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Dirac Bass promises to boost low tones in smartphones and portable speakers
Dirac Research wants to boost the bass levels of your next smartphone’s speakers without increasing their heft. The Swedish company today took…
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Box launches Skills out of beta and offers AI consulting services
Last year, cloud storage provider Box launched Box Skills, a suite of third-party apps that add features and functionality to…
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Uber’s Jump e-bikes will have swappable batteries, phone mounts, and QR codes for unlocking
Uber has announced some key updates are coming to its Jump-branded electric bikes in the new year. Most notably, the…
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Amazon researchers boost Alexa’s ability to understand complex commands
Amazon’s Alexa is becoming more proficient at understanding multistep requests in one shot. In a paper (“Parsing Coordination for Spoken Language…
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A month after $70M, Clearbanc raises $50M fund to front startups ad money
Clearbanc is disrupting startup funding by providing companies cash to buy ads in exchange for a revenue share so they…
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Cydia shuts down purchasing mechanism for its jailbreak app store
Years after becoming one of the go-to destinations for iOS jailbreaks, Cydia’s app store is disabling purchases. Users will be…
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Tony Hawk goes mobile
The world’s most famous skateboarder talks up ‘Skate Jam,’ his first smartphone title For three years, Tony Hawk has been…
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Propel raises $12.8M for its free app to manage government benefits
Propel, maker of the Fresh EBT app for managing food stamps and other benefits, announced today that it has raised…
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Disney’s invested in educational gaming app Kahoot, now at a $376M valuation
When Kahoot, the startup that operates a popular platform for user-generated educational gaming, raised $15 million in October of this…
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