Author: Tech Support

    • Alphabet's Verily launches a coronavirus screening website limited to the San Francisco Bay area, requires users to log in with their Google account (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

    Annie Palmer / CNBC: Alphabet’s Verily launches a coronavirus screening website limited to the San Francisco Bay area, requires users to log in with their Google account  —  – Alphabet’s Verily on Sunday night launched a pilot of a COVID-19 screening and testing website in the San Francisco Bay Area, a day earlier than it

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    • Digi-Capital: over $4.1B was invested in AR and VR startups in 2019, but Q4 lagged; 2019 was the third-highest year for AR and VR investment after 2017 and 2018 (Tim Merel/VentureBeat)

    Tim Merel / VentureBeat: Digi-Capital: over $4.1B was invested in AR and VR startups in 2019, but Q4 lagged; 2019 was the third-highest year for AR and VR investment after 2017 and 2018  —  Digi-Capital’s AR/VR Analytics Platform tracked $4.1 billion in AR/VR investment in 2019, the third-highest virtual reality investment … Digi-Capital: over .1B

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    • UK-based INSTANDA, which claims to be the insurance industry's "first no-code business platform", raises $19.5M Series A led by Assembly Capital Partners (Andrii Degeler/Tech.eu)

    Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu: UK-based INSTANDA, which claims to be the insurance industry’s “first no-code business platform”, raises $19.5M Series A led by Assembly Capital Partners  —  The UK-founded no-code insurance customer and policy management platform INSTANDA has landed $19.5 million in a Series A funding round. UK-based INSTANDA, which claims to be the insurance

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    Hackaday Links: March 15, 2020

    Just a few weeks ago in the Links article, we ran a story about Tanner Electronics, the Dallas-area surplus store that was a mainstay of the hacker and maker scene in the area. At the time, Tanner’s owners were actively looking for a new, downsized space to move into, and they were optimistic that they’d

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    • Netflix shuts down physical production and prep of scripted TV and film for two weeks in US and Canada amid a broader production pause across the film industry (Lesley Goldberg/Hollywood Reporter)

    Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter: Netflix shuts down physical production and prep of scripted TV and film for two weeks in US and Canada amid a broader production pause across the film industry  —  ABC’s ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ Apple’s ‘The Morning Show’ and CBS’ ‘NCIS’ have taken a two-week hiatus; Disney TV Studios shut down 16

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    • Arctic Wolf, which provides security experts to act as an extension of a company's internal cybersecurity team, raises $60M Series D (Sophia Kunthara/Crunchbase News)

    Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: Arctic Wolf, which provides security experts to act as an extension of a company’s internal cybersecurity team, raises $60M Series D  —  Cybersecurity startup Arctic Wolf raised $60 million in its Series D round, bringing its total funding to more than $148 million. Arctic Wolf, which provides security experts to

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    • Amazon warns it is experiencing Prime delivery delays and running out of stock of popular household items amid the coronavirus outbreak (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

    Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon warns it is experiencing Prime delivery delays and running out of stock of popular household items amid the coronavirus outbreak  —  – Amazon said many household items are out of stock due to increased demand as the coronavirus spreads across the U.S. Amazon warns it is experiencing Prime delivery delays

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    • Sources: Amazon wants to open source its cashier-less store software via an organization called Dent, which held unsuccessful talks with Walmart and Target (Wall Street Journal)

    Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon wants to open source its cashier-less store software via an organization called Dent, which held unsuccessful talks with Walmart and Target  —  Retailers don’t yet plan to participate, but talks highlight Amazon’s ambition to have others adopt its technology Sources: Amazon wants to open source its cashier-less store software via

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