Tuesday 28 May 2019
You Can Help NASA Find Landing Spots on Asteroid Bennu
Calling all citizen scientists: NASA needs your help. The space agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu needs extra pairs of eyes to help choose its sample collection site on the asteroid – […]
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Giant Rat Snake Found Hiding in Shopping Carts at Walmart in Texas
On Friday, a cart attendant had the scare of her life when she discovered a massive rat snake hiding in a group of shopping carts at a Walmart in Texas. The Northeast Police […]
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‘Black Mirror’ Star Miley Cyrus Says Her Episode Is ‘Outrageously Out There’
Black Mirror, a popular sci-fi anthology series, is returning for its fifth season on June 5. Netflix recently teased three new trailers for the show, and they reveal twisted direct messages, meditation apps, […]
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Asus Made a Portable 240Hz Monitor for Gamers On the Go
It’s never been easier to do a bit of gaming when you’re on the move. There are loads of different ways to play — Nintendo Switch, smartphone, laptop — but you’re mostly stuck […]
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‘Mortal Kombat 11’ Kharacter Guide: Shao Kahn
There have been eleven main Mortal Kombat games. Can you believe it? The 90s were that long ago. Since then the fighting game has become a gory institution as colorful ninjas and sorcerers […]
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Geeksplainer: Everything You Need to Know About ‘Swamp Thing’
We have to give them credit: DC Universe has been more than worth the money. The streaming service not only offers some of the absolute best animated adaptations of DC Comics, they’ve also […]
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Storm Uncovers Ancient Underwater Forest in Wales
A prehistoric forest which was buried under water and sand more than 4,500 years ago has been uncovered by a recent storm that struck Wales. The petrified trees of the forest of Borth used […]
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Memorial Day Deals: Extra 25% Off on Car Accessories, Dash Cams, Wireless Chargers, and More
Preparing for a road trip? Make your excursion as memorable as possible with these innovative accessories for your ride. And, you can save an additional 15 percent off the purchase price of each […]
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Stunning Satirical Sand Sculpture Wins Texas Competition
Damon Langlois’ modern take on a historic memorial earned him first place at the 2019 Texas SandFest. The annual event—recognized as the country’s largest—drew 35,000 people to Port Aransas last month for three […]
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Marie Kondo Wrote a Kids’ Book About Tidying, Friendship
Marie Kondo knows about more than just tidying up. The bestselling author and organizing superstar has co-written a children’s picture book about—you guessed it—the life-changing magic of friendship. Inspired by global neatening phenomenon […]
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WHO Adds ‘Gaming Disorder’ To List of Official Diseases
Don’t be so quick to dismiss a loved one’s Fortnight obsession. The World Health Organization last week adopted the latest revision of its International Classification of Diseases (ICD)—including “gaming disorder.” Characterized by WHO […]
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NASA Puts Mars 2020 Rover to the Test
NASA’s Mars 2020 spacecraft has been put through its paces this week, completing rigorous tests that simulate the extreme conditions of outer space. *Cue training montage set to “Eye of the Tiger”* Acoustic […]
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Service Dog Meets Chewbacca at Disney World, Has Best Reaction
A service-dog-in-training met Star Wars‘ famous Wookiee, Chewbacca, at Walt Disney World in Florida, and photos of her adorable, aww-worthy reaction are going viral on Instagram. Sparrow is an American Golden Retriever living […]
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Watch: Former NASA Engineer Builds 15-Ton Jello-O Pool
Former NASA JPL engineer Mark Rober has brought some pretty crazy ideas to life — you may remember the glitter-bomb trap that farts on package thieves. For his most recent creation, the YouTuber […]
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Here’s Everything Coming to Netflix in June 2019
We know you’re still reeling from Avengers: Endgame, so if you’re in need of a superhero fix, Netflix has the goods this June. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (perhaps the best Spider-Man movie ever) […]
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DHL Kicks Off Regular Autonomous Drone Deliveries in China
Like most of its competitors, Germany-based international shipping giant DHL is bullish on autonomous drones. The company eagerly shared some big news this week: the start of a regular drone delivery service in […]
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Man Dies After Apparent Shark Attack in Hawaii
A 65-year-old California man was killed in an apparent shark attack while swimming off the coast of Maui on Saturday morning. The man was swimming about 60 yards offshore at Honokowai Point near […]
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The 11 Hardest Survival Simulators
This week sees the retail release of Oxygen Not Included, a survival simulation game that puts you in charge of keeping astronauts alive on a space rock with limited supplies of breathable air. […]
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Memorial Day DIY Deals: Savings on Tools, Raspberry Pi Kits, and More
Memorial Day is approaching fast. Do you have plans? Make the most of your holiday weekend with these popular DIY items currently offered at the Geek Shop. And, if you enter the code […]
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Intelligent pedestrian crossing system banishes the button
Pressing the button at a signalized crosswalk is no great hardship, but Austrian researchers are adamant there's a better way. By replacing the button with smart technology, its system improves both safety and traffic flow.
