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Inside Amazon's delivery business and its ambitions, which FedEx and UPS privately fear — For UPS and FedEx, Amazon's been great for business. Now it's taking business away from them. — Photographs by Jake Stengel for Bloomberg Businessweek — Last fall, when he was running for mayor …
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Instead of offering to replace units, Samsung should officially recall Note7 via US Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban ongoing sales of pre-recall units — Some retailers were still selling the phone Friday — Consumer Reports is calling for an official recall … | Ina Fried / Recode: |
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| Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
Startup Drive.ai plans self-driving retrofit kits for cars with roof-mounted displays for communicating car's intent to pedestrians; testing starts in weeks — Drive.ai, a closely watched startup founded by Stanford University artificial intelligence researchers that wants to teach cars to think …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect from Apple's Sept. 7 event: new iPhones with pressure-sensitive home buttons, 5.5-inch model with dual-camera system, new Watch with GPS, more — Apple seeks to set foundation for holiday quarter with iPhone camera upgrades, improved Apple Watch fitness tracking, and refreshed software
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25| Cathy O'Neil / Guardian: |
As employers turn to algorithms to sift through job applications, the poor are more likely to lose out — Even when wrong, their verdicts seem beyond dispute - and they tend to punish the poor — few years ago, a young man named Kyle Behm took a leave from his studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Tweets: @ilparone, @mkelley, @boonerang, @ilparone, @digiphile and @digiphile
| Michael Schuman / New York Times: |
Dream Town, an incubator for 710 startups that was built by the government of Alibaba hometown Hangzhou, shows how China is trying to fuel tech growth — HANGZHOU, China — In Dream Town, a collection of boxy office buildings on the gritty edge of this historic city, one tiny company is developing a portable 3-D printer.
Tweets: @mdudas, @cnbc, @skupor, @nytimesbits and @paulg
| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
Why LPs might gladly invest in Andreessen Horowitz despite unfavorable comparisons to Sequoia and Benchmark — Rolfe Winkler wrote a piece in the WSJ about A16Z's returns in which he says they “lag behind Sequoia, Benchmark and Founders Fund.” — Scott Kupor of A16Z responded …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Suspect arrested for allegedly hacking Linux Kernel Organization and Linux Foundation servers in 2011 — A computer programmer from South Florida was arrested last week for allegedly hacking into servers related to the Linux operating system, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday.
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| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Google Analytics App now offers Google Now-like automated insights — Insight cards automatically spotlight positive and negative performance trends for faster analysis. — The latest update to the Google Analytics apps (iOS and Android) offers a sleek new machine learning-powered set of insights a la Google Now.
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| Ruslan Stoyanov / Securelist: |
Kaspersky Lab details how they helped catch the Lurk cybercriminal gang, suspected of stealing nearly 3B rubles — In early June, 2016, the Russian police arrested the alleged members of the criminal group known as Lurk. The police suspected Lurk of stealing nearly three billion rubles …
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| Spencer Woodman / The Verge: |
How Uber forms part of the public transit system in Altamonte Springs, a small town in Florida, causing concerns over accessibility and transparency — My first morning in Altamonte Springs, Florida, I was faced with a dilemma: how to travel the two miles from my hotel to city hall without a car.
Tweets: @josephfcox, @joshdzieza, @jtemple, @verge and @dangillmor
| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Leaked NSO Group documents reveal capabilities of its Pegasus spying software, with prices like $500K setup fee plus $650K to track 10 iPhone or Android users — SAN FRANCISCO — Want to invisibly spy on 10 iPhone owners without their knowledge? Gather their every keystroke, sound, message and location?
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