Jeffrey
@Jeffrey
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Jeffrey upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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over 4 years ago
Facebook will spend $1 billion to address California’s affordable housing crisis
Facebook will spend $1 billion to address California’s affordable housing crisisFacebook today announced a pledge of $1 billion and a partnership with the state of California to help build more affordable housing, after the company contributed for over a decade to an infl...continued
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over 4 years ago
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow – TechCrunchDatabricks is a SaaS business built on top of a bunch of open-source tools, and apparently it’s been going pretty well on the business side of things. In fact, the comp...continued
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over 4 years ago
Facebook will spend $1 billion to address California’s affordable housing crisis
Facebook will spend $1 billion to address California’s affordable housing crisisFacebook today announced a pledge of $1 billion and a partnership with the state of California to help build more affordable housing, after the company contributed for over a decade to an infl...continued
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over 4 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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over 4 years ago
Learn how to win customers and influence consumers at Disrupt Berlin
Learn how to win customers and influence consumers at Disrupt Berlin – TechCrunchEvery startup is a story and every startup’s success depends — on some level — on how well they can either tell that story or get that story told.The best stories are the ones that create an ...continued
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over 4 years ago
How the Designer Behind the Original Mac Comes Up With New Ideas
How to Come Up With New Ideas According to Hartmut Esslinger, founder of Frog DesignMost people can’t really innovate, says Hartmut Esslinger, founder of frog design. He and his company (now celebrating fifty years in business) helped design Apple’s portable computers, So...continued
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over 4 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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over 4 years ago
Ford and Holoride bring in-car virtual reality to the masses - Roadshow
Ford and Holoride bring in-car virtual reality to the massesHoloride began its pursuit of redefining in-car entertainment with Audi earlier this year. A new partnership with Porsche blossomed just last month. This week, Ford is the latest to work with Holoride, but in a p...continued
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over 4 years ago
Ikea's Expands Augmented Reality App, Lets You Fill an Entire Room With Virtual Swedish Furniture
Ikea's AR App Now Lets You Place Multiple Pieces of FurnitureAugmented reality might one day be a crucial piece of technology, but for now, the best use we’ve found for putting virtual objects in real scenes is previewing how new furniture might look in your living room. ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Timing Technology
Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media LabWhile reading “Funding Breakthrough Research: Promises and Challenges of the ‘ARPA Model’”, Azoulay et al 2018, on DARPA, I noticed an interesting comment:The two Goldstein & Kearney 2018 papers sounded interesting but alas...continued
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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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over 4 years ago
Toyota’s e-Palette will transport athletes during the 2020 Olympics
Toyota’s e-Palette will transport athletes during the 2020 OlympicsEach of the vehicles will travel through the athletes' village at a leisurely 12 miles per hour along a designated loop. As an SAE Level 4-capable autonomous vehicle, the e-Palette will be able to navigate...continued
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over 4 years ago
U.S. Military Will Stop Using Floppy Discs to Operate Its Nuclear Weapons System
Military to Stop Using Floppy Disks to Operate Its Nuclear Weapons SystemThe systems used to control the United States arsenal of nuclear weapons rely on outdated computers. But the Department of Defense is updating at least one part of the archaic technology—the floppy d...continued
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over 4 years ago
No academy for girls, T20I teen debutante trained in guise of boy
Shafali Verma: India’s youngest T20I debutante trained as a boy as no Rohtak academy would admit girlsCHANDIGARH: Rohtak teenager Shafali Verma , who contributed to India’s 51-run win over South Africa in Surat on Tuesday, started her cricket training in the guise of a bo...continued
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over 4 years ago
Tesla gets green light to start producing EVs in China
Tesla gets green light to start producing EVs in China – TechCrunchChina’s industry ministry has added Tesla to a government list of approved automotive manufacturers, a designation that allows the electric automaker to begin producing vehicles in the country.Tesla’s incl...continued
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over 4 years ago
Juul Suspends Online Sales of Flavored E-Cigarettes
Juul Suspends Online Sales of Flavored E-CigarettesJuul Labs announced on Thursday that it would temporarily halt online sales of flavored e-cigarettes like mango, products the company had already stopped distributing to retail stores as public outrage mounted over the so...continued
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over 4 years ago
Volvo creates a dedicated business for autonomous industrial and commercial transport
Volvo creates a dedicated business for autonomous industrial and commercial transport – TechCrunchVolvo Group has established a new dedicated business group focused on autonomous transportation, with a mandate that covers industry segments like mining, ports and moving go...continued
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over 4 years ago
Rahul Dravid spends time with Indian players
Rahul Dravid spends time with Indian players ahead of 3rd T20IBENGALURU: National Cricket Academy (NCA) head Rahul Dravid was in attendance on Friday as the Indian players had an optional training session at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. The Indian team after winning the sec...continued
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over 4 years ago
Amazon Is Marketing Face Recognition to Police Departments Partnered With Ring: Report
Amazon Pushing Rekognition Face Recognition to Police With Ring PartnershipsAmazon is marketing its facial recognition software to Florida police departments that are currently partnered with its home surveillance company, Ring—arrangements that allow police to request ac...continued
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over 4 years ago
Yet another company has been hit by a ransomware attack
Yet another company has been hit by a ransomware attackThis time the victim was Pitney Bowes, a technology company based out of Stamford, Connecticut that provides ecommerce, shipping, data and mailing services.The company confirmed the attack on its website and is curren...continued
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over 4 years ago
Tomlin: Rudolph still Steelers QB when healthy
11:50 AM ETPITTSBURGH -- When he returns from the concussion protocol, Mason Rudolph will be the Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterback. Coach Mike Tomlin made that much clear in his brief bye week press conference Wednesday afternoon."That guy is our quarterback when h...continued
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over 4 years ago
How Deutsche Bank Hired Its Way to the Top in China
How Deutsche Bank Hired Its Way to the Top in China“These events date back as far as 2002 and have been dealt with,” the statement said.Here are six takeaways from the investigation.Like other investment banks, Deutsche Bank learned early on that relationships were crucia...continued
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over 4 years ago
Remote-controlled scooters are coming, and Tortoise is (slowly) leading the charge
Remote-controlled scooters are coming, and Tortoise is (slowly) leading the chargeYou may have noticed that scooter companies typically have short names — usually around four or five letters — that are meant to invoke feelings of flying or zooming across an urban landscap...continued
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over 4 years ago
Google aims to change the definition of good photography with Pixel 4’s software-defined camera
Google aims to change the definition of good photography with Pixel 4’s software-defined camera – TechCrunchGoogle’s new Pixel 4 camera offers a ton of new tricks to improve its photographic chops, and to emphasize the point, it had Professor Mark Levoy, who leads camera ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Google Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL not launching in India
Google Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL not launching in India – TechCrunchThe Pixel 4 and Pixel XL smartphones, that Google just unveiled at a press conference in New York, won’t launch in India, one of the company’s key overseas markets, the Android-maker said on Tuesday.The bottlen...continued
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