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Bored of aluminum and plastic? HP made a laptop out of wood that looks amazing
HP's new range of laptops in the EliteBook, Envy, and Zbook ranges sport impressive specifications and privacy features, as well as some gorgeous new finishes in both leather and curiously, wood.
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Ice Lake is here. Intel’s 10th-gen CPUs boast large gains in speed and graphics
Intel unveiled its 10th-Generation mobile processors at Computex with a new 10nm design and robust Gen 11 Iris Plus graphics. Combined with DL Boost, Wi-Fi 6 Gig+, Thunderbolt 3, Intel promises 2.5x improvements over 8th-Gen.
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Intel 10th-Gen Ice Lake CPUs: Everything you need to know
Intel's 10th-gen chips have arrived, and they're to be based on the 10nm process that has given it so much trouble over the past year. We now some of the specifics if its initial roll-out on mobile, which will be fairly limited to begin with.
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How Intel is using Project Athena to bring future laptop designs to the present
While introducing its 10th-gen Ice Lake processors, Intel also outlined the requirements for Project Athena laptops. These systems are expected to deliver fast performance and long battery life, to take on Always Connected PCs.
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HP embraces dock culture with new portable and mini-PC displays
Three new monitors from HP go in a different direction than most y making it easier to swap in hardware, whether that's with a laptop and docking solution or a miniature PC that slots right into the back of a new Mini-in-one system.
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Intel’s Computex 2019 keynote: Here’s how to watch and what to expect
Intel is scheduled to give its Industry Opening Keynote at Computex on Tuesday, May 28, where it will likely fully unveil its first 10th generation chips and further outline its Project Athena initiative. Here's how to watch it.
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Laptop with some of world’s most dangerous malware sells for $1.35 million
A laptop infected with six of the world's most dangerous malware was sold in an auction for $1.35 million. Titled "The Persistence of Chaos," the malware within the computer are said to have caused financial damages worth $95 billion.
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Ultra HD Blu-ray: Everything you need to know
Ultra HD Blu-ray discs and players are a killer way to beef up your home theater. Here's everything you need to know about one of the most significant advances to hit home entertainment in years.
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TikTok owner ByteDance reportedly building its own smartphone
ByteDance, the owner of popular short video app TikTok, is reportedly building its own smartphone. Given that regular phones could download the same apps that this phone would have preloaded, the selling point of such a device remains unclear.
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Will GPS ever become obsolete? Meet the ant-inspired tech that could replace it
GPS is today’s go-to navigational system and it’s great until it doesn’t work. Researchers at universities and some of the world’s top tech companies are developing advanced navigational techniques designed to fill in the gaps when GPS fails.
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Everything we know about Shadow game streaming
Game streaming seems to be having a bit of a moment, with Microsoft, Google, and other big names set to launch streaming services. French company Blade was early to the trend with Shadow. Here's what you need to know about Shadow.
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How to remove Android malware from your phone or tablet
Did you download an infected app? You need to remove Android malware as soon as possible. Here's the process to uninstall, along with some recommendations on how to safeguard your phone.
