Technology
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Sandrine
@Sandrine -
over 4 years ago
Alphabet’s Verily launches its California COVID-19 test screening site in a limited pilot
Alphabet -owned health technology company Verily has launched the COVID-19 screening site that was first misrepresented by President Trump as a broadly focused coronavirus web-based screening and testing utility developed by Google. After a flurry of blog posts by Google ...continued
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Angus
@Angus -
3 months ago
Amazon Just Slashed Prices on Our Favorite Foldable: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 on Labor Day Sale
The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 featuring 512GB of storage is available for a limited-time Labor Day price of $967 down from $1,219 on Amazon until tonight.
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Devin
@Devin -
over 5 years ago
Aspen Tech buys Montreal-based AI company Mnubo Inc. for $102 million
Aspen Tech buys Montreal-based AI company Mnubo Inc. for $102 millionMontreal-based tech firm Mnubo Inc. has been snapped up by Aspen Technology Inc. for $102 million.Mnubo has been developing artificial intelligence and analytics infrastructure for industrial companies t...continued
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Maureen
@Maureen -
about 1 year ago
Sneak Peek at the $2.3B MSG Sphere's Huge Immersive Screen, Advanced Audio Systems - CNET
We got to experience demos of some of the technology powering the MSG Sphere arena, opening this fall in Las Vegas.
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Raoul
@Raoul -
over 3 years ago
How to Disable Google Chrome's New 'Privacy Sandbox' Tracking (and Why You Want To)
Internet users increasingly want a more anonymous browsing experience, which has a major impact on advertising, eCommerce, and the online economy as a whole. If a company can’t track you with third-party cookies, it’s harder to make money. Google is testing a…
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Ismael
@Ismael -
about 3 years ago
Holmes never told $100M investor of problems with Theranos technology
Theranos was “hand-picking” investors to keep company private, jury hears.
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Elliott
@Elliott -
5 months ago
Activists Disrupt Amazon Conference Over $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel
Members of the activist group No Tech for Apartheid interrupted a senior Amazon executive's speech at a conference in Washington, DC, on Wednesday over the company's Project Nimbus cloud contract.
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Immanuel
@Immanuel -
about 5 years ago
Amperity acquires Custora to improve its customer data platform
Amperity acquires Custora to improve its customer data platform – TechCrunchAmperity announced today that it’s acquiring another company in the customer data business, Custora.Amperity co-founder and CEO Kabir Shahani told me that Custora’s technology complements what Amp...continued
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Iva
@Iva -
over 3 years ago
Tim Cook drops hints about autonomous tech and the Apple car
Apple CEO Tim Cook dropped a few hints in an interview released Monday about the direction of the much-anticipated Apple car, including that autonomous vehicle technology will likely be a key feature. “The autonomy itself is a core technology, in my view,” Co…
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Ariel
@Ariel -
7 months ago
The One Thing Holding Back Heat Pumps
It’s not the technology itself. It’s that we don’t yet have enough trained workers to install heat pumps for full-tilt decarbonization.
3 minutes read
Jerrold
@Jerrold -
over 5 years ago
Algorithmia raises $25M Series B for its AI automation platform – TechCrunch
Algorithmia, a Seattle-based startup that offers a cloud-agnostic AI automation platform for enterprises, today announced a $25 million Series B funding round led by Norwest Partners. Madrona, Gradient Ventures, Work-Bench, Osage University Partners and Rakuten Ventures a...continued
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Alexandro
@Alexandro -
9 months ago
Facial recognition tech is probably coming to a lot more vending machines
Chris Russell of the Oxford Internet Institute says facial recognition technology is cheap, easy to install and is going to become increasingly common.
