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A company calledRentlogichas raised $2.4 million totake the guesswork out of determining whether that cheap, beautiful New York apartment is actually a deathtrap wrapped in a brownstoneclothing.

Renting in New York is murder already, but using Rentlogic, apartment hunters can figure out if their new housing situation

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Lemonade, the New York-based insurance platform, looks set to drop the lawsuit it filed against German company ONE Insurance, its parent company Wefox, and Wefox founder Julian Teicke.

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court Southern District of NY, alleged that Wefox reverse engineered Lemonade to create ONE, infringed Lemonade&s

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Crypto skeptics rejoice! A new way to short the cryptocurrency market is coming from dYdX, a decentralized financial derivatives startup. In two months it will launch its protocol for creating short and leverage positions for Ethereum and other ERC20 tokens that allow investors to amp up their bets for or against these currencies.

To get the

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Sometimes smart contracts can be pretty dumb.

All of the benefits of a cryptographically secured, publicly verified, anonymized transaction system can be erased by errant code, malicious actors or poorly defined parameters of an executable agreement.

Hoping to beat back the tide of bad contracts, bad code and bad actors,Sagewise, a new Los

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Go to Google Maps and zoom out. Halfway out, the mapperspective changes from a traditional flat map view to an interactive globe. Zoom all the way out and the Earth is presented as a globe with landmasses of the appropriate size. Greenland is no longer the size of Africa and all is right with the world.

On flat maps, itimpossible

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Portal founder Jonathan Swerdlin is just the latest media pundit to point to advertising as the root cause of the industryproblems. But henot content to diagnose the illness — he thinks hecreated a cure.

&Digital media has become toxic, in part, because of advertising,& Swerdlin said. &The unmet

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