Month: January 2020
Amazon’s disconcerting Super Bowl ad makes real people respond to questions we’d ask Alexa
Amazon released its Super Bowl commercial this week, and it’s a weird one. The company’s Super Bowl commercials have historically been a little offbeat, but the best word I can use to describe this year’s is disconcerting. It starts with Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi preparing to go out…
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Google paid out millions in bug bounties last year
Finding bugs in Google’s products was quite a lucrative business last year as the search giant has revealed that it paid out $6.5m to 461 different security researchers. Last year’s payout was almost double the $3.4m the company paid out in 2018 and since starting its bug bounty program in…
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Apple’s redesigned Maps app is available across the US, adds real-time transit for Miami
Apple’s updated and more detailed Maps experience has now rolled out across the U.S., the company announced this morning. The redesigned app will include more accurate information overall as well as comprehensive views of roads, buildings, parks, airports, malls and other public places. It will also bring Look Around to…
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IPO pricing for One Medical and Casper will set the tone for 2020’s unicorn debuts
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. As One Medical looks to become the first venture-backed company to price its IPO in 2020 this afternoon and Casper aims to price its own shares next Wednesday, the market…
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To Survive, Byte Needs to Win Over Creators Where Vine Failed
Six-second video loops are finally back, but this time it has to compete with TikTok. Source
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What is AWS Cognito?
For a small company, keeping track of user accounts for a mobile or web app is not terribly difficult. It might be a simple database you deploy and manage manually. The problem arises when you suddenly start managing hundreds, thousands, or millions of user accounts. At that point, the task…
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