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
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to Operate Its Nuclear Weapons SystemThe systems used to control the United States arsenal of nuclear weapons rely on outdated computers.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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Jeffrey
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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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Ryleigh
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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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Jeffrey
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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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over 4 years ago
WeWork pulls thousands of phone booths out of service over formaldehyde scare
WeWork pulls thousands of phone booths out of service over formaldehyde scare – TechCrunchWeWork, the co-working empire once valued at $47 billion before reality struck, plunging the business and its investors into crisis, has another problem to add to its growing pile — ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Silicon Valley’s competing philosophies on tech ethics with The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz
Silicon Valley’s competing philosophies on tech ethics with The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz – TechCrunch“If Silicon Valley is going to keep telling itself the story that the only uses of their technology will be the most optimistic, the most hopeful, the most salubrious, ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Opendoor appoints CFO, CPO
Opendoor appoints CFO, CPO – TechCrunchOpendoor has named Gautam Gupta its chief financial officer and chief business officer, critical roles as the business continues to alter the way in which homes are bought and sold. Uber’s former head of finance, Gupta joined the $3....continued
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over 4 years ago
Why Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are the Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal of football
Why Messi and Ronaldo are football's Federer and NadalLionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are to soccer what Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are to tennis.That is according to the Juventus FC and former Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon. The 41-year-old was talking to Footb...continued
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over 4 years ago
Brady won't try to lure Gronk out of retirement
8:32 AM ETFOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady won't be pitching tight end Rob Gronkowski to come out of retirement."I love that guy. I'm so happy that he's enjoying his time, his life. He seems to really be doing a lot of great things. He knows...continued
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over 4 years ago
4 Ways to Make Prices Seem Lower Than They Are
4 Ways to Make Prices Seem Lower Than They AreAs a marketer, I love testing things to see what will increase sales. The headlines, the copy, the imagery. But when it comes to a product’s pricing page, I use the same strategy as when I’m driving a car: If nobody is screami...continued
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over 4 years ago
This technology transforms the way we measure body temperature — Future Blink
This technology transforms the way we measure body temperature — Future BlinkWe're using cookies to improve your experience. Click Here to find out more.Source: MashablePowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Technology • Blink (web engine) •
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Investors revel in trade and Brexit optimism
Premarket stocks: Investors revel in trade and Brexit optimismLondon (CNN Business)Happy Friday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business' Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up righthere.President Donald Trump said Thursday that the f...continued
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