Month: December 2018

    • Nvidia's stock has dropped 48.8% since Oct. 1 due to growing chip competition, flat sales, less chip demand for crypto applications, and China trade uncertainty (Danny Crichton/TechCrunch)

    Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: Nvidia’s stock has dropped 48.8% since Oct. 1 due to growing chip competition, flat sales, less chip demand for crypto applications, and China trade uncertainty  —  Nvidia is a company that has reached the highest highs and the lowest lows, all in the span of a couple of weeks. Nvidia's stock

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    Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Fears about artificial intelligence are ‘very legitimate,’ he says in Post interview

    Speaking with The Washington Post on after his first-ever testimony to Congress, Pichai said that new AI tools — the backbone of innovations such as driverless cars and disease-detecting algorithms — require companies to set ethical guardrails and think through how the technology can be abused. Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Fears about artificial intelligence are

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    • How Amazon is trying to quell opposition to its new NYC offices by hiring well-connected lobbyists and taking to the streets to hear residents' concerns (J. David Goodman/New York Times)

    J. David Goodman / New York Times: How Amazon is trying to quell opposition to its new NYC offices by hiring well-connected lobbyists and taking to the streets to hear residents’ concerns  —  Amazon is trying to quell rising opposition to its plan for offices in New York, hiring well-connected lobbyists to make its case

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    • Ookla report on US broadband: mean download speeds rose 35.8% and upload speeds rose 22.0% from last year; Xfinity and Verizon were fastest broadband providers (Rani Molla/Recode)

    Rani Molla / Recode: Ookla report on US broadband: mean download speeds rose 35.8% and upload speeds rose 22.0% from last year; Xfinity and Verizon were fastest broadband providers  —  New Jersey had the fastest broadband, while Maine had the slowest.  —  Finally some good news: The internet is getting faster, especially fixed broadband internet.

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    • Oracle files suit in federal court against US government over $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract, arguing that awarding it to one vendor is unfair and illegal (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

    Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Oracle files suit in federal court against US government over $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract, arguing that awarding it to one vendor is unfair and illegal  —  Oracle filed suit in federal court last week alleging yet again that the decade-long $10 billion Pentagon JEDI contract with its single-vendor award is

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    Soft Rotating Pneumatic Actuators

    When we think of pneumatic actuators, we typically consider the standard varieties of pneumatic cylinder, capable of linear motion. These can be referred to as “hard” actuators, made of rigid components and capable of great accuracy and force delivery. However, “soft” actuators have their own complementary abilities – such as being able to handle more

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    • Microsoft launches Clarity, a new web analytics product in beta, to compete with A/B testing tools like Google Optimize (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)

    Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Microsoft launches Clarity, a new web analytics product in beta, to compete with A/B testing tools like Google Optimize  —  Microsoft today launched a new web analytics product in beta.  Clarity is designed to help developers understand user behavior at scale, including why users struggle … Microsoft launches Clarity, a new

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    The hidden historical value of ‘Battlefield V’ and its take on World War II’s overlooked tales

    The game has drawn criticism for its historical accuracy and its limited scope is far from a substitute for scholarly study, but by pushing some stories that don’t revolve around America’s involvement into the pop culture discussion, ‘Battlefield V’ reminds that the Second Great War touched a multitude of nations. And there’s value in that.

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    • Tigera, which offers security and compliance for Kubernetes containers, raises $30M Series B led by Insight Venture Partners (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

    Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Tigera, which offers security and compliance for Kubernetes containers, raises $30M Series B led by Insight Venture Partners  —  Tigera, a startup that offers security and compliance solutions for Kubernetes container deployments, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B round led by Insight Partners. Tigera, which offers

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    • Google begins letting Android users donate to select US nonprofits through the Play Store, with 100% of donations going to the organization (Nick Statt/The Verge)

    Nick Statt / The Verge: Google begins letting Android users donate to select US nonprofits through the Play Store, with 100% of donations going to the organization  —  Turning its mobile app store into a vehicle for charitable giving  —  Google is launching a new feature for Android phones today through … Google begins letting

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