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BMW makes Apple CarPlay an $80/year subscription service for new car owners — From the 2019 model year onward any new BMW sold will require the owner to pay an $80 annual fee in order to connect their Apple iTelephone device to their premium luxury automobile.
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| Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside the complex negotiations over the deal that is about to transform Dish into the fourth national wireless carrier in the US — Charlie Ergen, the poker-playing billionaire who co-founded Dish Network, has been hoarding airwaves for years. Now the U.S. government is handing him the cards he needs to make his play.
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
How Famous Birthdays, which has 20M unique monthly users, became Gen Z's Wikipedia for new internet stars and a talent resource for the entertainment industry — If you want to know who the biggest TikTok star is right now, who is in Emma Chamberlain's squad, or where Baby Ariel grew up …
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| Jane Zhang / South China Morning Post: |
Source: TikTok owner ByteDance has acquired UK-based AI startup Jukedeck, whose software can autonomously compose music, for an undisclosed amount — Deal raises potential for TikTok to make AI-powered music composition widely accessible around the world The initiative raises the potential …
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| Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Q&A with Satya Nadella on fostering Sony's success with Azure, the role of Xcloud in Microsoft's strategy to expand games beyond the living room, and more — Satya Nadella has never considered himself a “gamer,” but Civilization did manage to capture the attention of the Microsoft CEO for a stretch when he was younger.| Daniel Boffey / The Guardian: |
Leaked report: UK harvested info from EU databases, including 54K files on criminals, terrorists, and missing persons, likely in preparation for no-deal Brexit — NCA harvesting EU crime databases in attempt to mitigate loss of access to data, leaked report suggests| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Benchling, which provides software for managing biotech research, raises $34.5M Series C led by Menlo Ventures — In a field where the laboratory notebook is still considered the state of the art, it's no wonder a company like Benchling, which provides software for managing life sciences research was able to nab $34.5 million.| Satnam Narang / Tenable: |
How the tactics used by porn bots on Instagram keep evolving to avoid detection, including use of intermediary accounts and literary quotes in photo captions — Incentivized by affiliate programs, scammers are evolving how they utilize fake Instagram accounts to target users on the popular social media platform.
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| Uri Berkovitz / Globes Online: |
Israel-based vCita, which is developing a business management app and CRM system for very small businesses, raises $15M — The Israeli company has developed a business management app and CRM system for very small businesses. — Israeli business management app developer for small businesses vCita … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Spectral MD, a Dallas-based startup developing an AI-powered burn and wound imaging system, raises $27M in research funding from the US Department of Health — Spectral MD, a Dallas, Texas-based startup developing an AI-powered burn and wound imaging system, today announced that it's secured $27 million … | Kara Swisher / Vox: |
Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on quarantining /r/The_Donald, a decision he says was intended to give the community a chance to change — /r/The_Donald was punished for hosting “violent content,” and Huffman isn't convinced the community's moderators are taking that problem seriously enough.
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Inside Spotify's Project Magneto, its failed multiyear effort to create Spotify TV, a highly personalized video streaming service, and the hardware to run it — Spotify has made no secret of wanting to be the world's biggest audio platform, but it wasn't all that long ago that the Swedish streamer was eyeing video.Sponsor Posts
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