TC Top Picks: Wunder – TechCrunch

TC Video 8 hours Wunder is a parental assistance and learning platform that uses AI to save parents time and energy. The TC Top Picks program showcases outstanding early-stage startups…

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Here’s how Fitbit can help fix Wear OS

Earlier this week, we speculated on some of the ways in which Google's purchase of Fitbit would be bad for wearables. However, there are a lot of things Google could learn from Fitbit to make Wear OS a compelling platform. The important thing here is that Google doesn't do what it has seemingly done in…

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Here’s What Happens When You Leave Weed Up Your Nose for 18 Years

Nose pickers are often said to be digging for gold. But a 48-year-old Australian man needed an entirely different kind of nugget mined from his schnoz.Doctors excavated from the man's right nasal cavity a 19 mm by 11 mm rock-hard mass—the calcified remains of a small amount of marijuana he tried to smuggle into prison…

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Inside the Icelandic Facility Where Bitcoin Is Mined

Less than two miles from Iceland’s Reykjavik airport sits a nondescript metal building as monolithic and drab as a commercial poultry barn. There’s a deafening racket inside, too, but it doesn’t come from clucking chickens. Instead, tens of thousands of whirring GPUs perform the complex, exhaustive calculations needed to verify cryptocurrency transactions and add them…

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The Impeachment Vote in the House Tops This Week’s Internet News Roundup

Let's get the big news out of the way first: Last week, the one everyone just wrapped up, will likely go down in history as the moment in time where, on All Hallows' Eve, the US House of Representatives voted to formalize the rules of the impeachment proceedings against President Trump. It was a big…

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Drones That Work for Food, a Self-Landing Plane, and More News This Week

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … your burrito being carried by a six-rotor drone from the delivery service UberEats! This week, the now-everything-transportation company unveiled its newest drone, which Uber says should make its first delivery in San Diego next summer. Or at least, it’s really hoping it…

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