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Apple removes all major VPN apps from the App Store in China; the apps allowed users to bypass China's internet censorship — The Chinese government's crackdown on the internet continues with the news that Apple has removed all major VPN apps, which help internet users overcome …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A now-patched flaw in Broadcom WiFi chips opened 1B iPhones and Android devices to a fully remote worm attack — Wi-Fi chips used in iPhones and Android may revive worm attacks of old. — LAS VEGAS—It's not often that a security researcher devises an attack that can unleash …
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Some Bitcoin backers plan to launch a competing version called Bitcoin Cash on August 1, with support for more transactions per block — SAN FRANCISCO — For the last two years, rival factions have been vying for control of the Bitcoin virtual currency and its global network of computers and supporters.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
HTC teases a standalone Vive VR headset for China — Today at ChinaJoy, HTC announced that it is working on a standalone headset for Chinese markets built on its own Viveport content platform. — The headset appears to be cosmetically identical to the one which HTC is bringing to the U.S. with Google.
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As part of patent settlement, Nokia received upfront cash payment of €1.7B from Apple, Finnish company discloses during its earnings call — In today's financial results, Nokia mentioned that it had increased cash inflow thanks to an “up-front cash payment of approximately EUR 1.7 billion …
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| Jeff Engel / Xconomy: |
Toast, developer of cloud-based software including mobile PoS and other functions for managing restaurants, cafes, bars, and nightclubs, raises $101M Series C — Toast, the fast-growing restaurant technology company, has just been served a heaping portion of venture capital to continue expanding.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Katie Couric is ending her Yahoo show and departing Oath, but will work with Oath case-by-case for projects — But the longtime TV news star will still work with the company on a project basis — Katie Couric is ending her Web interview show for Yahoo, Oath confirmed after Recode contacted the company about the development.| David Gewirtz / ZDNet: |
iRobot clarifies CEO's comments, says it never intended to sell Roomba data, will only share data with other smart home devices with customer's permission — Exclusive: Are Roomba vacuum cleaners spying on you? Will iRobot sell your home's mapping data? iRobot's CEO sets the record straight.| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
GM's Cruise Automation hires Didi's Charlie Miller and Uber's Chris Valasek, the security researchers who had previously hacked into moving jeeps — Miller left Didi after just four months. — Noted security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek — famed for remotely hacking a Jeep … | Bloomberg: |
Huawei CEO confirms full-screen display on upcoming Mate 10, as company reports Q2 results, and says it is giving up on very low-end devices — It aims to ship as many as 150 million smartphones in 2017 — The Chinese firm chalked up $42 billion in first-half revenue
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Inside China's government-led plans to conquer the semiconductor industry, which could cost around $150B, worrying US government and analysts — The marriage of state universities with commercial ventures is an example of China's hybrid capitalism, meant to bring academic findings to market swiftly.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Anonymous social app Whisper lays off 14 of its 71 employees; source says revenues were $1.3M in June, firm will have $100K in free cash flow in August — Startups are dying all over the place as last year's investment cool-off leads many to run out of cash.
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