September 10, 2018
Not hog dog? PixFood lets you shoot and identify food
What happens when you add AI to food? Surprisingly, you don’t get a hungry robot. Instead you get something like PixFood. PixFood lets you take pictures of food,…
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September 10, 2018
Hoodline raises $10M for its hyper-local, automated data newswire
While many lament the death of local news, a small army of tech startups has been developing a new set of tools to figure out how to save…
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Fortnite Monopoly and Nerf Blasters are coming soon
You can’t really blame Epic for captilizing on Fortnite’s massive and largely unexpected success. And really, you’ve got to strike while the iron’s still hot on this one.…
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Meet SelfieCircus and 8 more in Snapchat’s new startup accelerator
Snapchat is hedging its bets as its social network shrinks. Today Snap Inc. revealed the first class of its startup accelerator called Yellow that offers $150,000 in funding…
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Apple’s 5G iPhone conundrum
Wednesday is Apple’s big product release day, where analysts expect the company to release the next edition of the iPhone. While the usual upgrades to the screen, CPU,…
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Evaneos, the online marketplace for tailor-made travel experiences, picks up $80M Series D
Evaneos, the online marketplace for tailor-made travel experiences, has picked up $80 million in Series D funding. Leading the round is Partech, and Level Equity, with participation from…
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Intel acquires NetSpeed Systems to boost its system-on-a-chip business
Intel today is announcing another acquisition as it continues to pick up talent and IP to bolster its next generation of computing chips beyond legacy PCs. The company…
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WhatsApp hits India’s Jio feature phones amidst fake news violence
False rumors forwarded on WhatsApp have led angry mobs to murder strangers in India, but the Facebook-owned chat app is still racing to add users in the country.…
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New Relic shifts with changing monitoring landscape
New Relic CEO Lew Cirne was feeling a bit nostalgic last week when he called to discuss the announcements for the company’s FutureStack conference taking place tomorrow in San…
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Atrium raises $65M from a16z to replace lawyers with machine learning
Let the computers do the legal busy work so attorneys can focus on complex problem solving for their clients. That’s the lucrative idea behind Atrium LTS, Twitch co-founder…
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