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Facebook debuts Portal and Portal+ with AI-enhanced Messenger video calls and Amazon’s Alexa
Facebook today unveiled its first-ever consumer electronic device built from the ground up. Portal and Portal+ can display photos and…
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Facebook tries its hand at hardware with Portal
Portal is not Facebook’s Echo Show. Call it a case of convergent evolution, wherein two companies arrived at similar looking…
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Chromebook x360 14 is HP’s thinnest Chromebook convertible yet
Another day, another Chromebook — and this time around, it’s from HP. The Palo Alto company today announced the HP…
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Innit’s new Shopwell app serves up nutrition profiles for foods
Innit, a San Francisco startup that bills itself as a “connected food platform,” purchased wellness app Shopwell in February 2017.…
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Facebook wants to fix video calls with Portal, a $200 gadget that lets you talk to your Messenger friends
Rob Price/Business InsiderThe Portal and Portal+. Facebook has announced it is launching a video-chat and smart speaker device, the Portal.…
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Chinese man arrested for stealing electricity to mine Bitcoin
I’ve heard some pretty innovative ways to avoid the electricity bill while mining cryptocurrency, but this is a new…
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Amazon facilitated charity donations to Islamic extremists through its Amazon Smile scheme
Mike Segar/ReutersAmazon has come under fire in a piece from the Times. Amazon facilitated contributions to charities flagged as having…
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With a new CEO and CTO in place, proptech startup Goodlord raises further £7M
London ‘proptech’ startup Goodlord, which offers cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords and tenants manage the rental process, has…
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Forerunner Ventures just closed a $360 million fund, tripling the size of its last effort
Last year, retail e-commerce sales worldwide reached $2.3 trillion, a 24.8 percent increase over the previous year, according to eMarketer.…
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UK’s oldest Bitcoin exchange ousts most of its staff, blames bearish market
The cryptocurrency market’s growth has been stagnant for too long now — and businesses seem to be losing hope.…
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