Meet Bespoke Financial, a lender for cannabis companies backed by Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde Capital

Bespoke Financial wants to provide cannabis businesses with the same kind of financial services that other businesses get, but that dispensaries and growers can’t yet access. The regulations around cannabis…

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Volkswagen unveils next-gen Golf and its hybrid variants

First off the Golf will be available in five hybrid variants. Five! There will be three mild-hybrid versions with a 48V lithium-ion battery and two plug-in hybrids. The plugins will sport a 13 kWh lithium-ion battery that Volkswagen says will last for about 60 kilometers (37 miles).Meanwhile, the interior displays have been completely digitized. No…

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Ubisoft is delaying almost every game it has announced

The publisher made the call to push back them back in the wake of disappointing sales performances of Ghost Recon Breakpoint and The Division 2. CEO Yves Guillemot suggested in a conference call Ubisoft didn't wait long enough between sequels for those games to have more of an impact. "We feel it's due to the…

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Ford will reveal its ‘Mustang-inspired’ electric SUV on November 17th

Significantly, the EV should have a 370-mile range -- it won't be hurting for longevity. When you do need more electricity, it'll support fast charging on the "largest" public network in North America. Videos of the prototype, meanwhile, have touted the vehicle's acceleration, handling and all-weather ability. This is meant to appeal to a wide…

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Panasonic’s S1H is the first mirrorless camera approved by Netflix

According to Netflix's production guide for the S1H, you have to shoot in at least 4K using the V-Log color space with 4:2:2 10-bit All-I (400 Mbps) encoding. Crucially, Netflix requires a pixel-for-pixel sensor readout with no line-skipping. The S1H can handle that either by cropping to a Super 35 portion of the sensor (approximately…

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Pixel 4 XL teardown reveals remarkably tiny Soli chip

In fact, iFixit admits they're "at a loss as to how Google stuffed the entire system into a tiny featureless rectangle with no moving parts." If you geek out on this sort of stuff, iFixit also explains how the chip works.According to the company, Soli sends out waves of electromagnetic energy that the chip then…

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Quantum Computing Is Here! But Also Not Really

Wednesday was warm in Santa Barbara but Google’s quantum computing labs were pleasingly cool—colder than outer space in some spots. Three fridge-sized silver cylinders hung below crowns of ducts and cables. Inside, superconducting quantum processors were at operating temperature, a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.Googlers gazed at one of the gleaming cylinders, sporting…

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Zuckerberg in Twilight

For even the hero-prince, twilight comes. It seems so long ago, now, the great harvest of technological progress we were guaranteed. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg set forth a radical mandate: to completely rewire how humans connect and, thus, how we shape the future. It was a time of pre-Recession idealism—and because we, too, believed in…

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