Mindblown: a blog about everything interesting.
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Costco membership card scan update
Great! I’ve been asking and waiting for this digital membership card scan feature for quite sometime from #Costco Still not a complete cardless solution at their gas stations yet. #CostcoiOSApp
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Robinhood password mess
My guess is someone who wrote code must either logging all HTTP requests or user objects and passwords were accidentally included in diagnostic logs, but who knows! And it valued at $7.6 billion earlier this week 🤦♂️ #Robinhood #RobinhoodPassword
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Salesforce to buy Tableau for $15.7B
Big deal for enterprise technology and Seattle tech. Tableau Software will remain based in Seattle and will continue to operate independently under the Tableau brand. Read More
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Bringing the power of Azure, AI and Azure Sphere to Cricket
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. “Together with Spektacom and Star Sports, we are bringing the power of Azure and Azure Sphere to one of the world’s most celebrated games – cricket – transforming how it’s played, coached and watched.” Read More
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Amazon Go rivals on the rise
Amazon Go rivals on the rise. ‘Standard Cognition’ appears to be first to announce a deal in actual stores. Other startups, Accel Robotics and Caper Lab, are using a similar system. Microsoft is in line next? Read More
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Every tech battles with bots, click farms, fake pages, fraudulent traffic
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Long Nose of Innovation
Long Nose of Innovation: Every “wow” moment is preceded by a long period of slowly building innovation. Read More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-were-promised-mind-blowing-personal-tech-whats-the-hold-up-1525356604
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Apple pledges to invest $30b and pay $38b tax bill
Apple said the investments — including a brand new US campus, data centres and more than 20,000 new jobs — would help it make a $350b “direct contribution” to the US economy over the next five years. Some of that is new investment, but some is just taxes. Read More
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Microsoft and Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Beat Humans in Reading Test
They have beaten us at chess, co-written a pop album. Now computers are taking a step ahead into human world: the reading comprehension test. In the test administered last week, Microsoft and Alibaba subjected their artificial intelligence systems to queries from the Stanford Question Answering Dataset, which assessed reading comprehension. The computers’ answers were compared…
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Amazon HQ2 – Boston?
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