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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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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Eric Lundgren is going to prison for counterfeiting labels, not software; judges may not know the difference, but Microsoft does and still helped prosecute him — In a sickening concession to bad copyright law and Microsoft's bottom line over basic technical truths and common sense …
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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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| Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin / Quartz: |
A first-person account of a virtual dating assistant, called a “Closer”, who is a professional writer that impersonates clients on apps like Tinder — Every morning I wake up to the same routine. I log into the Tinder account of a 45-year-old man from Texas—a client.
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| Jessica Nordell / The Atlantic: |
How Slack has made its US workforce more diverse than other Silicon Valley companies by forgoing a diversity chief and focusing on hiring efforts from the start — Last week, Slack, the company whose popular, plaid-themed messaging app has simplified office communications and introduced custom fox emoji …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: Coinbase valued itself at $8B when pitching an equity package during Earn acquisition; investors received cash, management received at least some stock — That's how much it felt it was worth when it set out to acquire Earn. — Coinbase valued itself at about $8 billion … | Mathias Döpfner / Business Insider: |
In a Q&A after receiving the Axel Springer award for 2018, Jeff Bezos discusses The Washington Post, Trump admin, privacy concerns, and the early days of Amazon — Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, recently sat down with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos … | Bloomberg: |
Du Xiaoman Financial, Baidu's new financial services arm that uses AI to provide short-term loans and investment services, raises $1.9B led by TPG and Carlyle — SVP Zhu Guang will run newly spun-off finance division — New fintech company will be one of China's best-funded| 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.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with Javier Soltero, Cortana's new product lead, on Microsoft's AI, Alexa, and building the “real” assistive experience, as Cortana speakers hit the shelves — This year has brought a fair number of shakeups at some of the world's biggest tech companies.| 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.| 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.
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