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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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Global PC shipments in Q3 were flat, up 0.1% YoY according to Gartner, while IDC estimates 0.9% decline; Gartner: Microsoft breaks into top 5 PC vendors in US — The PC market is seeing some very interesting moves this year. In Q2 2018, global shipments were up for the first time in six years …
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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.| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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) … | 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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| 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 … | 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 … | 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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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.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Leaked presentation by Google employees gives a rare and stark look at Google's struggles as it grapples with decisions around freedom of speech and censorship — A rare look at how the employees of the world's most powerful search engine are trying to balance two opposing forces
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Chipmaker Micron Technology says it is planning to invest up to $100M in startups working on AI for use in fields like self-driving cars and factory automation — (Reuters) - Micron Technology said on Wednesday it planned to invest up to $100 million in startup companies working … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
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