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Years of computer simulations. Countless ground tests. They've all led up to now. The Planetary Society's crowdfunded LightSail 2 spacecraft is successfully raising its orbit solely on the power of sunlight. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2KfrDT2

Ride-sharing and transportation platform Didi Chuxing announced today that it has formed a joint venture with BP, the British gas, oil and energy supermajor. to build electric vehicle charging infrastructure in China. The charging stations will be available to Didi and non-Didi drivers. The news of Didi and BP’s joint venture comes one week after Didi announced that it had received funding totaling $600 million from Toyota Motor Corporation . As part of that deal, Didi and Toyota Motor set up a joint venture with GAC Toyota Motor to provide vehicle-related services to Didi drivers. BP’s first charging site in Guangzhou has already been connected to XAS (Xiaoju Automobile Solutions), which Didi spun out in April 2018 to put all its vehicle-related services into one platform. XAS is part of Didi Chuxing’s evolution from a ride-sharing company to a mobility services platform, with its services available to other car, transportation and logistics companies. In June, Didi also opened

A University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science-led research cruise leaves for the deep Atlantic Ocean 50 miles southeast of Bermuda on Monday for a week of science at sea aboard the 171-foot R/V Atlantic Explorer. Scientists will be sampling the depths of the ocean and analyzing bacterial diversity and function to better understand the marine carbon cycle in the ocean. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2KaDcKU

The primary reason gun fatalities result in arrests more frequently than nonfatal shootings is police devote more time and resources to the fatal cases, a new study by scholars at Duke and Northeastern universities finds. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2MvHhMH

A diverse and inclusive education workforce can play a critical role in ensuring that students receive a robust, quality educational experience. While students of color comprise more than half of P-12 classroom populations in the United States, overcoming the shortage of educators of color has been a decades-long dilemma for U.S. schools. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2yrlnlk

Police are increasingly called on to combat crimes related to sex and labor trafficking. A new study sought to determine how the victims of these crimes are served by police. Based on researchers' review of human trafficking investigations and interviews with police and service providers in three communities in Northeast, West, and South United States, the study concluded that victims of human trafficking often do not trust the police and rarely seek their assistance. The study also found that these views are due in part to victims' beliefs that police are not trained adequately and hold biases and stereotypes about them. The authors offer recommendations to improve police responses to these victims. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2MvHaRh

Big windows, fresh fruit and regular phone calls home help manage the mental health of astronauts on the International Space Station. But missions to Mars on beyond will require a whole new approach to how spaceships are designed from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2ZxqEEd

The Google Titan security key has been released in the UK. It costs £50 and is designed to bolster your two-factor authentication game from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2GDmCCI

Almost two years after an engineer received soaps instead of an iPhone 7 Plus from e-commerce platform Snapdeal, a consumer forum has ordered that he be paid Rs 1 lakh as compensation for the wrong delivery. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2YAp1Ei

Pearson , the London-based educational software maker, said today that thousands of school and university accounts, mostly in the United States, were affected by a data breach. The company added that it has notified affected users already and that the vulnerability has been fixed. The Wall Street Journal reports that the data breach happened in November 2018 and Pearson was notified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in March. The perpetrator is still unknown. According to Pearson, unauthorized access was gained to 13,000 school and university accounts on AIMSweb, the company’s student monitoring and assessment platform. The data exposed included first and last names and, in some cases, date of birth and email addresses. Each account could potentially include information about thousands of students. Pearson added that it has no evidence that any of the exposed information was misused. It will offer free credit monitoring services to affected users as a “precautionary measure.

