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| David Pierce / Wall Street Journal: |
Hands-on with AR navigation on Google Maps that the company is testing with Local Guides, a group of power users helping Google improve its Maps experience — The coming Google Maps augmented-reality navigation feature will look through your phone's camera to figure out where you are and show you where you are going.
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Tweets: @pierce, @reneritchie, @bakergavin, @rachel_inman, @wsj, and @neil_mehta
| Will Knight / MIT Technology Review: |
Trump to sign American AI Initiative executive order that will prioritize federal funding for AI, create resources for AI researchers, establish standards, more — Artificial intelligence may have been invented in the United States, but other nations, including China, Canada, and France …
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| South China Morning Post: |
IDC: Apple's Q4 smartphone shipments in China fell 19.9% YoY and Xiaomi fell 34.9% but Huawei shipments grew 23.3% — Huawei racks up 23 per cent gain in shipments in fourth quarter against 9.7 per cent slump in industry shipments.| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
US Army starts deploying FLIR's Black Hornet nano-drones that measure 6.6" across, weigh less than 33 grams, and provide HD photos and live video for soldiers — Black Hornets are nano-drones able to perform reconnaissance during combat operations. — The US Army aims to give almost … | Michel Rose / Reuters: |
Paris sues Airbnb for allegedly posting 1,000 illegal rental listings; a French law, passed in 2018, allows fines of up to €12,500 per illegal posting — PARIS (Reuters) - The City of Paris is suing Airbnb for publishing 1,000 illegal rentals adverts, which could cost the American rental website …
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Telecoms.com, Silicon Republic, Geek News Central, Engadget, Mashable, DailySabah, and The Irish Times. Tweets: @zschneeweiss
| Kate Losse / New Republic: |
While tech companies' mission statements claim their work has a higher purpose, CEOs also keep them vague so employees can't use them to make concrete demands — Tech workers are using company mission statements to hold their CEOs accountable. — Companies in Silicon Valley are wonderfully fond …
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| Justin Rohrlich / Quartz: |
Automatic license plate readers, once limited to law enforcement, are now being used by private citizens, raising fears of abuse and new legal, ethical issues — The surveillance state is no longer limited to the state. — For years, police departments have been tracking people's cars …
Tweets: @joegiacalone and @talkpoverty
| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
VCs raised $55B in 2018, similar to what was raised in 1999, but most of the increased funding went into growth rounds, which are effectively private IPOs — I've heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals.
Tweets: @sgblank, @trengriffin, @msuster, @adamnash, and @eliefinegold
| Reuters: |
Autonomous vehicle startup Nuro says it has raised $940M from SoftBank's Vision Fund, valuing the company at $2.7B — (Reuters) - Autonomous technology startup Nuro said on Monday it raised $940 million from SoftBank Group Corp, which valued the Silicon Valley-based company at $2.7 billion.
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| Alana Semuels / The Atlantic: |
A look at the challenges of online grocery shopping in US, where 22% of apparel sales and 30% of electronics sales happen online versus just 3% of grocery sales — We shop online for almost everything. Why not food? — Nearly 30 years ago, when just 15 percent of Americans had a computer …
Tweets: @alexhern
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with Zynga's CEO on the once-beleaguered game company's turnaround, as key acquisitions and the shift to mobile overcome declining Facebook and web games — Zynga went public in 2011 and it grew quickly on the strength of social games like FarmVille. But it hit the skids in 2013, and it began going downhill.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
PerimeterX, which protects websites from bot attacks, raises $43M Series C led by Scale Venture Partners — We know by now that modern website attacks are typically automated, as armies of bots knock on doors until they inevitably find vulnerabilities and take advantage.Sponsor Posts
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