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August 9, 2015, 4:40 PM

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Terje Solsvik / Reuters:
Opera Sofware considers sale after lowering growth estimates for the second time in six months, hires investment bankers  —  Norway's Opera warns on growth, says firm may be sold  —  * Says has interest from a number of parties  —  * 2015 revenue now forecast lower at $600 mln to $618 mln
Dino Grandoni / New York Times:
States compete for burgeoning self-driving car business by loosening regulations, building research centers and testing facilities  —  Among the States, Self-Driving Cars Have Ignited a Gold Rush  —  Whether it is fuel savings, safer commutes or freed-up time behind the wheel, drivers have many reasons to embrace self-driving cars.
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Kim Zetter / Wired:
Researchers gain complete control of electric skateboards by hijacking unencrypted Bluetooth communications between the board and the remote  —  Hackers Can Seize Control of Electric Skateboards and Toss Riders  —  Richard “Richo” Healey was riding his electric skateboard toward an intersection …
Alice Truong / Quartz:
Linden Lab working on an Oculus game similar to its Second Life offering codenamed Project Sansar, plans to release it before end of 2016  —  Could the Oculus Rift help give Second Life a second life?  —  Second Life—the online world once considered the hottest destination on the internet—never got much past a million users.
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Paribus connects to your email, monitors receipts and negotiates refunds when prices drop  —  Paribus launches an app to fight back against hidden price discrimination  —  E-commerce has created a world of incredible, even disturbing convenience.  The average American living in a major city …
Erica E. Phillips / Wall Street Journal:
Silicon Valley investors have poured over $1B into freight-forwarding startups since 2014 in hopes of bringing the $160B/year industry online  —  Freight Startups Attract Silicon Valley's Attention  —  Investors are funding dozens of startups with plans to take the low-tech business …
Paul Hill / Linux Veda:
Ubuntu powered BQ Aquarius phones now available for order globally, do not support 4G in US  —  Ubuntu powered BQ Aquaris available in US  —  BQ just announced on their Google Plus page that their Aquaris Ubuntu Edition phones will be available ‘wherever you live’, this makes …
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
In honor of its 20th anniversary, Yahoo reclaims iconic San Francisco billboard  —  Yahoo has reclaimed something that had been lost for the past few years.  The company has installed a billboard along a stretch of Interstate 80 in San Francisco.  While that may not seem like news …
BBC:
Hackers may have accessed personal details of 2.4M Carphone Warehouse customers, along with 90K encrypted credit card records  —  Carphone Warehouse in customer data breach  —  Personal details of up to 2.4m Carphone Warehouse customers may have been accessed in a cyber-attack, the mobile phone retailer says.

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