Lately, many people have wondered why some iOS apps were so huge. I asked myself this question and analyzed the Facebook application for iOS v. 66.0 in 2016 and v. 87.0 in 2017. In this article, I dissect the Nest app (5.30.5) for iOS released on 29.11.2018. There has been quite some speculations about this
SEEKING WORK – Remote OK Skills: Digital product designer (UI/UX) I’m Sven, a freelance UI/UX designer based in Brussels, Belgium. I primarily work with early-stage start-ups in the US. I’ve assisted Techstars companies with their initial product designs, as well as support design teams while building their products. My background is in product management, hence
This week’s question for Lifehacker’s tech-advice column comes from Nate. While his query is a little business-themed, it’s still applicable to anyone who doesn’t like paying a ton of money for cloud storage—so, everyone. The Lifehacker reader asks: “Being a small business owner, I run into the issue all the time of clients and their
My journey into Big Data began in May 2018. I’ve been a Software Engineer for over a decade, being both hands on and leading the development of some of Sky Betting & Gaming’s biggest products and the services that underpin them. During this time I’ve learned a lot about how to build and operate applications
Oweynagat cave is a place of both birth and death. An unimposing gash in the ancient misty hills of north-western Ireland, it is said to be the entrance to the underworld where fairies and demons lure mortals to their doom, and the sacred birthplace of a warrior queen. For thousands of years, the Irish have
Today, we’re incredibly excited to announce that our application for a European banking licence has been approved by the European Central Bank. As you can imagine, this is a pretty huge milestone for us. This licence will help us towards our goal to build an account where you can manage every aspect of your financial
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The young Tesla engineer was excited. Ecstatic, in fact. It was a Saturday in October 2017, and he was working at the Gigafactory, Tesla’s enormous battery manufacturing plant in Nevada. Over the previous year, he had been living out of a suitcase, putting in 13-hour days, seven days a week. This was his first real
It turns out that data can keep you healthy Photo Credit: Franki Chamaki on Unsplash Physical activity trackers have become a multimillion-dollar product category. I have had my fair share of fancy trackers, starting early from Nike Fuelband and then MI activity band. Personally, I couldn’t adopt any of them very well and eventually, they all ended
After 38 years of marriage, I thought I knew my spouse. Then I got an email from the personalized genomics company 23AndMe with the subject line, “You have new DNA relatives.” Which is how I discovered that my husband Marc and I are related through more than mere marriage. We’re third cousins. When we finally
Darwinian data structure selection December 14, 2018 tags: Programming Darwinian data structure selection Basios et al., FSE’18 GraphIt may have caught your attention for the success of its approach, but I suspect for many readers it’s not something you’ll be immediately applying. Darwinian Data Structures (DDSs) on the other hand looks to be of immediate interest
1. Contents By: Justin Meiners & Ryan Pendleton Introduction LC-3 Architecture Assembly Examples Executing Programs Implementing Instructions Instruction Cheat Sheet Trap Routines Trap Routine Cheat Sheet Loading Programs Memory Mapped Registers Platform Details Running the VM Alternate C++ Technique 2. Introduction In this tutorial, I will teach you how to write your own virtual machine
By Mike Malone December 11, 2018 Certificates and public key infrastructure (PKI) are hard. No shit, right? I know a lot of smart people who’ve avoided this particular rabbit hole. Personally, I avoided it for a long time and felt some shame for not knowing more. The obvious result was a vicious cycle: I was
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The greatest hardware hacks of all time were simply the result of finding software keys in memory. The AACS encryption debacle — the 09 F9 key that allowed us to decrypt HD DVDs — was the result of encryption keys just sitting in main memory, where it could be read by any other program. DeCSS, the
Abstract Objective To determine if using a parachute prevents death or major traumatic injury when jumping from an aircraft. Design Randomized controlled trial. Setting Private or commercial aircraft between September 2017 and August 2018. Participants 92 aircraft passengers aged 18 and over were screened for participation. 23 agreed to be enrolled and were randomized. Intervention
13 Dec 2018 [embedded content] That’s not a typo—today we’re shipping Bootstrap 3.4.0, a long overdue update to address some quality of life issues, XSS fixes, and build tooling updates to make it easier for us, and you, to develop. While we’d planned for ages to do a fresh v3.x update, we lost steam as
All parties have their awkward moments, but navigating yourself in a room of co-workers with an open bar feels especially high-stakes. Here are some tips for how to talk to everyone from your boss to your intern so that you can return to work on Monday morning, head held high. It’s possible you have a
In 2018 and beyond, it’s safe to assume that there’s at least one company watching everything you do on the internet at all times, poised to profit from that data. Yes, that includes porn. A recent report from Quartz profiled PornHub and its parent company, data analysis firm MindGeek. Though nothing on MindGeek’s website references
Even if you’ve got a serious sweet tooth, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of sugary snacks that get distributed this time of year. If cookie fatigue has set in, there’s a better way: people lose their fucking minds for homemade bread, and it’s so much easier than you’d think. Clean Out
It’s too much to expect that you never argue with your lover, spouse, or partner in romantic crime. Here’s how you can make that argument more of a productive discussion than a constant stream of bickering. First and foremost, understand that when you’re in a fight, especially with someone you care about, your mind isn’t
Photo: Getty Best of LifehackerWhether we’ve made a complicated recipe absurdly simple, illustrated how to survive a natural disaster, or explained a political crisis in terms even your great-grandma would understand, these are some of our favorite stories from the past year. Lifehacker readers are nothing if not practical. According to our traffic logs, in
On Monday, we asked you to nominate your choice for the very best work mouse, and, now, you get to vote on the top 3 nominees. Of course, the comments section is open and ready for debate, and we can’t wait to hear your arguments for and against the three contenders. What’s The Best Work
One of the great things about living during such a technologically robust time is that our kids benefit from the ease and immediacy with which they can contact Santa. They don’t have to wait in long, winding mall lines for a brief moment of his time. They don’t have to learn how to read and
Image: Saturday Night Live Tonight is the company holiday party. Don’t fuck it up. You’ve got a “fun” outfit to change into stashed under your desk even though you’re not totally sure why you’re dressing up for these people you see every day and truth be told don’t really like. No matter! ’Tis the season
Best of LifehackerWhether we’ve made a complicated recipe absurdly simple, illustrated how to survive a natural disaster, or explained a political crisis in terms even your great-grandma would understand, these are some of our favorite stories from the past year. Besides telling you how to hack your life, we here at Lifehacker love to help
Rescale is a hyper-growth company, growing 30% every month, working with the world’s transformative executives, IT leaders, engineers, and scientists to securely manage product innovation to be first to market. Rescale is the leader in enterprise big compute in the cloud, has over 125 Global 2000 enterprise customers including 4 of top 5 largest global
TrueVault is the first data security company entirely focused on protecting consumers’ Personal Data for enterprises. TrueVault decouples consumer identity from consumer behavior to eliminate data security risks and compliance liabilities, giving companies only the data they need. As organizations collect and store more data to drive their businesses forward, they are simultaneously increasing their risk and liability.
