— Buff Mage (@elonmusk) January 11, 2020 Full Self Driving is an upcoming Tesla feature that currently exists in an unfinished form. According to Musk, the feature will eventually make it possible for a Tesla vehicle to drive itself from an owner’s driveway in the suburbs, onto the highway at high speeds, into the city where there’s traffic, weather, pedestrians, and who-knows-what-else, and into your office parking lot. Musk also claimed that by the end of 2020 Tesla would have fully-autonomous robotaxis operating unrestricted on city streets – which, if true, a couple of AI experts are going to literally eat them....

It’s never easy to know exactly how secure you are anywhere online. Most sites are capturing information about every visitor, whether their intentions are benevolent and begign, or aggressive and malicious. Then there’s the worry about how assertively you need to be protected from place to place. It’s one thing when you’re just out surfing for news links and cat videos. It’s another when you’re conducting online banking or handling sensitive information....

There’s Twitter Spaces. Who could forget Reddit Talk? Even Spotify has got on the trend with Greenroom. And, just yesterday, Facebook finally launched Live Audio Rooms. But you know what? This isn’t enough. We need more Clubhouse clones. Everyone and everything should be a Clubhouse clone. Friends, I don’t want to alarm you, but are you aware there are currently social apps out that exist without a live audio chat feature?...

We’ll also be liveblogging the event tomorrow starting at 9 am CEST, so check back in for our reactions to the announcements as they unfold. Here’s everything we know so far. Latest developments in HMS Core 5.0, HarmonyOS, and EMUI 11 At HDC, Huawei will be unveiling a number of new software announcements, including how it’s accelerating the development of its intelligent operating system, HarmonyOS, and will announce the latest on its HMS Core 5....

The hacker(s) even successfully got some money from folks who fell for the scam. As Bitcoin transactions are traceable to an extent, you can see how much money a Bitcoin wallet address is holding. The wallet being linked to the hackers shows that they managed to steal nearly $120,000 from people. — Ryan Mac ? (@RMac18) July 15, 2020 [Read: Dozens of celebrity Twitter accounts hacked in massive bitcoin scam] Thankfully, all of this was short-lived....

Sony’s PS4 hit the milestone of 100 million consoles sold in the last six years. It’s hit that milestone faster than any other console except the Nintendo DS (Ars Technica provided some handy numbers for reference). One of the things it’s boasted over its rivals is a list of exclusives from launch. Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, Spider-Man, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Persona 5 — the list goes on for a bit....

Now the company is taking on Zoom’s market more directly by bringing Rooms to its Slack competitor, Workplace. It’s basically Messenger Rooms for, you know, work. The feature set for Workplace Rooms is very similar to Messenger Rooms. The calls support up to 50 participants, and there isn’t a limit on their duration. Though the creator needs a workplace account, other participants need only click on the share link. And you can lock rooms to prevent zoombombing (roombombing?...

Monika Bickert, Facebook’s VP of Content Policy, said in a company blog post that this was motivated in part by the rise in anti-Semitism around the world. She says the company has seen an “alarming level of ignorance” on the topic, and cites a disquieting survey result: “According to a recent survey of adults in the US aged 18-39, almost a quarter said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, that it had been exaggerated or they weren’t sure....

Last month, Financial Times reported that the social networking giant was in talks with Jio to make an investment. However, the deal was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. For the first project through the partnership, both companies will participate in programs that help small businesses, farmers, and shop owners reach more customers through digital services. [Read: Why Facebook is thinking about investing in India’s biggest network] In addition, WhatsApp has entered a commercial partnership with JioMart, the mobile network provider’s ecommerce platform....

Facebook might launch its ambitious app Lasso to fight off TikTok in India this year. According to a report from Entrackr, the social network giant is planning to launch the short video app by mid-year. The American tech company launched Lasso in the US in 2018 and later introduced it to Mexico last year. According to app analytics company Sensor Tower, the app has been downloaded nearly half a million times in the US and over 2....

