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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
NVIDIA unveils Turing GPU architecture, says it includes AI-based capabilities and real-time ray tracing, and announces Quadro RTX GPUs that will ship Q4 2018 — Moments ago at NVIDIA's SIGGRAPH 2018 keynote presentation, company CEO Jensen Huang formally unveiled the company's much awaited (and much rumored) Turing GPU architecture.
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Square announces it now lets customers buy and sell Bitcoin via its Cash App in all 50 US states — Mobile payments firm Square now lets customers buy and sell bitcoins via its Cash App in all 50 U.S. states. — The company - which was co-founded by Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey … | Kif Leswing / INSIDER: |
Sources: Apple invited 30+ app devs to an April 2017 meeting to recommend they move from selling apps at a low upfront cost to a subscription-based SaaS model — - But there are concerns that the competitiveness of the marketplace may make it difficult to maintain high-quality utility apps.
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| Stacy Cowley / New York Times: |
Banks and retailers are using behavioral biometrics to build millions of user profiles by tracking how users type, swipe, and tap when using websites and apps — When you're browsing a website and the mouse cursor disappears, it might be a computer glitch — or it might be a deliberate test to find out who you are.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Trump signs defense bill that includes banning the use of some components from Huawei, ZTE, and other Chinese companies by the US government and its contractors — Huawei and ZTE technology will largely be banned from use by the US government and government contractors.
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| Graeme Mcmillan / The Verge: |
Comcast's Xfinity X1 partnership with Netflix and Amazon presages a future of streaming bundles, which would be similar to the cable TV subscription model — As Xfinity's distribution deals expand, disruptors are taking up the same models as past cable companies| CNNMoney: |
Tinder co-founders and eight former and current execs sue parent firm IAC, alleging they are owed billions because the startup's valuation had been depressed — Co-founders of Tinder and eight other former and current executives of the popular dating app are suing the service's current owners …
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| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Q&A with Oscar CEO Mario Schlosser on how health care data can transform the industry as Alphabet invests $375M in the provider, following Capital G and Verily — IN THE LATE 1990s, two graduate students named in Stanford's computer science department set out to organize the world's information.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook acquires the seven-person team and tech from startup Vidpresso to make its video more interactive — Zombie-like passive comsumption of static video is both unhealthy for viewers and undifferentiated for the tech giants that power it. That's set Facebook on a mission to make video interactive … | Julie Zhu / Reuters: |
Sources: Sequoia Capital China is partnering with a state-owned VC fund and JD.com to raise up to ~$6B for a new investment firm focusing on late-stage tech — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Sequoia Capital China is teaming up with a state-owned venture capital (VC) fund and e-commerce powerhouse JD.com … | Bloomberg: |
How Quanergy Systems, which makes lidar for autonomous cars, has failed to deliver after raising $160M and hitting a peak valuation of over $1.6B — Quanergy Systems Inc. found itself in the center of a sudden frenzy over self-driving cars in 2014. It makes lidar, which bounces lasers off objects …
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Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @keithnaughton, @jyjault, @mateosfo, @chr1sa, and @wintonark
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
All current regulations about online privacy are flawed because they view privacy as a thing that needs protecting, rather than a trade-off for benefits — It's been an interesting year for those of us who support strong privacy for the public — in part because we've seen lots of movement on attempts to regulate privacy.
Tweets: @chris_heine and @mmasnick
| New York Times: |
Despite complaints from a Sandy Hook parent, Automattic has not taken down content from conspiracy theorists, citing Wordpress.com's content policy — Leonard Pozner says he spends hours every day trying to erase online conspiracy theories that the death of his 6-year-old son Noah at the Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax.
Tweets: @kludt, @sallyshin, and @nytimesbusiness
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US appeals court has blocked the FCC's attempt to pull a broadband subsidy for low income households in tribal areas, staying the FCC decision pending appeal — FCC trying to kill $25 subsidy in urban areas and limit subsidy in rural areas. — A US appeals court has blocked …
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Engadget, The Verge, New York Times, and United States Court of Appeals. Tweets: @agentcarter_ssr
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Uber appoints Matt Olsen, former general counsel for the NSA, as its CSO, replacing Joe Sullivan, who left last year amid controversial handling of data breach — Last November, Uber's new chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, penned an apologetic note to riders and drivers explaining …
Tweets: @dkhos
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Ubiquity6, which is building tools to make AR more user-friendly, raises $27M Series B led by Benchmark and Index Ventures — While nearly every tech giant has publicly proclaimed augmented reality the next frontier to conquer, product movement has been relatively slow as the companies' aim …
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