Abbie
@Abbie
455 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Hulda
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almost 5 years ago
If You Collect Doomed Technology, Valve Is Now Selling Off the Steam Controller For $5
If You Collect Doomed Technology, Valve Is Now Selling Off the Steam Controller For $5Valve’s Steam Box consoles weren’t the runaway success that the gaming giant hoped they’d be, but the accompanying Steam Controller still stands out as a truly innovative gamepad design....continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Maida
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almost 5 years ago
Our Favorite Cheap 4K TV Looks Even Better With Quantum Dot Technology
TCL 6-Series Review (2019): the Best Cheap TV Gets Quantum Dots“Quantum dot” technology sounds like a fake invention, something made up by a well-meaning marketing team. Well, it is, and it isn’t. Although different companies have different brand names for their own recip...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Elvie
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almost 5 years ago
Someone is putting VR headsets on cows, and we want to know why
Someone is putting VR headsets on cows, and we want to know whyLet’s just be up front here: yes, these pictures seem to show a cow wearing a virtual reality headset, and no, we don’t really know what’s going on here.You may have seen these images floating around social me...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Arvid
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almost 5 years ago
Taiwan’s Appier raises $80M for AI-based marketing technology
Taiwan’s Appier raises $80M for AI-based marketing technology – TechCrunchArtificial intelligence continues to be the theme of the moment in enterprise software, and today a company out of Asia that has built a suite of AI-powered marketing and ad tools is announcing a ro...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Madalyn
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almost 5 years ago
VW's factory race teams will exclusively drive electric cars
VW's factory race teams will exclusively drive electric carsOn top of the ID.R, VW expects to rely on cars using its electric-oriented MEB platform for future competition.You could see this coming when VW has increasingly touted the ID.R as its flagship race car. It's als...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Ericka
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almost 5 years ago
7 Ways to Monitor a Competitor's Content Marketing Strategy
7 Ways to Monitor a Competitor's Content Marketing StrategyMonitoring the competition’s content marketing efforts is an essential step for brands developing their own content marketing strategy. Finding out what works for a competitor allows brands to gain insights about ...continued
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Nestor
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almost 5 years ago
Lebanese business people back protesters' call for change
Lebanese business people back protesters' call for changeLebanon has faced five weeks of anti-government protests, driven by widespread anger at corruption among the sectarian politicians who have governed the country for decades. The protesters are now demanding that the...continued
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Alan
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almost 5 years ago
Rocket Lab readies Electron for the first launch with rocket recovery systems on board
Rocket Lab readies Electron for the first launch with rocket recovery systems on board – TechCrunchRocket Lab is getting ready to fly its tenth mission, which the first official launch window during which it could happen set for this week on November 29. Aside from being ...continued
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Abbie
@Abbie -
almost 5 years ago
The Studious Resistance of Marc Bloch
In 1943 a prim figure could be seen most days walking a meandering route across Lyon in occupied France. Starting from a quiet suburban lane, the small man with greying hair might enter an alley to exchange a few words with apparent strangers. Next, to a print shop where ...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Kari
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almost 5 years ago
Wow, Facebook Really Made a Facial Recognition App for Its Employees
Facebook Built a Facial Recognition App for Company EmployeesIn its latest privacy faux pas to come to light, Facebook confirmed it built a now-defunct app for its employees that used facial recognition technology to identify coworkers and their friends, CNET reported thi...continued
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Abbie
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almost 5 years ago
Mimic Artfully Employs LEDs In Fashion
Mimic Artfully Employs LEDs In FashionAny science fiction piece set in the near-future involves clothes that light up or otherwise have some form of electronics inside. This hasn’t happened in mainstream fashion just yet, but [Amped Atelier] are doing serious work in the ...continued
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Abbie
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almost 5 years ago
China accuses Australian media of fabricated allegations of interference
China accuses Australian media, politicians of fabricated allegations of interferenceBEIJING (Reuters) - China, responding to allegations of interfering in Australian politics, said it had never tried to meddle in other countries’ internal affairs and was not interested i...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Marjory
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almost 5 years ago
FACEBOOK IS DOING JUST FINE, OK?
