As Hurricane Harvey wreaks havoc on Southeast Texas, crucial cellular networks remain largely stable, reflecting progress since Katrina.
Source: Wired
Teams from around the world showed there’s no wrong way to build futuristic transportation.
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Uber is set to reverse a controversial decision to collect users’ location information after their trip ends, Reuters reports, with the privacy u-turn coming first to the iPhone app — expected to get the update this week — and subsequently to Uber’s Android app. Read More
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The Indian states of Punjab and Haryana were cut off from the internet this weekend amid violence following an Indian cult leader’s rape conviction.
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If the Chinese government says yes to clinical trials, the first pig-to-human organ transplants could be ready soon.
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BunkerEx is a newly-funded startup out of London that is building an online marketplace to change the way shipping companies buy fuel, or ‘bunkers,’ to use the correct industry term. Read More
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Looking to increase local participation in public financing, the State of California is partnering with early stage startup Neighborly to make municipal bond investments available to any and all backers. Over one hundred years ago, when the Golden Gate Bridge was just a glimmer in an urban planner’s eye, residents from all walks of life banded together to buy municipal bonds to support… Read More
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Amazon has a gift for the back-to-school set in the form of drastically reduced prices on its subscription music service. Amazon Music Unlimited (for students) is available in the U.S. starting today for the low-low price of $4.99 per month. That’s less than the $7.99 per month that Amazon charges its Prime Subscribers or the $9.99 per month for non-Prime customers. For students who… Read More
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Ford and Domino’s are teaming up on a research trial that will see Ford cars equipped with self-driving tech delivering pizzas to regular consumers, as a way of figuring out how everyday people will react to, and interact with, autonomous service vehicles in the future. Ford Fusion Hybrid Autonomous Cars will be used in the test, outfitted with pizza containers created by… Read More
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Bunch, a newly-launched startup operating out of Berlin, is aiming to be something akin to a “Google Analytics for company culture”. It offers a SaaS to let companies and company teams quantify internal company culture, and then use this data as the basis to screen job candidates to help ensure that they will also be a good fit. Read More
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