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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 … | Kevin Maney / BREAKER: |
Q&A with Chris Dixon on a decentralized internet, bitcoin's block size debate, the Ethereum network, Andreessen Horowitz's crypto fund, future investments, more — Chris Dixon, arguably the most prominent venture capitalist focusing on blockchain, is friggin' tall.| 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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Investigation: hackers have disabled security features of India's Aadhaar enrollment service with a ~$35 software patch, making it possible to create fake IDs — Skilled hackers disabled security features of Aadhaar enrolment software, circulated hack on Whatsapp
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
T-Mobile signs a $3.5B multiyear supplier deal with Ericsson for 5G equipment, following another $3.5B deal T-Mobile signed with Nokia in late July — T-Mobile means business when it comes to 5G. — The nation's third-largest wireless carrier said Tuesday that it has signed a $3.5 billion …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Packet, a New York City-based bare metal cloud hosting startup that is taking on rivals like AWS and Azure, raises $25M Series B led by Third Point Ventures — In a world where large hyperscale companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google dominate the public cloud, it would seem foolhardy …
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Alibaba teams up with Mail.ru, MegaFon, and the Russian Direct Investment Fund to launch a joint venture valued at ~$2B focused on gaming, shopping, and more — Alibaba is doubling down on Russia after the Chinese e-commerce giant launched a joint venture with one of the country's leading internet companies.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Today's smart home is better described as a remote-controlled home; more data and better interoperability between IoT devices is needed for a truly “smart” home — Today you can have a fully connected home complete with sensors to monitor temperature, humidity, air quality …
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How several fact-checking sites around the world approach harassment and death threats following partnerships with Facebook to stem misinformation — The PDF file is 299 pages long. It has a table of contents, infographics and a statement of intent. And it has extensive details …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
VC firm Felicis Ventures says it will earmark 1% of every investment for “founder development”, including therapy sessions, leadership coaching, and more — Startup culture has long conditioned entrepreneurs to project a public image of “crushing it” at all costs.| 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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| 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.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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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 … | 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tinder debuts globally its curated Top Picks feature, which groups prospective matches into categories like “foodie”, for Tinder Gold subscribers — Earlier this summer, Tinder began testing a new feature that surfaces a curated list of your best potential matches, called “Top Picks.”
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Source: Google's location privacy practices are under investigation in Arizona, in probe initiated by the AG a week after a bombshell report about the practice — Google's alleged practice of recording location data about Android device owners even when they believe they have opted …
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| 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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| 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, Bloomberg, Reuters, CoinDesk, NewsBTC, SludgeFeed, Yahoo! Finance, 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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The Verge, Engadget, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Inquirer, Neowin, CNET, 9to5Google, KnowTechie, Digital Trends, The Next Web, Android Authority, XDA Developers, and Gizmodo
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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.
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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.Sponsor Posts
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