Month: November 2020
Facebook Cut Traffic To Leading Liberal Pages Just Before The Election
BuzzFeed News / Via Facebook Occupy Democrats, the largest player in the American liberal Facebook page ecosystem, has more than 10 million followers. The operators of some of the largest US-based liberal Facebook pages said that errors and inaction by Facebook caused their engagement on the platform to drop dramatically…
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This microscopic 3D-printed Star Trek Voyager can move on its own
Physicists from Leiden University have 3D-printed a miniature version of an Intrepid-class starship from Star Trek (via PC Gamer). The idea of a tiny starship is probably something you haven’t considered outside of the plot of a Star Trek episode, but this microscopic model is actually part of a larger…
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Intel has acquired Cnvrg.io, a platform to manage, build and automate machine learning
Intel continues to snap up startups to build out its machine learning and AI operations. In the latest move, TechCrunch has learned that the chip giant has acquired Cnvrg.io, an Israeli company that has built and operates a platform for data scientists to build and run machine learning models, which…
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Samsung Galaxy S21 leak hints at radically early release date Samsung Galaxy S20
Another Samsung Galaxy S21 leak has pointed to a mid-January release date for the Samsung S21 line of phones – which would be novel, since the S-series of phones have launched in February for several years. Also novel is the source of the leak – Jon Prosser, known far more…
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Report: US visas granted to students from mainland China have plummeted 99% since April
It’s no secret that the Trump administration has pursued a variety of avenues to keep foreigners out of the U.S., including through a recent overhaul of the H-1B visa program for high-skilled foreign workers that will require employers to pay H-1B workers higher wages and narrow the types of degrees…
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Insight Partners, Precursor Ventures join Hustle Fund in raising new fund money
Even as the country is in the final days of a polarizing election, the cogs of VC never stop turning. On this ever-so-quiet, non-election-news Tuesday, venture firms still managed to file paperwork with the SEC indicating newly raised funds. Precursor Ventures and Insight Partners will join Hustle Fund in closing…
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