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Sources: Facebook plans to unveil a $200 standalone wireless Oculus VR headset for 2018, which will be more compact than the Rift and lighter than Gear VR — The new device will work without being tethered to phone or PC — Company bets gadget will popularize VR as Apple did smartphone
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Uber and Yandex merge ride-sharing services in Russia in a $3.7B JV, in which Yandex will invest $100M for a 59.3% stake, Uber will invest $225M for 36.6% stake — Yandex to take controlling stake in new combined venture — Deal marks Uber's second major global retreat after China
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| Chris Baraniuk / BBC: |
UK-based luxury phone-maker Vertu to be liquidated after plan to save it failed; 200 will be laid off — A British-based company that made smartphones costing thousands of pounds will be liquidated after a plan to save it failed. — Vertu was known for its high-end, jewel-encrusted handsets … | Tony Romm / Recode: |
FanDuel and DraftKings drop their merger, following FTC's vote to challenge it last month — The decision to terminate the deal comes after the U.S. government voted to challenge it. — FanDuel and DraftKings have decided to scrap their merger rather than fight the U.S. government …
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Cisco acquires St Louis-based forensic security cloud service provider Observable Networks, which provides real-time network behavior monitoring — Cisco has made another acquisition in the enterprise security space — underscoring the ongoing market demand for security services amid … | Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Info on millions of Verizon users, including phone numbers, addresses, PINs were left exposed online; Verizon disputes early reports of 14M, says it affected 6M — The personal details of millions of Verizon customers were exposed online due to a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) …
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| Rich Woods / Neowin: |
Amazon updates Fire TVs and Fire Sticks allowing users to control them via Alexa-enabled devices such as Echo or Echo Dot — Amazon is rolling out a software update for its family of Fire TV set-top boxes and sticks, which allows users to control them via an Alexa-enabled device, such as an Echo or Echo Dot.
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Source: Apple working on rear-facing 3D laser system for new iPhone that will enable better depth detection for AR apps and improved autofocus — The addition will make future iPhones far better suited to the AR experiences being created by developers using the ARKit development platform.
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
AMD's Ryzen Threadripper CPUs ship in August, with the 12-core, 3.5GHz 1920X costing $799, and the 16-core, 3.4GHz 1950X costing $999; both support 4GHz Turbo — Last night out of the blue, we received an email from AMD, sharing some of the specifications for the forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper CPUs to be announced today.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Box launches Box Elements, pre-built components for devs to incorporate Box content management features into their apps — Called Box Elements, the new tools make it easier for businesses to incorporate the Box experience into any application. — Video: Why companies are racing to turn their products into platforms
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Early coding school Dev Bootcamp is shutting down, says it couldn't make its business model work; it was acquired by education services company Kaplan in 2014 — Dev Bootcamp, the original “coding bootcamp,” is shutting down, the company announced on Wednesday.| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Net neutrality Day of Action organizers estimate at least 10M saw Wednesday's protest, with over 2M submitting comments to the FCC — Organizers say they reached more than 10 million users, but some of the largest tech companies seemed to hold back. — Facebook, Google, Twitter and other companies … Sponsor Posts
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