For years, the goal of marketers was to understand the customer so well, they could respond to their every need, while creating content specifically geared to their wishes. Adobe Cloud Platform has long acted as a vehicle to collect and understand customer data inside the […]
Day: March 27, 2018
US judge blocks lawsuit accusing YouTube of censoring conservatives
He argued that while YouTube is privately owned, Google runs it as a public forum, which makes it subject to First Amendment scrutiny. In his lawsuit, he referenced the 1954 Supreme Court case Marsh v. Alabama, brought about by a Jehovah’s Witness distributing leaflets in […]
Alphabet X spinout Dandelion raises $4.5M to built out its geothermal heating and cooling system for homes
Dandelion, a clean energy startup that was originally incubated inside Google parent Alphabet, has raised $4.5 million in funding to build out its business — a geothermal heating and cooling system for homes that claims it will drastically reduce its customers’ bills — it claims […]
Women May Have an Alternative to Freezing Their Eggs
Here’s how it could go: Some day in the future, it’s routine for every young woman of a certain age—for argument’s sake, let’s say 21—to undergo a procedure to snip off a piece of tissue from one of her ovaries. Her doctor slices up the […]
Uber’s self-driving car program is suspended by Arizona governor
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has suspended Uber’s autonomous vehicle testing program following the world’s first fatality involving a self-driving car. On Sunday March 18, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg was struck by an Uber vehicle while pushing her bike across a darkened street. She was taken to […]
General Catalyst just closed its biggest fund ever, as firms race to get bigger, fast
It happened in 2016, and it’s happening like clockwork again in 2018: Venture firms are closing new funds with more money than they ever have before, just two years after closing their most recent funds with more money than they’d ever raised before. Last week […]
Xiaomi’s Mi Mix 2S is a more powerful take on an already beautiful phone
The reason I’m couching all of this is because the early software on our test unit didn’t have all of these new camera features enabled. Retail-ready units — like the ones going on sale in China shortly — will be feature-complete. As such, I can’t […]
Air France issues warning on Easter disruption
Air France services are set to be hit by further strikes including a stoppage on Good Friday (March 30) as several of its unions take more industrial action. Employees at the airline held a one-day strike last Friday (March 23) and this will be followed […]
Monza, violenza sessuale su una ragazzina di 12 anni: in manette un uomo di 36 anni
E’ accusato di aver violentato una ragazzina di 12 anni il 19 marzo a Monza. Quattro giorni dopo il fatto un uomo di 36 anni è stato fermato. Era a Imola, in Emilia-Romagna, ed è stato portato in carcere a Bologna. Il gip del capoluogo […]
Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S launched with 8GB RAM, 256GB ROM running on Snapdragon 845
Xiaomi just launched their new flagship phone in Shanghai. The company didn’t speculate on when the phone will be launching in India, but they did reveal all of the phone’s specifications. There’s been a lot of conjecture over whether the Mi Mix 2S would come […]