Technology

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Manley @Manley - almost 5 years ago

Coinbase loses its first CTO after just one year in the job – TechCrunch

Coinbase, the $8 billion-valued crypto exchange, has lost its CTO after Balaji Srinivasan announced his departure from the company. Srinivasan became the U.S. company’s first CTO one year ago after it acquired Earn.com, where he was CEO and co-founder. Given the tenure —...continued

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Priscilla @Priscilla - about 3 years ago

Kargo unveils its new Fabrik publishing system

Digital advertising company Kargo is launching a new product and new business unit called Fabrik. Founder and CEO Harry Kargman explained that Fabrik is a content management system designed for publishers’ modern needs and integrated with Kargo’s advertising …

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Mariano @Mariano - over 2 years ago

Amazon One’s palm-scanning tech makes first move into entertainment venues

Amazon’s palm-scanning technology Amazon One has launched for the first time outside of an Amazon or Whole Foods Store. It’s being introduced in Colorado’s famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre as a collaboration with ticketing company AXS.

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Clarissa @Clarissa - over 3 years ago

Lucid Motors CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson to join TC Sessions: Mobility 2020

Lucid Motors will unveil its long anticipated all-electric luxury electric Air sedan on September 9, a vehicle that promises to have at least 517 miles on a single charge. The company has been toiling away for years now, pushing forward battery technology and raising mone...continued

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Roger @Roger - 6 months ago

From Android to Windows, Snapdragon Seamless brings your devices together

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Seamless, a new technology that allows better communication between Snapdragon devices.

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Anderson @Anderson - over 1 year ago

India shares down as tech, autos drag; inflation data eyed - Reuters

Indian shares edged lower in early trade on Friday, as technology and automobile stocks declined amid weakness in other Asian markets, while investors awaited domestic inflation data.

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Alexie @Alexie - almost 5 years ago

Early-bird pricing ends tonight for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019 – TechCrunch

The robotaxi’s blowin’ its horn and zooming autonomously down the home stretch. At 11:59 p.m. (PT) on June 21 — that’s tonight, people — we hit the brakes on early-bird pricing for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019. Don’t miss your chance to join us in San Jose, Calif. on July 1...continued

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Alexzander @Alexzander - over 2 years ago

China's ZPC studies crude to petrochemical technology to cut carbon - Reuters

Privately-controlled Zhejiang Petrochemical Corp (ZPC), China's single-largest refiner and petrochemical producer, is exploring new technologies such as direct processing of crude into olefins to cut carbon emissions, a company executive said on Wednesday.

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Oren @Oren - almost 5 years ago

Jewish dating app JCrush exposed user data and private messages – TechCrunch

A security lapse at JCrush, a dating app designed for the Jewish community, left a databases open without a password, exposing sensitive user records and private messages to anyone who knew where to look. The site’s backend database had around around 200,000 user records,...continued

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Rowan @Rowan - over 2 years ago

Amazon escapes patent claims in Delaware over Alexa technology - Reuters

Amazon defeated claims that its Alexa voice-assistant technology infringes two patents related to speech-based digital-assistant software on Thursday in Delaware federal court.

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Liliane @Liliane - over 3 years ago

Massachusetts governor won’t sign police reform bill with facial recognition ban

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has returned a police reform bill back to the state legislature, asking lawmakers to strike out several provisions — including one for a statewide ban on police and public authorities using facial recognition technology, t…

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Grayce @Grayce - almost 5 years ago

Uber’s first employee Ryan Graves resigns from board – TechCrunch

Ryan Graves, a longtime Uber employee and former chief executive officer, has resigned from the company’s board of directors, effective Monday. The newly-public company announced the departure on Friday afternoon. Ron Sugar, the company’s independent chairperson of the b...continued

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Americo @Americo - almost 5 years ago

Sonic the Hedgehog director says character is getting makeover after backlash – TechCrunch

In 2006, New Line Cinema added five days of reshoots for Snakes on a Plane, six months after principal filming had wrapped. The new shoots helped change the film’s rating from PG-13 to R, courtesy of, among other things, the addition of the line “I have had it with these ...continued