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In May, venture capitalist Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital warned in a Financial Times column that Amazon’s recent $575 million investment in the London-based delivery service Deliveroo could prove ominous for local restaurants. Wrote Moritz: “Amazon is now one step away from becoming a multi-brand restaurant company — and that could mean doomsday for many dining haunts.” Moritz was right to attract more attention to the deal. Deliveroo has begun operating shared kitchens from which it will not simply transport food to customers but eventually prepare it, too . His warning may even have played a role in this recent decision of Britain’s competition regulator to halt work on Amazon’s investment so it can first investigate whether the deal poses competitive concerns. Moritz knows the playbook because of Sequoia’s early investment in Rebel Foods , formerly known as Faasos, a once-small Pune, India-based company that now prepares a variety of foods in its cloud kitchens. As he say

Fintech startup Revolut is launching its stock trading feature today. It’s a Robinhood-like feature that lets you buy and sell shares without any commission. For now, the feature is limited to some Revolut customers with a Metal card. While Robinhood has completely changed the stock trading retail market in the U.S., buying shares hasn’t changed much in Europe. Revolut wants to make it easier to invest on the stock market. After topping up your Revolut account, you can buy and hold shares directly from the Revolut app. For now, the feature is limited to 300 U.S.-listed stocks on NASDAQ and NYSE. The company says that it plans to expand to U.K. and European stocks as well as Exchange Traded Funds. There’s no minimum limit on transactions, which means that you can buy fractional shares for $1 for instance. You can see real-time prices in the Revolut app. When it comes to fees, Revolut doesn’t charge any fee indeed, but with some caveats. The feature is currently limited to Revolut M

Got hardware? Well then, listen up, because our search continues for boundary-pushing, early-stage hardware startups to join us in Shenzhen, China for an epic opportunity; launch your startup on a global stage and compete in Hardware Battlefield at TC Shenzhen  on November 11-12. Apply here to compete in TC Hardware Battlefield 2019 . Why? It’s your chance to demo your product to the top investors and technologists in the world. Hardware Battlefield, cousin to Startup Battlefield , focuses exclusively on innovative hardware because, let’s face it, it’s the backbone of technology. From enterprise solutions to agtech advancements, medical devices to consumer product goods — hardware startups are in the international spotlight. If you make the cut, you’ll compete against 15 of the world’s most innovative hardware makers for bragging rights, plenty of investor love, media exposure and $25,000 in equity-free cash. Just participating in a Battlefield can change the whole trajectory of your

Customers will now be able to buy from the New York Exchange and NASDAQ straight from the app from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2YBAUtw

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Just as we blend, cut, and fold ingredients together to follow a recipe, farmers use equipment to stir together soil and crop residue (stalks and roots of previous crops) before planting. This mechanical action is called tillage. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2Yby43c

In a stunning photo, a wildlife photographer has captured a sea lion falling into the mouth of a humpback whale in what he calls a "once-in-a-lifetime" moment. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2YzmA4K

After iOS 12.4 update, users can now practically transfer anything from their old iPhones or iPads including pictures, messages, call details, etc. The apps, however, gets downloaded later using Wi-Fi. Curious about this new feature? Here’s our step-by-step guide from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2LO8ECh

Working in an arid Italian field of crumbly soil, agronomists are battling a rampant bacterium that has already infected millions of olive trees and could threaten the entire Mediterranean basin. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2Mqt3ww

Were the ancient Egyptians able to use reed boats to travel as far as the Black Sea thousands of years ago? from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2KfUt5G

An archaeological dig in Boston's historic Chinatown has been cut short after it turned up a 1980s music cassette, a toy dinosaur and other bric-a-brac. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2SUNrqS

A hormone that is released in our brain when we fall in love also makes starfish turn their stomach inside out to feed, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/317qweN

A former SCL Group director has provided an archive of email evidence to Parliament, Samsung profits fall in line with predictions from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2GGbtB8

