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UK's Met Office says it will spend £1.2B to acquire the world's most powerful climate supercomputer, capable of forecasting for an area just 1,000 meters across — The UK's weather service, the Met Office, will spend £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) to acquire the world's …
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Innovaccer, which pulls data from health records datasets, insurance firms, and pharmacies, to provide a single source of info on patients, raises $70M Series C — The holy grail for technology companies working in the healthcare industry is becoming the gateway for all healthcare data.
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Tech leaders should stop glib comments on media and acting like underdogs, and tech media should stop “Red Teaming” tech, overusing anonymity, and passing blame — Lots of mutual bad faith. Reporters I respect indulging themselves in screenshotting and quote dunking tech folks, performative for their tribe.
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Google's Project Zero explains how the practice of altering the Android kernel by phone vendors like Samsung lessens security by adding attack surface — Google Project Zero scolds Samsung and other vendors for adding features that undermine Android security.
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Google says it is ending its Google Station program in India and other countries, where it provided free Wi-Fi in railway stations, as mobile data prices drop — Google said on Monday that it is winding down its Station program, through which it rolled out free Wi-Fi in more than 400 railway stations … | Michelle Cheng / Quartz: |
Judge rules that DoorDash must arbitrate 5,000+ workers' labor disputes, which may cost the company millions, denying its attempt to move to a class-action suit — How to Manage People — Advice, observations, and real-life examples. — A federal judge in San Francisco … | Chris Stokel-Walker / WIRED UK: |
Former BBC execs and sources detail Project Kangaroo, BBC's 2007 attempt to create a Netflix-like service which was blocked by UK's Competition Commission — Insiders reveal just how close the BBC came to launching a credible Netflix competitor - only to have the door slammed in its face
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UrbanFootprint, which provides cloud-based urban planning software to cities and companies, raises $11.5M Series A — UrbanFootprint, a Berkeley, Calif.-based location intelligence and urban planning software platform provider, raised $11.5m in Series A funding.| Reuters: |
At the Munich Security Conference, Zuckerberg says harmful content should be regulated with a system somewhere between existing frameworks for telcos and media — MUNICH (Reuters) - Online content should be regulated with a system somewhere between the existing rules used for the telecoms …
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| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
London-based Unmind, a workplace mental health platform that companies can provide as an employee benefit, raises $10M Series A — Unmind, a London-based mental health platform for the workplace, has raised a $10 million Series A round led by Berlin-based Project A, with the support of existing investor Felix Capital.| Avanish Tiwary / KrASIA: |
How tech companies are partnering with millions of mom-and-pop “kirana” stores in India for services like last mile delivery, digital transactions, and more — On a Tuesday morning in January, 24-year-old Mumbai resident Amol Patil, who runs a small neighborhood store … | FinSMEs: |
Upland Software, a cloud-based enterprise work management platform, acquired mobile app personalization and analytics provider Localytics for ~$68M in cash — Upland Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: UPLD), a provider of cloud-based enterprise work management software, acquired Localytics … Sponsor Posts
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