Technology
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Rowan
@Rowan -
almost 5 years ago
Leeds Equity Invests in Scaled Agile, Inc.
Leeds Equity Invests in Scaled Agile, Inc.NEW YORK, July 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Leeds Equity Partners, LLC, the New York-based private equity fund focused exclusively on investing in the Knowledge Industries, announced today that it has made an equity investment in Scale...continued
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Alexzander
@Alexzander -
almost 5 years ago
Akerna Is A Tilray With Warrants: Assessing The Extreme Arbitrage Play
Akerna Is A Tilray With Warrants: Assessing The Extreme Arbitrage Play - Akerna Corp. (NASDAQ:KERN)The extreme arbitrage that exists on paper cannot yet be enacted upon, but should be once registration of stock and warrants take place within the next month.On June 17, MTe...continued
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Alvah
@Alvah -
almost 5 years ago
1H 2019 Quick Links, Part 4 (Section 230, Content Moderation) - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
1H 2019 Quick Links, Part 4 (Section 230, Content Moderation)* Some Congressmembers are developing a letter asking the State Department to delete the Section 230-like immunity from the USMCA. Background.Defendants cite no cases concluding that § 230(c)(1) shields a provid...continued
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Roger
@Roger -
almost 5 years ago
Pivotal Makes Kubernetes Easier for Developers and Operators
Pivotal Makes Kubernetes Easier for Developers and OperatorsSAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pivotal Software, Inc. (NYSE: PVTL), a leading cloud-native platform provider, today introduced the alpha version of PAS on KubernetesⓇ, as well as new products based on PAS featur...continued
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Teagan
@Teagan -
almost 5 years ago
Commercial fiction’s writers get readers. Can they ever get respect?
Commercial fiction’s writers get readers. Can they ever get respect?Call it popular fiction. Call it commercial fiction. Even, in some cases, call it women’s fiction. Whatever the label, it’s topping the bestsellers lists across the country. But for many writers in the Ca...continued/https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/entertainment/books/2019/07/12/commercial-fictions-writers-get-readers-can-they-ever-get-respect/susanna_kearsley.jpg)
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Wilmer
@Wilmer -
over 4 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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Minnie
@Minnie -
almost 5 years ago
Work Futures Weekly | Invisible and Unspoken - Work Futures - Medium
Invisible and Unspoken - Work Futures - MediumBeacon NY 2019–07–20 | The hottest day of the year, so far. I took a walk, but now I am staying inside, in my cocoon of cooled air.Our new publication, On The Horizon, is dedicated to help spread greater understanding of the e...continued
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Clarissa
@Clarissa -
almost 5 years ago
Facebook's digital currency may flourish in the analog world
Facebook's digital currency may flourish in the analog worldEuropeans and Americans have their Visa and Mastercards. For everyone else, here comes ... Libra?Facebook's new Libra digital currency is aimed at a huge potential market for financial services—the entire develop...continued
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Jany
@Jany -
over 4 years ago
Libra, Facebook’s global digital currency plan, is fuzzy on privacy, watchdogs warn
Libra, Facebook’s global digital currency plan, is fuzzy on privacy, watchdogs warn – TechCrunchPrivacy commissioners from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australasia have put their names to a joint statement raising concerns about a lack of clarity from Facebook over ho...continued
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Torey
@Torey -
almost 5 years ago
AT&T Invests Nearly $625 Million Over 3-Year Period to Boost Local Networks in Virginia
AT&T Invests Nearly $625 Million Over 3-Year Period to Boost Local Networks in VirginiaRICHMOND, Va., July 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- At AT&T¹, we invested nearly $625 million in our Virginia wireless and wired networks during 2016-2018. These investments boost relia...continued
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Joe
@Joe -
almost 5 years ago
Universities Under Pressure as Lawmakers Push Research Security - FYI: Science Policy News
Universities Under Pressure as Lawmakers Push Research SecurityLawmakers have been developing proposals throughout this year to respond to the allegedly systematic misappropriation of U.S. research and technology by the Chinese government and other rival nations. Backers ...continued
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Clarissa
@Clarissa -
almost 5 years ago
Why there’s a startup inside a big business
Why there’s a startup inside a big businessHemant Rachh, a Bengaluru-based product expert in SAP Labs India, and his colleague came up with an idea in 2017 of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software that could convert all leads an organization received into sales...continued
