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How to use the PlayStation 4’s hidden trophy reveal (and other tricks)

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by on July 12, 2019 at 8:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Basics, gaming


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Despite it being almost six years old at the time of writing, the PlayStation 4 still holds some secrets from its players. Here are a few things you may have missed when using your console. Credit for some of these go to this Reddit thread, which opened with the revelation about hidden trophies that several PS4 owners (myself included) didn’t know — despite it having been introduced on the console three years ago, according to…

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We gave US police, ICE, and CBP AI without regulations in 2016: Now it’s 1984

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by on July 12, 2019 at 8:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Opinion


This weekend’s ICE raids are essentially a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the government‘s surveillance state. The same AI-powered tools empowering those agents to identify, target, track, and spy on immigrants without a warrant are already in the hands of police officers, sherriff’s deputies, and border patrol agents across the country. If you’re undocumented you should be worried. And if you’re a US citizen or here legally: you should be downright terrified. US citizens are protected from unreasonable searches by the Fourth Amendment. It says our right to privacy “shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,…

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Review: The Renogy Phoenix 100 is a portable power station you can take on a plane

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by on July 12, 2019 at 6:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Batteries. Odds are good you’ve got one in your handbag or rucksack. When your phone is low on juice, they’re extremely handy to have. But what if you’re travelling far, and you need to keep your larger electronics charged, like your laptop?  For that, you need a portable power station, like the Renogy Phoenix 100. This block of lithium and plastic can power all your consumer electronics, as it comes with with AC out, as well as a generic USB-A port. Renogy mailed TNW a review unit two weeks ago, and so far, it’s impressed. While it’s not as capacious…

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CHEAP: Get $20 off this 12-month PlayStation Plus subscription

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by on July 12, 2019 at 4:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


If you want to play your PlayStation online, you’ve got to invest in a PlayStation Plus subscription. There’s no other way around it. But why pay more than you have to? Funny I should mention that, as you can now grab a year-long subscription for just $39.99. That’s $20 cheaper than the usual price of $59.99. It’s worth adding that PlayStation Plus isn’t just about playing with scratchy-voiced teens from Idaho, who will regale their sexual exploits with your mother as they raggedly teabag your lifeless corpse in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. It also gives you 100GB of…

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