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- Plato, Greek philosopher.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
10 November - Pale Moon Start Page - Tech News
Hey, Brooklyn, let’s meet up tomorrow
Hello, Brooklyn! I’m restarting my series of micro-meetups in New York
with a special tasting at the Van Brunt Stillhouse. The founder, Daric
Schlesselman, is a friend of TC and showed off his wares at the last New
York Disrupt and he’s offering us a special tasting on Thursday,
November 10, 2016 a...
Here are the tech policies Trump promised to implement as president
Trump’s not a tech guy, that much we know. He reportedly doesn’t have
much time for a cell phone or email. During a CNN town hall moderated by
Anderson Cooper, he said that he largely composes tweets by, “shout it
out to one of the young ladies who are tremendous. I’ll just shout it
out, and they’l...
Teamleader scores €10M Series B to help SMEs go digital
Belgium startup Teamleader, which began life while co-founders Jeroen
De Wit, Willem Delbare and Mathias De Loore were studying together at
university, has raised €10 million in Series B funding. The round is led
by previous backer Fortino Capital. Read More
Google’s Daydream View made me a believer again in consumer VR
Humble beginnings
When Google debuted Cardboard at its 2014 Developers Conference, then-
Google Product Chief Sundar Pichai showed off the headset made of modest
materials with an insouciance that indirectly poked fun at the
ambitious and expensive Oculus purchase Facebook had announced only
shortl...
Siri can now send money via PayPal
PayPal users can now send and request payments using simple voice
commands via Siri on iOS 10 on iPhone and iPad. The online payments
company is making the new feature available to users in 30 countries,
and in a number of languages, and it requires only that the iOS app be
installed with a logged ...
Instagram will now let creators add URL links, tag friends, and create Boomerangs in Stories
Instagram is adding three new features to Stories in what they are
calling the biggest update to Stories since its launch. Starting today
the company will let creators add URL links to their stories that
viewers can navigate to without leaving Instagram, add the ability for
users to be “@ mentioned...
Thngs wants to be a Wikipedia for physical objects
Moscow-based Thngs is building something akin to a Wikipedia for
physical objects. Although, given that the startup is already working on
ways to monetize its offering, purists will likely take issue with that
comparison.
Working with museums initially, Thngs wants to create a digital
repository of...
Here are some more details of how Snap’s Spectacles work
Snap’s spectacles are starting to hit the streets, and eBay. I’ve been
able to glean some details about the way they work from early users.
The images above and below come from the auction listing, which has
already hit $553 as I write this. Read More
Portal router drastically improved my Wi-Fi connection
Reliable Wi-Fi is what a lot of us have come to expect in today’s
world of hyper-connectivity. I don’t know about you, but my roommates
and I just went with whatever router Comcast gave us. That was a rookie
move because it only reliably works in one room (the room with the
router) out of five. Ent...
What it’s like to use Snapchat Spectacles
Snap’s Spectacles are having a spectacular debut today, with (at
least) hundreds of people lining up at their first Snapbot pop-up
vending machine location in Venice Beach. We got the chance to speak to a
few of those lucky enough to have grabbed some today, and they told us
what it’s like to use t...
Tech leaders respond to upcoming Trump presidency
No matter which side of the aisle you’re on it’s clear that in next
four years technology will be taking center stage. Politics are now less
about relationships between people and more about relationships between
computers and no matter who you voted for we believe tech is truly
leading the way. Ma...
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