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Canalys: Baidu crossed Google to capture 17.3% of the global smart speaker market, growing 3700% YoY with 4.5M shipments in Q2 2019; Amazon had 6.6M shipments — The global smart speaker market grew 55.4% in Q2 2019 to reach 26.1 million units. Amazon maintained the worldwide lead … | Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google and Dell team up to unveil Latitude enterprise-grade Chromebooks, with 8th-gen Intel Core i7 CPUs, available to order from August 27, starting at $699 — The next time you get a laptop from your company's IT department, you might be getting a Chromebook.
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Binance launches a crypto lending business, allowing holders of its BNB token, Ethereum Classic, and Tether to lend their assets and earn interest — The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has ventured into lending space, according to an announcement Monday.| Reuters: |
Macron says France and the US reached a deal that will end the standoff over a French tax on large internet companies that was passed earlier this year — BIARITTZ, France (Reuters) - France and the United States have reached a deal to end a standoff over a French tax on big internet companies …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Apple releases iOS 12.4.1 to patch a bug, inadvertently reintroduced in iOS 12.4, which allowed up-to-date iPhones to be jailbroken for the first time in years — The company released a patch to fix a dangerous bug on Monday, a week after hackers had released a jailbreak for fully patched iPhones.
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| Nathaniel Mott / Tom's Hardware: |
GlobalFoundries sues TSMC in the US and Germany, alleges infringement of 16 patents and seeks processor import bans that could affect Nvidia and Apple — GlobalFoundries (GF) today announced that it filed lawsuits against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) …
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, CNET, VentureBeat, and PC Gamer. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead. Thanks:@paulyalcorn
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Megvii, a China-based facial recognition focused startup, files for a Hong Kong IPO; Megvii has raised $750M, reportedly at a $4B valuation, earlier this year — KEY POINTS — An attendee uses his smartphone to record a facial-recognition demonstration on himself at the Beijing Megvii Co. booth …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hackers seen attacking enterprise networks' Webmin servers and VPN services by Pulse Secure and Fortinet, after critical flaws were recently made public — Enterprise networks across the world are at risk after hackers start exploiting three very popular products.
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FreshToHome, which runs a fish, meat, and vegetable e-commerce platform in three Indian cities, raises $20M Series B, three months after an $11M Series A — FreshToHome, a Bangalore-based e-commerce startup that sells fresh vegetable, fish, chicken and other kinds of meat …
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Chinese self-driving company Pony.ai teams up with Toyota to work on autonomous driving vehicles, will start a pilot in September on public roads in China — - Companies to work together on autonomous-driving pilot — Asia driverless companies seeking to catch up with U.S. rivals
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VentureBeat, Pony.ai, and South China Morning Post
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Nvidia and VMware partner to offer virtualized GPUs, letting enterprises accelerate AI, machine learning, and deep learning workloads — The new product enables enterprises to virtualize AI, machine learning and deep learning workloads, either on premise or as part of VMware Cloud on AWS.
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, and VentureBeat
| Alison Bevege / Reuters: |
Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events; sites to be censored will be determined on a case-by-case basis — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events …
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