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Intel is buying Movidius, a startup that makes vision chips for drones and virtual reality — It's the latest in a string of acquisitions for the chip giant. — Intel announced late Monday that it is buying Movidius, a small chipmaker that makes computer vision processors used in drones …
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| Devin Leonard / Bloomberg: |
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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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD says its new Bristol Ridge APU is shipping in new PCs, has 27% better graphics and 17% better CPU performance over last-gen Carrizo APU — Advanced Micro Devices is announcing that desktop systems with its 7th-generation AMD A-Series processors are shipping today.
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Alcatel's new standalone VR headset, the Vision, has 2 1080x1020 displays, 3 hours of battery, is likely to retail for $500-600, but won't use Daydream platform — While Samsung's Gear VR requires a smartphone and full-fledged headsets like the Oculus Rift require a computer, Alcatel's newly announced Vision doesn't need either.| Consumer Reports: |
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 …
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| Financial Times: |
Snapchat joins the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, which sets the Bluetooth wireless standard; sources say its AR hardware project has gathered momentum — Snapchat has given the strongest hint yet of its ambitions to move from apps into hardware, by joining the industry group that runs the Bluetooth wireless standard.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Softbank has completed its £24B cash acquisition of ARM Holdings — One of the biggest tech deals this year — and the biggest ever in the UK — has now closed. Today, Softbank announced that it has completed its acquisition of ARM Holdings, the semiconductor firm that it saidin July …
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Bragi debuts new wireless earbuds with 6 hour battery called The Headphone, to retail for $149 but available for pre-order today for $119 — They're called ‘The Headphone’ and cost half the Dash's $300 price tag — One of the first companies to venture into the world of making truly wireless earbuds …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
comScore: smartphone apps now account for half the time US users spend online, up from 41% in July 2014 — Here's a stat that's sure to worry Google: smartphone applications now account for half the time that U.S. users spend online, up from 41 percent back in July 2014, according to a new report from comScore.
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SiliconANGLE, PC Magazine, comScore, Business Insider, Marketing Land, The Next Web, 512tech, Quartz and RAIN News
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| Tom Bergin / Reuters: |
Legal experts discuss Apple's chances in overturning European Commission's tax ruling in the Court of Justice of the European Union — Apple CEO Tim Cook has said he will appeal the European Commission's ruling that his company received an unlawful 13 billion euro ($14.5 billion) … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple rolls out weekly personalized playlists, which mimic Spotify's Discover Weekly, to Apple Music subscribers on iOS, macOS betas — Ahead of Apple's iPhone event on September 7th, the company has begun rolling out new, personalized music playlists to Apple Music subscribers …
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MacRumors, Business Insider, AppleInsider, iMore and 9to5Toys
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Jumio raises $15M to grow its online ID-verification service amid bankruptcy proceedings — Jumio, an identity-verification startup we first covered back in 2011, has raised $15 million months after getting a new owner amid bankruptcy proceedings. — When it initially launched in October 2011 …
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