Credit: Facebook The company emphasizes the Portal’s use as a business tool, which it’s been slowly building up for a while. Facebook’s rolled out Workplace, its answer to Slack, on Portal earlier this year. To use the company’s own words in today’s announcement: “We’re also adding a way for you to use Portal as a dedicated work device for calling co-workers and participating in meetings. Instead of logging into Portal with Facebook or WhatsApp, you will have the option of creating a free Workplace login in the coming weeks....

In recent years, startups have made a habit of taking on regulators in order to grow, with Uber and Lyft as the posterchildren. Playing cat and mouse with much-hated, local regulators like the taxi and limousine commissions of various cities and countries proved easy fodder in many jurisdictions and Uber and Lyft are now multibillion dollar public companies. However, once startups aggressively step into highly regulated industries like insurance or healthcare, regulators come down on them hard....

Nowadays, the real and digital worlds are increasingly blended, making it tough to separate the two. Just consider how AI voice assistants are being given “proper human” names, such as Alexa, Bixby, Cortana, and Siri. I guess tech companies are doing this to make us think they’re actual people and not brainless robots. But this blurring of the line between the digital and real is surely having an impact on the world, right?...

You can go a long way to shoring up your IT knowledge, as well as getting accredited in some of those major tech arenas, with the training found in The Complete 2020 IT Certification Exam Prep Mega Bundle. It’s on sale right now at a fraction of its regular price, only $39 from TNW Deals. This nine-course collection packed with more than 100 hours of instruction truly lives up to its billing as a mega-bundle....

Part of the hassle of marketing is that to do it right you need to be operating in a dozen different venues and platforms with a dozen different sets of controls. One app handles your CRM duties, while another sets up your sales emails and a third schedules your day of videoconferenced meetings. As with everything else in life, we all just want to simplify our day-to-day, so consolidating all your marketing interfaces down to one concise, reliable location is nirvana....

Despite their hefty price tags, we’re fans of GoCycle’s range of folding bikes. They’re unique, well-designed, and practical. But yeah, that price tag, they’re some of the most expensive bikes in their class on the market, there’s no denying that. We haven’t had the chance to get our hands on one of the new GoCycle’s yet, but based on the information we have at the moment, it seems there won’t be any major changes over the previous Gx models....

It turns out Microsoft had already decided on its update approach for Windows going forward. Although the announcement is a few weeks old now, I thought it was worth highlighting: Windows 11 is moving to a yearly update model, much like Android, iOS, and macOS. To be clear, this is for significant feature updates, not smaller security updates and fixes, which will surely come more often. These annual updates, meanwhile, will arrive “in the second half of the calendar year” and offer two years of support for most users (three years for enterprise and education)....

Last week, the company announced proposals for what it calls a ‘privacy sandbox’ — a solution that aims to protect your privacy while also offering advertisers a way to show you targeted ads without resorting to more opaque techniques like fingerprinting. But what Google outlined stood in stark contrast to stricter anti-tracking countermeasures adopted by Apple and Mozilla, both of which have tracking protection enabled by default in Safari and Firefox....

Simply say “Hey Google, help me speak Spanish” or “be my Spanish translator,” and Google will help you out with speedy translations that are both displayed on-screen and read out loud. Google will also provide a few Smart Replies below the translation to help you move along the conversation more quickly. You can also simply use the keyboard if you’re in a quiet environment. The feature is rolling out today; I was able to try it on my Pixel 4 without a hitch....

In 2020, most browsers have adapted. Google Chrome has mainly kept itself on top of the food chain. They basically invented auto-search in the address bar. Besides that, Mozilla Firefox’s layout is way cleaner, Safari sells itself as Apple proprietary software with a massive emphasis on security and privacy, even Opera’s take on what a browser should be is worth trying out. Microsoft’s newest browser Edge, which replaced the hated Internet Explorer, is even far more successful and I even use it on my PC....