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Amsterdam-based StuDocu, which sources and shares student-created class notes, raises $50M Series B, says it reaches 15M university students in 60 countries (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-10
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Q&A with David Trachy, Senior Director of Emerging Markets at storage company Spectra Logic, on the resurgence of tape for archival storage, DNA storage, more (Desire Athow/TechRadar)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-10
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DeepMind researchers are working with the UK's Premier League team Liverpool to explore the application of AI to help teams improve their soccer tactics (Amit Katwala/wired.co.uk)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-10
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A German security researcher claims he was able to break into the microcontroller of Apple's AirTag, allowing him to modify its NFC URL (José Adorno/9to5Mac)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-09
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How ByteDance is competing with Alibaba in social commerce, including roping in influencers like Xiaomi's Lei Jun to livestream on TikTok's Chinese twin Douyin (Bloomberg)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-09
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Memo: California DMV says Tesla is at Level 2 currently after Tesla's head of Autopilot admits that Elon Musk has been exaggerating about "full self-driving" (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-09
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Clubhouse launches in beta on Android in the US, after more than a year of iOS exclusivity, but will remain invite-only (The Verge)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-09
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Dogecoin dropped by about a third during Elon Musk's SNL appearance, as he conceded in a skit that Dogecoin was merely a "hustle" (David Pierce/Protocol)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-09
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How publishers are using tech, including AI-generated voices for audiobooks, Google Lens AR, and Amazon's novella app Kindle Vella, to entice young readers (Jennifer Alsever/Fortune)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-09
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US firm Valmont, which makes irrigation equipment, to buy Israel's Prospera Technologies, maker of AI-based sensors and cameras for monitoring crops, for $300M (Shoshanna Solomon/The Times of Israel)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-09
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IDC: companies around the world are on pace to spend $240.6B on edge computing through 2024, at a compound annual growth rate of more than 15% (Angus Loten/Wall Street Journal)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-09
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Apple seems to have privately given Zoom access to an iPad OS API allowing camera access in Split View, raising concerns about special treatment for some devs (Mike Peterson/AppleInsider)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-09
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Florence Healthcare, which makes software that helps physicians automate and manage clinical research paperwork, raises $80M Series C led by Insight Partners (Erin Schilling/Atlanta Business Journal)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-09
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Sources: cybercrime gang DarkSide, which caused Colonial Pipeline to halt operations, stole and encrypted ~100GB of data on Thursday before demanding a ransom (Bloomberg)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-09
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eMarketer: US advertisers will spend $11.36B on streaming TV commercials on services like Hulu, Pluto TV, and Peacock in 2021, up from $8.11B in 2020 (Gerry Smith/Bloomberg)
Source: Technology News Published on 2021-05-08