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The mystery of RGV2cw, Microsoft’s extremely nerdy...

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2020/05/20

When he was still running Microsoft, Steve Ballmer caused quite the stir in the tech world by screaming “Developers! Developers! Developers!” Since the executive retired to spend more time with his basketball team, however, the tech giant’s current CEO is decidedly more…subtle in his approach. In the kickoff keynote to the first all-virtual build conference, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:43

A smart highlighter and artificial window are among...

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2020/05/19

Samsung’s in-house incubator C-Lab has produced some of the more fascinating hardware devices in recent memory. Previous graduates have run the gamut from smart belts to augmented reality. The Samsung staff’s pet projects are not always the most practical, but they’re never not interesting. Per usual, the latest batch of graduates from the 9.5-year-old incubator […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:23

As Jack Ma and SoftBank part ways, the open and...

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2020/05/19

It would be one of the greatest startup investments of all time. Masayoshi Son, riding high in the klieg lights of the 1990s dot-com bubble, invested $20 million dollars into a fledgling Hong Kong-based startup called Alibaba. That $20 million investment into the Chinese ecommerce business would go on to be worth about $120 billion […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:23

Hypnosis for health? Investors have placed a $1.1...

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2020/05/18

Chris and Alex Naoumidis came to hypnotherapy through dresses. As The New York Times reported last year, the two brothers initially started their careers as startup entrepreneurs with a peer-to-peer dress-sharing app for women. The Australian natives, overcome with doubt, about their ability to succeed in startupland and when apps didn’t work, their father suggested […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:35

Unemployed Americans can get a free year of Headspace

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2020/05/18

Back in March, Headspace announced that it would offer free content to all COVID-19 frontline responders. Now the meditation app is expanding the offer to include all unemployed people in the U.S. You can go here to sign up, by entering information on your most recent job, including the employer’s name and the date you […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:56

Cruise lays off 8% of workforce amid COVID-19, puts...

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2020/05/15

Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, automaker Honda and T. Rowe Price & Associates, is laying off nearly 8% of its more than 1,800-member workforce today as it tries to reduce costs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The layoffs will affect employees in Cruise’s product, marketing and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:01

France passes law forcing online platforms to delete...

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2020/05/15

France’s lower chamber of the parliament has voted in favor of a controversial law against hate speech on social networks and online platforms. As I described last year, online platforms will have to remove illicit content that has been flagged within 24 hours. Otherwise, companies will have to pay hefty fines every time they infringe […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:49

Taika is building a better coffee through natural...

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2020/05/14

So, an eight-year product veteran from Facebook and an internationally renowned barista walk into a coffee bar… It’s not a joke. It’s the origin story for Taika, a new startup that’s aiming to bring natural stimulants to the masses through its juiced up coffee-beverages. The two co-founders, Michael Sharon, an eight-year veteran of Facebook’s mobile […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:10

NuraLoop buds deliver excellent customized sound in a...

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2020/05/14

I’ve been following the Nura story since the Australian startup brought an unfinished prototype of its first headphones to our offices four years back. When I finally had the opportunity to review the Nuraphones the following year, I put the noise-adapting headphones at the top of my list of 2017’s best gadgets. There was a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:05

Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg blames coronavirus...

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2020/05/13

Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg is admitting that the short-form video service’s launch hasn’t gone the way he’d hoped — and he knows what to blame for its issues. “I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus,” Katzenberg said in an interview with The New York Times. “Everything. But we own it.” Back in April, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:18

Uber is reportedly in talks to buy GrubHub

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2020/05/13

Uber is in talks to buy GrubHub in an all-stock deal, The Wall Street Journal reports. This comes a few months after reports emerged that GrubHub was looking to sell Uber, DoorDash and others. According to the report, Uber approached GrubHub earlier this year with an offer, but the two companies are still in talks. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:03

Spotify officially launches a shared-queue feature...

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2020/05/12

Spotify is today introducing a new feature, Group Session, that will allow two or more of its Premium users in the same space to share control over they music being played. Essentially a “party mode” of sorts, Group Session participants can control what’s playing in real-time as well as contribute to a collaborative playlist for […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:06

Yubico now lets enterprises ship security keys...

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2020/05/12

Yubico, a maker of security keys, has launched a new service that lets enterprise customers ship its YubiKey security keys directly to their employees, partners and customers — even to their homes. The service, dubbed YubiEnterprise Delivery, is a cloud-based dashboard that is available from anywhere. IT staff can log in, check their inventory levels […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:34

Microsoft Surface Go 2 review

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2020/05/11

The original Go was a mostly well-received addition to the Surface line when it arrived in late 2018. It was a nice, pint-sized alternatively, positioned fairly well to serve as a secondary device for some. It did the convertible double duty and traveled well, but otherwise was lacking in guts and versatility. Launching at the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:54

Boston Dynamics’ Spot is patrolling a Singapore park...

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2020/05/11

Since announcing the commercial availability of Spot, Boston Dynamics has presented a factotum of different gigs for the robot, from construction to telepresence. Last month, the company announced that it was partnering with local hospitals interested in using the platform to perform remote visits for COVID-19 victims. Turns out the global pandemic has spurred all […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:21

Lyft shares rally 14% after it reports Q1 revenue...

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2020/05/08

Fresh off of a large round of layoffs, Lyft reported its Q1 results this afternoon. The ride-hailing company disclosed that it generated revenue of $955.7 million in the first three months of 2020, up 23% from its year-ago Q1 revenue result of $776 million. The company’s net loss of $398.1 million was also an improvement […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:42

Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch review

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2020/05/08

With the new MacBook, Apple closes one of the more unfortunate product chapters in its history. The upgraded 13-inch mercifully marks the end of the failed five-year experiment that was the butterfly switch. I won’t go into too much detail here. If you’ve purchased a MacBook in the past several years, you almost certainly know […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:29

Equinix just recorded its 69th straight positive quarter

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2020/05/07

There’s something to be said for consistency through good times and bad, and one company that has had a staggeringly consistent track record is international data center vendor, Equinix. It just recorded its 69th straight positive quarters, according to the company. That’s an astonishing record, and covers over 17 years of positive returns. That means […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:01

Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to...

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2020/05/07

In an SEC filing dating back to last week, Uber disclosed that plans to layoff 3,700 employees. The figure amounts to around 14% percent of the ride hailing giant’s total workforce. In the document, the company states that the job loss is part of a planned reduction in operating expenses, “in response to the economic […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:52

Microsoft’s Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3 are official

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2020/05/06

The days of the big product event are on hold for the foreseeable future. Until then, a big blog post will have to do. A day after announcing that Microsoft would be shifting focus away from dual-screen devices, Chief Product Officer Panos Panay took to the company’s Devices blog to show off a slew of […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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