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Wear OS smartwatches now remind you to wash your hands

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Smartwatches running Wear OS will remind you to wash your hands for 40 seconds every three hours. Read more… More ...

Financial tech startup Previse raises $11 million to help suppliers get paid faster

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Previse, a fintech focused on helping suppliers get faster payment, announced that it has raised $11 million in new funding ...

View, the dynamic glass company that raised $1.1 billion from SoftBank in 2018, is laying people off

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View, a 13-year-old, Milpitas, Calif.-based company that makes dynamic glass designed to reduce heat and glare as well as lessen ...

Taxfix raises $65 million for its mobile tax filing app

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Berlin-based startup Taxfix has raised a $65 million Series C funding round. Index Ventures is leading the round with Neil ...

Medopad rebrands as Huma, acquires BioBeats and TLT to expand its biomarker platform

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Some big changes are underway for London-based Medopad, a startup that builds software for medical practitioners to monitor patients remotely based ...

Mayfield raises $750 million across two funds

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Silicon Valley mainstay the Mayfield Fund has raised $750 million across two new funds, the firm said today. The venture ...

Google Play Store update helps parents find content for their shut-in kids

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Parents of young children are really having a tough time with the stay-at-home orders. Not only do they have to ...

Despite pledge, some carriers are disconnecting non-paying Americans

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On March 13th, the then four major U.S. wireless providers, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint, . For the 60 days ...

Google Pixel 6 Might Be Company’s First to Tout Custom Chipset, as Work Has Reportedly Started on an in-House Solution

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Pixel 4 is a bit of a hit and miss and with the upcoming Pixel 5, Google may go down an ...

New Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Warzone Update Released; Alters Warzone’s Trios Mode and Packs Various Fixes

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A new multiplayer Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Warzone update is available now across all platforms which alters Warzone’s ...

Fortnite Season 3 Delay Announced by Epic

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We’ve seen the delay of so many titles as a result of the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. From games like ...

New phone called nubia Play to arrive on April 21 with 5G

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The gaming brand nubia launched yesterday the nubia Red Magic 5G for global sale with prices starting from $579/€579/£539. Now, ...

Photos of the Original Apple Watch Prototypes Have Surfaced Online

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Remember the original Apple Watch from 2015? Apple worked on several prototypes before launching the final device and we can ...

Activision Blizzard Games On Track for Now, But COVID-19 May Force Them to Reassess Soon

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The COVID-19 pandemic is having a major effect on video game development around the world, with games like Wasteland 3 and The Last ...

OnePlus 8 Pro undergoes scratch, burn, and bend testing

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OnePlus is now fully playing in the big leagues of the smartphone world, with the newly announced 8 Pro starting ...

Motorola Edge stops by Geekbench ahead of its April 22 announcement

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Motorola is officially getting back into the flagship smartphone game with an announcement on April 22. At that point, rumor ...

Our Realme 6 Pro video review is up

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The Realme 6 Pro was introduced last month, but it isn’t a successor of the Realme 5 Pro – it ...

Apple A12Z physically identical to A12X but with all eight GPU cores enabled

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Apple recently introduced its A12Z Bionic chipset on the 2020 iPad Pro models. The similar naming to the A12X Bionic ...

Google just reduced its Nest Cam video quality and people have THOUGHTS

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No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Your elaborate Nest Cam surveillance setup that’s perfect for spying on your neighbors ...

Stanford, Fitbit join forces to predict viral infections with wearables

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As the world searches for a way to bring society back online after coronavirus social isolation, researchers are springing into ...

How to fundraise for coronavirus relief on social media

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Novel crises often come with complications that warrant widespread responses from the general public. Part of that response can be ...

How to spend as little time at the grocery store as possible

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Grocery shopping has become a dangerous, but necessary errand as COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus outbreak, continues ...

Please enjoy these adorable Pikachu-themed wireless earbuds from Razer

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Listen, things are pretty bleak right now. We have to hold onto anything that’s warm and cuddly as hard as ...

Luxury consignment retailer The RealReal lays off 10% of workforce, furloughs 15%

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Online consignment company The RealReal is the latest tech company to lay off and furlough employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Ooni’s Koda 16 pizza oven is the rare kitchen gadget that delivers on its promise

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Ooni (nee Uuni), has been around for a few years now, but its latest oven, the Koda 16, launched in ...

Apple Maps’ Mobility Data reveals the impact of COVID-19 on cities, countries, and regions

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Data collected from smartphone apps is being used to slow the spread of COVID-19 worldwide. , which will start working ...

Apple could use powerful 5nm A14X Bionic chipset for 5G iPad Pro in 2020-2021

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When , we were surprised to find that instead of an A13X Bionic chipset, both the 11-inch and 12.9-inch models ...

Google is lowering Nest camera quality ‘to conserve internet resources’

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If you’re looking at footage from your Nest Cam and the quality seems a bit lower than normal: it’s not ...

Adriel brings automation to small business advertising

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Adriel is a South Korean startup bringing automated ad tools to small businesses — and in recent months, it’s been ...

NASA’s Curiosity team is operating the Mars rover from home

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It’s hard enough in the first place having to drive an astronomically expensive rover around a planet millions of miles ...