SelectTV can pull your entire streaming universe together in one place for life for under $80

When did the simple act of watching TV get so complicated? Are you logged into the correct portal? Does it connect to the right streaming equipment? And the big one which freakin streaming service is it stupid show on, again? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. That grants viewers the most up-to-date listing so they can spend less time searching and more time watching. Plus, buyers also receive a $20 store credit toward your next purchase from the TNW Deals Store....

October 21, 2021 · 1 min · 82 words · Jared Tran

Terrifyingly, Facebook wants its AI to be your eyes and ears

Much like theGoogle Glassproject, which metmixed reviewsin 2013, this one has prompted complaints ofprivacy invasion. What is Ego4D? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The videos cover activities at home, in the workplace, and hundreds of social controls. What is in the data set? Ego4D is a massive-scale egocentric video dataset and benchmark suite. What can we do with it? Commonly, computer vision models are trained and tested on annotated images and videos for a specific task....

October 21, 2021 · 1 min · 180 words · Nathan French

Uhh, Donald Trump is launching a social network called… Truth

Okay, well, maybe not from a former US president. Theex-USPresident has established a new entity for this venture calledTrump Media & Technology Group. 40% off TNW Conference! This is not the first attempt at building a right-leaning social connection in the US. Weeks after Trumps ban from social media, a platform called Parler emerged. However, it was infested by user privacy issues andviolence-incitingposts. That’s one heck of a mixed bag....

October 21, 2021 · 1 min · 90 words · Tracy Little

We reviewed the iPhone 13 with a series of haikus

Once a year Im hit with an impossible question: how the hell do you review the new iPhone? Do you write for the tech-heads who obsess over every details? The broader public who may only upgrade their phone every few years? Theres simply no right way. Making this even trickier is the fact the devices are now incredibly mature. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The difficulties in being incisive are clear....

October 21, 2021 · 2 min · 258 words · Sarah Kaufman

YouTube Music pisses on free users by going audio only

The company is now making a major change to how you could consume music on the app. However, starting November 3, YouTube is moving video watching capability to the premium tier. 40% off TNW Conference! you’re free to read more about this upcoming changehere. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.” Also tagged with

October 21, 2021 · 1 min · 71 words · Erik Hines

Bitcoin hits new all-time high of over $66K

The cryptocurrency surged as high as $66,100,according to Coindesk. The recent rally has been driven by the trading debut of the ETF on the New York Stock Exchange. 40% off TNW Conference! Story byThomas Macaulay Thomas is the managing editor of TNW. He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers. Away from work, he e(show all)Thomas is the managing editor of TNW. He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers....

October 20, 2021 · 1 min · 98 words · Trevor Sanchez

Did we discover a new force of nature? New results from CERN

Beauty quarks, sometimes called bottom quarks, arefundamental particles, which in turn make up bigger particles. Up and down quarks, for example, make up the protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The way beauty quarks decay can be strongly influenced by the existence of other fundamental particles or forces. (The b in LHCb stands for beauty.) It found that beauty quarks were decaying into electrons and their heavier cousins called muons at different rates....

October 20, 2021 · 1 min · 166 words · Breanna Simmons

Facebook’s reportedly changing its name — and we have some suggestions

Word on the grapevine is that social media nightmare platform Facebook is planning on changing its name. On the information we have, it seems this move is likeGoogle reorganizing under the Alphabet name. In other words, when you start up WhatsApp, it wont say By Facebook anywhere. Therell be a new moniker in its place Looked at from this perspective, the rebranding makes sense. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....

October 20, 2021 · 1 min · 140 words · Christina Smith

Here’s a great deal on cloud storage that really puts your file security first

Treasure Cloud Storagethinks thats fundamentally wrong. Treasure Cloud was founded with the safety of client data as the centerpiece feature. In fact, Treasure wont even store your accounts recovery keys if you forget your password. Thats known as zero-knowledge encryption, meaning you are literally in control of everything tied to your account. One Treasure Cloud account works with an unlimited number of devices.

October 20, 2021 · 1 min · 63 words · Christopher Morris

Here’s how the Pixel 6’s Google Tensor challenges other Android CPUs

The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro we officiallyrevealedtoday. There are few key ways Google is differentiating itself. One of the most peculiar, as predicted byleaks, is the arrangement of CPU cores. Some background:Current flagship Android processors like the Exynos 2100 and Snapdragon 888 use three types of cores. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. AnArsTechnicainterview with Google engineers sheds some light on the core layout decisions. As noted in the ArsTechnica article, having one big core is actually a recent development for ARM-based chips....

October 20, 2021 · 1 min · 138 words · Kelly Higgins

Hey, space nerd! Here’s what Mars sounds like

Weve long known what Mars looks like, but the Perseverance rover is finally teaching us how it sounds. NASAthis week released anarray of audible delightscaptured by the six-wheeled spacecraft. The sounds of gusting winds, rattling wheels, and whirring motors provide a new perspective on Mars. They also play key a role in Perseverances science mission. Perseverance is equipped with two microphones, both of which are off-the-shelf devices. One sits on the buggys chassis and listens to the wheels and internal systems of the rover....

October 20, 2021 · 2 min · 225 words · Richard Norman

Social media’s ‘queer tax’ is exhausting, unfair, and unavoidable

In the time since, Ive learned that millions of people whove never met me hate me. They despise me for existing. They think I should go away, shut up, and stop being who I am. Thats not something I experienced before I came out. 40% off TNW Conference! Think of it like a joke. Researchers believe theyve managed to quantify all of the information in the known universe. I would absolutely love to spend the next 800-1200 words telling you about the potential implications for this research....

October 20, 2021 · 3 min · 529 words · Laurie Khan

Tesla’s making beer now — and that’s dangerous marketing

And then were going to have graffiti murals all throughout the factory, on the outside and everything. So I think thats going to be pretty cool. Weve got some of them already.And were even going to have a beer. But no, folks, in wasnt. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The fact that the beer bottles look as ugly as the Cybertruck isnt my biggest issue here. And lets not forget the AudiOPOLY yes, a MONOPOLY for Audi fans....

October 20, 2021 · 1 min · 169 words · Emily Elliott