ZappRX, the app that aims to make it easier to manage specialty drug prescriptions, has pulled in $25 million in Series B funding led by Qiming US, the Chinese venture outfit’s stateside health care fund. GV (formerly Google Ventures) and GlaxoSmithKline’s funding arm SR One were also in the round and GV’s Krishna Yeshwant and Qiming US’s Mark McDade will now join… Read More
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An update to Illumina’s gene sequencing technology could have contaminated the results of recent high-sensitivity data produced on the machines. The post Geneticists Fear Illumina’s Sequencers May Distort Results appeared first on WIRED.
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On the far-right, political memes have evolved from mere trolling to something that looks a lot more like military propaganda. The post Don’t Look Now, But Extremists’ Meme Armies Are Turning Into Militias appeared first on WIRED.
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Facebook’s building a platform to extend its digital reach into the physical world. Now imagine Apple doing the same. And Google. And Microsoft. And Amazon. The post The Rise of AR Will Unleash Competing Corporate ‘Realities’ appeared first on WIRED.
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The consolidation of smaller cloud services through acquisitions by larger could platforms has been a running theme in the enterprise world for a while, and this morning we got a glimpse of what might be the latest development on that front. Israeli publication Calcalist is reporting that Microsoft is in talks to acquire Cloudyn — startup founded in Tel Aviv that monitors and optimizes… Read More
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Apple is coming under pressure from authorities in China after internet regulators asked the company to tighten standards for iOS apps in the country. A report from state news agency Xinhua said Apple had been summoned for questioning for allowing three streaming services — toutiao.com, huoshanzhibo.com and huajiao.com — to “violate four different regulations… Read More
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A look at just how ideas go viral. The post The Oral History of TED, a Club for the Rich That Became a Global Phenomenon appeared first on WIRED.
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If you’re looking for an excuse to get Samsung’s superphone, you’ve come to the wrong place.
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If you’re looking for an excuse to get Samsung’s superphone, you’ve come to the right place.
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Amazon isn’t in Southeast Asia yet — the e-commerce giant pushed back plans to enter early this year — but that isn’t stopping future rival Lazada teaming up with a range of companies to offer an Amazon Prime-style membership package in advance of the U.S. e-commerce giant’s arrival. Lazada, the e-commerce firm that is majority owned by China’s Alibaba,… Read More
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