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Sources: in the US, Apple Music subs are growing ~5% a month, may overtake Spotify, which is growing at ~2% a month, this summer; Apple says Music has 36M subs — Apple's U.S. subscriber-account base has been growing about 5% a month, versus No. 1 Spotify's 2% clip
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| Douglas Hofstadter / The Atlantic: |
Google Translate's AI-driven translation is fast and useful, but simple tests show it's still a long way from real understanding — One Sunday, at one of our weekly salsa sessions, my friend Frank brought along a Danish guest. I knew Frank spoke Danish well, since his mother was Danish, and he, as a child, had lived in Denmark.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Apple is looking into reports of iPhone X glitch that causes an up-to-10 second delay before incoming calls show up on display after the phone starts ringing — Some owners of Apple's new iPhone X are finding an unusual bug in their $1,000 piece of kit — answering the phone.
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Tweets: @edbott and @aaronklein
| Business Insider: |
Interview with Peggy Johnson, Microsoft's “deal-maker-in-chief”, on how she became an engineer, her 25 years at Qualcomm, the LinkedIn acquisition, and more — By - Anna Mazarakis Alyson Shontell — Before Microsoft, she spent 25 years at Qualcomm, on the technical side as an engineer and on the business side.
Tweets: @businessinsider
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Amazon could disrupt US healthcare by converting a standardized healthcare interface for its employees into a marketplace for individuals and other employers — It's pretty rare for the same company to feature in two consecutive Weekly Articles; yesterday's announcement …
Tweets: @steve_e, @jhoff, @trishak42, @carlajdouglas, @freakonometrics, @mikesparr, and @nickcrocker
| Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft to stop offering the lightweight Windows 10 S as a separate SKU, will offer “S Mode” in all Windows 10 versions instead — When Microsoft announced Windows 10 S, it was immediately clear that this SKU didn't fit well into Microsoft's lineup.
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Digital Trends, Neowin, The Verge, gHacks Technology News, Ubergizmo, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot, BetaNews, Firstpost, PCWorld, On MSFT, Engadget, ZDNet, SlashGear, MSPoweruser, Redmond, and Petri
Tweets: @backlon and @swiftonsecurity
| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Researchers detail Smominru, a Monero cryptocurrency mining botnet using NSA's EternalBlue exploit to enslave 500K+ computers, mostly targeting Windows servers — The Smominru miner has infected at least half a million machines — mostly consisting of Windows servers — and spreads using the EternalBlue exploit.
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Proofpoint, CoinDesk, The Register, The Hacker News, Motherboard, HackRead, SecurityWeek, BleepingComputer.com, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @gossithedog
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
A look at how federal authorities can obtain data collected from autonomous vehicles, amid SCOTUS' review of case about warrantless acquisition of location info — “It's like instant replay in the NFL; I can tell what happened.” — Lt. Saul Jaeger, who commands the traffic unit … | Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Dozens of people, rich from blockchain startups and cryptocurrency, try to build “Sol”, a Puerto Rican city where money is virtual and contracts are public — SAN JUAN, P.R. — They call what they are building Puertopia. But then someone told them, apparently in all seriousness …
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Bitcoinist.com and socalTECH.com
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Tweets: @xeni, @patrickreillyj, @cdlariviere, @queercruising, @mikebutcher, and @mmviverito
| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Report: warehouse and storage jobs increase 30% two years after a county hosts an Amazon fulfillment center, but overall jobs see no increase; Amazon disagrees — How great an effect a tech company has when it moves into a new town comes down to one thing: jobs.| Alana Semuels / The Atlantic: |
Tweets: @asherschechter, @wadhwa, @bentarnoff, @alexismadrigal, @gquaggiotto, @alanasemuels, @parismarx, @andykroll, and @dramandaforeman
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Mammoth Media, the company behind chat fiction app Yarn and polling app Wishbone, raises $13M Series A led by Greylock — Mammoth Media has raised a $13 million Series A funding to create what it calls “entertainment experiences for the mobile-first generation.”| Emily Chang / Bloomberg: |
How sexist undercurrents, from a widely-used Playboy image to personality tests favoring men, turned Silicon Valley into a brotopia despite early women pioneers — Lena Söderberg started out as just another Playboy centerfold. The 21-year-old Swedish model left her native Stockholm …
Tweets: @mims and @triketora
| Reuters: |
Sources: Broadcom plans to raise its bid for Qualcomm from $70 to $80-$82 per share, or about $120B, offer higher-than-usual breakup fee — (Reuters) - Broadcom Ltd (AVGO.O) plans to unveil a new offer of approximately $120 billion for Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) on Monday, aiming to ratchet … Sponsor Posts
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