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Oculus founder Palmer Luckey working on a defense startup; sources: it's focused on bringing lidar to border surveillance, Thiel's Founders Fund plans to invest — Palmer Freeman Luckey was the kind of wunderkind Silicon Valley venerates. When he was just 21, he made an overnight fortune selling …
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| Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica UK: |
IBM unveils world's first 5nm chip, claims 40% performance boost at the same power compared to today's 10nm chips — Built with a new type of gate-all-around transistor, plus extreme ultraviolet lithography. — IBM, working with Samsung and GlobalFoundries, has unveiled the world's first 5nm silicon chip.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
What to expect at WWDC 2017: next versions of Apple's OSes, spec bumps to MacBooks and MacBook Pros, updates to Siri, possible unveiling of Siri speaker, more — It's June again, so it's time for Apple to give the world a look at what it's been up to and what we should expect from the iPhone …
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
GitHub survey of 5,500 open source users and developers finds only 3% identify as female — Today's world runs on open source software. The web, smartphones, the Amazon Echo, your car—everything high-tech depends on open source these days. Where free, collaborative software projects …
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| Terry Crowley / Hacker Noon: |
How Microsoft's desire to build a bigger moat led to the over-engineered, poorly executed Windows Vista release and led to Microsoft's mobile irrelevance — I generally have posted about things that I have been directly involved with—either code I wrote or projects I managed.
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| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
How Marissa Mayer made $239M in her time at Yahoo: stock-heavy compensation buoyed by Yahoo's increasingly valuable Alibaba and Yahoo Japan investments — SAN FRANCISCO — When a withered Yahoo is absorbed by Verizon Communications in the next week or so, it will be the end of an era … | Meng Jing / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese online tutor service Yuanfudao raises $120M at $1B+ valuation from Warburg Pincus and Tencent — Online tutor Yuanfudao's latest round of financing from Tencent and other investors, has boosted its valuation to US$1 billion — Tencent Holdings has joined hands with other investors …
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| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Apple should make new features like iMessage apps and 3D Touch more discoverable to aid mass adoption — SAN FRANCISCO — As Apple prepares to show off new features for the iPhone and other devices at its developer conference on Monday, the company is grappling with an uncomfortable issue …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt, CNET, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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Riot Games announces franchising of North American League of Legends Championship Series, with $10M buy-in per team — Price of a League of Legends team is up tenfold in 18 months — New ten-team structure designed to create financial stability — Over the last several years …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Q&A with Android execs about Project Treble, which will make future OS upgrades easier by separating OEM implementations from higher level software updates — Q&A: We talk details with Android execs Dave Burke and Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson. — Google I/O doesn't need skydivers … | Ryan Vlastelica / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Margaux Avedisian, bitcoin investor and startup founder who also performs as stand-up comedian at cryptocurrency conventions — Margaux Avedisian gets hired to riff about the virtual currency at conventions — “Do we have any libertarians in the house?”
Tweets: @billpowerwsj
| Bérénice Magistretti / VentureBeat: |
Lob, an online service for businesses sending snail mail to customers, raises $20M Series B from Y Combinator's Continuity Fund — The postage business may seem antiquated in the year 2017, but physical mail is still kicking. In fact, it's a $1.4 trillion dollar industry, according to the USPS.
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A look at market cap changes among biggest chipmakers: Nvidia and Broadcom surge, Intel and Qualcomm decline, and TSMC surpasses Intel with highest valuation — The rally in semiconductor stocks has been surprising for two reasons: It has been longer than expected, and it has changed the pecking order among the biggest chip makers.Sponsor Posts
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