Tech
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Improving sound for hardware giants, Sweden’s Dirac finds its niche in China
The rise of U.S.-China tensions has accelerated the bifurcation of global technology, with the two superpowers each working on their own tech...
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Seoul-based payment tech startup CHAI gets $60 million from Hanhwa, SoftBank Ventures Asia
Demand for contactless payments and e-commerce has grown in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is good news for payment service...
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LabCorp COVID-19 test kit has just been approved for sale over-the-counter
LabCorp has now become the first company to receive approval to sell its COVID-19 test kit over-the-counter without a prescription, according to...
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516Tiny water-based robot is powered by light and can walk, move cargo, and even dance
A new robot created by researchers at Northwestern University looks and behave like a tiny aquatic animal, and could serve a variety...
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Google CEO says company will review events leading up to Dr. Timnit Gebru’s departure
In light of artificial intelligence researcher Dr. Timnit Gebru’s exit from Google last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a memo to...
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Automattic, Mozilla, Twitter and Vimeo urge EU to beef up user controls to help tackle ‘legal-but-harmful’ content
Automattic, Mozilla, Twitter and Vimeo have penned an open letter to EU lawmakers urging them to ensure that a major reboot of...
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Extra Crunch Partner Perk: Find peace of mind with ‘Spotify for Mindfulness & Sleep’ app Aura
Stress can come in many forms. Burnout at work, anxiety to close that big deal or, like everyone, suffering from the changes...
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WorkRamp raises $17M to ramp up its enterprise learning platform
Remote learning and training have become a large priority this year for organizations looking to keep employees engaged and up to date...
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Google quietly acquires Dataform, the UK startup helping businesses manage data warehouses
Dataform, a startup in the U.K. that was building what it dubbed an “operating system” for data warehouses, has been quietly acquired...
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Wikifactory has raised $4.5m for its ‘Github for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely
Karl Marx famously argued in ‘Das Kapital’ that to achieve freedom from the slavery of capitalism, the worker must own the means...