Month: October 2020

    • As the adoption of facial recognition soars in China, thanks in part to COVID-19, stolen biometric data is being sold online at alarmingly low prices (Xinmei Shen/South China Morning Post)

    Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: As the adoption of facial recognition soars in China, thanks in part to COVID-19, stolen biometric data is being sold online at alarmingly low prices  —  Residential neighbourhoods across China are adopting facial recognition, but people have few means of fighting back Incorrectly configured databases remains … As

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    • Snap launches a geography-specific Local Lens called City Painter as its first persistent, shareable AR experience, for London's Carnaby Street (Will Bedingfield/WIRED UK)

    Will Bedingfield / WIRED UK: Snap launches a geography-specific Local Lens called City Painter as its first persistent, shareable AR experience, for London’s Carnaby Street  —  Snap has launched its first persistent, shareable augmented reality experience on London’s Carnaby Street – it’s a proof of concept for a 1:1 digital copy of everything on the

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    Throwing Down the FPGA Gauntlet

    Gauntlet is a well-known arcade game from 1985 with many sequels and ports to more modern architectures such as Xbox and GameCube. Thanks to its popularity and relative age, the original arcade cabinet is well documented with the schematics available online. It was regarded as the most complex and ambitious hardware Atari had ever developed

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    • Thailand-based logistics startup Flash Express, which operates a door-to-door pickup and delivery service, raises $200M Series D (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

    Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Thailand-based logistics startup Flash Express, which operates a door-to-door pickup and delivery service, raises $200M Series D  —  Flash Express, a two-year-old logistics startup that works with e-commerce firms in Thailand, said on Monday it has raised $200 million in a new financing round … Thailand-based logistics startup Flash Express, which

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    • Shenzhen is giving local residents 10M yuan worth of China's new sovereign digital currency through a lottery, to test and promote the digital yuan (South China Morning Post)

    South China Morning Post: Shenzhen is giving local residents 10M yuan worth of China’s new sovereign digital currency through a lottery, to test and promote the digital yuan  —  Winners will be announced on Sunday and can receive their digital ‘red packet’ by opening an e-wallet via official app The payouts can be used …

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    Improved Part Searches for JLCPCB Parts

    Finding the JLCPCB component parts library frustrating to navigate, [Jan Mrázek] took matters into his own hands and made an open-source parametric search utility. We’ve all probably wasted time before trying to track down a particular flavor of a part, and this tool promises to make the process easier.  It downloads data from the JLCPCB parts site

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    • Microsoft's beta cloud gaming service xCloud can't compete with Stadia, but it stands out with its Game Pass business model, mobile experience, and big catalog (Nick Statt/The Verge)

    Nick Statt / The Verge: Microsoft’s beta cloud gaming service xCloud can’t compete with Stadia, but it stands out with its Game Pass business model, mobile experience, and big catalog  —  The first time you boot up an Xbox One game on an Android phone can be surreal.  Earlier this month, I opened the Game

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    • Bangalore-based Razorpay, which helps SMBs process and manage digital payments, raises $100M Series D co-led by GIC and Sequoia India at a valuation of $1B+ (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

    Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Bangalore-based Razorpay, which helps SMBs process and manage digital payments, raises $100M Series D co-led by GIC and Sequoia India at a valuation of $1B+  —  Bangalore-headquartered Razorpay, one of the handful of Indian fintech startups that has demonstrated accelerated growth in recent years … Bangalore-based Razorpay, which helps SMBs process

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