Police dogs are trained to sniff out hidden electronics

Police dogs at the Connecticut State Police Department are trained to sniff out electronics. They can find anything with digital storage, such as cell phones, thumb drives, computers, and memory cards. The program started in 2012 to help investigators find digital evidence to cri … | Continue reading


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NYU Professor Scott Galloway: Walmart Could Acquire FedEx by 2021

FedEx has lost $25 billion in value since Amazon launched its delivery service — and Amazon has banned third-party sellers from using FedEx. | Continue reading


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Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it

Quotes from Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO and chairman. | Continue reading


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Hot startups that want to go public in 2020

Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management are slated to make some of the biggest returns in the 2020 IPO parade, according to CB Insights. | Continue reading


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San Francisco’s facial recognition ban made its employees’ iPhones illegal

The city banned local agencies from using gadgets equipped facial recognition technology in May, but problems with the ban quickly became apparent. | Continue reading


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Radioactive animals have taken over the abandoned Chernobyl exclusion zone

After the world’s worst nuclear accident, people abandoned the area around Chernobyl. In their absence, many of the animals are actually thriving. | Continue reading


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Imply raised $30M at $350M by Andreessen Horowitz

The Series B deal values Imply at $350 million, and is one of the earliest deals Andreessen's growth fund has ever led. | Continue reading


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Why Facebook created an AI bot that can beat humans at Hanabi

Facebook AI Research's achievement signals a jump in the capability of the technology to replicate the cognitive skills of humans. | Continue reading


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Cybersecurity insiders say big companies use NDAs to hide data breaches

Cybersecurity insiders claim NDAs are being used by big businesses to flaunt data laws. Lawyers defending victims of the BA breach call for changes. | Continue reading


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The Untold Story of Larry Page's Comeback (2014)

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Amazon relasing voice transcription tool to tackle doctors' note-taking burdens

Amazon Web Services released a voice transcription tool that transcribes doctor-patient conversations and inputs them directly into patients' records. | Continue reading


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Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies Crushed the Markets

"We make money from the reactions people have to price moves," an employee of Renaissance Technologies said. | Continue reading


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Intel says Qualcomm tactics forced it out of modem chip market

Intel Corp sold its smartphone modem chip business to Apple at "a multi-billion dollar loss," the US chipmaker said in a court filing on Friday | Continue reading


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Some WeWork employees believe working for the company has hurt their careers

Between the well-publicized company culture and its equally publicized layoffs, some employees are worried. | Continue reading


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Facebook built internal facial recognition camera app, sources say

The employee-only tool, created around 2015 and 2016, used Facebook's vast collection of facial data to automatically recognize people. | Continue reading


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Soon, a 1-person startup will be worth $1B

Either you need enormous scale (in people, users, etc.) or you need to be nimble and make something valuable. The folks in the middle are the ones who falter. | Continue reading


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Pivotal is preparing for layoffs ahead of its $2.7B acquisition by VMware

As Pivotal prepares for its acquisition by VMware, employees learned their company will face cuts. Here's what they wrote in a letter to leadership. | Continue reading


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Defeat Device for Cigarettes

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Bill Gates got rich via a classic billionaire strategy: 'tollbooths'

Author Matt Stoller writes that billionaires run "tollbooths," meaning everyone who tries to pass through a certain chokepoint faces extraction. | Continue reading


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Employees of digital media outlets worry stock options are worthless

Many now see their hopes of a windfall deflate as those companies' prospects for a successful acquisition or IPO have dwindled. | Continue reading


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Gitlab director resigns over “retaliatory behavior”

GitLab's Candice Ciresi has resigned after speaking out about its proposed block on hiring support and site reliability engineers in Russia and China. | Continue reading


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Facebook is expanding in Seattle, its largest engineering outpost

The Seattle area is already the company's largest engineering outpost, and now it has enough space for an estimated 20,000 employees. | Continue reading


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How Microsoft VS Code is helping attract developers and take on AWS and Google

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is the top open source project on GitHub. Here's how it's helping Microsoft attract developers and take on AWS and Google. | Continue reading


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WeWork illustrates everything that's wrong with economy and capitalist system

Matt Stoller is a fellow at the Open Markets Institute. He says that WeWork is a hilarious example of what he calls "counterfeit capitalism." | Continue reading


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VC explains why backing sociopaths can work when looking for successful startups

