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Inside Uber's talent raid on Carnegie Mellon's robotics center, and Silicon Valley's sudden interest in the field — Uber Would Like to Buy Your Robotics Department … In the center of the lab, CHIMP stretched out one huge arm, then gracefully unfurled its three metal fingers, as if about to beckon someone.
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| Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
HopStop, acquired by Apple in 2013, to shut down next month — “HopStop will no longer be available starting October 2015,” screams the website of the well-known transit navigation app this week in bold red type. If you've ever lived in a city, you know how useful HopStop can be. So does Apple.
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10 shocking (or at least interesting) facts about Techmeme on its 10th birthday — Ten Years Later, This Is How Techmeme Has Avoided Click-Bait, Auto-Play Ads And More — Techmeme launched on September 12, 2005 amid a flurry of blog posts from Robert Scoble, Richard MacManus, and several others.
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| Margaret Rhodes / Wired: |
Estimote's Location Intelligence Platform now allows users to track and search for indoor items that have company's Bluetooth beacon-enabled stickers on them — You Can Use These Tiny Stickers to Map All of Your Stuff — From the beginning, Estimote has wanted to create an operating system for the physical world.| Daniel Pasco / Medium: |
Lack of WebKit webview support in Apple's tvOS poses problems for porting many apps that use webviews to display web widgets and pages — Apple TV—A World Without Webviews — The new Apple TV's operating system—tvOS—has some differences from iOS 9, but one of the most startling ones is the removal of support for webviews.
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Mozilla quietly rolled out Suggested Tiles, its built-in ad product for Firefox, in early August; currently not getting paid for them — Mozilla quietly deploys built-in Firefox advertising — Firefox fans didn't want Mozilla to add ads to their favorite web browser … | Nick Summers / Engadget: |
OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei apologizes for month-long shipping delay for OnePlus 2 — OnePlus: ‘We messed up the launch of the OnePlus 2’ — Once again, OnePlus has built a “flagship killer” that millions of people want, and once again, it's struggling to get the device in customers' hands.| Mary-Ann Russon / International Business Times: |
Companion: Tens of thousands using safety app that lets friends digitally walk you home at night — Tens of thousands of people around the world are now using a free personal-safety mobile app that allows friends to virtually walk you home at night. The Companion app, created by five students … | The White House: |
White House announces updated College Scorecard website with 18 years of data from 7K+ colleges, open APIs, new comparison tools, and more — Fact Sheet: Empowering Students to Choose the College that is Right for Them — Increasing the number of Americans with college degrees is a key part …
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| Alexandria Sage / Reuters: |
Honda is the latest car manufacturer approved to test self-driving cars on California roads — Honda gets California approval for self-driving cars on roads — Honda Motor Co Ltd has received a permit from the state of California to drive its autonomous vehicles on public streets … | Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Leaked slides suggest new Dell XPS 12 will be a Surface Pro 3 rival with a 4k screen — Dell Is Building Their Own Surface Too — Last week, Lenovo unveiled a tablet PC that one can easily argue is their version of the Surface Pro 3; yesterday we got a glimpse of Apple's take on the same style of PC too.
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| Tim Moynihan / Wired: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Flight, a board based on the Snapdragon 801 and optimized for drones, enabling 4K video, fast charging, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth — New Qualcomm Tech Could Lead to the Ultimate Drone — In recent years, a whole lot of high-end Android phones have been built around … Sponsor Posts
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