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Porsche’s Augmented Reality app lets you see your dream car in the real world
If you can dream it, you can see it -- and even put it in your driveway. The new Porsche Augmented Reality Visualizer App (PARVA) is available now for iOS and Android augmented reality-enabled mobile devices.
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Projectors vs. TVs: Which is best for your home theater?
Since no single aspect of your home theater setup is more important than your display, we weigh in on the projectors vs. TVs debate. We've put together this comprehensive guide to help you find the right option for your lifestyle.
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Sling TV: Everything you need to know
Sling TV has grown a great deal since its launch. Now, there are more channels and more packages to choose from, with more being added all the time. Everything you need to know is right here.
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Nvidia GeForce Now vs. Shadow: Which streaming service is right for you?
Nvidia GeForce Now and Shadow came out of the gate early in the race to conquer cloud gaming. GeForce Now is currently in beta, while Shadow is already available in most states. How do they stack up against each other?
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What is HDMI 2.0b? Here’s everything you need to know
HDMI 2.0b is the backbone for many of the latest updates in 4K UHD technology. And while a new cable standard can often involve a bunch of changes for consumers, that is not the case this time around.
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13 year old who hacked Apple servers sentenced to probation
A teenager who broke into Apple's network and downloaded secure data has been in court on hacking charges. He was just 13 when he began accessing Apple servers, and has been sentenced to probation.
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AMD Navi RX 5000: Everything you need to know
AMD's Navi-based RX 5000 graphics cards are just around the corner and will make AMD hotly competitive with Nvidia's mid-range RTX graphics cards with an entirely new range of PCIExpress 4.0 compatible GPUs.
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Forget Ryzen and Navi, AMD’s biggest win at Computex was mindshare
AMD may have played second fiddle to Intel and Nvidia for many years, but that looks set to change in 2019. Along with major product announcements at Computex, CEO Lisa Su made it clear: AMD is ready to lead.
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Lawsuit alleges Apple disclosed information about iTunes purchases
A new lawsuit alleges that Apple sells off personal data regarding iTunes purchases. The lawsuit was brought by three iTunes customers from Rhode Island and Michigan, to federal court in San Fransisco on Friday, according to Bloomberg.
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The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga is $420 off for Memorial Day
If you love ThinkPads and want a 2-in-1 laptop, then the X1 Yoga is the one for you. The second-gen ThinkPad X1 Yoga is on sale for a particularly juicy discount of $420 right now.
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AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs: Here’s everything you need to know
AMD's upcoming Ryzen 3000 generation of CPUs could be the most powerful processors we've ever seen, with higher core counts, greater clock speeds, and competitive pricing. Here's what we know so far.
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Personal information from Grindr was accessible by Chinese engineers
When the Chinese Kunlun Group bought gay dating app Grindr last year, there were concerns about users' privacy which prompted U.S. officials to get involved. Now an investigation reveals how the issue became a national security concern.
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NASA pushes ahead with Moon 2024 mission despite funding uncertainties
The ambitious plan for NASA to send astronauts back to the moon by 2024 is underway, with new developments coming this week. But the project remains troubled due to uncertainty about how much funding will actually be available
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Everything we know about the Nvidia GeForce Now streaming service
Nvidia was one of the early adopters of modern game streaming technology with its GeForce Now service. Currently in beta, GeForce Now lets PC, Mac, and Nvidia Shield users stream games without needing high-powered hardware.
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Apple might add dual Bluetooth audio connections to the iPhone
Dual Bluetooth audio connections are already available on many Android phones. But so far, Apple hasn't added it to the iPhone. Rumor has it this could change, giving two sets of wireless headphones access to the same music.
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The best apps for teachers and educators
Students shouldn't be the only ones using their smart devices in the classroom. Check out our top picks for the best apps for teachers and educators, whether you're looking to post grades, assign readings, or merely stay organized.
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The world's most acclaimed concours car: The Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta
The title of the world's most acclaimed concours car is generally attributed to the winner of the Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, which David Sydorick's 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta won in February this year. Last year the car won the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, but when it took out both the public and judges 'best in show' at Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este, there can be no claims to the contrary.
