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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Source: Apple is working on an AR/VR headset, slated for 2020, with two 8K displays that wirelessly connect to a dedicated box powered by Apple's own 5nm CPU — The headset, which would straddle the two technologies and tap into Apple's own chips, is slated for 2020.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: T-Mobile, Sprint deal would value Sprint at $24B-$26B; T-Mobile majority owner Deutsche Telekom to get 42% stake, 69% voting interest in combined firm — T-Mobile US Inc. and its German owners are advancing toward a deal that would value Sprint Corp. at about $24 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Suspected Golden State Killer caught after investigators matched DNA from the crime scenes to genetic data available on free genealogy site GEDmatch — “No court order was needed to access that site's large database of genetic blueprints.” — To get a leg up in the investigation in the cold case of the …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
In the coming weeks, Facebook Fundraisers will eliminate platform fees, which are 4.3% in the US, for personal causes, such as medical needs, vet bills, more — Despite Facebook being under fire for everything pertaining to Cambridge Analytica, the company still hopes to be able to do some good.| South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Huawei has been working on a mobile OS in case it is cut off from Android; it began the work in response to US 2012 investigation into Huawei and ZTE — Having an alternative smartphone OS may have taken on added urgency for China with rising trade tensions with the US.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter confirms it is now pushing news links tweeted by your network into your home timeline and grouping tweets mentioning the link underneath it — Twitter is now pushing links tweeted by your network into your home timeline and grouping the tweets mentioning the link underneath it.| Sergey Galyonkin / Steam Spy: |
Steam Spy now operating in a limited capacity as it switches to a new algorithm after Valve's changes to the Steam Web and Store API — What happened? — As you might know, on 11th of April, 2018 Valve has made changes to their Steam Web API, removing owned games from user's information, unless they actively opt-in.
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| The Guardian: |
Nintendo's head of Switch Shinya Takahashi on the firm's creative process, approach to hiring new talent, and why older technologies sometimes surprise players — Nintendo's ‘conductor’ takes us behind the game giant's inner workings, how it finds talent and the philosophy that sparks its eccentric ideas
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
A look at Intel's problems transitioning from 14nm to 10nm chips as it delays high-volume production of Cannon Lake CPU again, this time from late 2018 to 2019 — Intel announced its financial results today, and although it posted yet another record quarter, the company unveiled serious production problems with its 10nm process.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
How real people are using services like Fuelgram to turn their Instagram accounts into bots in order to game the site's algorithm by trading likes and comments — Verified accounts turning themselves into bots, millions of fake likes and comments, a dirty world of engagement trading inside Telegram groups.
Tweets: @buzzfeednews, @fabiochiusi, and @kantrowitz
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cloud-based collaboration and work management platform Smartsheet closes up 30% on its first day of trading after raising $150M in its IPO at $1.48B valuation — - Shares closed at $19.55 after debuting at $18.40, more than 20 percent above the price of shares it sold in its initial public offering.
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| Tarunya Govindarajan / Facebook: |
Facebook's Messenger Kids gets a sleep mode that lets parents set predetermined off times for the app — Messenger Kids was built to give parents more control and to give kids a safer space to message and video chat with close friends and family. Parental controls are core … Sponsor Posts
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