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US arrests an Ethereum Foundation researcher, claiming he participated in discussions about how N. Korea can avoid sanctions during a crypto conference there — On Friday, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced criminal charges against a cryptocurrency researcher …
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Facebook complies with Singapore's fake news law and adds a label that is visible to local users, under the users' post, saying the post contains false info — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) said on Saturday it had issued a correction notice on a user's post at the request …
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EU antitrust regulators are conducting a preliminary investigation into Google's data collection practices — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are investigating Google's collection of data, the European Commission told Reuters on Saturday, suggesting the world's …
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How angel investing for social status is a core part of Bay Area tech ecosystem, and is critically missing from other cities trying to grow their tech scenes — Michael Seibel of YC posted a short video the other day about a topic that's near and dear to my heart: Why Fundraising is Different in Silicon Valley.
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Court filing: Intel says it has sold smartphone modem chip business to Apple at “a multi-billion dollar loss”, blames Qualcomm for forcing it out of the market — (Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O) sold its smartphone modem chip business to Apple Inc (AAPL.O) at “a multi-billion dollar loss …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adobe: Black Friday online sales grew 19.6% YoY to $7.4B, as Thanksgiving sales rose 14.5%, to $4.2B; Cyber Monday sales are expected to reach $9.4B, up 18.9% — Following swiftly on the heels of a Thanksgiving that broke records with $4.2 billion in online sales, Black Friday also hit a new high …
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How Jeff Beacher, owner of a Las Vegas nightclub frequented by celebs, helped build Airbnb's celebrity marketing program in 2015, making it into a luxury brand — For one week in the summer of 2015, consumers of celebrity gossip news couldn't escape Mariah Carey's trip to Malibu, California.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
With chips like Threadripper 3960X and 3970X, AMD is now comfortably beating Intel in the high-end desktop/workstation CPU market, and is getting further ahead — When AMD launched its third-generation Zen 2 Ryzen processors earlier this year, Intel had to be sweating.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
A look at the Masakhane project, which aims to translate African languages using neural machine translation by working with AI researchers across the continent — English, Arabic, and French dialects can be found on parts of the African continent and are used across tribes, ethnic groups … | Financial Times: |
Ocado, a UK-based grocery delivery service trying to become a warehouse automation tech provider, strikes a deal with Japan's largest supermarket operator Aeon — Ocado, the UK food delivery service transforming itself into a provider of automated warehouses for retail chains … | South China Morning Post: |
A look at China-based MiningLamp, a Palantir-like startup that provides analytics tools to China's police and 200+ of Fortune 500, for an actionable information — MiningLamp's business analytics tools are used by more than 200 companies in the Fortune 500 Like Palantir …
Tweets: @pstasiatech and @ebkania
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China's new rules, effective Jan. 1, require videos created using AI or VR tech to be clearly marked, make distribution of deepfakes a possible criminal offense — BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have announced new rules governing video and audio content online …
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