Machine learning engineer We strongly value personal growth, and want to help you grow into a great engineer (or great engineering leader). We already have some machine learning expertise, so are happy to hire great engineers who are willing to learn. We have a long list of interesting machine learning problems that are core to
Frustrated by managing your SDR team using someone else’s playbook? Here’s your chance to build your own team from scratch and write your own playbook! We’re a small fast growing team tackling the absolutely massive mortgage market. We’re bringing modern, elegant software to a field that still relies on fax machines and manila envelopes. We
Y Combinator’s mission is to maximize innovation in the world. We do this by funding startups and helping them succeed. While we’re known for our 3-month core program, we’ve recently expanded our efforts with Startup School, Work at a Startup, and Bookface. All of which are supported by public-facing software. These programs are all doing
Skill Lync is an e-learning company providing advanced engineering courses. We have a global customer base and are looking for a highly motivated Full Stack Developer. We are looking for a responsible developer who can finish tasks on time and is just hungry to learn more! Responsibilities and Duties Develop responsive pages using Bootstrap Write
My passion for fashion and sustainability led me 6 years ago to found and create what I believe will be an industry transforming business. We have great momentum, some of the best investors and thousands of users that love to rent and lend clothing on a daily basis. I am looking for someone who is
Luxor-inspired strange art in Julia Generate cool random strange art using Julia and Lexor This is a derivative work from the Luxor strange example. To run, first edit the makestrange.jl file and fiddle with the parameters. Then run the program from the command line. The output is n files sequentially numbered along with a json
Chrome Dev Tools – There are a few advanced debugging tips in the Chrome Browser for Web Developers that provide incredible valuable. In the previous article, we looked at some basic debugging tips that you should know. In this article, we will delve a little deeper and see what else is available to web developers
For a long time I didn’t know that even writing commit message can have its own “best practices”. When I got in touch with git for the first time, this part was described with words like “…and here you can write something short about what’s going on in the commit”. Bad commit messages Look at
Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. This morning, we’re stepping back to the ’80s with some special-edition Pumas, while Tesla’s Navigate on Autopilot shows off the future of commuting. LG is kicking off the CES flood with a brewing machine and pair of new laptops, and it’s time to crown 2018’s best smartphone camera. The
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A village street in Bamfurlong, Gloucestershire, has been named as the slowest for broadband internet, according to an annual survey. The study said homes on Greenmeadows Park averaged just 0.14 megabits per second (Mbps). The fastest spot, by contrast, is said to offer speeds that are nearly 1,900 times faster. It was named as Abdon
Kyle Grillot / Reuters Tesla wants Martin Tripp to pay up big time — it’s seeking a whopping $167 million from the former employee, which company chief Elon Musk once called a saboteur. The electric vehicle maker filed a lawsuit against Tripp earlier this year, accusing the former employee of stealing gigabytes’ worth of proprietary
Shares in Dixons Carphone have tumbled by 14% after the retailer wrote down the value of its mobile business, Carphone Warehouse. The retailer, which also owns Currys PC World, posted a loss of £440m for the six months to 27 October – down from profit of £54m a year ago. But it said underlying sales
Akshay Bakshi/Twitter As promised, Office 365 is ready to wring more out of macOS Mojave. Microsoft has updated the Mac version of its subscription productivity suite with several helpful features, two of which are tied to Apple’s latest software. The obvious one is Dark Mode support — you won’t strain your eyes quite so badly
Animated emoji can be a lot of fun, but they usually rely on advanced camera tracking software that is only available on a handful of devices — until now. CooTek just added the ability to create animated emoji (using a picture of your face) to TouchPal Keyboard, and the feature even works on all Android
What is a 100 pages book? 25,000 words. If you write 200 words every day, it will take you 125 days to have enough content. Of course I am not taking into account editing, reviewing, and actually publishing the piece. Instead, I want you to picture this simple idea: it is realistic to publish an
Prykhodov via Getty Images As is the annual tradition, Google has released its list of top trending searches for the year. If 2018 was dominated by anything, it was untimely and unexpected celebrity deaths. The top 10 trending searches included DJ and musician Avicii, rapper Mac Miller, legendary comics creator Stan Lee, celebrity chef Anthony
India has 22 official languages, which often presents a challenge for businesses that want to scale across the entire country. Video-sharing app Roposo, however, uses that to its advantage by offering content in several different regional languages. Based in Gurgaon, Roposo announced today that it has raised a $10 million Series C from returning investors
Software Engineer (Front End) Job description One Codex is a data platform for microbial genomics. You’ll join a technical, experienced (and profitable!) team working on meaningful problems that range from infectious disease diagnostics to outbreak epidemiology to improving our understanding of the microbiome. We work with top researchers, medical institutions, biotechs, and have processed samples from
