This is Uber's central challenge as it moves from the cozy confines of the Bay Area, where venture capital and private equity firms fund futuristic projects, to the rigors of Wall Street.
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Saturday, April 27, 2019
The dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within 50 years
New analysis predicts the dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within 50 years, a trend that will have grave implications for how we treat our digital heritage in the future.
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Here's how Amazon robots could make the deliveryman extinct
Amazon revealed a plan to offer Prime members one-day shipping, but the biggest logistics innovation from Jeff Bezos may depend on Scout, a robot.
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Legal gambling from your phone could be a $150 billion industry, but making it happen will be tough
FanDuel and DraftKings are racing to capture the $150 billion sports-betting market, but they have a treacherous road ahead of them.
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Google Bans Chinese App Developer With 600 Million Downloads From Play Store: Report
Google is banning Chinese app developer DO Global, which has around 100 apps in Play Store, following accusations of ad fraud.
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Why Amazon's ad sales growth has slowed (and why it may pick up again)
The hype around Amazon's ad business has faded and advertisers are thinking more carefully about which platforms provide the highest return.
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Rebel Tesla rebuilder with a popular YouTube channel is now opening a shop to fix cars Tesla can't
Rich Benoit turned his Tesla obsession into a viral YouTube channel. Now, he's opened the doors on an all electric car repair business outside of Boston.
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Facebook sues firm for Instagram fraud
In order to "protect the integrity" of its platform, social networking giant Facebook has sued a New Zealand based fraud company that sold inauthentic likes, views and followers for Instagram posts and accounts for an undisclosed amount.
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Facebook thinks data localisation in India could be risky
India's data localisation demands are understandable but allowing it for one nation can trigger a demand from countries which are much more authoritarian and can misuse the citizens' data, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said.
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Accounts of the dead on Facebook might surpass those of living in next 50 years
Accounts of dead people on Facebook might surpass the number of accounts of those who are alive, in the coming 50 years, a study has found.
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Google removing 100 apps from Chinese developer on Play Store
Suspecting malicious cyber attacks and data breach possibilities, Google is removing apps from a Chinese Android app developer - DO Global - which holds roughly 100 apps in the Play Store with over 600 million installs and is partly owned by Internet major Baidu.
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PayPal invests $500 million in Uber: Report
PayPal has been working with Uber providing payment services since 2013 and is its lead processing partner in the US and Australia (but not the only one globally), according to TechCrunch.
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Tiny robots powered by magnetic fields could help drug-delivery nanoparticles reach their targets
MIT engineers have designed tiny robots that can help drug-delivery nanoparticles push their way out of the bloodstream and into a tumor or another disease site. Like crafts in "Fantastic Voyage"—a 1960s science fiction film in which a submarine crew shrinks in size and roams a body to repair damaged cells—the robots swim through the bloodstream, creating...
Chemists manipulate the quantum states of gold nanoclusters
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Chemistry have found a way to control the lifetime of the quantum states of gold nanoclusters by three orders of magnitude, which could lead to improvements in solar cell and photocatalysis technologies. Their study is published in the April 18 issue of Science.
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Nanoparticles take a fantastic, magnetic voyage
Engineers have designed tiny robots that can help drug-delivery nanoparticles push their way out of the bloodstream and into a tumor or another disease site. The magnetic microrobots could help to overcome one of the biggest obstacles to delivering drugs with nanoparticles: getting them to exit blood vessels and accumulate in the right place.
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A personality test for ads
People leave digital footprints online, and this information could helps marketers personalize ads based on individual personality types.
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Air India operations affected globally as software shuts down for six hours
Hundreds of Air India passengers were left stranded at several airports across the world as its check-in software stopped functioning for around six hours, the airline said Saturday.
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Intel puts modem business up for sale, held talks with Apple: WSJ
ntel decided to exit the 5G modem chip business last week, hours after Apple settled a longstanding legal dispute with Qualcomm Inc, a key supplier of iPhone modem chips.
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HCL Technologies sets up cyber security centre in Texas
HCL has also unveiled a university-to-industry collaboration under which the IT firm will conduct on-campus hackathons.
from Gadgets Now http://bit.ly/2ILAx...
Nanoparticles take a fantastic, magnetic voyage
Engineers have designed tiny robots that can help drug-delivery nanoparticles push their way out of the bloodstream and into a tumor or another disease site. The magnetic microrobots could help to overcome one of the biggest obstacles to delivering drugs with nanoparticles: getting them to exit blood vessels and accumulate in the right place.
from...
