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September 23, 2019

Vouch Insurance, an online platform offering insurance policies tailored for early-stage tech start-ups, raises $24.5M Series A (Matt Sheehan/ReinsuranceNe.ws)

Matt Sheehan / ReinsuranceNe.ws: Vouch Insurance, an online platform offering insurance policies tailored for early-stage tech start-ups, raises $24.5M Series A — Vouch Insurance, a new insurance company focused on early stage tech start-ups, has announced its launch, with capacity for its policies to be provided by Munich Re. Vouch Insurance, an online platform offering

September 23, 2019

Celebrate the First Day of Fall With Stackable Weighted Blanket Discounts

It’s about to start getting colder out, but anxiety is always in season. In addition to keeping you warm, a weighted blanket can work wonders for your anxiety, and several different models are on sale for the first day of fall, for some of the best prices we’ve ever seen. Read more… Celebrate the First

Google: Take our free Kotlin programming language courses to build Android apps

Google offers free lessons to help up-and-coming developers build Android apps using Kotlin. Google: Take our free Kotlin programming language courses to build Android apps Source: ZDNet Microsoft

September 23, 2019

Google says it doesn't retain Assistant audio recordings by default and it is increasing privacy protections for the transcription process used with a small set (Nino Tasca/The Keyword)

Nino Tasca / The Keyword: Google says it doesn’t retain Assistant audio recordings by default and it is increasing privacy protections for the transcription process used with a small set — Senior Product Manager, Google Assistant — We believe you should be able to easily understand how your data is used and why … Google

September 23, 2019

Google may have just ushered in an era of ‘quantum supremacy’

Google’s qubit circuits are built out of superconducting materials, which are then kept at very low temperatures. | Image: Google Google says that it has achieved quantum supremacy, a major milestone towards the development of quantum computers. At least, it seems to have. The announcement came in a paper that was reportedly published on the

September 23, 2019

Viral selfie app ImageNet Roulette demos biases in AI by surfacing labels applied by anonymous workers to a database of 14M photos, used to train AI for 9 years (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Cade Metz / New York Times: Viral selfie app ImageNet Roulette demos biases in AI by surfacing labels applied by anonymous workers to a database of 14M photos, used to train AI for 9 years — ImageNet Roulette, a digital art project and viral selfie app, exposes how biases have crept into the artificial-intelligence technologies

September 23, 2019

AllinMD Orthopaedics Hospital, a China-based online platform to match patients with orthopaedics hospitals and doctors, raises $100M Series B (Tracy Qu/South China Morning Post)

Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: AllinMD Orthopaedics Hospital, a China-based online platform to match patients with orthopaedics hospitals and doctors, raises $100M Series B — AllinMD Orthopaedics Hospital connects more than 150,000 registered doctors and 17,000 hospitals with patients The six-year-old internet hospital … AllinMD Orthopaedics Hospital, a China-based online platform to match

September 23, 2019

NASA to hire data scientist with blockchain and cryptocurrency skills

According to a job advertisement posted three days ago, NASA is looking for a candidate with a wide range of skills, but notes that “experience with cryptocurrency and blockchain is considered a plus.” Responsibilities will include conceptualizing and developing innovative applications for cross-cutting areas including robotics, AI, cloud computing, and next-generation flight hardware. The chosen individual will

September 23, 2019

Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bakkt launches physically settled Bitcoin futures (finally)’

Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Aristotle used to say: Time to learn some stuff about Bitcoin! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, September 22

September 23, 2019

This leaked video shows Android for feature phones might be in development

Over the years, mass manufacturing of phones has made it possible to get a smartphone for as low as $100. However, these models might not be available in every market. That’s why feature phones with internet connectivity are important for these regions, but there are very few options that are available right now. That might

September 23, 2019

Here’s what we learned from iFixit’s iPhone 11 teardown

Image: iFixit iFixit’s annual iPhone teardown is always a great opportunity to take a peek inside Apple’s latest hardware, but this year’s edition has raised some intriguing questions. The big discovery is a second battery connector within the iPhone 11 Pro Max, which could be an indicator that the hardware was supposed to support bidirectional

September 23, 2019

Wait, Facebook had ‘group stories’? Well they’re shutting it down anyway

Just nine months after introducing Stories in Facebook Groups, the social media giant is killing off the feature on September 26, at 9AM Pacific Time. The development was first reported by Matt Navara on Friday, which has since been confirmed by Facebook. The feature — called group stories and available since December last year — allowed