Nairobi based internet hardware and service startup BRCK and Egyptian ride-hail venture Swvl are partnering to bring WiFI and online entertainment to on-demand bus service in Kenya. BRCK will install its routers on Swvl vehicles in Kenya and run its Moja service, which offers free public WiFi—internet, music, and entertainment—subsidized by commercial partners. Founded in Cairo in 2017, Swvl is a mass transit service that has positioned itself as an Uber for shared buses. “Think ride hailing, but with a bus…and instead of the vehicle coming to you…you go to the bus, and the bus picks you up at a certain point and time,” Swvl’s general manager for Kenya, Shivachi Muleji, told TechCrunch via email. The company raised a $42 million Series B round in June , with intent to expand in Africa, Swvl CEO Mostafa Kandil said in an interview . In Kenya, BRCK has installed 15 of its units in Swvl buses and looks to offer its Moja WiFi service in 700 by 2020, BRCK’s chief operating officer

Scientists from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science are predicting that warmer winters in the Chesapeake Bay will likely lead to longer and more productive seasons for Maryland's favorite summer crustacean, the blue crab. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2Zh26it

Facebook is developing a brain-computer Augmented Reality (AR) interface device that would help users type with their mind. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2MrtOW1

​The South Korean tech giant also posted a 56% plunge in June-quarter profit as an oversupply of memory chips continued to weigh down prices. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2OuI6I7

SAMSUNG-ELEC-Samsung says Japanese curbs cloud outlook as profit halves, shares fall from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2K7ODEF

Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook on Tuesday said that the desire to keep Mac Pro computer production in United States was behind the company's recent request for tariff exclusions. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2Yyq3AK

The food industry has nailed the taste of plant-based burgers and the consistency of alternative milk. Vegan cheese presents a much bigger challenge – lab-grown milk proteins may be the answer from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2GDcIB0

To get humans to Mars, SpaceX is building the mighty Starship spacecraft, powered by the raptor engine - one of the first to be powered by methane and designed to be reused 1,000 times from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2ZgTUid

For nearly 100 years policymakers and progressives have looked to Scandinavian countries as model nations, but despite their best branding efforts, the region's hold on happiness is slipping from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2GFhldJ

Apple's services, wearables shore up results as iPhone drops below half of sales from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2GCRYt7

As it forecast earlier this month, Samsung reported a steep drop in its second-quarter earnings due to lower market demand for chips and smartphones. The company said its second-quarter operating profit fell 55.6% year-over-year to 6.6 trillion won (about $5.6 billion), on consolidated revenue of 56.13 trillion won, slightly above the guidance it issued three weeks ago . Last quarter, Samsung also reported that its operating profit had dropped by more than half . The same issues that hit its earnings during the first quarter of this year have continued, including lower memory prices as major datacenter customers adjust their inventory, meaning they are currently buying less chips (the weak market also impacted competing semiconductor maker SK Hynix’s quarterly earnings ). Samsung reported that its chip business saw second-quarter operating profit drop 71% year-over-year to 3.4 trillion won, on consolidated revenue of 16.09 trillion won. In the second half of the year, the company exp

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There’s a double standard when it comes to the sexualities of men versus women, trans and gender non-conforming folks. Unbound and Dame Products , two sex tech startups, have teamed up to bring attention to the issue. By launching a website, “ Approved, Not Approved ” and staging a protest outside Facebook’s NYC headquarters, the two startups hope to bring more awareness to the company’s advertising guidelines that seem to favor products that cater to cisgender men. The point of the digital campaign is to show how ads for sex toys and products geared toward men are more likely to be approved than those for women, trans or gender non-conforming people. “For so long, advertisements have been how we continue to reinforce the status quo of what we view as societally desirable and validating,” Dame Products CEO Alexandra Fine told TechCrunch. “Since we’re in a category that’s often denied, we wanted to create an experience that illuminates the disparity.” On Facebook, for example, it’s

Palaeontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto have uncovered fossils of a large new predatory species in half-a-billion-year-old rocks from Kootenay National Park in the Canadian Rockies. This new species has rake-like claws and a pineapple-slice-shaped mouth at the front of an enormous head, and it sheds light on the diversity of the earliest relatives of insects, crabs, spiders, and their kin. The findings were announced July 31, 2019, in a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2MqQhm5

