The NASA spacecraft that will journey to the Sun just got its super deluxe heat shield
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The NASA spacecraft that will journey to the Sun just got its super deluxe heat shield
Industrial sunblock
A transgender girl rises up against alien invaders in Rich Larsonโs novel Annex
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A transgender girl rises up against alien invaders in Rich Larsonโs novel Annex
The novel hits stores on July 24th
Speed Dating for Ghosts is metaphor for romance in video games
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Speed Dating for Ghosts is metaphor for romance in video games
Itโs not about commitment, itโs about companionship
Serverless computing could unleash a new startup ecosystem
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Serverless computing could unleash a new startup ecosystem
While serverless computing isnโt new, it has reached an interesting place in its development. As developers begin to see the value of serverless architecture, a whole new startup ecosystem could begin to develop around it.
Technology has changed my World Cup watching for the better
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Technology has changed my World Cup watching for the better
The streaming revolution
Why the hardest special effect on A Quiet Place was corn
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Why the hardest special effect on A Quiet Place was corn
Visual effects supervisor Mark Hawker on the filmโs shoestring budget and most dangerous sequence, plus the shots they had to scrap.
Satellite startups turn to reinventing broadband, mapping and other industries
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Satellite startups turn to reinventing broadband, mapping and other industries
Smartphones have disrupted transportation, payments and communication. But the underlying technology has tangentially changed a completely different sector: satellites.
An immodest proposal: itโs time for scooter superhighways
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An immodest proposal: itโs time for scooter superhighways
โIf a problem cannot be solved,โ Donald Rumsfeld once wrote, โenlarge it.โ Iโm not about to praise him for his accomplishments, but he had a pretty good eye for diagnoses. Which takes us to the problem of urban transit. I complained recently that I didnโtโฆ
Polar Fitness suspends its global activity map after privacy concerns
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Polar Fitness suspends its global activity map after privacy concerns
Echoes of Stravaโs geolocation privacy problem
Drakeโs Scorpion pulls in over 1 billion streams in its first week
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Drakeโs Scorpion pulls in over 1 billion streams in its first week
Drakeโs fifth album Scorpion has pulled in over 1 billion streams globally in its first week, Drakeโs label Republic Records confirms to The Verge.
Appleโs Shortcuts will flip the switch on Siriโs potential
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Appleโs Shortcuts will flip the switch on Siriโs potential
At WWDC, Apple pitched Shortcuts as a way to โtake advantage of the power of appsโ and โexpose quick actions to Siri.โ These will be suggested by the OS, can be given unique voice commands, and will even be customizable with a dedicated Shortcuts app.
TaxScouts wants to make filing your tax return a lot less tedious
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TaxScouts wants to make filing your tax return a lot less tedious
TaxScouts, a U.K. startup founded by TransferWise and Marketinvoice alumni, is the latest online service designed to make filing your tax return a lot less tedious. However, rather than focusing on the bookkeeping part of the problem primarily tackled byโฆ
Timehop discloses July 4 data breach affecting 21 million
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Timehop discloses July 4 data breach affecting 21 million
Timehop has disclosed a security breach that has compromised the personal data (names and emails) of 21 million users. Around a fifth of the affected users โ or 4.7M โ have also had a phone number that was attached to their account breached in the attack.
Full transcript: Charlotte and Dave Willner, plus Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Recode Decode
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The Willners raised more than $20 million on Facebook to help families forcibly separated at the Mexico-U.S. border.
Whatโs so wrong with Silicon Valley investing in sin?
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Whatโs so wrong with Silicon Valley investing in sin?
Investors are divided about whether it is kosher to place bets in fields like marijuana or pornography. But what about vaping?
Crypto and ventureโs biggest names are backing a new distributed ledger project called Oasis Labs
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Crypto and ventureโs biggest names are backing a new distributed ledger project called Oasis Labs
A team of top security researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and MIT have come together to launch a new cryptographic project that combines secure software and hardware to enable privacy-preserving smart contracts under the banner of Oasisโฆ
Chinaโs Xiaomi makes underwhelming public debut in Hong Kong IPO
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Chinaโs Xiaomi makes underwhelming public debut in Hong Kong IPO
Chinaโs Xiaomi, the worldโs fifth biggest seller of smartphones, made an underwhelming public debut after it hit the Hong Kong Stock Exchange amid concerns around an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China. Media reports in the lead up to todayโs bellโฆ
EQT acquires B2B payment transfer business Banking Circle from Saxo Bank for $300M
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EQT acquires B2B payment transfer business Banking Circle from Saxo Bank for $300M
Remittances and the process of transferring money between people and organizations continues to be a huge business โ worth some $613 billion globally, according to the latest figures from the World Bank. Now one of the bigger players in the world of B2B paymentsโฆ
Samsung opens worldโs biggest phone factory in India
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Samsung opens worldโs biggest phone factory in India
Indiaโs effort to lure manufacturers is working