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Xiaomi thinks people actually want a transparent OLED television 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- August 12, 2020
The old adage ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ was made to be ignored by innovators, but in the case of the Xiaomi Mi TV Lux OLED Transparent television, the company probably should’ve heeded that advice. The 55-inch set, which was announced as part of the company’s 10th year anniversary celebrations, will appear as
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How much is your face worth? Google thinks a $5 Starbucks gift card should be good enough • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- October 3, 2019
Google hired a temp agency to record people’s faces, especially those with darker skin, to collect data for a facial recognition system and offered them $5 gift vouchers in return. The contractors, hired by Randstad, a recruitment agency based in Atlanta, were reportedly asked to target black people. Many of these ended up being homeless
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What the UK tech industry thinks of the ‘unicorn visa’ | Startups 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- August 24, 2019
Two of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs have called for a special ‘unicorn visa’ to allow the UK’s fastest-growing companies – like theirs – to attract the best foreign talent without the hurdles others are likely to face after the UK eventually exits the European Union. Rishi Khosla, CEO and cofounder of fintech OakNorth wrote
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Sunday seems really quiet. Hmm, thinks Google, let’s have a four-hour Gmail, YouTube, G Suite, Cloud outage • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 3, 2019
Google is right now recovering from a multi-hour outage that knocked several of its internet services offline for unlucky netizens on Sunday. Beginning around 12.20pm US West Coast time (1900 UTC), the ad giant started noticing systems, ranging from Gmail and YouTube to its G Suite and cloud hosting platform, were dropping offline for users
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Why this Top Institute Thinks Blockchain Will go Mainstream this Year – Irish Tech News 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- February 8, 2019
By David Drake The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the leading Science and Technology institutes in the US, has predicted that blockchain will become the norm in 2019. As a critical part of the infrastructure governing digital coins, the technology is embedded with potent features such as transparency and tracking mechanisms, that will
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