Roger
@Roger
382 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Roger upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Elvie
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over 4 years ago
Someone is putting VR headsets on cows, and we want to know why
Someone is putting VR headsets on cows, and we want to know whyLet’s just be up front here: yes, these pictures seem to show a cow wearing a virtual reality headset, and no, we don’t really know what’s going on here.You may have seen these images floating around social me...continued
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Kari
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over 4 years ago
Wow, Facebook Really Made a Facial Recognition App for Its Employees
Facebook Built a Facial Recognition App for Company EmployeesIn its latest privacy faux pas to come to light, Facebook confirmed it built a now-defunct app for its employees that used facial recognition technology to identify coworkers and their friends, CNET reported thi...continued
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Casper
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over 4 years ago
For Holiday Ads, Nothing Says Tradition Like Cardi B’s Twerk Shop
For Holiday Ads, Nothing Says Tradition Like Cardi B’s Twerk ShopIn a 22nd-floor suite of the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan, sipping a nonalcoholic sparkling rosé from Pepsi, I was waiting for Cardi B to talk to me about Christmas.The Grammy-winning rapper stars in Pepsi’s ne...continued
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Roger
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over 4 years ago
How to Set Up a Second Google Account and How To Use It
How to Set Up a Second Google Account and How To Use ItA Google account gives you access to a host of apps, covering email, maps, cloud storage, music, movies, productivity tools and more—and you don’t have to settle for just one account. Whether you’ve been given a secon...continued
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Manley
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over 4 years ago
TikTok Owner Reportedly Expanding Its Empire Into Music Subscriptions
TikTok Reportedly Getting Into the Music Subscription BusinessTikTok owner ByteDance, the Beijing-based behemoth that answers to no man (or at least U.S. senator) is reportedly crafting plans to fulfill its destiny, i.e., its foray into the subscription music business.Acc...continued
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Jessika
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over 4 years ago
Bellman wants to simplify property management for residential buildings
Bellman wants to simplify property management for residential buildings – TechCrunchMeet Bellman, a new French startup that wants to improve residential building management using technology and a fair amount of human interactions. The startup has been co-founded by Antoni...continued
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over 4 years ago
In a victory over Amazon, Microsoft wins $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract
In a victory over Amazon, Microsoft wins $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract – TechCrunchThe U.S. Department of Defense today announced that Microsoft has won its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract, worth up to $10 billion over a period of 10 year...continued
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Wilmer
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over 4 years ago
Juul Gradually Weening Itself Off Employees
Juul to Cut 500 Jobs Amid Vaping FearsE-cigarette company Juul billed itself as an evolution in smoking cessation and has largely been recast in the court of public opinion as a wildly effective new tool for addicting kids to nicotine. The Wall Street Journal today report...continued
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George
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over 4 years ago
Artificial eyes: How robots will see in the future
Artificial eyes: How robots will see in the futureIt's never good when a giant of the technology business describes your product as "a fool's errand".But that's how Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk branded the laser scanning system Lidar, which is being touted as the bes...continued
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over 4 years ago
Sidestepping politics to teach climate
Sidestepping politics to teach climateI sat down at my desk to read the student evaluations for my undergraduate biology courses. “Please leave politics out of it. Not all Republicans deny science,” one student wrote. “I didn't pay to take this class to hear him bash Repu...continued
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Elliott
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over 4 years ago
VEnvirotech transforms organic waste into bioplastics
VEnvirotech transforms organic waste into bioplastics – TechCrunchAfter a year of testing out environmental technologies for a private company, co-founder Patricia Ayma developed a process for bioplastic production using bacteria. The system turns organic matter, such as ...continued
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Roger
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over 4 years ago
Rudolph regrets his actions, is OK with Garrett
12:01 PM ETPITTSBURGH -- At the same time Myles Garrett's appeal was being heard by the NFL in New York, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph walked into a cramped back room of the team facility with a paper of prepared remarks in hand.Facing dozens of cameras an...continued
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Myles