Get Used to Seeing FACEBOOK's Screaming New Logo EverywhereKeeping a brisk pace in its eternal quest to be as headache-inducing as possible, Facebook announced on Monday that it has rebranded as FACEBOOK.Yes, that’s right. Facebook is now FACEBOOK, written in all caps in ...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Ariel
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almost 5 years ago
In a victory over Amazon, Microsoft wins $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract
In a victory over Amazon, Microsoft wins $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract – TechCrunchThe U.S. Department of Defense today announced that Microsoft has won its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract, worth up to $10 billion over a period of 10 year...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Wilmer
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almost 5 years ago
Juul Gradually Weening Itself Off Employees
Juul to Cut 500 Jobs Amid Vaping FearsE-cigarette company Juul billed itself as an evolution in smoking cessation and has largely been recast in the court of public opinion as a wildly effective new tool for addicting kids to nicotine. The Wall Street Journal today report...continued
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Abbie
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almost 5 years ago
Fantasy fallout: Bo Scarbrough and other 'Where did that come from?' breakouts
6:00 AM ETJust when you think you have the fantasy landscape figured out, along comes Week 11.Running backs Bo Scarbrough and Jonathan Williams came out of nowhere to produce double-digit fantasy points. Receivers Deebo Samuel and Randall Cobb went over 100 yards for the ...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
George
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almost 5 years ago
Artificial eyes: How robots will see in the future
Artificial eyes: How robots will see in the futureIt's never good when a giant of the technology business describes your product as "a fool's errand".But that's how Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk branded the laser scanning system Lidar, which is being touted as the bes...continued
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Abbie
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almost 5 years ago
skillet ravioli with spinach
skillet ravioli with spinach – smitten kitchenOne of the biggest shocks of my post, cough, 30 life is that I have become, well, a jock. It unfolded in such an innocent manner, I barely registered what was happening. I always swam laps but every couple years I take a break...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Delia
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almost 5 years ago
How Peloton's Marketing Strategy Made It a Leader in Its Space
How Peloton's Marketing Strategy Made It a Leader in Its SpaceMarketing expert Eric Siu breaks down how the company performs with paid media, content marketing, SEO, conversion-rate optimization and other categories.In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Eric Siu eva...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Elliott
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almost 5 years ago
VEnvirotech transforms organic waste into bioplastics
VEnvirotech transforms organic waste into bioplastics – TechCrunchAfter a year of testing out environmental technologies for a private company, co-founder Patricia Ayma developed a process for bioplastic production using bacteria. The system turns organic matter, such as ...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Casper
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almost 5 years ago
Why do billions of people still not have glasses?
Why do billions of people still not have glasses?Making spacecraft is not a job in which you can afford to be slapdash.At Lockheed Martin, for example, it used to take a technician two painstaking days to measure 309 locations for certain fasteners on a particular curved ...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Kraig
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almost 5 years ago
Vouch raises $45M led by YC Continuity for business insurance that targets startups
Vouch raises $45M led by YC Continuity for business insurance that targets startups – TechCrunch“Move fast and break things” is a term we usually associate with Facebook (at least, until 2014) and the general startup ethos of being disruptive. Now in true entrepreneurial ...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Mariano
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almost 5 years ago
California Is Suing Juul for Allegedly Targeting Kids With Its Bad Marketing
California Is Suing Juul for Allegedly Targeting Kids With Its Bad MarketingJuul is staring down yet another lawsuit.California officials announced Monday that the state has a lawsuit filed alleging that Juul marketed its products to teens and youth through, among other t...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Maureen
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almost 5 years ago
Uber Freight expands app to Canada
Uber Freight expands app to Canada – TechCrunchUber Freight, the Uber business unit that helps truck drivers connect with shipping companies, said Wednesday it’s launching the app in Canada as part of its global expansion plan.The move into Canada will give Uber Freight a...continued
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Abbie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Wilmer
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almost 5 years ago
Factbox: Technology for Alphabet's futuristic smart city dream in Toronto
Factbox: Technology for Alphabet's futuristic smart city dream in TorontoTORONTO (Reuters) - Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Sidewalk Labs released a detailed overview on Friday of the futuristic technology it intends to incorporate in the smart city it wants to build in Toronto.The...continued
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