There is one issue though (and it’s something we explored in this comparison piece): on paper, the OLED model isn’t that different from the regular Switch. This is disappointing — especially for people excited about the potential of a Pro Switch. Don’t worry! All is not lost yet — because we’re gonna find out the truth in this Nintendo Switch OLED review. Now, we could cover it in a regular way like every other tech publication (YAWN), but where’s the spice or excitement in that?...

He was right though — the solutions are simple. They’re also extremely painful, brutal decisions that can’t be done in half-measures, and can’t be done slowly. In my time as the Director of Business Operations at Zynga, I took part in the painful sort of decision making to which WeWork must commit itself. WeWork has many, many tough choices ahead, and many of them center around whether the company will die by a thousand cuts, or will take several big, nasty, hits at once, and try to survive the aftermath....

Inspired by the lonely isolation they felt during the COVID-19 quarantine, lead author Diego Scheggia says they originally set out to “understand the social factors and neurobiological determinants of altruism and self-interest.” According to a report from Ingrid Fadelli on Medical Xpress, however, Scheggia felt as though society had shifted away from altruism and toward “self-centered concern and a disregard of others” for a few years prior to the pandemic....

Many people have an issue with this move because it’ll lead to WhatsApp sharing data with other Facebook apps. This has led to many folks trying out new messaging software. Telegram’s download growth in the same period was 98%, and the app recorded 161 million installs. This surge also helped the messenger cross the mark of 500 million monthly active users on the platform. This shouldn’t be a surprise, as Telegram has been adding new features left-and-right....

Against such a bleak backdrop, it was a surprise when the company’s CEO Brian Chesky announced that the online holiday rental company would go public in December 2020 – and it did just that on December 10. Shares were originally priced from US$45-US$50 (£34-£38) per share. This went up to US$55-US$60 the day before listing. By the time of the listing, the final share price was US$68. The Initial Public Offering (IPO) is expected to bring in fresh cash for the business of up to US$3 billion, and if successful, it will increase the value of Airbnb close to US$42 billion....

The social media and messaging app provides both public square and private rooms for crypto enthusiasts. So popular is the platform that those without it risk being ostracized from the community. That may not sound so bad in the current market, but for anyone still invested or interested, Telegram is a powerful tool. Notably, the app’s appeal has endured despite fears it jeopardizes a tenet of cryptocurrencies: security. A security complex Since its founding in 2013, Telegram has been heavily marketed as privacy-centric....

In the last year alone, cities worldwide have faced historic flooding, fires and extreme heat – all on top of a global pandemic. This, and a growing urgency to address the climate crisis, has forced urban leaders to face up to the need to act and invest in tools that bolster resilience. One such tool coming to the fore is the digital twin — a data-driven virtual replica of buildings, infrastructure and other physical assets....

The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT), an ambitious concept to place a massive radio telescope on the far side of the Moon, would study the Universe during this ancient era in detail for the very first time. “While there were no stars, there was ample hydrogen during the universe’s Dark Ages — hydrogen that would eventually serve as the raw material for the first stars. With a sufficiently large radio telescope off Earth, we could track the processes that would lead to the formation of the first stars, maybe even find clues to the nature of dark matter,” explained Joseph Lazio, radio astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a member of the LCRT team....

Copilot is currently available to select applicants as an extension in Visual Studio Code, the flagship programming tool of Microsoft, GitHub’s parent company. While the AI-powered code generator is still a work in progress, it provides some interesting hints about the business of large language models and the future directions of the software industry. Not the intended use for GPT-3 The official website of Copilot describes it as an “AI pair programmer” that suggests “whole lines or entire functions right inside your editor....

If you want to work as a singer, a prospective boss is guaranteed to ask you to sing. If you want to work as a writer, you can expect a sample of your written work will be requested. But if you want work as an IT professional capable of handling anything and everything that can or might impact a company’s digital operations…well, that one’s a little tougher to demonstrate. That’s why CompTIA certification is so important....

