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China’s uneasy relationship with the video game industry became even more thorny last week. New regulations from the government — who must approve all new games within the country — won’t be approving any games that feature blood, card games, or palace intrigue. Any game company that wants to sell their product in China needs a license to do so. China stopped taking applications for such licenses several months ago in order to work through those they already had, and it also began imposing limits on playtime for children. Читать дальше...

A new study shows early evidence that receiving unsolicited sexual imagery through text, or being coerced into sending it is associated with mental health distress. This is the first research linking both non-consensual and coerced sexting behavior with depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. The research was co-authored by Bianca Klettke, David J. Hallford, Elizabeth Clancy, David J. Mellor, and John W. Toumbourou at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia. According to the team’s research: We... Читать дальше...

Phones these days are about the notch. With edge-to-edge displays all the rage, companies are defined by how they deal with the front camera – leading to things like huge notches or the infamous punch-hole design. Well, with its 16s flagship phone, Meizu is doing something (slightly) different: going old school and actually having bezels around the screen. Does it work? Well, it definitely doesn’t look like an ancient piece of tech… …but those bezels certainly don’t make the Meizu 16s seem super modern. Читать дальше...

We’re just about two weeks away from TNW Conference, our two-day event in Amsterdam! While the conference is on May 9 and 10, the tech festival vibes will go on all week. Check out our side events to join parties and networking all across the city. We’re taking over Amsterdam Both before and after TNW Conference, you can join in on a ton of events to discuss tech, learn new things, and have a good time. From boat parties to networking, make sure to sign up for our side events! All you need is a TNW2019 ticket. Читать дальше...

Not long ago, it was reasonable to think that financial businesses would be the most prominent and most profitable targets of criminal activity. After all, a successful bank robbery could score you tens of thousands of dollars (or more). But these days, it’s another industry facing the brunt of criminal attacks, and it’s one with much more bearing on us as consumers: healthcare. Ransomware attacks grew three times over last year, with healthcare organizations being the most common sources of attack. Читать дальше...

Japan‘s top financial regulator has raided two cryptocurrency exchanges to enforce anti-money laundering rules, Reuters reports. Financial Services Agency (FSA) agents inspected digital asset firms Huobi Japan and Fisco Cryptocurrency Exchange to make sure appropriate customer protections were in place. Both firms reportedly had recently undergone management restructures. In October last year, Fisco revealed it was to acquire embattled cryptocurrency exchange Zaif for $44.5 million, just one month... Читать дальше...

Well, here we are again. A couple of weeks ago, we put together a bar chart animation tracking video game console sales. We organized this by year, so the viewer could see which bit of hardware shifted the most units in, say, 1996. Cool, right? People loved this visualization, but there was one thing we heard again and again: could we create a graph that showed total, cumulative sales? So we could see what consoles sold the most overall? The answer? Yes. Yes we could. And would. And now, thankfully, have. Читать дальше...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is no stranger to grandiose claims. For more than 15 years, Musk has made it a habit to make outlandish predictions and seemingly impossible proclamations about his company’s capabilities, at times to the detriment of their customers. When he took to the stage yesterday at the Tesla Autonomy Investor Day in Palo Alto, in addition to announcing aggressive Autopilot driving modes (there is even a Mad Max setting that will be available soon) and unveiling an in-house computer chip for self-driving vehicles... Читать дальше...

We all know the OnePlus 7 is on its way, but now we know exactly how close. OnePlus today revealed it will hold a launch event for its next device(s) on Tuesday, May 14, at 11 AM ET. The company says this will be its biggest launch ever, with four events simultaneous events in four countries. There’s one in New York, one in London, one in Bangalore, and another in Beijing. Though the company only mentions the OnePlus 7 Pro in its press release, we’re actually expecting three devices, including a... Читать дальше...

TNW Deals is offering a bundle of training that pulls together many of the most respected business methodologies into one collection. Armed with the Complete Project and Quality Management Certification Bundle ($39, over 90 percent off), you’ll have access to a host of working approaches that allow you to pick the one that works best for you.

Can you remember what you were doing on New Year’s Day, 2018? Celebrating or perhaps nursing a hangover? What happened that day created a significant change in global recycling. China, the world’s largest scrap importer, stopped accepting recycled plastic, unsorted scrap paper and significantly reduced imported cardboard from abroad. According to the World Bank, annual waste generation is expected to rise from 2.01 billion tons in 2016 to 3.40 billion tons in 2050. That’s an increase of 70 percent. Читать дальше...

As a physical book apologist, it pains me to write this. I love books. I love the unwieldy weight, the slowly yellowing pages, the (ugh, sorry for the cliché) smell, and the fact that I can look at a stack and recall where and when I read each of them. But I have found a new love. Now book on phone is my best friend. Ever since my son was born, my life has taken an uninvited turn for the practical. And from a purely pragmatic view, ingesting letters from a heavy cuboid that requires multiple hands... Читать дальше...

Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses satellite imagery to rapidly pinpoint industrial livestock farms, manifold faster than humans can do by manually analyzing maps. Now, the researchers think their new analytical tool could help regulators to identify farms that may be breaking environmental laws. The research, led by a team from Stanford University, was premised on the fact that intensive animals farms are notoriously difficult to monitor and regulate in the United States – while also being a huge source of freshwater pollution. Читать дальше...

Law enforcers from around the globe seem to finally be getting up to speed with tackling cryptocurrency crimes. But it seems the lure of Bitcoin is still too much for some, even for those that should be protecting citizens from cyber-criminals. An operation to rid the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) of corrupt officials has reached a crescendo. Two FSB agents involved in a Bitcoin extortion scam were arrested last week, a local news outlet reports. Two law enforcement agents, Sergei Belousov and Aleksey Kolbov... Читать дальше...

Two of the women who helped organize last year’s global Google Walkout have accused the tech giant of retaliating against them, reports Wired. Last November, more than 20,000 Google employees around the world took part in a mass walkout to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment allegations against senior executives at the company. Dubbed Google Walkout, the coordinated event was in response to a report by The New York Times that found two top executives to have been paid millions of... Читать дальше...

It’s no secret that audiophiles and hi-fi enthusiasts are skeptical of wireless speakers. Sure, there are some successes – KEF’s LSX is a recent example – but wireless technology typically degrades sound quality at least a little, and almost certainly introduces some degree of latency. Hi-fi manufacturer Bowers & Wilkins claims to have solved these problems with its new Formation suite of wireless products. I had the chance to listen to the speakers, and they’re like Sonos on steroids. Expensive steroids. Читать дальше...

Huawei’s P30 Pro might have the most impressive hardware on any phone currently available, at least among phones that don’t fold. That said, the P30 Pro does sort of have a folding component: its periscope camera. In order to provide 5x optical zoom, the P30 Pro’s telephoto camera is folded like a periscope. Now we get to see what that mechanism looks like from the inside thanks to perpetual phone torturer Zack Nelson – the guy behind YouTube channel JerryRigEverything. If you’ve seen a phone’s guts before... Читать дальше...

Netherrealm’s Mortal Kombat 11 is finally here — a bit sooner than anyone expected. Thanks to dataminers and a premature retail release, we have some idea of what kinds of fighters will be added to the roster of the game in the future — and whoo boy, if this isn’t a 90s fanservice parade, I don’t know what is. Several of the fighters are Mortal Kombat regulars, so it’s no surprise to see them. The more interesting additions are the guest fighters. According to the leaks, we’ll be getting the Terminator... Читать дальше...