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September 30, 2021 · 1 min · 37 words · Katie Morse

This complete guitar master class bundle will teach you to six-string like a pro, all for under $20

While that approach paid off for Urban, it definitely is the painstaking path to guitar mastery. Each of the 12 courses in the 2022 Curious Guitarist Master Class Bundle is a $199 value. That drops your final price for this complete guitar tutorial series toonly $18.

September 30, 2021 · 1 min · 46 words · Justin Lopez

Why Ford thinks human-centric design is the future

40% off TNW Conference! Do EVs excite your electrons? Do ebikes get your wheels spinning? Do self-driving cars get you all charged up? Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou Ioanna is a writer at TNW. With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies. Also tagged with

September 30, 2021 · 1 min · 50 words · John Singleton

Amazon Astro could be the first mainstream robot assistant

That moment has finally arrived. The company today announcedAstro, its oft-rumored home robot. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The big question with a robot like this is… well, what can it actually do? Some examples provided by Amazon: Okay. It doesnt really do that much. Basically, its an Echo Show on wheels, with a few extra features. And with an extra dose of personality. Although for $1,000, its certainly going to be a harder sell than most of Amazons Alexa-powered products....

September 29, 2021 · 1 min · 95 words · Rita Parker

Amazon tells Tesla to hold its beer in contest for stupidest-robot-ever-built

Interestingly, the general public seems to be enjoying the idea. Apparently, people are really into the idea of letting a giant megacorporation fill their home with surveillance equipment. 40% off TNW Conference! At least Elon Musks idiotic idea for a robot is joke-worthy. Theres absolutely nothing funny about Amazons robots. Note:I want to believe! Im not a hater. I want a robot in my house. I want a cool tech buddy, I promise Im not just crapping on the concept....

September 29, 2021 · 2 min · 421 words · John Simon

Amazon’s new fitness offerings aim to rival Apple and Fitbit

The new $80 Halo View has an AMOLED screen to display time, notifications, and fitness stats. While thats the biggest upgrade fromlast years screen-less Halo band, Amazon has also dropped the always-listening mic. 40% off TNW Conference! The service will offer Amazons body composition scanning, activity points system, sleep analysis, and Alexa integration. Amazons Halo View band will cost $80 and will ship in time for the holidays. That’s one heck of a mixed bag....

September 29, 2021 · 1 min · 95 words · Christopher Allen

Beethoven never finished his 10th Symphony. Computer scientists just did

Ever since then, Beethoven fans and musicologists have puzzled and lamented over what could have been. His notes teased at some magnificent reward, albeit one that seemed forever out of reach. 40% off TNW Conference! Beethoven completed hisNinth Symphonyin 1824, which concludes with the timeless Ode to Joy. A page of Beethovens notes for his planned 10th Symphony. Beethoven House Museum, CC BY-SA There have been some past attempts to reconstruct parts of Beethovens 10th Symphony....

September 29, 2021 · 3 min · 479 words · Rachel May

Degoo is offering 15TBs of premium cloud storage space for life — and it’s under $90

It’s free, every week, in your inbox. There is also a set of basic photo editing tools for cleaning up images right from your storage space. As youd expect for any cloud-based service, security is a premium as well.

September 29, 2021 · 1 min · 39 words · Charles Reeves

Developers hate WordPress — and so should marketers

WordPress is hands down the most popular CMS out there. Since it started in 2003, its accumulated amarket share of 39%of websites on the internet. In Stack Overflows annual Developer Survey, WordPress was voted the most dreaded platform to work with, in2019and2020. But its not just WordPress. 40% off TNW Conference! The biggest complaint I hear from developers is that theyre forced into a specific technology thats already outdated. In fact, the version the system is based on can sometimes be older than you....

September 29, 2021 · 2 min · 247 words · Monique Wolfe

How AMD made its big GPU launches happen during the pandemic

AMD has been going through something of a renaissance the last few years. It was just in 2015 that analysts predicted thecompany would go bankrupt. This is part of the charge Bergman had been leading. A global pandemic was something altogether different. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. I thought there is no way we can do that because of confidentiality and so forth. We cant have 400 engineers with these things sitting at home....

September 29, 2021 · 2 min · 241 words · Wendy Mccall

How to stop your Apple Watch stupidly announcing exercise details

Look, theres nothing wrong this new feature per se its just not for me. Voice Feedback (which is what its called) just takes me out the zone while Im exercising. 40% off TNW Conference! Hell, even if you really like the feature its useful to know how to disable it. Once youre there, scroll down (or search) for the Workout app. choose that, friend! When youre inside the Workout app, you should be faced with a series of options....

September 29, 2021 · 1 min · 182 words · Sarah Kennedy

How ‘human rights by design’ can save us from AI misuse

Events over the past few years have revealed severalhuman rights violationsassociated with increasingadvances in artificial intelligence (AI). Algorithms created to regulate speech onlinehave censored speechranging from religious content tosexual diversity. AI systems created to monitor illegal activities have been used totrack and target human rights defenders. The list goes on. Our conclusion is that they leave much to be desired. Ethics and values Some companies voluntarily adoptethical frameworksthat are difficult to implement and have little concrete effect....

September 29, 2021 · 3 min · 513 words · Emily Nichols

Polestar’s SPAC brings its value to a mammoth $20 billion

Did you know SHIFT istaking the stage on Sept 30 and Oct 1? Okay, so whats a SPAC? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. A SPAC provides no commercial operations. They make no products and sell nothing. A SPAC typically has two years to complete an acquisition, or they must return their funds to investors. Whats the big deal? And a lot of these deals have been taking place in the mobility industry....

September 29, 2021 · 2 min · 329 words · Thomas Robles