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Hypergiant Sensory Sciences raises $5 million to track critical infrastructure with AI

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ProBeat: Twitter’s biggest mistake was giving Donald Trump a pass

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Google’s Home Hub hits Apple in its new blind spot: Affordable tablets

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Baron Corbin — ‘fired TGI Friday manager’ — and other successful influencer strategies (VB Live)

Apple approves Indian government’s Do Not Disturb app, avoiding iPhone ban

Google-led AMP project unveils ‘open governance’ committees consisting of Microsoft, Twitter, others

Apple Music will come to Amazon Echo devices in mid-December
P2P Sports Betting Platform ZenSports Launches Token Sale

Google doubles Hangouts Meet limit to 100 participants

Instagram now lets you send Stories only to ‘close friends’

Firefox Reality VR browser gets support for 7 new languages, bookmarking, and more

Chip industry honors former Stanford president John Hennessy

Snap looks beyond teens for growth

DHL will invest $300 million to quadruple robots in warehouses in 2019

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5 startup trends that shaped the Midwest in 2018

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Beyond Kim Kardashian: Making influencer marketing lucrative by being authentic (VB Live)

Microsoft redesigns its Office apps icons

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Adobe’s Smart Tags for video can classify objects, scenes, attributes, and actions

SwiftKey now lets you search the web directly from the Android keyboard app

South Korean carriers set surprise commercial 5G launch for December 1

Facebook drops news organizations from its political ad archives

Roam Robotics raises $12 million to enhance human capabilities with exoskeletons
Triumvira Immunologics Announces Presentation of Key Preclinical Data on TAC Technology at American Society of Hematology

Huawei asks New Zealand to explain latest ‘national security’ 5G ban

Uber Freight taps machine learning to give shippers rates 2 weeks in advance

Google Assistant gets photo-sharing with voice, to-do lists, and new kids’ stories
Venafi Secures $100M Financing Round Led by TCV

Asana raises $50 million at $1.5 billion valuation, expands into Japan and Australia

Germany’s antitrust watchdog launches Amazon investigation

Volkswagen targets North America for new electric vehicle factory

Heartland Tech Weekly: Looking ahead to 2019

Qualcomm Ventures launches $100 million AI fund

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Udacity cuts 125 employees as part of global restructuring plan

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Tim Cook’s Idaho visit shows Apple can’t just donate its way into schools

Amazon unveils AWS Inferentia chip for AI deployment

Amazon launches AWS SageMaker Ground Truth, an automated data labeling service

Amazon launches autonomous racing league and $399 DeepRacer car