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Provocative study shows how the herpes virus can speed up the onset of Alzheimer’s disease
An intriguing new study from researchers at Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet has described a mechanism by which virus particles can interact with proteins in biological fluids and become more infectious, while also accelerating the formation of plaques often associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
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25 incredible scientific artifacts that sold at auction last week
Christie's held two science-related auctions last week, and across the two, some quite remarkable scientific artifacts were on offer. Here's our pick of the offerings.
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Gold-mining fungi could guide human prospectors
Shiny, pretty and useful in electronics, gold has been prized by humans for millennia, but we're not the only ones out there prospecting. Scientists from Australia's CSIRO have now found a fungus species that mines for gold and even decorates itself with the precious particles. Following the fungus could be a new, environmentally-friendly way to find large underground gold deposits.
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Antibiotics found in world's rivers at levels up to 300 times above safe levels
In a massive global study, led by researchers at the University of York, hundreds of rivers around the world have been tested for levels of common antibiotics. The study found 65 percent of all samples contained some concentration of antibiotics, with the worst cases showing levels more than 300 times higher than the generally accepted safe threshold.
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Old laptop infected with the world's most dangerous malware sells for $1.34 million
What happens when the vastly different worlds of modern art and computer malware collide? The answer is an installation called The Persistence of Chaos, and it just sold at auction for US$1.345 million.
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Unitree's Laikago joins the growing robo-dog pack
If you like unsettlingly animal-like robots, then you're probably already familiar with Boston Dynamics' SpotMini. Well, it's now in for some competition. Last week at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Chinese manufacturer Unitree Robotics showed off its Laikago quadruped.
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Vets use fish skins as grafts, putting burned Rottweiler on road to recovery
The collagen-rich properties of fish skin have seen it gain some serious utility as a tool for treating burns, with tilapia grafts in particular coming to the aid of animals badly injured in last year's California wildfires. Veterinarians have now used a new form of this approach to bring a severely burned Rottweiler back from the brink of death, an outcome they hope will lead to new and improved treatments for other burn victims of the animal kingdom.
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Smart pedestrian crossing system forgoes buttons for cameras
Starting at the end of next year, some of Vienna's walk-light push-buttons will be disappearing from the city's pedestrian crossings. Instead, a new system will be trialled, that uses cameras and computers to visually detect when people wish to cross the road.
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Hormone-tracking sensor measures stress levels through a drop of bodily fluid
Stress has some mysterious effects on the human body, with more and more research linking its presence to all kinds of negative health outcomes including autoimmune disorders, diabetes, obesity and heart disease. Now scientists at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have developed a new kind of sensor that can be used to keep tabs on stress levels, requiring just single drop of bodily fluid.
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Norwegian robot is made to help scientists – and seniors
You might think that most new robots are designed to head off into factories or other workplaces, but the fact is that many of them are made to be used in the lab, by robotics developers. That's the case with EVE r3, although its successor may find use in applications such as home care for the elderly.
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Earth-buzzing comet found carrying "ocean-like" water
Earth is a famously wet planet, but where all that water came from in the first place remains a mystery. The most commonly-accepted theory is that comets and asteroids delivered it via impacts during the early days of Earth, and now a NASA study has found new evidence to support that idea. Observations of a comet that whizzed by close to Earth a few months ago show that it contains "ocean-like" water – and this may apply to other previously-dismissed comets too.
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How Google's Pixel phones take such terrific photos, especially in shaky hands
Google's wizardry with computational imaging is at the heart of what makes its Pixel phones such impressive photography tools despite the fact that they only have single 12.2-megapixel cameras. A new paper reveals some of the magic behind the impressive Night Sight and Super-Res Zoom features.
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BMW recreates classic Garmisch concept car
In homage to a nearly forgotten design by one of the industry's most influential automotive designers in recent times, BMW has resurrected the Garmisch. With faithful attention to all of the details known from the original, the new BMW Garmisch design concept is based on a 2002 chassis.
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New superconductivity record edges closer to room temperature
No matter how good a material is at conducting electricity, there's usually some resistance – unless you use superconductive materials. Since they can conduct electricity with absolutely no loss, they could be revolutionary if not for one little problem: they only work if kept extremely cold. But now researchers at Max Planck have reported a new record high temperature for superconductivity, at a toasty -23° C (-9.4° F).
