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Wikipedia redirects all of its Italian, Spanish, and Polish pages to a statement protesting July 5 EU Parliament initial vote on changes to copyright law — Wikipedia's Italian and Spanish language versions have temporarily shut off access to their respective versions of the free online encyclopedia …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
German privacy-focused organizations Zwiebelfreunde, a nonprofit that runs Tor relay servers, and Chaos Computer Club say police raided their offices and homes — Two privacy-focused organizations have accused today German police of carrying out raids at their offices and members' private homes …
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Tweets: @arachnochist, @josephfcox, @chaosupdates, @zackwhittaker, and @ramyraoof
| Matthew Townsend / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon plans to send a physical holiday toy catalog to millions of US households this year as it incorporates traditional retailers' strategies — - Move is part of push to gain market share of defunct toy chain — Printed toy guide to be mailed and handed out at Whole Foods| Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: |
Updated California law now requires businesses to set clear auto-renewal terms for digital subscriptions and allow customers to cancel online — A California law that went into effect July 1 is aimed at making it easier for customers to cancel their subscriptions online.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Baidu announces it's partnering with Mobileye on its Project Apollo autonomous driving project, which now has over 115 partners — Chinese tech behemoth Baidu is ramping up production of its self-driving car platform. Today at the 2018 Baidu Create developer conference in Beijing …
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| Adrian Chen / New Yorker: |
Profile of Paul Denino, an “IRL” streamer who goes by Ice Poseidon and streams most of his life on YouTube, often with serious consequences — When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience.
Tweets: @drbrake, @nuclearteeth, @shelbygrad, @adrianchen, @aaronpcalvin, and @realiceposeidon
| Steve Ranger / ZDNet: |
Interview with Stephen Hunter, who manages the International Space Station's computer resources, on the tech they use, issues they face, AI, and more — Tech support, but in space: A look at the tech which astronauts use on the ISS. — It's orbiting the Earth at 28,000 kilometres an hour … Thanks:@steveranger
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
California Supreme Court rules that Yelp can't be forced to remove negative reviews from users, overturning a lower court's decision against the company — Businesses can't sue Yelp to get defamatory reviews removed, California's Supreme Court has ruled. The decision overturns …
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Tweets: @randfish, @daphnehk, and @alisonfrankel
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Some AI experts say fully autonomous cars may be further away than expected and that it may be years before self-driving systems can reliably avoid accidents — If you believe the CEOs, a fully autonomous car could be only months away. In 2015, Elon Musk predicted a fully autonomous Tesla by 2018; so did Google.
Tweets: @dsmeu, @noahpinion, and @benedictevans
| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Inside DOD's Jyn Erso initiative that is giving technically skilled soldiers an opportunity to build tech for the Army alongside experts from the private sector — NICOLE CAMARILLO WAS touring the Army base at Fort Meade, Maryland in early 2017 when a young captain—I'll call him Matt …
Tweets: @mattcutts, @hitpol, and @caitlin__kelly
| Bloomberg: |
China's large rural population and competition between JD.com and Alibaba are fueling the race to develop large-scale drone delivery systems in the country — The day after Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc.'s mid-year sale, a company drone took off from a playground in the city of Xi'an … | Randy Nelson / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Sensor Tower: Super Mario Run made $60M+ in worldwide revenue since launching in 2016, with ~77% of revenue coming from the App Store and ~43% from US players — Nintendo has collected enough gold coins to earn several hundred thousand extra lives in its first mobile Mario outing.
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