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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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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Sources: Twitter's board of directors will meet this Thursday and discuss the company's options, including potential sale, trimming or selling off MoPub, Vine — Talk of a sale continues to rumble, but finding a buyer won't be easy. — Twitter's quiet summer may soon be coming to an end.
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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 … | 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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| 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.| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
Study: between Bitcoin's creation in 2009 and March 2015, 33% of all Bitcoin exchanges were hacked, and 48% closed — When hackers penetrated a secure authentication system at a bitcoin exchange called Bitfinex earlier this month, they stole about $70 million worth of the virtual currency.
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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 … | 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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| 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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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Merck's CIO Clark Golestani on working with and incubating tech startups for the pharmaceutial company's IT needs — It used to be that the tech world was divided. — There were the companies that made the tech products. And there were the companies that bought the tech products.| 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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TechEye, The Next Web, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, The Verge and Silicon Republic
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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) … Sponsor Posts
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