Technology

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Devin @Devin - about 5 years ago

Carbon’s next partnership is a 3D-printed bike seat from Specialized

Carbon’s next partnership is a 3D-printed bike seat from Specialized – TechCrunchCarbon has been a kind of shining beacon in the world of 3D printing. In June, the company raised $260 million, bringing its valuation just shy of $2.4 billion. The company’s rapid growth is ...continued

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Assunta @Assunta - about 1 year ago

The Case For A Technology Aware Lobby Correspondent

We cover all manner of stories here at Hackaday, including awesome hardware hacks, the latest trends and inventions, and in-depth guides to fascinating technologies. We also cover a few news …read more

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Allene @Allene - over 1 year ago

Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting

Covert government strategy to install electronic surveillance in shops raises issues around bias and data, and contrasts sharply with the EU ban to keep AI out of public spacesHome Office officials have drawn up secret plans to lobby the independent privacy r…

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Giovanni @Giovanni - over 5 years ago

Trump Administration May Require All 5G Equipment To Come From Outside China

Trump Administration May Require All 5G Equipment To Come From Outside ChinaAmid white hot trade tensions between the world’s two economic superpowers, The Trump Administration is mulling over the possibility of requiring all 5G cellular equipment to come from sources out...continued

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Jimmy @Jimmy - over 5 years ago

SiFive is a startup to pay attention to. RISC-5 is here to stay. @makerbusiness

SiFive is a startup to pay attention to. RISC-5 is here to stay. @makerbusiness « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!SiFive is an open source company making waves in the world of hardware. They’ve raised money from Intel, Samsung, and...continued

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Cynthia @Cynthia - over 5 years ago

Bitcoin has surged above $8,000 and theories around why abound – TechCrunch

Bitcoin is now trading at around $8,130, up a whopping 60.84 percent over the past month, with the price surging $3,086.14 over the period. The cryptocurrency’s meteoric rise is reminiscent of its rocketing growth in the latter half of 2017, when prices reached over $18,4...continued

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Hank @Hank - over 5 years ago

Xiaomi CC boot animation first exposure – different from others

Xiaomi CC boot animation first exposureRecently, the new CC series of Xiaomi mobile phone was officially announced. Lei Jun said that the Xiaomi CC series is designed for young people and it comes with style and class. Lei Jun believes that it is not only colorful but als...continued

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Meggie @Meggie - over 5 years ago

JD.com’s logistics arm raises a $218 million investment fund

JD.com’s logistics arm raises a $218 million investment fund – TechCrunchThe logistics division of JD.com, Alibaba’s closest e-commerce competitor in China, has raised 1.5 billion yuan (about $218 million) to invest in logistics-related companies and technology. Limited p...continued

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Jarod @Jarod - over 4 years ago

4 Technology Trends Shaping Property Portals

The process of buying and selling property has transformed in recent years. According to the Real Estate in a Digital Age 2019 Report by the National Association of REALTORS®, in 2018, 44% of buyers looked for properties online first. The Internet is often the first place...continued

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Felicita @Felicita - over 5 years ago

Humanising Autonomy pulls in $5M to help self-driving cars keep an eye on pedestrians – TechCrunch

Pretty much everything about making a self-driving car is difficult, but among the most difficult parts is making sure the vehicles know what pedestrians are doing — and what they’re about to do. Humanising Autonomy specializes this, and hopes to become a ubiquitous part ...continued

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Arvid @Arvid - over 3 years ago

FabricNano raises $12.5M to help scale its cell-free fossil fuel alternative technology

It’s not often that you hear DNA described as a wafer – but that’s the analogy that Grant Aarons, the founder of FabricNano, a cell-free biomanufacturing company uses to describe his company’s major product. That DNA, the company hopes, will make a dent in a …

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Rex @Rex - over 5 years ago

Tesla supplier hints at massive increase in Model 3 production

Tesla supplier hints at massive increase in Model 3 productionA Tesla supplier in China says that it is doubling the production of parts it supplies for Tela’s Model 3 program — hinting at a massive increase in Model 3 production capacity.Earlier this week, we reported on...continued

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Monserrat @Monserrat - over 5 years ago

