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SafeAI raises $5M to develop and deploy autonomy for mining and construction vehicles 13 hours ago – Startup SafeAI, powered by a founding talent team with experience across Apple, Ford and Caterpillar, is emerging from stealth today with a $5 million funding announcement. The company’s focus is on autonomous vehicle technology, designed and built specifically for heavy equipment used in the min...
House lawmakers demand end to warrantless collection of Americans’ data 13 hours ago – Two House lawmakers are pushing an amendment that would effectively defund a massive data collection program run by the National Security Agency unless the government promises to not intentionally collect data of Americans. The bipartisan amendment — just 15 lines in length — would compel the gov...
Google now lets you flag deceptive sites with a new Chrome extension 13 hours ago – Google today launched a new Chrome extension that allows you to flag suspicious sites for inclusion in the company’s Safe Browsing index, which is used by Chrome and a number of third-party browsers. In addition, Google is also launching a new warning in Chrome that puts up a roadblock before you...
An open letter to Google and Apple: Stop hindering Iranian entrepreneurs 10 hours ago – Take away my toolbox and ask me to be a carpenter. This is what Google and Apple are asking of Iran’s budding entrepreneurship sector by barring access to essential platforms and software.
Atlassian’s co-CEO Scott Farquhar will join us at TC Sessions: Enterprise 11 hours ago – Few companies have changed the way developers work as profoundly as Atlassian. Its tools like Jira and Confluence are ubiquitous, and over the course of the last few years, the company has started to adapt many of them for wider enterprise usage outside of developer teams. To talk about Atlassian...
Careteam aims to unite patients and healthcare providers with a platform approach 11 hours ago – How best to untangle the Gordian knot that is navigating your own healthcare? It’s a tricky question, and one that seems to have become only more complicated as technology improves, in many regards — systems don’t necessarily speak to one another, and it’s still hard for an ordinary patient witho...
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Microsoft To-Do takes another step towards replacing Wunderlist with Mac release a day ago – Microsoft To-Do is now available for Mac. The to-do list app is free on the Mac App Store, and its release means that Mac users will no longer have to rely on the service’s web app to keep track of their daily tasks. It includes all the major features you’d expect, including the ability to sync t...
Panasonic Lumix S1 review: the mirrorless heavyweight 17 hours ago – Big on both price and performance Continue reading…
19 hours ago – TikTok users have been dueting with an apology video from one of the platform’s biggest creators in response to allegations of sexually inappropriate interactions with underage fans. Sebastian Kretzmann, a member of the popular creator collective Strawberry Milk Gang who’s known by fans as “Radic...
Would Facebook be better if we paid for it? 14 hours ago – Is the advertising model that allows our use of Facebook to be free actually the thing that’s wrong with Facebook? If we all just paid a subscription fee each month, would that solve some of the issues and concerns with privacy, data, and so on? Here is a lightly edited excerpt of Verge senior e...
16 hours ago – As Facebook unveiled its cryptocurrency project today, European officials quickly called for scrutiny of the plan, raising concerns over whether the project was sufficiently regulated. According to comments reported by Bloomberg, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Facebook’s cryptocurren...
T-Mobile and Sprint are reportedly nearing a deal with Dish to save their merger 11 hours ago – Dish is negotiating a deal to buy wireless spectrum and Boost Mobile from T-Mobile and Sprint, as the latter two companies look to finally receive approval for their huge, industry-reshaping merger. According to Bloomberg, Dish has emerged as the company most likely to purchase the assets that T-...
11 hours ago – Dame is suing New York’s public transit agency for refusing to run subway ads for its women-focused sex toys. The lawsuit, filed today, points out that New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has regularly approved ads focused on sexuality in recent years, including erectile disfunction ...
Internet giants must stay unbiased to keep their biggest legal shield, senator proposes 3 hours ago – On Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is expected to introduce legislation that would heavily modify section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, adding new restrictions to the broad immunity currently enjoyed by platform companies. Under Hawley’s “Ending Support for Internet Censorship Act,” c...