A serious crash by a delivery drone in Switzerland have grounded the fleet and put a partnership on ice. Within a stone’s throw of a school, the incident raised grim possibilities for the possibilities of catastrophic failure of payload-bearing autonomous aerial vehicles. The drones were operated by Matternet as part of a partnership with the Swiss Post (i.e. the postal service), which was using the craft to dispatch lab samples from one medical center for priority cases. As far as potential applications of drone delivery, it’s a home run — but twice now the craft have crashed, first with a soft landing and the second time a very hard one. The first incident, in January, was the result of a GPS hardware error; the drone entered a planned failback state and deployed its emergency parachute, falling slowly to the ground. Measures were taken to improve the GPS systems. The second failure in May, however, led to the drone attempting to deploy its parachute again, only to sever the line

Gigantic forest fires have regularly raged through the vast expanses of Russia's Siberia, but the magnitude of this year's blazes has reached an exceptional level with fears of a long-term impact on the environment. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2K1ZaBa

Indonesia has returned seven shipping containers of illegally imported waste to France and Hong Kong, an official said Tuesday, marking the latest move by a Southeast Asian nation to send back rubbish to their wealthy places of origin. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2YrvBg9

European airline giant Lufthansa on Tuesday reported tumbling net profits in the first quarter, saying higher operating costs and a European short-haul price war ate into the bottom line. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2K3a0qI

Uber on Monday confirmed it is cutting 400 jobs from its marketing team of more than 1,200 workers to reduce costs and improve efficiency. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2YtvIrQ

Researchers have found that a third of Guam's coral reefs died due to rising ocean temperatures. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2K1oozq

German pharmaceutical giant Bayer said Tuesday it is now targeted in some 18,400 US legal cases over glyphosate, a key herbicide ingredient that plaintiffs say caused grave illnesses like cancer. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2MtuRVx

Floating plastic garbage has swamped a remote Pacific island once regarded as an environmental jewel and scientists say little can be done to save it while a throwaway culture persists. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/32W2KUZ

A hacker gained access to personal information from more than 100 million Capital One credit applications, the bank said Monday as federal authorities arrested a suspect in the case . from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2KheeK7

When Stackin initially pitched itself as part of Techstars Los Angeles accelerator program two years ago, the company was a video platform for financial advice targeting a millennial audience too savvy for traditional advisory services. Now, nearly two years later, the company has pivoted from video to text-based financial advice for its millennial audience and is offering a new spin on lead generation for digital banks. The company has launched a new, no-fee, checking and savings account feature in partnership with Radius Bank, which offers users a 1% annual percentage yield on deposits. And Stackin has raised $4 million in new cash from Experian Ventures, Dig Ventures and Cherry Tree Investments, along with supplemental commitments from new and previous investors including Social Leverage, Wavemaker Partners, and Mucker Capital. “Stackin’ has a unique and highly effective approach to connect and communicate with an entire generation of younger consumers around finance,” said

At a time when face recognition technology is in the thick of controversies, Google paid people $5 in exchange for a facial scan to build an accurate face unlock feature for the upcoming Pixel 4. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2ZkAx7T

Nearly 17 months after it began operations, ABIPBL on July 20 announced winding up of its business on account of "unanticipated developments" that made its economic model "unviable". from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2Kd69Gb

A new study by education researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that proactively addressing students' anxieties with clear and cost-effective messaging early in the school year can lead to a lasting record of higher grades, better attendance, and fewer behavioral problems for sixth graders embarking on their stressful first year of middle school. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2Yd7yXk

Researchers from the University of Paderborn and University of Rostock, both in Germany, published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines how the purchase of a gift may promote future brand loyalty with the gifted brand. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2Yfy5Da

It's simple to find properties on Airbnb, but if you are disabled things aren't as straightforward. Wheelchair users complain of inaccessible properties and rude hosts. What is the company really doing to address this? from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2KdKYUq

