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Swiss staffing and workforce development company Adecco acquires NY-based coding school General Assembly for $412.5M; General Assembly had raised ~$120M — Coding school General Assembly has agreed to be acquired for $412.5 million in cash by Swiss staffing and workforce development company Adecco.| Christopher Balding / Bloomberg: |
Chinese government is getting increasingly involved in its tech companies by installing Communist Party committees at some firms, investing state funds, more — The government wants control of a booming new industry. — As Bloomberg News reported this week, a key stumbling block … | Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
Review of Macs' eGPU support, new with macOS 10.13.4: performance gains are decent, especially for Metal, but support is limited to Thunderbolt 3 and AMD cards — Performance doesn't disappoint, but lack of strong software support does. — When Apple released macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 on March 29 … | Jeff Dunn / Ars Technica: |
Google researchers showcase AI tech that can isolate individual voices within a noisy environment in videos with a single audio track by watching mouth movement — Google researchers try to replicate the “cocktail party effect” for computers. — Google researchers have developed … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: US iPhone users spent an average of $58 each on in-app purchases in 2017, up 23% YoY; entertainment apps spending up 57%, lifestyle apps up 110% — Games, dating apps and streaming services contributed to a rise in consumer spending in iPhone apps last year … | Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Baidu launches Totem, a stock photo service that uses blockchain to timestamp submissions and track ownership of each original photograph — Chinese internet search giant Baidu has launched a blockchain-based stock photo service in bid to protect image intellectual property in China.| Chris Wood / BBC: |
Partial fingerprints in a picture of a hand holding drugs, found in a WhatsApp message on a phone, helped convict drug dealer in UK — A pioneering fingerprint technique used to convict a drugs gang from a WhatsApp message “is the future” of how police approach evidence to catch criminals.| Wall Street Journal: |
Amidst tariffs brawl with US, China is delaying reviews of Qualcomm's NXP deal and Bain's acquisition of Toshiba's chip unit, raising fears both deals may fail — Qualcomm and Bain Capital are most at risk if the delays scuttle their respective deals — BEIJING—China is slowing reviews …
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How UN's Building Blocks program is using permissioned blockchain based on open source Ethereum code to distribute UN-facilitated food aid to recipients — A few times a month, Bassam pushes a shopping cart through the aisles of a grocery store stocked with bags of rice, a small selection of fresh vegetables, and other staples.| Benjamin Herold / Education Week: |
Study finds ~3,337 free apps in Google Play's Designed for Families program that may violate COPPA, a federal law aimed to protect children from online tracking — Thousands of free apps available in the Google Play store are potentially violating a major federal data-privacy law intended …
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7Park Data analysis: at Netflix and Hulu, 80% and 97% of US viewing is of licensed content, respectively; 42% of Netflix users watch mostly licensed content — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Comp Jumps 54% in 2017, to $8.9 Million, on Higher Personal Security Costs| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
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