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New material breaks world record turning heat into electricity
The House and Senate finally agree on something: Robocalls
Roth/Updike
I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe
Bill.com Files for $100M IPO
Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight
Is Neuromarketing Ethical?
We’d have more quantum computers if it weren’t so hard to find the damn cables
Sources: John Legere has no plans to leave T-Mobile and take the CEO job at WeWork
Let's Do This, a platform that lists ~30K races and provides personalized recommendations for participants in events like marathons, raises $15M Series A
Mexico's first online-only supermarket Justo raises $10M seed round led by Foundation Capital, with 500 Startups, others participating
Solar panels waste a lot of energy. Scientists have a plan to capture it. ‘Hot electron’ harvesting could unlock big solar energy gains.
Supreme Court agrees to review disastrous ruling on API copyrights. A 2018 ruling on API copyrights could cause problems for the software industry.
Google reportedly manipulates search results to hide controversial subjects and favour big business
Tardigrade DNA Added to Human Cells Could Help Us Survive on Mars, Scientist Says
Fuel cell drone makes an epic ocean crossing. "Although multicopter drones now are being used to transport medical samples and supplies, their 30-minute (or so) battery life limits their range. This week, however, a hydrogen-powered delivery drone managed a one-hour, 43-minute ocean crossing."
Most Americans think they’re being constantly tracked—and that there’s nothing they can do. More than 60% of Americans think it’s impossible to go through daily life without being tracked by companies or the government, according to a new Pew Research study.
Anti-robocall bill likely as House, Senate reach compromise
Show HN: HintPod – Reach product/market fit quicker
Show HN: Faster UTF-8 validator
Training algorithms on copyrighted data not illegal: US Supreme Court
TROS: IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers
Journalist Sharing Their Salary
Hulu to raise its Hulu + Live TV price by 22%, from $44.99/month to $54.99/month, for all subscribers starting on December 18
Sources: SoftBank Group completed the first close of $2B for the Vision Fund 2 so it can start backing startups; SoftBank initially targeted $108B for this fund
Twitter acknowledges that its new guidance on political and cause-based ads is essentially a rough policy outline with lots of details still to be worked out
Sources: after exploring partnerships with banks in 2018 to offer an Amazon-branded checking account, Amazon scrapped those plans in their early stages
theinformation.com · Techmeme · 5 hours ago
Supreme Court will hear massive copyright suit between Google and Oracle
Twitter Has Suspended Several Accounts Responsible For Spreading “I Hired Donald Trump To Fire People Like Yovanovitch"
Supreme Court to decide Google-Oracle software copyright dispute, with billions of dollars at stake
Former Apple chip executives found company to take on Intel, AMD
A Year of Helping Customers Build Production-Ready Kubernetes Infrastructure
Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA probe reveals
Distilling knowledge from neural networks to build smaller and faster models
Google cancels weekly TGIF meetings
The Measure of Intelligence: towards more human-like artificial systems
How analogies rule the world
Fanalyze – Sports search engine and analysis platform
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales launches Twitter and Facebook rival
13 Best Type Foundries Every Web Designer Should Check Out
An open letter to the new Facebook
Design Sprint: Facilitator tips for Friday
Amazon’s real business strategy is delight as a service
medium.com · Designer News · 7 hours ago
The maker of viral deepfakes of Mark Zuckerberg and Boris Johnson says they show how personal data can be used in unexpected ways, even of those in power
TikTok says it has started allowing some users to add links to their profile bios and send their viewers to shopping sites
Apple says it will remove all 181 vaping-related apps from its App Store, after experts attribute a variety of lung injuries and fatalities to e-cigarettes
Germany passed a law on Thursday that could force Apple to open up the iPhone's NFC chip to rival mobile payment platforms in the country
Report finds toxic content on Giphy, including child abuse, depictions of rape, and imagery associated with white supremacy, despite its ban on illicit content
techcrunch.com · Techmeme · 8 hours ago