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The Fever Dream We’re Living Through Could Have Been Avoided If Trump Let Go Of His Russia Obsession

Of course the extremely cursed time we are living through — Ukraine, Barr, the impeachment inquiry, all of it — goes back to Trump’s obsession with Russia. View Entire Post › Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::Google confirms it is testing Duplex-powered Assistant for Chrome, initially with movie ticket booking websites like AMC and Fandango (Jules Wang/Android Police)

Jules Wang / Android Police : Google confirms it is testing Duplex-powered Assistant for Chrome, initially with movie ticket booking websites like AMC and Fandango   —  Back at I/O, Google announced a major expansion to its Assistant-based concierge automation engine, Duplex.  Up until then, it would help people book restaurant tables … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::Twitter to leave up a tweet about a "full-blown "hot" civil war" by a far-right militia with almost 24,000 followers; the militia was quote-tweeting Trump (Ryan Broderick/BuzzFeed News)

Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News : Twitter to leave up a tweet about a “full-blown “hot” civil war” by a far-right militia with almost 24,000 followers; the militia was quote-tweeting Trump   —  When is promoting violent extremism not promoting violent extremism?  When Twitter says so. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Monthly enlists experts and celebrities to teach 30-day online classes

You may know Max Deutsch from Month to Master , his yearlong self-improvement program where he tried to master one “expert-level” skill each month — such as solving a Rubik’s Cube in 20 seconds, holding a 30-minute conversation in a foreign language and even  challenging world champion Magnus Carlsen to a game of chess (Deustch lost). Now, Deustch and his co-founder Valentin Perez are launching Monthly , which Deustch told me is designed to “leverage technology to help scale this kind of learning to many more people.” Specifically, Monthly offers 30-day classes taught by experts and celebrities— the instructors often have hundreds of thousands or millions of YouTube subscribers. For example, Andrew Huang is teaching a class on music production, Daria Callie is teaching a class on realistic portrait painting and  Stevie Mackey is teaching a class on singing. When you enroll in a class, you’ll be assigned a different task every day; you might watch an instructional video one day,
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Gist::Microsoft now lets OneDrive users expand 1TB storage in 200GB increments and launches OneDrive Personal Vault, to protect folders using 2FA, available globally (Mehedi Hassan/Thurrott)

Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott : Microsoft now lets OneDrive users expand 1TB storage in 200GB increments and launches OneDrive Personal Vault, to protect folders using 2FA, available globally   —  Microsoft announced two major features for OneDrive back in June: Personal Vault and expandable storage.  Both of the features are launching worldwide today. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::Videos of owners trying Tesla's new Smart Summon feature, which show Teslas autonomously driving to owners with varying degrees of success, go viral (Jason Torchinsky/Jalopnik)

Jason Torchinsky / Jalopnik : Videos of owners trying Tesla's new Smart Summon feature, which show Teslas autonomously driving to owners with varying degrees of success, go viral   —  Just a few days ago, Tesla announced their new Version 10 software update, which included such things as the ability to play Cuphead … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::Influencer marketing ad spend on Instagram reportedly grew to $265M in North America in Q1 2019, up 62% YoY, threatening the platform's originality and appeal (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : Influencer marketing ad spend on Instagram reportedly grew to $265M in North America in Q1 2019, up 62% YoY, threatening the platform's originality and appeal   —  The draw of 1 billion monthly users has spawned an aggressive behind-the-scenes advertising economy that threatens the site's originality and appeal Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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DARPA aims to make networks 100 times speedier with FastNIC

Having a slow connection is always frustrating, but just imagine how supercomputers feel. All those cores doing all kinds of processing at lightning speed, but in the end they’re all waiting on an outdated network interface to stay in sync. DARPA doesn’t like it. So DARPA wants to change it — specifically by making a new network interface a hundred times faster. The problem is this. As DARPA estimates it, processors and memory on a computer or server can in a general sense work at a speed of roughly 10^14 bits per second — that’s comfortably into the terabit region — and networking hardware like switches and fiber are capable of about the same. “The true bottleneck for processor throughput is the network interface used to connect a machine to an external network, such as an Ethernet, therefore severely limiting a processor’s data ingest capability,” explained DARPA’s Jonathan Smith in a news post by the agency about the project . (Emphasis mine.) That network interface usually ta
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Gist::Veeva Systems, a cloud services provider focused on the life sciences industry, acquires Crossix, a patient data and analytics platform, for $430M (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet : Veeva Systems, a cloud services provider focused on the life sciences industry, acquires Crossix, a patient data and analytics platform, for $430M   —  Crossix makes a patient data and analytics platform used by pharmaceutical marketers.  —  Veeva Systems, a key life sciences industry cloud player … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Malls have a future: location-based entertainment