LG LG will showcase two new entries to its ultralight Gram lineup at CES 2019 — one of them is a 17-inch laptop for those who prefer large screens, while the other is a 2-in-1 convertible. According to the sneak peek the tech giant has released, the 17-inch laptop will be powered by the “newest
A technology company bidding for a Pentagon contract to store sensitive data has close partnerships with a firm linked to a sanctioned Russian oligarch, the BBC has learned. The Jedi project, a huge cyber-cloud which could ultimately store nuclear codes, has already sparked security fears. Viktor Vekselberg, who is close to the Kremlin, has links
It has taken OnePlus a bit longer than expected to bring Android 9 Pie to the OnePlus 5 and 5T, but the wait is over — if you’re willing to use beta releases, anyway. Open Beta 22 for the OnePlus 5 and Beta 20 for the 5T are now available, which are based on Android
bhyve is a hypervisor/virtual machine manager developed on FreeBSD. xhyve is port of bhyve to OS X. It is built on top of Hypervisor.framework in OS X 10.10 Yosemite and higher, runs entirely in userspace, and has no other dependencies. I usually use MacPorts, but ran into trouble with xhyve, so this morning I tried
Tencent Music, China’s largest streaming company, has raised $1.1 billion in a U.S. IPO after it priced its shares at $13 a piece ahead of a listing on the Nasdaq. That makes it one of the largest tech listings of the year, but the pricing is at the bottom end of its $13-$15 range indicating
Running a website in the early years of the web was a scary business. The web was an evolving medium, and people were finding new uses for it almost every day. From book stores to online auctions, the web was an expanding universe of new possibilities. As the web evolved, so too did the knowledge
AP Photo/Andy Wong NSA official Rob Joyce told guests at a Wall Street Journal security conference that hacking-related Chinese activity had been climbing in recent months. He was concerned the country was “prepositioning” itself to attack “critical infrastructure” such as energy, health care, finance and transportation. China’s hacking as of late has revolved around spying
Growing software out of your notebooks – the right way. Have you ever been in the situation where you’ve got Jupyter notebooks (iPython notebooks) so huge that you were feeling stuck in your code? Or even worse: have you ever found yourself duplicating your notebook to do changes, and then ending up with lots of
Indonesia-based e-commerce firm Tokopedia is the latest startup to enter the Vision Fund after it raised $1.1 billion Series G round led by the SoftBank megafund and Alibaba. SoftBank and Alibaba are existing investors in the business — the Chinese e-commerce giant led a $1.1 billion round last year, while SoftBank recently transitioned its shareholding
Two days ago, Canadian police arrested the chief financial officer of Huawei, Meng Wanzhou, following an extradition request by the United States government. Wanzhou was arrested for allegedly covering up Huawei’s links to a company that tried to sell equipment to Iran — a country under trade sanctions by the United States. Due to Huawei
Serverless is the latest innovation in cloud computing that promises to alter the cost-benefit equation for enterprises. As our CEO, Sid Sijbrandij says, “All roads lead to compute.” There is a race among providers to acquire as many workloads from enterprises as possible, at the cheapest cost. The latter is where serverless comes in: serverless
Reports on the Marriott guest data breach have suggested the most probable cause was a result of the technology platform deployed by Starwood under the name “Valhalla.” As the senior vice president of technology solutions at Starwood Hotels & Resorts from 2001 to 2006, I worked on Valhalla and wrote about Marriott’s decision not to use it
Bloomberg via Getty Images Tonight the police in Menlo Park, CA are on the scene near the 200 block of Jefferson Ave where the headquarters of Facebook and Instagram are located. According to local news stations KRON4 and NBC Bay Area, an anonymous tip came in to the NYPD, who forwarded it to local officers.
Donald Trump says he could intervene in the case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou if it helps to avoid a further decline in US relations with China. “Whatever’s good for this country, I would do,” the US president said. Ms Meng, the chief financial officer of the Chinese telecoms giant, was granted bail on Tuesday
The for-profit college chain Education Corporation of America said this week that it would shut down nearly all of its schools, leaving almost 20,000 students with partially completed degrees and credits that many other schools will not accept. The company, based in Birmingham, Ala., operated more than 70 vocationally focused campuses nationwide before losing its
WASHINGTON — The cyberattack on the Marriott hotel chain that collected personal details of roughly 500 million guests was part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering effort that also hacked health insurers and the security clearance files of millions more Americans, according to two people briefed on the investigation. The hackers, they said, are suspected of working
Charlie Cox as Daredevil’s Matt Murdock.Image: Netflix Last week, in the wake of Netflix’s recent decision to cancel both Daredevil and Iron Fist (not to mention Luke Cage) just when both series seemed to be hitting their respective strides, a big fuss was made over a report that Daredevil was also the fourth-most popular series on
Instagram has placed more hashtags which could promote eating disorders on an “unsearchable” list after a BBC investigation found that users were finding ways around the platform’s filters. The photo-sharing network has also added health warnings to several alternative spellings or terms which reference eating disorders, some of which are popular hashtags on the platform.
Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images Tensions remain high over the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou for alleged Iran sanction violations, but Canada just offered a tiny olive branch. A British Columbia Supreme Court justice has granted Meng bail after her attorney and family made a case for her conditional release. She’s paying $10 million CAD ($7
“Meghan Markle” was the most searched-for person’s name for the second year running on Google’s UK search service. But the Duchess of Sussex came second to the overall winner of the most queried term – “World Cup” – in the company’s search trends review for 2018. “Royal wedding” and “royal baby” were the top two
Wix is taking a big step beyond website building today with the launch of a suite of products called Ascend. PR Manager Matt Rosenberg explained that just as Wix was founded with the aim of “demystifying and democratizing how you get online,” Ascend has a similar mission: “You don’t have to be a developer and
Chris Helgren / Reuters Safety is a major concern when it comes to autonomous vehicles, for both the people they’re transporting as well as those who are nearby. And it’s not yet clear how or even if self-driving cars will communicate with the people around them. But Lyft has just been granted a patent that
In a disappointing year for female-founded startups — at least those looking to raise venture capital — The Riveter not only closed its first institutional funding round, but it’s today announcing a $15 million Series A funding, bringing its total backing to $20.5 million. The Seattle-based co-working startup, led by co-founder and chief executive Amy Nelson
Internet users are already being tracked to death, with ads that follow us around, search histories that are collected and stored, emails that report back to senders when they’ve been read, websites that know where you scrolled and what you clicked, and much more. So naturally, the growing podcast industry wanted to find a way
Mark Stone/University of Washington Farmers can use drones to monitor their fields, but they have their limits when they can rarely fly for more than 20 to 30 minutes at a time. University of Washington researchers might have a smarter way: recruit some insect friends. They’ve developed sensor backpacks that are light enough (about 0.0035
Best Deals of the DayThe best deals from around the web, updated daily. We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today. Tuesday’s Best Deals: MacBook, Instant Pot, Boogie Board, and More On-sale MacBooks, Jabra wireless earbuds, and a KitchenAid stand mixer and
When Dell voted to buy back the VMware tracking stock and go public again this morning, you had to be wondering what exactly the strategy was behind these moves. While it’s clearly about gaining financial flexibility, the $67 billion EMC deal has always been about setting the company up for a hybrid and private cloud
There’s lots of research going into tiny drones, but one of the many hard parts is keeping them in the air for any real amount of time. Why not hitch a ride on something that already flies all day? That’s the idea behind this project that equips bumble bees with sensor-filled backpacks that charge wirelessly
We are deep in what may be the most stressful time of the year—and that’s for people who like the holidays. The travel, the expense, the family dynamics: end of the year celebrations can make a Grinch out of anyone. Here’s how you can get into the holiday spirit without being taught a lesson by
The Android faithful will know that Andrew Bell’s Dead Zebra has long made various Android vinyl figures. They look like businessmen, skeletons, astronauts, and all kinds of neat stuff. Never before has there been a holiday ornament version, though. Dead Zebra will sell you a special edition Android mini ornament tomorrow (December 12). The ornament Android comes
Android Police often does picks for our top smartphones of any given year – and you can those phones right here in our 2018 “Most Wanted” article. But this year, we’ve decided to single out one device for attention in particular. The smartphone we thought did most to change the game. To go above and
Photo: Claire Lower In the case of the hard-boiled egg, the yolk provides all of the flavor. Though it is a reliable and easily accessible source of protein, the white is aggressively bland, and no fun at all without seasoning. Salt (obviously) works well, but if you wish to outright infuse the white of an
Uber has reportedly picked Morgan Stanley to lead its upcoming initial public offering, news of which became public last week when the ride-hailing giant filed confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO expected in the first quarter of 2019. Uber’s choice, first reported by Bloomberg, comes after a months-long bidding war, of sorts,
Image: Pexels Krispy Kreme is making it a little easier to spread the holiday cheer around your office tomorrow, by offering a dozen of its original glazed doughnuts for just a buck. Wednesday is Krispy Kreme’s annual ‘Day of the Dozens.” To celebrate 12/12 (get it?), the company is offering a dozen doughnuts for a
Image: Courtesy of the Podglomerate As a parent raising a kid in The Time of the Screens, I am often trying to strike that balance between allowing him to explore age-appropriate technology while also determining how much is too much. Just last night, as we were leaving my son’s karate class, he began complaining that
If you’re the proud owner of a OnePlus 6 or 6T, you have a new option for dressing up your phone. Moment, the company known for putting out some pretty nifty add-on lenses, is expanding its line of Photo Cases to support the pair of community favorites. The OnePlus 6 case is available for order
We were promised jetpacks, but let’s be honest, they’re just plain unsafe. So a nice drone ride is probably all we should reasonably expect. Lift Aircraft is the latest to make a play for the passenger multirotor market, theoretical as it is, and its craft is a sleek little thing with some interesting design choices
Image: rawpixel on Unsplash Money mistakes are a dime a dozen. Except, you know, they end up costing us a bit more than that. To prevent those costly financial blunders, we asked some financial advisors and professionals what clients tend to get wrong—and you should do differently going into 2019. Advertisement Think More Critically About
Apparently, a lot of people realize at the last minute that they don’t have either beer, wine or liquor in their home when they need it. It’s certainly the most obvious explanation for a sizable new round of funding into Drizly, a six-year-old, Boston-based on-demand delivery app for alcohol that works with roughly 1,000 brick-and-mortar
Over the last year or so, wireless providers all over the world have put plans in motion to begin phased rollouts of the next-generation of wireless connectivity known as 5G. The technology, offers vast gains in throughput, data latency, and capacity compared to current wireless networks. It is expected to finally unleash the true potential
Google CEO Sundar Pichai admitted today that YouTube needs to do better in dealing with conspiracy content on its site that can lead to real world violence. During his testimony on Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee, the exec was questioned on how YouTube handles extremist content which promote conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and, more recently,
At the heart of the lightweight augmented reality glasses that you’ve been promised is a display engine that a handful of tech companies are racing to improve. WaveOptics is one such startup looking to expand the capabilities and shrink the form factor of waveguide displays. The U.K.-based company has just raised $26 million in what
What’s your favorite mental hack? How do you trick your dumb human brain into doing its job right? Hacker News, a forum for people too nerdy for Reddit, traded their favorite tricks in a thread started by simonswords82. Here are the best. Simon names a few tricks used by the chairman of their corporate board.
