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Augmented reality startup Mira announces $10M more in funding from Sequoia and others

The last few years haven’t proven too friendly to hardware companies in the augmented reality world. Enterprise-centric efforts like ODG, Daqri and Meta flared out, Magic Leap raised massive amo

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iObeya raises $17M to digitize management planning processes like Agile

As we move deeper into the pandemic, companies are looking for ways to digitize processes that previously required in-person meetings with manual approaches. Investors appear to be rewarding companies

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Microsoft sees growth amid pandemic computing demands

VCG Microsoft on Wednesday reported rising revenues in the past quarter amid strong demand for cloud computing services from pandemic-hit businesses and consumers and big gains in its Xbox gam

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New contact-tracing app could use Fitbit-style contact count

The proposed plan could bring the government into conflict with Apple due to location data in QR codes, sources tell Sky News.

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Notes on a Pandemic: Office of the future

15:58 Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, office space in Europe's biggest business hubs was expensive and often hard to come by. Last year, it cost $2,375.70 per square meter to rent an

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Slack has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft Teams in the EU

Workplace instant messaging platform Slack has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the European Union accusing the tech giant of unfairly bundling its rival Teams product with its cloud

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U.S. BLM strike, national political conversation amid health crisis

01:50 On this particular gloomy summer day, thousands of service industry workers, fast-food chain owners, gig economy employees, nurses, doormen, cleaners, delivery men and women walk

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30-year-old actor Haruma Miura found dead at home

Actor Haruma Miura at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in Italy. /VCG Popular Japanese actor Haruma Miura was found dead at his Tokyo home on Saturday, local media has reported.At 1

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The Calm meditation app is getting its own celebrity-filled HBO Max show

Meditation apps have been a nice tech-centric respite for many, as the world continues to fall apart at the seams. HBO Max is hoping to build on that success with the launch of a new show based on the

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Game developer poll suggests longer hours and less productivity as the industry adapts to remote work

Ahead of the upcoming online-only version of its big annual conference, GDC commissioned a survey of 2,500 game developers to determine how the industry is coping with the ongoing impact of the COVID-

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Trump's blame on China for COVID-19 draws backlash from Americans

In what many believe is an attempt to divert attention from a sluggish White House response to the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump has been relentlessly blaming China for the corona

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Gmail for G Suite gets deep integrations with Chat, Meet, Rooms and more

Google is launching a major update to its G Suite productivity tools today that will see a deep integration of Gmail, Chat, Meet and Rooms on the web and on mobile, as well as other tools like Calend

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As companies accelerate their digital transitions, employees detail a changed workplace

The U.S.’s COVID-19 caseload continues to set records as major states move to re-shutter their economies in hopes of stemming its spread. For many workers the situation means more time in the ho

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EU health body assessing airborne spread of virus as well as droplets

European Union flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, February 19, 2020. /Reuters The EU's public health body is assessing risks posed by ventilation syst

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Lattice, a people management platform, picks up $45M at a $400M valuation

Working these days is not what it used to be. To enforce social distancing and slow the spread of the COVID-19 health pandemic, many of us have decamped from our offices to our homes, we only connect

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Hello Robot emerges out of stealth to launch a mobile robotic gripping platform for the home

This is Stretch — or, more precisely, the Stretch Research Edition. The name certainly conveys the tall, skinny and minimalist design of the home helper robot. Stretch is different and somehow familia

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SaaS and cloud stocks finally give back ground

After a heated run, SaaS and cloud stocks dipped sharply during regular trading on Monday.According to the category-tracking Bessemer cloud index, public SaaS and cloud stocks dropped around 6.5% toda