Maoyan, China’s largest online movie ticket service, files to go public in Hong Kong

Tencent-backed Maoyan Weiying, China’s largest online movie ticketing service, has filed for a public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The company, which submitted a prospectus under the name Entertainment Plus, didn’t say when the IPO will be or valuation details, but reports earlier this year said Maoyan aims to raise up to $1 […] https://ift.tt/2NfIWXx support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 04, 2018 at 01:30AM

Shine grabs $9.3 million to build a bank for freelancers

French startup Shine is raising a $9.3 million (€8 million) Series A round. The company is building an alternative to traditional bank accounts for freelancers working in France. XAnge is leading today’s round with existing investor Daphni also participating, as well as business angels Gilles Samoun and Ed Zimmerman. The company previously raised $3.3 million […] https://ift.tt/2Pxffi0 support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 04, 2018 at 01:30AM

Netflix and Amazon will have to make more European content by law

Streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video will likely soon have to ensure at least 30 percent of their libraries are dedicated to local content in the European Union. A preliminary agreement on the rules is already in place, and Roberto... https://ift.tt/2Q4fqCL support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 04, 2018 at 01:30AM

Google sics its new AI on child abuse images online

Google’s latest attempt to battle the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online comes in the form of an AI that can quickly identify images that haven’t been previously catalogued. It’s part of the company’s Content Safety API, which is available to NGOs and other bodies working on this issue. By automating the process of rifling through images, the AI not only speeds things up, but also reduces the number of people required to be exposed to it – a job that can take a serious psychological toll. Given that the UK’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) found nearly 80,000…

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Xiaomi’s fully loaded Poco F1 is hands down the best value phone of 2018

Following the annual MWC trade show in 2016, I wrote about how I believed the days of the $700 smartphone were numbered, because cheaper devices were getting better and narrowing the gap between the performance and features they offered, in comparison to what you’d get with a pricey flagship. As it turns out, I was dead wrong on the first bit – phones have broken the $1,000 barrier, and I now look like an idiot. However, Chinese brands have been proving me right on the bridging-the-gap front, and none more so than Xiaomi. Its $414 top-of-the-line Poco F1 packs pretty much…

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Sound-based liquid printing could lead to new designer drugs

Liquid printing is virtually ubiquitous thanks to inkjets, but the materials can only be so sluggish before it stops working. What if you wanted to print a biological material, or even liquid metal? That might happen soon. Harvard researchers have de... https://ift.tt/2LZY8DC support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 10:30PM

Meituan reportedly targets $55B valuation for Hong Kong IPO, leading to concerns that may be too high

Meituan-Dianping is reportedly aiming for a $55 billion valuation in its upcoming initial public offering in Hong Kong, but the company’s net losses and increasing competition from Alibaba are already raising questions about whether that is too ambitious, despite the company’s market leadership in China. Meituan-Dianping, which bills itself as a “one-stop super app” that […] https://ift.tt/2oDAQtY support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 10:30PM

What's on TV: 'Spider-Man,' 'Next Gen,' and 'The Purge'

We're officially moving into the fall TV season as the NFL returns to action and premieres pop up on the schedule. On Tuesday FX has its Sons of Anarchy spinoff Mayans M.C., USA brings The Purge to TV and Showtime features Jim Carrey in Kidding. Movi... https://ift.tt/2PDOh8L support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 10:30PM

EVGA Live at PAX West - Day 4

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An Exciting Future For Content Creators

NVIDIA and Adobe collaborate closely to optimizing leading-edge new Adobe CC solutions for powerful NVIDIA GPU-powered systems to provide a better experience for creators everywhere. https://ift.tt/2NiKi3W https://ift.tt/2CqF9Td support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 09:40PM

Political anonymity may help us see both sides of a divisive issue online

Some topics are so politically charged that even to attempt a discussion online is to invite toxicity and rigid disagreement among participants. But a new study finds that exposure to the views of others, minus their political affiliation, could help us overcome our own biases. https://ift.tt/2oDhLIo support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 07:30PM

Google offers AI toolkit to report child sex abuse images

Numerous organizations have taken on the noble task of reporting pedophilic images, but it's both technically difficult and emotionally challenging to review vast amounts of the horrific content. Google is promising to make this process easier. It'... https://ift.tt/2LToKpL support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 07:30PM

Myanmar jails Reuters reporters who uncovered military atrocity

Reporting the news isn’t illegal, unless you’re in Myanmar. The Southeast Asian country this week sentenced two reporters from Reuters to seven years in jail in response to an investigative report that uncovered atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims by the army. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the two Reuters staffers, have been in custody since […] https://ift.tt/2oyIpC6 support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 07:30PM

NASA explores product endorsements and rocket naming rights

NASA's new leader is gung-ho on privatizing spaceflight, and that could lead to some new approaches to branding... like it or not. Administrator Jim Bridenstine has unveiled a NASA Advisory Council committee that will explore the feasibility of comm... https://ift.tt/2LSSJ0R support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 05:03PM

Lending startup Portal Finance nabs $200 million for small business loans in Latin America

Latin American small businesses just got a big boost with a new commitment for a $200 million lending joint venture between the Bogota-based startup Portal Finance and Latin America’s largest financial services institution, BTG Pactual. For Portal Finance, the deal with BTG caps a meteoric rise, which has seen the company raise $1.5 million at […] https://ift.tt/2ozqknk support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 04:30PM

