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Neuralink's President and co-founder Max Hodak tweets that he has left the brain-computer interface startup — - Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak announced Saturday that he is no longer working with the brain tech company he started with Elon Musk. — Musk - who is also the CEO of auto …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Epic expert's testimony, based on internal Apple docs, estimates that App Store had an operating margin of 77.8% in 2019; Apple says the estimates are wrong — - Apple: Calculations are “simply wrong,” will refute in court — App Store's profits at heart of allegations of Apple monopoly| David Pierce / Protocol: |
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| Doug Kramer / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare, which was sued by “patent troll” Sable Networks, is offering a $100K bounty to those who can find evidence of prior art on Sable Networks' patents — Here we go again. — On March 15, Cloudflare was sued by a patent troll called Sable Networks …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft planned to reduce its cut from 30% to 12% for Xbox games too, a document filed as part of Epic vs Apple lawsuit in January shows — Confidential Microsoft documents reveal some big plans — Microsoft had been planning to cut its Xbox store cut to just 12 percent …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
At least 15 Basecamp employees announced on Twitter that they are leaving the company, with some specifically citing new policy banning political talk at work — Multiple employees say they are leaving specifically because of recent policy changes. — On Friday, numerous employees …
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| Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: |
After an investigation found 800+ Etsy listings for weapons, porn, other items violating its policies, Etsy says it'll invest ~$40M in policy enforcement in '21 — The online marketplace Etsy has been flooded with activity since the pandemic's onset as millions flocked to online shopping to stave off lockdown blues.
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| Reuters: |
Intel says it will invest $400M in Mobileye R&D campus, $200M into new R&D center in Haifa, and confirms the start of construction of a $10B chip fab in Israel — Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Sunday it will invest another $600 million in Israel to expand its research and development … | Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Researchers find new exploit leaving all modern AMD and Intel processors with micro-op caches defenseless to Spectre threat, in spite of all current mitigations — Micro-op caches prone to attacks. — Researchers from two universities have discovered several new variants of Spectre exploits … | David Phelan / Forbes: |
SEC filing: Rockley Photonics, developer of sensors that can be used for blood pressure and glucose monitoring, says Apple is currently its biggest customer — A new report says that a future Apple Watch could have a new raft of health sensors, including blood pressure and … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
A deep dive into Apple's M&A strategy, which focuses on technology and engineering talent, and, sources say, values startups at around $3M per engineer — - In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook told shareholders that the company had bought about 100 companies in the past six years … | Laurens Cerulus / Politico: |
Critics say the EU should focus on producing older generations of chips instead of making big plans to invest billions of euros into cutting-edge chip-making — Critics say Commissioner Thierry Breton risks wasting public money with grand plan to reshore manufacturing.
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
A look at Zed Run, a digital horse racing platform where users breed, race, and trade NFT horses, with some digital steeds and stables selling for six figures — Horse racing meet NFT mania on Zed Run, a digital platform where some top steeds are fetching six-figure sums.
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