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Tumblr says it will permanently ban adult content from its platform beginning December 17 — Tumblr is permanently banning adult content from its platform as of December 17th in a move that will eradicate porn-related communities on the platform and fundamentally alter how the service is used.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to wait until at least 2020 before releasing an iPhone that works with 5G — - Next IPhone won't connect to new faster networks, people say — Apple Inc. plans to hold off until at least 2020 before offering an iPhone that can connect to the next generation …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Nvidia announces a new $2,499 GPU called Titan RTX with 576 tensor cores, 24GB of GDDR6 memory, and the new Turing architecture, shipping later this month — By this point we've seen most of NVIDIA's 2018 Turing GPU product stack. After kicking things off with the Quadro RTX series …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung and Verizon will partner to release a 5G smartphone using Qualcomm processors in the first half of 2019, plan to show a concept device this week — One of the world's first 5G phones will be coming to the US from Samsung and Verizon. — The two companies on Monday said they plan …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches real-time captions and subtitles for Skype and says PowerPoint will also get them in early 2019 — Alongside news that PowerPoint is getting real-time captions and subtitles in 2019, Microsoft announced similar technology is now available in Skype.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon is testing its cashierless technology for bigger stores, leading to speculation that it may use it one day for its Whole Foods chain — Online giant tries to overcome challenges caused by retail spaces with higher ceilings, more products — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .99% …
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| Ian Sample / The Guardian: |
DeepMind's latest AI program AlphaFold wins international competition with its algorithm predicting 3D shapes of proteins, beating 97 entrants — AI program's understanding of proteins could usher in new era of medical progress — Having laid waste to the Atari classics …
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Google applied for a patent, rejected by USPTO, allegedly based on research shared with its ATAP group during a visit from an MIT doctoral student — Googlers sought patent on tech described during job chat — Jie Qi, cofounder of edu-tech electronics biz Chibitronics … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Gartner: 389M smartphones were sold to end users in Q3, up 1.4% YoY, but market leader Samsung dropped 14% YoY to 73M units, now at 18.9% marketshare — The global smartphone market's continuing on a slow but steady uptick. That's according to research firm Gartner, which today published …
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| Aditi Shah / Reuters: |
Source: ride-hailing startup Grab invests $100M in Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo, as part of SoftBank-led $1B round that had raised $800M earlier — (Reuters) - Singapore-based ride-hailing firm Grab has invested $100 million in Indian hotel-reservations startup OYO, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google addresses Pixel 3 and 3 XL RAM management and camera performance issues with its December security patch release — Google detailed the December security patch this morning for all Android devices. For the Made by Google lineup, this update addresses a number of issues that have cropped …
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The Verge and Android Open Source Project
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
NEA announces a $1.35B spinout fund called NewView Capital, sells 31 of its portfolio companies including 23andMe, Duolingo, Forter, and GumGum to the new fund — Companies are staying private longer and longer, and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) has a new plan to combat the negative implications of the trend.Sponsor Posts
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Zoho:
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
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