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- How to recognize an alien when you see one 4 days ago – What would convince you that aliens existed? The question came up recently at a conference on astrobiology, held at Stanford University in California. Several ideas were tossed around – unusual gases in a planet’s atmosphere, strange heat gradients on its surface. But none felt persuasive. Finall...
- Researcher: Here are 5 things that scare me about AI 4 days ago – AI is being increasingly used to make important decisions. Many AI experts (including Jeff Dean, head of AI at Google, and Andrew Ng, founder of Coursera and deeplearning.ai) say that warnings about sentient robots are overblown, but other harms are not getting enough attention. I agree. I am an ...
- Google’s new AI detects breast cancer just by scanning X-ray 2 days ago – Google‘s AI team has just developed a new system to scan X-rays to help radiologists in detecting breast cancer. The model was developed in partnership with DeepMind, Cancer Research UK Imperial Centre, Northwestern University, and Royal Surrey County Hospital. The team used anonymized data from ...Google’s new AI detects breast cancer just by scanning X-ray 2 days ago – Google‘s AI team has just developed a new system to scan X-rays to help radiologists in detecting breast cancer. The model was developed in partnership with DeepMind, Cancer Research UK Imperial Centre, Northwestern University, and Royal Surrey County Hospital. The team used anonymized data from ...
- How the tech industry is failing people with disabilities and chronic illnesses 2 days ago – 30 percent of people under the age of 65 have a chronic health condition. Despite this prevalence, people with chronic illnesses or disabilities often face discrimination. Over a third of disabled people have experienced negative bias in their current job. The unemployment rate is twice as high f...
- CHEAP: These lightweight JBL wireless headphones are only $25 now a day ago – Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! I’m still not quite on board with the gradual disappearance of the 3.5mm headphone jack from phones, but it hasn’t been all bad. One of the unexpected benefits of having to adapt to this trend is that it intro...
- What marketers must learn from the 2010s 2 days ago – The year 2020 has a momentous ring to it. It feels like the future has arrived. It has long been one of those milestone dates that galvanized the imaginations of futurists and armchair Nostradamuses, often in ridiculous ways (“We’ll eat candy made of underwear!” or “Our feet will become just one ...
- Google lifts ban on Ethereum wallet app it thought was mining cryptocurrency 17 hours ago – On Wednesday, Google restored Ethereum app MetaMask, after it mistakenly removed it from its Play Store. Earlier this week, Google backtracked on its ban of Ethereum app and wallet MetaMask after removing it from its Play Store just a week earlier. The wallet app conveyed the U-turn in a tweet on...
- Visual accessibility will be a priority in 2020 — here’s how to adapt your site 18 hours ago – Few people think much about web accessibility. Even fewer people understand it, and without understanding there won’t be empathy or change. However, a string of high-profile class action lawsuits in 2019, like the one against Beyonce’s management company, brought the issue to light — and I expect...
- Leak: The Pixel 4a looks better than the actual Pixel 4 4 hours ago – Serial phone leaker OnLeaks has a good record of creating fairly accurate renders of phones before they are released. If his new Pixel 4a leak turns out to be accurate, Google’s next midrange phone might end up a better-looking phone than its actual flagship devices. OnLeaks shared the images in ...
- Design challenges in the age of AI, and how to overcome them 6 hours ago – Design is an ever-evolving field. So much so that it’s hard to keep track of design job titles. Originally, product designers designed industrial products while graphic designers focused on print as a medium. As a creative field, Design found its Analogy with architecture; it was required to be f...
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- Trifo raises $15M, announces new robot vacuum 2 days ago – Just over two years ago, PerceptIn announced an $8 million Series A. The funding followed a $2 million seed round, and found the startup essentially coming out of stealth to showcase the sensors it was building for a wide range of form factors, from cars to robot vacuums. The company’s been quite...
- These 10 enterprise M&A deals totaled over $40B in 2019 2 days ago – It would be hard to top the 2018 enterprise M&A total of a whopping $87 billion, and predictably this year didn’t come close. In fact, the top 10 enterprise M&A deals in 2019 were less than half last year’s, totaling $40.6 billion. This year’s biggest purchase was Salesforce buying Tablea...
- Jumia, DHL and Alibaba will face off in African e-commerce 2.0 2 days ago – The business of selling consumer goods and services online is a relatively young endeavor across Africa, but e-commerce is set to boom. Over the last eight years, the sector has seen its first phase of big VC fundings, startup duels and attrition. To date, scaling e-commerce in Africa has straddl...
- Made in China: Tesla Model 3 deliveries to Chinese customers to begin January 7 a day ago – The first deliveries of Tesla Model 3 sedans made in China will begin January 7, one year after the U.S. automaker began construction on its first factory outside the United States. The deliveries to customers — which Reuters was first to report based on confirmation from a Tesla representative —...
- Apply to present your startup at TechCrunch’s CES Pitch Night a day ago – CES is a magical place full of gizmos, gadgets and communicable diseases. TechCrunch is hosting another pitch-off event this year. Called Pitch Night, select early-stage companies will take the stage and have 60 seconds to present their wares to TechCrunch editorial and industry experts. This eve...
