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| Evan Osnos / New Yorker: |
Profile of Mark Zuckerberg, who is at the center of a debate about the moral character of Silicon Valley, as he tries to fix Facebook before it breaks democracy — The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.
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9to5Mac, The Interface, CNBC, Gizmodo, The Atlantic, CNET, Slate, Politico, Mashable, Telegraph, Business Insider, and Axios
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: USB-C on 2018 iPad Pro, Touch ID on 2018 MacBook, EKG and ceramic backs on all Apple Watch Series 4 models, and more — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a new research note today, obtained by MacRumors, that outlines several predictions about Apple's upcoming products …
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| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
NY regulator approves its first stablecoins; the digital currencies, strictly pegged to US dollar on a one-to-one basis, come from Paxos and Winklevoss' Gemini — NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's Department of Finiancial Services on Monday approved Gemini Trust Company's …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Azure DevOps, which will succeed Visual Studio Team Services, and Azure DevOps Server, the successor of Team Foundation Server — Microsoft today announced Azure DevOps, the successor of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS, formerly Visual Studio Online) and Azure DevOps Server …
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Microsoft Azure Cloud …, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, The New Stack, ITworld.com, and The Register. Tweets: @epro
| Mark Wycislik-Wilson / BetaNews: |
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Carnegie Mellon's Andrew Moore to join Google Cloud as new head of AI later this year, as current leader Fei Fei Li returns to Stanford — After an interesting year for Google Cloud's artificial intelligence group, Andrew Moore, dean of computer science at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University … | Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Lightyear, a for-profit subsidiary of Stellar Development Foundation, acquires Chain, a Visa and Citi-backed startup making blockchain tech for finance industry — The for-profit subsidiary of the Stellar Development Foundation has purchased Chain, a venture backed blockchain startup …
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Interstellar, Reuters, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Yahoo! Finance, SludgeFeed, Bitsonline, PYMNTS.com, Crypto Briefing, and The Next Web. Tweets: @forbesinvestor
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Wear 3100 Platform for Android smartwatches with a quad-core A7 processor, 4G LTE, and an ultra-low power coprocessor — After a series of false starts and missed forecasts, the smartwatch market has finally started to come into its own.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
7-Eleven says that Apple Pay and Google Pay will be accepted at most of its 10,000+ US locations by the end of September — 7-Eleven today announced that Apple Pay and Google Pay are accepted at nearly all of its 10,000+ locations across the United States, following a rollout that began in August.
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| Reuters: |
Japan-based Renesas, the second-biggest supplier of chips used in cars, has agreed to buy US-based wireless chip maker Integrated Device Technology for ~$6.7B — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp (6723.T) said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy U.S. peer Integrated …
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| Kim Hart / Axios: |
Study of US teen internet usage: 81% say they use social media but only 15% say they use Facebook, compared to 68% in 2012, and 89% have their own smartphone — Today's teens prefer texting over in-person communication, use social media multiple times a day, and admit that digital distractions interfere …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Q&A with the co-creator of Anatomy of an AI system artwork that maps three central processes powering an Amazon Echo: material resources, human labor, and data — Welcome to the ‘Anatomy of an AI System’ — That the modern world is a complex place will not have escaped your notice.| Barney Thompson / Financial Times: |
On Tuesday, a top EU court will decide if the EU's “right to be forgotten” regulations should apply worldwide and what type of information should be delisted — Europe's top judges are being asked to decide the limits of the “right to be forgotten” — a person's ability to demand …
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Tweets: @mikeyang, @walterisaacson, @nytopinion, @eff, and @dtunkelang
| Sebastian Blanco / Forbes: |
Impossible Aerospace emerges from stealth with $9.4M Series A led by Bessemer and Airbus, unveiling US-1, a $7,500 US-made drone claiming 2-hour flight time — The question that Impossible Aerospace wanted to answer was: “What happens if you take the electric vehicle revolution and apply it to other industries?”
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts SmartThings tracker with LTE for real-time location tracking, geofencing alerts, more; coming Sept. 14 for $99 with AT&T, $5/mo. after first year — Samsung is releasing a SmartThings tracker that's powered by LTE-M (instead of Bluetooth) to help you find stuff.| Mike Dano / FierceWireless: |
AT&T names Samsung, Ericsson, Nokia as its 5G equipment suppliers, same as all other top US carriers, and expands its list of upcoming 5G markets to 19 cities — AT&T announced Monday morning that Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia would supply its 5G network equipment.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel acquires San Jose-based NetSpeed Systems, which it had invested in previously, for better tools to make system-on-a-chip designs — Intel today is announcing another acquisition as it continues to pick up talent and IP to bolster its next generation of computing chips beyond legacy PCs.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Zendesk is acquiring sales force automation platform Base, which has raised more than $50M, for an undisclosed purchase price — Zendesk has mostly confined itself to customer service scenarios, but it seems that's not enough anymore. If you want to truly know the customer behind the interaction … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Snap's Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan is leaving the company after four years, sources say to start his own investment firm — Earlier today, Snap made some waves when it announced that Imran Khan, its chief strategy officer, was stepping down from his role to pursue other opportunities.
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Bloomberg, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, SEC-Show, Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @sarahfrier, @joshconstine, @sarahfrier, and @danprimack
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Atrium LTS, Twitch co-founder Justin Kan's legal technology services startup, raises $65M from a16z — Twitch's Justin Kan returns to pwn law firms — Let the computers do the legal busy work so attorneys can focus on complex problem solving for their clients.
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PCWorld, atrium, Forbes, Andreessen Horowitz, Silicon Valley Business …, Business Insider, PYMNTS.com, and Axios
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Mixed reality startup Jaunt acquires Teleporter, a tool for capturing and streaming lifelike AR assets online, and team behind it from Chicago-based Personify — If you've been waiting for live, hologram-like human beings to pop up in AR or VR experiences, that wait's almost over.| Mallory Locklear / Engadget: |
Facebook adds Community Help, its tool for users to provide or request help in the aftermath of natural disasters, to Facebook Lite in 100+ countries — Facebook announced today that it's bringing its Community Help tool to Facebook Lite. The feature, which evolved out of Safety Check …
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| Anousha Sakoui / Bloomberg: |
Apple acquires global rights to two family focused films, the first acquisition by Apple's video division; unclear if they will have theatrical release — Apple Inc.'s video division, run by executives Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht, is making inroads into the film industry with the acquisition of two family-focused movies.Sponsor Posts
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