No one has any trouble tracking their steps today. But how can you make sure people know you’re doing it? Ostentatiously checking your phone or watch every five minutes is a pain. What if I told you there was a shoe with a step-tracking computer sticking out of it where everyone could see? It’s a
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa just finished in Lagos, Nigeria, where 15 companies took the stage for the chance of winning the $25,000 equity-free grand prize, a trip for two to TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 and the coveted title of “Africa’s Favorite Startup.” The winner of the event was M-SCAN from Uganda, which develops portable
It’s an ad duoply battle. Facebook is starting to test search ads in its search bar and Marketplace, directly competing with Google’s AdWords. Facebook first tried Sponsored Results back in 2012 but eventually shut down the product. Now it’s going to let a small set of automotive, retail, and ecommerce industry advertisers show users in
Videos! They’re like articles that come alive. Everyone loves ‘em, and we made a whole bunch this year. These are our best videos from 2018. What to Do if You’re Too High Are you totally freaking out right now? Well then here’s the best advice on how to come down from a wicked trip. Advertisement
Today, upon logging onto Slack, I was greeted with a horror story. Last night, our dear managing editor, Virginia, was making a lentil soup recipe from [redacted], only to find it called for a paltry 1/4 teaspoon of salt. “Reader, it was bland,” she told us, to which A.A. Newton replied “I’m going to scream,”
Amazon has sacked workers it believes had been misusing internal data on high-selling products, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. Amazon reportedly believed the staff, in India, China and the US, had abused their access to an internal database. And some USB ports on desktop computers had since been disabled so no further data could
Let’s assume that you are very good at what you do. You have a lot of clients, you’re in demand, and your skill set allows you to make a good living. In fact, you might be so good that attracting clients and making money isn’t even that much of a big deal. When someone comes
How do other dating apps compete with Tinder? By further distancing themselves from Tinder’s “hot-or-not” user interface design to focus on differentiating features — like conversation starters, commenting and richer profiles. Today, another anti-Tinder app is doing the same. On the heels of its $12 million Series B announced earlier this year, the oddly named
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open-source home of projects like Kubernetes and Vitess, today announced that its technical committee has voted to bring a new project on board. That project is etcd, the distributed key-value store that was first developed by CoreOS (now owned by Red Hat, which in turn will soon be
French startup Lydia announced a partnership with Banque Casino today for small credit lines. Starting tomorrow, Lydia users in France will be able to borrow as much as €1,000 in just a few seconds. While Lydia started as a peer-to-peer money transferring app, fintech startups always end up offering credit at some point. It’s hard
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Google chief Sundar Pichai has faced accusations of political bias from US politicians. Mr Pichai was being quizzed by members of the House Judiciary Committee about the way his tech firm runs it business. Google was accused of having “programmed” bias against conservative views into its algorithms. Mr
Retailers have to get with the times if they want to compete in the online marketplace. That means evolving to meet customer needs, managing change, and matching the pace of modern consumers. Luckily, there’s a whole world of IoT opportunities available to retailers. There are options for customer engagement, process optimization, and internal audit tools
Every person has hard-to-shop-for people on his holiday gift list. Whether it’s a picky eater, an impulse shopper, or simply someone with very refined tastes, finding a gift can feel like an obligation, not a warm show of generosity. This is hardest, perhaps, with people who seem to have everything — especially when it comes
The government spent almost £100,000 on Facebook adverts promoting Theresa May’s Brexit deal before calling off a Commons vote on it, figures released by the US social media giant reveal. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn branded it a “waste of public money” in the House of Commons on Tuesday. The overall spend on social media adverts
[embedded content] Google CEO Sundar Pichai has managed to avoid the public political grillings that have come for tech leaders at Facebook and Twitter this year. But not today. Today he will be in front of the House Judiciary committee for a hearing entitled: Transparency & Accountability: Examining Google and its Data Collection, Use and
Dell just announced that it has agreed to buy back the VMware tracking stock from the EMC acquisition. The company confirmed the buy-back price of $120 per share for a total of $23.9 billion. With today’s move, Dell will return to being publicly traded. Sixty-one percent of shareholders voted in favor of the deal. It’s unclear
Pitching app developers with a new way to convert app browsers into actual customers, AppOnboard has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, the company said. Based in Los Angeles, AppOnboard sees itself as one of a new breed of LA startup that’s steeping itself in the local ecosystem and trying to be
Chatbots and other AI-based tools have firmly found footing in the world of customer service, used either to augment or completely replace the role of a human responding to questions and complaints, or (sometimes, annoyingly, at the same time as the previous two functions) sell more products to users. Today, an Israeli startup called TechSee
Three dimensional modeling used to be hard. It used to require something at least as big as the Xbox Kinect to get really high quality scans you needed high-powered laser sensor systems. Now all you need is your phone and Capture. Capture is a proof-of-concept for a company called Standard Cyborg led by Jeff Huber
“The screen is becoming the most important place in the world,” says InVision CEO and founder Clark Valberg. In fact, it’s hard to get through a conversation with him without hearing it. And, considering that his company has grown to $100 million in annual recurring revenue, he has reason to believe his own affirmation. InVision,
In the latest instalment of VC revolving doors, Carolina Brochado, a Partner at European venture capital firm Atomico, is joining Softbank’s Vision Fund. According to sources, Brochado informed Atomico portfolio companies earlier this week that she was joining Softbank where she’ll be based at the mega-fund‘s London office. Noteworthy, Brochado came to prominence in the
Apple’s mobile payment technology has finally launched in Germany, some four years after it debuted in the U.S. On its newly launched Apple Pay website for Germany, Apple lists partner banks and credit card companies at launch, with customers from the likes of Deutsche Bank, O2 Banking, N26, Comdirect, HypoVerensbank, Bunq and Boon able to tap
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Many customers who experience fixed broadband or landline loss will soon automatically receive compensation. The £8-per-day deal follows a new agreement between Openreach and five of the UK’s internet service providers. It will apply only when the fault takes longer than two days to fix. If an engineer does not arrive on schedule, or cancels
First it was the notch, now the hole-punch has emerged as the latest tech for concealing selfie cameras whilst keeping our smartphones as free of bezel as possible to maximize the screen space. This week, Samsung and Huawei both unveiled new phones that dispense with the iconic ‘notch’ — pioneered by Apple but popularized by everyone —
