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    • Future, a $150/month fitness app which assigns users a human trainer who builds personalized workouts and proactively checks progress, raises $8.5M Series A (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

    Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Future, a $150/month fitness app which assigns users a human trainer who builds personalized workouts and proactively checks progress, raises $8.5M Series A  —  Push button, get healthy  —  The only way to beat laziness is with guilt, so that’s what Future sells. Future, a 0/month fitness app which assigns users

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    • Samsung researchers detail a machine learning method that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single image of a person's face (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

    Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Samsung researchers detail a machine learning method that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single image of a person’s face  —  Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person’s face, opening up the possibility … Samsung researchers detail

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    • Cardinal Analytx, which develops predictive analytics software for health care payers and providers, raises $22M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Cardinal Analytx, which develops predictive analytics software for health care payers and providers, raises $22M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr  —  Palo Alto, California-based Cardinal Analytx Solutions, which develops and maintains predictive analytics software for health care payers … Cardinal Analytx, which develops predictive analytics software for health

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    • Lenovo reports Q4 profit of $118M, up 389% YoY, on revenue of $11.7B, up 10.1% YoY, helped by strong PC sales, says production is unaffected by trade war (Sijia Jiang/Reuters)

    Sijia Jiang / Reuters: Lenovo reports Q4 profit of $118M, up 389% YoY, on revenue of $11.7B, up 10.1% YoY, helped by strong PC sales, says production is unaffected by trade war  —  HONG KONG (Reuters) – Tech giant Lenovo Group Ltd on Thursday reported a market-beating three-fold surge in quarterly profit helped … Lenovo

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    • GitHub launches Sponsors, a tool that lets you pay your favorite open source contributors; developers can opt in to a "Sponsor me" button on their repositories (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

    Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: GitHub launches Sponsors, a tool that lets you pay your favorite open source contributors; developers can opt in to a “Sponsor me” button on their repositories  —  GitHub today launched Sponsors, a new tool that lets you give financial support to open source developers. GitHub launches Sponsors, a tool that lets

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    • A look at Amazon's AI research centers in Germany, which employ hundreds of researchers, stirring concerns about an "internal brain drain" to foreign companies (Janosch Delcker/Politico)

    Janosch Delcker / Politico: A look at Amazon’s AI research centers in Germany, which employ hundreds of researchers, stirring concerns about an “internal brain drain” to foreign companies  —  US juggernaut is tapping German PhDs to crack some of the toughest problems in artificial intelligence — to the dismay of politicians. A look at Amazon's

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    • Source: Amazon is working on a wearable voice-activated health and wellness device that works with a mobile app and can recognize human emotions (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

    Matt Day / Bloomberg: Source: Amazon is working on a wearable voice-activated health and wellness device that works with a mobile app and can recognize human emotions  —  – Described as a health product, it would work with a mobile app  — Machines that can understand emotions are a sci-fi staple Source: Amazon is working

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