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Clerk bags new capital to improve in-store grocery shopping experience

TechCrunch

The company created a digital advertising network called Grocery TV and provides screens, initially in the checkout aisle, for brands and retailers to leverage with the aim of improving the shopping experience. Nickell noted that technology costs and an engineering focus — which is his background — was needed to keep technology costs down. “We

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Create a social media punch list for cryptocurrency marketing

TechCrunch

Last December, Facebook officially began allowing crypto advertisers to buy ads on its platform. Facebook allows some crypto companies to advertise without submitting proof of financial licenses. But just because you can advertise on Facebook doesn’t mean you should. But what are best practices for crypto marketers in general?

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Autobrains nabs $19M, bringing its Series C to $120M, to take on Mobileye in autonomous driving tech

TechCrunch

A lot of self-driving technology (Mobileye’s being one example) is based around LIDAR sensors, with a few companies (like Wayve ) building systems on lower cost bases using radar, smartphones, and AI to stitch the experience together. The company says it has more than 250 patents filed on its technology already.

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How Far has Face-Tracking Technology Come in 2016?

CTOvision

The latest Snapchat lens that gives you fox ears may be nothing more than a passing distraction to send to your friends, but that lens, colloquially known as a “filter,” utilizes surprisingly advanced face tracking technology. Where do you think face-tracking technology will go towards the end of 2016?

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Web’s most annoying ads no longer welcome in Chrome

The Parallax

Search may be what Google is known for, but advertising has long been how the company makes billions of dollars. Chrome’s new ad-filtering technology, released Thursday, removes ads from sites that do not adhere to the guidelines of its Better Ad Standards group. And not everybody thinks that Google should be regulating Web ads.

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AirGarage, a full-stack parking operator, raises $12.5M in round led by a16z

TechCrunch

Even when parking lot owners try to modernize — using an app, for example, or a credit card machine to take payment — they must deal with a whole array of providers to manage hardware, payment processing and marketing, all separately. That’s where AirGarage comes in.

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Isotropic Systems raises $40 million for a satellite antenna that could make the most of new constellations

TechCrunch

This latest funding should help it prove its groundbreaking technology can attain the production scale and efficacy required to live up to its promise. Isotropic’s potential customer list for such an offering spans military, government, and civilian markets, across both broadband and low-data IoT networks.

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