020!

This homeschooled music wunderkind now leads a top guitar company
2020-01-04

Master designer Andy Powers talks with contributor Mark Miller about his unlikely journey—and what guitars need to achieve Steinway Model D-level greatness. Founded in 1974 by Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug, Taylor Guitars has grown from a small San Diego guitar shop into the No. 1 manufacturer of acoustic guitars...

Leak: The Pixel 4a looks better than the actual Pixel 4
2020-01-04

Serial phone leaker OnLeaks has a good record of creating fairly accurate renders of phones before they are released. If his new Pixel 4a leak turns out to be accurate, Google’s next midrange phone might end up a better-looking phone than its actual flagship devices. OnLeaks shared the images in partnership with...

Oops! Weight Watchers’ Twitter campaign gets ensnared in WWIII chatter
2020-01-04

Now officially known as WW, the venerable weight-loss brand picked an unfortunate moment to promote itself on Twitter. On Thursday, Weight Watchers debuted its latest social media campaign with a promoted tweet, #thisismyWW. The brand, which changed its name to WW in 2018, likely thought this was an uplifting message,...

Design challenges in the age of AI, and how to overcome them
2020-01-03

Design is an ever-evolving field. So much so that it’s hard to keep track of design job titles. Originally, product designers designed industrial products while graphic designers focused on print as a medium. As a creative field, Design found its Analogy with architecture; it was required to be functional, usable,...

For its next magic trick, OnePlus will make rear cameras ‘disappear’
2020-01-03

Days before the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), OnePlus gave a glimpse of its upcoming concept phone — and its disappearing rear camera tech.  The phone, designed in partnership with carmaker McLaren, uses electrochromic glass to make the camera invisible. For the uninitiated, electrochromic glass is a type of...

Dodgy Google Chrome extension reportedly causes $16K crypto theft
2020-01-03

A malicious Google Chrome extension reportedly cost one user around $16,000 worth of cryptocurrency. A bogus extension called “Ledger Secure,” that passes itself off as a cryptocurrency wallet, is believed to be responsible for the loss, Decrypt reports. The app allegedly sends a user‘s seed phrase back to its...

I helped draft California’s new privacy law. Here’s why it doesn’t go far enough
2020-01-03

The California Consumer Privacy Act is the strictest privacy law in the country. But it is largely toothless and under threat by corporate lobbyists. Californians woke up this new year with the strongest data protection rights in the United States. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is now in effect, granting...

Google lifts ban on Ethereum wallet app it thought was mining cryptocurrency
2020-01-03

On Wednesday, Google restored Ethereum app MetaMask, after it mistakenly removed it from its Play Store. Earlier this week, Google backtracked on its ban of Ethereum app and wallet MetaMask after removing it from its Play Store just a week earlier. The wallet app conveyed the U-turn in a tweet on New Year’s Day....

Revealed: Top Upcoming Tech for Designers & Creatives in 2020
2020-01-03

With the new year on the horizon, the newest technology is right around the corner. Join us for a look at what's hot for designers & creatives in 2020!

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 Lite leaks in the flesh
2020-01-03

We’ve been hearing murmurs of a Galaxy Note 10 ‘Lite’ for some time, including some realistic-looking renders, but over the weekend we got our first glimpse at what might be the device in the flesh. The multitude of images come courtesy of TechTalkTV on Twitter (via 9to5Google) and show off a device that looks...

This man tried to stand up for human rights at Google. Now he’s running for Senate
2020-01-03

Google’s former global head of international relations, Ross LaJeunesse, wrote a sharp critique of the company—and its commitment to human rights. In 2008 Ross LaJeunesse joined Google as the global head of international relations. At the time, Google was two years deep in the Chinese market, and had...

2010 – 2019: The rise of deep learning
2020-01-02

No other technology was more important over the past decade than artificial intelligence. Stanford’s Andrew Ng called it the new electricity, and both Microsoft and Google changed their business strategies to become “AI-first” companies. In the next decade, all technology will be considered “AI technology.”...

Google’s new AI detects breast cancer just by scanning X-ray
2020-01-02

Google‘s AI team has just developed a new system to scan X-rays to help radiologists in detecting breast cancer. The model was developed in partnership with DeepMind, Cancer Research UK Imperial Centre, Northwestern University, and Royal Surrey County Hospital. The team used anonymized data from mammograms – low...

Swiss president: ‘Libra has failed’
2020-01-02

It’s not even a week into the new year and already Facebook‘s “cryptocurrency” project Libra is coming under fire once again. This time, Switzerland is speaking out against the digital coin. Speaking to Swiss broadcaster SRF, the country’s president and finance minister Ueli Maurer said the project has...

Facebook’s a mess, but it doesn’t mean backdoors are the answer
2020-01-02

It’s been a tough year for Facebook. It has faced international scrutiny, from its role in elections to the potential regulation of its cryptocurrency Libra. However, perhaps the most contentious argument for the social media giant, that is sure to rage on into 2020, is one of its longest fought. How to protect the...

Crypto exchange Poloniex forces users to change passwords after data leak
2020-01-02

Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex is forcing its users to reset their passwords after a list of email addresses and passwords was allegedly leaked on social media. Last week, the exchange notified customers of the breach, adding the leaked information could be used to access Poloniex accounts, ZDNet reports. The email...

Plan on being a graphic designer in 2020? Give these courses a look
2020-01-02

With the package of training in The Complete 2020 Learn to Design Certification Bundle ($39, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals), a designer will have a full understanding of all the most popular software and graphic approaches to make any project come to life.

Marques Brownlee explains what outdated tech can teach us about the future
2020-01-02

In his YouTube show “Retro Tech,” Marques Brownlee dives into the gadgets of yesteryear to show us how that early innovation is shaping today and tomorrow. Listen to the latest episode of Fast Company’s podcast Creative Conversation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Google Play,...

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