Monday, Feb. 24, was supposed to be the first day of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where Sony was scheduled to launch new Xperia smartphones. Due to coronavirus fears, the MWC was canceled, but Sony still had its press event, albeit only in the form...
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February 24, 2020 albert
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[Editor’s note: Want to get this weekly review of news that startups can use by email? Just subscribe here.] How well do Robinhood’s financials stack up against incumbent online brokerages? While we wait for the seven-year-old company’s long-planned IPO, Alex Wilhelm examined Morgan Stanley’s big $...
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February 22, 2020 albert
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The visual effects company behind Star Wars, Industrial Light & Magic, has dropped a video showcasing how they used Epic Games’ Unreal Engine to create landscapes for The Mandalorian. It looks amazing, and has the potential to drastically reduce the prevalence of green screen in...
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February 21, 2020 albert
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James Corden and Justin Bieber have been spending a lot of time together lately. Not only did they do another round of Carpool Karaoke, but now they’ve even opened up their own food truck. The food on offer? Grilled cheese and “Despatacos.” The hook? People...
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February 20, 2020 albert
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Elon Musk is not one to mince words, but he may have just lost a potential customer because of a cutting tweet. That customer is renowned big deal Bill Gates, who sat down recently with YouTuber Marques Brownlee, who joined the platform in 2009 and...
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February 19, 2020 albert
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Controversial YouTuber Jake Paul seems to think he has the cure for anxiety all figured out. Pretty much everyone else disagrees. “remember anxiety is created by you,” the 23-year-old high school dropout tweeted on Monday to his 3.7 million followers, many of whom are children....
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February 18, 2020 albert
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There’s plenty to like about “Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet,” a new series on Apple TV+ — its sympathetic-but-critical portrayal of the video game industry, its goofy-but-likable characters and a couple of big surprises that come at the end of the season. But what really stood...
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February 17, 2020 albert
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Out of all the faces to put on Doc Brown and Marty McFly in Back to the Future, I never knew how bad I needed it to be Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland. This deepfake clip superimposes the faces of Downey Jr. and Holland...
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February 16, 2020 albert
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The International Astronomical Union has issued the preliminary results from a study on the potential effects of multi-thousand satellite constellations like that being built by StarLink. Finding that Earth-based astronomical observations may be “severely affected,” the body warned that mitigations and rules had better be...
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February 15, 2020 albert
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In case you haven’t heard, TC Sessions: Mobility is back for second year. This one-day event, which will be held May 14 in San Jose, promises to feature some of best and brightest engineers, policymakers, investors, entrepreneurs and innovators, all of whom are vying to...
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February 14, 2020 albert
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