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Marie
@Marie -
almost 5 years ago
Marshall continues to impress with new retro portable speakers – TechCrunch
Marshall, the headphone company and not the loudspeaker company of the same vintage, today announced two new portable speakers. Like the company’s previous offerings, these speakers ooze a retro vibe. The two new speakers, the Stockwell II and Tufton, join the Kilburn II,...continued
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Felicita
@Felicita -
almost 2 years ago
Panasonic's GH6 camera will soon support ProRes RAW at 4K 120 fps
Panasonic recently launched the GH6 with internal ProRes recording and other nice pro features, but one thing missing was any RAW video recording. However, its next firmware version 2.0 upgrade coming on July 5th will address that with external ProRes RAW out…
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George
@George -
almost 4 years ago
Bipartisan Senate bill aims to invest $100 billion in technology R&D
“The coronavirus pandemic has shown the science and technology gap between the United States and the rest of the world is closing fast and that threatens our long-term health, economic competitiveness, and national security,” Senator Schumer said in a statement. “America ...continued
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Monserrat
@Monserrat -
almost 4 years ago
Smart contact lens startup Mojo Vision raises $51M
Mojo Vision’s technology still felt early-stage when we met with them back at CES. But the demos we did see were enough to convince us that there really could be something to the California startup’s smart contact lens technology.Clearly we weren’t alone in that. The comp...continued
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Kristina
@Kristina -
almost 4 years ago
Zoom and CrowdStrike hang onto 2020 gains despite huge earnings expectations
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Yesterday after the bell, Zoom and CrowdStrike reported earnings. The two technology shops, members of the SaaS cohort of public companies that has perfor...continued
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Kristina
@Kristina -
over 3 years ago
SUSE contributes EiriniX to the Cloud Foundry Foundation
SUSE today announced that it has contributed EiriniX, a framework for building extensions for Eirini, a technology that brings support for Kubernetes-based container orchestration to the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service project.About a year ago, SUSE also contributed t...continued
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Jerrold
@Jerrold -
almost 5 years ago
Netflix launches high-quality audio for TV viewers – TechCrunch
Netflix this morning announced a new feature for its streaming service focused on offering viewers better sound. The company is rolling out “high-quality audio,” or an audio experience that features a higher bitrate for TV devices that support either 5.1 or Dolby Atmos. ...continued
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Moises
@Moises -
8 months ago
New York City bans TikTok for government employees
New York City will ban TikTok from government devices, The Verge reported on Wednesday. City agencies have 30 days to remove the ByteDance-owned app from their devices. Employees will not be allowed to download or use TikTok on their city-sanctioned tech effe…
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Liliane
@Liliane -
almost 5 years ago
Uber Air’s plan to get you from a skyport to an airport – TechCrunch
Uber trips to and from the airport account for a significant number of rides. Uber doesn’t disclose the exact amount, but Uber Elevate Infrastructure Business Development Lead Chad Cashin told TechCrunch. That’s why Uber is already working with Signature Flight Support to...continued
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Felicita
@Felicita -
over 3 years ago
Mission Bio raises $70 million to help scale its tech for improving the development of targeted c...
California-based startup Mission Bio has raised a new $70 million Series C funding round, led by Novo Growth and including participating from Soleus Capital and existing investors Mayfield, Cota and Agilent. Mission Bio will use the funding to scale its Tapestri Platform,...continued
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Priscilla
@Priscilla -
over 2 years ago
Brazil's CloudWalk valued at $2.15 bln after Coatue-led investment - Reuters
Brazilian financial technology company CloudWalk said on Wednesday it was valued at $2.15 billion after a funding round led by Coatue, an investment firm focused on companies in the technology, media and telecommunications space.