September 23, 2019

Moonday Mornings: Kate Winslet is hunting for Bitcoin scammers

Good morning Forkies. It’s that time of the week again when we serve you up a fresh plate of blockchain and cryptocurrency headlines from over the weekend. Let’s see what this week has in store. 1. Long Blockchain Corp. formerly Long Island Tea Corp. – the beverage company that for no real reason decided to

Windows 3.1 Screensavers, Now On Twitter

Back in the early dawn of the GUI age, cathode ray tubes were the dominant display technology for the personal computer. In order to avoid burn-in of static display elements, screensavers were devised to help prevent this problem. Out of love for the software of yesteryear, [Greg Kennedy] has put together a bot that posts

September 23, 2019

Louis Vuitton is designing new skins for League of Legends

League of Legends is taking a big step into the world of fashion. Today, developer Riot Games announced a new partnership with Louis Vuitton that will see the famed fashion house design League-themed items for both in the game and in the real world. Unfortunately, we don’t know what those designs will look like yet,

September 23, 2019

Google is reducing how much audio it saves for human review

Google is making some changes to its audio data retention policies in the coming months. Most importantly for those concerned about humans reviewers listening to you, it plans on asking every user to re-affirm their choice to opt-in to that program — which is “paused globally” pending an EU investigation. The company is also making

September 23, 2019

Profile of Rideshare Drivers United, a group of Uber and Lyft drivers in California who played a key role in getting recent gig economy labor legislation passed (New York Times)

New York Times: Profile of Rideshare Drivers United, a group of Uber and Lyft drivers in California who played a key role in getting recent gig economy labor legislation passed — When California lawmakers passed a worker-protection bill essentially requiring Uber and Lyft to treat drivers as employees … Profile of Rideshare Drivers United, a

September 23, 2019

PlayStation 5 will waste less energy

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The next generation PlayStation console will be able to consume far less power in standby mode than the PS4. The power-saving feature appears to be an optional setting however, not the default. The news comes via a blog post titled PlayStation Joins Forces with the United Nations to

September 23, 2019

Chinese subway stations now let you pay for tickets by scanning your face

Facial recognition technology is used across China for everything from identifying criminals to measuring students’ attention in class. Now, it has debuted a system in its subway that lets you use your face as a ticket. A report from South China Morning Post suggests the subway system in the southern city of Shenzhen has started using facial recognition

September 23, 2019

2 malware-infected photo apps with 1.5M+ downloads removed from Google Play

Google has removed two malicious apps with a combined total of over 1.5 million downloads after they were caught serving adware. The apps in question — Sun Pro Beauty Camera and Funny Sweet Beauty Selfie Camera — were also found to have “more advanced functionality than your average adware,” according to researchers at Wandera. Intrusive out-of-app

September 23, 2019

The number of $5M+ seed rounds in the US has risen steadily, from 45 in 2014 to 180 in 2018, but the trend may be cooling off, with 110 such rounds in 2019 YTD (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: The number of $5M+ seed rounds in the US has risen steadily, from 45 in 2014 to 180 in 2018, but the trend may be cooling off, with 110 such rounds in 2019 YTD — Here at Crunchbase News, we’ve devoted a lot of coverage to the rise of supergiant

China's lunar rover examines 'strange substance' found in moon crater – CNET

New photos, but still no word on exactly what this mysterious moon material is. China's lunar rover examines 'strange substance' found in moon crater – CNET Source: CNet

The Miniware TS100 As A USB-C Soldering Iron

Many readers will be familiar with the Miniware TS100 soldering iron, a lightweight temperature-controlled iron that is giving significantly more expensive soldering tools a run for their money. There is another model in the range, the TS80, which though it uses different tips than its sibling has the main distinguishing feature of USB-C power rather

One Brother Stabbed the Other. The Journalist Who Wrote About It Paid a Price.

The use of Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten’ privacy law has broadened, illustrated by two Italian brothers, a stabbing and the journalist who wrote about them. One Brother Stabbed the Other. The Journalist Who Wrote About It Paid a Price. Source: NY Times Tech

Emmys 2019: From Game of Thrones to Fleabag, the full list of winners – CNET

Bill Hader and Phoebe Waller-Bridge won big, while Emilia Clarke and Amy Adams lost out. Emmys 2019: From Game of Thrones to Fleabag, the full list of winners – CNET Source: CNet

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