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Trends
Purdue researchers use AI to predict students’ locations and friends from Wi-Fi data
Location-based check-ins reveal a lot about a person — and college students in particular, as it turns out. Researchers at…
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Huawei and Motorola flagship 5G phones could take very different paths
Developers of early 5G cellular phones are facing a common challenge: finding features beyond raw wireless speed to differentiate their…
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Google Photos for iOS gets portrait depth editing and color pop
Over the past few years, smartphones have been using second lenses and computational photography tricks to create “portraits” with blurred…
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Alexa users can now make Skype calls
Microsoft announced in September that Skype calling would come to devices with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant by the end of…
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Apple-Amazon deal will push indie sellers to eBay and reduce scams
Amazon’s continued growth as a retailer of virtually everything has been impressive, but some major brands — including Apple —…
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Enlight and Facetune creator Lightricks raises $60 million
The mobile app market is on the upswing, according to research firms like App Annie. Global downloads grew an estimated 15…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook defends Google search deal but expects new privacy law
Apple CEO Tim Cook has spent the past several years positioning the company as a champion of user privacy, but…
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Finance
Plastiq raises $27M at 2X+ value to let you pay for anything on credit
“I wasn’t asking to pay in Bitcoin!” Plastiq CEO and co-founder Eliot Buchanan recalls with a laugh. “I went to…
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