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Sources: Amazon in late-stage talks with several cities including Crystal City, VA, Dallas, New York for HQ2, may place smaller operations in runner-up cities — The tech giant's decision, which may be announced in November, could include multiple locations involving smaller sites
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An expert says Georgia's voter registration site looks poorly secured, but the secretary of state, a candidate for governor, appears to deflect blame to rivals — IN DECEMBER 2016, Georgia secretary of state Brian Kemp accused the Department of Homeland Security of attempting to hack his office's systems … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
A look at HQ Trivia as it deals with its app's fading popularity, races to publish its next game, and has its new CEO facing an HR complaint from an HQ employee — A boardroom battle and more alleged management issues have raised new questions about HQ's future. — HQ could use another win.
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Charlie Shrem, who spent a year in prison for helping people buy drugs online, is being sued by the Winklevoss twins for allegedly spending bitcoin he owed them — Charlie Shrem went to prison in 2015 after he pleaded guilty to helping people buy drugs online. Now he's being sued by the Winklevoss twins.
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Source: Apple will launch an iPhone with Intel's 8161 5G modem chip in 2020; Intel will likely be the sole modem supplier for that year's iPhones — Apple's 5G iPhone will come to market in 2020, a source with knowledge of Apple's plans says. — Apple plans to use Intel's 8161 5G modem chip in its 2020 phones.| Katharine Schwab / Fast Company: |
A look at Unfold, whose templates app for Instagram Stories has 11M+ users including celebs like Selena Gomez, as it launches a design agency focused on Stories — Alfonso Cobo saw the potential in Stories early on. Today, his template app has 11 million users, and he's launching a design agency focused on Stories alone.| Jana Winter / BostonGlobe.com: |
DHS election threat reports say hackers have had “limited success” in hacking election-related tools, despite publicly saying all attempts have been thwarted — Hackers have ramped up their efforts to meddle with the country's election infrastructure in the weeks leading … | Bloomberg: |
A look at a Bancor-funded pilot program in Kenya that aims to transition paper vouchers used as credit in local commerce to blockchain-based digital tokens — At the Sifa Children's Center, shacks made of corrugated metal serve as classrooms for some 300 pupils, circling an expanse of dusty … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
PropertyGuru, which operates real estate rental and sale listing sites in Southeast Asia, raises $144M Series D from KKR bringing the total raised to ~$320M — Global investment giant KKR is warming up to Southeast Asia after it made a third high-profile investment.| TechCrunch: |
Facebook reorganized AR and VR team from a divisional structure focused around products to a functional structure focused around technology areas of expertise — Facebook is again looking to whip Oculus into shape for its 10-year journey towards making virtual reality mainstream.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
New research from OpenAI shows how an AI agent with a sense of curiosity outperformed its predecessors playing the classic 1984 Atari game Montezuma's Revenge — This question is perhaps too broad to yield a single answer, but if you had to sum up why you accept that next quest … | Sahil Patel / Digiday: |
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