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Nickie Louise

Nickie is a writer, editor, and co-founder of TechStartups.com based in the Washington Metropolitan Area. She covers early-stage startups, AI, emerging technologies, cryptocurrencies, gaming, and gadgets. When she’s not writing about innovation, Nickie enjoys crafts, spending time with her family and children, hiking, and exploring God’s majestic creation.


Gadgets  / Hardware  / Research  / Robotics  / Technology News
Meet Robot Police Officer, a traffic stop robot that writes you a speeding ticket and keeps everyone safe
Nickie Louise Posted On October 17, 2020


Every year, 16,915,140 drivers are pulled over in traffic, 195,078 motorists have physical force used on them, 4,488 officers are assaulted, 89 of those motorists die, and 11 of those officers die. With such dangerous interactions between people, maybe it’s […]


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Health  / Social Media
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko leads a White House petition asking Dr. Fauci and 3 others be charged and brought to justice for “Crimes Against Humanity / Mass Murder”
Nickie Louise Posted On October 17, 2020


Dr. Zelenko is a Hasidic Jewish doctor and a board-certified family practitioner in New York. We first wrote about him in March after he reportedly treated coronavirus patients with a 99% success rate using hydroxychloroquine and zinc. Back in July, Dr. Zelenko […]


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Featured  / Space  / Technology News
Elon Musk says SpaceX could send Starship to Mars as early as 2024
Nickie Louise Posted On October 16, 2020


SpaceX is currently developing a new rocket called Starship-Super Heavy in Boca Chica, Texas. Today, at the 2020 Mars Society Virtual Convention, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveals the SpaceX Starship launch plan to Mars by 2024. “I think we’ve got […]


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Health  / Research
Masks (non-N95) protects you only 1 percent (1%) of the times, CDC said in 2018
Nickie Louise Posted On October 16, 2020


As coronavirus continues to spread around the world, there is a growing demand for face masks as people look for ways to protect themselves from the deadly virus. But this raises the question millions of people have been asking is: Do […]


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Artificial Intelligence  / Featured  / Technology News
Artificial intelligence is dumber than a 5-year-old and no smarter than a rat, Researchers say
Nickie Louise Posted On October 16, 2020


We’ve all heard or read about how robots are going to take away our jobs. Saudi Arabia even went as far as granting citizenship to “Sophia the robot” back in October 2017(See the video below). A few years ago, we wrote about Professor […]


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Featured
Tesla, the $400 billion electric car company, got its water supply shut off at Berlin Gigafactory because it failed to pay its bill after several warnings
Nickie Louise Posted On October 16, 2020


It turns out Germans don’t care if you’re the fourth richest person in the world. According to multiple reports coming out of Germany, Elon Musk’s Tesla had to temporarily stop construction work at the site of Gigafactory Berlin due to water […]


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Social Media  / Technology News
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey speaks out: “Straight Blocking Of URLs” Was Wrong
Nickie Louise Posted On October 16, 2020


By now, most Americans are angry with the two most popular social sites in the world: Facebook and Twitter. It all started after the two platforms censored sourced reporting from the New York Post’s story about bombshell emails and videos obtained […]


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Health  / Research
Remdesivir Fails to Prevent COVID-19 Deaths in Huge Trial, Did Not Lower Mortality Rate in a Multinational Trial
Nickie Louise Posted On October 16, 2020


We’ve been covering the story about Remdesivir since early March. It all started after U.S. President touted the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a game-changer for the treatment of coronavirus patients. Ever since his announcement in support of the drug, an all-out war […]


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Featured  / Social Media  / Technology News
Damage control after social backlash: Twitter reverses course on New York Post story, says it will no longer block hacked content
Nickie Louise Posted On October 15, 2020


Wow, what a difference 24 hours make! After a lot of pressure and backlash from millions or Twitter users, Twitter announced this evening that it’s making   major changes to “hacked material” policies after ‘significant feedback.’ The announcement came after massive backlash […]