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Minnie
@Minnie -
almost 2 years ago
This 'sand' battery stores renewable energy as heat
A company in Finland has created an an unusual storage solution for renewable energy: One that uses sand instead of lithium ion or other battery technologies. Polar Night Energy and Vatajankoski, an energy utility in Western Finland, have built a storage syst…
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Hank
@Hank -
almost 5 years ago
Slack narrows losses, displays healthy revenue growth – TechCrunch
Workplace messaging powerhouse Slack filed an amended S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday weeks ahead of a direct listing expected June 20. In the document, Slack included an updated look at its path to profitability, posting first-quarter reve...continued
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Sandrine
@Sandrine -
about 2 years ago
Defying sanctions, Russia's Sberbank adds smart TVs to technology offering - Reuters
Russia's top lender Sberbank (SBER.MM), with its international operations heavily compromised by Western sanctions against Moscow over events in Ukraine, on Tuesday unveiled a range of sm…/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/AZJR4CFU7NIL7MSPET6YOBVDQU.jpg)
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Emmie
@Emmie -
about 2 years ago
David Pierce returns to The Verge to join the cast of The Vergecast
Pierce will be editor-at-large at The Verge, beginning his role on April 18th.
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Muriel
@Muriel -
10 months ago
President Biden meets with AI tech leaders in San Francisco
While lawmakers in Congress (and soon, the Senate) call for a "blue-ribbon commission" to study the potential impacts of AI on American society, President Biden on Tuesday met with leaders in the emerging field to discuss and debate the issue directly. The Pr…
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Juliet
@Juliet -
almost 5 years ago
NASA’s best-yet photo of asteroid Bennu nails the dramatic lighting – TechCrunch
NASA has taking a breathtaking new image of near-earth asteroid Bennu, captured by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from its new, second orbit of the extraterrestrial object. The new picture, snapped on June 13, provides a pretty much full-length view of Bennu, with half of its...continued
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Gregoria
@Gregoria -
almost 3 years ago
Apple is giving a laser company that builds some of its AR tech $410 million
Apple is awarding optical technology company II-VI with $410 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund. The company produces lasers for FaceID, but also builds the LIDAR sensors that could be used for AR applications.
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Josiah
@Josiah -
almost 5 years ago
Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty – TechCrunch
What does a gaming company do after raising $1.25 billion? Acquisitions seem like a pretty good place to start. Epic Games — of Unreal Engine and the ridiculously successful Fortnite phenomenon — has just picked up Houseparty. The social video app announced the news via b...continued
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Elliott
@Elliott -
almost 5 years ago
Goldman-HDFC JV bets big on student housing, plans 75,000 beds in 18 months
Goldman-HDFC JV bets big on student housing, plans 75,000 beds in 18 monthsStudent housing company Good Host Spaces, a joint venture (JV) between Goldman Sachs and HDFC, is looking to expand its capacity ninefold to 125,000 beds by 2021, to tap demand for hostels. It now ...continued
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Arvid
@Arvid -
over 2 years ago
Sonos wins Google import ban ruling in U.S. patent fight
The Google name is displayed outside the company's office in London, Britain November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville A US commercial court has banned Google from importing products that infringe the smart s…
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Manley
@Manley -
over 3 years ago
Candles Recalled For Presenting Fire Hazard
Candles, an ancient technology that has contained fire since time immemorial so that we may safely fill our dwellings with light and warmth, have been recalled by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) as fire hazards. Read more...
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Alvah
@Alvah -
almost 3 years ago
Inkbit raises $30M for its self-correcting 3D printing technology
MIT CSAIL spinout Inkbit this week announced that it has raised $30 million. The Series B, led by Phoenix Venture Partners LLC, brings the firm’s total funding up to $45 million. PVP joins existing partners like industrial 3D printing giant Stratasys, DSM Ven…
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Hannah
@Hannah -
3 months ago
AI is too expensive to steal some jobs — for now, MIT study finds
A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the first to try to estimate which tasks are viable to automate.
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Kari
@Kari -
almost 5 years ago
Original Content podcast: ‘Black Mirror’ returns with one of its strongest seasons – TechCrunch
Less than six months after releasing the disappointing interactive experiment “Bandersnatch,” Netflix’s science fiction anthology series “Black Mirror” is back with three traditionally-structured episodes. On the latest installment of the Origin...continued
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