How to stop WhatsApp from eating your smartphone storage
Over the years, WhatsApp photos and videos occupy a huge chunk of your smartphone's storage, especially if you are not in the habit of cleaning the junk out of your media library. If you're wondering how you can stop saving WhatsApp media to your phone's gallery, follow these steps:
from Gadgets Now http://bit.ly/2IN1P...
Slack Files to Go Public, Reveals Annual Loss of $140 Million
Slack made public strong year-on-year growth numbers and an annual loss of $140.7 million, as it filed formally for its long-awaited market debut.
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Google Duo Group Video Calling Feature Rollout Begins: How to Use It
The Google Duo group video calling feature is rolling out in select regions for now, and the group video call can be done with up to four people for now.
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Google Makes It Easier to Find Work-From-Home Jobs
Google has made it easier to find work-from-home jobs, almost a year after it began adding more job search features to its search engine.
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Facebook Says Actively Working on WhatsApp Pay in India
Facebook is upbeat on the growth of digital payments in India and is actively working on launching WhatsApp Pay soon, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said.
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Mario Kart Tour Android Closed Beta Open for Registrations
The Mario Kart Tour closed beta is available only in US and Japan.
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GPS Tracking App Breach Allows Hacker to Monitor Cars, Kill Their Engines: Report
A hacker broke into two GPS tracking apps, giving him ability to track thousands of cars and even kill the engines of some.
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Fortnite Avengers: Endgame Limited Time Mode Out Now With Update 8.50
To celebrate Avengers: Endgame hitting theatres, the Fortnite Avengers: Endgame Limited Time Mode is out now as a part of the 8.50 update for the game.
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Facebook's Possible $5-Billion US FTC Fine Echoes European Tech Penalties
The possibility of a $5 billion privacy fine for Facebook suggests that US regulators may be taking a cue from the large penalties their EU counterparts have been handing out.
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Spotify Loses Access to Major Indian Label, Saregama
Spotify said it will remove all songs belonging to one of India's oldest record labels - Saregama - from its app after they failed to agree on licensing terms.
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Google Fit Now Available for iOS, Brings 'Move Minutes' and 'Heart Points'
This move will enable more users to even consider buying the Wear OS-running smartwatches as their data will now have a safe place to journal.
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Airbnb Said to Bet on Original Shows to Whet Customers' Appetite for Travel
Airbnb, the high-flying startup for booking home rentals around the world, has ambitions to develop a slate of original shows to whet customers' appetite for travel, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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TikTok Ban Lifted by Madras High Court
TikTok said, "We are glad about this decision and we believe it is also greatly welcomed by our thriving community in India, who use TikTok as a platform to showcase their creativity."
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Microsoft Tops $1 Trillion as It Predicts More Cloud Growth
Microsoft on Wednesday briefly topped $1 trillion in value for the first time after executives predicted continued growth for its cloud computing business.
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Amazon's Alexa Reviewers Said to Be Able to Access Customers' Home Addresses
An Amazon.com team auditing Alexa users’ commands has access to location data and can, in some cases, easily find a customer’s home address, according to five employees familiar with the programme.
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Elon Musk makes deal with SEC not to discuss Tesla's finances without a lawyer's approval
The two parties originally settled the charges in September, but the SEC later sued Musk saying he violated the terms of that agreement.
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Sensing a threat they can't ignore, Wall Street banks instead partner with tech giants like Apple
As technology companies move into consumer finance, Wall Street banks face the dilemma of beating them or joining them.
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uBiome, the health start-up just raided by the FBI, had been double billing insurers
uBiome, a health-tech start-up, just got searched by the FBI as part of an ongoing investigation.
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Apple reportedly looked at buying Intel's 5G business, showing openness to big deals
Apple's biggest historical acquisition was Beats Electronics and Beats Music for $2.6 billion.
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Amazon on pace to spend $7 billion on video and music content this year, according to new disclosure
Amazon is providing more detail on its investments in video and music programming that are offered as an incentive to its Prime members.
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9 out of top 10 apps to come from India soon: GGVC Managing Partner
Eighth annual India Internet Day (iDay) conference organised by TiE Delhi-NCR on April 25.
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Elon Musk, SEC to disclose settlement status by April 30
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have been requested to provide to the court a joint submission by or on April 30, declaring if they have reached an agreement to settle the dispute over Musk's Twitter use.
from Gadgets Now http://bit.ly/2vq7E...
New fallout from 'the collision that changed the world'
When India slammed into Asia, the collision changed the configuration of the continents, the landscape, global climate and more. Now scientists have identified one more effect: the oxygen in the world's oceans increased, altering the conditions for life. They created an unprecedented nitrogen record destined to become one of the fundamental datasets...
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