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Elian @Elian - over 3 years ago

Austin’s Fox Robotics raises a $9M Series A for its robotic forklifts

The COVID-19 pandemic is, understandably, proving to be a major driver for robotics and automation adoption. The already hot categories are proving to be even more appealing as companies look to technology amid the spread of a deadly and highly contagious virus.Warehouses...continued

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Priscilla @Priscilla - almost 5 years ago

GitHub gets a package registry – TechCrunch

GitHub today announced the launch of a limited beta of the GitHub Package Registry, its new package management service that lets developers publish public and private packages next to their source code. To be clear, GitHub isn’t launching a competitor to tools like npm o...continued

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Kristina @Kristina - about 3 years ago

Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm - Reuters

Parler, a social media website and app popular with the American far right, has partially returned online with the help of a Russian-owned technology company.

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Alexie @Alexie - over 3 years ago

If You Won't Wear a Mask to Stop Coronavirus, How About Surveillance?

Photo : Drazen ZigicFacial recognition technology raises ethical dilemmas and privacy concerns. Is it okay that our phones, computers, and social media apps not only recognize us, but also collect and store data about our faces? These concerns grow as the tech becomes mor...continued

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Moises @Moises - about 4 years ago

Samsung’s Galaxy S20 lineup is first to get USB certification for new fast charging tech

Samsung’s Galaxy S20 device lineup has become the first to receive USB certification for their support of the Programmable Power Supply (PPS) and USB Power Delivery (USB PD) 3.0 standards, the USB Implementers Forum announced today. It means that the phones should have no...continued

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Ryleigh @Ryleigh - almost 4 years ago

Google brings its AI-powered SmartReply feature to YouTube

Google’s SmartReply, the four-year-old, A.I.-based technology that helps suggest responses to messages in Gmail, Android’s Messages, Play Developer Console and elsewhere, is now being made available to YouTube Creators. Google announced today the launch of an updated vers...continued

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Manley @Manley - over 4 years ago

Nest Hubs will use ultrasonic sensing to display reminders and appointments

Nest Hubs will use ultrasonic sensing to display reminders and appointmentsLast month Google updated the Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max so that they could use ultrasonic sensing to tell when a person is nearby. While the Hub Max includes a camera that it could already use to s...continued

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Iva @Iva - about 4 years ago

Boston Dynamics unveils OTTO Motors collaboration to bring our robot overlords to the warehouse

Boston Dynamics, the undisputed heavyweight of technical robotics wizardry, unveiled a new collaboration with the warehouse autonomous material handling and transportation technology developer, OTTO Motors.Over the past year Boston Dynamics has moved from building the stu...continued

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Jaydon @Jaydon - over 2 years ago

Micromobility startup Voi raises $45 million to end sidewalk riding, improve safety

Micromobility startup Voi has raised $45 million, funds it says will be used to research and develop technology that will improve safety, keep users from riding on sidewalks and ensure scooters are properly parked. The funding comes a month after Voi launched…

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Elvie @Elvie - almost 3 years ago

Orbion, manufacturer of in-space plasma propulsion systems, raises $20M Series B

Electric propulsion developer Orbion Space Technology has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round, which it says it will use to scale production capacity of its Aurora propulsion system. The Michigan-based startup manufactures Hall effect plasma thrust…

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Joe @Joe - over 3 years ago

Amazon’s newest product lets companies build their own Alexa assistant

Amazon is selling access to the underlying technology stack of Alexa to let companies — starting with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles — build their own intelligent assistants with unique voices, skills and wake words. The new Alexa Custom Assistant product, which w…

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Manley @Manley - over 3 years ago

PayPal and Venmo will offer and accept cryptocurrency for all online payments

PayPal on Wednesday announced it would begin supporting cryptocurrencies for the first time, allowing any PayPal account holder to store, buy, and sell popular virtual currencies starting later this year. The announcement makes PayPal arguably the most significant company...continued

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