Marlon
@Marlon
418 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Marlon
@Marlon -
almost 5 years ago
Washington Must Bet Big on AI or Lose Its Global Clout
Washington Must Bet Big on AI or Lose Its Global CloutThe US government must spend $25 billion on artificial intelligence research by 2025, stem the loss of foreign AI talent, and find new ways to prevent critical AI technology from being stolen and exported, according to...continued
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Emmie
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almost 5 years ago
China Roundup: GitHub’s China ambitions and WeWork rival’s big hopes
GitHub’s China ambitions and WeWork rival’s big hopes – TechCrunchHello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, we are looking at how WeW...continued
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almost 5 years ago
Cisco acquires ultra-low latency networking specialist Exablaze
Cisco acquires ultra-low latency networking specialist Exablaze – TechCrunchCisco today announced that it has acquired Exablaze, an Australia-based company that designs and builds advanced networking gear based on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The company focuse...continued
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almost 5 years ago
Unforgettable Fire - Business Mirror
BONO himself acknowledged that it took four decades for his band, U2 to finally perform in the Philippines. But judging from the cheers of the full-house crowd that trooped to the humongous Philippine Arena—most of whom endured a three-to-four hour road trip from traffic-...continued
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almost 5 years ago
Staring Down Impeachment Vote, Freshman Democrat Seeks Legislative Victories
Staring Down Impeachment Vote, Freshman Democrat Seeks Legislative VictoriesMr. Delgado has not completely shied away from impeachment. When news broke of Mr. Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president that is at the heart of the charges, he announced that Congress s...continued
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almost 5 years ago
Carsome raises $50M for its used-car sales platform in Southeast Asia
Carsome raises $50M for its used-car sales platform in Southeast Asia – TechCrunchCarsome, a Malaysia-based marketplace for trading used cars, has closed a new $50 million financing round to fend off its rivals and grow its business in Southeast Asian markets.The new fina...continued
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almost 5 years ago
This open source farming technology aims to combat climate change via soil health – Good Algorithms
This open source farming technology aims to combat climate changeSource: MashablePowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Open-source model • Technology • Climate change • HTTP cookie •
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almost 5 years ago
The last decade in real estate, and a peek into the next one
The last decade in real estate, and a peek into the next one – TechCrunchAs we barrel towards the start of a new decade, it’s amazing to think about the ongoing transformation within real estate.In the U.S., housing’s contribution to our GDP is ~15-18%spread across reside...continued
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Izaiah
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almost 5 years ago
Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to president and COO
Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to president and COO – TechCrunchSalesforce announced today that it has named Bret Taylor as president and chief operating officer of the company. Prior to today’s promotion, Taylor held the position of president and chief product officer.I...continued
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almost 5 years ago
Greta Thunberg Blasts ‘Creative PR’ in Her Climate Speech
Greta Thunberg Blasts ‘Creative PR’ in Her Climate SpeechThis story originally appeared on HuffPost and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.At a high-level event Wednesday at the United Nations climate summit, Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg slammed wor...continued
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Marlon
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almost 5 years ago
MLB will remove marijuana from list of 'drugs of abuse' and test for opioids
MLB will remove marijuana from list of 'drugs of abuse' and test for opioidsMajor League Baseball will begin testing players for opioids and remove marijuana from its list of "drugs of abuse," as part of its updated drug program, the league and the players union said Thur...continued
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Adelia
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almost 5 years ago
Trends Driving the Loyalty Marketing Industry
Trends Driving Loyalty Marketing in 2019Do you know who a loyal customer is? It’s those who circle back to your brand again and again and again. Loyalty marketing is when you give customers a strong reason to come back to you.These customers never have enough of the diffe...continued
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almost 5 years ago
Zetwerk, an 18-month-old Indian B2B marketplace for manufacturing items, raises $32M
Zetwerk, an 18-month-old Indian B2B marketplace for manufacturing items, raises $32M – TechCrunchZetwerk, an Indian business-to-business marketplace for manufacturing items, has closed a significantly large financing round as it scales its operations in the nation and als...continued
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Muriel
