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Facebook has created an insanely detailed map of where everyone in Africa lives
2019-04-09

Based on satellite images, the company hopes aid workers can use it to make their work more efficient (and it’s also good for helping telecom companies spread internet connections). One of the biggest challenges in humanitarian aid is actually delivering the product to the people who need it most. Vaccines,...

Dropbox and G Suite’s new integration is more like a mind meld
2019-04-09

The long-awaited ability to keep your Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides in your Dropbox isn’t just about plumbing. Thirteen months ago, Dropbox and Google announced that they were working together to let users store G Suite documents in their Dropbox storage. The news addressed what must have been a common...

Senators just unveiled a bill to stop deceptive design and dark patterns
2019-04-09

User interface designers, meet federal regulators. U.S. senators are reaching across the aisle in an effort to stop the dark patterns in software, according to Axios.Read Full Story

How to clean up your personal brand
2019-04-09

Everyone has a personal brand. Here’s how to improve yours if it doesn’t reflect who you want to be. While you may not be an Instagram influencer or a prolific YouTube personality, whether you like it or not, you have a personal brand. And it affects you.Read Full Story

HomeShare lays off almost all of its staff
2019-04-09

And the company is radically changing some core parts of its service. HomeShare has cut a majority of its staff, reports the San Fransisco Chronicle. The San Francisco-based startup matched applicants who lived in luxury apartment buildings with roommates with the goal of helping people find more affordable housing in...

Alphabet launches its Wing drone delivery service in Australia
2019-04-09

Google’s parent company wants to fly food and coffee to you. Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has launched its first commercial drone delivery service through its Wing subsidiary. In a blog post on Tuesday, Wing said it had launched its first air delivery service in North Canberra, Australia. Users of...

These 8 presidents chanced into office–here’s what you can learn from their unplanned ascent
2019-04-09

Author and Jigsaw CEO Jared Cohen talks about power, successorship, and what he learned from studying Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and other accidental presidents. By day, Jared Cohen uses technology to fight terrorism–he’s the CEO of Jigsaw, previously part of Google and now under Alphabet. Before...

Tech is crashing the world’s biggest design fair
2019-04-09

Google, Samsung, LG, and other giants are showing up to show off gadgets at Salone del Mobile–evidence of the subtle way they’re reframing themselves as design-led companies. Every April, thousands descend upon Milan for the most important event of the year for the design industry. Centered around...

Yes, there’s a subreddit that skewers those targeted Facebook t-shirt ads
2019-04-09

Facebook ads are usually weird and funny when they’re not showing off spooky knowledge of your life and hobbies. Those targeted ads for graphic t-shirts somehow manage to be all three — and a subreddit is celebrating them in all their bizarre glory. You probably know the kinds of shirts I’m talking about — I...

Ian Goodfellow’s hiring hints at what Apple’s next ‘one more thing’ could be
2019-04-09

Apple recently scored the hottest free agent in AI when it managed to lure Ian “The GANfather” Goodfellow away from his highly-salaried perch at Google. His hiring indicates Apple’s placing a higher priority on machine learning technology. And it may tell us a little about the Cupertino company’s next big...

Twitter is automatically removing about 10 accounts every second
2019-04-08

Twitter’s battle with the bots is nonstop, still not enough. Twitter is working to fight “platform manipulation” by automatically removing 6 million to 7.5 million accounts per week in efforts to combat the practice. That works out to about 10 to 12 accounts a second, or 312 million to 390...

Inside the secretive, long-term collaboration between Sonos and Ikea
2019-04-08

Ikea’s new Symfonisk line, developed with Sonos, is three years in the making. Here’s why it took so long to come to market. In 2016, a team of Swedish designers from Ikea flew to Santa Barbara. They weren’t there for the sunshine or the seaside boardwalk. They were there to learn how to build...

