Jeffrey
@Jeffrey
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Jeffrey upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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over 4 years ago
How to Build a Functional Mandalorian Tracking Fob to Find Your Smartphone Instead of Baby Yodas
Gif : VimeoThe tracking fobs used by bounty hunters in The Mandalorian to find their targets make the dangerous profession seem kind of easy. So the engineers at design studio MVRK wondered if the mythical technology could be recreated using Earth technology to make findi...continued
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over 4 years ago
CTA asks the US government for tariff exemptions on robotics, drones and 3D printers
The Consumer Technology Association penned an open letter alongside a number of other industry representatives asking the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office to loosen tariffs on a number of tech categories manufactured in China.The parties seek to widen current COVID-19-r...continued
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over 4 years ago
Technology and ethics in the coronavirus economy
The last two decades have ushered in significant change and transformation. I believe the 2020s will be dispositive in redefining the pillars of our economy, and COVID-19 magnifies this greatly. As of this writing there are 3,611,394 confirmed cases, and the U.S. accounts...continued
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over 4 years ago
Spin restarts scooter business in four markets
Spin, the electric scooter startup acquired by Ford in 2019 for nearly $100 million, has restarted operations in four U.S. markets as COVID-19-related closures begin to ease.The company has resumed operations in Orlando, Nashville, Columbus, Ohio and St. Louis. The ramp u...continued
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over 4 years ago
Google announces a Journalism Emergency Relief Fund for local newsrooms
Google is offering financial support to local newsrooms hit by the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of its Google News Initiative.The company isn’t disclosing the size of what it’s calling its Journalism Emergency Relief Fund, but in a blog post, Google ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Amid a Pandemic, Magic Spoon Eats Cake
Birthdays in quarantine have mostly been bittersweet, lonesome affairs. On Instagram, those who celebrated in April blew out candles in solitude or posted photos of their living rooms, filled with number-shaped balloons but absent any guests. There’s not much fun on a bir...continued
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over 4 years ago
‘Artemis Fowl’ is skipping theaters for Disney+
With movie theaters largely closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Disney is pushing back its slate of upcoming films. And at least one movie won’t be making it into theaters at all, with “Artemis Fowl” heading straight to streaming instead.The company announced today that ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Report: Uber CTO Resigns Amid Plans to Slash Up to a Fifth of the Company's Employees
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi during a product launch in San Francisco in September 2019. Photo : Philip Pacheco ( AFP via Getty Images )Taxi-hailing service Uber, which has been hemorrhaging billions for years and in the last few months has been hammered hard by the coronav...continued
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over 4 years ago
Confused about delaying your mortgage payments? You're not alone
When Mark Miano's real estate business slowed following the coronavirus shutdown, he called his mortgage company to ask about delaying payments for his home in Los Gatos, California."All they offered was a 90-day forbearance and a balloon payment at the end," he said."How...continued
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Abbie
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over 4 years ago
How Adobe shifted a Las Vegas conference to executives’ living rooms in less than 30 days
How Adobe shifted a Las Vegas conference to executives’ living rooms in less than 30 days 'We actually got a lot of kudos for not trying to fake it and set up green screens with everyone in virtual situations'Adobe was scheduled to hold its annual conference in Las Vegas ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Uber will soon require drivers and riders to wear face coverings in the US
(CNN Business) As it anticipates a restart to its core rideshare business amid the pandemic, Uber (UBER) plans to require drivers and riders to wear face masks or face coverings when using the platform in certain countries, including the United States, CNN Business has le...continued
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over 4 years ago
Organic Social: Content Marketing Ideas From a Pro
Wondering if publishing organic social is worth your time? Looking for tips to improve your organic social content?To explore the power of organic content marketing, I interview Larry Kim on the Social Media Marketing Podcast.Larry Kim is the founder of WordStream and Mob...continued
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over 4 years ago
Peloton launches an Android TV app
With gyms across the country closed for business, at-home exercise companies like Peloton have found an unexpected opportunity. As the connected fitness company looks to onboard new customers, they’re also expanding platform support, announcing today that they would be br...continued
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over 4 years ago
Emergent BioSolutions gets $14.5M in federal funding to expedite COVID-19 plasma therapy development
Last week, we spoke to the head of Emergent BioSolutions’ Therapeutics Business Unit Dr. Laura Saward about her company’s work developing plasma-based potential treatments for COVID-19. Now, the company announced that it has received $14.5 million in funding from the Biom...continued
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over 4 years ago
Microsoft to demo Xbox Series X games on May 7th
Microsoft is planning to show off some Xbox Series X gameplay next month. The software maker will hold a special Inside Xbox stream on May 7th, with the focus squarely on games for the Xbox Series X. Microsoft’s event will include next-gen gameplay from Microsoft’s “globa...continued
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over 4 years ago
Make Your Branding and Marketing Content Pop with This Easy-to-Use $30 Digital Illustrator
May 1, 2020 2 min readDisclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners.If only given 15 minutes to co...continued
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over 4 years ago
Meet the Man Behind Burger King's and Popeyes' Viral Marketing Campaigns
April 14, 2020 15 min readThis story appears in the April 2020 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »Burger King had a big announcement to make: It was removing artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives from its Whoppers. But the company was in a bind. The other burger ch...continued
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Cynthia
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over 4 years ago
FDA authorizes a ventilator developed by NASA’s JPL for emergency use in COVID-19 treatment
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized for emergency use as outlined in the agency’s COVID-19 guidelines a new ventilator designed by engineers working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory . The ventilator, which has an acronym because this is NASA we’r...continued
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over 4 years ago
Kickstarter darling PicoBrew may soon go out of business
One of the original Kickstarter success stories, PicoBrew, is likely going out of business permanently, according to The Spoon. The company tried to make brewing beer at home as easy as making coffee, but recently went into receivership. Now, all its assets have reportedl...continued
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over 4 years ago
Apple’s services business hits all-time record and helps lessen coronavirus impact
Apple today reported its second quarter earnings, which showed resilient growth for the company despite the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on its supply chain and retail business. Apple posted revenue of $58.3 billion — good for a 1 percent increase over this time l...continued
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over 4 years ago
Smart contact lens startup Mojo Vision raises $51M
Mojo Vision’s technology still felt early-stage when we met with them back at CES. But the demos we did see were enough to convince us that there really could be something to the California startup’s smart contact lens technology.Clearly we weren’t alone in that. The comp...continued
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over 4 years ago
Puppet names former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abbey Kearns as CTO
Puppet, the Portland-based infrastructure automation company, today announced that it has named former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns as its new CTO.Current Puppet CTO Deepak Giridharagopal will remain in his role and focus on R&D and leading ...continued
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Jeffrey
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over 4 years ago
Salesforce researchers are working on an AI economist for more equitable tax policy
Tax policy is surely a complex beast, and depending on your political leanings, you probably have some strong feelings about how it should be implemented. Salesforce AI researchers are trying to build a model to bring artificial intelligence to bear on what will undoubted...continued
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Cameron
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over 4 years ago
Why You Must Follow These 6 Basic Marketing Rules
April 28, 2020 6 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.The following excerpt is from Dan S. Kennedy and Kim Walsh Phillips's No B.S. Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing, Second Edition. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Nobl...continued
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over 4 years ago
Apple and Google Are Teaming Up to Build Coronavirus-Tracking Tech. Hold Your Applause.
Image : GettyAs the global coronavirus pandemic continues to spread and testing remains criminally limited, Apple and Google have announced a partnership to roll out contact-tracing technology to track the spread of covid-19. And Apple is promising that privacy is baked i...continued
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