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Forgot to turn the Roomba on before you left? Amazon Echo can help - CNET
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Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time Employees
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Reminiz automatically indexes and tags videos in real time
Meet French startup Reminiz, a computer vision company that can index any type of video — it’s a sort of Googlebot, but for video content. Reminiz can add tags of people, logos or emotions on live streams and on-demand videos.
“The web is designed so that you can search for text — not video. We are making it possible to search within videos,” co-founder and CEO Jack Habra told me.
There are a few different use cases for Reminiz. First, the company works with broadcasters and telecom companies. For instance, Reminiz has a partnership with Orange so that you can learn more about who’s on the screen right now. It could potentially be leveraged for recommendations or contextual ads for external content.
Reminiz streams live channels on its servers directly, scans images and adds tags. Users then download metadata from the servers.
Second, you can use Reminiz to promote your brand on relevant videos. For instance, Hyundai sponsors Lyon’s soccer team. It wants to distribute Hyundai ads before soccer footage with the team playing. But YouTube keywords aren’t that good when it comes to targeting such a specific audience — a video might talk about the soccer team without showing any actual footage.
Brands can then whitelist videos to distribute ads on those videos in particular. You get charged based on minutes of video footage processed by Reminiz.
The company competes with AWS Rekognition and other generic video analysis APIs from cloud providers. What makes Reminiz stand out is that the company builds its own database of faces, people, brands and tags. It’s also probably easier to implement Reminiz compared to a more generic solution.
“With GDPR, everybody is contacting us to focus more on contextual data instead of personal data,” Habra said.
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India’s FreshToHome raises $11 million to expand its fish, meat, and vegetable e-commerce platform
Shan Kadavil, who spent early days of his career managing tech support firm Support and then heading India operations of gaming firm Zynga, says he had a calling of sorts when his son was born. Kadavil realized that much of the meat that sells in India is not exactly healthy. The perishables are loaded with chemicals to superficially extend their life by six months, if not more. He wanted to do something better.
Fast forward four years, Kadavil said today that FreshToHome, his new e-commerce startup that delivers “100 percent” pure and fresh fish, chicken, and other kinds of meat, has raised $11 million in Series A funding. The startup has raised $13 million to date.
The round was led by CE Ventures, with participation from Das Capital, Kortschak Investments, TTCER Partners, Al-Nasser Holdings, M&S Partners and other Asia and Valley based Investors. Some of the backers of FreshToHome include Rajan Anandan, the former head of Google Southeast Asia, David Krane, CEO of GV, and Mark Pincus, chairman of Zynga.
FreshToHome has already courted 400,000 customers across four cities — Bengaluru, NCR (Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad & Greater Noida), Chennai and Kerala (Kochi, Trivandrum, Calicut & Trichur) — in India. On the backend, the startup does business with 1,500 fishermen across 125 coasts.
In an interview with TechCrunch, Kadavil said the startup is trying to “Uber-ize farmers and fishmen in India. We are giving them an app — around which we have a US patent — for commodity exchange. What farmers and fishermen do is they bid with us (as mandated by local laws) electronically using the app.” By dealing directly with the source, the startup is eliminating as many as half a dozen middlemen to cut costs.
The startup has built its own supply chain network. “We have got a 1,000 people, 100 trucks, and 40 collection points.” The startup, which also uses trains and planes to move inventory, has become one of the biggest clients of airlines Indigo and SpiceJet, he added. Kadavil claimed that FreshToHome is also the largest e-commerce platform for meat with $1.73 million in GMV sales each month.
If this all sounds well strategized, it is because of the people who are running the show. Kadavil founded the FreshToHome with Mathew Joseph, a veteran in the industry who has dealt with fish export for more than 30 years. Joseph started India’s first e-commerce venture in fish and meat called SeaToHome in 2012.
