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AI Medical Scribe Startup Abridge Achieves $5.3 Billion Valuation in Latest Funding Round

Abridge's 93% valuation jump in four months tells us that something bigger than typical startup growth is cooking. It's a case study in how to build the ‘pick and shovel’...

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The man leading Apple’s electric vehicle project is leaving the company

The man that was leading Apple's ultra-secret electric vehicle project has decided to leave the company, according to the Wall Street Journal. Steve Zadesky, who has been working for Apple for...

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AT&T’s CEO claims corporations have no say in the encryption debate

When it comes to respecting the privacy of its users and rejecting profligate government surveillance, few companies have as bad of a track record as AT&T, which seems to go...

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Apple made more than $20 billion from the App Store last year

Whenever you hear about the ridiculous amounts of money that mobile games like Candy Crush Sage and Clash of Clans make, just remember that they all have to give Apple a...

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Theranos may have deleted data to make its tech look more accurate

There was a time when Theranos was one of the most-promising startups in the world, but now it's having to fight off wave after wave of accusations that, should they...

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Samsung might add 3D touch and an iris scanner to the Galaxy S7

Pressure-sensitive displays are practically essential for new flagships nowadays, so it's not at all surprising to hear that Samsung will be adding the technology to the Galaxy S7, but what...

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Baidu wants to release a self-driving car before Google does

Baidu is known to those of us in the West as the Google of China, and it seems to go out of its way to earn that name. The company...

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YouTube Red may soon offer movies and shows just like Netflix

With the launch of YouTube Music, its standalone music streaming service, and YouTube Red, its premium subscription service, the past few months have been pretty big for YouTube, but that...

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NextVR has raised $30.5 million to live-stream content in virtual reality

Live streaming and virtual reality are seen as the future of entertainment, and NextVR wants to cash in on both of the trends at the same time. The startup just finished...

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Tinder’s parent company is about to go public

It's a little known fact that OKCupid, Match.com, and Tinder are all owned by the same company, and that company is going public. Known as Match Group, the Dallas-based company...

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Toyota is establishing a $1 billion research institute in Silicon Valley

Toyota announced this morning that it plans to invest somewhere around $1 billion over the next five years to establish a new, Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence and robotics research company. The company...

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Google is planning to merge Android and Chrome OS

Apple likes to put its products through rigorous reviews and tests in order to ensure that they'll be popular and well received from the beginning. Google, on the other hand,...

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Nintendo will reveal more info on its first mobile game tomorrow

Aside from confirming that it's working on a handful of games for smartphones and tablets, Nintendo has remained annoyingly silent regarding its long-awaited entrance into the mobile market, but it's finally going...

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Xiaomi has reaffirmed its plans to expand to the United States

Xiaomi is already dominating the smartphone market in its home country, and now has a 14% share of the Indian market, which means the Chinese company already has two of the...

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IBM is disturbingly eager to hand data over to the Chinese government

In a move that's pretty much guaranteed to create controversy back in IBM's home country, the company has reportedly started allowing officials from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to review...

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Samsung has another Tizen-powered smartphone on the way

Tizen hasn't exactly risen to challenge Android's dominance in the mobile market. In fact, it hasn't really done anything at all, aside from powering a few lackluster smartphones and a handful...

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Google is trying to make its self-driving cars more human-like

Safety is one the primary focuses and selling points of self-driving cars, which is why companies like Google have been working so hard to make them safer than human drivers could...

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Apple is reportedly aiming for a 2019 launch date for its car

Analysts have been predicting that we won't see Apple's much-rumored electric car until at least 2020, but apparently the company has started speeding things up to the point where it...

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Facebook is working on a stand-alone virtual reality video app

Considering how the company spent $2 billion to acquire Oculus VR last year, it's clear that Facebook is really interested in the virtual reality market. The company isn't leaving the...

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WeChat will soon offer users as much as $30,000 in personal loans

Asian messaging apps are like Swiss Army knives for mobile devices; they come packed with tons of functionality that you wouldn't really expect to see in a messaging app, from...

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