Myles
@Myles
386 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Myles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Maureen
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over 4 years ago
You Lost How Much on Scooters?
You Lost How Much on Scooters?Lime, the company whose business model is buying thousands of electric scooters and just sort of leaving them there in the hopes people will ride them, is on track to lose $300 million this year.Per a report in the Information, financial proj...continued
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Ryleigh
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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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Erik
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over 4 years ago
Action Blocks: one tap to make technology more accessible
one tap to make technology more accessibleThink about the last time you did something seemingly simple on your phone, like booking a rideshare. To do this, you had to unlock your phone, find the right app, and type in your pickup location. The process required you to read...continued
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Assunta
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over 4 years ago
Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Educate Our Tech-Illiterate Congress
Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan to Educate Our Tech-Illiterate CongressSenator Elizabeth Warren has joined a small but steady chorus of Washington lawmakers working to revive a little-known government agency that, not so long ago, helped members of Congress grasp how cutting-...continued
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Alexzander
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over 4 years ago
Here’s how science fiction could save us from bad technology
Here's how science fiction could save us from bad technologyThe short film “Slaughterbots” depicts a near future in which swarms of micro drones assassinate thousands of people for their political beliefs. Released in November 2017 by academics and activists warning of th...continued
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Cyril
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over 4 years ago
Facebook buys startup working on technology that lets you control computers with your mind - CNET
Facebook buys startup working on technology that lets you control computers with your mindFacebook said Monday it's acquiring CTRL-labs, a neurotechnology startup, as part of efforts to develop a wristband for controlling smartphones, computers and other digital devices w...continued
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Bobby
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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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Americo
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over 4 years ago
'Goliath Is Winning': The Biggest U.S. Banks Are Set to Automate Away 200,000 Jobs
The Biggest U.S. Banks Are Set to Automate Away 200,000 JobsOver the next decade, U.S. banks, which are investing $150 billion in technology annually, will use automation to eliminate 200,000 jobs, thus facilitating “the greatest transfer from labor to capital” in the ind...continued
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Allene
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over 4 years ago
Serial founder David Cancel to share people-first, SaaS insights at Disrupt SF next week
Serial founder David Cancel to share people-first, SaaS insights at Disrupt SF next week – TechCrunchWhat do you wish you’d known about building a company beforehand? It’s a question that haunts many a startup founder their first time around.Serial SaaS-focused entreprene...continued
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Juliet
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over 4 years ago
Mobster’s Jailbreak Plan: Floss, Hacksaw Blade, Crash Diet and a Priest
Mobster’s Jailbreak Plan: Floss, Hacksaw Blade, Crash Diet and a PriestTo break out of a federal jail, a suspected Mafia soldier named Christopher Londonio planned to use dental floss as a glass-cutter, Kool-Aid as clothing dye and “lots of bran” to slim down.It was all p...continued
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Minnie
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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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Priscilla
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over 4 years ago
I report on technology. And I got hacked.
I report on technology. And I got hacked.Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.Source: CNNPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Security hacker • Online chat • Facebook Messenger • Pearl River (band) •
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Gregoria
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over 4 years ago
a16z’s Andrew Chen on the opportunities today for consumer tech startups
a16z’s Andrew Chen on the opportunities today for consumer tech startups – TechCrunchAt TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco last week, Extra Crunch managing editor Eric Eldon sat down with Andrew Chen, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Andrew focuses on consumer tech...continued
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Giovanni
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over 4 years ago
Arianna Huffington on Quest to Create the Methadone of Tech
Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global Acquires Boundless MindsAriana Huffington left Huffington Post in 2016 to create Thrive Global—a confounding venture that aims to help people reduce stress and burnout by taking control of their relationship with technology. Three years ...continued
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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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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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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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Webster
@Webster -
over 4 years ago
Walmart’s Flipkart confirms it is entering the food retail business in India
Walmart’s Flipkart confirms it is entering the food retail business in India – TechCrunchIndia’s Flipkart is entering the food retail business as the e-commerce giant looks to expand its reach in the nation, its chief executive said on Tuesday.Flipkart, which sold majorit...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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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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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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Kari
@Kari -
over 4 years ago
Giuliani's access to Trump blurred the line between diplomacy and business for Ukrainians
Giuliani's access to Trump blurred the line between diplomacy and business for Ukrainians(CNN)When a well-known Ukrainian politician and leading presidential candidate visited Washington, DC, late last year, Rudy Giuliani was ready and willing to meet.On December 5, 2018,...continued
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Myles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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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Myles upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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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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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