Fall 2018 tech IPOs face myriad of headwinds

2018 has been an incredibly strong year for IPOs, particularly in the technology sector. Among the brand names this year that have made their public debuts are Dropbox, Xiaomi, Spotify (through a direct listing), DocuSign, Carbon Black, Zuora, among many, many others. Given the strength of these numbers through the first eight months of this […] https://ift.tt/2PvsCPV support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 04:30PM

Dropbox drops some enhancements to Paper collaboration layer

When you’re primarily a storage company with enterprise aspirations, as Dropbox is, you need a layer to to help people use the content in your system beyond simple file sharing. That’s why Dropbox created Paper, to act as that missing collaboration layer. They announced some enhancements to Paper to keep people working in their collaboration […] https://ift.tt/2oCdBQL support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 04:30PM

What we're buying: A potent audio sampler that fits in your pocket

This week, Managing Editor Terrence O'Brien is obsessed with a new sampler that he can take anywhere. It's got its quirks, but that's apparently part of the appeal. https://ift.tt/2CmZxVg support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 04:30PM

TikTok adds video reactions to its newly-merged app

Just about a month after the merger of the short-form video apps Musical.ly and TikTok, the app is introducing a new social feature, allowing users to post their reactions to the videos that they watch. Instead of text comments, these reactions will take the form of videos that are essentially superimposed on top of existing […] https://ift.tt/2wF5zLA support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 04:30PM

Udaan, the e-commerce startup led by three former Flipkart executives, raises $225M

The trio announced this morning that their B2B e-commerce startup Udaan had raised $225 million in Series C funding. The cash infusion, according to Indian media reports, makes Udaan the fastest-ever Indian startup to be valued at over $1 billion. https://ift.tt/2PDea8H support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 04:30PM

Audi starts mass production of its first all-electric SUV

Audi began production of its first all-electric SUV on Monday, three years after the German automaker unveiled a concept version of the vehicle at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt. The company won’t reveal the production-version of the Audi e-tron SUV until Sept. 17, in a what promises to be a splashy event in San […] https://ift.tt/2oDTHVE support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 04:30PM

The first 'Valkyria Chronicles' comes to Switch on October 16th

Valkyria Chronicles 4 will be available on the Switch, but what if you never played the original and want to brush up on your WWII-inspired turn-based strategy? Don't worry, you're set. Sega has confirmed that the original Valkyria Chronicles will be... https://ift.tt/2MI96Tb support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 02:03PM

The VoCore2 is a tiny computer that can play tiny Doom

The VoCore2 is a Wi-Fi capable computer with a 580 MHz CPU and 128 RAM that supports video, USB, and Ethernet. And it plays Doom. That’s right: this is a computer you can easily swallow and allow your biome flora to play a hard core FPS while you slowly digest the package. The product started […] https://ift.tt/2LSk3MX support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 02:04PM

Peep the future of distributed ledgers with the leaders of Hyperledger, Parity Technologies and Tradeshift

As cryptocurrencies emerge from the speculative bloodletting of the past months, believers in the promise of distributed ledger technologies for business and consumer applications are casting about for what comes next. On our stage at Disrupt San Francisco we’ll be welcoming some of the leading thinkers in how distributed ledgers can create an entirely new […] https://ift.tt/2MNMZLr support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 02:04PM

Wireless headphones and earbuds to fit your budget

Editor’s note: This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter’s independently chosen editorial picks, Wirecutter and TechCrunch may earn affiliate commissions. Headphones keep us connected to our favorite music, podcasts, and audiobooks. They make sure we don’t drop an important phone call. As our devices ditch the headphone jack […] https://ift.tt/2wDIvfo support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 02:03PM

The best of IFA 2018

IFA’s one of the year’s most fascinating tech shows — and not just because it means hanging out in Berlin for the week. The conference is primarily targeted at European consumers, but the late-August/early-September timing means plenty of companies use it as the global launch pad for gadgets aimed at holiday shoppers. In recent years, […] https://ift.tt/2wyZpwr support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 01:30PM

Will 2018 be the year small phones die?

Sony is perhaps the last bastion of smaller smartphones. Or at least, it used to be. For years now, Sony has been making "Compact" versions of its top-tier handsets that are more or less flagships in their own right. Each generation of Sony's latest... https://ift.tt/2wFjhx9 support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 01:30PM

‘Five Eyes’ governments call on tech giants to build encryption backdoors — or else

A pact of five nation states dedicated to a global “collect it all” surveillance mission has issued a memo calling on their governments to demand tech companies build backdoor access to their users’ encrypted data — or face measures to force companies to comply. The international pact — the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New […] https://ift.tt/2wyZoZp support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 01:30PM

Here are all the new phones at IFA that you won't get in the US

I know what you're thinking: Why should you care about a bunch of phones you might never get to buy? Well, in addition to feeding your FOMO, it's also worth learning about technologies available elsewhere in the world. Things that first showed up abr... https://ift.tt/2wzKVve support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 01:30PM

Avrios has quietly raised $14M for an AI-fueled fleet management platform

Swiss startup Avrios reckons business mobility is going to get a whole lot more interesting as companies adopt more tailored mobility solutions, rather than sticking with the traditional one car per person model. And at the same time as businesses are seeking to accelerate their progressive cred by moving away from combustion cars to greener alternatives, new […] https://ift.tt/2wG0a6K support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 01:30PM

¿Te imaginas capturar el lago de Atitlán por la noche con la luz de las estrellas?

Descubre en este video cómo @cebraderayas lo logró en su viaje por la Región del Altiplano con su nuevo #LGG7ThinQ #LGGuate7 Para más info: http://spr.ly/6056DI936 https://ift.tt/2PwEj8U support@endlesssupplies.ca (Endless Supplies .Ca) September 03, 2018 at 01:35PM