- Moving storage in-house helped Dropbox thrive a day ago – Back in 2013, Dropbox was scaling fast. The company had grown quickly by taking advantage of cloud infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS), but when you grow rapidly, infrastructure costs can skyrocket, especially when approaching the scale Dropbox was at the time. The company decided to bu...
- This new wireless charger from Zens nearly fulfills the promise of Apple’s AirPower 13 hours ago – Apple’s cancellation of its AirPower wireless charging mat was one of the company’s few big public flubs, but the concept behind the cancelled product remains attractive: A wireless charging pad that supports multiple devices, and that isn’t picky about how you set down your device in order to ma...This new wireless charger from Zens nearly fulfills the promise of Apple’s AirPower 13 hours ago – Apple’s cancellation of its AirPower wireless charging mat was one of the company’s few big public flubs, but the concept behind the cancelled product remains attractive: A wireless charging pad that supports multiple devices, and that isn’t picky about how you set down your device in order to ma...
- How two-year-old Loft nabbed $175M led by Andreessen Horowitz 14 hours ago – Loft may have better product market fit in Brazil than Opendoor does in the U.S. And now the São Paulo-based property tech company has growth funding to prove it. Andreessen Horowitz is doubling down on its first Brazil investment with Loft, a two-year-old real estate marketplace. The $175 millio...
- Samsung shipped more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G smartphones in 2019 19 hours ago – Samsung Electronics announced today that it shipped more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G smartphones in 2019, surpassing expectations set by the company earlier. During remarks at IFA in September, Samsung Electronics vice president JuneHee Lee suggested that more than two million Samsung 5G smartphon...
- Snapchat quietly acquired AI Factory, the company behind its new Cameos feature, for $166M 9 hours ago – After acquiring Ukraine startup Looksery in 2015 to supercharge animated selfie lenses in Snapchat — arguably changing the filters game for all social video and photo apps — Snap has made another acquisition with roots in the country, co-founded by one of Looksery’s founders, to give a big boost ...
- As Indian startups raise record capital, losses are widening 9 hours ago – Indian tech startups secured nearly $14 billion in 2019, more than they have raised in any other year. This is a major rebound since 2016, when startups in the nation had bagged just $4.3 billion. But even as more VC funds — many with bigger checks — arrive in India, the financial performance of ...
- TikTok’s revenue said to skyrocket over 300% in Q4 9 hours ago – According to newly released third-party data, TikTok has reason to dance. The famous short-video application saw its in-app purchase revenue rise 310% on a year-over-year basis, according to Apptopia, a startup that tracks mobile app revenue and usage. (The Boston-based startup has raised $8.2 mi...
- Alphabet-backed primary care startup One Medical files to go public 36 minutes ago – One Medical, a San Francisco-based primary care startup with tech-infused, concierge services filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. Internal medicine doctor Tom Lee founded the startup, now valued at well-over $1 billion dollars, in 2007. Lee exited his company in 20...
- What to Expect from CES 2020 3 hours ago – It’s the second most wonderful time of the year. As the rest of the world returns to work, nursing a week-long New Year’s hangover, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed tech journalists will descend upon Sin City to discover the biggest news the tech world has to offer. CES is about more than just produc...
- Adobe CTO says AI will ‘democratize’ creative tools 4 hours ago – Adobe CTO Abhay Parasnis sees a shift happening. A shift in how people share content and who wants to use creative tools. A shift in how users expect these tools to work — especially how much time they take to learn and how quickly they get things done. I spoke with Parasnis in December to […]
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- Fortnite’s overall revenue slipped in 2019, but it was still the biggest earner of the year a day ago – Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Fortnite is still the biggest game in the world — if not quite in terms of audience, then in terms of attention and revenue. According to Nielsen’s game-industry research arm, SuperData, Fortnite brought in a staggering $1.8 billion in...
- Movies are already disappearing from Disney+ a day ago – Disney+ just launched in November, but some movies are already disappearing from the service, as reported by Polygon. For example, the three Home Alone movies were available when Disney+ launched, but the first Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York were removed from Disney+ yesterday, the...
- Nanoleaf’s smart lighting system learns, senses, and reacts to needs 12 hours ago – Nanoleaf’s interactive Hexagon Unified Light Panels are coming this summer. | Image: Nanoleaf Nanoleaf is stepping beyond decorative light panels with a new smart lighting system. Nanoleaf says its new Learning Series “intuitively learns, senses and reacts to users needs” without relying upon ...
- Apple sues security vendor for DMCA violations 9 hours ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is suing an iOS virtualization vendor called Corellium for trafficking under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Apple initially sued the company for copyright infringement in August, alleging that Corellium’s virtualization of iOS was vio...
- What you need to know about the Australia bushfires 2 hours ago – Photo by SAEED KHAN/AFP via Getty Images After an already devastating start to its fire season, Australia is bracing for things to get worse. The Verge will update this page with news and analysis as the fires rage. What’s happening? Australia is bracing for things to get worse Dozens of fires...
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