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Buzzy mattress maker Casper is pitching itself as a tech company, just like WeWork did. Here why business experts are dubious

Online mattress company Casper tried to pitch itself as a tech company in its recently filed initial public offering paperwork. Private investors have given it a tech-like...
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I cuddled with strangers at a San Francisco cuddle party alongside other members of the city's intimacy-starved workforce. No, it wasn't that weird

1 hour ago | Business Insider

Cuddle parties are intimate gatherings where strangers meet, practice consent, and enjoy human touch. There are some hosted in San Francisco, a city with a long track record of...
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BurdaForward establishes its first product and development site in Italy

6 hours ago | Roi Investing

The Burda subsidiary forms strategic partnership with Fincons Group to accelerate growth in the tech sector Bari/Munich, 03.09.2019 - The German publishing house BurdaForward...
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Love Island's real genius is in its money-making app

8 hours ago | Wired

ITV has made millions by teaming up with an app developer on Love Island - and its success hints at the future of the TV business
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$1tn is just the start: why tech giants could double their market valuations

21 hours ago | The Guardian

As Alphabet becomes the latest firm to achieve a 13-figure market cap, analysts still forecast years of growth ahead Alphabet, the tech giant formerly known as Google, on...
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Forget San Francisco or Seattle - these are the 10 most affordable cities to find a good-paying job as a programmer

23 hours ago | Business Insider

Skyrocketing costs of living may have made traditional tech hubs like San Francisco less appealing for tech workers, but other more affordable opportunities still exist around...
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A bunch of promising cheap, new smartphones from Apple, Google, and others are expected to launch this year - and it says a lot about where the industry is headed

1 day ago | Business Insider

After years of increasing costs and slowing sales, 2020 looks like the year that smartphone prices may finally come down. Advanced features, like edge-to-edge screens and...
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Expectation-defying year for Survey 3D international

1 day ago | Energy Voice

Specialist surveying company Survey 3D international is celebrating a better-than-expected first year. The Aberdeen firm notched up turnover in excess of £1.6 million and ended...
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We found the cheapest 16GB RAM laptop with a 1TB SSD

1 day ago | TechRadar

Cheap laptops often come short on system memory and internal storage - which often backfires in providing a good user experience. We cringed at the world's cheapest laptop...
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A group of small tech firms told Congress that Google, Apple and Amazon used bullying tactics to try to crush them. Here are some of the most astounding stories they shared

1 day ago | Business Insider

Sonos, Tile, Basecamp and PopSockets appeared in Boulder, Colorado to testify before Congress today. The four tech companies sell a diverse range of products, like speakers...
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The 5 most valuable US tech companies are now worth more than $5 trillion...

Google-parent Alphabet soared to a $1 trillion valuation Thursday, pushing the total value of the five biggest tech companies to a record $5 trillion. Apple and Microsoft both... Read more ...

Hands On With Leica's Black-and-White M10 Monochrom

Three years after the launch of the M10, Leica is bringing a black-and-white Monochrom version to market, with an all-new 40MP imager and the classic M rangefinder design. Read more ...

Tragic student stabbed at house party before collapsing outside chip shop

Tributes have been made to 20-year-old Cameron Blair, a Cork Institute of Technology student who collapsed and died after being stabbed in the neck while at a house party in... Read more ...

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne PC updates will catch up with consoles in April

One of the few drawbacks of playing Monster Hunter: World on PC has always been that we've had to wait months for content that appears first on the console versions of the... Read more ...

I cuddled with strangers at a San Francisco cuddle party alongside other...

Cuddle parties are intimate gatherings where strangers meet, practice consent, and enjoy human touch. There are some hosted in San Francisco, a city with a long track record of... Read more ...

Buzzy mattress maker Casper is pitching itself as a tech company, just like...

Online mattress company Casper tried to pitch itself as a tech company in its recently filed initial public offering paperwork. Private investors have given it a tech-like... Read more ...

Titans vs Chiefs live stream: how to watch NFL's AFC Conference Championship...

The AFC Conference Championship is on the line and today you'll get to see the Tennessee Titans take on the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium with the winner heading... Read more ...

Oracle aims to benefit the most as customers shift from on-premise to cloud

Oracle aims to become the top revenue earner and number one cloud provider when organisations start moving from on-premises to the cloud, a top official said. Speaking in an... Read more ...

Latest iOS 13.3.1 beta lets you fully disable location tracking on the iPhone 11

Apple often makes a point about how much it cares about user privacy, and a new feature coming in iOS 13.3.1 is specifically intended to give iPhone 11 owners extra peace of... Read more ...

The Samsung Galaxy S20 needs to fix this one big problem with the Galaxy S10

If rumors are to be believed, the Samsung Galaxy S20 is set to be one of the most impressive devices of the year, with incredible specs in the camera, hardware, battery and... Read more ...