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Salesforce's Marc Benioff on elevating Keith Block to co-CEO, company's deal with US Customs and Border Protection, comparing Facebook to cigarettes, more — - After a summer vacation, Benioff made the surprising decision to elevate Keith Block to co-CEO, enabling a “divide and conquer strategy” …
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| Tom Chivers / New Statesman: |
UK's Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health says that there is little evidence to support claims that screen time is harmful for children's health — Correlation does not equal causation when it comes to screen time. — How much should we worry about our children using screens?
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| Jack Hough / Barron's Online: |
Bob Iger on Disney's streaming efforts, BAMTech acquisition, and challenges like changing compensation models as the company's new services get closer to launch — Burbank, Calif.—At Walt Disney (DIS) headquarters in this studio-filled city, Suite 3H in the original animation building holds stacks …
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
A machine-learning model in Flint that once helped predict lead pipe locations with 70% accuracy was abandoned due to political decisions to excavate everywhere — More than a thousand days after the water problems in Flint, Michigan, became national news, thousands of homes in the city still …
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| Bloomberg: |
Hackers dump private info of Angela Merkel and hundreds of other German politicians including email addresses, phone numbers, and personal chat transcripts — - Leak includes emails, chat transcripts, photos, phone numbers — Hack is ‘elaborate’ social-engineering attack, IT expert says
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| Julie Steinberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese startups raised $69.4B in 2018, up 63% YoY as per CB Insights, but VCs have gotten more conservative after Chinese IPOs like Tencent Music disappointed — Thousands of private Chinese tech companies raised a record $69.4 billion in equity in 2018, but the volume of stock sales has dropped off sharply of late| Wall Street Journal: |
Marriott says a total of 383M records were stolen in its hack, less than the initial estimate of 500M, but 5M+ unencrypted passport numbers were accessed — Hotel chain says fewer total customers were affected than initially feared but analysts warn data could be intelligence trove
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Charter releases Spectrum TV app for Apple TV with support for Apple TV's zero sign-on, the first US cable operator to support the feature — Spectrum today has officially released its new Apple TV application after rolling out support for Zero sign-on last month.
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| Owen Churchill / South China Morning Post: |
LinkedIn restores Chinese access to the profile of US-based activist Zhou Fengsuo after blocking it a day earlier, says the profile was blocked in error — - Zhou, a student leader during the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, says he thinks media attention led to the change
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| Reuters: |
The FTC's case accusing Qualcomm of abusing a monopoly in mobile chips via its intellectual property licensing practices kicked off in court on Friday — SAN JOSE, California - (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case accusing Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) …
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
SEC filing: smart home camera maker Wyze Labs has raised $20M — Wyze Labs, the Kirkland, Wash.-based makers of a low-cost, smart home security camera, has raised $20 million in new funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Pandora's latest iOS update includes an Apple Watch app, with offline playback on Apple Watch available for Pandora Plus and Pandora Premium subscribers — Pandora's latest version of its iOS app includes a “brand new, built-from-the-ground-up app that's seamlessly integrated into the Apple Watch experience.”
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