Manley
@Manley
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Abbie
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almost 5 years ago
Amazon Joins Tech’s Great Quantum Computing Race
Amazon Joins Tech’s Great Quantum Computing RaceThe everything store has an everything cloud. Amazon Web Services offers more than 160 services from disk storage to satellite control antennas. On Monday, the company said it would widen its cloud menu to include access to ...continued
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Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Joe
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almost 5 years ago
Facebook expands its efforts against ad discrimination
Facebook expands its efforts against ad discrimination – TechCrunchUnder the terms of a settlement with the ACLU and other civil rights groups earlier this year, Facebook has been taking steps to prevent discriminatory ad targeting.Specifically, the company says ads in th...continued
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Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Hannah
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almost 5 years ago
Fulcrum, which provides freelance placement opportunities for technical projects, raises $1 million
Fulcrum, which provides freelance placement opportunities for technical projects, raises $1 million – TechCrunchLa Jolla, Calif.-basedFulcrum, a job-placement company for technical projects, has raised $1 million in a seed round of funding, led by local technology investm...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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Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Hannah
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almost 5 years ago
Los Angeles-based Boulevard has raised $11 million for its software to manage salons and spas
Los Angeles-based Boulevard has raised $11 million for its software to manage salons and spas – TechCrunchBarbershops and salons in the U.S. represent a $315 billion industry, counting nearly 3 million small businesses and 4 million independent aestheticians among their r...continued
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Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
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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Manley
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almost 5 years ago
Matthew Berry's Love/Hate for Week 13: Ten really bad moves
Nov 26, 2019You drop a player in your fantasy football league only to watch him go off. Or worse, to watch him crush for someone else's team in your league. Or even worse than that ... to watch him crush for someone else's team in your league while playing you.Oh yeah. Th...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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Manley
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almost 5 years ago
Analysis: Why Donald Trump couldn't save Matt Bevin in Kentucky
Is Kentucky a bad omen for Donald Trump?(CNN)Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin isn't a near-certain loser in Tuesday's election because of Donald Trump. But the President, despite his best efforts, couldn't save the GOP incumbent, either.That Bevin is 5,000 votes short of state At...continued
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Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
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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Kristina
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almost 5 years ago
Bloodsucking Prison Telecom Is Scamming Inmates With 'Free' Tablets
GTL Prison Telecom Scams Inmates With 'Free' TabletsWhen you get free technology, you can reasonably assume that you’re getting screwed. That’s infinitely truer if you’re in prison.As Reason first reported, the West Virginia Division of Corrections struck a deal in Februa...continued
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Alan
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almost 5 years ago
FDA warns 15 companies for illegally selling CBD products
FDA warns 15 companies for illegally selling CBD productsThe US Food and Drug Administration sent a warning to 15 companies that have illegally sold cannabidiol products, better known as CBD, by adding it to food or marketing it as a dietary supplement.consumer update abo...continued
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Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
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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Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Jarod
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almost 5 years ago
Is the End of the Year Really a Good Time to Buy a Car?
Is the End of the Year Really a Good Time to Buy a Car?Every business you can think of is having a Black Friday sale, including car dealerships. Sure, maybe you weren’t thinking of putting a vehicle on your holiday shopping list, but the end of the year is often rumored t...continued
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Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
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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Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
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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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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Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
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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Manley 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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Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
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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Zackery
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almost 5 years ago
It's a big week for retail. The stakes just got higher
Premarket stocks: It's a big week for retail. The stakes just got higherLondon (CNN Business)Happy Wednesday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business' Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up righthere.The story of the retail industry h...continued
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Manley
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almost 5 years ago
TikTok Owner Reportedly Expanding Its Empire Into Music Subscriptions
TikTok Reportedly Getting Into the Music Subscription BusinessTikTok owner ByteDance, the Beijing-based behemoth that answers to no man (or at least U.S. senator) is reportedly crafting plans to fulfill its destiny, i.e., its foray into the subscription music business.Acc...continued
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Manley
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almost 5 years ago
Matthew Berry's Love/Hate for Week 12: Will Baker and OBJ finally hit it big?
Nov 21, 2019With everything that happened to my daughter last week, I just sort of wrote last week's introduction to Love/Hate without giving it much thought. To be clear, I spent a lot of time writing it and thinking through how best to tell a long story that isn't a par...continued
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Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
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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Manley upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Arvid
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almost 5 years ago
Direct mail still works if you avoid common mistakes
Direct mail still works if you avoid common mistakes – TechCrunchWe’ve aggregated many of the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this Growth Report.This is how...continued
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