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Pinterest's New Search Tool Puts Stress Relief in Your Feed

Soon the company will begin placing anxiety-relieving exercises within its search results to help boost your mood.

2 hours ago

Wired

Pinterest's New Search Tool Puts Stress Relief in Your Feed

Wired

Zero Breeze Mark II Portable Air Conditioner Review: A Noisy But Effective Way to Chill Out

The Zero Breeze Mark II is a battery-powered solution for staying comfortable on sweltering camping trips.

4 hours ago

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Zero Breeze Mark II Portable Air Conditioner Review: A Noisy But Effective Way to Chill Out

Wired

Robert Mueller's Testimony: What Congress Needs to Know

Here's what members of Congress should know before they question the former special counsel.

6 hours ago

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Robert Mueller's Testimony: What Congress Needs to Know

Wired

The Best Algorithms Still Struggle to Recognize Black Faces

US government tests find even top-performing facial recognition systems misidentify blacks at rates 5 to 10 times higher than they do whites.

6 hours ago

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The Best Algorithms Still Struggle to Recognize Black Faces

Wired

An Alien-Hunting Russian Tech Mogul May Help Solve a Space Mystery

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner has invested a fortune to help SETI find the source of cosmic flashes that emit the energy of 500 million suns.

1 day ago

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An Alien-Hunting Russian Tech Mogul May Help Solve a Space Mystery

Wired

A Meditation on Moon Shots, a Mid-Engine Corvette, and More Car News This Week

We debate the use of the term 'moon shot,' digitally drive the first mid-engine 'Vette, and check in how on Formula E is fueling an all-electric future.

1 day ago

Wired

A Meditation on Moon Shots, a Mid-Engine Corvette, and More Car News This Week

Techcrunch

Apple releases iOS 12.4 with software support for Apple Card

While iOS 13 is right around the corner with a ton of new features, it isn’t quite ready just yet. Apple has just released iOS 12.4, a new stable update. There aren't many radical changes, but this is the first version that theoretically supports the Apple Card. Apple has been testing its credit ...

10 minutes ago

Techcrunch

Apple releases iOS 12.4 with software support for Apple Card

Techcrunch

Apple fixes Walkie Talkie app vulnerability in watchOS update

If you are, for some reason, an avid Walkie Talkie user on the Apple Watch, you will be pleased to learn that the functionality is back in the latest watchOS update today. The watchOS 5.3 release notes specify that the update “[p]rovides important security updates including a fix for the Walkie-Talkie ...

14 minutes ago

Techcrunch

Apple fixes Walkie Talkie app vulnerability in watchOS update

Techcrunch

You can now get your own artistic portrait in the style of a master thanks to AI

A new project called AI Portraits from MIT’s IBM Watson AI Lab can capture your essence in the artistic style of some of the world’s great masters, using AI powered by a generative adversarial network (GAN) to actually rebuild your mug from scratch, which goes above and beyond the old trick ...

32 minutes ago

Techcrunch

You can now get your own artistic portrait in the style of a master thanks to AI

Techcrunch

Pinterest launches wellness activities to help users cope with stress, anxiety

Pinterest wants to help its users relax.

32 minutes ago

Techcrunch

Pinterest launches wellness activities to help users cope with stress, anxiety

Techcrunch

Free stock trading app Robinhood raises $323M at $7.6B valuation

Robinhood, the popular free stock trading app, this morning announced a massive $323 million round led by DST Global. The Series E financing values the Menlo Park-headquartered business at $7.6 billion, up from its Series D valuation of more than $5 billion. Ribbit Capital, NEA, Sequoia and Thrive Capital ...

41 minutes ago

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Free stock trading app Robinhood raises $323M at $7.6B valuation

Techcrunch

Meet 500 Startups? 25th batch of startups

Demo Day season is upon us.

53 minutes ago

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Meet 500 Startups? 25th batch of startups

Readwrite

Bringing a More Secure and Efficient Land Registry with Blockchain

The land registration process is still mostly complicated and inefficient in many countries of the world. There are three major problems associated with land registration at the moment: time delays, fraud, and human error. First, it can take an extremely long time for title registrations to occur. Whether ...

2 hours ago

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Bringing a More Secure and Efficient Land Registry with Blockchain

Readwrite

How to Turn Your Buyers Into Brand Believers

Ask the tough questions: Does our brand offer value beyond the suggested retail price" If not, how can we improve our relationships with customers" The post How to Turn Your Buyers Into Brand Believers appeared first on ReadWrite.

