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UN calls for immediate investigation into Saudi role in Jeff Bezos hack
A 2018 spyware attack on Jeff Bezos’ phone escalated into an international scandal on Wednesday, as United Nations human rights experts issued a stern statement criticizing the government of Saudi Arabia for allegedly conducting the hack. “The information we have received suggests the possible involvement of the Crown Prince in…
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7 now has an official release date and a trailer
The final season of Star Wars animated series The Clone Wars comes to Disney Plus starting on February 21, it was revealed today. These final 12 episodes will complete the story of the cult favorite series, which was canceled back in 2013, but has been brought back partly because of…
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Boeing partners with Tactical Robotics to develop VTOL tech
Boeing has signed a new agreement with Israel-based Tactical Robotics, an exploratory deal that will see the two companies work together jointly on “developing, producing and marketing” aircraft with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities based on Tactical Robotics’ ‘Fancraft’ enclosed rotor technology. Already, the Urban Areonautics-owned Tactical Robotics has…
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Octi launches a social network built around augmented reality
Octi has created a new social network that uses augmented reality to connect the act of seeing your friends in real life with viewing digital content like their favorite YouTube videos and Spotify songs. When I wrote about the startup in 2018, it was building AR technology that could do…
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TriggerMesh scores $3M seed from Index and Crane to help enterprises embrace ‘serverless’
TriggerMesh, a startup building on top of the open source Kubernetes software to help enterprises go “serverless” across apps running in the cloud and traditional data centers, has raised $3 million in seed funding. The round is led Index Ventures and Crane Venture Partners. TriggerMesh says the investment will be…
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Motorola’s foldable Razr will launch on February 6th after delay
After a slight delay last month, Motorola’s highly anticipated foldable Razr now has a release date: it’ll be out on February 6th for $1,499, with preorders starting on January 26th. The new preorder date is exactly a month after the originally planned December 26th date, which Motorola changed due to…
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