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A look at the Hype House “collab house”, a collective of 19 young influencers renting an LA mansion, whose TikTok group handle amassed 3M followers in ~10 days — The city is home to a land rush of “collab houses,” where the content creators are getting younger and younger.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Lenovo announces ThinkSmart View, a smart display for Microsoft Teams, available this month for $349 — The new personal business communications device makes it easier for mobile workers to conduct Microsoft Teams audio and video calls. — Lenovo on Friday announced the expansion …
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| Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
Google is ending its print-replica magazine service, launched in 2012 as the Play Magazines app, and is refunding payments to users — The venerable Egon Spangler once said, “print is dead.” The statement may have been premature, but today it feels a little more on point because Google …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Snap has acquired Ukraine-based computer vision startup AI Factory, which helped create the “Cameos” feature Snapchat is now testing, reportedly for ~$166M — After acquiring Ukraine startup Looksery in 2015 to supercharge animated selfie lenses in Snapchat …
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| Denise Grady / New York Times: |
Google says its AI model found breast cancer in screening mammograms with fewer false positives and fewer false negatives than human experts found — Computers that are trained to recognize patterns and interpret images may outperform humans at finding cancer on X-rays.
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| Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
Following US assassination of Iran's Soleimani, newly created Twitter and Instagram accounts are spreading many thousands of pro-Iranian hashtags and messages — The U.S. drone strike that killed Iran's top security and intelligence commander also triggered a wave of social media propaganda apparently meant … | Elise Reuter / MedCity News: |
One Medical, a concierge-like primary care startup which says its tech enables it to offer services for a $200 annual membership fee, files for an IPO — The concierge-like primary care startup is valued at more than $1 billion, with backers including Google Ventures.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Apptopia: TikTok's in-app purchase revenue grew to $50M in Q4 2019, up from $20M in Q3, and was up 310% YoY — According to newly released third-party data, TikTok has reason to dance. — The famous, short-video application saw its in-app purchase revenue rise 310% on a year … | Zach Laidlaw / Android Police: |
APK teardown reveals Galaxy S11 camera features like Director's View, Pro Video, and Bokeh Effects, and super fast charging for Fold 2, which tops out at 45W — There's a certain thrill we feel when a photo of an unreleased device slides across our desks. It's new, mysterious, exciting …
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A look at the optimists behind the Y2K-era Cassandra Project and how they emphasized the importance of analog community building amid technological uncertainty — For millennials, Y2K felt like an apocalypse. Twenty years later, we're still anxious.
Tweets: @jwherrman
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Dell debuts a new Latitude 9510 laptop with built-in 5G, to launch March 26, and says a spring update to its Mobile Connect software will enable iOS mirroring — Ahead of next week's CES in Las Vegas, Dell today announced two PC updates that will improve its appeal to users of mobile devices …
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The Next Web, Bloomberg, Digital Trends, O'Grady's PowerPage, Mashable, Softpedia News, PR Newswire, LaptopMag, The Verge, The Mac Observer, TechSpot, Light Reading, Windows Central, WebProNews, BGR, Thurrott, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @seattletimes
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| Anna Escher / TechCrunch: |
Loft, a São Paulo-based real estate marketplace for Latin America, raises $175M Series C co-led by a16z and Vulcan Capital — Loft may have better product market fit in Brazil than Opendoor does in the U.S.. And now the São Paulo-based property tech company has growth funding to prove it.
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