French VC firm Hardware Club just announced the final closing of its first fund. The firm will invest $50 million in total in hardware startups (as the name suggests). Hardware Club first started as a community of hardware startups sharing knowledge, tips and contacts in the hardware community. If you’re launching a hardware product, chances
French startup Molotov is slowly becoming the leading platform to stream TV in France. With a single account, you can watch TV on your phone, tablet, computer and set-top box. The company is about to release a VR app that lets you watch TV using a virtual reality headset — but there’s a twist. The
Apple has filed an appeal to overturn a court decision that could ban iPhone sales in China, the company said on Monday, adding that all of its models remain available in its third-largest market. The American giant is locked in a legal battle in the world’s biggest smartphone market. On Monday, Qualcomm announced that a
Follow Get job updates from Ubiq. By selecting Follow, you agree to get updated information and new jobs for this company by email. You can cancel alerts at anytime. Ubiq introduces a new way of interacting with projectors and TVs in your meeting rooms. Get rid of cables and switch boxes and start pres…
Google Fit, Google’ s activity tracking app for Android, is getting a small but meaningful update today that adds a few new features that’ll likely make its regular users quite happy. Some are pretty basic, like the launch of a Fit widget for your Android home screen, while others introduce new features like a breathing
As traditional broadcasting channels lose ground to emerging competitors, all signs point to over the top services as the future of streaming television. The $46.5 billion in revenue that OTT channels earned over the course of 2017 is projected to grow to $83.4 billion by 2022, and OTT growth is second only to virtual reality in the media industry. Of
If your luck is anything like mine, as soon as you jump on an important call, someone decides it’s a great time to blow some leaves off the sidewalk outside your window. 2Hz’s Krisp is a new desktop app that uses machine learning to subtract background noise like that, or crowds, or even crying kids
It’s not true that everyone gets their news from Facebook and Twitter. But it is now true that more U.S. adults get their news from social media than from print newspapers. According to a new report from Pew Research Center out today, social media has for the first time surpassed newspapers as a preferred source
Voyager 2, the multi-planetary exploratory probe launched in 1977, has finally entered interstellar space, some six years after its twin, Voyager 1, did the same. It’s now about 11 billion miles from Earth, the second-farthest-out human-made object in space. Interstellar space starts where the sun’s “heliosphere” ends — the big ball of radiation and plasma
You’d think Facebook would be faster at copying itself. Five years after Facebook Messenger took a cue from WhatsApp and Voxer to launch voice messaging, and four months after TechCrunch reported Instagram was testing its own walkie talkie feature, voice messaging is rolling out globally on Instagram Direct today. Users can hold down the microphone
API platform Kong, which you may remember under its previous name of Mashape, is launching its new Kong Cloud service today. Kong Cloud is the company’s fully managed platform for securing, connecting and orchestrating APIs. Enterprises can deploy it to virtually any major cloud platform, including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, and Kong will handle
Trello, the organization tool owned by Atlassian, announced an acquisition of its very own this morning when it bought Butler, an plug-in for an undisclosed amount. What Butler brings to Trello is the power of automation, stringing together a bunch of commands to make something complex happen automatically. As Trello’s Michael Pryor pointed out in
The emergence of latest technology and use of remote devices in every field of life has changed how businesses tend to their marketing needs. Instead of printing an advertisement in newspaper, business marketers are more likely to utilize social media marketing. This is as a direct result of people, customer’s and clients that reach out
If the last few years has seen a growing consensus that the tech industry has a diversity and inclusion problem, then what is clearly needed next are practical solutions. While most people agree that building a diverse and inclusive company culture is easier to achieve the earlier you set out to do so, for startups
I’m heading back to Europe to run a pitch-off in Wroclaw and Warsaw, Poland. Are you ready? The Wroclaw event, called In-Ference, is happening on December 17 and you can submit to pitch here. The team will notify you if you have been chosen. The winner will receive a table at TC Disrupt in San Francisco.
Where there is discovery in an app, there is paid discovery. Google helped you choose between links, then sold ads that promote a few. Facebook helped you choose between pieces of content, then sold ads that promote a few. And eventually, as Uber helps you choose between restaurants, it will sell ads that promote a
Verve, the word-of-mouth selling platform, has acquired Campus Vacations, a provider of “unforgettable” travel experiences to students across North America. The thinking behind the acquisition is to increase Verve’s market share and competitive positioning in the North America and Canada markets. Specifically, Verse says it will provide the company with an entrance into the ski
Google is increasing its efforts in India after it snapped up the team behind popular transportation app ‘Where is my Train.’ The app claims 10 million registered users and, as the name suggests, it helps commuters track arrivals and departures as well as buying seats. That’s no small job given that India is estimated to operate
Waggel, a new ‘insurtech’ startup in the U.K., is officially launching today to offer what it describes as “fully digital” pet insurance. Founded by Andrew Leal, and Ross Fretten (a contestant of The Apprentice 2017), the company wants to offer more transparent cover for your pet, where you’ll know exactly how much you’re paying and
Permutive is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead our JavaScript SDK, which is currently written in TypeScript. It connects 100’s of millions of users to our platform and sends billions of events a day. The problem we’re trying to solve We believe that computing at the edge represents a sea change in the
China’s largest music streaming service has had a whirlwind year. With 800 million monthly users across multiple apps and a profitable business, Tencent Music Entertainment is gearing up for one of this year’s most anticipated initial public offerings in the US. But the firm has landed in hot water in the months leading up to
South Korea has got its third unicorn startup after Viva Republica, the company beyond popular payment app Toss, announced it has raised an $80 million round at a valuation of $1.2 billion. This new round is led by U.S. firms Kleiner Perkins and Ribbit Capital, both of which cut their first checks for Korea with this
Find a great gift idea with these books that are only available, or only really work, in physical dead-tree form, from a lavishly illustrated history of Dungeons and Dragons to the creativity-inspiring Wonderbook. Watch the last EP of CNET Book Club: The future of VR with Jaron Lanier, and why we should we all quit
Our Creative Team functions as an in-house agency. We are experts in Product Design, Social Media, Marketing and Packaging Design that bring the Faire brand to life, from sketches to product launch. About Faire Faire is an innovative online marketplace that uses machine learning to match local retailers with the makers of products that uniquely
Other Google Assistant smart displays look better or sound better — and LG’s costs more, for some reason. Check out the First Look from CES 2018: Lenovo Smart Display: A Google Home with a touchscreen https://youtu.be/8yjyS43NfFA Subscribe to CNET: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV CNET playlists: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV/playlists Download the new CNET app: https://cnet.app.link/GWuXq8ExzG Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnet Follow
