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Nomad Go raises $1.5M to power computer vision software that automatically counts inventory

GeekWire

Founded in 2017 by Greschler and chief product officer Jonah Friedl , Nomad Go was previously using AI to help businesses identify best practices and improve such things as customer throughput, customer satisfaction, speed of service and store-by-store comparisons.

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Inside Facebook’s struggle to keep young people

The Verge

The world’s largest social network is internally grappling with an existential crisis: an aging user base Earlier this year, a researcher at Facebook shared some alarming statistics with colleagues. If it doesn’t correct course, the 17-year-old social network could, for the first time, lose out on an entire generation.

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A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality

The Verge

And nobody in here, few people in here, think it’s acceptable to be tethered to a computer walking in here and sitting down, few people are going to view that it’s acceptable to be enclosed in something, because we’re all social people at heart. Even introverts are social people, we like people and we want to interact.

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Elon Musk thinks we’re close to solving AI. That doesn’t make it true.

Vox

In October 2016, he predicted that a Tesla would drive itself from California to New York by 2017. (It He’s repeatedly argued that Teslas don’t need Lidar — a sensing system that virtually every other autonomous vehicle company relies on — on the basis of a misleading comparison between human vision and cameras in driverless cars.

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2020 Game Awards: Nintendo reveals new Smash character; ‘Among Us’ debuts a new map; and more

GeekWire

This year’s Game Awards took place Thursday as a socially-distant event, with hosts Geoff Keighley and Sydnee Goodman presiding over an evening of announcements, teasers, trailers, and occasionally, even the presentation of an award. Ghost of Tsushima, by comparison, only collected one award, for Best Art Direction.

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How Snapchat became the forgotten social platform

Vox

Snap is, in its own words , a camera company sustained on intimacy and existing social networks. But beyond these core social features, Snap has bigger ambitions with augmented and virtual reality. Most social media users are already familiar with AR technology, whether they’re aware of it or not. The cultural decline of Snap.

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Balancing act: What Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s short tenure says about running a tech hub

GeekWire

The Seattle business community threw its influence and financial weight behind Durkan during her candidacy, helping her soar to victory in 2017 with 56% of the vote. In New York, the nation’s other major tech hub, the comparison is complicated by factors unique to the metropolis. Taxing the tech industry.

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