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Alleged leaked video shows off Samsung's folding Galaxy Z Flip — Samsung's next foldable should be coming this month — Samsung's next folding phone is likely to be announced this month, and what appears to be the first hands-on video with the device has just appeared online.
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Now that tech has connected most of the world, a look at the opportunities and issues this creates for the 2020s — We connected (almost) everyone There are 5.5bn adults on earth, 5bn have a phone and 4bn have a smartphone
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Profile of the popular password management app Dashlane, which has raised $110M last spring and is airing its first ever Super Bowl ad — A company you've never heard of is spending millions of dollars to let you know it can make your online life easier. — This year's crop … | Justin Villamil / Bloomberg: |
Uber suspends 240 accounts of users in Mexico who came into contact with two drivers who possibly had the coronavirus, to help contain its potential spread — Uber Technologies Inc. has suspended 240 user accounts in Mexico to contain the potential spread of coronavirus.| FinSMEs: |
Justworks, which offers HR tools like health benefits access, payroll, and compliance support to SMBs, raises $50M Series E, bringing its total raised to $143M — Justworks, a NYC-based HR technology company, closed a $50m Series E funding. — The round, which brought total funding to $143m … | Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
UK startup Exscientia and a Japanese pharmaceutical firm claim to have created the first human trial-ready drug using AI, which took under a year to develop — An OCD drug created via AI will be tested on humans. — The British startup Exscientia claims it has developed …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Whip Media Group, the parent company of TV and movie tracking app TV Time, raises $50M Series D, bringing its total raised to $115M — In the streaming era, data on a show's viewership and popularity is harder to come by. It's no longer as simple as setting up a Nielsen box to get data …
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| Emma Goldberg / New York Times: |
How doctors and nurses are using TikTok to demystify the medical profession by sharing info on topics like sex education, vaping, coronavirus, and nutrition — They have M.D.s, but are they up for this challenge? — For decades, sex education in the classroom could be pretty cringey.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Israel-based serverless computing startup Nuweba raises $10.2M in an expanded seed round, bringing its total raised to $15M — Serverless computing startup Nuweba Labs Ltd. said today it has raised $10.2 million in an expanded seed funding round. — Blumberg Capital led the latest investment … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
As Apple closes its offices, stores, and contact centers in China, Ming-Chi Kuo lowers Q1 iPhone shipment forecasts by 10% due to Wuhan coronavirus outbreak — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has lowered his iPhone shipment forecast by 10 percent to 36-40 million units in the first quarter of 2020 …
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Doubtnut, an India-based startup which wants to teach math and science concepts through short videos, raises $15M Series A led by Tencent, says it has 13M MAU — Doubtnut, a Gurgaon-based startup that operates an app to help students learn and master concepts from math and science using short videos …
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
West Virginia governor to sign a bill that would allow voters with physical disabilities to vote via smartphone in 2020, becoming the first US state to do so — Cybersecurity experts have long railed against voting apps, saying that any kind of online voting unnecessarily increases security risks.Sponsor Posts
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