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Qualcomm Backs MapR's Hadoop Technology

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San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, has put its funding behind MapR , the company behind the big data software framework called Hadoop. software database analysis intelligence data bigdata google capital venture ventures qualcomm hadoop mapr' READ MORE>>.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

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When racism is built into the technical framework of a company, it perpetuates a false idea that white people are superior to Black people. . Meet the Formerly Incarcerated Software Engineers who Built a No-Police Alternative to 911. The latest in the battle over Prop 22 and AB 5. Send me an email at megan@techcrunch.com .

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Hold Your Horsepower: For Mobility Industry, “Reality Is Sinking In”

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Because there is no legal framework in place at either the state or federal level for fully autonomous vehicles to operate on the nation’s roads, there would presumably be human “safety attendants” on board in GM’s ridesharing fleet.

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Nervana’s $400M+ Buyout Reflects Key Tech Trend in Machine Learning

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On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Tech Industry Lobby Proposes Data Privacy Laws; Critics Call Them Weak

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The tech industry, which reaps billions of dollars by harvesting personal data and using it to sell targeted advertising and other services, opened the door to federal data privacy regulations today in a proposal by ITI, a lobbying organization for tech companies.

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Interview with Darrius Thompson, OpenCandy

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Last week, San Diego-based OpenCandy (www.opencandy.com) announced it had raised $3.5M in a venture round for the firm's software recommendation startup. Darrius Thompson: We came from a company called DivX, where we had built a business primarily around consumer software. What's the idea behind OpenCandy?

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How ScoreStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

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In the age of the smartphone and social sharing, San Diego-based ScoreStream (www.scorestream.com) thinks it has figured out how to tap into that new world, and connect all that social activity with the media. We had to invent a lot of software to deal with fraud and tracking, and we are doing the same thing here.

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