Matt Harris, partner at Bain Capital, explains why a disregard for rules while remaining within legal bounds could lead to innovative startups. | Continue reading


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How SoftBank made WeWork an offer it had to accept

Just a few months ago, WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann was being courted by Wall Street's top investment bankers in anticipation of one of this year's most high-profile IPOs. | Continue reading


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Doctors fear opioid epidemic will be replaced by a new prescription drug crisis

The vast majority of physicians are concerned the US' prescription drug addiction epidemic won't end with the opioid crisis. | Continue reading


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Bank of America saved $2B per year ignoring Amazon, building own cloud

Brian Moynihan, Bank of America's CEO, highlighted the firm's decision to move to a private cloud on its third-quarter earnings call. | Continue reading


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Goldman unloaded some of its WeWork shares while its bankers were pitching IPO

Goldman was reducing its own WeWork exposure even as its investment bankers were touting their services to the company. | Continue reading


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Employees inside WeWork talk about the non-stop party to attain a $100B dream

WeWork employees were lured in by a non-stop party and the promise of a big payday. Then they saw some sobering signs of trouble. | Continue reading


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Neumann and Musk show how startup founders use the same tactics as cult leaders

Adam Neumann’s fall is seen as a business story, but it's a tale of social psychology. This is why startups are, in many meaningful senses, cults. | Continue reading


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WeWork is reportedly halting all new lease agreements with property owners

The US office-sharing startup is looking to curtail costs, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. It is making changes after postponing its IPO. | Continue reading


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The average American has only one close friend

Stanford psychologist Emma Seppala says Americans are experiencing a crisis of loneliness, and it's partly a result of our desire for independence. | Continue reading


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Everything to know about raising money from SoftBank's $100B Vision Fund

The Vision Fund is the biggest tech investor in the world with $100 billion to spend. | Continue reading


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Lunchclub raises $4M from A16Z for its AI warm intro service

Using data inputs, Lunchclub matches users who are looking for career advice, looking for their next employee, or just looking to brainstorm a crazy idea. | Continue reading


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How much money YouTube pays creators with 4M views

The YouTube creator Shelby Church, who has 1.3 million subscribers, explained how much she earned in Google AdSense revenue from her top video. | Continue reading


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List of Every Time Someone Lost Control of Their Nukes

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Tesla Predicted Smartphones in 1926

In a 1926 interview, inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla predicted that smartphones would exist today and that women would eventually become superior to men. | Continue reading


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WeWork and Uber are giving SoftBank a black eye

Two of SoftBank's biggest investments are struggling to find favor with public investors. But its next big fund is likely still on track. | Continue reading


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The CIA's EarthViewer Was Basically the Original Google Earth (2015)

Take a look at Google Earth 1.0. | Continue reading


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US investors have plowed a record $5.3 bilion into European startups this year

The opportunity to enter exciting European companies and help develop their growth into the US market is a key factor in the recent spate of funding. | Continue reading


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Basecamp's cofounder explains why it ditched Google Cloud for Amazon this summer

Basecamp switched from Google Cloud to Amazon Web Services. CTO David Heinemeier Hansson says Google's issues might clear up in time. | Continue reading


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Huawei is developing an alternative to Google Maps

Huawei will release a mapping toolkit, Map Kit, to link mobile apps and services to local maps, which could be a replacement for Google Maps. | Continue reading


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The investor with the 'magic ticket' that gives him 68% annual returns (2015)

"It is not possible to lose, as the possibility to go back a week in time is in my favour." | Continue reading


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NPM is tangled in a bitter cultural battle as it tries to make money

Since NPM laid off five employees, several more have resigned, while others demanded better working conditions. Here's why there's turmoil at NPM. | Continue reading


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Hacking the fundraising process with a comic book

Data analytics is a crowded space, so Thinknum took a slightly different approach to getting investors (and employees) on board with the vision. | Continue reading


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Microsoft will charge new fees to customers using AWS and other clouds

Microsoft is closing a licensing loophole that's helped customers save a lot of cash. It's a smart business move, but will customers see it that way? | Continue reading


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Google's cookie privacy settlement that paid users nothing was voided on appeal

(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down Google's class-action settlement meant to resolve claims it invaded the privacy of millions of computer users by installing "cookies" in their browsers, but paying those users nothing for their troubles. | Continue reading


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