FreshToHome has also emerged as a micro-VC to farmers where it is doing cooperative farming. In such model, FreshToHome guides farmers to use the latest technologies to produce certain kind of fish. As of today, the startup is seeing 60,000 kg (132,227 pound) of production in cooperative farming through its marketplace and over 400,000 kg (881,849 pound) of total products sold per month.
FreshToHome will use the fresh capital to expand its supply chain network, connect with as many as 8,500 new farmers, and start delivering vegetables. It already delivers vegetables in Bengaluru. Kadavil said the startup will also expand to two more cities — Mumbai and Pune.
FreshToHome will compete with a handful of startups, including Licious, which has raised more than $35 million to date, ZappFresh, and BigBasket, which just earlier this month raised $150 million. The cold-chain market of India is estimated to grow to $37 billion in next five years.
In a prepared statement, Tushar Singhvi, Director of CE Ventures said, “The Meat and Seafood segment in India is pegged to be a 50 billion dollar market, but we have to keep in mind that it’s a highly fragmented industry. FreshToHome.com is not only trying to streamline the industry, they’re also using technology to revolutionize the way the industry functions by disintermediating the supply chain, eliminating the middleman and working directly with the fishermen and farmers in a market place model, to make fresh and chemical free food accessible to the masses at large.”
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As the term ‘unicorn’ goes broke from overuse, what’s actually rare?
On Wednesday a few unicorns were born. You’ve already forgotten their names if you learned them at all (Tip: It was Marqeta and Ivalua.)
Don’t worry, I’m not cross with you. It’s merely that there are so many unicorns in the market today — they stampede by the hundred in 2019 — that they are impossible to keep tabs on.
In fact, so many firms now make the cut that we’ve gotten into the habit of torturing the word “unicorn” to mean more than what it was originally tasked to describe. As we wrote recently, there are undercorns now, and decacorns. Toss in minotaurs and horses and the inevitable centacorns and see, we’re all bored.
Paraphrasing Asimov, successive shocks lead to decreasing impact. So has the phrase unicorn lost all meaning. As I joked the other day, it now mostly means “middle-aged startup.” Even our redefinition of the word “startup” allowed for firms to be worth several billion and still claim the title, though that might have been an error.
In today’s world of super- and hypergiant rounds, it’s not impossible to put together a unicorn. And people sure are doing it.
So, now what
“Unicorn” is now only useful as a valuation-descriptor. It no longer implies something rare.
So, what we need is either a redefinition of a unicorn to make it rarer… or, we need an entirely new concept. Regardless of if we change up what “unicorn” itself means, or invent a new word, it has become clear what we need to add to the mix to really tease out the exceptional companies from the merely very good.
Profits.
Zoom, before its IPO, was profitable and growing like hell. TransferWise, we recently learned, is profitable and growing as well. Can you name another company worth $1 billion or more that is growing and profitable? I can’t. That means they are rare.
TechCrunch’s Kate Clark and I chatted about this on Equity, and this was our general point of agreement (her tweet here). Profit is what really makes you rare. Not just a high valuation. There’s enough money flying around to print the latter by the dozen. Earning the former? Now’s that’s legendary and hard to find.
Just like a unicorn.
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The savage genius of SoftBank funding competitors
Venture capitalists aren’t supposed to make their portfolio companies battle to the death. There’s a long-standing but unofficial rule that investors shouldn’t fund multiple competitors in the same space. Conflicts of interest could arise, information about one startup’s strategy could be improperly shared with the other, and the companies could become suspicious of advice provided by their investors. That leads to problems down the line for VCs, as founders may avoid them if they fear the firm might fund their rival down the line.
SoftBank shatters that norm with its juggernaut $100 billion Vision Fund plus its Innovation Fund. The investor hasn’t been shy about funding multiple sides of the same fight.
The problem is that SoftBank’s power distorts the market dynamics. Startups might take exploitative deals from the firm under the threat that they’ll be outspent whoever is willing to take the term sheet. That can hurt employees, especially ones joining later, who might have a reduced chance for a meaningful exit. SoftBank could advocate for mergers, acquisitions, or product differentiation that boost its odds of reaping a fortune at the expense of the startups’ potential.
