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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network and cross-licenses over 60,000 patents for other members — After years of waging patent war on Google's Linux-based Android mobile operating system, Microsoft agreed Wednesday to join the Open Invention Network and cross-license its more than 60,000 patents to participating members.
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Microsoft Azure Cloud …, ZDNet, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, Open Invention Network, BetaNews, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Register, Ars Technica, Windows Central, On MSFT, TechSpot, Neowin, The Verge, and BetaNews
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: Apple plans to make content it owns free to device owners as part of its forthcoming TV service, launching early next year — - Apple is planning to mix free original content with subscription “channels” to existing digital video services on its “TV” application.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: after disappointing sales, Andy Rubin's Essential is building a new phone with a small screen that will mostly rely on voice commands — - Mobile device would conduct tasks itself or via voice control — Startup pauses work on home speaker to focus on new gadget
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Digital Trends, CNET, Pocket-lint, BGR, The Verge, Engadget, Telegraph, Business Insider, Silicon Valley Business …, Liliputing, Android Police, Mashable, XDA Developers, Droid Life, AndroidHeadlines.com, Thurrott.com, TechSpot, KnowTechie, Neowin, SlashGear, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Android and Me, Android Central, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| CNBC: |
Square CEO Jack Dorsey says CFO Sarah Friar is leaving to become CEO of Nextdoor — Independent Programming Subscribe to CNBC PRO Licensing & Reprints Join the CNBC Panel Advertise With Us Closed Captioning Digital Products Privacy Policy Corrections — News Tips — Got a confidential news tip?
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Sources detail how Amazon shut down a machine learning tool for rating job applications in 2017 because it was biased against female candidates — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Waymo's driverless cars have now driven 10M miles on public roads, up from 5M miles eight months ago — Alphabet's self-driving technology division, Waymo, revealed that its autonomous vehicles have now driven 10 million miles on public roads. This represents a 100 percent increase …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Magic Leap says it will add multi-user chat rooms with custom avatars in November, support for two controllers by early next year, city-wide AR layers, and more — Augmented reality (AR) startup Magic Leap used the opening keynote of its L.E.A.P. developer conference in Los Angeles Wednesday to preview its plans for the future.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat launches Snap Originals, 12 daily scripted original shows for its Discover section, with each episode lasting four or five minutes — Snapchat needs reasons for teens to come back every day as it struggles to grow amidst competition from Instagram, so it's capitalizing on its Los Angeles roots.
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| Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Tech stocks had their worst day in six months as Amazon closes -6.15%, Microsoft -5.43%, Apple -4.63%, Netflix -8.38%, Google -4.6%, and Facebook -4.13% — U.S. stocks head toward their biggest decline in more than six months — U.S. stocks are headed toward their biggest decline …
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
How teens are using Instagram to bully each other, including making dedicated hate accounts, sometimes with a mass audience, and how Instagram is addressing it — No app is more integral to teens' social lives than Instagram. While Millennials relied on Facebook to navigate high school and college …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waze announces a US-wide rollout of its carpooling service Waze Carpool, first launched in 2016 — The navigation app first started experimenting with carpooling in 2016 — For many drivers, Waze is the go-to app for circumnavigating pesky traffic jams.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Analysis of the top 2,000 websites visited by EU and US residents shows ad trackers per page dropped 4% for EU users after GDPR and rose by 8%+ for US users — An analysis of the impact of Europe's new data protection framework, GDPR, on the adtech industry suggests the regulation has reduced …
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Cliqz and WhoTracks.me
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| Alyssa Hertig / CoinDesk: |
Blockstream debuts Liquid, a “federated sidechain” for bitcoin that lets partners, which include two dozen exchanges, quickly transact bitcoin — Three years in the making, bitcoin's first sidechain “Liquid” is now live. — Launched by San Francisco startup Blockstream … | Reuters: |
Senator John Thune, the top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, asks Apple, Amazon, and Supermicro for briefings on China's alleged implanted chips — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee has asked Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Super Micro Computer Inc …
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CNBC, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Engadget, AppleInsider, The Verge, FierceWireless, Silicon Valley Business …, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @dnvolz, @dnvolz, @kimzetter, @ridt, @dangoodin001, and @johnpaczkowski
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A look at the battle between Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook for dominance in the home, and their respective strategies, strengths, and weaknesses — If the first stage of competition in consumer technology was the race to be the computer users went to (won by Microsoft and the PC) … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
WhatsApp fixes a bug, identified by Google's Project Zero, that let hackers take over its Android or iOS app when a user answered an incoming video call — Bug only affects WhatsApp for Android and iOS, but the issue has been fixed this week. — WhatsApp developers have fixed a bug … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google's Pixel 3 XL, which includes a very tall notch and a “chin” bezel, lacks the groundbreaking tech Apple used to justify the iPhone X's notch — A large notch requires a strong argument, and Google didn't make one — Google's Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL arrived yesterday without too much fanfare.
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Tweets: @madebygoogle, @mehedih_, and @madebygoogle
| Lucas Laursen / Fortune: |
Report: Apple bought Danish visual effects startup Spektral for $30M+ in December 2017; the company had raised $2.8M last year — Even for uber-secretive Apple, the acquisition of Danish visual effects startup Spektral was especially hush-hush. The tech giant bought the Copenhagen-based firm … | Ana Berman / Cointelegraph: |
Diar report: as Bitcoin mining revenues reach ~$5B in 2018, rising costs like electricity are making mining unprofitable for all but the biggest of players — Bitcoin (BTC) miner revenues for the first six months of 2018 have already surpassed results in 2017, but the miners themselves see little profit … | Heather Long / Washington Post: |
In response to Sen. Bernie Sanders' questions on the removal of stock awards and bonuses, Amazon says “all hourly employees” will see “total compensation” rise — As backlash mounted over Amazon's decision to raise its minimum wage to $15 but cut bonuses and stock grants …
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Bloomberg, Gizmodo, The Verge, GeekWire, CNET, and HBR.org
Tweets: @mattdpearce, @nytimes, @gideonresnick, @byheatherlong, and @jwjnational
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia launches Rapids, an open source platform for data science and machine learning, to help bring GPU acceleration to data analytics, with IBM, HPE, others — Nvidia, together with partners like IBM, HPE, Oracle, Databricks and others, is launching a new open-source platform for data science and machine learning today.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Zenefits co-founder Parker Conrad's HR startup Rippling launches its new employee management system, after securing $7M in March 2017 — Parker Conrad likes to save time, even though it's gotten him in trouble. The former CEO of Zenefits was pushed out of the $4.5 billion human resources startup …
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The Future Of Work and Axios
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it has fixed a data deletion bug and is re-releasing the Windows 10 October 2018 Update that it pulled over the weekend — Software maker is making changes to Windows 10 testing — Microsoft is re-releasing its Windows 10 October 2018 Update today, following the company pulling …
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Tweets: @helgeklein and @daniel_rubino
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