From rainbow crosswalks to communal herb gardens, urban planners and architects are borrowing from neuroscience to build environments that people want to work and live in from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/3302uEc

The shadowy display mode has leagues of fans claiming it helps reduce eye strain, lengthen battery time and improve sleep. But dark mode isn't quite the screen saviour it's made out to be from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2KaGm1y

Every evening from late spring to early fall, two planes lift off from airports in the western United States and fly through the sunset, each headed for an active wildfire, and then another, and another. From 10,000 feet above ground, the pilots can spot the glow of a fire, and occasionally the smoke enters the cabin, burning the eyes and throat. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2YtevP2

More support is needed for fosters carers looking after LGBTQ young people, according to new research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA). from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2YuskN2

High-energy shock waves driven by solar flares and coronal mass ejections of plasma from the sun erupt throughout the solar system, unleashing magnetic space storms that can damage satellites, disrupt cell phone service and blackout power grids on Earth. Also driving high-energy waves is the solar wind—plasma that constantly flows from the sun and buffets the Earth's protective magnetic field. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2MqTF0C

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Another day, another massive data breach. This time it’s the financial giant and credit card issuer Capital One , which revealed on Monday a credit file breach affecting 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians. Consumers and small businesses affected are those who obtained one of the company’s credit cards dating back to 2005. That includes names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, self-reported income and more credit card application data — including over 140,000 Social Security numbers in the U.S., and more than a million in Canada. The FBI already has a suspect in custody. Seattle resident and software developer Paige A. Thompson, 33, was arrested and detained pending trial. She’s been accused of stealing data by breaching a web application firewall, which was supposed to protect it. Sound familiar? It should. Just last week, credit rating giant Equifax settled for more than $575 million over a date breach it had — and hid from the public for several months — two

Capital One was hacked earlier this month, the company has disclosed. A notice about the data breach is currently being broadcast from the company’s home page . Here’s what we know so far: Capital One believes the breach exposed credit card application data for those who’d applied between 2005 and 2019. The company says this works out to roughly 100 million individuals in the US, and 6 million in Canada. The data leaked potentially includes “names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and self-reported income” of those who’d applied, as well as information like “credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information” Capital One is estimating that roughly 140,000 social security numbers were potentially compromised in the US, as well as 80,000 linked bank account numbers. In Canada, roughly 1 million Social Insurance Numbers were compromised. Transaction data for “a total of 23 days” spread across 2016/2017/20

We might imagine that electric current flows as a smooth, even stream of electrons through our electronics devices, but at the quantum scale the flow of electric current might be more accurately pictured as a bubbling brook containing many tiny ripples. These ripples can be caused by single-electron effects, which arise due to the repulsion among electrons confined in very small spaces, such as trap sites in transistors. Single-electron effects can lead to tiny changes in the current-voltage characteristics of these devices. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2Os8K4u

While well-meaning, the latest trend of wellness at work misses what employees really want: decent working conditions from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/3161CML

With these two iPads, a total of seven iPads are now alleged to be launched in 2019 — all of which will run on iPad OS 13 operating system. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/32XjMSz

The food delivery wars in Europe remain hotter than a vindaloo, and that’s leading to some major consolidation: today Just Eat and Takeaway.com, two of the bigger take-out and delivery businesses in the region, announced that they are in the “advanced stages” of a merger. The deal would help them combine forces and take on more scale to compete better with Uber Eats and Amazon-backed Deliveroo . Both companies are currently publicly listed, Just Eat in London and Takeaway.com in Amsterdam, each with a market cap of around $5 billion. The combined entity would have an estimated market value of more than €10 billion, or $10 billion — although the share prices are moving quickly right now — and the companies say it would make world’s largest online food delivery platforms, which processed 360 million orders worth €7.3 billion ($8 bilion) in 2018. Under merger rules in the UK, there is a time limit on how long the two can sit on this deal. They now have until August 24 to get final appr