Speaking to reporters from the Yonhap News Agency in Seoul earlier this week, Se-dol said: Se-dol’s 24-year career includes wins over dozens of the world’s top players, including a stint as world champion. He faced DeepMind’s AlphaGo in five matches during March of 2016 where he managed to come away with just a single win. Prior to the bouts, Se-dol predicted he’d win by “a landslide,” and by all reports he was flat-out stunned when the AI repeatedly beat him....

On Monday, the company participated in a pre-series-A round of investment into a self-driving company called Geometrical Partner. Xiaomi led the $62 million investment along with Matrix Partners China and Baidu Ventures. The self-driving car startup was founded in 2018, and provides L2-L4 level of autonomous driving solutions in hardware and software. As per 36kr, it used self-developed 4D millimeter wave imaging radar instead of traditional millimeter wave. The startup is also working with various car manufacturers to install its systems in passenger cars by 2023....

What Xiaomi has claimed to achieve is long-distance wireless charging. The company claimed it could charge several devices at once at up to 5 watts (which isn’t much). It hasn’t specified the Mi Air Charger’s range, but it said that it can work across “several meters.” The Chinese tech giant’s technical explanation for how it made this happen is to stack up multiple antennas and use beamforming to push out millimeter waves....

Here’s a look at the specifications: Specifications: Screen: 6.088-inch HD+ Super AMOLED display Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 RAM: 4GB/6GB Rear camera: 48-megapixel main sensor + 8-megapixel wide-angle sensor + 2-megapixel depth sensor Front camera: 32-megapixel Battery: 4,030 mAh The camera setup is not entirely surprising given Xiaomi has used the 48-megapixel sensor in other phones like the Redmi Note 7 and the Redmi K20 Pro. The company’s pocket-friendly Android One range has proven successful in the past with the Mi A1 and the Mi A2 selling plenty of units in the country....

[Read: How Google used AI to supercharge Maps in 2019] Just like its super confusing chat messaging app portfolio, Google has had these two music services running in parallel for years. In 2017, the search giant combined the teams working on Google Play Music and YouTube Music to “deliver the best possible product for our users.” But it’s yet to unify these. In 2018, Droid-life reported that Google was planning to phase out Google Play Music by 2019 at that time....

According to a report from Politico, YouTube agreed to pay $150-200 million to the Justice Department to settle the FTC investigation. Several advocacy groups submitted a complaint to the FTC asking it to investigate whether the site had violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Its alleged infraction was collecting data on youthful users to serve them targeted advertisements without the consent of their parents. The COPPA is intended to ensure no one can exploit children online without their parents knowing what’s going on....

Unfortunately, YouTuber Winston Moy has gone ahead and ruined that image; it turns out the Mac Pro probably won’t grate cheese all that well. In a 7-minute video, Moy walks us through the process of replicating Apple’s grate new design in handheld form, including chamfered edges to make Jony Ive happy. If you’d like to 3D print your own, you can find Moy’s design on this thingiverse page. As pretty of a trinket it turned out to be, when the time case to shave the cheese, the results were disappointing....

Zoom has quietly admitted it lied about the number, The Verge reported. The company has scrubbed all references to “daily active users” from the blog post, where it initially made the claim. Instead, the post now suggests the company has “300 million daily Zoom meeting participants.” There’s a big difference between daily active users and daily meeting participants. Unlike daily active users, daily meeting participants can be counted multiple times....

The Dutch anti-fraud agency (FIOD) and Public Prosecution Service announced yesterday they have shut down Bestmixer.io and taken its servers offline. “Six operational servers have been dismantled and seized in the Netherlands and Luxembourg,” the announcement reads. The investigation was undertaken by the Dutch Digital Intrusion Team (DIGIT), Europol, and authorities from Luxembourg, France, and Latvia. Investigations began in back in June 2018 after the cybersecurity firm McAfee notified FIOD that Bestmixer....

I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry. It wasn’t meant to be like this. We’ve spent five beautiful years together and, honestly, they’ve been the best of my life. We’ve shared almost everything together, the highs and the lows. But… God, this is tough. I was sitting down to write this morning – as I do most days – and, fuck, I don’t even know exactly how it happened. The time either side of the incident are burned in, but the actual event itself?...