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In an update to a previous report, Ming-Chi Kuo now says that all three new iPhones coming in 2020 will support 5G — The three iPhones expected to launch in 2020 will feature support for 5G, according to a new note to investors shared today by Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and obtained by MacRumors.
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| Yessi Bello Perez / The Next Web: |
Report: Venezuela uses digital wallet app Jetman Pay to convert taxes from one of its airports into Bitcoin and sell it abroad for USD, bypassing US sanctions — Venezuela appears to be leveraging cryptocurrencies as part of a larger effort to bypass US sanctions.
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| Julia Kollewe / The Guardian: |
UK's Just Eat is merging with its Dutch rival Takeaway.com in a £9B deal that will create one of the world's biggest online food delivery companies — British firm joins Dutch rival to form one of the world's biggest online food delivery companies — Just Eat is merging …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Tech companies, including Apple and Google, are petitioning the FCC to allow low-power devices for unlicensed use of the 6GHz Wi-Fi band without restrictions — Part of a spectrum battle pitting hardware makers against carriers and utilities — It's rare to see Apple, Google, Microsoft …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Europol says that free tools provided as part of its three-year-old “No More Ransom” project prevented ransomware gangs from making at least $108M in profits — No More Ransom project is celebrating its three-year birthday today. — On the three-year anniversary of the No More Ransom project …
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US cybersecurity company Immunity is selling a working BlueKeep exploit that enables remote code execution over Windows RDP, as part of a pen testing suite — An exploit for a vulnerability that Microsoft feared it may trigger the next WannaCry is now being sold commercially.| Ronojoy Mazumdar / Bloomberg: |
Three-year-old Reliance Jio becomes the biggest telecom operator in India, as its subscribers grow to 331M in Q2 2019, surpassing Vodafone Idea's 320M subs — - Had overtaken Bharti Airtel in May, Vodafone Idea in June — Companies are preparing for the planned 5G rollout next year
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| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
Following Microsoft's $1B investment in OpenAI, critics worry about whether the latter is the proper vehicle for democratizing the benefits of AI — OpenAI was founded less than four years ago as a valiant stand against the idea that powerful new technology must inevitably be controlled by giant corporations.| Phil Wahba / Fortune: |
A look at Etsy's turnaround since Josh Silverman became CEO in 2017, largely focused on improving basic parts of the user experience, like search and shipping — When you type the term “bike jersey” into the search field at Etsy.com, most of the results you get are, in fact, bike jerseys.
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| Josh Horwitz / Reuters: |
Alibaba's new chip division releases its first core processor IP, says the chip is based on RISC-V and is suitable for edge computing, self-driving applications — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The semiconductor division of Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd released its first core processor IP … | Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
How constant location sharing via apps like Find My Friends or Glympse may trigger anxiety in friends when a phone dies, or the app shows an unexpected detour — IT'S 1:30 IN the morning and I'm pretty sure my girlfriend is dead. — She went out with friends after work to celebrate somebody's birthday.
Tweets: @gadgetlab
| Alan Beattie / Financial Times: |
How China is trying to increase its influence in global tech standards organizations like ITU, IEEE, and 3GPP, and how the US and EU are pushing back — The first wave of Donald Trump's trade war on China, punitive tariffs on $250bn of its exports, rivals the brutal protectionism of the Depression.
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