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| Emily Chang / Vanity Fair: |
An excerpt from Emily Chang's upcoming book Brotopia, on Silicon Valley's drug-fueled sex parties attended by powerful investors and well-known entrepreneurs — Some of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley are regulars at exclusive, drug-fueled, sex-laced parties—gatherings they describe …
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| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Thiel's Founders Fund bought $15-$20M in bitcoin, now worth hundreds of millions, spread across multiple funds, one of which began investing in mid-'17 — Founders Fund, the venture-capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has bought large sums of bitcoin that are now worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple buys buddybuild, an app development service with about 40 employees based in Vancouver, and will roll its product into Xcode — Apple continues to ramp up its efforts to court developers by making it easier to create and iterate their apps for its platforms.
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify faces another copyright lawsuit, from Wixen Music, which represents many prominent artists; suit suggests up to 21% of Spotify songs are unlicensed — Wixen Music Publishing files a new lawsuit that also covers music from Rage Against the Machine, The Doors, Steely Dan and many others.
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| iFixit: |
iMac Pro teardown: RAM, dual SSDs, CPU are modular, but GPU is soldered in place and many key components aren't accessible, earning a 3/10 repairability score — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — We dropped $4,999 to get our hands on the hot new space gray Magic Mouse …
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| The Register: |
Security issues arising from design flaw in Intel CPUs will need OS fix that will slow down Windows, Linux, macOS machines; Intel to provide more details soon — Other OSes will need an update, performance hits loom — A fundamental design flaw in Intel's processor chips has forced …
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| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed: |
Logan Paul debacle highlights YouTube's content moderation problem, as experts say Paul's video isn't something AI moderation could catch on its own — Logan Paul attends “The Thinning” Meet & Greet during the 2016 New York Comic Con. — YouTube has a content crisis — again.
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| Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Google moved $19.2B to Bermuda shell company in 2016, up 7% YoY, to save $3.7B+ in taxes; money moved between Irish firms and Dutch firm with no staff — Amount for 2016 was seven percent higher than the year before — Tax shelter saved Google at least $3.7 billion in tax
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| Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg: |
Federal judge in Los Angeles rules for Airbnb in suit brought by Aimco, one of largest landlords in US, which had claimed Airbnb enabled tenants to break leases — Startup ruled not responsible for ‘unlawful’ listings by hosts — Landlord complained of noisy tourists at high-end complexes
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| Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft and Amazon miss integration deadline for Cortana and Alexa; Amazon says they expect to roll it out “soon” — Last year, in August, Microsoft and Amazon announced a partnership that would allow the two digital assistants to talk to each other.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says it shipped 5B+ items with Prime in 2017 and that more new members joined Prime worldwide in 2017 than any other year — Amazon still won't officially reveal how many consumers worldwide participate in its Amazon Prime membership program, but it did today offer a few new stats related to that program's adoption and growth.
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Details emerge on Intel's Indian website about its first “Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics” processor: Core i7-8809G with 3.1 GHz Base, 100W target TDP — To begin the year, Intel's Indian website has published a small number of details regarding Intel's first ‘Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics’ processor.Sponsor Posts
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