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Carrot Weather — the entertainingly antagonistic weather application from developer Brian Mueller — just got its latest version 5.0 update, which brings a whole new (and far more customizable) design, removes the upfront price tag in favor of more subscription tiers, and, of course, adds new dialogue and Easter eggs for the app’s malevolent AI […]

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USC Viterbi School of Engineering. (USC Photo) Amazon is helping to create a machine learning and artificial intelligence research lab at the University of Southern California. The Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning, part of USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering, will support research that looks at new scalable ways to secure and preserve privacy […]

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Share Tweet Share Share Share Email U.S. challenger bank Dave has secured a $100 million credit facility from alternative investment firm Victory Park Capital (VPC). Jason Brown, partner at VPC, said in a Thursday (Jan. 28) press release that the firm is on board with Dave’s mission to “make banking more accessibleâ€� and has helped […]

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23andMe’s new COVID-19 resource. Consumer genomics company 23andMe has released a new interactive tool that allows users to see how various health factors could impact the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization. The COVID-19 Severity Calculator pulls data from the company’s COVID-19 study, which included 10,000 participants diagnosed with the disease and 750 who were hospitalized. 23andMe warned […]

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Today is Data Privacy Day. Don’t kick yourself if you haven’t heard of it—not many people have. Yet it’s never been more important, as technology for capturing, analyzing, and categorizing virtually any imaginable piece of data about us—from our heartbeats to our most private thoughts—becomes only more advanced, invasive, and pervasive. To mark the day, […]

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Share Tweet Share Share Share Email In a year in which over 80 new special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have made their debut, WeWork is in discussions to merge with a blank-check company, noted The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources. WeWork Chief Communication Officer Lauren Fritts said that WeWork has focused in the past […]

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According to research firm Strategy Analytics, Apple’s AirPods dominated the market for True Wireless Stereo (TWS) Bluetooth headsets in 2020. Overall, the accessory remains one of the hottest products in tech as the category saw sales soar 90% last year. Even after last year’s growth, there is room for more. Ville-Petteri Ukonaho, Strategy Analytics’ Associate […]

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Tech giant Apple is spending $100 million to expand opportunities for communities of color in technology and entrepreneurship.  Speaking with “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Vice President Lisa Jackson are revealing new details about the racial equality initiative, launched last summer after the killing of George Floyd at the […]

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Apple has a “new projectâ€� in the works, one that’s so important that the company decided to reorganize its hardware division to tend to it. We talk about what we think the “new projectâ€� is and more in this episode of the Macworld Podcast. This is episode 728 with Jason Cross, Michael Simon, and Roman […]

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