Jeff and Alfred sit down for a gameplay session of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate while discussing what’s new with the game. Alfred breaks down Super Smash Brothers Ultimate: https://youtu.be/h9RxD1PkVP8 Subscribe to CNET: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV CNET playlists: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV/playlists Download the new CNET app: https://cnet.app.link/GWuXq8ExzG Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnet Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/cnet Follow us on
Inside China’s audacious global propaganda campaign The long read Inside China’s audacious global propaganda campaign Beijing is buying up media outlets and training scores of foreign journalists to ‘tell China’s story well’ – as part of a worldwide propaganda campaign of astonishing scope and ambition. By Louisa Lim and Julia Bergin As they sifted through
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Newly released court documents show that Monsanto has been accused of using third-parties to hire an army of internet trolls to post positive comments on websites and social media about Monsanto, its chemicals and GMOs, and downplay the potential safety risks surrounding the company’s popular glyphosate herbicide. The unsealed court documents are from the ongoing Monsanto
When the hell did building a house become so complicated? Don’t let the folks on HGTV fool you. The process of building a home nowadays is incredibly painful. Just applying for the necessary permits can be a soul-crushing undertaking that’ll have you running around the city, filling out useless forms, and waiting in motionless lines
An encampment of homeless people outside Minneapolis, which just passed an ambitious zoning plan aimed at building more affordable housing throughout the city. Jim Mone/AP The ambitious Minneapolis 2040 plan will encourage more dense housing development in single-family neighborhoods. On Friday, the Minneapolis City Council voted to support a comprehensive plan promising sweeping changes to
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Image: Pexels Whenever I fly, I always end up dialing the brightness down on my laptop to its lowest possible setting. In some cases, I’m straining my eyes to be able to see what’s on the screen, but it’s worth it for the precious few extra minutes of battery life I might get while I’m
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Now that you’ve watched the trailer for Avengers: Endgame about a million times, let’s take a minute to look forward to Phase 4 of the MCU — rumors suggest Marvel is fast-tracking Asian superhero Shang-Chi for his own stand-alone film, but many movie fans may not know who he is. Let’s break it down and
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Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images Burger King is running an interesting deal on its iconic Whopper sandwich right now. You can get one for just a penny — provided you’re willing to order it from McDonald’s. At first glance, this sounds like something that’s going to be obnoxious to execute and not really worth it, but
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Two days after Lyft submitted paperwork to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an early 2019 initial public offering, Uber has done the same, per The Wall Street Journal. The company filed confidentially for an IPO on Friday, marking the beginning of a race for the two ride-hailing giants to the stock markets. Uber’s most
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Photo: Claire Lower Service journalism is all about writing for other people, but sometimes I use this platform of mine to write 250-to-1,000-word jokes to myself. This is one of those times. I don’t know if you are up on all the dank memes of 2018, but none have tickled my boobs quite like “They
Photo: Senny Golyshkin (Reshot) I’m a casual yoga-er, but when I meet people who are serious about yoga, they’re always talking about their “practice.” Basically, if you’re really into it, you don’t need to wait for a convenient class or a new episode from your favorite YouTube yoga channel. You work on what you want,
Landing that first job is a major milestone for most teens. Income means they can upgrade their phone, buy those ridiculously expensive sneakers they’ve been pining over or start piling up cash for their first car. Or … save for retirement? As soon as kids start earning an income—whether it be from the local fast-food
Image: Amazon Alexa has long been able to respond to requests for specific music genres, moods, and playlists. Now, she can also help you curate and personalize said playlists and remember your preferences for the future. Amazon is launching new features for Amazon Music users that allow for more natural back-and-forth conversations with Alexa. Where
Image: Derick Anies on Unsplash There’s no shortage of budgeting apps out there, but sometimes, rather than futzing with categories, charts, graphs and daily alerts that you’re over a pre-set budget or have “irregular spending” in a certain category (ahem, Mint), you just want something simple to track the money you’re spending. DollarBird fills this
Leica’s pricey – but sexy – CL camera is the closest thing you can get to an original portable luxury shooter without spending more than a used Toyota Corolla. The CL, which launched last year, is essentially a pared down M series camera that has gotten rave reviews over the past year. Now, in time
It’s difficult to overstate the importance of the $74,800 2019 Audi E-Tron. As the company’s first full-production modern EV, it’d be easy to look on it as something of an experiment. That, however, would be wrong. In reality, the new E-Tron is the tip of the spear — a $16 billion dollar spear targeted squarely
There have been a lot spoken and written about Big Data over the years. In fact, many believe things will get a lot better in every field of life with more advancement in Big Data. However, experts are trying to find many effective ways to manage Big Data. What is Big Data? Big data is
The zzasteroid Bennu could hold the secrets to how our solar system was formed (if it doesn’t smash into Earth and kill us all). Claire Reilly takes a look at the seven year mission to investigate Earth’s second biggest space threat. If you enjoyed this video then watch last weeks EP: Inside NASA’s InSight landing
Every year, predictions about how consumers will spend their money crop up. Covering the most popular toys and the most wanted tech gadgets, these lists tend to push people toward a herd mentality rather than a thoughtful examination of their values at a crucial time of year. PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that consumers will spend $1,250 each
There are too many iPhones. Or, maybe there’s just one new iPhone, in several step-up flavors. The iPhone XS and XS Max, along with the iPhone XR, are Apple’s three new 2018 iPhones. But looking back on them now, in December, they have a lot more in common than you might think. Same new processors,
Pivotal has always been about making open source tools for enterprise developers, but surprisingly up until now the arsenal has lacked a serverless component. That changed today with the alpha launch of Pivotal Function Service. “Pivotal Function Service is a Kubernetes-based, multi-cloud function service. It’s part of the broader Pivotal vision of offering you a
[embedded content] The year is 1940. Through the use of arcane atomic technologies, the Axis have brought back modern technology from the year 2018. Their main prize? This amazing Enigma Pocket Watch. This tiny watch, created by a maker calling himself asciimation, uses an Arduino Pro Micro and a small OLED screen to recreate the
IBM announced last night that it is selling the final components from its 1995 acquisition of Lotus to Indian firm HCL for $1.8 billion. IBM paid $3.5 billion for Lotus back in the day. The big pieces here are Lotus Notes, Domino and Portal. These were a big part of IBM’s enterprise business for a long
