Author: Tech Support

    • Automattic acquires Prospress, the company behind WooCommerce Subscriptions and other automated tools; the 20-person Prospress team will join Automattic (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

    Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Automattic acquires Prospress, the company behind WooCommerce Subscriptions and other automated tools; the 20-person Prospress team will join Automattic  —  Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a bunch of other cool things, is acquiring a small startup called Prospress. Automattic acquires Prospress, the company behind WooCommerce Subscriptions and

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    Easy DIY Gecko Tape

    Geckos are amazing creatures, with the ability to walk on and stick to all manner of surfaces. If you’ve ever woken up to see lizards on your ceiling, you’re already familiar with their capabilities. The mechanisms behind this have been an area of much research in recent times, and [The Thought Emporium] decided to try

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    • Twitter permanently bans Brian and Ed Krassenstein, who frequently shared anti-Trump sentiments, alleging they ran fake accounts and purchased fake interactions (Will Sommer/The Daily Beast)

    Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: Twitter permanently bans Brian and Ed Krassenstein, who frequently shared anti-Trump sentiments, alleging they ran fake accounts and purchased fake interactions  —  Ed and Brian Krassenstein are banned for life after ‘operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions,’ a Twitter spokesman said. Twitter permanently bans Brian and Ed

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    • Lime shuffles leadership, with co-founder Brad Bao taking over as CEO from co-founder Toby Sun, who will now focus on R&D; COO Joe Kraus promoted to president (Biz Carson/Forbes)

    Biz Carson / Forbes: Lime shuffles leadership, with co-founder Brad Bao taking over as CEO from co-founder Toby Sun, who will now focus on R&D; COO Joe Kraus promoted to president  —  Lime cofounder Brad Bao is stepping in as CEO, replacing his cofounder Toby Sun.LIME  —  Scooter startup Lime is shuffling … Lime shuffles

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    • A distorted video of Speaker Pelosi, in which her speech is made to appear slurred, has 2M+ views on Facebook; YouTube says it has removed uploads of the video (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

    Drew Harwell / Washington Post: A distorted video of Speaker Pelosi, in which her speech is made to appear slurred, has 2M+ views on Facebook; YouTube says it has removed uploads of the video  —  Distorted videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), altered to make her sound as if she’s drunkenly slurring her words

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    • Shopify quietly acquired Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing, source says for less than $100M; Handshake was last valued at ~$54M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Shopify quietly acquired Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing, source says for less than $100M; Handshake was last valued at ~$54M  —  E-commerce platform Shopify has quietly made an acquisition to continue its expansion of the services and products that merchants can sell and purchase through its platform. Shopify

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    • Self-driving car startup Aurora has acquired lidar company Blackmore, which has raised $21.5M; sources: GM's Cruise was looking at acquiring Blackmore last year (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

    Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Self-driving car startup Aurora has acquired lidar company Blackmore, which has raised $21.5M; sources: GM’s Cruise was looking at acquiring Blackmore last year  —  Aurora, the self-driving car startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, is in an acquiring mood. Self-driving car startup Aurora has acquired lidar company Blackmore, which has

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    Improving A Cheap Frequency Counter With GPS

    Frequency counters are useful tools for anyone that finds themselves regularly working with time-variant signals. There are a huge range available, from cheap eBay specials to expensive lab-grade hardware. [itakeyourphoto] had a counter on the lower end of the cost spectrum, and decided to make some improvements with the help of GPS (Youtube link, embedded

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    • Google restores Gmail accounts used by Baltimore officials during its ransomware recovery; Google's automated security systems initially disabled the accounts (Ian Duncan/Baltimore Sun)

    Ian Duncan / Baltimore Sun: Google restores Gmail accounts used by Baltimore officials during its ransomware recovery; Google’s automated security systems initially disabled the accounts  —  Gmail accounts created by Baltimore officials as a workaround while the city recovers from the ransomware attack have been disabled … Google restores Gmail accounts used by Baltimore officials

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