June 2022

Walmart acquires Israeli-founded AR startup Memomi. about

US retail giant Walmart plans to acquire an augmented reality (AR) startup founded by Israeli entrepreneurs to power its optical healthcare operations across the country, the company announced on Wednesday. Walmart said it has entered into an agreement to purchase Memomi, founded in 2014 by Ofer Saban and Salvador Nissi Vilcovsky, for an undisclosed amount. …

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Opaque Systems Raises $22 Million for Series A to Boost Confidential Computing

Opaque Systems announced that it has raised $22 million in Series A financing, bringing total financing to $31.6 million. The San Francisco-based company is focused on enabling collaborative analysis and AI in confidential computing and plans to use the funds to meet the growing market demand for this technology. Confidential computing is an emerging cloud …

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Man infuriates the internet with ‘guide’ he created to keep track of information about women

A college girl who created a “guide” to track information about women has enraged the internet with a new post that is going viral on social media. Published on reddit‘s infamous r/AmITeA**hole forum, a guy under the username u/kaiokamikaze shared his story to get feedback from the AITA community to determine if he was wrong. …

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Pine Tree Legal Assistance announces new director

Pine Tree Legal Assistance has chosen a Maine-born attorney with extensive experience in the justice and equality field to lead the nonprofit organization that provides civil legal assistance to low-income Mainers. Tom Fritzsche, who grew up in Kennebunk, succeeds Nan Heald as executive director of the nonprofit. Heal, who died of cancer in January, led …

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Internet supports employee who walks away from combative interview

Members of a popular internet forum rushed to defend a potential employee who abruptly ended a controversial job interview. In a viral reddit post published on r/AmITeA**hole, Redditor u/AnxiousSprinkles396 (aka the original poster or OP) described the challenges they faced during their recent job search and said they were forced to cut an interview short …

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Enter another dimension with an augmented reality art walk near Southside Fort Worth

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A Fort Worth neighborhood takes public art to a new dimension with an augmented reality art walk. It’s easy to see all the vibrant colors and large-scale murals in South Main, but there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. CBS 11 News “It’s something you wouldn’t expect,” says …

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Desecrated Corpse of Failed Electronics Store Radioshack Brought Back from the Dead as a Scrolling Crypto Meme Zombie

RadioShack, which you may remember as a consumer electronics retailer endemic to shopping malls from the 1990s and early years, has relaunched with a corresponding cryptocurrency and a positively sickening Twitter account. It’s the latest example of crypto’s strange, ongoing overlap with edgelord internet behavior. The ‘Shack’ sold batteries, RC cars, DIY electronics and all …

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