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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

The Parallax

Did you get hacked in 2017? That includes the operating system, the programs and apps that run on it, and the aforementioned Internet of Things. Tech companies often have extensive privacy policies written in dense legalese, but that doesn’t mean you should do your due diligence about a new product before buying it.

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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

TechCrunch

It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. The underlying technology was based on post-graduate research from inventor – and still CEO – Tom Carter.

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PopSQL aims to be a modern data team’s best friend

TechCrunch

But what you often have to do next is save the query somewhere, send it to someone else so they can review it and make sure it’s good or if you make a data table or charts, have an easy way to share that.”. “The most basic task is connecting to the database, writing the query, then getting the results,” he added. PopSQL raised a $3.4

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. The mini game renaissance. For the past few years, Cocos has emerged as one of the main tools for building WeChat games.

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Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue

TechCrunch

Vowel is launching a meeting operating system with tools like real-time transcription; integrated agendas, notes and action items; meeting analytics; and searchable, on-demand recordings of meetings. In 2017, Harvard Business Review reported that executives spent 23 hours in meetings each week.

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Tape It launches an AI-powered music recording app for iPhone

TechCrunch

Walther had previously spent three and a half years at Spotify, following its 2017 acquisition of the audio detection startup Sonalytic , which he had co-founded. This can be useful when reviewing the recordings later on, Walther says. The idea for Tape It comes from two friends and musicians, Thomas Walther and Jan Nash.

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What has KOBO360 been up to in the last 2 years?

TechCrunch

Before fintechs became the standouts of the African tech ecosystem, it was startups in the online logistics and transport space in Africa linking on-demand apps to move people and goods around the continent that was all the rave. For the online logistics space, it’s not difficult to see why investors were quite curious about the market.