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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Top Stories of the Day // October 3, 2018

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MIT, Google, Cisco and USPTO create Prior Art Archive for better patents | Haptx is bringing touch to VR with a pair of scary-looking gloves and a pneumatic suitcase | Upwork pops more than 50 percent in Nasdaq debut | Meet the woman leading Accel's consumer growth investments | Iron Ox opens its first fully autonomous farm | FEMA is about to send a 'Presidential Alert' to millions of U.S. phones | Product Hunt Radio: The evolution of Y Combinator, and counter-intuitive advice for founders |
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 2018 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Brian Heater

MIT, Google, Cisco and USPTO create Prior Art Archive for better patents

The patent system is broken — there are too many ways to list here, really. The problems surrounding prior art are certainly among them, and a team of high profile... Read More…
Lucas Matney

Haptx is bringing touch to VR with a pair of scary-looking gloves and a pneumatic suitcase

I haven't seen a virtual reality glove system that also includes a suitcase-sized pneumatic box accessory before, but then again there aren't too many VR peripherals that have delivered quite... Read More…
Danny Crichton

Upwork pops more than 50 percent in Nasdaq debut

Upwork, the rebranded merger of oDesk and Elance, debuted on Nasdaq this morning, after dropping its S-1 about four weeks ago. Shares opened at $23.00, which represents a 53% jump... Read More…
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Meet the woman leading Accel's consumer growth investments

Accel has hired Maya Noeth to lead its consumer growth investing efforts. The firm typically promotes from within; Noeth is its first outside hire in over two years. Read More…
Frederic Lardinois

Iron Ox opens its first fully autonomous farm

For the last two and a half years, Iron Ox has been working on perfecting its agricultural robots to tend its indoor farms. After first testing its systems on a... Read More…
Zack Whittaker

FEMA is about to send a 'Presidential Alert' to millions of U.S. phones

In a few hours, millions of Americans will get a test emergency "Presidential Alert" message sent to their phone — a simulation in case the president ever needs to reach... Read More…
Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt Radio: The evolution of Y Combinator, and counter-intuitive advice for founders

Ryan Hoover Contributor Share on Twitter Ryan Hoover is the founder of Product Hunt and host of Product Hunt Radio. More posts by this contributor Product Hunt Radio: Finding the... Read More…
Sarah Perez

Facebook adds A.I. to Marketplace for categorization, price suggestions and soon, visual search

Facebook is celebrating the two-year anniversary of its Craigslist competitor, Facebook Marketplace, with the launch of new features powered by A.I. Specifically, the social network says it's adding price range... Read More…
Ron Miller

Palo Alto Networks to acquire RedLock for $173 M to beef up cloud security

Palo Alto Networks launched in 2005 in the age of firewalls. As we all know by now, the enterprise expanded beyond the cozy confines of a firewall long ago and... Read More…
Sarah Perez

In a quest to centralize all your media, Plex now includes web series

At CES, media software maker Plex said it would this year add support for podcasts, web series and other digital media to its platform. It then rolled out podcasts this... Read More…
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