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Students earn points for every 20 minutes that they avoid picking up their phones. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2FekiT9

The data-transmitting device stores multiple payment card details and can send and receive messages. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2F8pOqv

The software uses machine-learning to create computer-generated versions of people's faces. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2t6YKmy

The firm says its public share price listing could see the firm valued at $23bn (£16.7bn). from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2EZJBsX

 After raising $4.4 million last March, Virtualitics has closed a $7 million Series B round led by Centricus with participation from The VR Fund. The startup is building a sort of “Excel for VR,” that lets people see data in a more immersive and collaborative way. “[B]usiness intelligence platforms need to be 3D and collaborative by design in order to help companies gain a… Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2FGlEE7

 The secret to Spotify’s public market debut is actually an acquisition it made in 2014. The Echo Nest was powering music recommendations for Beats Music, Rdio, Vevo, and iHeartRadio too before Spotify pulled it out from under them by buying it for a reported $100 million — 90 percent in Spotify equity. That deal paid off big time. Today, in Spotify’s SEC filing to go… Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2HSlgTB

 A reminder that I’m going to have Paul Vigna and Michael Casey, authors of The Truth Machine, onstage with me next week at Knotel, a co-working and event space in Manhattan. I’ll see you there tonight. RSVPs are closed. It starts at 7pm and will feature a 35-minute talk with two of the top writers in crypto. These guys literally wrote the book on bitcoin and their new book is about… Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2FFH58d

 Hall One at Mobile World Congress – a single space more massive than most conference centers in major cities – contained only a few displays. Although a quarter of the room housed small phone and mobile manufacturers, Huawei controlled the rest, creating a walled-off compound patrolled by women in folk costumes from many lands. The Small World After All jollity stopped at the gates. Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2HTW27k

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 Voice assistants may be the hottest thing since sliced bread when it comes to controlling your $60 wifi light bulbs, but Piccolo is launching out of the latest Y Combinator class with a desire to put a camera in every smart home that can translate your physical motions and gestures into commands. The company’s “Vision Assistant” product works pretty simply, users place the… Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2oF4kap

 It’s clear there is a diversity and inclusion problem in tech. What some companies still struggle with, however, is how to fix it. Part of that is because it can be a hard problem to solve if one doesn’t scratch the surface of understanding it. Nearly four years since tech companies who previously sued to hide their diversity data released it, “we’ve had basically no… Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2oDiade

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 For years, one of the holy grails of web design has been trying to automate turning front-end design into clean back-end code. Early attempts included tools like Dreamweaver and FrontPage. Pagedraw, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2018 class, has developed a tool to fulfill that vision in a modern context. Typically, a web design team sits down and creates a mockup of the user interface,… Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2F1uuuM

 Arguably the most frustrating part of renting an apartment, especially in an expensive city like New York, is dealing with the security deposit. One startup wants to make renting easier by getting rid of security deposits, with a solution that is beneficial for both renters and landlords. Here’s how it works: For a monthly fee Rhino provides your landlord with an insurance policy which… Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2HSW9zO

 Enterprise health management startup Collective Health has added another $110 million to the coffers from existing high-profile investors such as Founders Fund and Alphabet’s investment arm GV, bringing the total now raised to a cool $230 million. The structure is partially a follow-on from a previously unannounced C-1 for $30 million and another $80 million in Series D funding. New… Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2F3Todc

YouTube has tapped far-left group to help police content, report says YouTube has enlisted the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center to assist with policing content, according to The Daily Caller.

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The Moon will get 4G in 2019 There are many places on Earth where you can regularly hear the screams of people unable to get a good signal.

Google gets 2.4M requests from Europeans to be 'forgotten' Google has been flooded with 2.4 million requests from individuals and companies across Europe to be “forgotten” — that is, wiped clean from any Web search.

'Burmese Bin Laden': Facebook removes page of Buddhist monk after racist rant The notorious firebrand Buddhist monk Ashin Wirtathu, also known as the "Burmese bin Laden," has been kicked off Facebook for violating its community standards.

