Uber rider verification rolls out in Chicago, 11 other cities Thursday
Uber is rolling out a huge security upgrade across 12 cities Thursday, including Chicago.
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Twitch is officially rolling out its new TikTok-like discovery feed to all users this week, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feed, which is launching as a tab within the Twitch iOS and Android apps, allows viewers to scroll through bite-sized bits of content to discover new streamers. With this launch, Twitch now joins numerous other popular apps that have launched their own short-form video feeds following TikTok’s rise in popularity, including Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Uber Eats and LinkedIn to name a few.
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Education Department urges families to complete FAFSA as college decision time looms
The Education Department continued its efforts to improve the FAFSA filing process and urged families to complete the form.
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The Cheyenne Supercomputer is going for a fraction of its list price at auction right now
The US government is selling the Cheyenne Supercomputer at auction for a fraction of the list price right now.
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Starbucks revises 2024 guidance, after badly missing its Q2 earnings estimates
Starbucks' decaf-like start to the year continues into the second quarter.
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2024 NFL Draft TV ratings down despite strong 1st round
Viewership was still better than what the NFL Draft drew two years ago.
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Their student loans were forgiven. Now they're reclaiming life after decades of debt: 'I've found dreams I never knew I had.'
“It’s as if I have finally ended a toxic relationship,” a former borrower told Yahoo News.
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With $175M in new funding, Island is putting the browser at the center of enterprise security
Island, the enterprise browser company, may be the most valuable startup that you have never heard of. Island has now raised a total of $487 million. Doug Leone, a partner at Sequoia who invested in Island going back to the A round, says that he was attracted to the company’s founding team and unique value proposition.
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Beats Solo 4 review: Upgraded audio, extended battery life and familiar design
Beats made significant updates to audio quality and battery life on the Solo 4, but the design is in need of a refresh.
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NFL Draft Notebook, Part 1: How quickly will rookie QBs and WRs make a fantasy football impact?
Dalton Del Don examines the potential of several first-round picks to become reliable fantasy contributors as rookies.
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2025 Toyota Crown gets blacked-out Nightshade Edition
The 2025 Toyota Crown gains a Nightshade Edition trim that adds blacked-out exterior accents, and every trim level becomes more expensive.
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Walmart shuttering health units, including telehealth and 51 clinics
Walmart announced it is closing down its healthcare business Tuesday. The move will impact 51 locations in five states, as well as relationships with health systems, like the one penned with Florida's Orlando Health in November.
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10 worst and 10 best states for uninsured drivers
MarketWatch Guides found that up to a quarter of drivers in some states are on the road without insurance coverage.
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10 pieces of furniture at Wayfair that double as storage, according to a professional organizer
Grab these clever pieces that help to keep the clutter away. Bonus: They're all on sale!
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Sam's Club's AI-powered exit tech reaches 20% of stores
Amazon may be scaling back its AI-powered Just Walk Out checkout-free tech in its stores in favor of smart shopping carts, but Walmart-owned Sam's Club says it's turning to AI to speed up its own exit technology. Instead of requiring store staff to check members' purchases against their receipts when leaving the store, Sam's Club customers who pay either at a register or through the Scan & Go mobile app can now walk out of the store without having their purchases double-checked. The technology, unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, has now been deployed at over 120 clubs across the U.S., which is 20% of the total number of Sam's Club locations.
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US fines telcos $200M for sharing customer location data without consent
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday that it is fining the four U.S. major wireless carriers around $200 million in total for “illegally” sharing and selling customers’ real-time location data without their consent. AT&T’s fine is more than $57 million, Verizon’s is almost $47 million, T-Mobile’s is more than $80 million and Sprint’s is more than $12 million, according to the FCC’s announcement.
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Kicker rankings for 2024 fantasy football
The Yahoo Fantasy football analysts reveal their first kicker rankings for the 2024 season.
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SafeBase taps AI to automate software security reviews
Entrepreneurs Al Yang and Adar Arnon met at Harvard Business School and quickly realized that they had an interest in common: cybersecurity. "We've witnessed an evolving business climate that brought along with it an unprecedented need for improved security processes," Arnon told TechCrunch. Yang and Arnon decided to turn this interest into something more, so they started SafeBase, which was accepted into Y Combinator's accelerator program during the pandemic.
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How to stay safe during severe storms, from thunderstorms to tornadoes
Experts say to stock up, pay close attention to weather warnings and stay off the roads as increasingly severe weather sweeps the U.S. in the spring.
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Meta's approach to election security in the frame as EU probes Facebook, Instagram
The European Union said on Tuesday that it suspects Meta's social networking platforms, Facebook and Instagram, of breaking the bloc's rules for larger platforms in relation to election integrity. The European Commission (EC) has opened formal infringement proceedings to investigate Meta under the Digital Services Act (DSA), an online governance and content moderation framework. The EU's concerns here span several areas.
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‘Wallet-as-a-service’ startup Ansa raises $14 million with female investors leading the way
Ansa, a startup that helps merchants develop and offer branded virtual wallets, has raised a $14 million Series A round of funding, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively. Renegade Partners led Ansa’s latest financing, which included participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, BoxGroup and Wischoff Ventures and new investor B37 Ventures. With this latest raise, Ansa has raised a total of nearly $20 million in venture capital, including a $5.4 million seed round.