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6:47

Astronaut Anne McClain on designing and piloting the...

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2021/01/04

NASA recently announced the astronauts who will be taking part in the Artemis missions, and among them is Anne McClain, who has spent 203 days in orbit and conducted two spacewalks on the ISS. With the space industry looking nothing like it did 10 years ago and new spacecraft and technologies on the rise, McClain […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:43

NYC MTA’s contactless fare system completes rollout,...

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2021/01/04

On the last day of 2020, New York City’s Metro Transit Authority announced that it has finished its roll out of contactless payment systems. With the addition of a final stop in Brooklyn, every MTA subway station and bus in the five boroughs now sports the OMNY “Tap and Go” system. We got an early […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:22

Bose’s latest sleep-centric earbuds mostly do the trick

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2021/01/01

It’s been a strange year for sleep. For me, levels have fluctuated between too little and too much, but have – more often than not – tended toward the former. 2020 gave most of us no shortage of excuses for sleep deprivation, from personal stresses to larger societal concerns. And, thankfully, the past few years […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:54

An earnest review of a robotic cat pillow

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2020/12/31

You don’t need Qoobo in your life. Nobody needs Qoobo, exactly. In fact, first reactions tend to range from befuddlement to bemusement. The robotic cat pillow doesn’t make a ton of sense on the face of it – in part because Qoobo has no face. The handful of time I’ve interacted with the original Qoobo […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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14:12

Imagine being blind and trying to attend a virtual...

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2020/12/31

How do you make a virtual event accessible for people who are blind or visually impaired? When I started work on Sight Tech Global back in June this year, I was confident that we would find the answer to that question pretty quickly. With so many virtual event platforms and online ticketing options available to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:48

RentPath drops acquisition deal with CoStar after FTC...

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2020/12/30

RentPath, owner of property listing sites including Rent.com and Apartment Guide, said today it has cancelled its agreement to be acquired by CoStar Group after the Federal Trade Commission sued to block the sale. CoStar, a commercial real estate data and analytics provider that also operates listing sites like Apartments.com and ApartmentFinder.com, agreed in February […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:23

Seattle-based Madrona raises $320M for its eighth fund

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2020/12/30

Madrona Venture Group has been a mainstay of the Seattle and northwest United States startup ecosystem for years now, and it looks like it is going to continue that legacy going forward. In a filing with the SEC, the firm announced its eighth venture capital fund, raising $320 million. That’s up slightly from the firm’s […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:45

Tesla to make India debut ‘early’ next year

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2020/12/29

Tesla will begin its operations in India “early” 2021, a top Indian minister said on Monday, a day after the tech carmaker said it was confident it would enter the world’s second most populated market next year. The American car company will begin operations with sales in early 2021 and then “maybe” look at assembling […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:28

Samsung hasn’t announced the Galaxy S21 yet, but you...

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2020/12/29

For obvious reasons, many of us are spending the final week of 2020 looking forward. Samsung is hoping some folks are looking far enough ahead to reserve a spot in line for its still-unannounced Galaxy S21 handset (not an official name, mind, but probably a safe guess). If you’re on the Samsung Mobile mailing list, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:21

Gillmor Gang: Get Back

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2020/12/28

Today we sat on the deck with our daughter Ella and her boyfriend Nick. Knowing of my fascination with all things Beatles, Nick gave me a Japanese 45 of Get Back flipped with Don’t Let Me Down. His gift coincided with a 5 minute cut of material from a newly authorized production of a new […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:21

Music made 2020 better, but we failed to make 2020...

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2020/12/28

“Are you okay?” I don’t have a good answer to the question. Knowing full well that I’m talking back to an algorithm — even one asking the same question of everyone with a different band mad-libbed in — doesn’t soften the blow. Am I? Are we? Is anyone, really? In this case, it’s referring to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:39

Elon Musk claims he tried selling Tesla to Apple but...

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2020/12/24

Tesla stock’s miraculously bizarre 2020 might have a gone different way had Apple’s Tim Cook agreed to a meeting in recent years, or so says Elon Musk. Reacting to Reuters’ recent news that Apple has not abandoned its electric car program and is still pursuing plans to build a physical vehicle, Musk tweeted that in […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:09

Honk introduces a real-time, ephemeral messaging app...

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2020/12/24

A new mobile app called Honk aims to make messaging with friends a more interactive, real-time experience. Instead of sending texts off into the void and hoping for a response, friends on Honk communicate via messages that are shown live as you type, with no saved chat history and no send button. The end result […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:17

TikTok launches its first personalized annual recap...

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2020/12/23

Spotify users have Wrapped and Instagram users have their Top 9. And now TikTok users will have their own year-in-review feature, too. The company today announced the launch of its first personalized annual recap feature with the launch of “Year on TikTok,” a video highlight reel that showcases individual users’ own top TikTok moments. This […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:16

Google expands its cloud with new regions in Chile,...

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2020/12/23

It’s been a busy year of expansion for the large cloud providers, with AWS, Azure and Google aggressively expanding their data center presence around the world. To cap off the year, Google Cloud today announced a new set of cloud regions, which will go live in the coming months and years. These new regions, which […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:31

Gillmor Gang: Full Stream Ahead

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2020/12/22

Twitter is shutting down Periscope, the video app it acquired several years ago when Facebook Live threatened to lap the field. When we stream the Gillmor Gang sessions, we send them to Facebook, Twitter, and an unlisted embed on YouTube. At one point, we planned to stream the sessions live on TechCrunch, but for now […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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15:15

Unicorn travel startup Hopper is facing a...

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2020/12/22

Mobile travel app Hopper has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers canceled their trips and airlines dropped their flights. But the complications around getting airline credits and refunds have since turned into a customer service crisis for the airfare prediction and ticket booking startup, which had been valued at $750 million back […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:43

Space Force commander explains how the new military...

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2020/12/21

The latest branch of the US Military was founded just a year ago and will celebrate its first birthday on December 20. General John W. “Jay” Raymond spoke at TechCrunch Sessions: Space and explained how the youngest military branch operates like a startup. “In some ways, we’re a startup as well,” Gen. Raymond said. “The […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:17

Google Stadia is now available on iOS

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2020/12/21

A few weeks after announcing that iOS support was on the way, Google’s cloud gaming service now supports the iPhone and iPad. As expected, the company is using a web app to access the service. Google also says that you need to update to iOS 14.3, the latest iOS update that was released earlier this […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:46

Googling for “Baby Yoda” will beam him into your...

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2020/12/18

Google has been all about the fun little augmented reality Easter Eggs lately, with a bevy of search terms triggering Halloween-themed AR experiences back in October. Ghosts! Jack-o-lanterns! Dancing skeletons! Now they’ve got another one. Rolled out just in time for tomorrow’s Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian, this one brings The Child (or, as […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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