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If youre an Apple follower, youll have seen the company just released its Q1 2020 financials. This time last year, iPhone sales were slowing,and it had to chop revenue predictions. 40% off TNW Conference! Basically, the company has some big decisions to make following its Q1 2020 financials. How Apple has maneuvered around challenge so far is shown by these Q1 2020 financials: Add-ons. The unit at the center of Apples ecosystem is slowing....

The world is in the midst of aglobal superbug crisis. Were on the cusp of apost-antibiotic era,where there are fewer treatment options for such antibiotic-resistant strains. Strange as it might sound, viruses might be onepossible alternative to antibioticsfor treating bacterial infections. Bacteriophages (also known as phages) are viruses that infect bacteria. Theyre estimated to be the most abundant organisms on Earth, with probably more than 1031bacteriophages on the planet. They can survive in many environments, including deep-sea trenches and the human gut....

Youre not the CEO or even the Chief Digital Officer at BigCo. So how are you going to drive change without losing your job? Here are five strategies Ive used to walk the fine line of effective disruption. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Understand the space and why youve been brought in BigCo hired you, not a strategy firm. Even with executive buy-in, youll still get push-back. People are used to punching in and turning the crank....

Theres more to cryptocurrency and blockchain than Bitcoin and Ethereum. There are many other competing coins and blockchain platforms, one of which is Cardano. Cardano was set up by one of Ethereums co-founders Charles Hoskinson. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Cardano is unique in the blockchain community, in that it has some credentials in academic research. Of course, that doesnt mean the platform will be immediately successful. Whats more just because its academic doesnt mean its correct....

Audiophiles are often dismissive of mainstream brands and technologies. Take Sonos, the biggest name in wireless audio. Todays subject is the $399 Sonos Move, the companys first portable, IP56-rated, Bluetooth-enabled speaker. Im just here to talk about the data. 40% off TNW Conference! Lets see how it achieves this. The Sonos Move is a difficult speaker to measure because its drivers are in an unusual configuration. This has two theoretical benefits....

Ive got a soul that cant sleep at night when something aint right. While The Red Hot Chilli Peppers are noRage Against the Machine, they docontain multitudes. The wildly different songs align perfectly with the possibility that we dont have to live in an either-or situation. We dont have to choose between living as morally bankrupt corporate dregs or social justice advocates. We can be both! We can live together in a tenuous state of cognitive dissonance …...

But it might surprise you to know that computers are now as good as humans at recognizingwordsin telephone calls. With the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation in 2018, individuals are increasingly aware of their rights. But before we discuss more about ASR, let me clarify the difference between speech and voice. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The term voice assistant has been coined to describe devices and services for acting on the spoken word....

Life is pretty easy to recognize. It moves, it grows, it eats, it excretes, it reproduces. In biology, researchers often use the acronym MRSGREN to describe it. It stands for movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, and nutrition. How could that be possible? For example, a 3D printer can reproduce itself, but we wouldnt call it alive. On the other hand, a mule is famously sterile, but we would never say it doesnt live....

It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Ethereums movements in Q1 Ethereumsperformanceduring the first three months of the year wasrelatively boring. Its tradingpricewas stable, and itspriceswings were largely more conservative. On January 9,Ethereumsuffered a month-longdownwardtrend, dropping to $102 on February 7. The cryptocurrency then rallied in February, getting close to its January high, reaching a tradingpriceof $155. This was followed by another correction that saw itspricedrop by 20 percent, hitting $124 on March 3....

An estimated10 million hectares(100,000 sq km) of land have burned since 1 July 2019. At least28 peoplehave died. And overa billionanimals are estimated to have been killed to date. Some are still questioning therole of climate changein driving the Australian bushfires. And people have been using fire to manage ecosystems for thousands of years. We could learn a thing or two fromAboriginal peopleand the techniques they have traditionally used to prevent bushfires....

While Anouks trampolining classes have unfortunately been canceled, her terrifying cat is still very large. Also, Cara and Gigi both have birthdays this month, sowish us happy birthday. Shout out to Madisen, Nadia, Vanessa, and Paul <3 We agree that were great. Now onto the news! the bloody news Meghan Markle and her husband content we love to see.https://t.co/p7hUrtRB1U Mimi ? thats what she said: is it feminist to use your sexuality to get ahead?...

Clearly parliamentarians thought important information was being shared on these platforms that the public needed to know about. In a rather telling move, the government refused to comply with the request. Political groups are increasingly alert to the potential of messaging services like WhatsApp and Telegram for operating closed communities. Shortly after the referendum, key ERG leaderscame together in a WhatsApp chat group. The then chairman of what was still alittle-known organization, Steve Baker, became an administrator of the group....

I first listened to the minuscule Devialet Phantom Reactors in the companys New York showroom in late 2018. The software is their only real blemish. If you follow high-end audio, youve probably heard of Devialet before. Did I mention its small? The Reactor 900 measures approximately 17x22x16cm (6.68.561 inches). Thats just a bit bigger than the Sonos Move, and smaller than the vast majority of bookshelf speakers. 40% off TNW Conference!...