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A look at China-based MiningLamp, a Palantir-like startup that provides analytics tools to China's police and 200+ of Fortune 500, for an actionable information (South China Morning Post)

South China Morning Post: A look at China-based MiningLamp, a Palantir-like startup that provides analytics tools to China’s police and 200+ of Fortune 500, for an actionable information  —  MiningLamp’s business analytics tools are used by more than 200 companies in the Fortune 500 Like Palantir … A look at China-based MiningLamp, a Palantir-like startup

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DeepPCB Routes Your KiCAD PCBs

Computers can write poetry, even if they can’t necessarily write good poetry. The same can be said of routing PC boards. Computers can do it, but can they do it well? Of course, there are multiple tools each with pluses and minuses. However, a slick web page recently announced deeppcb.ai — a cloud-based AI router

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How Jeff Beacher, owner of a Las Vegas nightclub frequented by celebs, helped build Airbnb's celebrity marketing program in 2015, making it into a luxury brand (Anne VanderMey/Bloomberg)

Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg: How Jeff Beacher, owner of a Las Vegas nightclub frequented by celebs, helped build Airbnb’s celebrity marketing program in 2015, making it into a luxury brand  —  For one week in the summer of 2015, consumers of celebrity gossip news couldn’t escape Mariah Carey’s trip to Malibu, California. How Jeff Beacher,

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You’ve Got Mail?

Life is full of tough decisions, such as deciding whether you want to go to the end of the drive to check if the mail has arrived. These questions are made even more arduous in the winter months, but [Catpin] has a solution. The Mail Box Alert uses an Electric Imp, a solar panel and

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Adobe: Black Friday online sales grew 19.6% YoY to $7.4B, as Thanksgiving sales rose 14.5%, to $4.2B; Cyber Monday sales are expected to reach $9.4B, up 18.9% (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Adobe: Black Friday online sales grew 19.6% YoY to $7.4B, as Thanksgiving sales rose 14.5%, to $4.2B; Cyber Monday sales are expected to reach $9.4B, up 18.9%  —  Following swiftly on the heels of a Thanksgiving that broke records with $4.2 billion in online sales, Black Friday also hit a new

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