Patrick
@Patrick
423 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Patrick upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Jeffrey @Jeffrey - about 5 years ago
Never Trust a Platform to Put Privacy Ahead of Profit
Twitter Puts Profit Ahead of User Privacy—Just Like Facebook Did BeforeAt this point, it's painfully unsurprising to hear new examples of tech companies misusing customer data. But a particularly shameful version of the story has become increasingly common: services pulli...continued
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Patrick @Patrick - about 5 years ago
Dignics 80 review from 2015 US Open Champion Jinxin Wang
October 25, 2019 Dignics 80 review from 2015 US Open Champion – Jinxin Wang I put Dignics 80 on my backhand side and after 10 hours of playing, I’m impressed with the result. I like this rubber. I have been playing with Tenergy 05 on my backhand side for some time....continued
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Maida @Maida - about 5 years ago
Johnson & Johnson agrees to pay about $117 million to settle vaginal mesh litigation
Johnson & Johnson agrees to pay about $117 million to settle U.S. states' mesh probe(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay nearly $117 million to resolve allegations that it deceptively marketed transvaginal surgical mesh devices, U.S. state attorneys gen...continued
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Marlon @Marlon - about 5 years ago
Can desert greenhouses resolve food security time bomb?
Can desert greenhouses deliver food security?The three-year-old start-up is aiming for nothing less than a transformation of the agriculture industry, and to resolve the growing threat to food security that faces the UAE.The company, founded in 2016, has already establish...continued
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Assunta @Assunta - about 5 years ago
Lexus’s first autonomous EV has drones and ‘artificial muscle technology’
Lexus’s first autonomous EV has drones and ‘artificial muscle technology’Lexus leaned into the futuristic theme, which is evident from the vehicle's "hoodless" form, glass roof and gull-wing (aka DeLorean) doors. Inside, Lexus put gesture controls to use and created AR ve...continued
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Hank @Hank - about 5 years ago
3 Marketing Lessons from Bed Bath & Beyond's 'Offline Shopping' Ad
3 Marketing Lessons from Bed Bath & Beyond's 'Offline Shopping' AdI was recently in the market for a new vacuum cleaner and was doing my usual shopping routine -- i.e. browsing on Amazon and reading reviews to get more information on the various brands before I made m...continued
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Giles @Giles - about 5 years ago
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow – TechCrunchDatabricks is a SaaS business built on top of a bunch of open-source tools, and apparently it’s been going pretty well on the business side of things. In fact, the comp...continued
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Grayce @Grayce - about 5 years ago
Penske is getting into the car-sharing business, starting with Washington D.C.
Penske is getting into the car-sharing business, starting with Washington, DC – TechCrunchTransportation services giant Penske Corp. is backing a new car-sharing service called Penske Dash that launched Tuesday in Washington, D.C. and Arlington, Va.The service is debuting...continued
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Casper @Casper - about 5 years ago
Will the Sprint and T-Mobile merger create competition?
Will the Sprint and T-Mobile merger create competition?This week for our interview series on The Vergecast, host and Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to Gigi Sohn, a distinguished fellow at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy. We’ve had Gigi on...continued
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Garnet @Garnet - about 5 years ago
Evolution of Speech Recognition Technology
Communication plays an essential role in our lives. Humans started with signs, symbols, and then made progress to a stage, where they began communicating with languages. Later computing and communication technologies came. Machines began communicating with humans and in s...continued
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Devin @Devin - about 5 years ago
OmniVision wins Guinness World Record for its tiny medical image sensor
OmniVision wins Guinness World Record for its tiny medical image sensorTraditionally, procedures in the body's smallest anatomy -- such as neuro, ENT, cardiac, spinal and gynaecology procedures -- were performed blind or with low quality images from fiberscopes, because e...continued
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Jany @Jany - about 5 years ago
Sustainability and Roofing Expert Mike Feazel Predicts a Bright Future for Solar Technology
Sustainability and Roofing Expert Mike Feazel Predicts a Bright Future for Solar TechnologyAre you ready for what the next few years in technology will bring?In this series called Member Showcase, we publish interviews with members of The Oracles. This interview is with M...continued
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Patrick @Patrick - about 5 years ago
Ikea's Expands Augmented Reality App, Lets You Fill an Entire Room With Virtual Swedish Furniture
Ikea's AR App Now Lets You Place Multiple Pieces of FurnitureAugmented reality might one day be a crucial piece of technology, but for now, the best use we’ve found for putting virtual objects in real scenes is previewing how new furniture might look in your living room. ...continued