Markets Right Now: Stocks rise as Powell signals rates cut

Stocks rise as Powell signals rates cutNEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):Stocks rose and bond yields fell as investors welcomed new signals that the Federal Reserve is ready to cut interest rates for the first time in a deca...continued

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Wilmer @Wilmer - over 4 years ago

Why conspiracy theorists think 5G is bad for your health and why experts say not to worry

New York (CNN Business) For all its promise, the rollout of 5G has also been fraught with rumors and conspiracy theories — most recently, a narrative spread on social media that the wireless network technology fueled the coronavirus pandemic.It did not.While baseless, the...continued

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Jerrold @Jerrold - over 5 years ago

China’s new Nasdaq-style board for tech shares starts trading with 25 companies listed

China’s new Nasdaq-style board for tech shares starts trading with 25 companies listed – TechCrunchTrading on China’s new Nasdaq-style stock market began today, with 25 tech companies listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, operated by the Shanghai Stock Ma...continued

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Gregoria @Gregoria - about 3 years ago

Eight Sleep raises $86M as its smart mattress and ‘sleep fitness’ technology approach $500M valua...

The venture world is — quite literally — waking up to the potential of applying artificial intelligence to a wider variety of real-world, consumer-driven problems, and today comes the latest development on that front: Eight Sleep, which makes “smart” mattress…

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Elvie @Elvie - about 1 month ago

From Wimbledon to VAR, is tech hurting the drama of sport?

As Wimbledon scraps human line judges, sport insiders suggest how we can make games more exciting.

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Felicita @Felicita - over 4 years ago

The Technocratic Danger of Al Gore’s New Venture to Track Carbon Pollution in Real-Time

Al Gore Photo : Matthias Nareyek ( Getty Images )For the first time ever, the world will have technology to track greenhouse gas emissions in near real-time. That’s the promise of Climate TRACE, a coalition of nine organizations led by former Vice President Al Gore.Advert...continued

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Alvah @Alvah - about 3 years ago

The best technology and innovation podcasts in Spanish

If you are passionate about technology, or you just like to keep up to date with the latest news, we leave you the best podcasts in our language.

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Adelia @Adelia - about 2 years ago

The technology that makes you sound more American and whiter

A Silicon Valley startup offers voice-altering tech to call center workers around the world. Is it fighting bias – or perpetuating it?“Hi, good morning. I’m calling in from Bangalore, India.” I’m talking on speakerphone to a man with an obvious Indian accent.…

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Arvid @Arvid - over 5 years ago

Protecting Legal Rights In ICE’s New Deportation Raids

Protecting Legal Rights In ICE's New Deportation RaidsProtecting Legal Rights In Ice Agents Raids; Advocacy Groups Might Do More, Including Providing Additional AdviceWASHINGTON, D.C. (June 22, 2019) – In the wake of President Trump’s warning that ICE will begin deporti...continued

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Joe @Joe - almost 3 years ago

How to Tell If Your Vinyl Collection Is Actually Worth Cash

No matter how hard they tried, the killjoys and technophiles of the world simply could not kill off vinyl records. Every time a new audio technology hit the market, predictions of the Death of Vinyl would follow—and when Compact Discs arrived 40 years ago, it…

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Angus @Angus - almost 5 years ago

How to Levitate Objects With Sound (and Break Your Mind)

How to Levitate Objects With Sound (and Break Your Mind)Along with personal jetpacks for every man, woman, and child (sure, why not), levitation is one of those conveniences that sci-fi has long promised us but has yet to deliver, other than magnetically levitating trains...continued

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Eleanora @Eleanora - over 2 years ago

Breakingviews - India's war on foreign tech risks misfiring - Reuters

India’s war on foreign technology giants is misunderstood. It is, at best, a messy effort to prevent vulnerabilities emerging from its large and growing technology sector. Official heavy-handedness to address those potential problems could end up having the o…

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Nelson @Nelson - over 4 years ago

A Radical Solution to Scale AI Technology

The companies that kill proof of concept for AI technologies attempt scaling twice as often, succeed at their scaling initiatives twice as often, and end up spending less money on pilots and fully scaled deployments. The result? They achieve nearly three times the return ...continued

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