Political movements have always faced infiltration, but recent revelations point to a threat far different from sabotage.
Source: Wired
Activision’s latest patent is sure to rub gamers the wrong way, as it describes a system that mismatches players in multiplayer games to encourage them to pay for in-game items in order to close the skill gap.
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Source: Digital trends
Hospitals and med schools use fake corpses to teach anatomy, and the most lifelike model is the SynDaver Patient.
Source: Wired
Duo Security today announced its Series D funding that puts the company in unicorn territory. The company raised $70 million led by Meritech Capital Partners and Lead Edge Capital at a valuation of $1.17 billion. This funding round brings the company’s total amount raised to $119 million.
This round included new investors, Index Ventures and Workday, that latter of which joins as a… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Techstars has launched a new accelerator in Austin focused on the increasingly popular category of “impact” technologies. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Pinterest began rolling out targeted ads based on searches for its partners earlier this year, giving it another moment in time to catch potential customers as they try to sniff out new things they might buy — and now everyone else will get a piece of that. The company said it is adding search ads to its Ads manager today, letting businesses target customers searching for potential… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The Pixel 2 and the iPhone 8 Plus battle it out to determine which phone’s camera does better portraits, landscape selfies and low-light shots.
Source: CNET
The only thing I hate more than schlepping around electronics is schlepping around accessories and dongles for those electronics. And even when I’m not traveling it’s still hard to organize everything in one place and resist the temptation to just throw all my cables into a drawer. Which is exactly why my interest was piqued when I saw Bento Stack. It’s a stacking case… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Some of NASA’s brightest minds star in a Lego set with four women scientists, the Hubble Space Telescope and a space shuttle in plastic-brick form.
Source: CNET
Find out if Google’s new Pixel 2 was able to outperform the iPhone 8 Plus in landscapes, portraits, low light and more.
Source: CNET