Minut , a Swedish startup that has developed a camera-less home security device that it claims protects privacy better than competitors, has raised $8 million in Series A funding. The round is led by KPN Ventures, with participation from international energy and services company Centrica. Existing backers Karma Ventures, SOSV, and Nordic Makers also followed on, bringing total funding for Minut to $10 million. Founded in 2014 and headed up by CEO Nils Mattisson, who I’m told spent seven years in the Exploratory Design Group at Apple, Minut wants to make home security monitoring more affordable, but in a way that doesn’t compromise on privacy. To square that circle, so to speak, the startup’s IoT device is camera-less (in the traditional sense), and instead relies on other sensors including infrared motion detection and a microphone. Crucially, the real-time data captured to determine if anything untoward is taking place in your home is processed on the device itself rather than bei

The impact of U.S. trade restrictions is trickling down to the developer community. GitHub, the world’s largest host of source code, is preventing users in Iran, Syria, Crimea and potentially other sanctioned nations from accessing portions of the service, chief executive of the Microsoft-owned firm said. Over the weekend, GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote on Twitter that like any other “company that does business in the US,” GitHub is required to comply with the U.S. export law. The confirmation comes months after work collaboration service Slack, too, enforced similar restrictions on its platform. It is painful for me to hear how trade restrictions have hurt people. We have gone to great lengths to do no more than what is required by the law, but of course people are still affected. GitHub is subject to US trade law, just like any company that does business in the US. — Nat Friedman (@natfriedman) July 28, 2019 As part of the push, Friedman said GitHub has enforced new restr

Grab — the on-demand transportation app that is the Uber of Southeast Asia — today announced yet another investment  on top of the $7 billion that it has raised to date. SoftBank is putting another $2 billion into the business, earmarked for a specific use: Grab is going to invest $2 billion into its operations in Indonesia — the biggest economy in Southeast Asia — over the next five years. Specifically, it will be using the money to modernise the country’s transportation infrastructure with the development of an electronic vehicle “ecosystem”, new geo-mapping solutions, and the establishment of a second headquarters for Grab in Jakarta focused on R&D for Indonesia and the wider region, to sit alongside its existing HQ in Singapore. “With our presence in 224 cities, Indonesia is our largest market and we are committed to long-term sustainable development of the country,” said Anthony Tan, CEO of Grab, in a statement. “We are delighted to facilitate this SoftBank investment, as

Social networking giant Facebook is removing its feature Instant Games out of Messenger and adding it to the Facebook Gaming tab on the main app. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2Yx3DDU

Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday exhorted the sector to make India a hub for telecom equipment manufacturing. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2SLTm1k

Vodafone Idea’s weak first-quarter earnings could rapidly relegate India’s top telecom operator by subscribers to a regional player if it fails to grow revenue in the coming quarters, analysts said. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2LLpAt2

Genetics testing startup Prenetics today announced a major new deal for its brand in Asia. The company is partnering with A.S. Watson Group, the personal care giant whose stores are ubiquitous in many East and Southeast Asian countries. That means Watsons’ Hong Kong stores and website will be the first retailer in Asia to sell Circle DNA , Prenetics’ new consumer DNA testing kit, before it launches in Watsons’ other Asian markets. Watsons has 15,200 stores in 25 countries across Asia and Europe, including Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Ukraine and Russia, and claims to be the largest health and beauty retailer in the world. Also based in Hong Kong, Prenetics began by providing DNA tests for insurance firms and health care providers, before branching into consumer tests by buying London-based startup DNAFit last year . The acquisition of DNAFIt, which still sells testing services under its own brand, also gave Prenetics a foothold in the U.S., where DNAFit

Spending too much time using the smartphone facilitates sedentary behaviours. from Gadgets Now https://ift.tt/2SKvICp