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Ryleigh @Ryleigh - about 5 years ago
Timing Technology
Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media LabWhile reading “Funding Breakthrough Research: Promises and Challenges of the ‘ARPA Model’”, Azoulay et al 2018, on DARPA, I noticed an interesting comment:The two Goldstein & Kearney 2018 papers sounded interesting but alas...continued
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Marjory @Marjory - about 5 years ago
Spot, Boston Dynamic's Robot Dog, Is Finally Available For Sale
Spot, Boston Dynamic's Robot Dog, Is Finally Available For SaleAfter debuting just shy of two years ago, Boston Dynamics has finally made its Spot robotic dog available for sale, but don’t expect to find a great Black Friday deal on this bot at Best Buy come Thanksgiving....continued
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Wilmer @Wilmer - about 5 years ago
Why Elon Musk is wrong about LiDAR technology
Why Elon Musk is wrong about LiDAR technologyEarlier this year, at one of Tesla’s events, the company’s famous founder, Elon Muskproclaimed that, “LiDAR is a fool’s errand,” and “Anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed. Doomed.”We’re all big fans of Elon at my company and we’ve...continued
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Cynthia @Cynthia - about 5 years ago
MIT Confirms a Bridge Leonardo da Vinci Designed 500 Years Ago Was an Ancient Engineering Marvel
MIT Confirms a Da Vinci Bridge Was Brilliantly EngineeredSome 500 years after his death, researchers are still discovering just how talented and brilliant Leonardo da Vinci was. Architects and civil engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used a 3D printer ...continued
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Cyril @Cyril - about 5 years ago
Facebook buys startup working on technology that lets you control computers with your mind - CNET
Facebook buys startup working on technology that lets you control computers with your mindFacebook said Monday it's acquiring CTRL-labs, a neurotechnology startup, as part of efforts to develop a wristband for controlling smartphones, computers and other digital devices w...continued
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Patrick @Patrick - about 5 years ago
Ikea's Expands Augmented Reality App, Lets You Fill an Entire Room With Virtual Swedish Furniture
Ikea's AR App Now Lets You Place Multiple Pieces of FurnitureAugmented reality might one day be a crucial piece of technology, but for now, the best use we’ve found for putting virtual objects in real scenes is previewing how new furniture might look in your living room. ...continued
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Ezequiel @Ezequiel - about 5 years ago
Harley-Davidson resumes production of first electric motorcycle after charging issue
Harley-Davidson resumes production of first electric motorcycle after charging issueHarley-Davidson has restarted production and deliveries of LiveWire, its first electric motorcycle, after resolving an issue with the bike’s charging technology that was discovered last we...continued
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Hank @Hank - about 5 years ago
Those Superfast Nike Shoes Are Creating a Problem
Those Superfast Nike Shoes Are Creating a ProblemLast weekend’s extraordinary marathon performances — 1 hour 59 minutes 40 seconds by Eliud Kipchoge in Vienna and 2:14:04 by Brigid Kosgei in Chicago — have focused attention on an already simmering question: Does the Inter...continued
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Mariano @Mariano - about 5 years ago
Uber lays off another ~350 across Eats, self-driving and other departments
Uber lays off another ~350 across Eats, self-driving and other departments – TechCrunchUber has just laid off around 350 employees across a variety of teams within the organization, marking what the company says is its third and final phase of layoffs of the process it be...continued
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Giovanni @Giovanni - about 5 years ago
Arianna Huffington on Quest to Create the Methadone of Tech
Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global Acquires Boundless MindsAriana Huffington left Huffington Post in 2016 to create Thrive Global—a confounding venture that aims to help people reduce stress and burnout by taking control of their relationship with technology. Three years ...continued
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Gregoria @Gregoria - about 5 years ago
a16z’s Andrew Chen on the opportunities today for consumer tech startups
a16z’s Andrew Chen on the opportunities today for consumer tech startups – TechCrunchAt TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco last week, Extra Crunch managing editor Eric Eldon sat down with Andrew Chen, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Andrew focuses on consumer tech...continued
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Jeffrey @Jeffrey - about 5 years ago
Yet another company has been hit by a ransomware attack
Yet another company has been hit by a ransomware attackThis time the victim was Pitney Bowes, a technology company based out of Stamford, Connecticut that provides ecommerce, shipping, data and mailing services.The company confirmed the attack on its website and is curren...continued
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