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Top 10 meditation apps pulled in $195M in 2019, up 52% from 2018

The millennial obsession with wellness and self-care has led to a booming business for meditation apps. In the first quarter of 2018, app intelligence firm Sensor Tower had reported the top 10 “

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Former BET Networks CEO Debra Lee hints at launching a tech fund to back women of color

In May 2018, after spending more than 30 years at BET Networks, Debra Lee stepped down as chairman and CEO, following a series of reorganizations within Viacom cable networks.But Lee, who also oversaw

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Why Sony’s PlayStation Vue failed

Sony’s PlayStation Vue, one of the first services to offer streaming live TV over the internet, is shutting down today. The service launched in March 2015, offering live and on-demand content fr

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Ring’s new security ‘control center’ isn’t nearly enough

On the same day that a Mississippi family is suing Amazon -owned smart camera maker Ring for not doing enough to prevent hackers from spying on their kids, the company has rolled out its previously a

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Apple’s redesigned Maps app is available across the US, adds real-time transit for Miami

Apple’s updated and more detailed Maps experience has now rolled out across the U.S., the company announced this morning. The redesigned app will include more accurate information overall as wel

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Techstars Detroit accelerator is shutting down

Techstars Detroit, the accelerator that has funded 54 startups in the past five years, is shutting down, TechCrunch has learned.In an email to supporters, Techstars Detroit managing director Ted Serb

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EU lawmakers take fresh aim at Apple’s Lightning connector with latest e-waste push

The European parliament has voted overwhelmingly for tougher action to reduce e-waste, calling for the Commission to come up with beefed up rules by July 2020.Specifically, the parliament wants the Co

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Transgender flag and more gender-inclusive options to arrive in 2020’s new emoji, among others

More than a hundred new emoji are on their way this year. The governing body in charge of official emoji, the Unicode Consortium, announced the addition of 117 new emoji for 2020, as part of Emoji 13

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First evidence of Neanderthal DNA in modern Africans

The study suggests migration by ancient Europeans back to Africa introduced Neanderthal ancestry into African populations.

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What smoking and drinking daily does to your brain

The study also shows that the brain age of moderate drinkers and those who do not indulge at all is "indistinguishable".

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Hyperledger Fabric, the open source distributed ledger, reaches release 2.0

The open source Hyperledger Foundation announced the release of Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 today, the first such project to reach a 2.0 release.It’s a notable milestone. The blockchain as a business

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Syrian army recaptures key northwest town

Syrian troops pass through a recaptured village in their final push on the strategic highway town of Maaret al-Numan. /AFP Photo Syrian government forces recaptured Wednesday a strategic north

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Italian town where Kobe Bryant grew up mourns the loss of NBA legend

Italy has been deeply saddened by the passing of basketball star Kobe Bryant, who spent many years as a child in the north of the country.He moved to Italy at six years old when his father Joe played

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BT warns UK's Huawei cap to cost it 500 mln pounds

A BT logo on the front of their global headquarters building in London, Tuesday, January 24, 2017. /AP Photo UK's biggest broadband and mobile provider BT said Thursday it would take a 500 mil

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Spatial raises $14M more for a holographic 3D workspace app, a VR/AR version of Zoom or Hangouts

The worlds of virtual and augmented reality have yet to land on the applications and hardware to truly spark mass-market, consumer interest in the space, but meanwhile a startup building mixed reality

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Bird finally deploys the Bird Two scooter

Bird is rolling out its Bird Two scooters, which the company first unveiled back in August, via Scoot in San Francisco. The scooters were expected to deploy much sooner, with Bird’s original an

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Scopely lands a triple-word score with launch of new Scrabble game

Los Angeles-based mobile gaming company Scopely​ unveiled its newest game, ScrabbleGo, now available for pre-order on Android and coming to iOS later this year.Working with Hasbro in North America and