Author: Tech Support

    • ZoomInfo, which operates a cloud market intelligence platform for sales and marketing teams, files to raise around $500M in an IPO (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)

    Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: ZoomInfo, which operates a cloud market intelligence platform for sales and marketing teams, files to raise around $500M in an IPO  —  ZoomInfo Technologies is the latest heavily funded SaaS player to publicly file for an IPO.  —  Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily ZoomInfo, which operates a cloud market intelligence

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    Millions of tweets peddled conspiracy theories about coronavirus in other countries, an unpublished U.S. report says

    Roughly 2 million tweets peddled conspiracy theories and other falsehoods about coronavirus in other countries over the roughly two-week period when the outbreak began to spread outside China, according to a report from an arm of State Department obtained by The Washington Post. Millions of tweets peddled conspiracy theories about coronavirus in other countries, an

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    • Sources: Amazon to launch a food delivery service in India in March, charging restaurants commissions of 10-15%, about half of what Swiggy and Zomato charge (Aditi Shrivastava/The Economic Times)

    Aditi Shrivastava / The Economic Times: Sources: Amazon to launch a food delivery service in India in March, charging restaurants commissions of 10-15%, about half of what Swiggy and Zomato charge  —  The food delivery platform is open to own employees for now, pilots underway across five high-density pin codes in Bengaluru Sources: Amazon to

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    Desktop PCB Mill Review

    [Carl] wanted to prototype his circuits quickly using printed circuit boards. He picked up a Bantam Tools Desktop PCB Mill and made a video about the results. His first attempt wasn’t perfect, as you could notice under the microscope. A few adjustments, though, and the result was pretty good. Be warned, this mill is pretty

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    • Anonymous Twitter account @VCBrags hits a nerve mocking VC's propensity for self-promotion by quote-retweeting boastful tweets (Biz Carson/Protocol)

    Biz Carson / Protocol: Anonymous Twitter account @VCBrags hits a nerve mocking VC’s propensity for self-promotion by quote-retweeting boastful tweets  —  Investors either are loving or blocking @VCBrags, which retweets investors’ best brags.  —  A parody Twitter account is getting under the skin … Anonymous Twitter account @VCBrags hits a nerve mocking VC's propensity for

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    • The IoT Trap

    I’m sure that you’ve heard about the Sonos speaker debacle. (If not, read about it on Hackaday.) Basically, a company that sells a premium Internet-connected speaker wanted to retire an older product line, and offered a 30% discount to people who would “trade in” their old speakers for new ones. The catch: they weren’t really

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    • A look at the TranscribersOfReddit subreddit where 3,186 volunteers write elaborate transcriptions of memes, videos, and images to make the site more accessible (Alex Lee/Wired)

    Alex Lee / Wired: A look at the TranscribersOfReddit subreddit where 3,186 volunteers write elaborate transcriptions of memes, videos, and images to make the site more accessible  —  To help Redditors with visual impairments, volunteers are writing elaborate transcriptions of memes and images across the site. A look at the TranscribersOfReddit subreddit where 3,186 volunteers

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    • How to stop Spectrum junk mail

    Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images For years, I have been getting inundated with physical junk mail from my internet service provider (ISP), Charter Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable). In huge red capital letters, the envelopes are stamped “OPEN UPON RECEIPT” or “NOTICE” or “IMPORTANT ACCOUNT INFORMATION.” I always open them, just in case there is

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