Maureen
@Maureen
462 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Maureen
@Maureen -
almost 5 years ago
Two storms leave 50 million under winter alert as travelers return from Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving travel: Two storms leave 50 million under winter alert(CNN)As Thanksgiving travelers return home Sunday, two powerful storms on each side of the country have left more than 50 million under some kind of winter weather alert.Airlines have delayed flightsacross...continued
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Teagan
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almost 5 years ago
Apple reportedly plans 2022 release for first AR headset, followed by AR glasses in 2023
Apple reportedly plans release for first AR headset, followed by AR glassesApple plans to release its first augmented reality headset in 2022, followed by a smaller device — a pair of AR glasses — in 2023, according to a new report from The Information.Apple’s entry into ...continued
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Maureen
@Maureen -
almost 5 years ago
Apple quietly removes ‘Ratings and Reviews’ section from its online store
Apple quietly removes ‘Ratings and Reviews’ section from its online storeApple has quietly removed customer reviews for products from its online store sometime this month. This means that potential buyers can no longer see reviews of products sold via Apple’s online store...continued
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Ezequiel
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almost 5 years ago
Will the future of work be ethical? Founder perspectives
Will the future of work be ethical? Founder perspectives – TechCrunchIn June, TechCrunch Ethicist in Residence Greg M. Epstein attended EmTech Next, a conference organized by the MIT Technology Review. The conference, which took place at MIT’s famous Media Lab, examined h...continued
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Cameron
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almost 5 years ago
Gradeup raises $7M to expand its online exam preparation platform to smaller Indian cities and towns
Gradeup raises $7M to expand its online exam preparation platform to smaller Indian cities and towns – TechCrunchGradeup, an edtech startup in India that operates an exam preparation platform for undergraduate and postgraduate-level courses, has raised $7 million from Tim...continued
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Rex
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almost 5 years ago
How to Win Holiday Season Marketing with Relevance and Timing
How to Win Holiday Season Marketing with Relevance and TimingRetailers stand to benefit substantially from the holiday shopping season, so act on your holiday marketing strategy early.There’s nothing like a classic holiday scene. Snow dusts the ground, smoke climbs from t...continued
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Marlon
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almost 5 years ago
Appier raises $80 million for AI that improves marketing decisions
Appier raises $80 million for AI that improves marketing decisionsGetting a customer onto a company’s website to check out its products is challenging enough in itself, but getting them to complete a transaction is a whole different ball game. Last year, 75% of all ecomme...continued
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Assunta
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almost 5 years ago
Leaked Chinese government documents detail how tech is used to escalate the persecution of Uighurs
Leaked Chinese government documents detail how tech is used to escalate the persecution of Uighurs – TechCrunchIn less than two weeks, two major reports have been published that contain leaked Chinese government documents about the persecution of Uighurs and other Muslim ...continued
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Maureen
@Maureen -
almost 5 years ago
'Dak Dance' is a viral sensation -- and a pregame necessity for Prescott
6:00 AM ETFRISCO, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was not expecting his warm-up routine to become a meme.After all, he has done the same warm-up for the past two years, but less than three weeks ago it became a viral sensation, so much so the Cowboys' onl...continued
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Madalyn
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almost 5 years ago
How The Army’s Use Of TikTok Could Be A National Security Threat
How The Army’s Use Of TikTok Could Be A National Security ThreatLast week, Senator Chuck Schumer wrote the U.S. Army to ask it to think twice before using TikTok for recruiting purposes. Schumer cited TikTok’s Chinese origin and laws that required Chinese companies to ass...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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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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Casper
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almost 5 years ago
For Holiday Ads, Nothing Says Tradition Like Cardi B’s Twerk Shop
For Holiday Ads, Nothing Says Tradition Like Cardi B’s Twerk ShopIn a 22nd-floor suite of the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan, sipping a nonalcoholic sparkling rosé from Pepsi, I was waiting for Cardi B to talk to me about Christmas.The Grammy-winning rapper stars in Pepsi’s ne...continued
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Elian
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almost 5 years ago
Providing emergency and security services to employees, Base Operations raises $1 million
Providing emergency and security services to employees, Base Operations raises $1M – TechCrunchIn 2017, when a destructive earthquake struck Puebla, Mexico, sending shock waves to Mexico City and destroying buildings in the nation’s megalopolis and its surrounding suburbs...continued
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Jessika
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almost 5 years ago
Bellman wants to simplify property management for residential buildings
Bellman wants to simplify property management for residential buildings – TechCrunchMeet Bellman, a new French startup that wants to improve residential building management using technology and a fair amount of human interactions. The startup has been co-founded by Antoni...continued
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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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Clarissa
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almost 5 years ago
Obama says technology is 'splintering' society - CNET
Obama says technology is 'splintering' societyAs a former president of the United States, Barack Obama has stayed in a lot of presidential suites. Though the rooms are beautiful and spacious, he says, they also exemplify a couple of things: People don't need that much, an...continued
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Maureen
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almost 5 years ago
Nadal, Djokovic and Federer on rivalry and friendship on ATP tennis tour
Nadal, Djokovic & Federer on rivalry and friendship on ATP tennis tourRafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer chat to BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent about what life is like being the top three male tennis players.All three players are in London to compete in the ...continued
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Rex
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almost 5 years ago
Late Night Is Tickled by Gordon Sondland’s Impeachment Testimony
Late Night Is Tickled by Gordon Sondland’s Impeachment Testimony“You know what these hearings could use? A guy who paid a million dollars for his ambassadorship.” — SAMANTHA BEE“Not only did Sondland leave Trump’s defense in tatters, he also implicated Mick Mulvaney, Mike...continued
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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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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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Clarissa
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almost 5 years ago
Plot to Steal Florida Hurricane Aid Leads to Indictments
Plot to Steal Florida Hurricane Aid Leads to IndictmentsTwo former city officials in Lynn Haven, Fla. and three business executives have been indicted on charges that they conspired to fraudulently take $5 million meant for hurricane disaster aid from the federal governme...continued
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Gregoria
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almost 5 years ago
Lucence raises $20 million Series A for its non-invasive cancer screening technology
Lucence raises $20 million Series A for its non-invasive cancer screening technology – TechCrunchLucence Diagnostics, a genomic medicine startup that develops non-invasive tests for cancer screening, announced today that it has raised a $20 million Series A led by IHH Hea...continued
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Wilmer
@Wilmer -
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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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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