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6:52

GM unveils a refreshed Chevy Bolt EV and its bigger,...

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2021/02/15

GM revealed Sunday a refreshed Chevrolet Bolt EV and a new, bigger — yet still compact — crossover called the Chevrolet Bolt EUV as part of the automaker’s goal to introduce 30 electric vehicles in the next four years. The vehicles, which are expected to go on sale this summer, are like siblings: the pair […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:32

ClubLink offers a better Clubhouse link for sharing...

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2021/02/15

Although the popular audio chat platform Clubhouse today includes a way to share your upcoming hangouts and events across social media, the resulting link that displays is fairly boring. A new link-sharing tool called ClubLink can help. The tool allows hosts to better promote their events by offering a more customized social media preview featuring […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:51

Facebook Oversight Board says other social networks...

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2021/02/12

The Facebook Oversight Board has only been operational for a short time, but the nascent project is already looking ahead. In a conversation hosted by the Carnegie Endowment Thursday, Oversight Board co-chair and former Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt painted a more expansive vision for the group that could go beyond making policy decisions […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:07

Top 100 subscription apps grew 34% to $13B in 2020,...

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2021/02/12

Apps saw record downloads and consumer spending in 2020, globally reaching somewhere around $111 billion to $112 billion, according to various estimates. But a growing part of that spend was subscription payments, a new report from Sensor Tower indicates. Last year, global subscription app revenue from the top 100 subscription apps (excluding games), climbed 34% […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:28

Researchers look to ‘worm blobs’ to improve robotic...

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2021/02/11

What, you are no doubt asking, is a worm a blob? Well, it’s a blob of worms, obviously. More specifically, it’s a blob of California blackworms. It’s not a flock, nor a swam nor a school. It’s a big, undulating mass of a Lumbriculus variegatus tangled up, but somehow moving as one. Roboticists, of course, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:51

SmartHop raises a $12M Series A to ease trucking...

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2021/02/11

If you are a founder and launched a startup last February of 2020 just before the pandemic hit, then you may have felt like you were living the ultimate business nightmare. But if your company serves to stabilize the supply-chain business, then, in fact, you may have hit the ground running at just the right […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:51

Hyundai shrinks its ‘walking car’ robot to carry...

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2021/02/10

Hyundai Motor Group is back with a new “walking car” robot that can use its wheels to roll along a path or stand up and navigate tougher terrain on its legs. This time, the concept is designed to carry cargo and is small enough to be carried by a drone. The TIGER robot — short […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:19

SplashLearn raises $18 million for its game-based...

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2021/02/10

SplashLearn, a 10-year-old U.S.-headquartered edtech startup that teaches children through a game-based curriculum, has raised $18 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more markets. San Francisco-based Owl Ventures led the Series C funding round in SplashLearn, and Accel, which had earlier invested $7 million in the startup’s Series B, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:05

LanzaJet inks deal with British Airways for 7500 tons...

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2021/02/09

LanzaJet, the renewable jet fuel startup spun out from the longtime renewable and synthetic fuel manufacturer, LanzaTech, has inked a supply agreement with British Airways to supply the company with at least 7500 tons of fuel additive per yer. The deal marks the second agreement between the UK-based airline and a renewable jet fuels manufacturer […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:36

Hasselblad X1D II 50C: out of the studio and into the...

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2021/02/09

We crawled into an abandoned school bus, trespassed through dilapidated hallways, dodged fleeting thunderstorms and wandered through empty streets of Chinatown late into the evening. For two summery weeks, I couldn’t have been happier. New York City was in lockdown. I’d been quarantined in my dinky apartment, disheartened and restless. I was anxious to do […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:44

Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief...

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2021/02/08

Thousands of Chinese users suddenly found themselves unable to access Clubhouse on early Monday evening as the country prepared to start the week-long Lunar New Year holiday. Inside WeChat groups, Clubhouse users rushed to report the situation and help each other with ways to get back onto the red hot live audio app. Audio drop-in […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:28

Okta launches its new open-source design system with...

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2021/02/08

Identity and access management service Okta today launched its new design system, both for its own corporate and brand use, but also as an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 license. The Odyssey Design System, as the company calls it, is similar to the likes of Google’s Material Design or Microsoft’s Fluent Design. It may […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:07

Firefly will light up the Moon with $93M lunar lander...

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2021/02/05

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace with a $93.3 million contract to take a lunar lander module loaded with experiments to the surface of the Moon. While the company will not be performing the launch itself, it will be providing the spacecraft and “Blue Ghost” lander for the 2023 mission. The space agency made the award […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:47

The cloud infrastructure market hit $129B in 2020

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2021/02/05

The cloud infrastructure market in 2020 reflected society itself, with the richest companies getting richer and the ones at the bottom of the market getting poorer. It grew to $129 billion for the year, according to data from Synergy Research Group. That’s up from around $97 billion in 2019. Synergy also reported that the cloud […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:03

Apple Music, Books, iTunes, App Store and more are...

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2021/02/04

Several high-level Apple services are experiencing issues and outages on Wednesday morning, Apple has confirmed. These issues are impacting a number of consumer-facing services including Apple Music and Radio, Apple Books, and the App Store platforms across both iOS devices and Mac. For some users, the services are down. For example, there were reports circulating […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:27

CA Supreme Court denies lawsuit challenging Prop 22’s...

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2021/02/04

The California Supreme Court today shot down the lawsuit filed by a group of rideshare drivers in California and the Service Employees International Union that alleged Proposition 22 violates the state’s constitution. “We are disappointed in the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear our case, but make no mistake: we are not deterred in our […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:00

What Andy Jassy’s promotion to Amazon CEO could mean...

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2021/02/03

Blockbuster news struck late this afternoon when Amazon announced that Jeff Bezos would be stepping back as CEO of Amazon, the company he built from a business in his garage to worldwide behemoth. As he takes on the role of executive chairman, his replacement will be none other than AWS CEO Andy Jassy. With Jassy […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:47

Mask-wearers will be able to unlock their iPhone with...

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2021/02/03

In addition to AirPlay support for Fitness+, today’s iOS 14.5 developer beta is bringing some key new features to mobile operating system. At the top of the list is undoubtedly Apple Watch unlock for users wearing face coverings. The long-awaited feature arrives a year or so into a pandemic that has made face masks a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:14

Rocket startup Astra is going public vis SPAC

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2021/02/02

Rocket launch company Astra, which just reached space this past December with a test launch from Alaska, will be going public on the NASDAQ via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called Holicity. The recent SPAC craze has already extended to the New Space sector, and Virgin Galactic was among the in […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:26

Apple Fitness+ is adding AirPlay casting

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2021/02/02

A week after introducing Time to Walk, Apple has released another software update aimed at expanding its Fitness+ footprint. With today’s arrival the developer seed of watchOS 7.4 and iOS 14.5, the company is adding a new feature that will make it possible to stream workouts to an AirPlay enabled TV – with some caveats. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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