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Filings show Oyo had a net loss of $332M on revenue of $900M in the year through March 2019; operations in China account for ~40% of its losses worldwide (Sean O'Neill/Skift)

Sean O’Neill / Skift: Filings show Oyo had a net loss of $332M on revenue of $900M in the year through March 2019; operations in China account for ~40% of its losses worldwide  —  Oyo has disclosed a surge in losses in documents related to its $1.5 billion in new funding.  The hospitality company claims

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Emergency services call for better cooperation with tech companies on their ‘safety features’

Tech companies have taken great steps in recent years to add emergency features to their products to save people’s lives. Apple and Samsung have introduced features like SOS signaling and fall detection to their wearables, along with a host of other tech companies working on various sensor-based automatic dialing to emergency services and sharing vital

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Moonday Mornings: US arrests Ethereum dev for teaching North Korea about cryptocurrency

Welcome to Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines you shouldn’t miss. Take a look at what happened over the past weekend. 1. Ethereum dev conspires with North Korea US authorities have arrested developer Virgil Griffith, who has most recently been working at the Ethereum Foundation, for consulting with

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Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland (Steve Satterfield/About Facebook)

{$inline_image} Steve Satterfield / About Facebook: Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland  —  At Facebook, we believe that if you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another. Facebook unveils photo transfer tool,

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Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland (Steve Satterfield/About Facebook)

Steve Satterfield / About Facebook: Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting users transfer their photos and videos directly to other services starting with Google Photos, in Ireland  —  At Facebook, we believe that if you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another. Facebook unveils photo transfer tool, letting

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Indian police arrested 45 people and shut down a scam call center in Noida, alleging they used illicitly obtained info of Flipkart users to scam them (Times of India)

Times of India: Indian police arrested 45 people and shut down a scam call center in Noida, alleging they used illicitly obtained info of Flipkart users to scam them  —  NOIDA: A bogus call centre was shut down and 45 people employed there arrested on Thursday but the investigation will go far beyond the two

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Building a Faux Retro Portable Computer

The modern laptop has its origins in the mid to late 1980s, when shrinking computer hardware and improvements to battery technology finally made mobile computing practical. Years before the now iconic clamshell form factor became the standard, these so-called “portable computers” often resembled pieces of luggage with keyboards attached. Even at their peak these machines

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