Author: Tech Support

    • UK startup Marshmallow, which says it is using a wider set of analytics to gauge insurance risk, raises $30M Series A, source says at a ~$310M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK startup Marshmallow, which says it is using a wider set of analytics to gauge insurance risk, raises $30M Series A, source says at a ~$310M valuation  —  When it comes to using algorithms and other formulae to determine what kinds of services you might offer to specific customers and at

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    • UK online supermarket Ocado says it acquired two robotics companies: Kindred Systems for $262M in cash and Haddington Dynamics for $25M in cash and stock (Sam Shead/CNBC)

    Sam Shead / CNBC: UK online supermarket Ocado says it acquired two robotics companies: Kindred Systems for $262M in cash and Haddington Dynamics for $25M in cash and stock  —  – Online supermarket Ocado has acquired San Francisco-headquartered robotics firm Kindred Systems for $262 million and Las Vegas firm Haddington Dynamics for $25 million. UK

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    • How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information (New York Times)

    New York Times: How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information  —  The sites are key conduits for communication and information.  Here’s how they plan to handle the challenges facing them before, on and after Tuesday. How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter

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    • Founders say changes to H1-B visa program will make qualifying tougher and compel employers to pay foreign workers drastically higher wages, starting at $208K (Wall Street Journal)

    Wall Street Journal: Founders say changes to H1-B visa program will make qualifying tougher and compel employers to pay foreign workers drastically higher wages, starting at $208K  —  New restrictions intended to protect U.S. workers curb access to pool of highly skilled foreign labor Founders say changes to H1-B visa program will make qualifying tougher

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    • Raspberry Pi launches Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with a built-in ARM-based computer, available today for $70 (Jon Porter/The Verge)

    Jon Porter / The Verge: Raspberry Pi launches Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with a built-in ARM-based computer, available today for $70  —  Just add a screen and you’ve got yourself a PC  —  The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the Raspberry Pi 400, a compact keyboard with an ARM-based computer built in. Raspberry

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    • Social media platforms made progress since the 2016 election in addressing the most blatant abuses, but the misinfo issues may be endemic to their core product (Will Oremus/OneZero )

    Will Oremus / OneZero : Social media platforms made progress since the 2016 election in addressing the most blatant abuses, but the misinfo issues may be endemic to their core product  —  2016, everyone from Russian agents to British political consultants to Macedonian teenagers to randos in the American suburbs … Social media platforms made progress

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