Thankfully, legislation that requires EVs to make an audible pedestrian warning has been passed in a number of important EV markets, like the US, and Europe. The sound a car makes can embody and amplify what type of car it is. True to form, aggressive sports cars bark and snarl, while luxurious vehicles can be quiet and refined. With electric vehicles making virtually no noise, manufacturers have the opportunity to design what noise their cars make from the ground up....

Look, we’ve had some fantastic giveaways over the years, featuring all kinds of cool stuff. We’ve given away some of the hottest phones and other tech the minute it hits scorching-hot store shelves. But nothing we’ve given away can match this ultimate “Price is Right” giveaway moment. The moment when we offer to give you… A BRAND NEW CAR! Yeah, we’re not gonna lie…this is pretty exciting. Because for all the awesome items we’ve given away, nothing comes close to the coolness of knowing we’ll soon hand over the keys to a $39,990 Tesla Model 3 to the amazingly lucky winner of The Win Your Dream Tesla Giveaway....

The days when your phone had a single camera on it are gone. Nowadays, it’s common to have several of them on the rear of a device, or, if you’re Nokia, many, many more. Thing is… why? What are they all there for? What do they do? Well, we’re here to answer that question. We’ve already looked at a time-of-flight (ToF) camera, but today we’re pondering something else commonly found on the back of your phone: a telephoto lens....

Debates about the consequences of artificial general intelligence (AGI) are almost as old as the history of AI itself. Most discussions depict the future of artificial intelligence as either Terminator-like apocalypse or Wall-E-like utopia. But what’s less discussed is how we will perceive, interact with, and accept artificial intelligence agents when they develop traits of life, intelligence, and consciousness. In a recently published essay, Borna Jalsenjak, scientist at Zagreb School of Economics and Management, discusses super-intelligent AI and analogies between biological and artificial life....

That’s why a recent Medium article caught my eye. The post, which was published earlier this week, outlined how two complete strangers met online and eventually decided to launch a startup together, albeit remotely. Dave Schools explains how he co-founded Hopin, a live online events platform, with Johnny Boufarhat last year. Fast forward to today and the startup now employs 14 people — seems crazy to think that the co-founders were complete strangers just two years ago....

This feature might soon be coming to WhatsApp. According to a report by WABetaInfo, the company is testing disappearing messages on its Android app’s test version 2.19.275. The site found the disappearing message feature in WhatsApp’s group chat settings. It allows you to set the timer for destruction for five seconds or one hour. Disappearing messages is a nice feature to have when you want to send sensitive information to someone and you don’t want to leave behind a trace of your correspondence....

Employers can use specialist software to track workers’ keystrokes, mouse movements, and the websites they visit. They can take screenshots of employees to check whether they are at their screens and looking attentive, or even use webcam monitoring software that measures things like eye movements, facial expressions, and body language. All this can be checked against a worker’s output to draw conclusions about their productivity. Besides specialist software, managers can view statistics from their corporate private network to see who logged in and for what duration, and again cross-reference this to workers’ productivity data....

Contrary to what many people may think, learning how to be a clown is not part of a circus school curriculum. I know, because I dropped out of school when I was 15, signed up for circus school, and graduated as a professional juggler three years later. Circus school was very much about specializing in one skill, spending countless hours practicing, and building an act around that. Becoming a clown, however, followed a completely different process....

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, retorted that the company didn’t have to go the same way because it’s leading “on transparency” — referring to Facebook’s Ad Library and its upcoming presidential ads tracker. However, not everyone is convinced. “Facebook shouldn’t be hiding behind its API as it’s not providing the transparency they claim it does,” Ashley Boyd, Mozilla VP of Advocacy, told TNW. According to Boyd, the issues with the Ad Library are far from being nuanced as researchers have a hard time getting an overview of who’s posting, what’s the content of the ad, and what visuals accompany it....

