Bikinis and TED Talks: Can This All-Asian Competition Truly Disrupt Beauty Pageants?

Kathy Zhou never considered herself the type of woman who would enter a beauty pageant. But this May, the Pinterest engineer found herself among a cluster of young professionals in a San Francisco coworking space, ready to be converted to the gospel of pageantry.They had gathered for an Imagine Talks forum, one of the TED-style…

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We’re all doomed, 2019 edition

Every year the great and good (and bad) of the hacker/information-security world descend on Las Vegas for a week of conferences, in which many present their latest discoveries, and every…

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Startups Weekly: Angel vs. VC

Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the weeks noteworthy startups and venture capital news. Before I jump into todays topic, lets catch up…

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Tomorrow’s bionic eyes will have ‘Predator’ vision

It's called the Orion Visual Cortical Prosthesis System, and it's been developed by Second Sight Medical Products. Like the Argus II before it, the Orion system consists of a small camera mounted on a pair of glasses to capture images, a video-processing unit to convert what the camera sees into electrical impulses the wearer can…

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Thank Google for making it harder to find a phone-repair service

For businesses, the first space below the search bar is some of the world's most desirable real estate. Search for "Nissan repair," and the first entry is a link to Nissan's official site, paid for by Nissan itself. Do the same for "iPhone repair," "cracked phone display" or "broken Pixel" and no such ad appears,…

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Apple is selling Mophie’s new AirPower knock-off

There are other wireless charging pads available, of course. Still, it's interesting to see a big name such as Mophie make one when Apple couldn't, and then for Apple to sell the Mophie devices through its website and stores.Mophie revealed a pair of multi-device pads Friday, each of which provide 7.5W of charging output. The…

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