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Wyze releasing a $199 ‘Robot Vacuum’ to clean up on competitors in the evolving smart home

GeekWire

The price undercuts other autonomous cleaning devices on the market while still offering many of the premium tech features, such as LIDAR precision location mapping, virtual walls, scheduled sweeps and more. Virtual walls can also be erected to keep the vacuum from entering certain areas. Wyze Images).

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GM teases new Chevy Bolt with Super Cruise, sets release date for February

The Verge

GM is planning to release a refreshed Chevy Bolt, which was first released in 2017, as well as a Bolt Electric Utility Vehicle, or EUV. The teaser was timed to coincide with GM CEO Mary Barra’s keynote speech at the 2021 Consumer Electronics Show — which is being held virtually this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

François Locoh-Donou , CEO of F5 Networks F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou on screen after a virtual recording of the GeekWire Podcast in his office at the F5 Tower in downtown Seattle. Wang helped launch Boundless in 2017. Diorio also serves as an affiliate professor of computer science and engineering at the UW. immigrant visa backlog.

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Snapchat is growing faster than it has in years

The Verge

Snapchat is growing faster than it has since 2017, the year it went public. Twitter reported 206 million daily users in the second quarter, by comparison.) Its stock price bottomed out around $5 after a disastrous redesign that slowed user growth and confused advertisers. The situation is much different now.

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

The Verge

There’s virtual reality and there’s augmented reality — both of these are incredibly interesting. February 2017: Cook expands his thoughts on AR’s potential , adding a new comparison: AR is a big idea, like the smartphone. Cook pronounces it “pokey-mans.”). You want the technology to amplify it, not to be a barrier.

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Inside Facebook’s struggle to keep young people

The Verge

In 2017, it debuted a standalone Messenger app for kids, and its plans for a version of Instagram for kids were recently shelved after lawmakers decried the initiative. For Instagram, much of the product work targeting young people has recently focused on reducing the negative experiences of social comparison and bullying that they report.

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Technology Short Take 92

Scott Lowe

This one was supposed to be the last Tech Short Take of 2017, but I didn’t get it published in time (I decided to spend time with my family instead—some things are just more important). Tim Nolet reviews some differences between Azure Container Instances and AWS Fargate (recently announced at AWS re:Invent 2017).

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