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Snap Earns $20m Grant to Back California Tech Industry

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California has awarded Snap Inc a massive fund worth $20 million USD. Hailing from Santa Monica and with offices in Paolo Alto, Snap has long been associated with Silicon Valley’s tech hub in California. However, after a year from its departure, the company leased a new office in California’s Bay Area.

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Who’s building the grocery store of the future?

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Chris is a venture fellow at Bessemer Venture Partners and a JD/MBA candidate at Stanford University who writes a weekly newsletter about tech, policy and business strategy. Amazon’s foray into grocery store technology provides a succinct introduction into the state of the industry. Share on Twitter. Tess Hatch. Contributor.

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Daily Crunch: European subscription prices for Amazon Prime will increase in September 

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She started Homebound to make home-building easier and more accessible after a wildfire ripped through Northern California and thousands of people were put on years-long waiting lists to get started building their homes. Our Found podcast had a particularly interesting episode this week — Nikki Pechet joins as a guest.

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The Spatial Web: How the Next Generation of the Internet Will Impact Us All

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Currently, when you’re walking around the United States accessing the web, your digital self is likely heading physically to one of four major data centers operated by Amazon Web Services in either California, Oregon, Ohio, or Virginia. Just as with the social web and AI, article headlines will start to ask, “What’s your AR strategy?”

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8 of the best air purifiers to deal with pets, pollen, and pollution

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The issue of air pollution is often disregarded unless it's really bad — say, the apocalyptic orange skies and heavy smoke produced by the 2020 California fires, which caused immediate health effects like stinging eyes, coughing, and headaches. Can an air purifier protect you from the coronavirus? A good question.

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The Top Five Retail Technology Trends In 2023

Bernard Marr

In 2023 adopting this hybrid mindset will be a key strategy for retailers looking to continue to build brand awareness and customer loyalty. Stitch Fix is a California-based fashion retailer that uses algorithms and online surveys to pick clothes that, in theory, will perfectly match customers' tastes as well as their sizes.

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Generative, Predictive, Prescriptive AI: What They Mean For Business Applications

Bernard Marr

These include computer vision (enabling computers to see and understand visual data), natural language processing (computers that can understand and communicate in human languages), and recommendation engines (as used by Amazon, Spotify and Netflix to predict what customers want to buy or consume).