The one common thread through almost every meeting across the private and public sector — both physical and remote — is the awkwardness at the beginning of meetings while waiting for all participants to show up. Are we all here? We’ve all been through it. “She accepted the calendar invite, right?” “Let me ping him and see what’s going on.” Humans are social creatures, but a lot of us start to squirm when forced into prolonged periods of small talk or awkward silence....

And, of course, that means he’s filed a frivolous lawsuit to rile up and distract his base of sycophants from the reality of his unfolding legal situation. As TNW’s Thomas Macaulay reported earlier today, Trump’s filed a class suit against the CEOs of Google, Facebook, and Twitter. He’s alleging they violated his Constitutional rights and demanding a provisional reinstatement of his social media accounts immediately. Here we go again Donald Trump’s been promising to curb and dominate social media companies since his official political title was candidate Trump....

Instead, I’m writing this one. I’ve barely learned anything about Windows 11 yet, because the official livestream was a lagtastic mess. Soon after the stream began on Microsoft’s event website, the video would buffer every few seconds, until it stopped working altogether. This was true of both the public stream and a separate link created for journalists. Of course, I thought it might just be me at first, but the rest of the TNW team has been unable to watch the stream either....

From efficiency to security to style to user satisfaction, Mac fans have never been at a loss for talking points when arguing for their Apple darling over other “lesser” PCs. Even with all that passion, Mac lovers will still admit there are plenty of exclusively Windows-based apps out there they sorely wish were available on their Apple platform. To break down those walls, the recently released Parallels Desktop 15 seamlessly integrates thousands of Windows apps for use on a Mac....

However, since I’m at home all the time, I’m not clocking as many steps. And since I started using Xioami’s Redmi band, I became conscious of that fact. Walking is basic fitness, and if you’re someone who is looking to begin the fitness journey without spending a king’s ransom, this ₹1,599 ($22) band is a great starter. It has a heart rate sensor, can act as your notification mirror, and has 14-hours battery life....

According to the introductory video, the section is intended to be “the ultimate destination for style content that bridges both our fabulous endemic creator community and the more traditional worlds of fashion and beauty.” Thus, as you’d expect, you’ll find the videos from the official channels of big-name brands (at the time of writing, the main feature of YouTube fashion is a series of runway videos from the likes of Prada, Dior, and Oscar de la Renta)....

The company has introduced three new features designed to make it easier to spot and remove meeting disruptors: the ability to pause meetings until malicious actors have been kicked out, a feature that lets users (not just hosts and co-hosts) report annoying callers, and a notifier that scans social media for Zoom meeting links at risk of being bombed. Under the security icon, users can now take advantage of the “Suspend Participant Activities” option to clear out disruptors before resuming meetings....

Here are just a few changes that I believe could make Google Maps far more appealing to cyclists. Let me plan and save routes ahead of time I get it, Google Maps is mostly aimed at commuters and people taking the occasional impromptu trip. It’s meant to get you from point A to B as efficiently as possible, to the best of the app’s knowledge. But sometimes I don’t want to just get somewhere as fast as possible....

However, the kind of talent that your startup requires varies as you scale. This problem only becomes trickier if you choose to not take up VC funding and instead bootstrap your way to growth. Because this means putting your own money into the business and being extremely smart and judicious about it. Also, you don’t have a separate HR executive helping you in the hiring process – you are the HR department!...

Here’s what we learned from it: 1. This was Apple’s most profitable spring quarter What’s an Apple quarterly result with the words “the most profitable quarter ever” in some context? Apple earned $81.6 billion in revenue (up 36% year-on-year), and recorded $21.7 billion profit. These numbers make it the most successful April-June quarter in the company’s history. 2. The iPhone 12 is a hit (and other hardware is also doing well) Apple stopped reporting iPhone sales numbers more than two years ago....

With this in mind, we’ve put together some general, common sense tips to help you get to grips with your cash flow. Follow the money First things first, you can’t possibly manage your cash flow if you don’t know where your money is coming from and where it’s being spent. With this in mind, it’s crucial that you get to grips with your inflow and outflow. So, identify what your revenue streams, where you are spending, and how much....