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| Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: |
After ICANN lifted price caps on .org domains in June, the Internet Society has sold Public Interest Registry, the top level domain's operator, to PE firm Ethos — Ethos Capital, led by former ABRY Partners Managing Partner, buys .Org registry. — I thought this might happen. And now it has.
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| Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: |
Sensor Tower: TikTok has passed 1.5B downloads worldwide on the App Store and Google Play, with 614M downloads in 2019 so far, up 6% YoY — The app has had 614 million downloads so far just this year, according to mobile intelligence firm Sensor Tower. — TikTok has passed 1.5 billion …
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The Next Web, Digiday, TechNode, NDTV Gadgets 360, GO Tech Daily, The Economic Times, Deccan Chronicle, Entrackr, and Neowin. Tweets: @rrhoover
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Self-driving startup Wayve, which considers sophisticated sensor tech like lidar unnecessary for safe autonomous driving systems, raises $20M Series A — Wayve, a U.K.-based startup that's developing artificial intelligence (AI) that teaches cars to drive autonomously using reinforcement learning …
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Tech.eu and IT Management
| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: ByteDance is in talks with record companies to launch a music streaming service as soon as December, initially in Brazil, India, and Indonesia — The Chinese company behind the popular video app TikTok is set to go head-to-head with the likes of Spotify and Apple in the music streaming market …
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| Mark Harris / MIT Technology Review: |
New research shows that thousands of ships in Shanghai, the world's busiest port, are falling victim to spoofing of GPS systems that has left experts baffled — A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world's busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it?
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| Nikkei Asian Review: |
Line and SoftBank's Yahoo Japan announce merger plan, aim to sign a deal by December 2019, and integrate the businesses by October 2020 — SoftBank and Naver's venture to be Japan's largest online player — TOKYO — The operators of Yahoo sites in Japan and the Line chat app jointly announced …
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SoftBank, TechCrunch, and Reuters
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
As millions pay for premium subscriptions to have a “clean” digital media experience, privacy and freedom from advertising are gradually becoming luxury goods — A decade ago, an internet video start-up called Hulu boldly declared an end to the era of paid TV.
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Sramana Mitra and New York Times
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Chrome, Edge, Safari hacked at elite hacking contest Tianfu Cup, which is now China's top competition after a participation ban on foreign contests like Pwn2Own — China's top white-hat hackers have gathered in Chengdu to test zero-days against today's top software.| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
Intel unveils plans for a 7nm Xe GPU, codenamed Ponte Vecchio, meant to rival Nvidia in handling datacenter AI workloads, but fails to give a release window — The upcoming data center GPU, in combination with its new oneAPI programming interface, will give Intel more ammunition to compete …
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VentureBeat, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware, and SemiAccurate. Tweets: @dylanljmartin. Thanks:@dylanljmartin
| Eric Rosenbaum / CNBC: |
The White House confirms that President Trump will tour Apple's manufacturing plant in Austin on November 20 — - Apple announced its new Mac Pro will be assembled at the Austin factory after winning tariff exemptions from the Trump administration in September. — How Apple CEO Tim Cook won over Trump amid a trade war
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Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, and AppleInsider
| Jim Salter / Ars Technica: |
How the mesh Wi-Fi router startup Plume is winning partnerships with some of the biggest ISPs worldwide, despite Eero's fire sale to Amazon — Simplified device management might be more attractive than Wi-Fi mesh itself. — Yesterday, Charter Communications*—the second-largest ISP in the United States …
Tweets: @justin_d_pettit and @arstechnica
| Mike Murphy / Quartz: |
Profile of Mixhalo, an app which aims to improve sound quality at concerts by sending Hi-Fi audio directly from the soundboard to attendees' phones — Think back to the first time you saw a high-definition TV program. — After a lifetime of looking at standard-definition shows …
Tweets: @mcwm, @dangillmor, and @eugenewei
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