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Casper
@Casper -
over 4 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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Nelson
@Nelson -
almost 5 years ago
Maritime Cyber Alert
Maritime Cyber AlertFor some years now, the maritime sector has experienced breaches of various computer and information technology (IT) systems. Primarily, these breaches have been collateral damage. The maritime sector has almost never been the intended target. That ...continued
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Izaiah
@Izaiah -
almost 5 years ago
Revolution On The Siemens Factory Floor
Revolution On The Siemens Factory FloorHe is referring to the onset of the fourth industrial revolution, which the World Economic Forum predicted “will fundamentally alter the way we live, work and relate to one another. In its scale, scope and complexity, the transformat...continued
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Assunta
@Assunta -
almost 5 years ago
Week in review: Malicious Python packages, FaceApp panic, and how to avoid a biometric dystopia
Week in review: Malicious Python packages, FaceApp panic, and how to avoid a biometric dystopiaHere’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts:Do you have what it takes to be a hardware hacker? If you ask Yago Hansen, a hacker specia...continued
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Ezequiel
@Ezequiel -
over 4 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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Moises
@Moises -
almost 5 years ago
New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software
New Election Systems Use Vulnerable SoftwareWASHINGTON - Pennsylvania’s message was clear: The state was taking a big step to keep its elections from being hacked in 2020. Last April, its top election official told counties they had to update their systems. So far, nearly...continued
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Immanuel
@Immanuel -
almost 5 years ago
RedBird Capital Partners and Reverence Capital Partners to Acquire Vida Capital, Inc.
RedBird Capital Partners and Reverence Capital Partners to Acquire Vida Capital, Inc.AUSTIN, Texas & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RedBird Capital Partners (“RedBird”) and Reverence Capital Partners (“Reverence”) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreem...continued
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Meggie
@Meggie -
almost 5 years ago
Wandering Space Rocks Help Solve Mysteries of Planet Formation
Quanta MagazineRecent work argues indirectly that they are indeed common. In 2018, researchers identified eight hyperbolic comets that could have originated around a different star. And in April, Amir Siraj and his adviser, Avi Loeb, an astronomer at Harvard University, a...continued
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Elody
@Elody -
almost 5 years ago
Free Ice Cream With A Sprinkle Of Tax Facts On National Ice Cream Day
Free Ice Cream With A Sprinkle Of Tax Facts On National Ice Cream DayIt's National Ice Cream Day. And in case you think that it's a holiday made up by scheming kids to convince parents to give them ice cream (I wouldn't put it past mine), it's a real holiday. Well, real-i...continued
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Monserrat
@Monserrat -
about 2 years ago
What's the Most Dangerous Emerging Technology?
Those inclined to think apocalyptically know that tech, in its purest form, spells civilizational disaster. It is true that we might never see a world filled with violent hypertrophic CRISPR babies, and uncontrollable self-driving cars, and AI intent on twist…
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Minnie
@Minnie -
almost 5 years ago
IBM-Red Hat: Should developers worry we’re headed back to the 1990s?
IBM-Red Hat: Should developers worry we’re headed back to the 1990s?IBM finalized its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat last week, one of the largest technology deals in history. A lot is on the line for IBM and for CEO Ginny, who some have said is staking her legacy on ...continued
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Ezequiel
@Ezequiel -
almost 5 years ago
Hate speech on Twitter predicts frequency of real-life hate crimes
Hate speech on Twitter predicts frequency of real-life hate crimesNEW YORK, June 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a first-of-its-kind study, cities with a higher incidence of a certain kind of racist tweets reported more actual hate crimes related to race, ethnicity,...continued
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Rose
@Rose -
almost 5 years ago
Carnival Corporation to Significantly Reduce Single-Use Plastics by End of 2021
Carnival Corporation to Significantly Reduce Single-Use Plastics by End of 2021MIAMI, July 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- (NYSE/LSE: CCL;NYSE: CUK), the world's largest leisure travel company, today announced that it will significantly eliminate its purchase and consumption of ...continued
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