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over 4 years ago
Karma’s new electric hinge-winged hypercar concept goes 0 to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds
Karma’s new electric hinge-winged hypercar concept goes 0 to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds – TechCrunchKarma Automotive took the wraps off Tuesday of a new electric concept car called the SC2 that produces a heart-thumping 1,100 horsepower and can travel from 0 to 60 miles per ho...continued
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Clarissa
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over 4 years ago
Plot to Steal Florida Hurricane Aid Leads to Indictments
Plot to Steal Florida Hurricane Aid Leads to IndictmentsTwo former city officials in Lynn Haven, Fla. and three business executives have been indicted on charges that they conspired to fraudulently take $5 million meant for hurricane disaster aid from the federal governme...continued
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Sandrine
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over 4 years ago
Woman Who Survived Las Vegas Shooting Dies
Woman Injured in Las Vegas Shooting Dies 2 Years LaterTwo years after a horrific attack at a Las Vegas hotel became the deadliest shooting in modern American history, a California woman who was shot and paralyzed that night has died.The woman, Kim Gervais, 57, was a count...continued
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Alvah
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over 4 years ago
Facebook announces dates for its 2020 F8 developers conference
Facebook announces dates for its 2020 F8 developers conference – TechCrunchFacebook announced its plans for its F8 annual developer conference, which is where the company shows off its latest technology, apps and its vision for the future. The company says the next event ...continued
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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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Wilmer
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over 4 years ago
Factbox: Technology for Alphabet's futuristic smart city dream in Toronto
Factbox: Technology for Alphabet's futuristic smart city dream in TorontoTORONTO (Reuters) - Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Sidewalk Labs released a detailed overview on Friday of the futuristic technology it intends to incorporate in the smart city it wants to build in Toronto.The...continued
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Roger
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over 4 years ago
Hey Roku, Maybe User-Created Screensavers Are a Bad Idea
Hey Roku, Maybe User-Created Screensavers Are a Bad IdeaHumans can be wonderful. We can also be gross, horny, and prone to abusing any type of power given to us. Like, for instance, the ability to create Roku screensavers.While most Roku screensavers are your typical fare...continued
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Torey
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over 4 years ago
WeWork May Lay Off Thousands
WeWork May Lay Off ThousandsMr. Claure said that he would share his plans for the company’s future at an all-employees meeting that was originally scheduled for Tuesday but will now take place on Friday.The layoffs represent the human cost of a remarkable reversal in WeWo...continued
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George
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over 4 years ago
SoftBank and Line Corp. Seek to Create a Japanese Internet Giant
SoftBank and Line Corp. Seek to Create a Japanese Internet GiantTOKYO — Two weeks ago, SoftBank Group of Japan announced it had lost billions on soured investments in some of the world’s biggest tech start-ups. On Monday, it said it was ready to roll the dice again.The co...continued
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Bart
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over 4 years ago
7 Podcasts for the Movie Buff
7 Podcasts for the Movie BuffFall is both the best and busiest time to be a movie fan, as we enter awards season — that thrilling period when the studios (and increasingly the streaming services) trot out their best hopes for Oscar glory. This year’s entries also arrive d...continued
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over 4 years ago
Oklahoma judge reduces Johnson & Johnson payout in opioid case to $465 million
Oklahoma judge reduces Johnson & Johnson opioid payout to $465 million(Reuters) - An Oklahoma judge on Friday said Johnson & Johnson must pay that state $465 million for fueling the opioid epidemic through the deceptive marketing of painkillers, down from his orig...continued
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Torey
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over 4 years ago
Google is scaling back its weekly all-hands meetings after leaks, Sundar Pichai tells staff
Google is scaling back its weekly all-hands meetings after leaks, CEO tells staffGoogle’s weekly town halls, internally known as “TGIF” meetings, have been emblematic of the company’s professed belief in a transparent corporate culture, giving employees a chance to talk w...continued
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Patrick
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over 4 years ago
Commercetools raises $145M from Insight for Shopify-style e-commerce APIs for large enterprises
Commercetools raises $145M from Insight for Shopify-style e-commerce APIs for large enterprises – TechCrunchGlobal retail e-commerce is expected to be a $25 trillion business this year, and today one of the companies that has built a set of tools to help larger enterprise...continued
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