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Sources: Apple has a Berlin office seeking engineers and partners for a car project; talks with BMW and Daimler ended, Magna believed to be current favorite — Exclusive: BMW, Daimler Reject Cooperation with Apple over “iCar” — German carmakers Daimler and BMW have ended talks with Apple …
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WeChat PM: chat apps succeed when they streamline high-friction processes like app installation, login, and payment, not when they rely on conversational UI — Bots won't replace apps. Better apps will replace apps. — Lately, everyone's talking about “conversational UI.” It's the next big thing.
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Pinterest execs and engineers discuss overhauling its underlying software, its new iOS app, plans to capture international audiences, more — Pinterest Reinvents Itself to Prove It's Really Worth Billions — It's a week before Pinterest will announce its biggest engineering and design overhaul ever … Thanks:@malliegator
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Toosheh lets Iranians use their ubiquitous satellite TV dishes to download videos, cirumventing the nation's slow, expensive, censored internet — The Ingenious Way Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet — Reza, a 20-something mechanical engineer working … | Bloomberg: |
Young fans of Valve's Counter-Strike flock to independent, unregulated sites to bet valuable virtual weapons on pro matches — Virtual Weapons Are Turning Teen Gamers Into Serious Gamblers — The boom in pro video gaming is fueled by $2.3 billion in online bets.| Callum Leslie / The Daily Dot: |
PwC: eSports industry will make $463M in revenue in 2016, up 43% from 2015 — Esports will earn a half billion in revenue this year according to PwC report — Esports will earn $500 million in revenue this year, according to a new report by PwC, the latest major financial services firm … | Christie Smythe / Bloomberg: |
US Department of Justice drops appeal seeking Apple's help in unlocking iPhone in Brooklyn case after it obtains passcode — U.S. Drops Appeal Seeking Apple Help in Brooklyn IPhone Case — The U.S. government said it no longer needs Apple Inc.'s help to get into an iPhone used by a drug dealer …
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Sources: Google plans an in-house startup incubator “Area 120” overseen by Don Harrison and Bradley Horowitz and located in San Francisco — Google has a new division called ‘Area 120’ where employees can build their own startups — Google is creating an in-house startup incubator … | Jenna McLaughlin / The Intercept: |
Boston district court judge rules FBI hacking in child porn sting was illegal because magistrate judge that issued the search warrant was in another district — FBI Mass Child-Porn Hack Ruled Illegal on a Technicality — When the FBI hacked over 1,000 computers to ensnare consumers …
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An unsecured database with 93.4M Mexican voter records found hosted on AWS, now taken offline — Personal info of 93.4 million Mexicans exposed on Amazon (UPDATED) — In today's installment of “Epic Infosecurity #FAIL,” more than 93.4 million Mexican citizens have had their voter … | Wall Street Journal: |
Monthly data limits by home broadband providers increasingly forcing consumers to cut back or cancel streaming video services in the US — Broadband Data Caps Pressure ‘Cord Cutters’ — Monthly limits by home Internet providers like Comcast and AT&T force people who stream Netflix or Sling TV to ration Web use| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
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