Month: February 2020
Volocopter and Grab team up to test air taxi service in Southeast Asia
German aviation startup Volocopter is teaming up with Grab, the predominant ride-hailing app in Southeast Asia, to launch an air taxi experiment. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to “look into the most suitable cities and routes to deploy air taxis in Southeast Asian cities; evaluate the best…
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Google tells Samsung to stop making changes in Android
Google has slammed some of the leading mobile manufacturers for altering Linux kernel codes within the its Android platform. According to Google’s Project Zero security team, several phone makers have tinkered with the software in order to make their devices more secure – however, in the process, have actually ended…
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Marshall adds active noise cancellation to its over-ear headphones, now with USB-C
Marshall has added active noise cancellation to its new Monitor II ANC headphones, a feature its other models have had for some time, but a first for the company’s over-the-ear model. An ANC button lets users switch between active noise canceling and “monitoring mode” or turn off active noise cancellation…
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SpaceX and new partner announce space tourism launches on Dragon starting as early as 2021
SpaceX has a new partner for commercial private astronaut flights aboard its Dragon spacecraft: Space Adventures, a private space tourism company that has already launched private astronauts including Anousheh Ansari, Guy Laliberté and Mark Shuttleworth to space. Space Adventures has worked with seven clients across high serrate missions to the…
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Tracking China’s astounding venture capital slowdown
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Heading into the new year, it wasn’t known that the coronavirus, known as COVD-19, would shutter much of China, slowing its industrial output, its services industry and more. But heading…
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The best Three mobile deals in February 2020
Three Mobile is known for one thing above all else big data plans. Whether its the 100GB option or the unlimited data plan, Three Mobile deals continue to serve up contracts for the gamers, streamers and those testing the boundaries of data. Until very recently, Three stood unopposed as the…
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