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Microsoft kicks off Xbox One X pre-orders today with a limited ‘Project Scorpio’ edition — Microsoft just pulled the trigger on Xbox One X pre-orders, offering up the souped up version of its console for $499. Unveiled back at E3 in June after a year's worth of teasers … | Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Intel unveils 8th Gen Intel Core processors based on an updated “Kaby Lake refresh” architecture, claims 40% performance boost over earlier gen — No Coffee Lake or Cannonlake here; these are doubled up Kaby Lake parts. — The first “8th generation” Intel Core processors roll out today …
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| Ellen Pao / The Cut: |
An excerpt from Ellen Pao's book “Reset”: This is how sexism works in Silicon Valley. My lawsuit failed. Others won't. — In December 2010, Sheryl Sandberg gave a talk about women's leadership in which she mentioned “sitting at the table.” Women, she said, have to pull up a chair …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: former General Electric chairman Jeff Immelt is now favored by a majority of Uber's board to become CEO; a vote is likely in the next two weeks — Sources said a board vote is expected within two weeks. — Former General Electric chairman Jeff Immelt has become the frontrunner candidate …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
HTC cuts Vive VR headset's price by $200, to $599, to remain competitive with Oculus Rift — You knew HTC wouldn't let the Oculus Rift's price cut go unanswered for long. As of today, HTC has permanently lowered the price of the Vive headset by $200, to $599.
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| Ramin Setoodeh / Variety: |
In interview, Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says the streaming service will spend $7B on original content in 2018 — For a soft-spoken man, Ted Sarandos makes a lot of thunderous news. Just consider the headlines he's generated over the last week alone with a succession of game-changing deals.| Giuseppe Stuto: |
How iMessage came to dominate messaging among US teens, with studies showing ~70% on it, and where Apple may go with it to disrupt apps like Snapchat, Messenger — No one really seems to talk about it or acknowledge it, but iMessage is where a lot of mobile usage is trending towards …
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @bindibadgi, @parthasundaram, and @gifkeyboard
| Tom Metcalf / Bloomberg: |
Bill Gates' stake in Microsoft dipped to around 1.3% after $4.6B stock gift to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in June, his largest stock donation since 2000 — World's richest person reduces Microsoft stake to 1.3 percent — Value of his charitable donations surpasses $50 billion| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Decentraland, a virtual reality world project that uses blockchain tech to track ownership of digital plots of land, raises $25M via ICO — A virtual reality project built on top of blockchain technology has raised over $26 million in ether via an initial coin offering (ICO).| Rachael King / Wall Street Journal: |
How Cisco lost key customers to Arista Networks, turning Arista CEO Jayshree Ullal, who was once close to John Chambers, into a fierce rival — Arista Networks's CEO Jayshree Ullal, who was once close to John Chambers, is grabbing Cisco's networking business and winning over customers
Tweets: @betsymorris2, @eliotwb, @miketannenbaum, @kubota_yoko, @gregbensinger, and @karaswisher
| Ken Schwencke / ProPublica: |
The Daily Stormer receives DDoS protection from CDN service BitMitigate, whose founder says he believes in free speech and wants to promote his company — The neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer was back online Friday with help from a small company whose founder said he wanted to defend free speech …
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Namecheap Blog, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Politico, The Register, TechCrunch, Chicago Tribune, Splinter, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Ars Technica, Business Insider, and Fox News
Tweets: @namecheap, @slpng_giants, @wilfredchan, @joseph_lachman, @limthenick, @liberalinsf, and @julianmiller
| Taylor Cromwell / Bloomberg: |
How US restaurant chains are enlisting Facebook, Amazon, and adopting new tech like chatbots and digital payments, to make ordering and paying for food easier — TGI Fridays is letting customers pay bill with Amazon accounts — Largest U.S. pizza chains are locked in game of oneupmanship
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