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Superpedestrian gets $125M to expand tech that corrects unsafe scooter riding Feb 01, 2022

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Shared e-scooter company Superpedestrian is gearing up to deploy its Pedestrian Defense safety system at scale, a feature that allows the company’s e-scooters to detect and correct unsafe riding behaviors, like riding on sidewalks or the wrong way down a one-way street, in real time.

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AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one Feb 01, 2022

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The idea behind the company was to get engineers back to spending the majority of their time designing and building hardware products.

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Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young, pulls her music from Spotify over vaccine misinformation Jan 31, 2022

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Spotify’s Joe Rogan headache is about to get a lot worse. Earlier this week, musician Neil Young announced that he would pull his music from the streaming service to protest Spotify’s relationship with Joe Rogan.

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Google will let legacy G Suite users migrate to free Google accounts Jan 31, 2022

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Earlier this month, Google announced that it would kill free Google Workspace accounts that were using the G Suite legacy free edition. As spotted by Ars Technica and following customer backlash, Google has updated its support page and says that it plans to offer more options to existing users. Google Workspace as it exists today […]

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Amazon must pay $2M and end program after price-fixing investigation by Washington AG Jan 28, 2022

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Amazon must pay $2.25 million and permanently shut down a previously suspended sales program, following an investigation and lawsuit by the Attorney General of Washington alleging it was essentially price-fixing.

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Compound aims to be a one-stop-shop for tech employees to manage their finances Jan 28, 2022

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Jordan Gonen and Jacob Schein had both worked in the tech industry for a few years when they realized they lacked a clear understanding of their own finances.

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Apple will reportedly allow iPhones to accept contactless payments Jan 27, 2022

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Small businesses might soon be able to accept payments using their iPhones without extra hardware. Apple could start rolling out the feature through a software update in the next few months.

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Paack pulls in a $225M Series D led by SoftBank to scale its E-commerce delivery platform Jan 27, 2022

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By now, many of us are familiar with the warehouse robots which populate those vast spaces occupied by the likes of Amazon and others. In particular, Amazon was very much a pioneer of the technology.

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FTC fines online shop $4M for hiding reviews below 4 stars Jan 26, 2022

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We all know online reviews must be taken with a grain of salt, but generally you’d like to think that a product with a 4.5-star average is better than one with a 3.5-star average.

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Twitter’s experimental ‘Flock’ feature will let you share tweets with your closest friends Jan 26, 2022

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Twitter is still working on a feature that will give you a way to blast tweets that can only be seen by the friends you choose first revealed in July last year.

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