Technology
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Hannah @Hannah - about 3 years ago
After raising $150 million in equity and debt, Nature’s Fynd opens its fungus food for pre-orders
Nature’s Fynd, the food technology company with a new food offering cultivated from fungus found in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park, is releasing its first products for pre-order. Pitching both a non-dairy cream cheese and meatless breakfast patties, …
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Monserrat @Monserrat - 5 months ago
OpenAI will pay to train its models on Business Insider and Politico articles
OpenAI will pay German publisher Axel Springer to use its news articles to train its AI models and show real-time information from Axel Springer's brands, which include Business Insider and Politico in the US and Bild and Welt in Europe, in ChatGPT’s response…
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Cyril @Cyril - almost 5 years ago
Apply to Startup Battlefield for a shot at TC fame and fortune – TechCrunch
What would a $100,000 cash infusion do for your early-stage startup? Don’t just imagine it. Apply to compete in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 2-4. Our premier pitch competition has launched hundreds of startups on an exponential success traj...continued
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Geovany @Geovany - over 1 year ago
Indian shares fall as IT, automobile decline - Reuters
Indian shares were lower in early trade on Friday, dragged by losses in technology and automobile stocks amid a broader weak sentiment over concerns of a global recession.
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Wilmer @Wilmer - 6 months ago
You Can Get These JBL Headphones for up to 53% Off
Amazon is having a sale on JBL headphones, earphones, and Bluetooth speakers, of up to 53% off. I’ve rounded up some of the best deals available after checking their price history to make sure they are, in fact, good deals. Here are the best JBL deals current…
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Alan @Alan - about 4 years ago
Alphabet’s Loon and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile turn solar-powered drones into flying cell towers
Alphabet-owned Loon, the company that had been focused on delivering internet communications to remote areas via stratospheric balloons, has completed development work on a new payload for partner HAPSMobile, a subsidiary of SoftBank that’s building high-altitude solar-po...continued
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George @George - almost 5 years ago
First American site bug exposed 885 million sensitive title insurance records – TechCrunch
News just in from security reporter Brian Krebs: Fortune 500 real estate insurance giant First American exposed approximately 885 million sensitive records because of a bug in its website. Krebs reported that the company’s website was storing and exposing bank account num...continued
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Nelson @Nelson - 7 months ago
iPhone 16 Series Chip Technology Moves to Volume Production
Apple has already given order commitments to chip supplier TSMC for its second-generation 3nm chip fabrication process known as N3E, which is expected to be used in all four models of next year's iPhone 16 lineup. TSMC's next 3nm node upgrade to N3E is l…
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Elian @Elian - almost 5 years ago
Former YouTube star sentenced to ten years in prison for child porn – TechCrunch
Former Youtube star Austin Jones has been sentenced to ten years in a US federal prison after pleading guilty to persuading underage girls to send him explicit videos of themselves. Jones, who made a name for himself online singing covers of songs, was arrested and charg...continued
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Liliane @Liliane - over 2 years ago
Aiba axes two officials thanks to groundbreaking lie detector technology
Two officials thrown out of World Amateur Championships‘I think the technology has incredible potential’Two officials have been thrown out of the Aiba World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belgrade after being flagged as suspicious …
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Elody @Elody - over 2 years ago
Apple is exploring reverse and “true” wireless charging technology
Apple might leave inductive wireless charging pads behind for something better.
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Maida @Maida - almost 3 years ago
Government Report Finds No Evidence of U.F.O.s
The strange objects witnessed by Navy pilots remain unexplained, but officials briefed on a new study say they are not secret technology from a classified American program.
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Muriel @Muriel - almost 5 years ago
LG developed its own AI chip to make its smart home products even smarter – TechCrunch
As its once-strong mobile division continues to slide, LG is picking up its focus on emerging tech. The company has pushed automotive, and particularly its self-driving capabilities, and today it doubled down on its smart home play with the announcement of its own artific...continued
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Maureen @Maureen - almost 5 years ago
Future Family launches a $200 membership for fertility coaching – TechCrunch
Future Family is a startup aiming to make fertility services like IVF and egg freezing more accessible. They work with doctors and clinics to make the pricing of these services more predictable and upfront, then offer monthly payment plans to help customers spread the c...continued
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Torey @Torey - almost 5 years ago
New a16z funds, a $200M round, and the latest from WeWork and Slack – TechCrunch
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week brought the ever-excellent Danny Crichton back to the show, along with myself. The two of us opted to do a bit of a news run, so str...continued
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Assunta @Assunta - 5 months ago
Unity cuts 265 jobs as part of a company 'reset'
Unity Software is eliminating 3.8 percent of its global workforce and terminating an agreement with VFX company Weta as part of a "reset," Reuters has reported. The news follows some severe turbulence in the company, after it imposed and then partially walked…
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Delia @Delia - over 1 year ago
Indian shares track Asian peers lower on rate hike worries - Reuters
Indian shares slid on Wednesday, led by losses in technology and financial stocks, while worries that the U.S. central bank will keep raising interest rates dented investor sentiment.
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Felicita @Felicita - over 2 years ago
Inside GitLab’s IPO filing
While the technology and business world worked towards the weekend, DevOps firm GitLab filed to go public. So we need to pause, digest the company's S-1 filing, and come to some early conclusions.
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Jaydon @Jaydon - almost 5 years ago
Great teams, UBI, data retention policies, and Amazon HQ2 – TechCrunch
3 key secrets to building extraordinary teams David Cancel, the CEO and founder of Drift, wrote a deep dive on how to think about finding and recruiting the kinds of people who build incredible startups. Among the factors he looks at: Scrappiness (Importance: 35%) The fou...continued
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Torey @Torey - about 4 years ago
To Combat Sexual Assault, Women Are Resorting to Electric Shock Underwear
Ekaterina Romanovskaya froze. It was a warm and sunny day in late May 2000, and the 25-year-old interpreter had just dropped her 3-year-old daughter off at kindergarten in their hometown of Volograd, a city in southwestern Russia, when a man she had never seen before appe...continued
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Alexie @Alexie - over 2 years ago
'Twilight' investor sentenced to five years prison in fraud case - Reuters
A technology entrepreneur who invested in the studio behind the "Twilight" films was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after being convicted of fraud related to the video technology company Kit Digital Inc.
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Joe @Joe - about 4 years ago
CrowdStrike’s new CTO says the coronavirus era is ‘business as usual’
Two months ago, seemingly out of nowhere, CrowdStrike’s co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch decided it was time to depart.Alperovitch, who served as the cybersecurity giant’s chief technology office since its 2011 debut, said he was leaving to launch a non-profit policy acceler...continued
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Marjory @Marjory - almost 5 years ago
Elon Musk’s ‘pedo guy’ defamation case is going to trial – TechCrunch
A defamation case filed last year against Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after he repeatedly called a British cave diver “pedo guy” will go to trial on October 22, a U.S. district judge determined Friday. Vernon Unsworth, the British cave diver, filed a defamation lawsu...continued
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Hannah @Hannah - 1 day ago
TSMC Unveils 1.6nm Process Technology With Backside Power Delivery
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: TSMC announced its leading-edge 1.6nm-class process technology today, a new A16 manufacturing process that will be the company's first Angstrom-class production node and promises to outperform its prede…
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Elvie @Elvie - about 4 years ago
Germany snubs Apple and Google's contact tracing technology
Germany has opted to base its coronavirus contact tracing app on the centralized PEPP-PT platform, putting it at odds with Apple.As reported by Reuters:Germany has chosen a home-grown technology for smartphone-based tracing of coronavirus infections, putting it at odds wi...continued
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