Month: May 2020
The Best Star Wars Day Deals (2020): Movies, Decals, Collectibles
Gathered the best sales, we have, from discounts on the entire Skywalker Saga to Star Wars decals. Source
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Amazon VP quits over company firing COVID-19 whistleblowers
Amazon’s recent firings of labor critics have prompted dissent among its upper ranks. AWS vice president Tim Bray has quit the company (via The Verge) over what he sees as an attempt to punish whistleblowers worried about inadequate COVID-19 protecti… Source
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Copy and paste the real world with your phone using augmented reality
Apart from burning through VC money and educating the public on how frighteningly large emperor penguins are, what is augmented reality actually good for? Here’s one answer: real-life copy and paste. As this awesome demo from developer Cyril Diagne demonstrates, AR can be the perfect tool to quickly grab visuals…
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Sensor Tower raises $45M as demand for app data grows
Mobile app market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, which provides data-driven insights about the app economy, has raised $45 million in new funding from Riverwood Capital. This is the first significant investment the now-profitable company has seen since its $1 million seed round in 2013. The investment speaks to the growing…
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Browser add-on verifies that sites actually honor their privacy policies
Just because a website presents a privacy policy, doesn’t mean its code is actually abiding by that policy. To make the internet a little more secure, researchers from Waterloo University in Ontario created a browser plug-in that verifies whether a w… Source
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Carnival will start cruises again on August 1st
Carnival has announced that it will resume some of its cruises on August 1st. Trips will resume on eight ships leaving from Miami and Port Canaveral, Florida, and Galveston, Texas, according to Reuters. All other cruises in North America and Australia will remain suspended through at least August 31st, Carnival…
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