There is a chance here for LBE to create new and wonderful social spaces — for malls to evolve into immersive entertainment and community culture centers. Read More Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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India’s Darwinbox raises $15M to bring its HR tech platform to more Asian markets

An Indian SaaS startup, which is increasingly courting clients from outside of the country, just raised a significant amount of capital to expand its business. Hyderabad-based Darwinbox , which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, said on Thursday it has raised $15 million in a new financing round. The Series B round — which moves the firm’s total raise to $19.7 million — was led by Sequoia India and saw participation from existing investors Lightspeed India Partners, Endiya Partners, and 3one4 Capital. More than 200 firms including giants such as adtech firm InMobi, fintech startup Paytm, drink conglomerate Bisleri, automobile maker Mahindra, Kotak group, and delivery firms Swiggy and Milkbasket use Darwinbox’s HR platform to serve half a million of their employees in 50 nations, Rohit Chennamaneni, cofounder of Darwinbox, told TechCrunch in an interview. The startup, which competes with giants such as SAP and Oracle, said its platform enables high level of co
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Melvin Gordon to end holdout, report to Chargers

After reports earlier today suggested that Melvin Gordon may be ending his holdout and returning to the Chargers soon, Ian Rapoport of NFL.com reports that Gordon will indeed report to the team tomorrow.  Gordon will not play in the team’s matchup against Miami on Sunday, but he will presumably return to action the following week. Gordon needed to return before Week 10 in order to qualify for free agency next season, so he is reporting with plenty of time to spare. However, having missed three weeks of action, he will lose out on roughly $1M of his $5.6M 2019 salary, not to mention potential fines (which the team may opt to rescind). Statistically, Los Angeles’ rushing game has not suffered too much in Gordon’s absence, as Austin Ekeler and Justin Jackson have 56 carries for 302 yards (good for 5.4 yards per carry) and two TDs. Ekeler is responsible for both of those scores, and he has also been a contributor in the passing game, adding two receiving touchdowns as well. However, the Ch
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Peloton prices IPO at $29 per share

Exercise bike and treadmill company Peloton priced its initial public offering this evening at $29 per share. As part of the IPO, Peloton is offering 40 million Class A common stock to the public. Peloton was expected to price its IPO between $26 to $29 per share, so this falls on the higher end. With Peloton selling 40 million Class A shares, it is looking to raise $1.16 billion with a valuation of more than $8 billion. Shares of “PTON” will start trading tomorrow on the Nasdaq. Prior to this upcoming IPO, Peloton had raised $994 million at a private market valuation of $4.15 billion. How Peloton made sweat addictive enough to IPO Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::Eko raises $20M Series B for its AI powered in-clinic and at-home cardiac monitoring platform which includes devices that combine digital stethoscope and ECG (Jasmine Pennic/hitconsultant.net)

Jasmine Pennic / hitconsultant.net : Eko raises $20M Series B for its AI powered in-clinic and at-home cardiac monitoring platform which includes devices that combine digital stethoscope and ECG   —  - Funding will be used to accelerate research and development (R&D) and commercialization of Eko's machine learning platform for cardiac screening/analysis. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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James is Man Utd’s shining light

He was Manchester United's wildcard buy. Just last week Ole Gunnar Solskjaer referred to the X-factor that he brought to the team. Harry Maguire had felt like a sure thing and Aaron Wan-Bissaka looked a safe bet to secure the right-back slot for years to come, but Daniel James? His signing was seen as a gamble. It is a gamble that is already paying off. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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DJI launches new industrial drones for agriculture and new services for industry customers

DJI announced two new drones and a new initiative to support first responders during natural disasters and recovery missions with drone technologies as it moves to consolidate its position as the leading drone technology provider. The company hyped its new multispectral drone as the world’s first fully integrated multispectral imaging drone to enable more efficient land management and the Agras T16, which is a spray drone to apply fertilizers and pesticides to field crops and orchards. For first responders, the company is working with pre-selected U.S.-based partners to equip state and local public safety agencies with hardware and software from the company.  Initially DJI is working with public and volunteer institutions like the Los Angeles Fire Department, the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, and the volunteer-based Public Safety Unmanned Response Team North Texas. Companies distributing and managing services include FlyMotion and Axon (whic
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