Jimmy
@Jimmy
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Jimmy upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Jessika @Jessika - over 4 years ago
Toys “R” Us Is Back—Now With More Surveillance\!
Toys “R” Us Is Back—Now With More Surveillance!After filing for bankruptcy and closing more than 800 stores last year, Toys "R" Us is back. The iconic retailer has opened two new mall outposts, one in Texas and another in New Jersey, just in time for the holidays. The sto...continued
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Meggie @Meggie - over 4 years ago
Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round
Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round – TechCrunchModern agriculture involves fields of mind-boggling size, and spraying them efficiently is a serious operational challenge. Pyka is taking on the largely human-powered spray business wi...continued
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Sandrine @Sandrine - over 4 years ago
Want to start a business in 2020? This $30 tool can help.
Want to start a business in 2020? This $30 tool can help.Source: MashablePowered by NewsAPI.org
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Wilmer @Wilmer - over 4 years ago
Uber founder Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s Board of Directors
Uber founder Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board of directors – TechCrunchUber founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board of directors, the ride-hailing company announced today. Kalanick will officially resign from the board as of Dec...continued
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Ezequiel @Ezequiel - over 4 years ago
Bannon’s Work with Wanted Chinese Billionaire Began Shortly After He Left White House
Bannon’s Work With Wanted Chinese Billionaire Began Shortly After He Left White HouseAlmost immediately after ending his White House employment, Stephen K. Bannon, the former chief strategist to President Trump, forged a lucrative financial relationship with a mysterious ...continued
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Maida @Maida - over 4 years ago
The Rise of Skywalker’s realest-feeling tech is ancient censorship software
The Rise of Skywalker’s realest-feeling tech is ancient censorship softwareTwo years ago, my former colleague Sarah Jeong laid out how Star Wars: Rogue One — and, indeed, much of the Star Wars mythology — is about internet freedom. A huge amount of the series involves peo...continued
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Ariel @Ariel - over 4 years ago
Best Technology Posts of 2019
Best Technology Posts of 201910. Innovative E-Scooters for the Last Mile Commuter E-scooters are the answer for commuters seeking zero emissions transportation in crowded cities and we shared some of the newest and most innovative options.9. Panasonic and Vitra Transparen...continued
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Izaiah @Izaiah - over 4 years ago
Credit startup Migo expands to Brazil on $20M raise and Africa growth
Credit startup Migo expands to Brazil on $20M raise and Africa growth – TechCrunchAfter growing its lending business in West Africa, emerging markets credit startup Migo is expanding to Brazil on a $20 million Series B funding round led by Valor Capital Group.The San Fran...continued
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Oren @Oren - over 4 years ago
SoftBank Vision Fund invests $275M in India’s Lenskart
SoftBank Vision Fund invests $275M in India’s Lenskart – TechCrunchLenskart, an omni-channel retailer in India that sells eyewear products, said on Friday that it has raised $275 million in a new financing round from SoftBank Vision Fund as it looks to expand its business...continued
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Alan @Alan - over 4 years ago
Trialjectory uses self-reported clinical data to match cancer patients with clinical trials
Trialjectory uses self-reported clinical data to match cancer patients with clinical trials – TechCrunchTrialjectory, which is developing a new technology service to match cancer patients with clinical trials, has raised $2.7 million to finance its continued growth.Led by...continued
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Roger @Roger - over 4 years ago
Daily Crunch: Facebook acquires a cloud gaming startup
Facebook acquires a cloud gaming startup – TechCrunchThe Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here.Facebook is building out its ...continued
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Jimmy @Jimmy - over 4 years ago
Beds and their Bedfellows | History Today
The average human spends around one third of their lives in bed. It is easy to imagine that the experience is universal, as our species could not continue without the two most obvious bed-related activities: sleep and sex. However, as Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani demonst...continued
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Cameron @Cameron - over 4 years ago
Uber’s ride-hailing business hit with ban in Germany
Uber’s ride-hailing business hit with ban in Germany – TechCrunchAnother legal blow for Uber in Europe: A regional court in Frankfurt has banned the company from sending ride-hailing requests to rental car companies via its app — with the court finding multiple competitio...continued