You can now try Microsoft’s Chromium-powered version of Edge
2019-04-08

Back in December, Microsoft surprised everyone – those who hadn’t been following the rumors, anyway – by announcing it was shifting Edge to Google’s ubiquitous Chromium platform. Chromium promises better and faster support for constantly evolving web standards. You can now give this shinier version of Edge a...

Snapchat’s reinventing itself to fight Instagram
2019-04-08

Last week, Snapchat held its first partner summit, where it described the company’s new approach to standing out from competitors like Instagram. Key announcements included new AR features for lenses, new Snap original content, a multiplayer gaming platform, and a new developer kit to integrate Snapchat stories in...

Average life of a dead Google product is just four years
2019-04-08

Google shut down Google+ and Inbox last week, and and we’re still in mourning (for the latter). Recently, we’ve seen sites like Killed By Google and Google Cemetary crop up to show us the Mountain View company’s notorious habit of killing off products. Now, a new feature in the Google Cemetery site shows us...

TNW2019 Daily: Over 300 speakers confirmed!
2019-04-08

Fun fact: 31 days is the gestation period of a baby chipmunk, and it’s also the amount of days left until TNW Conference! Coincidence? Probably. 300 speakers and counting 300 is the name of a movie, and it’s also the amount of speakers we have confirmed so far for TNW Conference! That’s definitely a coincidence,...

Europe’s first underwater restaurant has gorgeous, otherworldly tableware
2019-04-08

When you eat at Under, Norway’s new sub-sea fine-dining restaurant, your food will be served on plates and in bowls that were created with sand and minerals from the nearby ocean. At first sight, the new Norwegian restaurant Under seems to have sourced its tableware from a nearby shipwreck: It...

Pinterest surprises by setting its IPO price range at $15 to $17 per share
2019-04-08

By pricing its IPO moderately, shares in Pinterest could pop the first day they’re traded, which would provide good optics for the company. The image discovery social media site has announced that shares will cost between $15 to $17 in its initial public offering. That’s according to a filing the company...

This online community has gamified the funding process for innovative startups
2019-04-08

Founded by a Y Combinator alum, Pioneer has already announced 39 winners from its first three challenges. Daniel Gross was accepted into Y Combinator’s accelerator program at just 18 and sold an AI-powered search engine to Apple for a reported $35 million at 22. Now 27, the tech entrepreneur is helping other...

More than 60% of Americans don’t trust Facebook with their personal information
2019-04-08

And a majority of Americans think social media divides instead of unites people. A national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll sought to examine American’s thoughts about many aspects of technology, from government regulation of tech firms to the use of ride sharers to people’s feelings on social media....

South Korean police use AI to bust $19M Bitcoin-fuelled pyramid scam
2019-04-08

South Korean police have caught the masterminds of a Bitcoin-fuelled Ponzi scheme responsible for generating almost $19 million in revenue. The scam, called “M-Coin,” is said to have targeted those with poor understanding of the technology – mostly elderly people, retirees, and housewives – with promises of...

Google accidentally revealed its mid-range Pixel 3a phone is on the way
2019-04-08

Google just can’t stop info about its Pixel phones from leaking, can it? It happened several times last year ahead of the Pixel 3’s launch, and now, the latest news about the handset’s successor comes from, um, Google itself. 9to5Google noticed that the company accidentally listed its upcoming mid-range phone,...

We can’t fix the data scientist talent shortage with $40 online courses
2019-04-07

The demand for data scientists is at an all time high. In fact, a recent LinkedIn study found that US-based business need more than 150,000 data scientist jobs filled. And they need them right now. The reason for this demand lies in the massive amounts of data that businesses in every industry are now able to collect...

26 incredibly useful things you didn’t know Google Calendar could do
2019-04-07

Upgrade your agenda with this cornucopia of advanced options, shortcuts, and features for Google Calendar. If there’s one digital tool I rely on as much as Gmail, it’s Google Calendar.Read Full Story

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