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Earlier today, when Instagram suddenly transformed into a landscape-oriented Tinder-esque nightmare, the app’s dedicated users extremely lost their minds and immediately took to Twitter to be vocal about it. As we reported, the company admitted that the abrupt shift from Instagram’s well-established vertical scrolling was a mistake. The mea culpa came quickly enough, but Instagram’s […]

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Earlier today, when Instagram suddenly transformed into a landscape-oriented Tinder-esque nightmare, the app’s dedicated users extremely lost their minds and immediately took to Twitter to be vocal about it. As we reported, the company admitted that the abrupt shift from Instagram’s well-established vertical scrolling was a mistake. The mea culpa came quickly enough, but Instagram’s […]

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Machine learning algorithms are crafty sons of guns. They’ve not only composed memorable (if not entirely coherent) and written , but produced that’s convincingly humanlike. Now, Janelle Shane, an artificial intelligence (AI) research scientist and author of the blog , has tapped them to undertake a task of greater import: naming fireworks. In a blog […]

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Machine learning algorithms are crafty sons of guns. They’ve not only composed memorable (if not entirely coherent) and written , but produced that’s convincingly humanlike. Now, Janelle Shane, an artificial intelligence (AI) research scientist and author of the blog , has tapped them to undertake a task of greater import: naming fireworks. In a blog […]

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It’s day three of our . This time we’re looking back on some more specific memories. We already did episodes for our and , now it’s time to talk about our best and worst memories. For these awards, we picked moments that are special to us, are important to the industry, or were unavoidable bummers. […]

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It’s day three of our . This time we’re looking back on some more specific memories. We already did episodes for our and , now it’s time to talk about our best and worst memories. For these awards, we picked moments that are special to us, are important to the industry, or were unavoidable bummers. […]

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Startups supporting startups are blazing a new trail with support from venture capitalists. Co-working spaces like The Wing and The Riveter raked in funding rounds this year, as did Brex, the provider of a corporate card built specifically for startups. Now Carta, which helps companies manage their cap tables, valuations, portfolio investments and equity plans, […]

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Elon Musk has filed a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed against him by the British cave rescuer who sued the billionaire entrepreneur for calling him a pedophile. Musk’s motion presents numerous reasons to dismiss the defamation lawsuit, all of which come back to a two main points: Twitter is “infamous for invective and […]

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The secondary luxury goods market has been growing wildly in recent years, with more shoppers opting to both sell their lightly used luxury goods like clothing and jewelry for cold hard cash, as well as buying the pre-owned, authenticated, luxury goods of others. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the trend is The RealReal, a […]

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, a graduate of Google parent company Alphabet’s X R&D lab, aims to develop drones that might one day be used to deliver packages to customers’ doorsteps. The only problem? They’re too noisy. According to , Wing’s parcel-carrying drones, which were deployed in a rural area of southeastern Australia in October 2017 as part of […]

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