3 hours ago

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How to Turn Your Buyers Into Brand Believers

Readwrite

6 Email Marketing Trends You Need to Be Aware Of

The only way for email marketing to be effective is to stay on top of the trends ? and here are six you should pay close attention to. The post 6 Email Marketing Trends You Need to Be Aware Of appeared first on ReadWrite.

1 day ago

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6 Email Marketing Trends You Need to Be Aware Of

Readwrite

Your Pitch to VCs is More Than a Deck

Pitch decks are underestimated and overestimated. Some founders dismiss the deck as pure 'show? and cobble together a few slides for their venture capital (VC) audience. But I suspect that most founders spend tens of hours perfecting their deck. I worry that their efforts are concentrated in the right ...

2 days ago

Readwrite

Your Pitch to VCs is More Than a Deck

Readwrite

Things You Need to Know About WordPress

WordPress may be a blessing for beginners because it is that the most well-liked CMS (Content Management System) nowadays. Technically, it’s the net, open supply website building tool that is predicated or built on MYSQL and PHP artificial language. A few important things about WordPress ...

2 days ago

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Things You Need to Know About WordPress

Fast Company

People don’t understand how disaster-relief money gets spent?and it makes them less likely to donate

Over the last two years, the United States has experienced 30 natural disasters that have each caused at least a billion dollars worth of damage. In many cases, the damage toll was far higher: The 2017 trifecta of Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, and Irma combined for a total of $265 billion in losses. About ...

4 hours ago

Fast Company

People don’t understand how disaster-relief money gets spent?and it makes them less likely to donate

Fast Company

Tainted alcohol isn’t just a Costa Rica problem?here’s what tourists need to know

To help patients relax, my dentist has a serene picture hanging above the chair in her office. It features a typical beach scene with golden sand, azure waves, and a swimsuit-clad person sipping a cocktail with an umbrella in it. That’s an idyllic idea of a dream vacation, but after a spate ...

4 hours ago

Fast Company

Tainted alcohol isn’t just a Costa Rica problem?here’s what tourists need to know

Fast Company

This is how gig-economy work has evolved

“Gig.” You’ve heard it mentioned at afterwork drinks, debated on employment sites, and beaten to death by pundits. It may have a new name now, but gigs have been around as long as humans have been paid for “services rendered.” What we now call gigs used to be referred ...

5 hours ago

Fast Company

This is how gig-economy work has evolved

Fast Company

See ‘The Simpsons’ house revamped in 2019’s most cliche design trends

I don’t recall when a purple side table, purple cabinets, or purple dressers started looking normal, but it was definitely at some point during the 30-year history of The Simpsons. Those 662 episodes (and counting!) have drilled teal, lilac, and pink interior design into our collective consciousness. ...

5 hours ago

Fast Company

See ‘The Simpsons’ house revamped in 2019’s most cliche design trends

Fast Company

5 quick takeaways from Marvel’s huge Phase 4 news

It was a big weekend for Marvel, in the midst of its biggest year yet. As Avengers: Endgame overtook Avatar for the title “#1 movie of all time that isn’t called Gone With the Wind,” Marvel Cinematic Universe overlord Kevin Feige appeared at Comic-Con to deliver to rabid fans ...

5 hours ago

Fast Company

5 quick takeaways from Marvel’s huge Phase 4 news

Fast Company

Five soft skills you need to be a better leader in 2020

How do we determine what it means to be a leader" What are the qualities, and how do you demonstrate your leadership" Traditionally, leadership was seen as very top-down, with CEOs and other executives in their corner office ivory towers. Leadership was telling people what to do, in a convincing way. ...

6 hours ago

Fast Company

Five soft skills you need to be a better leader in 2020

Engadget

You might have to be a die-hard fan to get "Star Trek: Picard"

Star Trek: Picard feels like a watershed decision in the streaming TV wars: A show so niche that it cannot possibly find a mainstream audience. I'm not complaining since it seems to have been designed to appeal to my fanboy brain. But is Amazon going...

17 minutes ago

Engadget

You might have to be a die-hard fan to get "Star Trek: Picard"

Engadget

FDA targets teens with e-cigarette prevention ads

Today, the FDA launched its first e-cigarette prevention TV ads. Part of "The Real Cost" campaign, they're meant to educate teens on the dangers of e-cigarette use. The ads will target nearly 10.7 million teens, aged 12 to 17, who have used e-cigaret...

38 minutes ago

Engadget

FDA targets teens with e-cigarette prevention ads

Engadget

Etsy buys music gear marketplace Reverb to expand its reach

Etsy is expanding its online shopping empire, albeit not in the way some would have expected. The company plans to acquire Reverb, one of the largest marketplaces for musical instruments, for $275 million. This is a chance to expand into a "new ver...

