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An account of the rise and untimely death of Vine and HQ Trivia cofounder Colin Kroll, based on interviews with and documents from friends, police, and others — Self-taught coder Colin Kroll shot to startup fame, allowing him to live life in a fast lane — Colin Kroll, a college dropout …
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Seattle startup Xnor unveils a 100% solar-powered prototype AI camera with 320x320 resolution, an FPGA chip, and an object recognition algorithm loaded on board — Stick it in sunlight and it can transmit data pretty much indefinitely — A big trend in AI is the transition from cloud to edge computing.
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A look at the debate surrounding the economics of popular open source software like OpenSSL, as an ever-increasing workload on maintainers risks causing burnout — A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development. — It was just before midnight on New Years Eve … | Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post: |
Xuexi Qiangguo, a propaganda app with Snapchat-like messaging features developed by China's Communist Party, becomes top free app on Apple's App Store in China — - Released by China's Communist Party, the app is helping cadres learn more about its political doctrine
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Leaked images of the V50 ThinQ, LG's first 5G phone, show similar design to V40 with triple camera system and rear fingerprint sensor, likely launch on Feb. 24 — We've known for a while that LG would reveal a 5G phone in early 2019, just like every other OEM apparently.
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| Katishi Maake / Washington Business Journal: |
Virginia-based real estate data and analytics company Remine has closed $30M Series A led by Stripes Group, bringing its total raised to $48M — Fairfax-based real estate data and analytics company Remine has closed a $30 million Series A funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $48 million.
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| Laura Hautala / CNET: |
Report: 17K Android apps, some with 100M+ installs, collect info that can be used to create a permanent record of user's activity on the device for ad targeting — Some apps may track your activity over time, even when you tell them to forget the past. And there's nothing you can do about it.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
DJI unveils a new 3D geofencing system that will prevent the company's drones from flying too close to major airports in the UK and 32 European countries — The new restrictions form a no-fly zone in the shape of a 3D bow tie — A three-dimensional “bow tie” geofence will soon prevent DJI's drones …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Elroy Air, a maker of delivery drones that can carry up to 500 lbs, raises $9.2M in seed funding from new and existing investors Catapult, Precursor, and others — The dozens of companies vying for a foothold in the $11.2 billion drone industry — and by extension the $400 million same … | Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Records obtained via FOIA requests and interviews with local officials reveal the unusual lengths Google goes to keep its data center construction plans secret — Last May, officials in Midlothian, Tex., a city near Dallas, approved more than $10 million in tax breaks for a huge …
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Vicarious Surgical, which is building minimally invasive surgical tech that combines VR with miniature robots, has closed $10M round led by Gates Frontiers Fund — In an operating room in rural Idaho, doctors prep a patient for surgery. They make a tiny, thumb-sized incision into the patient …
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Kids YouTube star Blippi on how he abused DMCA takedown requests to keep Harlem Shake Poop, an embarrassing viral video he starred in 2013, hidden on the web — Someone claiming to represent Blippi filed DMCA copyright takedown requests to Google in order to get an embarrassing viral video hidden.
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