Month: February 2020
5 Best Sunrise Alarm Clocks (2020): Homelabs, Philips, Casper
No bedroom window? No problem. These sun simulators might just make it easier to wake up and catch z’s. Source
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Waymo workers complain about cuts to benefits and needles in self-driving cars
At first, when Waymo told the workers at its Chandler, Arizona facility last year that they would be vendors instead of contractors, the workers were thrilled. As contractors, the workers — including the drivers who sit behind the wheel of the company’s autonomous cars — had been required by labor…
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Yet another Windows 10 fail as new update breaks the internet – here’s how to fix it
Windows 10’s string of broken updates has now gone well beyond a joke – as it seems that the latest update to be released by Microsoft has been causing network and sound issues for some users. Microsoft has recently released Windows 10 KB4532695, an update for Windows 10 that was…
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The Zebra raises $38.5M as the insurance marketplace race heats up
This morning The Zebra, an Austin-based insurance marketplace startup, announced it has closed a $38.5 million Series C. Accel led the funding event, which was participated in by prior investors Silverton Partners, Ballast Point Ventures, and the company’s CEO Keith Melnick. Floodgate and Weatherford Capital also invested in the round.…
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Microsoft’s Xbox boss says Amazon and Google are ‘the main competitors going forward’
Microsoft’s head of gaming and Xbox, Phil Spencer, has revealed that the company sees Amazon and Google as its main competition for the future. Speaking in an interview with newly launched technology publication Protocol, Spencer dismisses Sony and Nintendo’s ability to create a cloud infrastructure that will challenge Microsoft, Google,…
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Wisk signs deal to deploy an air taxi trial in New Zealand
Air mobility company Wisk has singed an agreement with the New Zealand government to set up and run an air taxi trial in the region of Canterbury, with the goal of flying passengers once its Cora aircraft is certified to do so by the country’s aviation authority. Cora is an…
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