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GM Cruise raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from Softbank and Honda
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TechCrunch
GM Cruise raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from SoftBank and Honda
GM Cruise has raised another $1.15 billion in new equity from a group of investors that includes T. Rowe Price Associates, Honda, SoftBank Vision Fund and its parent company GM, as the self-driving vehicle company pushes to launch a commercial autonomous…
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Detroit’s LED streetlights going dark after a few years
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Detroit’s LED streetlights going dark after a few years
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Experimental device generates electricity from the coldness of the universe
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phys.org
Experimental device generates electricity from the coldness of the universe
The obvious drawback of solar panels is that they require sunlight to generate electricity. Some have observed that for a device on Earth facing space, which has a frigid temperature, the chilling outflow ...
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Lyft Announces Q1 Earnings
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Lyft, Inc.
Lyft Announces Record First Quarter Results | Lyft, Inc.
First quarter revenue grew to $776 million, up 95% year-over-year Active Riders grew to over 20.5 million in the quarter SAN FRANCISCO, May 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lyft, Inc. (Nasdaq:LYFT) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended…
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Google Is Turning Off the Works with Nest API
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Nest
What’s happening at Nest?
Learn about Google Nest, account changes, Works with Nest and more
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Improving privacy and security on the web
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Chromium Blog
Improving privacy and security on the web
In 2008, we launched Chrome with the goal of building a speedy, simple, secure and stable web for everyone, everywhere. Ten years later, use...
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Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta
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Google Cloud Blog
Google’s scalable supercomputers for machine learning, Cloud TPU Pods, are now publicly available in beta | Google Cloud Blog
Cloud TPU Pods are now available in beta, helping you train models faster and at lower cost in the cloud.
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Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good
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Nytimes
Opinion | Google’s Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good (Published 2019)
Yes, we use data to make products more helpful for everyone. But we also protect your information.
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When Alexa runs your home, Amazon tracks you in more ways than you might want
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Washington Post
Perspective | Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time
Our tech columnist listened to four years of his Alexa archive, and discovered Amazon tracks us in more ways than we might want.
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Announcing WSL 2
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Microsoft News
Announcing WSL 2
WSL 2 is a new architecture that allows for dramatic file system performance and full system call compatibility in WSL using a Linux kernel.
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Former Fortnite UX lead digs into ethical game design
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GAMASUTRA
Former Fortnite UX lead digs into ethical game design
Since leaving Epic Games in late 2017, UX expert Celia Hodent has been cutting across the game industry, meeting with developers to discuss ethical and practical UX solutions, as the industry itself grapples with the rising ethical concerns that come with…
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IPOs Bring Tax Jackpot for California; Can Lawmakers Resist?
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NY Times
IPOs Bring Tax Jackpot for California; Can Lawmakers Resist?
Uber and Airbnb are among at least six California-based companies valued at more than $1 billion expected to go public this year, creating a new class of millionaires and billionaires and a welcome quandary for the state's budget writers.
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Lose and You’ll Win – How to Reflect on Failure
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A tectonic plate may have peeled apart
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Science
A tectonic plate may have peeled apart—and that could shrink the Atlantic Ocean
Something strange is happening off the coast of Portugal, and scientists have now proposed a groundbreaking explanation.
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Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app development
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TechCrunch
Kotlin is now Google's preferred language for Android app development | TechCrunch
Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. "Android development will become
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Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting
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Microsoft On the Issues
Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting
Today, at the Microsoft Build developer conference, CEO Satya Nadella announced ElectionGuard, a free open-source software development kit (SDK) from our Defending Democracy Program. ElectionGuard will make voting secure, more accessible, and more efficient…
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HTTP Headers for the Responsible Developer
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Twilio
HTTP headers for the responsible developer
Guide to using HTTP headers for a better web. Learn about HTTPS, HSTS, CSP, Cacheable, immutable resources, serving WebP images, Feature-Policy and more.
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Electromagnetic interference mapping
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Charles' Labs
Electromagnetic interference mapping
This article explores two innovative, cost-effective methods to map near-field electromagnetic emissions for the compliance electronic devices.
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Self Driving Desktop
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GitHub
GitHub - hofstadter-io/self-driving-desktop: Desktop Automation Framework. Drive your mouse and keyboard with an easy to use language.
Desktop Automation Framework. Drive your mouse and keyboard with an easy to use language. - hofstadter-io/self-driving-desktop
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Marion Stokes: A woman who taped 30 years of TV news
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BBC News
Why a woman secretly taped 30 years of TV news
Marion Stokes recorded US broadcasts from 1979 until her death in 2012. Her son explains why.
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Let's Get Going with Org Mode
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www.beorg.app
Let's Get Going With Org mode - beorg
Plain text task manager for iOS
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