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Apple to buy a part of Dialog Semiconductor, a chipmaker based out of Europe, for $300M in cash, and will commit $300M in further purchases from the business — Apple has quietly been putting considerable effort into building faster and more efficient chips that can help differentiate … | 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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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.
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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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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Razer Phone 2 hands-on: Snapdragon 845, 20MP and 8MP dual rear cameras, and Qi Wireless Charging; available for pre-order now from $799 — When Razer announced its Razer Phone as a ‘gaming smartphone’, a sizeable number scoffed at the idea - how can it be a gaming smartphone if everyone has the same flagship hardware?| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake Computing raises $450M led by Sequoia Capital at a $3.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to $923M — In January, after raising $263 million, Snowflake Computing CEO Bob Muglia indicated that the next time his fast-growing cloud data warehousing company tapped …
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Legal chatbot service DoNotPay now helps users lock down privacy settings of social media accounts and help sue companies that expose users' data through hacks — - Automated legal tool DoNotPay is trying to help people lock down their online privacy settings and sue companies that get hacked.
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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 …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Magic Leap expands shipping for its One Creator Edition headset, which costs $2,295, to most of the US with deliveries arriving within 60 days — As Magic Leap holds the first developer conference for its Magic Leap One mixed reality headset, that headset has started shipping across …
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| 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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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) … | 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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| Roy Trakin / Variety: |
IFPI report: 86% of survey respondents stream music, 57% of 16-24 year olds use a paid service; 38% of consumers obtain music through piracy — The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the trade body for the worldwide record business, released its Music Consumer Insight Report …
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| Dawn C. Chmielewski / Deadline: |
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman say their new mobile video startup is called Quibi; it will have a two-tiered subscription model targeting 25-35 year olds — Media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and veteran tech executive Meg Whitman used the prominent platform of Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit … | Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: |
EU Parliament rules that data generated by autonomous cars, including telemetry data, can be copyrighted, likely by car manufacturers to sell to third-parties — Today, the EU held a routine vote on regulations for self-driving cars, when something decidedly out of the ordinary happened...| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Pocket improves article listening function with text-to-speech service Amazon Polly with a more human-like voice, on iOS and Android — Pocket is rolling out a handful of updates today, as the Mozilla-owned app reminds users that it's more than a simple read-it-later service.| 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 … | 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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| 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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Google makes alert center for G Suite, launched in beta in September, generally available to help organizations identify security threats and mitigate them — The alert center's security notification system has been opened up days after Google revealed a service-ending Google+ data leak.Sponsor Posts
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