By BRIAN X. CHEN from NYT Technology http://ift.tt/2F0bInK

 It’s one thing to dispatch a drone when an accident happens to get an aerial overview of what’s happening on the ground, but you get far better situational awareness if you can use augmented reality (AR) to add the names of roads, the location of key personnel, cars and other assets to that view. That’s what Edgybees, a Santa Clara-based startup that current specializes in AR… Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2F2wB1r

 Fresh on the heels of settling a contentious and expensive lawsuit with Uber, Alphabet’s self-driving unit Waymo is looking to get out there and educate the public on how its autonomous vehicles work. In a blog post announcing that Waymo self-driving cars have racked up 5 million miles of driving experience on public roads, the company released a video called the Waymo 360-degree… Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2F9kPWh

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The publisher of Little Things blames Facebook's algorithm changes for the lifestyle website's closure. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2FdnMW2

The 200-store electronics retailer is unable to secure a sale of the business, its boss says. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2BXDd2E

Sega removes a "preview" of its latest video game from the PlayStation download store after realising it gave some players access to the full game. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2GThuYJ

Can net neutrality survive 5G? BARCELONA—A one-size-fits-all approach to net neutrality won't work in a 5G world, Ericsson CEO Börje Ekholm said at an MWC press conference.

Google battles an individual who wants information about him removed from its search engine. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2HRnqTf

The scientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work with graphene worries about research funding. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2HTNJse

 Kindred Capital, a London-based VC firm that has actually been up and running since 2015, is announcing that it has closed its first seed fund of £80 million, money it has already been deploying in around 20 tech startups throughout Europe over the last two years. Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2CNDYb9

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Ring makes doorbells that stream videos of people approaching or ringing the front door to phones. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2CNYfxf

China's Haier reveals a smartwatch that turns the back of the wearer's hand into a display. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2GMSjHq

Marie Farmer came up with the idea during her maternity leave, and it has now led to her quitting her job. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2GOZ8bm

Barbra Streisand cloned her dog twice In an interview touching several different subjects, from her potential return to Broadway, dealing with sexism and her thoughts on the 2017 Oscars, Barbra Streisand has revealed that her two puppies are actually clones of a dog she used to have.

Barbara Streisand cloned her dog twice In an interview touching several different subjects, from her potential return to Broadway, dealing with sexism and her thoughts on the 2017 Oscars, Barbara Streisand has revealed that her two puppies are actually clones of a dog she used to have.

 Apple will apparently have every kind of show from anyone with any kind of name working in Hollywood when it launches its updated approach to original video content: The latest original on its slate is a 10-epsiode, half-hour thriller series order that will be executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, who is also going to direct the first installment (via Variety). The thriller is being written… Read More from Apple – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2oySVbY

 Israel-based BrainQ is a new nuerotech startup hoping to take on brain-computer interface (BCI) companies like Braintree founder Bryan Johnson’s Kernel and Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk’s Neuralink. It’s not clear yet what Musk’s startup intends to do with the computer chips it plans to put in our heads but Johnson’s startup says it is focused on… Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2GOPENm

US senators say US border control hasn't been using the right software to verify e-passports. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2HQqjUn

The breach prompts a warning from privacy watchdog to secure CCTV cameras across UK. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2GNi6PE

By FARHAD MANJOO from NYT Technology http://ift.tt/2CKljNv

 Pinterest today is adding another executive to its upper c-suite with the hire of Francoise Brougher, who was most recently business lead at Square and prior to that VP of SMB global sales and operations at Google, as its first chief operating officer. Both of those previous positions are probably going to be of particular interest to Pinterest, as someone with Brougher’s experience… Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2CIU1qB

 If an engineer ends up leaving a company, on their own, or for any other reason, the company work is going to have to quickly work to change all of their keys for their credentials and keys application components. That’s a huge hassle, because often times it’s hard to know where they are stored, who can access what, and how to change everything at a massive scale — especially… Read More from Startups – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2CpImBC

 It’s no secret, Apple has been relying on third-party cloud companies for iCloud. And CNBC spotted an interesting tidbit in Apple’s own documents. The company now relies on Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Platform’s storage product to store iCloud data. Back in 2016, CRN reported that Apple signed with Google for cloud storage. But Apple’s document represents the first… Read More from Apple – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2GNGpwH