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Anti-abortion group funded a fertility app encouraging women to avoid hormonal birth control

Various Catholic Church-associated groups and individuals funded a fertility app, Femm, which claims to help women track their menstrual cycles while also encouraging them to avoid hormonal birth control. These organizations, The Guardian reports today, oppose abortion rights as well as contraception, and they have previously aligned themselves with US Vice President Mike Pence who

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Nreal unveils a $499 consumer version of its Light AR glasses that are compatible with any phone using the Snapdragon 855 chip, available later this year (Janko Roettgers/Variety)

Janko Roettgers / Variety: Nreal unveils a $499 consumer version of its Light AR glasses that are compatible with any phone using the Snapdragon 855 chip, available later this year  —  Chinese augmented reality upstart Nreal announced a $499 consumer version of its Light AR glasses at the Augmented World Expo (AWE) in Santa Clara,

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Alibaba to invest $100M in the Indian short video app and TikTok competitor Vmate, which is owned by its subsidiary UC Web and which has 30M users globally (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Alibaba to invest $100M in the Indian short video app and TikTok competitor Vmate, which is owned by its subsidiary UC Web and which has 30M users globally  —  Chinese tech giant Alibaba is doubling down on India’s burgeoning video market, looking to fight back local rival ByteDance, Google … Alibaba

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Big data analytics vendor MapR cuts 122 jobs, may shut down Santa Clara HQ after potential investor pulls out after "extremely poor results" in the last quarter (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)

Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE: Big data analytics vendor MapR cuts 122 jobs, may shut down Santa Clara HQ after potential investor pulls out after “extremely poor results” in the last quarter  —  MapR Technologies Inc., one of the troika of unicorn startups that emerged from the early days of the big-data movement … Big data

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Infinity Ward ‘plans’ to support cross-play for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on PC and console

Call of Duty is the latest multiplayer game series looking to embrace cross-play. While today’s reveal of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is focused primarily on the game’s gritty single-player campaign, developer Infinity Ward did provide a few details about the multiplayer component. Most notably, the developer says that ”the team plans for Modern Warfare

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Global wearables shipments reached 49.6M units in Q1 2019, up 55.2% YoY as ear-worn devices grew 135.1%; Huawei grew 282.2%, Samsung 151.6%, and Apple 49.5% (IDC)

IDC: Global wearables shipments reached 49.6M units in Q1 2019, up 55.2% YoY as ear-worn devices grew 135.1%; Huawei grew 282.2%, Samsung 151.6%, and Apple 49.5%  —  Global shipments of wearable devices reached 49.6 million units during the first quarter of 2019 (1Q19), up 55.2% … Global wearables shipments reached 49.6M units in Q1 2019,

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Firefly, which runs targeted, geofenced ads via smart screens on ride-sharing cars in SF and LA, raises $30M Series A as its starts working with taxis in NYC (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Firefly, which runs targeted, geofenced ads via smart screens on ride-sharing cars in SF and LA, raises $30M Series A as its starts working with taxis in NYC  —  Firefly, a startup that allows ridehail drivers to make money from advertising, has raised $30 million in Series A funding. Firefly, which

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