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Grace Digital Mondo+ Classic review: A neoclassical clock radio for the internet age
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Intel’s Project Athena could make laptops better, if only it had teeth
Roughly eight years ago, Intel flexed its enormous power as one of the PC industry’s leading component manufacturers to improve the quality of the world’s laptops with one word: “Ultrabook.” Intel poured hundreds of millions of dollars into a marketing campaign for the industry’s latest laptops, but the publicity came with a condition: those laptops would have to meet exacting standards for thinness, weight, responsiveness and battery life.
Facing down the sizable challenge of the then-amazing MacBook Air, the PC industry signed on — and within a few years, the quality of Windows hardware had undeniably changed for the better. Flimsy plastic machines gave way to metal, less lag became the norm, and incredible machines like the Dell XPS...
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HP is finally fixing its terrible trackpads
Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to use and review a lot of HP laptops. I’ve tracked how HP’s sharpened its design chops, improved performance and battery life, and invented all new form factors with unique materials. But through all of those laptops there has been one constant: terrible trackpads.
It’s not that the actual hardware in HP’s trackpads is bad — they are large, smooth, glassy multitouch surfaces, just like you’d find on any modern laptop. The problem has always been inferior drivers and firmware, which have resulted in poor gesture support, choppy scrolling, bad palm rejection, and all of the other things that make a trackpad frustrating to use. HP has stubbornly stuck with Synaptics drivers on its...
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Intel’s 10th Gen, 10nm Ice Lake CPUs: everything you need to know
Intel has a lot to prove. 2018 marked the chipmaker’s 50th anniversary, but it was also a year that shook the company to its core. It was the year that Intel lost its CEO, struggled with Spectre and Meltdown, and reportedly lost Apple’s confidence as far as chips for future Macs are concerned. Above all, it was the year the world finally realized Intel processors had hit a wall, after yet another failure to shrink its circuits down to the “10 nanometer” process node.
But now, after years of delays, the company is about to bring its first real batch* of 10nm CPUs to the world. Today, the company is officially taking the wraps off its 10th Gen Intel Core processors, codename “Ice Lake,” and revealing some of what they might be able to do...
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HyperX announces first gaming keyboard with its own switch design
HyperX has been making gaming keyboards for a few years now, and like many other manufacturers has mostly been using Cherry MX or Kailh keyswitches depending on the price point. Today at Computex, however, HyperX is announcing its first keyboard to use a new keyswitch design from the company itself.
The keyboard is called the Alloy Origins, and as you can see from the above photo, HyperX’s switches are based on typical reds, which are a popular choice for competitive gamers because of their high responsiveness. HyperX has tweaked the red design further, however, shaving the travel distance and actuation point down to 3.8mm and 1.8mm respectively. That’s 0.2mm lower than a standard Cherry MX red switch.
All of this is to say that if you...
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Richard Preston on legacy of The Hot Zone and the future of Ebola outbreaks
Tonight, the National Geographic Channel will begin airing its six-part adaptation of Richard Preston’s book, The Hot Zone, which covered the first outbreaks of Ebola in Africa, and an outbreak in a Reston, Virginia laboratory in 1989 that required the US Army to clean up.
The book was an immediate and frightening hit with the public, bringing Ebola to the forefront of the public’s attention. National Geographic’s adaptation of the book comes a quarter-century after it was first published, and unfortunately it’s very timely. The virus has been back in the news in recent years: A massive outbreak in West Africa killed more than 10,000 people between 2013 and 2015, and another ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has...
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The YouTube Gaming app is shutting down this week
The standalone YouTube Gaming app is shutting down on May 30th. YouTube announced the impending shutdown last year, saying that the spinoff had caused “confusion” among gaming fans. It integrated the service into its main app instead, launching a games-focused hub that has already mostly replaced the old YouTube Gaming.
In a help page, YouTube directs any remaining YouTube Gaming fans to this newer hub. It’s also merged YouTube and YouTube Gaming subscriptions, although people will apparently lose the list of games they’ve saved. “We launched YouTube Gaming as a standalone app for gamers where we tested out new features based on the gaming community’s feedback,” the page explains. “We want to continue to build a stronger home for the...
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