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In blow to patent trolls, US Supreme Court rules 8-0 that patent infringement suits can only be filed in the jurisdiction of targeted firm's incorporation — WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday tightened rules for where patent lawsuits can be filed in a decision that may make it harder …
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Pittsburgh officials and residents have regrets 9 months after Uber began testing self-driving cars in the city, with lack of shared data among disappointments — PITTSBURGH — When Uber picked this former Rust Belt town as the inaugural city for its driverless car experiment, Pittsburgh played the consummate host.
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Inside Facebook's Telecom Infra Project, which wants to do for the telecom equipment market what Open Compute Project did for data center hardware — On an ordinary work day in mid-2016, a handful of Facebook engineers were sitting on the couches in a corner of the company's Menlo Park … | Jack Stubbs / Reuters: |
Sources: Russian police have arrested 16 in banking malware scheme that infected 1M+ Android devices in Russia, netted $892K, and had begun expanding to Europe — Russian cyber criminals used malware planted on Android mobile devices to steal from domestic bank customers and were planning … | Matt Day / The Seattle Times: |
Echodyne raises $29M Series B led by NEA to develop radar sensors for drones and autonomous vehicles, bringing its total raised to $44M — Echodyne's radar arrays are designed to bring some of the power and precision of massive, heavy, military-grade radars to a tablet-sized device.
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Dish integrates with Amazon Alexa for hands-free TV, the first TV provider to do so — TV provider Dish Network is today rolling out new technology that will make watching television a hands-free experience, via a new integration with Amazon Alexa. The company says that its pay TV customers using either … | Bill Vlasic / New York Times: |
Ford replaces Mark Fields as CEO with Jim Hackett, head of its autonomous vehicle unit — DEARBORN, Mich. — In a shake-up reflecting the pressures on the American auto industry, Ford Motor replaced its chief executive, Mark Fields, on Monday and vowed to catch up in the race …
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Tweets: @ford, @danprimack, and @mikeisaac
| Nick Hopkins / The Guardian: |
100+ internal training manuals and other docs show guidelines for Facebook content moderators on topics like violence, hate speech, terrorism, porn, self-harm — Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant's ethics
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Tweets: @samanthabarry, @jembloomfield, @el33th4xor, @violetblue, @annajobin, @antonybutcher, and @katienotopoulos
| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
How Facebook conducted research, commissioned by an advertiser, on minors' emotional states, which was then shared in a presentation to potential advertisers — Data mining is such a prosaic part of our online lives that it's hard to sustain consumer interest in it, much less outrage.
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Boing Boing. Tweets: @leolaporte, @zittrain, @chetfaliszek, @wired, @nxthompson, @nitashatiku, and @nitashatiku
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Affinity raises $13.5M to build out its CRM toolkit tailored for venture capitalists, investment bankers, and other investors — For the venture capitalists, hedge funders, investment bankers and private equity folks trawling the skyways looking for deals, there's nothing more important than a strong network.
Tweets: @jacksondahl
| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
How the mission and spirit of Google's ATAP group changed, after Facebook hired its chief Regina Dugan, to become more focused on shipping market-ready products — Almost three years ago, one of Google's most celebrated executives took the stage at the company's big developer conference … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Patreon says it now has 1M monthly active paying patrons and 50K active creators, both doubling YoY, and is on track to pay out $150M to creators in 2017 — Patreon's novel idea of fans just directly paying the artists they love is having its hockey stick moment.Sponsor Posts
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