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North Face
Review: The North Face Futurelight Flight Jacket
WIRED - Adrienne So
In Nordic countries, there’s a saying: “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothes.” As someone who spent the past weekend shivering in a tent in …
October 1
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Facebook
It’s Time to Push Tech Forward, and Rebuild What It Broke
WIRED - Condé Nast
In 1904, a group of Canadian workers began the hard slog of constructing the world's longest bridge, across the Saint Lawrence River just south of …
1 day ago
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Opinion
We Talked to Andrew Yang. Here’s How He’d Fix the Internet.
The New York Times - By CHARLIE WARZEL
This article is part of a limited-run newsletter. You can sign up here. This week’s Privacy Project newsletter is a pre-debate conversation with the former entrepreneur and current presidential candidate
1 day ago
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Biohacking: Rules of Engagement
art19.com
Josiah Zayner is a biohacker who’s famous for, among other things, injecting himself with the gene-editing tool CRISPR. At a time when the technology …
10 hours ago
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Technology
David Sacks’s Craft Ventures just closed its second fund with $500 million
TechCrunch - Connie Loizos
Craft Ventures, the venture firm launched in 2017 by serial entrepreneur David Sacks, has closed its second fund with $500 million in capital commitments, an amount the firm was said to begin targeting
11 hours ago
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Venture Capital
E988 Cowboy Ventures' Aileen Lee on pioneering diversity in tech & VC, lessons from backing winners
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1 day ago
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Juul
Why Juul’s Co-Inventor Is Making a New E-Cigarette (Podcast)
Bloomberg
Scientist Chenyue Xing helped invent the technology that made Juul’s e-cigarettes such a big hit. Now, she’s created a new e-cigarette to correct the …
15 hours ago
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Tech Podcasts
Smart Tech Today 2: Mesh WiFi and Voice-First Computing
twit.tv
On this episode of Smart Tech Today, Mikah Sargent and Matthew Cassinelli:• Mikah reveals he's now dual-wielding mobile operating systems. Along with …
1 day ago
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Technology
Google discontinues Daydream VR
VentureBeat - Emil Protalinski
Google’s Daydream, Android’s built-in virtual reality platform, is as good as dead. Following the company’s annual hardware event today, Google confirmed to VentureBeat that the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL
15 hours ago
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Apps
Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in real time, even when offline
TechCrunch - Sarah Perez
At Google’s hardware event this morning, the company introduced a new voice recorder app for Android devices, which will tap into advances in real-time speech processing, speech recognition and AI to transcribe
17 hours ago
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Google Pixel 4
Google Pixel 4 buyers won’t get unlimited photo uploads at original quality
The Verge - Chris Welch
The Pixel 4 and 4 XL will launch without one of the original great reasons for owning a Pixel phone: free unlimited photo backups to Google Photos at full resolution. Google’s website for the new devices
16 hours ago
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Google Pixel
Google Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL not launching in India
TechCrunch - Manish Singh
The Google Pixel 4 and Pixel XL smartphones, that Google just unveiled at a press conference in New York, won’t launch in India, one of the company’s most important overseas markets, the Android-maker
17 hours ago
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Google Stadia
Google’s Stadia Controller is like a chef’s knife
VentureBeat - Jeff Grubb
Google Stadia is launching November 19. If you buy the Stadia Founder’s Edition for $129, you can start streaming games from Google’s cloud directly to your TV. In that Founder’s Edition, you get a Chromecast
15 hours ago
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Logitech
Logitech unveils its first mouse and keyboard built for Chrome OS
Engadget - Jon Fingas
Now that the Pixelbook Go is here, you might want a mouse and keyboard to go with it. Logitech, unsurprisingly, is happy to oblige -- the company has unveiled its first Made for Google devices, the M355
14 hours ago
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Everything Announced at the Made By Google Event
Google pulled back the covers on its newest product lineup, much of which had been heavily leaked in the days prior. From the Pixel 4 smartphone to the Pixelbook Go Chromebook, Nest Wifi, Nest Mini and launch date for Google Stadia, get all the details (and early hands-on reviews) here.
