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Can a $350 headband deliver better sleep?

Sleep is the next battleground on which the war for wearable health will be waged. Smartwatch and fitness band makers have been dipping their collective toes in the water for a few years now, but ther

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TRI-AD’s James Kuffner and Max Bajracharya are coming to TC Sessions: Robotics+AI 2020

With the Tokyo Summer Olympics rapidly approaching, 2020 is shaping up to be a big year for TRI-AD (Toyota Research Institute – Advanced Development). Opened in 2018, the research wing is devote

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Loliware’s kelp-based plastic alternatives snag $6M seed round from eco-conscious investors

The last few years have seen many cities ban plastic bags, plastic straws, and other common forms of waste, giving environmentally conscious alternatives a huge boost — among them Loliware, purveyor o

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Chrome gets global media controls

Here is a small but useful new feature in Google Chrome: global media controls that allow you to control all of the audio and video sources in your current tabs from a single widget. With this, you ca

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Daily Crunch: Mozilla lays off 70

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WorkBoard triples again in 2019, raises $30M from a16z to celebrate

WorkBoard, a SaaS startup that provides goal setting and management software to other companies, announced today that it has closed a $30 million Series C. The new capital comes less than a year after

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Mojo Vision’s AR contact lenses are very cool, but many questions remain

Companies keep trying to make glassholes happen. Understandably. After the smartphone and the wrist, the face is the next local battlefield for computational space, if decades of science fiction movie

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Soybeans and old tariffs: Why all the fuss?

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Dinosaurs shrank to keep warm as they evolved into birds

A new theory explaining how theropods were able to evolve into birds has been proposed, despite the lack of fossil evidence.

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'When' is Pelosi's strategy against Trump

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France's Macron: Education is vital in tackling fake news

Emmanuel Macron was criticized for the lack of meetings he has held with the press during his new year speech. (Credit: AP) Speaking at the Elysee Palace, French President Emmanuel Macron has

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Why phase one deal matters

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Crowdfunded hardware startups are breathing fresh life into music making

I love music. Seriously, it’s one of the few things that brings solace in this cold, lonely world. Want to go deep on Joni Mitchell, William Onyeabor or Pablo Casals? I’m game. Yes, I worked at multip

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Several countries racing to have Africa's tallest building

Highrise construction site in Accra /Getty Images Currently, the distinction of being Africa's tallest building belongs to The Leonardo, in Johannesburg's upmarket Sandton neighborhood. The sk

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Save over $200 with discounted student tickets to Robotics + AI 2020

If you’re a current student and you love robots — and the AI that drives them — you do not want to miss out on TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020. Our day-long deep dive into these two life-altering tech

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Accel-backed Clockwise launches an AI assistant for Google Calendar

Startups are paying for more subscription services than ever to drive collaboration during working hours, but–whether or not the Slack-lash is indeed a real thing–the truth is that filling

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Daily Crunch: Goodbye Hipmunk

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