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| David Pierce / Wall Street Journal: |
Hands-on with AR navigation on Google Maps that the company is testing with Local Guides, a group of power users helping Google improve its Maps experience — The coming Google Maps augmented-reality navigation feature will look through your phone's camera to figure out where you are and show you where you are going.
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Tweets: @pierce, @bakergavin, @rachel_inman, @wsj, and @neil_mehta
| Michel Rose / Reuters: |
Paris sues Airbnb for allegedly posting 1,000 illegal rental listings; a French law, passed in 2018, allows fines of up to €12,500 per illegal posting — PARIS (Reuters) - The City of Paris is suing Airbnb for publishing 1,000 illegal rentals adverts, which could cost the American rental website …
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Silicon Republic, The Irish Times, Engadget, DailySabah, Geek News Central, and Mashable. Tweets: @zschneeweiss
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
US Army starts deploying FLIR's Black Hornet nano-drones that measure 6.6" across, weigh less than 33 grams, and provide HD photos and live video for soldiers — Black Hornets are nano-drones able to perform reconnaissance during combat operations. — The US Army aims to give almost … | Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
VCs raised $55B in 2018, similar to what was raised in 1999, but most of the increased funding went into growth rounds, which are effectively private IPOs — I've heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals.
Tweets: @sgblank, @trengriffin, @msuster, @adamnash, and @eliefinegold
| Hayden Dingman / PCWorld: |
Preview of an MMORPG called New World, slated to be Amazon's first game, five years after it said it wanted to start making them — Okay, it's technically Amazon's second game, but the company canceled its first game, Breakaway, so... Amazon's foray into the games industry is proof nobody can shortcut their way to a hit.
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| Tim O'Reilly / Quartz: |
Hoffman and Yeh's “Blitzscaling” offers practical advice for startups but presents a lot of revisionist history and ignores the perils of VC-fueled hypergrowth — The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. — Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with Zynga's CEO on the once-beleaguered game company's turnaround, as key acquisitions and the shift to mobile overcome declining Facebook and web games — Zynga went public in 2011 and it grew quickly on the strength of social games like FarmVille. But it hit the skids in 2013, and it began going downhill.| Justin Rohrlich / Quartz: |
Automatic license plate readers, once limited to law enforcement, are now being used by private citizens, raising fears of abuse and new legal, ethical issues — The surveillance state is no longer limited to the state. — For years, police departments have been tracking people's cars …
Tweets: @joegiacalone and @talkpoverty
| Jacob Ward / NBC News: |
Personal data harvested at scale and exploited via microtargeting threatens people's autonomy, a point missing from most mainstream discussions on privacy — While it's creepy to imagine companies are listening in to your conversations, it's perhaps more creepy that they can predict …
Tweets: @martintisne, @grady_booch, @futurewiseau, and @byjacobward
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Overview of how Facebook's open-source projects, including Cassandra, GraphQL, the Open Compute initiative, PyTorch, and React, have changed computing — OVER THE PAST 15 years, Facebook has changed the way we keep in touch with friends, how we feud with family members, how we think about privacy …
Tweets: @wired
| Albany Times Union: |
IBM and SUNY Polytechnic Institute announce agreement to create AI Hardware Center, part of a larger commitment by IBM to invest $2B in NY state over 5 years — ESD would provide $300 million grant; IBM will spend $2 billion over five years — ALBANY — IBM and SUNY Polytechnic Institute … | Peter Rubin / Wired: |
How chains like Cinemark and AMC are testing high-end, immersive multiplayer VR experiences in select movie theaters — ONCE UPON A time, the company with the biggest screens in the world made a big bet on virtual reality. IMAX opened seven VR centers in movie theaters around the globe …
Tweets: @provenself, @wired, and @wired
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