Author: Tech Support

    • Mindsay, which provides a SaaS suite of cross-platform chatbots for hospitality, transport, and e-commerce firms, raises $10M Series A led by White Star Capital (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Mindsay, which provides a SaaS suite of cross-platform chatbots for hospitality, transport, and e-commerce firms, raises $10M Series A led by White Star Capital  —  In the enterprise domain, conversational AI can free up employees from menial and repetitive tasks, catalyzing division-wide boosts in productivity. Mindsay, which provides a SaaS suite

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    • German watchdog accuses CoinBene of unlicensed cryptocurrency trading

    Cryptocurrency trading platform CoinBene has been put under the microscope again following an announcement from one of Germany‘s top financial regulators. The Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) has issued a warning against the cryptocurrency exchange stating that it is operating without a license. What’s more, the BaFin claims CoinBene has been recruiting freelance cryptocurrency traders to

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    • How widespread wireless internet access is changing Africa, where 300M people are expected to connect to the internet for the first time by 2025 (Daniel Van Boom/CNET)

    Daniel Van Boom / CNET: How widespread wireless internet access is changing Africa, where 300M people are expected to connect to the internet for the first time by 2025  —  Anyone can get into Nigeria’s tech scene, says Chibuzor Obiora.  That wasn’t true just a few years ago.  —  A 29-year-old developer … How widespread

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    Etching Aluminium Coins, Just For Fun

    [MakeFailRepeat] was heading to MakerCentral in Birmingham, an event to which many makers were bringing coins to swap and trade. Wanting to get in on the action, he decided to etch some coins of his very own. Etching aluminium is a simple process, readily accessible to the average maker. [MakeFailRepeat] started with an aluminium bar,

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    • Huawei has filed a motion for summary judgement in its lawsuit against the US, in a bid to expedite an outcome without the costs and time of a full trial (Paul Mozur/New York Times)

    Paul Mozur / New York Times: Huawei has filed a motion for summary judgement in its lawsuit against the US, in a bid to expedite an outcome without the costs and time of a full trial  —  SHANGHAI — Huawei is ramping up its legal challenge to American limits on purchases of its equipment, in

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    • Apple's former head of App Store approvals, Phillip Shoemaker, discusses the review process, app rejections, competition between Apple and developers, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

    Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple’s former head of App Store approvals, Phillip Shoemaker, discusses the review process, app rejections, competition between Apple and developers, and more  —  Apple Inc.’s former head of App Store approvals said he’s worried about competition between the company and developers … Apple's former head of App Store approvals, Phillip Shoemaker,

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    Tiny Wooden Laptop Packs Raspberry Pi

    Building a handheld Raspberry Pi rig is practically a hacker rite of passage these days. Off-the-shelf parts keep getting better, and we’re now starting to see affordable compact LCD screens with decent resolution become common. [MakeFailRepeat] got his hands on a HyperPixel screen, and decided to whip up a neat project with it. The result

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    • Experts say ransomware victims like Baltimore have not taken sufficient measures to protect against the EternalBlue exploit two years after it first leaked (Joseph Marks/Washington Post)

    Joseph Marks / Washington Post: Experts say ransomware victims like Baltimore have not taken sufficient measures to protect against the EternalBlue exploit two years after it first leaked  —  THE KEY  —  Critics and defenders of the National Security Agency faced off this weekend over a New York Times report detailing … Experts say ransomware

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    • Chinese food delivery apps generated an estimated 1.6M tons of packaging waste in 2017, a ninefold jump from two years before, growing to ~2M tons in 2018 (New York Times)

    New York Times: Chinese food delivery apps generated an estimated 1.6M tons of packaging waste in 2017, a ninefold jump from two years before, growing to ~2M tons in 2018  —  The noodles and barbecue arrive within 30 minutes.  The containers they come in could be around for hundreds of years thereafter. Chinese food delivery

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