Month: February 2020
Deep data running wearable NURVV closes $9M Series A led by Hiro Capital
Launched at CES 2020, NURVV, a biomechanics startup, has closed a $9m Series A round, led by Hiro Capital, the sports/Esports VC fund, along with co-investment from Ian Livingstone CBE (Games Workshop co-founder) and Cherry Freeman (co-founder of LoveCrafts). It turns out that if you can figure out how to…
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Netflix will now let you turn off its annoying auto-play videos
As much as we love Netflix around these parts, we can’t say we’re too keen on the service’s implementation of auto-play videos – whether it’s trailers that automatically play while browsing or the way that a new episode will start as soon as the previous one is over, it’s incredibly…
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Instagram’s latest feature lets you see which accounts you interact with the least
Instagram is turning 10 this year, and if you’ve been using the platform for even half that time, chances are you’re following a bunch of accounts that aren’t as relevant to you as they used to be. To help you see who they might be, the image sharing platform has…
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ViacomCBS wants to compete with itself in the streaming wars
The parent company of the $10-per-month CBS All Access streaming platform is reportedly about to launch… another $10-per-month streaming platform. For some reason, the newly merged ViacomCBS is planning a separate service that will “build on” CBS All Access by adding content from Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, BET, MTV, Comedy Central,…
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Tesla remotely disables Autopilot on used Model S after it was sold
Tesla has remotely disabled driver assistance features on a used Model S after it was sold to a customer, Jalopnik reports. The company now claims that the owner of the car, who purchased it from a third-party dealer — a dealer who bought it at an auction held by Tesla…
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These Fake Local News Sites Have Confused People For Years. We Found Out Who Created Them.
Alex Merto for BuzzFeed News Jay Pinho and his wife, Victoria, rely on Google Alerts to track the public appearances of US Supreme Court justices on their website, SCOTUS Map. But late last year, the results began to worry them. “A crop of news [website] domains were popping up that…
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