1 hour ago

Engadget

Etsy buys music gear marketplace Reverb to expand its reach

Engadget

Introducing Engadget's most comprehensive back-to-school guide yet

Happy Monday, fam! I'm extremely pleased today to introduce our 2019 back-to-school guide. And that's not just because it's my favorite time of year (that would actually be our holiday gift guide), but because this has turned out to be our largest an...

1 hour ago

Engadget

Introducing Engadget's most comprehensive back-to-school guide yet

Engadget

India's historic Moon mission takes off after week-long delay

One week after a "technical snag" forced the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to delay the launch of its Chandrayaan-2, the lunar mission launched today. It appears to be back on track, and if all goes well, it will be India's first soft lan...

1 hour ago

Engadget

India's historic Moon mission takes off after week-long delay

Engadget

Thriller author Dean Koontz signs five-book deal with Amazon

Amazon announced today that it inked best-selling author Dean Koontz to a five-book deal. The agreement will also include a short story collection called Nameless that will be available for free to Amazon Prime and Kindle Unlimited customers on Novem...

1 hour ago

Engadget

Thriller author Dean Koontz signs five-book deal with Amazon

Venturebeat

Uber's EvoGrad is a dev library for evolutionary algorithms

Uber's EvoGrad is an open source development library for evolutionary machine learning algorithms. It's freely available on Github.

5 minutes ago

Venturebeat

Uber's EvoGrad is a dev library for evolutionary algorithms

Venturebeat

Apple releases iOS 12.4 and watchOS 5.3 ahead of Apple Card launch

Apple's 2018 operating systems for iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch are likely seeing their final point releases ahead of major updates this fall.

16 minutes ago

Venturebeat

Apple releases iOS 12.4 and watchOS 5.3 ahead of Apple Card launch

Venturebeat

Huawei reportedly helped North Korea build and support cellular network

The embattled Chinese company is alleged to have supplied hardware and expertise to the country for years, in violation of international sanctions.

1 hour ago

Venturebeat

Huawei reportedly helped North Korea build and support cellular network

Venturebeat

Slack's desktop app now launches 33% faster, uses 50% less memory

Slack's desktop app is getting an upgrade that makes it launch 33% faster and use roughly 50% less computer memory.

2 hours ago

Venturebeat

Slack's desktop app now launches 33% faster, uses 50% less memory

Venturebeat

Nissan Leaf SL Plus review: How the bestselling electric car's tech stacks up

Dean Takahashi reviews the technology in the 2019 model of the Nissan Leaf SL Plus electric car, a bestseller around the world.

3 hours ago

Venturebeat

Nissan Leaf SL Plus review: How the bestselling electric car's tech stacks up

Venturebeat

Amazon Alexa scientists boost information retrieval with novel AI training technique

Scientists at Amazon's Alexa division say they've developed a technique that boosts the performance of information retrieval systems.

3 hours ago

Venturebeat

Amazon Alexa scientists boost information retrieval with novel AI training technique

Ars Technica

The Lincoln Aviator uses cameras to read the road, smooth out big potholes

Adaptive suspension is not new, but using cameras to measure the road ahead is.

12 minutes ago

Ars Technica

The Lincoln Aviator uses cameras to read the road, smooth out big potholes

Ars Technica

Google pays $11 million to settle 227 age discrimination claims

The lead plaintiff interviewed with Google four times but never got a job.

24 minutes ago

Ars Technica

Google pays $11 million to settle 227 age discrimination claims

Ars Technica

Equifax to pay $575M for data breach, promises to protect data next time

The company promises free credit monitoring and not to screw up with security.

34 minutes ago

Ars Technica

Equifax to pay $575M for data breach, promises to protect data next time

Ars Technica

India has launched an ambitious mission to the Moon

"Today is a historical day for space and science and technology in India."

4 hours ago

Ars Technica

India has launched an ambitious mission to the Moon

Ars Technica

You can't copyright a cocktail, so what's a creative bartender to do?

"A recipe is like a phone book in the eyes of the law?you can't own something so factual."

1 day ago

Ars Technica

You can't copyright a cocktail, so what's a creative bartender to do?

Ars Technica

The Greatest Leap, part 6: After Apollo, NASA still searching for an encore

We need to recognize Apollo as a historical event, not a model for future exploration.

1 day ago

Ars Technica

The Greatest Leap, part 6: After Apollo, NASA still searching for an encore