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Noisy open offices don&t foster collaboration, they kill it, according to a Harvard study that found the less-private floor plan led to a 73 percent drop in face-to-face interaction between employees and a rise in emailing. The problem is plenty of young companies and big corporations have already bought into the open office fad. But a new

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Karma, the Stockholm-based startup that offers a marketplace to let local restaurants and grocery offer unsold food at a discount, has raised $12 million in Series A funding.

Swedish investment firm Kinnevik led the round, with participation from U.S. venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, appliance manufacturer Electrolux, and previous

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CEO John Lemp recently said that thanks to a new policy,publishers in Revcontent‘s content recommendation network &won&t ever make a cent& on false and misleading stories — at least, not from the network.

To achieve this, the company is relying on fact-checking provided by the Poynter Institute&s

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The BitFi crypto wallet was supposed to be unhackable and none other than famous weirdo John McAfee claimed that the device & essentially an Android-based mini tablet & would withstand any attack. Spoiler alert: it couldn&t.

First, a bit of background. The $120 device launched at the beginning of this month to much fanfare. It

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HQ Triviaapp store ranking has continued to sink the past three months, but ithoping a new version on your television could revitalize growth. HQ today launched an Apple TV app that lets users play the twice-daily live quiz game alongside iOS Android players. &Everything about the game is still the same & same

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Cytera CellWorkshopes to revolutionize the so-called &clean meat& industry through the automation of cell cultures — and that could mean one day, if all goes to plan, the companyproducts could be in every grocery store in America.

Cytera is a ways off from that happening, though. Founded in 2017 by two college

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  1. Alphabet invests $375 million in Oscar Health
  2. Y Combinator invests in HappiLabs to help scientists shop smarter
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