Technology

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Felicita @Felicita - over 3 years ago

Earn $2,400 for Doing a 24-Hour Digital Detox

Even those who had a relatively healthy relationship with technology prior to the pandemic may now find themselves in a different position—one where they’re interacting with some type of screen during nearly all of their waking hours. Between the Zoom meeting…

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Jarod @Jarod - over 4 years ago

Daily Crunch: Alphabet’s Verily launches COVID-19 screening site

Alphabet launches a site for COVID-19 test screening, the stock market continues to fall and Microsoft Teams goes down. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 16, 2020.1. Alphabet’s Verily launches its California COVID-19 test screening site in a limited pilotAlphabet-owned h...continued

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Colin @Colin - over 4 years ago

IBM ends all facial recognition work as CEO calls out bias and inequality

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced today that the company would no longer sell facial recognition services, calling for a “national dialogue” on whether it should be used at all. He also voiced support for a new bill aiming to reduce police violence and increase accountabil...continued

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Zackery @Zackery - over 3 years ago

Kia’s electric vehicle plans take shape with EV6 teaser, new naming strategy

Kia started the year by dropping “motor company” from its corporate name and revealing a new logo and slogan as part of Plan S, a strategy to shift its business away from internal combustion engines and towards EVs, mobility services and autonomous vehicle te…

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Ericka @Ericka - over 3 years ago

Apple supplier Foxconn reaches tentative agreement to build Fisker’s next electric car

Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group has reached a tentative agreement with electric vehicle startup-turned-SPAC Fisker to develop and eventually manufacture an EV that will be sold in North America, Europe, China and India. Fisker and Foxconn said Wednesd…

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Grayce @Grayce - almost 4 years ago

Apple Patents MacBook Technology It Completely Abandoned on Its Smartphones and Smartwatches

Apple has reportedly filed a patent application to bring Force Touch to the MacBook’s Touch Bar after ditching the pressure-sensing technology on its smartphones and smartwatches. And honestly, given the string of increasingly niche reboots in recent years, I…

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Ryleigh @Ryleigh - 6 months ago

Sam Altman Says 'Voice Is a Hint' at the Next Big Thing in AI

OpenAI is gearing up for a much-anticipated spring update to GPT-4 and ChatGPT on Monday, and multiple reports are pointing to voice as the next frontier for Sam Altman’s AI company. On Friday’s episode of the All-In podcast, Altman indicated that voice-based…

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Casper @Casper - over 5 years ago

RIAT: How Typhoon updates put Centurion on guard for UK

How Typhoon updates put Centurion on guard for UKThe past 12 months have seen a momentous shift in the UK’s combat aircraft balance, with Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4s having received new ground-attack weapons, its last Panavia Tornado GR4s retiring and...continued

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Alexie @Alexie - over 5 years ago

US digital advertising exceeded $100B in 2018 (IAB report)

Digital ad spending in the United States exceeding $100 billion for the first time last year, according to the latest internet advertising report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.Specifically, total domestic spending reached $107.5 billio...continued

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Bobby @Bobby - about 1 year ago

An AI Moderator Is Coming With ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’

When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 comes out on Nov. 10, all players’ voice chats will be silently monitored by artificial intelligence. The AI-powered moderation technology, Toxmod, is designed to identify toxic speech in real time in multiplayer games to c…

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Jerrold @Jerrold - over 3 years ago

Bite Ninja scoops up pre-seed funding to reimagine restaurant working environments

The company's remote hiring technology enable restaurants to fill last-minute drive-thru or cashier shifts.

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Alexandro @Alexandro - over 1 year ago

Lithium-ion battery creator John Goodenough dies at 100

One of the most influential scientists in technology has passed away. The University of Texas at Austin has confirmed that Dr. John Goodenough, widely credited as the creator of the lithium-ion battery, has died at the age of 100. While you might not have hea…

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Immanuel @Immanuel - almost 4 years ago

Here’s what’s happening on day 1 of TC Sessions: Space 2020

T-minus 3…2…1…liftoff! Day one of TC Sessions: Space 2020, our first conference dedicated to space technology, early-stage startups and the brilliant minds forging a new era of space exploration, is officially underway. Get ready for two days of interviews, p…

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Hannah @Hannah - 3 months ago

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Oren @Oren - over 5 years ago

Amazon acquires flash-based cloud storage startup E8 Storage

Amazon acquires flash-based cloud storage startup E8 Storage – TechCrunchAmazon has acquired Israeli storage tech startup E8 Storage, as first reported by Reuters, CNBC and Globesand confirmed by TechCrunch. The acquisition will bring the team and technology from E8 in to...continued

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Jessika @Jessika - over 4 years ago

OrbitFab secures National Science Foundation funding to propel its satellite refueling tech to space

On-orbit satellite refueling technology is closer than ever to a practical reality, which could help immensely with the cost and sustainability of orbital businesses. Startup OrbitFab, a 2019 TechCrunch Battlefield finalist, is one of the companies working to make orbital...continued

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Garnet @Garnet - over 1 year ago

Gannett lawsuit claims Google’s ad monopoly is hurting the news business

Gannett filed a federal lawsuit against Google and parent company Alphabet, alleging that Google has monopolies on the ad tech market that have hurt local news. Gannett’s lawsuit is just the latest legal action against Google in regard to online advertising.

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Casper @Casper - over 2 years ago

This Little Chip Can Make the Light bulbs in Your House Broadcast Their Own Wi-Fi Network

We’ve been hearing about LiFi technology for a while now, but it’s taken a while to roll out. Now companies like pureLiFi already have everything they need ready to bring this electricity connection to homes. It will be very useful for the home Wi-Fi to final…

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Felicita @Felicita - over 3 years ago

Surfside, a marketing technology for the cannabis space, inhales $4 million

Surfside, a data and marketing platform aimed directly at the Cannabis industry, has today announced the close of a $4 million seed round led by Casa Verde. The firm’s managing partner, Karan Wadhera, will join the Surfside board. The startup is relatively ne…

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Gregoria @Gregoria - almost 3 years ago

Riverbed Technology nets approval of $1bn debt-cutting plan - Reuters

Riverbed Technology, a San Francisco-based information technology company, secured bankruptcy court approval on Friday of its reorganization plan th…

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Americo @Americo - over 3 years ago

Gogoro is joining the battery swapping revolution in China

Taiwanese electric scooter and battery company is expanding into China, the biggest market in the world for the technology, thanks to two new deals with established two-wheel manufacturers. It comes as China is pushing hard to lead the world in quick-swap bat…

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Jerrold @Jerrold - over 5 years ago

From Project Scarlett to Gooigi: The best of E3 2019 – TechCrunch

Every story about E3 has opened with a mention of Sony’s absence, and this one’s no different. The lack of one of gaming’s “big three” loomed large over the show, right down to a strange sense of space on the showroom floor. Even Xbox chief Phil Spencer mourned the absen...continued

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Colin @Colin - over 1 year ago

Google's clever patent could bring an enhanced Airplane mode to your phone

A new patent from Google has appeared and details a new airplane-mode technology.

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Joe @Joe - over 3 years ago

Head, tail, knees and trees (knees and trees)

Some fun ones this week, so let’s get all of those pesky business transactions out of the way first, shall we? I mean, not that tens of millions of dollars changing hands for future robotics technology is boring, he said, tugging at his collar for comedic eff…

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Angus @Angus - over 1 year ago

Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’

The AI era promises a flood of disinformation, deepfakes, and hallucinated “facts.” Psychologists are only beginning to grapple with the implications.

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