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If you’ve been out of touch with the FinTech market recently you may have missed how popular prepaid cards have become. This is especially true when it comes to “open-loop” cards, which are prepaid cards powered by a processor like Visa or MasterCard that can be used anywhere a credit or debit card is accepted. These accounts now look and feel increasingly similar to an… Read More... →

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06:00 06.10.2016

Crunch Report | Blue Origin has another Successful Rocket Launch Test

Blue Origin succesfully launches a rocket to test a capsule-malfunction scenario, VC firm Metamorphic Ventures raises $50 million and gets a new name, VC firm Fenox pauses its India fund after Venktesh Shukla leaves the company, Clearpath raises a $30 million Series B and Google’s autonomous cars cross 2 million miles driven. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

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03:58 06.10.2016

Theranos closes its labs and wellness centers, lays off 340

Theranos is closing its labs and wellness centers, CEO Elizabeth Holmes announced today in blog post. And this isn’t a temporary closure: the “approximately” 340 employees running them are out of a job. Read More... →

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03:57 06.10.2016

Udacity open sources an additional 183GB of driving data

On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt last month, Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun announced that the online education company would be building its own autonomous car as part of its self-driving car nanodegree program. To get there, Udacity has created a series of challenges to leverage the power of community to build the safest car possible — meaning anyone and everyone is welcome to become… Read More... →

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03:00 06.10.2016

The silent evolution of domain names

The internet has come a long way since the first domain name was registered in 1985. Even longer when you consider it was only 1994 when a WIRED writer contacted McDonald’s to see if they were interested in registering mcdonalds.com, and, well, got nowhere. Indeed, the state of the domain-name industry has vastly changed. Read More... →

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02:34 06.10.2016

Creating a new architecture of government through tech and innovation

The 2016 presidential transitions teams have the opportunity to build upon the innovation agenda of previous administrations to advance a culture of innovation that is supported and enabled by cutting-edge tech throughout government. Read More... →

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02:00 06.10.2016

Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by creators of Apple’s Siri

Samsung has agreed to acquire Viv, an AI and assistant system co-founded by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham — who created Siri, which was acquired by Apple in 2010. The three left Apple in the years after the acquisition and founded Viv in 2012. Pricing information was not available, but we’ll check around. Viv has been billed as a more extensible, powerful version… Read More... →

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01:35 06.10.2016

eBay acquires visual search engine Corrigon, reportedly for $30M

eBay — the soup to nuts marketplace for new and used goods — has made another acquisition to build out its search and discovery technology for customers to find what they need among the 1 billion or so items that are listed on the site. The company today announced that it has acquired Corrigon, an Israel-based startup that has is a specialist in computer vision and visual… Read More... →

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01:32 06.10.2016

The NBA’s first hackathon: How is the future coming for the league?

The NBA recently held a somewhat quiet event in Midtown: It’s first hackathon. Read More... →

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01:21 06.10.2016

Gotcha! Norwegian Prime Minister caught playing Pokémon GO during parliamentary debate

Pokémon GO fever may be receding in the U.S., but in Norway it’s still raging. The country’s prime minister, Erna Solberg, was caught red-handed playing the game in parliament. Read More... →

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01:00 06.10.2016

10 Telegram-каналов со ссылками на умные тексты

Подборка от админа «Мастридов» и «Маствотча»... →

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00:02 06.10.2016

Pixel’s best features aren’t coming to the new version of Android

At Google’s hardware event this week, the new version of the Android operating system, Android 7.1 (Nougat 7.1), was barely mentioned. As it turns out, there was a reason for that: some of the new Pixel smartphones‘ best features won’t be arriving in the new OS. This includes features like Google Assistant, the built-in customer support service, unlimited and free backup… Read More... →

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Twitter назначил день продажи себя

Twitter определился с датой завершения переговоров о продаже компании... →

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