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almost 5 years ago
BeBlocky is using gaming to educate a new generation of African programmers
BeBlocky is using gaming to educate a new generation of African programmers – TechCrunchNathan Damtew, the founder of new Ethiopian education technology and gaming company BeBlocky, has always been interested in games.An avid Call of Duty player, the young entrepreneur, w...continued
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almost 5 years ago
When Tech Giants Blanket the World
When Tech Giants Blanket the World Juan Carlos Castillo, a state official in rural Mexico, had never received a call like this before. What looked like a giant plastic jellyfish with a blinking LED had fallen from the sky onto a farmer’s field. “It really caused panic,” h...continued
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Madalyn
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almost 5 years ago
The Freelancer's Guide to End-of-Year Tax Prep
The Freelancer's Guide to End-of-Year Tax PrepI started preparing for next year’s taxes in October of this year. By the first week of November, I sent my CPA a prepared document listing my current business income and expenses (aka a “profit and loss statement”) as well as...continued
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Kari
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almost 5 years ago
Audi experiments with a ride share service in Southern Germany using an EV and gasoline fleet
Audi experiments with a ride share service in Southern Germany using an EV and gasoline fleet – TechCrunchAudi Business Innovation is testing out a ride sharing service in Southern Germany called BITS that uses both gasoline and electric vehicles in its fleet.To manage th...continued
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Hulda
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almost 5 years ago
AMD and Intel Could Be Screwed By New Chinese Mandate Forbidding Foreign Technology
China Bans Government Offices From Using Foreign-Made TechFollowing the U.S. ban that prohibited domestic companies from supplying equipment to Huawei back in May, the technological Cold War between the U.S. and China just got a bit more intense now that Beijing has order...continued
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Giles
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almost 5 years ago
Redbox no longer rents video games, and it will end game sales this year
Redbox no longer rents video games, and it will end game sales this yearRedbox is exiting the game rental business, the company confirmed to The Vergeon Monday.The company’s trademark rental kiosks have been a handy way to rent physical copies of movies (if you still have...continued
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Alvah
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almost 5 years ago
Healthcare-focused venture firms are forming a best practices group for securing health data
Healthcare-focused venture firms are forming a best practices group for securing health data – TechCrunchSome of the nation’s top healthcare-focused venture capital firms are banding together to form an advisory council with the technology security certification provider,...continued
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Grayce
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almost 5 years ago
Witness Spooky Evidence of Snapchat's New Face-Swapping Feature
Witness Spooky Evidence of Snapchat's New Face-Swapping FeatureSometimes social media dipsomania comes into harsh relief, as it did today when the technology wars manifested themselves as the ability to superimpose your face on a cat: aka, Snapchat’s new social drug “Came...continued
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How to avoid the startup trap of the parasitic consultant
How to avoid the startup trap of the parasitic consultant – TechCrunchEarly-stage startups have a massive problem: there are way, way too many things to do, and never enough people to do them. Whether it’s growth marketing, or product design, or software engineering or a ...continued
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Felicita
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almost 5 years ago
Lyft is ceasing scooter operations in six cities and laying off 20 employees
Lyft is ceasing scooter operations in six cities and laying off 20 employees – TechCrunchIn an industry where unit economics and rider utilization are key to running a profitable business, perhaps it’s better to cut your losses early on. Lyft notified employees today that...continued
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Mariano
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almost 5 years ago
Dutch startup Meatable is developing lab-grown pork and has $10 million in new financing to do it
Dutch startup Meatable is developing lab-grown pork and has $10 million in new financing to do it – TechCrunchMeatable, the Dutch startup developing cruelty-free technologies for manufacturing cultured meat, is pivoting to pork production as a swine flu epidemic ravages o...continued
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Cynthia
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almost 5 years ago
Anderson Cooper roasts Trump's plumbing claim
Anderson Cooper roasts Trump's plumbing claimChat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.Source: CNNPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Anderson Cooper • Donald Trump • Facebook Messenger • Pearl River (band) •
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