Maureen
@Maureen
436 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Maureen upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Cynthia
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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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Maida
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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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Maureen upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Leda
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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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Wilmer
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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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Bart
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over 4 years ago
Wall Street Journal: Federal prosecutors examining Rudy Giuliani's business dealings in Ukraine
Wall Street Journal: Federal prosecutors examining Rudy Giuliani's business dealings in UkraineWashington (CNN)Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are examining Rudy Giuliani's Ukraine business dealings, including his bank records, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, ci...continued
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Alexandro
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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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Monserrat
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over 4 years ago
San Francisco Is Getting Sick of All Your Dumbass 'Disruption'
San Francisco Aims to Establish 'Office of Emerging Technology'The Wild West days of unapproved or unwanted technology infiltrating public spaces in San Francisco without permission from the city may be nearing their end.City officials are hoping to establish an Office of...continued
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Teagan
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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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Ryleigh
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over 4 years ago
5 Email-Marketing Strategies to Conquer Consumer Inaction
5 Email-Marketing Strategies to Conquer Consumer InactionEmail-marketing segmentation has been proven to boost campaign results, and thanks to modern automation features, it’s easier than ever to segment email lists and send highly targeted messages to people based on dem...continued
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Maureen
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over 4 years ago
15-year-old tennis sensation Cori 'Coco' Gauff reaches her first ever WTA final, says 'it's crazy'
Coco Gauff, 15, says 'it's crazy' to reach her first ever WTA finalCori "Coco" Gauff has advanced to her first ever WTA final.The 15-year-old American took the tennis world by storm after beating Venus Williams in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships in the summ...continued
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Dayton
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over 4 years ago
Making technology accessible for everyone
Making technology accessible for everyoneThe World Health Organization estimates that 15 percent of the world’s population—over 1 billion people—have a disability. October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, an opportunity to look at how technology enables ...continued
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Rex
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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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Alvah
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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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Liliane
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over 4 years ago
Udacity will offer 100,000 free programming classes as part of the “Pledge to America’s Workers”
Udacity will offer 100,000 free programming classes as part of the ‘Pledge to America’s Workers’ – TechCrunchUdacity, the online education company founded by Sebastian Thrun, is launching a new scholarship initiative as part of the Pledge to America’s Workersjob training ...continued
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Maureen upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Zetta
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over 4 years ago
Cisco hit by an internal network outage
Cisco hit by an internal network outage – TechCrunchNot a great start to the day for Cisco employees, many of which are struggling in the face of an internal IT outage.The technology and networking giant confirmed in a tweet it was “aware of some disruption” to its IT sys...continued
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Maureen upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Juliet
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over 4 years ago
Gymnastics’ Latest Twist? Robot Judges That See Everything
Gymnastics’ Latest Twist? Robot Judges That See EverythingThanks to all this, Watanabe explained, no longer would gymnasts — many of whom, he noted, had started gymnastics as young as age 3 and had trained competitively for more than a decade — risk having their efforts u...continued
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Marie
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over 4 years ago
Dealing With China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost
Dealing With China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost - The New York TimesThis sort of corporate capitulation is hardly surprising. For Western companies, China is simply too big and too rich a market to ignore, let alone to pressure or to police. If the first and most important ...continued
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Maureen upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Rose
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over 4 years ago
Twitter Used Your Phone Number to Send You Ads. Now What?
Twitter Used Your Phone Number to Send You Ads. Now What?Talk about being caught between a tweet and a hard place. Twitter, in its infinite wisdom, recently admitted that it messed up and used email addresses and phone numbers—provided by users as part of their account se...continued
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Alexander
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over 4 years ago
How Bongo, the ‘Netflix of Bangladesh’, won the local video streaming market with just $10M
How Bongo, the ‘Netflix of Bangladesh,’ won the local video streaming market with just $10M – TechCrunchThousands of miles away from the U.S., where technology giants, cable networks, and studios are locked in an intense multi-billion dollar battle to court users to their...continued
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Sandrine
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over 4 years ago
‘Stand With Hong Kong’? Not When N.B.A.’s Chinese Fortune Is on the Line
Why the N.B.A. Apologized to China Over Daryl Morey’s Tweet About Hong KongHONG KONG — The N.B.A. is widely seen as the most permissive of the major American sports leagues when it comes to freewheeling speech, allowing its athletes and other representatives to speak out ...continued
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Maureen upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Arvid
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over 4 years ago
Rip Taylor, Flamboyant Television Comedian and Actor, Dies at 84
Rip Taylor, Flamboyant Comedian and Actor, Dies at 84Rip Taylor, a flamboyant mainstay of the comedy circuit who was known for his gags involving confetti; for his brand of self-deprecating humor, which involved removing his toupee; and his extensive voice work, died on S...continued
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Maureen upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Adelia
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over 4 years ago
California Bans Deepfakes in Porn and Politics
California Bans Deepfakes in Porn and PoliticsAMD's Next Big Graphics Card Sure Sounds Like It Will Be Cheap and PowerfulSource: Gizmodo.comPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:California • Advanced Micro Devices • Video card •
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Maureen upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Mariano
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over 4 years ago
Quickly Scan and Transcribe Business Cards With This App
Quickly Scan and Transcribe Business Cards With This AppHow to Get Google to Let You Know When the Price Drops on Something You Want to BuySource: Lifehacker.comPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Mobile app • Google •
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Maureen upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Alvah
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over 4 years ago
Disney Bans Netflix Ads As Streaming's Marketing Wars Intensify
Disney Bans Netflix Ads As Streaming's Marketing Wars IntensifyDisney is banning advertising from Netflix across its entertainment TV networks , according the The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. It's "a sign that the marketing wars over stream...continued
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Maureen upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Mariano
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over 4 years ago
Glenlivet's marketing stunt: whiskey in lozenge form
whiskey in lozenge form / Boing BoingGlenlivet capsules are edible, seaweed-derived pods filled with whiskey that you bite into.First of all, you can't add a drop of water to bring the volatiles to the surface of the liquor.Second of all, you can't sip it.Third of all, wh...continued
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