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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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| 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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| Reuters: |
Broadcom raises its bid for Qualcomm from $70 to $82 per share or about $121B, a premium of 24% over Qualcomm's close on Friday — (Reuters) - Chipmaker Broadcom Ltd on Monday raised its offer to buy Qualcomm Inc by 24 percent to more than $121 billion, sweetening the bid and putting …
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| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung heir and Vice Chairman Jay Lee set free after South Korean appeals court suspends his jail term in bribery case, after being detained for almost a year — Sentence was reduced to 2.5 years; gets 4 months probation — Lee was embroiled in national influence-peddline scandal| Owen Bowcott / The Guardian: |
British student Lauri Love, accused of hacking into US government websites, wins appeal against extradition to US — Lawyers for the 32-year-old student argued he would be at risk of killing himself in the US … Lauri Love, the British student accused of hacking into US government websites …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
A look at a prototype of Vaunt, Intel's smart glasses that look like normal eyeglasses and project the display on your retina — Exclusive first look at Vaunt, which uses retinal projection to put a display in your eyeball — The most important parts of Intel's new Vaunt smart glasses are the pieces that were left out.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Former Intel president Renee James launches Ampere, a new ARM-based server chip company backed by Carlyle Group — Ampere, a new chip company run by former Intel president Renee James, came of stealth today with a brand-new highly efficient Arm-based server chip targeted at hyperscale data centers.
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| Edward Taylor / Reuters: |
BMW takes full ownership of DriveNow, buying Sixt's 50% stake for €209M and paving the way for potential car-sharing and driverless taxi alliance with Daimler — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's BMW has bought out partner Sixt from their joint venture DriveNow, paving the way for a broader car-sharing …
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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.
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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
A look at Replika and other projects that are developing “emotional” chatbots and AI capable of discerning human feelings — WHEN EUGENIA KUYDA created her chatbot, Replika, she wanted it to stand out among the voice assistants and home robots that had begun to take root in peoples lives.
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| Katrina Onstad / Toronto Life: |
Profile of Geoffrey Hinton, a neural net pioneer at the University of Toronto, Google, and now the Vector Institute, which aims to stop Toronto's AI brain drain — Geoffrey Hinton spent 30 years hammering away at an idea most other scientists dismissed as nonsense. Then, one day in 2012, he was proven right.| Biz Carson / Forbes: |
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