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Samsung unveils the rugged Galaxy S8 Active, available on AT&T for $28.34/month for 30 months; pre-orders begin August 8, full release on August 11 — Samsung on Monday officially announced the Galaxy S8 Active, a more rugged version of its flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone.
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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son says the company is interested in investing in Uber or Lyft, amid reports Uber board is mulling sale of stock to SoftBank and others — TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T), a prolific investor in global technology startups, reported a sharp rise …
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In first acquisition for the streaming giant, Netflix buys comic book publisher Millarworld, the company behind the Kingsman franchise — Comics Legend Mark Millar Joins Forces With the Leading Global Internet Entertainment Platform to Blow Minds Everywhere. — Hollywood Ca.| Alexander J Martin / Sky News: |
UK government proposes Data Protection Bill that includes new “right to be forgotten” legislation for users and fines for companies that breach users' privacy — Google and Facebook could face fines stretching into billions of pounds if they breach users' privacy under a new law.
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| Brendan Koerner / Wired: |
How a Russian hacking team reverse-engineers slot machine pseudorandom generators, then sends agents to casinos to beat machine's odds, blackmail manufacturers — LATE LAST AUTUMN, a Russian mathematician and programmer named Alex decided he'd had enough of running his eight-year-old business.
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Schneier on Security. Tweets: @stevesilberman, @nzkoz, @kevinmitnick, @codelancer, @emilydreyfuss, @wired, and @nxthompson
| Yonatan Zunger: |
Former Google manager says anti-diversity manifesto author harmed Google, doesn't understand role of empathy in engineering, and deserves to be fired — You have probably heard about the manifesto a Googler (not someone senior) published internally about, essentially, how women and men …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Iflix raises $133M led by Hearst, which has also backed Roku, for its $3/month Netflix-style service for emerging markets — Iflix, an Asia-based startup providing Netflix-like streaming services in emerging markets, has landed $133 million in fresh funding to accelerate its business.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Report details how Apple, HP, other manufacturers influence Green Electronics Council regulators to undermine green tech standards of reusability and repair — A new report says the tech industry is using its outsized influence to combat environmental product standards
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Inside the world of Silicon Valley's ‘coasters’ — the millionaire engineers who get paid gobs of money and barely work — The least-secret secret in the Valley is called “resters and vesters,” or “coasters” - which refers to engineers who get paid big bucks without doing too much work, waiting for their stock to vest.| David Barboza / New York Times: |
How, in wake of 2015 Chinese antitrust action, Qualcomm changed its posture toward China by starting joint ventures with the government — As the Chinese government develops drones, the American technology giant Qualcomm is helping. The same goes for artificial intelligence, mobile technology and supercomputers.| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Anonymous messaging app Kik still fails to deal adequately with child abuse on its platform, after learning about the issues more than a year ago — Soon after Raleigh, North Carolina police arrested registered sex offender Thomas Paul Keeler II in March last year, they discovered … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Israeli SaaS firm ProoV announces $14M series B led by Helios and Mangrove for its proof-of-concept platform for startups and enterprise — ProoV, a startup founded by a couple of industry veterans, solves a problem the founders encountered many times over the years: how do you get the CIO …
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