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Amazon launches $110 Kindle Kids Edition, with a choice of four cases, one year free FreeTime Unlimited subscription, and features like achievement badges — Amazon's been selling kid-friendly editions of Fire tablets for a while, but now it's bringing the Kids Edition concept to its Kindle e-reader.
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Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo is raising $1.5B at a $10B valuation, of which $700M is from the founder Ritesh Agarwal, who plans to raise his stake to 30% — - 25-year-old founder will spend $700 million for new shares — Existing investors such as SoftBank, Sequoia will add the rest
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Sources: Apple has recently approached big music labels about bundling together Apple Music and Apple TV+ for one flat monthly fee — Apple's hopes of creating a super-bundle of media content for one flat monthly fee have run into early opposition, with some record labels nervous … | Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
SCOTUS refuses to review a 2018 decision by appeals court that found Apple didn't infringe on a Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison patent and threw out $506M in damages — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a bid by the University of Wisconsin's patent licensing arm …
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A look at the vast surveillance infrastructure in Chongqing, China, where an estimated 2.58M surveillance cameras cover a population of 15.35M — Whether it is to monitor traffic, prevent petty theft in restaurants or monitor public safety in parks - residents can be sure there is a camera following …
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| Carrie Mihalcik / CNET: |
Two new California laws crack down on deepfakes in politics and porn, with one giving citizens the right to sue if they are placed in porn without their consent — While some deepfakes are silly and fun, others are misleading and even abusive. Two new California laws aim to put a stop to these more nefarious video forgeries.
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Sonos launches Sonos Flex, a subscription service for renting its speakers, starting at €15 per month, currently available only in the Netherlands — Weird Flex, but ok — Sonos has quietly launched a new subscription service that lowers the initial barrier to taking home its costly connected speakers.| Carl Miller / BBC: |
Taiwanese Wikipedia editors, who suspect the Chinese government is behind edits made to politically sensitive articles, are facing attacks and death threats — Ask Google or Siri: “What is Taiwan?” — “A state”, they will answer, “in East Asia”. — But earlier in September …
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Analysis: in 2017 and 2018, quantum computing startups received at least $450M in private funding, more than 4x the $104M disclosed over the previous two years — A Nature analysis explores the investors betting on quantum technology. — Search for this author in: — Share via E-Mail| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Tier Mobility, which operates a fleet of 20K scooters across 40 cities in 12 countries, raises $60M Series B co-led by Mubadala and Goodwater — On the heels of Bird closing a $275 million round to help put itself in pole position in the electric scooter market … | Sarah Gooding / WordPress Tavern: |
Matt Mullenweg and Ruby on Rails' creator David Heinemeier Hansson discuss balance of power in open source projects, tradeoffs of growing WordPress market share — In what began as a heated conversation on Twitter, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and Ruby on Rails creator …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Next Insurance, which offers digital insurance products for small businesses, raises $250M Series C at a valuation of $1B+, bringing its total raised to $381M — Next Insurance, a three-year-old U.S.-based firm that sells insurance products to small businesses, has become the latest unicorn … Sponsor Posts
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