As promised, Lenovo is now offering the ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25 limited edition laptop. But don’t worry: there’s no ancient technology here. It’s basically a refitted ThinkPad T470 with a retro keyboard and throwback ThinkPad logos.
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ThinkPads are renowned for their durability, and that’s no accident. Lenovo’s Yamato Labs tortures every new design with static electricity, thumps, giant clamps, and more. Here’s an inside look at the abuse every new ThinkPad endures.
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Dating through apps has several ongoing problems. The glaring privacy breaches seem to mount up day by day. For instance, cyber-security researchers realized that hackers could create a creepy Chrome plugin allowing a Tinder user to find the precise location of their Facebook friends who were also on Tinder. A journalist asked Tinder for the data it had on her and got back 800 pages of… Read More
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In Arabic, Indian or Eastern cultures where people can’t really have an open dating profile, the traditional Tinder/Happn/Bumble/Badoo etc dating apps don’t work too well as they are based on images. It turns out chat bots may be the way forward in these markets if a recent VC investment is anything to go by. NearGroup, a chatbot allowing users to connect with like-minded people… Read More
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Consumer passenger flight could be the next industry that’s transformed by electric powertrains, and Seattle’s Zunum Aero wants to be at the forefront of that change. Read More
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To win the assistant game, Google needs a hardware ecosystem. And it’s not waiting for one to materialize.
Source: Wired
Google’s Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa offer more capabilities than Apple’s Siri, their predecessor.
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It was either a new, sci-fi sound gun or something else. Here’s a hypothesis for the something else.
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ThinkPads aren’t always the most eye-catching machines but they’ve earned a reputation for reliability over the years, thanks in large part to the careful engineering that goes into each and every one — even the weird ones.
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Zefo, which bills itself as “India’s fastest growing used goods marketplace,” said today that it has raised $9.2 million in Series B funding. The round was led by returning investors Sequoia India and Helion Venture Partners, with participation by Beenext. Read More
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