Rex
@Rex
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Rex
@Rex -
almost 5 years ago
Cambodia's Crimes Unpunished | History Today
To be Cambodian is to have one’s life touched by the Khmer Rouge. The regime was in power for just three years, eight months and 20 days, but was responsible for an estimated 1.7 million deaths, about a quarter of the population. Forty years after its fall in January 1979...continued
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Rex
@Rex -
almost 5 years ago
The Journey of the Magi
According to St Matthew’s Gospel: ‘Wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him”.’ The three wise men who sought the infant Christ represented the enti...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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Alexzander
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almost 5 years ago
Google Maps tests a social networking feature with the ability to ‘follow’ Local Guides
Google Maps tests a social networking feature with the ability to ‘follow’ Local Guides – TechCrunchGoogle Maps will soon begin testing a new feature that’s more common to social networks like Facebook, rather than a maps app: the ability to find and follow other users. I...continued
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Marie
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almost 5 years ago
4 Vital Tips For Marketing Your CBD Oil Business
4 Vital Tips For Marketing Your CBD Oil BusinessMarketing CBD oil isn't rocket science -- you just need to get a little creative.Marketing a brand is hardly a complex venture in the 21st century. With Google ads, Facebook ads and other conventional online and offline tact...continued
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almost 5 years ago
Digital Marketing Jobs in the Government Sector
Digital Marketing Job in (India) Government SectorA government job is a dream come true for the average working-class people in India. Digital marketing moves ahead because all the sectors depend on it. Digital marketing can extend beyond internet marketing, which uses in...continued
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Kraig
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almost 5 years ago
Einride to launch commercial pilot of driverless electric pods with Coca-Cola European Partners
Einride to launch commercial pilot of driverless electric pods with Coca-Cola European Partners – TechCrunchAutonomous robotic road-riding cargo pod startup Einride has signed a new partner for a commercial pilot on Sweden’s roads, which should be a great test of the comp...continued
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Kraig
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almost 5 years ago
Rocket Lab readies Electron for its first launch with rocket recovery systems on board
Rocket Lab readies Electron for its first launch with rocket recovery systems on board – TechCrunchUpdate: Running Out of Fingers has launched successfully! We’ll know more about the results of the recovery system study soon.Rocket Lab is getting ready to fly its tenth mi...continued
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almost 5 years ago
Nest Hubs will use ultrasonic sensing to display reminders and appointments
Nest Hubs will use ultrasonic sensing to display reminders and appointmentsLast month Google updated the Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max so that they could use ultrasonic sensing to tell when a person is nearby. While the Hub Max includes a camera that it could already use to s...continued
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Assunta
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almost 5 years ago
How the Kardashian-Jenner family built their business empire
How the Kardashian-Jenner family built their business empireFrom the O.J. Simpson trial to brand ambassadors, here's how the Kardashian-Jenner family have maintained their stardom and turned it into a business.Source: CNNPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Kim Kardashian • Cai...continued
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Gregoria
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almost 5 years ago
Korean e-commerce leader Coupang hires Alberto Fornaro as its new chief financial officer
Korean e-commerce leader Coupang hires Alberto Fornaro as its new chief financial officer – TechCrunchKorean e-commerce giant Coupang has a new chief financial officer. The company announced today that it has hired Alberto Fornaro, who previously served the same role at I...continued
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Minnie
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almost 5 years ago
Progressive VCs and private equity are using tech and analytics to revolutionize investing
Progressive VCs and private equity are using tech and analytics to revolutionize investing – TechCrunchPrivate equity and venture capital investors are copying our counterparts in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job.When I was single, I register...continued
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Elvie
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almost 5 years ago
Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 1 of 2)
Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 1 of 2) – TechCrunchThe multi-trillion dollar global real estate market is getting flipped on its head.Business model innovation, data accessibility and the proliferation of mobile, SaaS and other cloud-native ...continued
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Rex
@Rex -
almost 5 years ago
Postscript raises $4.5M to help Shopify shops stay connected with customers over SMS
Postscript raises $4.5M to help Shopify shops stay connected with customers over SMS – TechCrunchBack in February, we wrote that Postscript “wants to be the Mailchimp for SMS.” Now they’ve raised $4.5 million to help get it done.This round was led by Accomplice, and backe...continued
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Teagan
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almost 5 years ago
Mobility startup Damon Motors enters e-moto arena with EV debut
Mobility startup Damon Motors enters e-moto arena with EV debut – TechCrunchVancouver based mobility startup Damon Motorcycles has entered the EV arena with a preview of its first e-moto, the Hypersport Pro.The seed-stage company had previously focused on creating digital...continued
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Izaiah
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almost 5 years ago
Chinese companies want to help shape global facial recognition standards
Chinese companies want to help shape global facial recognition standardsThe report details how Chinese companies including ZTE, Dahua and China Telecom are proposing standards for facial recognition to the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the body respons...continued
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Alexzander
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almost 5 years ago
Niantic will soon open Pokémon GO’s ‘Sponsored Location’ system to small businesses
Niantic will soon let small businesses pay to have a Pokémon GO Pokéstop – TechCrunchSponsored locations aren’t new to Niantic games. Companies like Sprint, McDonald’s and AT&T have had sponsored locations in games like Pokémon GO and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite for a...continued
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Rex
@Rex -
almost 5 years ago
Finding art in 1-star product reviews
Popular ScienceBonnier Corp. and its brands use cookies to identify your individual device so that we and our third-party partners can efficiently deliver content and advertisements that will be relevant to you, based on the pages you visit on our site(s) and other websit...continued
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Arvid
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almost 5 years ago
FCC backs Qualcomm's C-V2X technology for 5.9 GHz - CNET
FCC backs tech to let self-driving cars talk to... everythingFederal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai issued a proposal Wednesday to dedicate slivers of the 5.9 gigahertz spectrum band to unlicensed Wi-Fi use and the use of Qualcomm's cellular vehicle-to-everyt...continued
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Raoul
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almost 5 years ago
Google’s CallJoy phone agent for small businesses gets smarter, more conversational
Google’s CallJoy phone agent for small businesses gets smarter, more conversational – TechCrunchEarlier this year, Google’s in-house incubatorlaunched CallJoy, a virtual customer service phone agent for small businesses that could block spammers, answer calls, provide cal...continued
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Marie
@Marie -
almost 5 years ago
Intel says Qualcomm’s business practices drove it out of the modem chip market
Intel says Qualcomm’s business practices drove it out of the modem chip market – TechCrunchIt’s not like this wasn’t among the reasons everywhere suspected when Apple suddenly announced it was buying Intel’s modem business, but now the chipmaker has filed a brief in suppo...continued
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Oren
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almost 5 years ago
Rossum raises $4.5M to make OCR-like data entry many times more accurate
Rossum raises $4.5M to make OCR-like data entry many times more accurate – TechCrunchEvery day, people slog over inputting date from invoices and other forms. So instead of using traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) extraction software, you could apply a new fo...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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