CTemplar makes sure your emails are never unprotected — even after you send them

A lot more than you might think, especially with the resources ofCTemplarwatching your back. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Even CTemplar keeps no record and has no access to your IP address or your encrypted data. Prices are subject to change. Story byTNW Deals Hot deals courtesy of The Next Web.Hot deals courtesy of The Next Web.

June 30, 2021 · 1 min · 59 words · Kelly Baker

Ex-Googlers hope you’ll pay $4.95/month for their search engine

Google has a tight grip over internet search and theres not much to argue over there. Its claim to fame is that its private and ad-free but youll have to pay for it. So, what do you get in exchange for your money? Apart from offering ad-free search results, Neevas web app extension will block all trackers for you. Plus, the company promises to never share your data with anyone....

June 30, 2021 · 1 min · 139 words · Susan Schmidt

FINALLY! US car makers now must report autonomous vehicle crashes

It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Steven Cliff, NHTSAs Acting Administrator: NHTSAs core mission is safety. The agencys new rules come at a critical moment. Personally, Im glad NHTSA isnt joking about vehicle and road safety. 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....

June 30, 2021 · 1 min · 83 words · Scott Johnson

GitHub introduces an AI pal to help you code better

GitHub is already one of the most popular platforms to build and host coding projects. Now, its introducing an AI-powered automcompletion tool called GitHub Copilot. GitHub has developed this feature in partnership with OpenAI, but its not based on GPT-3. AI-powered autocompleters have been around for a while. At that time, another such tool calledKite focused mostly on Python-based programming had more than 250,000 users. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....

June 30, 2021 · 1 min · 116 words · Beth Weiss

How a 1930s Soviet miner helped create today’s toxic work culture

Stakhanov shattered this norm by a staggering 1,400%. But the sheer quantity involved was not the whole story. It was Stakhanovs achievement as an individual that became the most meaningful aspect of this episode. That trend still holds sway in the workplaces of today what are human resources, after all? Management language is replete with the same rhetoric used in the 1930s by the Communist Party. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....

June 30, 2021 · 5 min · 948 words · Jason Byrd

How to make almost any digital piano sound like the real thing

Enter virtual pianos, commonly called piano VSTs (virtual studio technology) or piano plugins. What does a virtual piano do differently? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. This is also what your digital piano does, but again, your PC is a lot more powerful. Im a beginner. Do I really need fancier piano sounds? Im just barely past a beginner myself! That doesnt mean I dont enjoy better sound quality....

June 30, 2021 · 3 min · 463 words · Michael Harrington

Mars probe captures groundbreaking new images of the red planet’s discrete aurora

It isnt only the USA and China that are exploring Mars. The pictures fully characterize the discrete aurora phenomenon in Mars atmosphere for the first time in history. Background:The Hope Probe reached Mars orbit in 2021. It aims to build the first full picture ofthe red planesclimate throughout the Martian year. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. They could also offer fresh insights into how the Martian atmosphere interacts with solar particles....

June 30, 2021 · 1 min · 139 words · Mr. Luis Camacho DDS

Slack’s new tools help you cut down on video calls

Slack announced a bunch of tools today to improve the experience of work meetings. And, of course,a Clubhouse cloneis a part of this. The enterprise communication firms live-audio conversation product is called Huddle. Just like other real-time conversation products, you might hop in and hop out of it any time. Plus, you’ve got the option to also share your screen to look at a presentation together. However, he added that its thinking about introducing curated conversations in the future....

June 30, 2021 · 1 min · 173 words · Hector Deleon

The world needs a unified approach to dealing with cyberattacks

Cyber-warfare consists of co-ordinatedattacks of mass disruption (AMD). While the Biden-Putin summit looks like it’s quite constructive, cyberwarfare remains perplexing to politicians. Attacks of mass disruption are similar to the latest ransomware attacks onSolarWinds andColonial Pipeline imagine several co-ordinated similar attacks. For the time being, organizations should prepare for increasing disruptions and data losses due to ransomware. The2015 cyberattack on Ukrainepresented a scenario of grounding a nation using a well co-ordinatedcyberattack....

June 30, 2021 · 2 min · 267 words · William Sanchez

These greedy black holes just swallowed two neutron stars and it’s a pretty big deal

One of the best things about being an astronomer is being able to discover something new about the universe. In fact, maybe the only thing better is discovering it twice. After 18 months of painstaking analysis, our discoveries arepublished today in The Astrophysics Journal Letters. The first observation of a neutron star-black hole system was made on January 5 2020. The discovery is named GW200105. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....

June 30, 2021 · 2 min · 298 words · Sherry Richardson

We charted the battery life of the iPhone 12 range

Batteries, am I right? We may even learn something. Now thats out the way, lets talk about the first metric were charting: endurance rating. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Lets look at our first graphs! This simple graph is a fantastic overview of the battery life of the iPhone 12 range. The Pro Max reigns victorious, while the mini sits at the bottom. This is totally understandable, as those are literally the largest and smallest phones in the range....

June 30, 2021 · 3 min · 433 words · Brandon Williams

A brief history of Facebook’s journey to the $1T market cap club

The company has been notorious for scandals threatening user data privacy such asCambridge Analytica. And it also has a habit ofsneakingly grabbing your data. All that has led to several anti-trust investigations against the company. 40% off TNW Conference! Sigh, more money for Zukcerberg. 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

June 29, 2021 · 1 min · 71 words · Amy Klein

Elon Musk’s new statue in NYC is proof that God is dead

What do you get the man who has everything? In the case of Elon Musk, you could get him a life-sized monument to his ego. But that would be nearly impossible: youd need to build a skyscraper to accurately represent the tycoons self-importance. Was it the arrival of another incometax bill of zero? A Twitter pile-on after baselessly slurring a heroic cave diveras a pedophile? A cryptocurrency collapse triggered bya sudden U-turnhe made on bitcoin?...

June 29, 2021 · 1 min · 202 words · Melanie Young