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The teenage joy of late-night gaming sessions faces an uncertain future in China. The platform, called Midnight Patrol, arrives amid a moral panic over gaming addiction among children in China. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Instead, Tencent is automating the enforcement of Chinas strict gaming rules. Story byThomas Macaulay Thomas is the managing editor of TNW. He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers....

Todays world of software development is different from the proprietary software of years past. Open source enables speed, agility, and flexibility. APIs connect disparate processes into ecosystems of solutions that easily plug into each other and speak a shared language. Its fragmented with siloed teams and technologies that dont work together. For example, Chief Learning Officers rarely consult with hiring managers when they develop L&D initiatives. At first glance, that might make sense… but not when you really think about it....

June has come and gone, but not without providing us with some insights on the ever-changing car market. First, lets talk about fuel. So lets call stinky petrol cars the unfortunate overall winners of last month. Their stinky counterparts, however, didnt do so well. 40% off TNW Conference! Sales of electric vehicles surpassed19,800 units, which means 10.6% of new cars sold last month were electric. Well done, Brits! The UKs top 10 best-selling cars What about individual models?...

Dries Depoorter is using AI to monitor YouTube videos of Flemish government meetings. But this project gives me the creeps and I suspect thats the whole point. I imagine most of us have checked our phones during a meeting. Regardless, the perpetual monitoring of employees isnt something Id welcome in my workplace. When the lawmakers become the targets, they may be more eager to regulate the weapons. Story byThomas Macaulay Thomas is the managing editor of TNW....

If you record music or podcasts on your setup, you might be familiar with Audacity. Its a free, open-source, and cross-platform app that helps you record and edit audio over multiple tracks. The softwares new privacy policy afterthe Muse group acquired itin April came into effect on July 2. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. It also called to the community for developing a forked version of the app as Audacity is open-sourced....

Were all looking for more versatility these days from virtually everything. Nowhere is that more evident than with our powerful mobile devices. Oh yeah, and if we could play games on it, wed really enjoy that too. Prices are subject to change. Story byTNW Deals Hot deals courtesy of The Next Web.Hot deals courtesy of The Next Web.

Yup, gender can be a big factor in mobility. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. What are cities doing exactly? To address these issues, Paris introduced last year its plan to become a 15-minute city. There are also stirrings in Germany, as center-left parties in Munich havepushed for city-planning based on gender equality. It goes without saying that these initiatives represent only minor steps towards a gender-equal mobility model....

We looked at three aspects of hate speech regulation in the Asia Pacific region over 18 months. We were therefore unable to test how effectively its in-house moderators classify hate. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. In some cases, messages that were originally removed would be re-posted on appeal. An example of a hate speech complaint report rejected by Facebook. Queerala Facebook site Most page admins said the so-called flagging process rarely worked, and they found it disempowering....

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Friends, it appears OnePlus is going to launch a tablet. This was first spotted byMySmartPrice. The filing didnt go into much more detail than this. Honestly, itll probably be a lot like OnePlus phones:solid, affordable, and unremarkable. 40% off TNW Conference! But… the OnePlus Pad? I mean, its not aterriblename, but its unbelievably generic. At least add a bit of personality. How real is the OnePlus Pad? Well, this filing with EUIPO doesnt actually mean that the OnePlus Pad will see the light of day....

The challenges of deep learning Deep learningis often compared to the brains of humans and animals. In their paper, Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun acknowledge these shortcomings. The model is trained to find recurring patterns in examples that have similar labels. It then uses the learned patterns to associate new examples with the right labels. Supervised learning is especially useful for problems where labeled examples are abundantly available. Reinforcement learningis another branch of machine learning, in which an agent learns to maximize rewards in an environment....

Are you on your iPhone? And can you see an alluring public Wi-Fi internet with loads of percentage symbols in the title? DONT JOIN IT, PAL! This experience may not be universal though. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Whats worrying is that this issue with the percentage symbol in Wi-Fi networks names isnt new. The % symbol is a C string format specifier. We can assume something similars going on with the %secretclub%power name....

If paid, it would make this the largest ransomware incident in history. How did this happen? 40% off TNW Conference! Then, it was deployed to all connected client computers and servers. How bad is it? The REvil gang noted on its dark web blog thatmore than a million systems were infected. Among them isCoop, a Swedish supermarket chain. This incident is believed to be one of the largest supply chain attacks of all time....