The funkadelic video game from the ’90s is getting a refresh in 2019, blending iconic characters and game play with funky fresh new elements and effects. Subscribe to CNET: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV CNET playlists: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV/playlists Download the new CNET app: https://cnet.app.link/GWuXq8ExzG Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnet Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/cnet Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/2icCYYm
We find out what it’s really like to live the Instagram ‘vanlife’ dream by taking a 2018 VW California Ocean camper van 2,600 miles across some of the most stunning areas of Europe. If you liked this video then you might like: This $1.7M RV is the ultimate in luxury road tripping https://youtu.be/2IBPJL_Xht0 Subscribe to
Editors’ note, Dec. 7: Currently in the US, Best Buy sells the Motorola Moto G6 unlocked for just $200 if you activate it on a carrier at the time of purchase. Amazon sells a Prime Exclusive version of the Moto G6 for $240. Both of these come with 32GB of storage and 3GB of RAM. The
We bid farewell to all the tech products that failed, folded and fizzled out of existence this year. (And brace ourselves for tech that is doomed in 2019.) Subscribe to CNET: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV CNET playlists: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV/playlists Download the new CNET app: https://cnet.app.link/GWuXq8ExzG Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnet Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/cnet Follow us on Instagram:
Search engine optimization is a familiar term in the digital marketing world. Most business owners know the main benefits of SEO. But not all businesses know how to maximize the use of SEO to their advantage. Such companies will require help and assistance from SEO companies in the market. As a startup, it is important
TV Guide is taking over Nope, Sorry this week. Jeff debates Senior Editor Sadie Gennis over Netflix overkill, whether or not cable is a thing worth having and, most importantly, which Hollywood Chris is the best Chris. Check out our episode about Detective Pikachu vs. Toy Story 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ2BkK3fzMk And last week’s episode about whether
Good morning from CNET NY Studios while we record the daily news-bite podcast: The 3:59. Hangout while we cover a multitude of stories from around the tech world and then the CNET staff will take your questions and comments in the chat. Watch more episodes of 3:59 on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list… Livestream: https://livestream.com/cnet/events/59… Periscope: https://www.pscp.tv/CNET/ Twitch:
Want to run your own home shopping network? Facebook is now testing a Live video feature for merchants that lets them demo and describe their items for viewers. Customers can screenshot something they want to buy and use Messenger to send it to the seller, who can then request payment right through the chat app.
In late September, representatives from the biggest tech companies testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. At almost the same time, Facebook announced that a massive data breach had affected almost 50 million users. This odd fluke of timing illustrates the perilous nature of data protection right now. Because of data breaches
How does the new EKG feature on the Apple Watch work, and what can it tell you about your heart? Subscribe to CNET: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV CNET playlists: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV/playlists Download the new CNET app: https://cnet.app.link/GWuXq8ExzG Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnet Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/cnet Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/2icCYYm
Even before I opened the box, the LG Xboom AI WK9 Smart Display had a lot going against it. It’s late to the game — Lenovo, JBL and more recently, Google already have similar smart displays with Google Assistant built in. It’s expensive — $300 as opposed to $150 for the Google Home Hub ($129
An exclusive look at Corning’s new ultrathin bendable glass that could make it onto the next generation of foldable devices. Watch our iPhone XR drop test: How tough is the glass? https://youtu.be/FS86ljhJTko Foldable phones of the future could use this super thin bendable glass: https://cnet.co/2rmqsId Subscribe to CNET: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV CNET playlists: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV/playlists Download the new
The Pixel’s multitasking problems may be all over. Meanwhile, Uber and Lyft get competition thanks to Waymo’s new ride-hailing service. All that, the city of the future, your comments, and more in this episode of Alphabet City! Subscribe to CNET: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV CNET playlists: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV/playlists Download the new CNET app: https://cnet.app.link/GWuXq8ExzG Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnet
Duet Display is an app that lets you turn your iPad into a second Mac monitor. And the team behind it just released a major update that makes it much more efficient — it consumes less CPU resources and is now recognized as a true external display. If you’ve used Duet Display over the past
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX set two records this week with its latest Falcon 9 launch. Also: How Virginia Tech scientists gave us Jedi-like powers, and a self-driving hotel room that comes to you. Watch last weeks EP of WTF: https://youtu.be/RfAI8RWSh7E Subscribe to CNET: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV CNET playlists: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV/playlists Download the new CNET app: https://cnet.app.link/GWuXq8ExzG Like us on
A UK parliamentary committee has published the cache of Facebook documents it dramatically seized last week. The documents were obtained by a legal discovery process by a startup that’s suing the social network in a California court in a case related to Facebook changing data access permissions back in 2014/15. The court had sealed the documents
Deciding which AV receiver to buy is about choosing one set of features over another. Among units I’ve tested in the $400 range, this Onkyo is the one to choose for the sole reason that it has the best features. Hang on, shouldn’t it be about sound quality first? Sure, but all three midrange Dolby
Smart garage door controllers make getting out the door to work or coming home at the end of the day safer and more seamless. With features like automatic opening and closing, scheduling, user management and voice commands, your garage can be as automated as the rest of your smart home. The Tailwind iQ3 delivers reliable
Facebook will now freely allow developers to build competitors to its features upon its own platform. Today Facebook announced it will drop Platform Policy section 4.1 which stipulates “Add something unique to the community. Don’t replicate core functionality that Facebook already provides.” Facebook had previously enforced that policy selectively to hurt competitors that had used its
This game is even better than I imagined, but I don’t need this stress in my life. Subscribe to CNET: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV CNET playlists: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV/playlists Download the new CNET app: https://cnet.app.link/GWuXq8ExzG Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnet Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/cnet Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/2icCYYm
As the fight against climate change heats up, Cove.Tool is looking to help tackle carbon emissions one building at a time. The Atlanta-based startup provides an automated big-data platform that helps architects, engineers and contractors identify the most cost-effective ways to make buildings compliant with energy efficiency requirements. After raising an initial round earlier this
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