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Zackery
@Zackery -
over 4 years ago
US Commerce Department updates rules to further limit Huawei’s chip access
The United States Department of Commerce this morning issued updates to a list of rules designed to restrict Huawei’s access to U.S.-based technology. The new restrictions follow a similar decree announced in May, finding the government department engaged in a game of int...continued
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Jimmy
@Jimmy -
4 months ago
Taco Bell Is Deploying AI to Screw Up Your Crunchwrap Supreme
The global franchise has announced that it will be integrating AI into the operations of Taco Bell drive-thru locations "throughout" the U.S.
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Jerrold
@Jerrold -
over 5 years ago
Binance begins to restrict US users ahead of regulatory-compliant exchange launch – TechCrunch
The world’s largest crypto exchange is going legit. Binance, which processes over $1 billion on a daily basis and for so long has embodied crypto’s wild west culture, announced that it will launch a U.S-based service — but, in the meantime, it is implementing restriction...continued
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Jerrold
@Jerrold -
over 3 years ago
Self-driving truck startup Kodiak partnering with SK Group to expand into Asia
Kodiak Robotics, the U.S.-based self-driving truck startup, is partnering with South Korean conglomerate SK to explore the possibility of deploying its autonomous vehicle technology in Asia. The ultimate aim of the partnership is to sell and distribute Kodiak…
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Patrick
@Patrick -
11 months ago
My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk's 'Politically Biased' Chatbot
Some Elon Musk fans are concerned that Grok, xAI's answer to ChatGPT, is too politically liberal. The nature of the underlying AI technology will make “fixing” its outlook difficult.
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Giles
@Giles -
over 5 years ago
Watch Rocket Lab launch its second orbital mission of 2019 late tonight – TechCrunch
Fast-growing launch provider Rocket Lab is launching its second orbital payload of the year late tonight by our reckoning, early in the evening at the launch site in New Zealand. It will carry three experimental satellites to low Earth orbit, and you can watch it live. Th...continued
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Alexandro
@Alexandro -
over 4 years ago
NASA Is Using Red and Blue 3D Glasses to Safely Drive the Mars Rover While Working From Home
Photo : Andrew Liszewski ( Gizmodo ) , NASAThe next time you complain about having to put on a clean shirt for a video call, consider the challenges others have to deal with while working from home. Without access to their powerful NASA computers, the team responsible for...continued
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Bobby
@Bobby -
over 5 years ago
The Evolution of Portable Entertainment
The Evolution of Portable Entertainment – Tech.pinionsAs a technology analyst and consultant, I have had the chance of not only studying and chronicling the world of technology but, once in a while, I get involved in a consulting project that I feel could have a specific ...continued
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Jarod
@Jarod -
about 5 years ago
Teach Your Kids About the World With This Animated Series
Teach Your Kids About the World With This Animated SeriesIf your kid has a wide range of interests—and a short attention span—they’ll probably be into Triviatopia, a series of educational animated videos on YouTube about everything from science, history and art to technol...continued
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Alan
@Alan -
over 1 year ago
Google's New AI Tech Lets You Command Robots to Throw Away Your Trash - CNET
Google is looking to help people use natural language to control robots, with technology that's like the systems powering Bard and ChatGPT.
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Jaydon
@Jaydon -
over 3 years ago
Deepfake tech takes on satellite maps
While the concept of “deepfakes,” or AI-generated synthetic imagery, has been decried primarily in connection with involuntary depictions of people, the technology is dangerous (and interesting) in other ways as well. For instance, researchers have shown that…
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Meggie
@Meggie -
about 5 years ago
From a Sewing Needle to a Laser Cutter, a New Approach to Fashion
From a Sewing Needle to a Laser Cutter, a New Approach to FashionWho or what inspired you to go into your field?When I was 16 I moved to Amsterdam, because there was no high school in my town, and that’s when I became aware of fashion, both because it was around me and be...continued
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Nelson
@Nelson -
10 months ago
Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King
CEO Sundar Pichai tells WIRED that Google's new, more powerful Gemini chatbot is an experiment in offering users a way to find information and get things done without a search engine.
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