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Marie upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:

Jeffrey @Jeffrey - almost 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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Marie @Marie - almost 5 years ago

A Grecian Harvest Home | History Today

Young men and women dance around the combined figures of Sylvanus and Pan to the sound of pipes and tabors, in a scene rooted in the Georgics of Virgil. Sylvanus, meaning ‘of the woods’ in Latin, is represented as an ageing male figure, watching over forests, fields and t...continued

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Emmie @Emmie - almost 5 years ago

Elon Musk predicts Tesla energy could be ‘bigger’ than its EV business

Elon Musk predicts Tesla energy could be ‘bigger’ than its EV business – TechCrunchTesla CEO Elon Musk forecast that the company’s energy business will eventually be the same size as — or even bigger than — its automotive sector, the latest sign that the company plans to ...continued

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Casper @Casper - almost 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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Grayce @Grayce - almost 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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Garnet @Garnet - almost 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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Bobby @Bobby - almost 5 years ago

Late Night Assures Trump He’s No George Washington

Late Night Assures Trump He’s No George Washington“[Imitating Trump] Washington — not everybody knows this — Washington put his picture on every dollar. Can you imagine the royalties? He got a taste of that. Daddy got his beak wet on every dollar. Not much, but it adds up...continued

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Kristina @Kristina - almost 5 years ago

Twitch hires former Zynga exec Doug Scott as Chief Marketing Officer

Twitch hires former Zynga exec Doug Scott as chief marketing officer – TechCrunchAmazon-owned game streaming service Twitch has snagged Zynga’s chief marketing officer, Doug Scott, to join as its own CMO, the company announced today. At Zynga, Scott led global marketing f...continued

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Emmie @Emmie - almost 5 years ago

Better coverage with Fi’s dual connect technology

Better coverage with Fi’s dual connect technologyFi helps you get the highest-quality connection on your phone, no matter where you are. For Designed for Fi devices, our network switches between three 4G LTE networks and gives you free, secure access to 2 million Wi-Fi ho...continued

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Alexzander @Alexzander - almost 5 years ago

Here’s how science fiction could save us from bad technology

Here's how science fiction could save us from bad technologyThe short film “Slaughterbots” depicts a near future in which swarms of micro drones assassinate thousands of people for their political beliefs. Released in November 2017 by academics and activists warning of th...continued

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Jany @Jany - almost 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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Cynthia @Cynthia - almost 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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Jarod @Jarod - almost 5 years ago

Berkeley city council unanimously votes to ban facial recognition technology

Berkeley city council unanimously votes to ban facial recognition technology / Boing BoingBerkeley has joined the swelling ranks of cities (pioneered by nearby Oakland) that have passed ordinances banning the government's use of facial recognition technology, after a unan...continued

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Grayce @Grayce - almost 5 years ago

Android users can test out Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming next month

Microsoft launching public xCloud streaming test on Android in OctoberRoughly one year after announcing plans for its Project xCloud game streaming service, Microsoft will roll out a public test of xCloud next month for Android users in the United States, United Kingdom, ...continued

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Wilmer @Wilmer - almost 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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Marie @Marie - almost 5 years ago

Rodgers' best game, Russ' pick-six and more: Barnwell on a weird Week 7

9:00 AM ETEvery NFL Sunday has a few weird, unexpected moments or performances pop up amid the slate. From what I saw, Week 7 had more than the usual bunch. There were fullback option pitches and game plans rendered irrelevant by weather. The Dolphins nearly won. The Char...continued

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Allene @Allene - almost 5 years ago

Serial founder David Cancel to share people-first, SaaS insights at Disrupt SF next week

Serial founder David Cancel to share people-first, SaaS insights at Disrupt SF next week – TechCrunchWhat do you wish you’d known about building a company beforehand? It’s a question that haunts many a startup founder their first time around.Serial SaaS-focused entreprene...continued

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Jimmy @Jimmy - almost 5 years ago

Imgur won’t support Reddit’s NSFW communities anymore because they put its ‘business at risk’

Imgur won’t support Reddit’s NSFW communities anymore because they put its ‘business at risk’In a blog post published earlier this week, image-sharing site Imgur wrote that it won’t display any content from Reddit’s NSFW communities on its site.If you search for, say, r/N...continued

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Cyril @Cyril - almost 5 years ago

For Sale: Human Fetuses, Slightly Used

Woman Charged for Alleged Sale of Human Fetuses on FacebookA Colorado woman is facing smuggling charges after allegedly attempting to sell and ship human fetal remains in violation of federal law. According to court records, she conducted much of her business over Faceboo...continued

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Izaiah @Izaiah - almost 5 years ago

Segment’s new privacy portal helps companies comply with expanding regulations

Segment’s new privacy portal helps companies comply with expanding regulations – TechCrunchWith the EU’s sweeping GDPR privacy laws and the upcoming California Consumer Privacy ACT (CCPA), companies have to figure out how to deal with keeping private data private — or fac...continued

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Mariano @Mariano - almost 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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Leda @Leda - almost 5 years ago

How Libra Will Change Social Media Marketing

How Libra Will Change Social Media MarketingMark Zuckerberg has already changed the way we market. The rise of Facebook, with its mixture of detailed personal demographics and ongoing engagement, has forced marketers to create new ways of building relationships with leads...continued

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Oren @Oren - almost 5 years ago

This technology is helping Hong Kong prepare for typhoons

Hong Kong is preparing for typhoons using this technologyChat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.Source: CNNPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Hong Kong • Instant messaging • Facebook Messenger • Pearl River (band) •

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Kristina @Kristina - almost 5 years ago

WeWork pulls thousands of phone booths out of service over formaldehyde scare

WeWork pulls thousands of phone booths out of service over formaldehyde scare – TechCrunchWeWork, the co-working empire once valued at $47 billion before reality struck, plunging the business and its investors into crisis, has another problem to add to its growing pile — ...continued

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Teagan @Teagan - almost 5 years ago

Silicon Valley’s competing philosophies on tech ethics with The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz

Silicon Valley’s competing philosophies on tech ethics with The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz – TechCrunch“If Silicon Valley is going to keep telling itself the story that the only uses of their technology will be the most optimistic, the most hopeful, the most salubrious, ...continued

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