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Electric scooter startup Bird is said to be nearing a deal to extend its Series C funding with an additional $300 million led by cross-over investor Fidelity, according to an Axios report. Bird declined to comment. Fidelity has not previously invested in Bird and is reportedly doing so at a flat pre-money valuation of $2 […]

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Handheld retro gaming machines come and go, but few go so simply and effectively to the point as My Arcade’s Retro Champ. You stick in your NES cartridge, hit the power button and, assuming you blew on it beforehand, it powers up. This one sets itself apart with a big ol’ screen, Famicom compatibility and […]

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“There’s an implosion of early-stage VC funding, and no one’s talking about it,” was the headline of a viral article posted on this site in late 2017. Venture capitalists are deploying more capital than ever, the author explained, yet the number of deals for early-stage startups has taken a nosedive. Roughly one year later, little […]

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“There’s an implosion of early-stage VC funding, and no one’s talking about it,” was the headline of a viral article posted on this site in late 2017. Venture capitalists are deploying more capital than ever, the author explained, yet the number of deals for early-stage startups has taken a nosedive. Roughly one year later, little […]

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A bug that anyone can easily exploit in Google makes it easy to kick out manipulated search results that look entirely real. The search manipulation bug was documented by Wietze Beukema, a London-based security specialist, who warned that a malicious user could use this bug to generate misinformation. By splicing together values from a Google […]

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San Jose, California company — the brainchild of Michael Leabman, an MIT graduate and former sales executive at Lucent — has made considerable progress toward its goal of ubiquitous power-at-a-distance charging in five years. It’s amassed more than 170 patents, partnered with Dialog Semiconductor to manufacture and sell its licensed chip designs, and assembled a […]

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San Jose, California company — the brainchild of Michael Leabman, an MIT graduate and former sales executive at Lucent — has made considerable progress toward its goal of ubiquitous power-at-a-distance charging in five years. It’s amassed more than 170 patents, partnered with Dialog Semiconductor to manufacture and sell its licensed chip designs, and assembled a […]

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For years, Wikipedia has been working on making its eponymous encyclopedia support more languages. But the nonprofit’s effort has been slow, in part because of the translation tool it uses. Editors on the website have  a desire to use Google Translate, as it could make translations faster. , the parent company of Wikipedia, announced today […]

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We’ve all been there: You’re trying desperately to Google something before your phone dies, but alas — you can’t quite manage it. Before today, your search results would’ve been lost to the annals of history, but Google’s taken the wraps off of a new feature that lets you pick up searches where you left off. […]

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We’ve all been there: You’re trying desperately to Google something before your phone dies, but alas — you can’t quite manage it. Before today, your search results would’ve been lost to the annals of history, but Google’s taken the wraps off of a new feature that lets you pick up searches where you left off. […]

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