Experience Real History™ takes home the top award for Excellence in Augmented & Virtual Reality at 11th Annual Media Excellence Awards. (PRWeb March 01, 2019) Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/experience_real_history_alamo_edition_receives_prestigious_mobile_excellence_award/prweb16139487.htm
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LAS VEGAS, Feb. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- AGS (NYSE: AGS) (or the "Company") today announced a major milestone in the history of its table games business as its installed base of table-game progressive products has now surpassed 1,000. The Company's table progressive product suite includes ...
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In the book The History of the Future, we get an inside look at Oculus VR, Facebook and all the politics and drama that go with them.
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Updated: Your unique ID is being connected to devices to create an immutable record even when you ask for your history to be forgotten.
Read More »NASA Selects New Mission to Explore Origins of Universe
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has selected a new space mission that will help astronomers understand both how our universe evolved and how common are the ingredients for life in our galaxy's planetary systems. The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch...
Read More »Google Doodle celebrates Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and women’s rights advocate – CNET
Black History Month kicked off with a look at the anti-slavery advocate and suffragist.
Read More »Sequoia India announces Surge, an accelerator focused on fledging startups in India and Southeast Asia, says it will offer selected companies a $1.5M…
Jon Russell / TechCrunch : Sequoia India announces Surge, an accelerator focused on fledging startups in India and Southeast Asia, says it will offer selected companies a $1.5M investment — ‘Surge’ offers a $1.5M check and access to the firm's global network — Sequoia India is going deep into early-stage investing …
Read More »Spain-based Sherpa.ai, which makes a Spanish language voice assistant, expands Series A by $8.5M to $15M as it passes 5M users (Ingrid…
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Spain-based Sherpa.ai, which makes a Spanish language voice assistant, expands Series A by $8.5M to $15M as it passes 5M users — When we think of the AI platforms that are shaping how we use voice to interact with phones, home devices and other services, we tend to think of Amazon's Alexa …
Read More »The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority publishes draft guidelines on cryptoassets and how they fit within the UK’s current regulatory framework (Yogita…
Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk : The UK's Financial Conduct Authority publishes draft guidelines on cryptoassets and how they fit within the UK's current regulatory framework — The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out proposed guidance for how crypto assets should be regulated in the country.
Read More »Source: SoftBank is investing $100M in Globality, a marketplace for large companies to find and manage service providers, at a ~$1B valuation (Tomio…
Tomio Geron / Wall Street Journal : Source: SoftBank is investing $100M in Globality, a marketplace for large companies to find and manage service providers, at a ~$1B valuation — Globality uses AI, machine learning to match project needs with service providers
Read More »Facebook to launch Page Quality tab for admins, showing when content is removed for policy violations and when post distribution is reduced due to…
Facebook : Facebook to launch Page Quality tab for admins, showing when content is removed for policy violations and when post distribution is reduced due to fact-checking — We're taking new steps in how we handle Page content that goes against our policies. First, starting tomorrow people who manage …
Read More »Researcher: 24M+ financial and banking documents, representing tens of thousands of loans and mortgages, were left exposed online by Texas-based firm…
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch : Researcher: 24M+ financial and banking documents, representing tens of thousands of loans and mortgages, were left exposed online by Texas-based firm Ascension — Exclusive: The database included highly sensitive financial data on customers who have taken out loans with U.S. banks
Read More »Next Trucking, a California-based logistics platform matching carriers with shippers, raises $97M Series C led by Brookfield, with Sequoia, others…
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat : Next Trucking, a California-based logistics platform matching carriers with shippers, raises $97M Series C led by Brookfield, with Sequoia, others participating — Next Trucking ("Next“), a logistics platform that matches carriers with shippers, has raised $97 million in a series C round …
Read More »Spider-Man’s Mysterio: Here’s how the villain has evolved in the comics – CNET
A look at the history of the fishbowl-headed illusionist, played by Jake Gyllenhaal in Spider-Man: Far From Home.
Read More »Frere Enterprises: Key Opportunities for Entrepreneurs Found in FinTech History
PETALUMA, Calif., Nov. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- It may be possible to find an opportunity within a market by studying the history of that market. FinTech is currently experiencing a financial boom and many entrepreneurs may want to be a part of that boom, but they may not know where to...
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