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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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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.| 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.| 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 … | 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: |
Programming on Facebook Watch has evolved as it focuses on sports, news, and high-profile stars/creators and funding for shows by digital publishers dries up — Facebook says it wants Facebook Watch programming that's unique to its platform — with big names and built-in distribution, if possible.| Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal: |
How companies use customer lifetime value scores to differentiate prices, services offered; unlike FICO scores, CLVs aren't regulated or accessible to consumers — Retailers, wireless carriers and others crunch data to determine what shoppers are worth for the long term—and how well to treat them| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Inside Uber's deal with Saudi Arabia, from David Plouffe's first meetings with local officials to the 10%+ stake that, sources say, the kingdom now owns — Even as Uber's lawyers finalized the details of the deal, they still couldn't quite believe it would really happen.
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Pixel 3 review: fastest Android device with impressive computational photography features, but the phone's build quality and gaming performance lag competition — The Pixel 3 is Google's third generation in-house design, meant to showcase the company's own view of what an Android device should be … Thanks:@iancutress
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Interview with three renowned women in infosec on how they got started, some of their most memorable finds, and how to encourage more women to join their field — This post is part of Mashable's ongoing series The Women Fixing STEM, which highlights trailblazing women in science, tech …
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