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Startup Funding  / Tech Startup News  / Tech Startups  / Technology News
Temporal raises $18.75M Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital to grow its open source microservices orchestration engine
Nickie Louise Posted On October 15, 2020


For years, organizations built their business applications using a concept known as monolithic architecture. The idea is to build an application as a single unit. However, monolithic architecture comes with a lot of challenges including application maintenance nightmare. For example, to […]


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Cybersecurity  / Hacking  / Security  / Technology News
FAKE HACK: C-SPAN Suspended Steve Scully after admitting he LIED about his Twitter account being hacked
Nickie Louise Posted On October 15, 2020


No day goes by without headlines about hacking. However, not all hacking reports are true. An example is Steve Scully, a senior executive producer, and political editor at C-SPAN. Scully had been selected by Federal Election Commission on Presidential Debates to moderate the town […]


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Artificial Intelligence  / Featured  / Startup Funding  / Tech Startup News  / Tech Startups  / Technology News
Conversation intelligence startup Balto raises $10 million Series A funding to help sales reps close the deal
Nickie Louise Posted On October 15, 2020


Balto, a Saint Louis, MO-based tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to analyze phone calls in real-time at contact centers while the call is still happening, today announced it has secured $10 million Series A funding to extend the reach of its […]


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Social Media  / Technology News
France and the Netherlands call for tough EU powers to curb Big Tech
Nickie Louise Posted On October 15, 2020


Over the past few months, we’ve seen how the big tech flexes muscles during the pandemic and the ongoing presidential election in the US. Big tech companies are now so powerful that no one in the US government dares lay […]


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Social Media  / Technology News
Twitter takes censorship to a new level; now blocking access to U.S. government websites, warning users they are malicious and unsafe
Nickie Louise Posted On October 15, 2020


Yesterday, we wrote about Twitter after the social platform censored content from the New York Post and blocked its account. A couple of hours later, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey issued a non-apology apology saying “Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article […]


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Acquisition  / Featured  / Startup Funding  / Tech Startup News  / Tech Startups  / Technology News
Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack for over $200 million to expand its footprint in Africa
Nickie Louise Posted On October 15, 2020


Stripe is a San Francisco-based fintech startup that provides payments infrastructure for businesses. Its software and APIs are used by millions of companies of all sizes to accept payments, send payouts, and manage their businesses online. Back in May 2020, […]


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Gadgets  / Gaming  / Technology News
What Technological Changes Does The PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X Bring?
Nickie Louise Posted On October 15, 2020


2020 certainly looks to be a massive year when it comes to console gaming with the ninth generation of consoles dropping in the middle of November. The new offerings from Microsoft and Sony are set to bring around a marked […]


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Health  / Research
A newly published WHO study finds that coronavirus fatality rates are much lower than estimates made earlier in the pandemic
Nickie Louise Posted On October 14, 2020


The World Health Organization (WHO) just published Dr. Ioannidis study. The study, which was wrongly castigated by the totalitarian fanatics back in March, concludes that “the inferred infection fatality rates tended to be much lower than estimates made earlier in the pandemic.” Unlike the […]


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Social Media  / Technology News
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologizes for NY Post story censorship: “Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was Not great …and URL blocking unacceptable”
Nickie Louise Posted On October 14, 2020


Big tech companies have started a war that they cannot win. Earlier today, we wrote about Facebook and Twitter after the two tech giants censored sourced reporting from the New York Post’s story about bombshell emails and video obtained from Hunter […]


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Featured  / Hardware  / Technology News
Meet Bump, a new wearable device that warns people when they do not socially distance
Nickie Louise Posted On October 14, 2020


As coronavirus continues to take a toll on people around the world, a team of engineers at UK robotics startup Tharsus got together and came up with an idea to develop a social-distancing system that will give people the confidence they […]


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Social Media  / Technology News
Big tech censorships reach new heights as Twitter now blocks content even before they’re posted, calling them “harmful”
Nickie Louise Posted On October 14, 2020


We’re now in uncharted territory as big tech companies control the news we hear and the content we see online. As the 19th-century British historian Lord Acton once said, “Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Here in the United […]


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