Contractors working with Siri recordings hear sexual encounters, doctors' appointments and identifying data, the British hacker who defeated WannaCry avoids jail in the US from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2MrUAhj

Listen up founders — TechCrunch is on the lookout for game-changing, early-stage startups to feature at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin ‘s Startup Battlefield . This is your chance to launch on the famous TechCrunch stage and compete for the a $50,000 equity-free prize and the attention of top global investors and hundreds of media outlets from around the world. Apply here . We’ve had some incredibly successful companies launch at our European-based event. N26 , European fin-tech startup and Startup Battlefield EU 2016 alum, just raised a $170 million Series D round, bringing the company’s valuation up to a whopping $3.5 billion dollars. Startup Battlefield EU 2015 winner JukeDeck was just acquired by TikTok. The list of Startup Battlefield companies doesn’t stop there — Dropbox, GetAround, SirenCare, Fitbit, Mint.com, Vurb and more, and now is your chance to join this impressive group of companies. More than 857 participating companies have raised over $8.9 billion in funding, with 112

Mankind will have used up its allowance of natural resources such as water, soil and clean air for all of 2019 by Monday, a report said. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/30UjxG2

After 28 days below the sea at a crushing depth of 120 metres, a team of four researchers emerged into the sunshine at the French Mediterranean port of Marseille on Sunday. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/2MlaWYQ

An African elephant that spent a decade at San Diego Zoo Safari Park has moved across the country to a new home at Zoo Atlanta. from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories https://ift.tt/314Lc7o

Joy Capital, the venture capital firm that’s backed Luckin, NIO, Mobike and other investor darlings in China, just raised $700 million for a new fund focusing on early-to-growth stage startups. Launched in 2015 by a team of former investors at Legend Capital, the investment arm of PC maker Lenovo’s parent company, Joy Capital made the news official (in Chinese) on Monday. It didn’t identify the limited partners in this new corpus of funding but said they include “top” public pension funds and insurance companies. Its existing pool of investors counts those from sovereign wealth funds, education-focused endowment funds, family funds and parent funds. The fresh money boosted Joy’s total tally to over 10 billion yuan ($1.45 billion) under management, with a focus on backing cutting edge technologies and companies involved in the digital upgrade of China’s traditional sectors, or what Joy’s founding partner Liu Erhai (pictured above) dubbed the “new infrastructure” in an op-ed for t

With each generation of politicians come new broadband promises. The reality rarely lives up to the ambitious claims – will full-fibre by 2025 really happen? from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2OomgWT

Hacking forums are packed with people selling explicit photos and videos that can be used for blackmail. New analysis shows scammers are making up to $500,000 from the trade in just a matter of months from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2YbuI03

At a clinic on the coast of Spain, business leaders and high-powered diplomats come to unwind and relax with healthy food, spa treatments, and brain zapping from WIRED UK https://ift.tt/2OpFk7e

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The Fortnite phenomenon — the wildly popular battle royale game from Epic Games — has manifested itself in concerned articles , cultural shoutouts and now has sealed its place in the cultural firmament by wrapping up its first “World Cup” which saw the company give away $30 million in prizes . Congrats to all of our winners this weekend at the #FortniteWorldCup Finals Solo Champion: @bugha Duos Champions: @nyhrox @aquaa ProAM: @Airwaks @RLGRIME Creative: #FishFam @cizzorz @hiimtylerh @suezhoo @zandOfficial pic.twitter.com/ilBs7RTeTv — Fortnite (@FortniteGame) July 28, 2019 The big winner in today’s solo challenge was sixteen year-old Kyle “ Bugha ” Giersdorf, who won $3 million for beating out the competition in the solo tournament. And, as sports writer Darren Rovell noted on Twitter , Giersdorf’s prize pool is only $800,000 smaller than the pot for the winner of the U.S. Open, which is set to begin in a few weeks at the same stadium. Indeed, the esports prize