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Pablo @Pablo - over 4 years ago
Applying big data analytics to patient records, OM1 offers insights to hospitals and pharma
Applying big data analytics to patient records, OM1 offers insights to hospitals and pharma – TechCrunchOM1, a big-data analytics company for the healthcare industry, has raised $50 million in its latest round of financing to expand its sales and marketing and product dev...continued
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Zackery @Zackery - over 4 years ago
The Most Disappointing Gadgets of the Decade
The Worst and Most Disappointing Gadgets of the 2010sFor every major leap in technology, there have been plenty of face plants, ill-advised cash grabs, and just plan bad tech. So here are the gadgets and technology that absolutely screwed the pooch.As with our list of mos...continued
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Oren @Oren - over 4 years ago
Huckleberry raises $18M to put small business insurance online
Huckleberry raises $18M to put small business insurance online – TechCrunchThe insurance industry, sleepy and ancient, is ripe for disruption. We’ve seen companies like Lemonade, Hippo and Rhino get in on that opportunity. Today, an insurtech company focused on small busi...continued
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Zackery @Zackery - over 4 years ago
The Psychedelic Beauty of Destroyed CDs
The Psychedelic Beauty of Destroyed CDsLike many teenagers growing up in the early- to mid-aughts, Russian photographer Rus Khasanov spent an obscene amount of money on CDs. He displayed his favorites on a shelf—Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP, Amy Winehouse’s Back to Bl...continued
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Jimmy @Jimmy - over 4 years ago
Toilet designed to be uncomfortable to sit on, aimed at boosting employee productivity
Toilet designed to be uncomfortable to sit on, aimed at boosting employee productivity / Boing BoingA Staffordshire company called StandardToilet has designed a toilet with a seat that tilts downward, making it painful to sit on for more than a few minutes.It is estimated...continued
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Anderson @Anderson - over 4 years ago
Alchemy is secretly fixing blockchain’s node nightmare
Alchemy is secretly fixing blockchain’s node nightmare – TechCrunchThe top cryptocurrency companies have quietly begun to outsource their infrastructure problems to a tiny stealth startup. It’s called Alchemy. Today it’s making the big public reveal of its technology that...continued
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Josiah @Josiah - over 4 years ago
Skyryse shows off end-to-end autonomous flight technology with helicopter demonstration
Skyryse shows off end-to-end autonomous flight technology with helicopter demonstration – TechCrunchSkyryse is a three-year old transportation startup that is approaching the future of aviation from a different angle when compared to most. You often see startups building ...continued
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Kraig @Kraig - over 4 years ago
Why Your USB Cable Might Not Charge Your Android Smartphone
Why Your USB Cable Might Not Charge Your Android SmartphoneA cable is a cable is a cable, right? Not quite. While there shouldn’tbe any difference from one USB cable over another—it’s mostly the protective covering around the cable and a bunch of marketing—some have found...continued
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Assunta @Assunta - over 4 years ago
How We Learned to Love the Pedagogical Vapor of STEM
How We Learned to Love the Pedagogical Vapor of STEMWhen American public schools macramé'd together the words language, arts, and English, starting in the 1970s, they created a tangle: ELA.The neo-discipline must have bewildered teachers. There's a long tradition of teach...continued
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Meggie @Meggie - over 4 years ago
Rebank raises $2.8M to build a better banking experience for high-growth companies
Rebank raises $2.8M to build a better banking experience for high-growth companies – TechCrunchAsk almost any startup founder and they’ll tell you that business banking is mostly broken. Legacy banks typically provide a clunky user experience trapped in the past. New chal...continued
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Felicita @Felicita - over 4 years ago
Autonomous helicopter startup Skyryse demonstrates tech that could power urban air taxis
Autonomous helicopter startup Skyryse demonstrates tech that could power urban air taxisSkyryse, an autonomous helicopter startup, unveiled the technology stack that it says will enable future fleets of air taxis to fly themselves over cities. It also released footage fro...continued
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Emmie @Emmie - over 4 years ago
China Roundup: GitHub’s China ambitions and WeWork rival’s big hopes
GitHub’s China ambitions and WeWork rival’s big hopes – TechCrunchHello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, we are looking at how WeW...continued
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