16 hours ago
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Facebook
Warren vs. Facebook on Fake Ads by Axios Pro Rata
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16 hours ago
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Technology
Watch OpenAI’s ‘human-like’ robot solve a Rubik’s Cube one-handed
TechCrunch - Lucas Matney
There’s always been something so annoying about people who found the need to stack additional challenges onto solving a Rubik’s Cube quickly, whether it was doing it blind-folded or while juggling or While
16 hours ago
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Pixelbook
Pixelbook Go hands-on: Google’s affordable premium Chromebook
Engadget - Cherlynn Low
Google's Pixel laptops used to be synonymous with "expensive." With prices upwards of $1,000, the company's Chromebook Pixel and Pixelbook were costly products meant only for the most ardent Chrome OS
17 hours ago
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Google Pixel 4
Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL hands-on: this time, it’s not about the camera
The Verge - Dieter Bohn
If you follow tech, you probably already know about the new features in Google’s Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL. They’re the most-leaked phones perhaps in history, and there’s only a tiny handful of things I tell
17 hours ago
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Twitter
Twitter's Kayvon Beykpour on product features Twitter is prioritizing by The Vergecast
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Twitter’s head of product Kayvon Beykpour on how Twitter juggles its policy with trust and safety, the state of verification, the future of video in …
18 hours ago
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Technology
Powerful computer vision algorithms are now small enough to run on your phone
MIT Technology Review - Karen Hao
Researchers have shrunk state-of-the-art computer vision models to run on low-power devices. Growing pains: Visual recognition is deep learning’s …
4 days ago
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Facebook
Facebook Portal review: WhatsApp integration needs work
VentureBeat - Khari Johnson
In recent weeks, Facebook’s Portal unit has rolled out a number of new devices and features. Facebook’s video chat device is coming to the workplace, and Portal TV for watching video with friends during
20 hours ago
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Technology (India)
Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor
The Guardian - Ed Pilkington in New York
Mistakes have become endemic, with no obvious route for the victims to seek redress New high-tech approaches sweep through social services, work, disability and health, often with minimal public debate
1 day ago
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Salesforce
Algolia finds $110M from Accel and Salesforce for its search-as-a-service, used by Slack, Twitch and 8K others
TechCrunch - Ingrid Lunden
Algolia, one of the group of startups that provides search as a service for websites and apps as an alternative to Google and other search engines, is announcing a major round of funding today to fuel
1 day ago
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Capitalism
Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism
The New York Times
Over the past 20 years, the company that I co-founded, Salesforce, has generated billions in profits and made me a very wealthy person. I have been fortunate to live a life beyond the wildest imaginations
2 days ago
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Business
Latino VCs form new group to increase industry representation
Axios - Kia Kokalitcheva
A group of Latino venture capitalists in the Bay Area have formed an organization called LatinX VC to help peers advance or start their careers, …
4 days ago
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China
Apple cracked China when Facebook and Google couldn’t. Now that’s a problem for Apple.
Recode
Apple has been more successful in China than any other consumer tech company. Now that’s a problem for Apple. On Wednesday, Apple said it removed HKMapLive, an app used by protest organizers in Hong Kong,
5 days ago
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Apple
Apple under fire for sending browsing data to China
Cult of Mac - Killian Bell
Apple is under fire for sending Safari browser data to China. It is known that Safari can send information to Google Safe Browsing to protect users against online phishing and scams. But it seems Apple’s
1 day ago
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Apple
Apple’s Tencent privacy controversy is more complicated than it looks
The Verge - Adi Robertson
Late last week, privacy advocates warned that Apple was sending iOS user data to Chinese company Tencent, an alarming development for anyone who had taken the company’s privacy promises at face value.
1 day ago
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Apple Music
Apple Told Some Apple TV+ Show Developers Not To Anger China
buzzfeednews.com - Alex Kantrowitz and John Paczkowski
We thought trade would bring Western values to China. Instead, it brought Chinese values to Apple. “Chinese netizens hail Apple’s removal of app that …
4 days ago

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