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The post Who said IFA 2018 isn’t about phones? | #PNWeekly 320 appeared first on BardTech . It’s currywurst time! Well, for everyone that’s in Berlin. Here in North America, we’re left to be content discussing the nine, count’em,  NINE  phones that launched at IFA! And most of them came out before IFA officially began! Does BlackBerry hold an icon that everyone wants? Is Honor playing in the big leagues now? Is HTC shrinking away from us further? Does an Android One push make sense for LG and Motorola? How does Sony do with its first OLED mobile phone? And is there vengeance for ZTE after months of dormancy? Well, we have specs and a few bits of other info. Let’s talk about it. This is the Pocketnow Weekly. Watch the YouTube video recorded at  2:00pm Eastern on August 31st  or check out the high-quality audio version right here or through  Apple ,  Google , our  RSS  and wherever you get your podcasts. Talk back live while you’re watchi...

The post It’s Friday, so here’s a rap video about scooter startup Bird appeared first on BardTech . Listen, if you’re the kind of person who wants to watch a rap video about scooters, here’s a rap video about scooters. Don’t let me stop you. Also, if you make it to the end, you might as well stick around for the credits. For one thing, you’ll learn that it was directed by Andrew Oleck, the man who created that fake Mark Zuckerberg video , “A World Without Facebook.” And then there’s the disclaimer: “This video is not an advertisement. It is comedic satire. Bayview Drive Films is not endorsed, affiliated or otherwise sponsored by Bird .” It’s the kind of message that raises more questions than it answers. Like: What’s the joke here? Is the video pro-scooter, anti-scooter, neither, both? Was I supposed to laugh? I mean, I chuckled a little at the rubber chicken, but mostly I cringed. Is that normal? Would I have gotten more out of it if I listened to more rap? Or if I’d ever been ...

The post How to Download All the Data LinkedIn Has About You appeared first on BardTech . LinkedIn was one of Microsoft’s biggest buys. So, the two platforms get connected at the hip when you link LinkedIn to your Microsoft apps. The information LinkedIn has about you support several Microsoft services. For instance, you can see LinkedIn information on the Resume Assistant in Microsoft Word and profile cards in Outlook. But this raises a question:  How can I see the data LinkedIn has about me? How to Download the Data LinkedIn Has About You LinkedIn has a well thought out privacy policy. It gives you control and access to all your data through the Privacy tab in the account settings. Apart from the usual advertising opt-outs and sharing controls, LinkedIn also allows you to download all your data in a machine-readable format. Sign into LinkedIn. Click your Profile picture at the top of the LinkedIn page. Select Settings & Privacy from the dropdown. Click t...

The post Microsoft is about to announce Xbox All Access subscription appeared first on BardTech . Microsoft published a news item announcing Xbox All Access on the Xbox blog and then unpublished it. But multiple news outlets spotted the article before Microsoft could take the post down. So now that the cat is out of the bag, it looks like Microsoft’s new hardware and software subscription is real. There have been rumors over the past few weeks that Microsoft was planning to announce a new subscription. Today’s announcement lines up with those rumors. Microsoft is launching Xbox All Access in the U.S., which includes a console, Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass. You get to choose between an Xbox One S for $22 per month or an Xbox One X for $35 per month. After paying for 24 months, the subscription stops and the console is yours. You can then choose to keep paying for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass or you can cancel your subscriptions — it’s your console after all. So let’...

The post Learn more about the future of robotics at Disrupt SF appeared first on BardTech . What’s next for robotics? At at Disrupt SF , we’ll be joined by four experts to discuss how new technologies are changing the field. Those experts include Peter Barrett, founder and CTO and Playground , a venture fund and design studio focused on hardware startups. Barrett is a 30-year veteran of the tech industry, whose accomplishments include developing Cinepak (video compression software that was included as part of Apple QuickTime) and working at WebTV — which was acquired by Microsoft, where he led Internet TV efforts for more than a decade. We’ll also be joined by Helen Boniske, a partner at early stage hardware investor Lemnos . Before joining Lemnos, Boniske was a front office executive for the Arizona Diamondbacks. The panel will also include Claire Delaunay, Nvidia’s vice president of engineering. Delaunay was previously robotics program lead at Google, co-founder of autonomous...

The post The filmmakers behind ‘Searching’ know why you’re skeptical about computer screen movies appeared first on BardTech . If you’re not sure about watching a whole movie where your point-of-view is limited to computer and smartphone screens, you’re not alone — “Searching” filmmakers Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian told me they had very similar reservations. Chaganty said that when the pair was first approached by Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs (the production company behind the “Unfriended” movies), the idea was to contribute a segment to an anthology of short films set on computer screens. That’s when they came up with the basic plot of “Searching” — after a teenaged girl goes missing, her father (played by John Cho) goes through the laptop she left behind in an effort to find her. But then the studio proposed turning the idea into a feature film, with Chaganty directing, Ohanian producing and the two of them writing the screenplay. “It was this incredible moment where no film...