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Intel is buying Movidius, a startup with about 180 employees 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 …
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Intel Newsroom, Movidius, The Irish Times, eWeek, GeekTime, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, The Register, The Next Web, The Verge, BetaNews, insideHPC, SlashGear, Computerworld, Tech Times, VatorNews, TechCrunch, CNET, Fortune, Android Authority, Inquirer, UploadVR, Engadget and ZDNet
Tweets: @brianroemmele and @movidius
| 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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GeekWire and Fortune. Tweets: @mathewi, @fromedome, @jaycuthrell, @jim_edwards, @andrewwrites, @stoweboyd, @bdeskin and @carlquintanilla. See also Mediagazer
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Over 98M records leaked online from 2012 hack of Russia's Yahoo-like service Rambler.ru, each record contains: username/email address, plaintext password, more — Nearly 100 million records have been leaked online in yet another “mega breach”, this time from the website Rambler.ru …
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BBC, ZDNet, Naked Security, Office of Inadequate Security, Business Insider, The Hacker News, Softpedia News, CSO, Help Net Security, SecurityWeek and The Register. Tweets: @swiftonsecurity
| Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal: |
PayPal strikes deal with MasterCard to allow payments in stores, will share data on any transactions using MasterCard mobile tap — Move comes at expense of short-term profitability, analysts say — PayPal Holdings Inc. has struck another deal with a payments network, this time MasterCard Inc. … | Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Homeowners renting rooms on Airbnb face additional scrutiny from lenders when applying for loans — Homeowners who rent rooms are facing additional scrutiny when applying for loans — Room-rental services such as Airbnb Inc. are blurring the line between residential and commercial property.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm, AT&T to test drones' capabilities on 4G LTE networks using Qualcomm's Snapdragon Flight development platform — Qualcomm said its researchers will team up with AT&T to test how unmanned aircraft systems can utilize cellular networks for processing, navigation and flying beyond line of sight.
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PR Newswire, Engadget, Fast Company, Latest, VentureBeat, socalTECH.com and Xconomy
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Palantir files suit against early investor Marc Abramowitz, claiming the investor stole confidential info about key projects, then filed patents independently — Palantir, a secretive firm that supplies data analytics to companies and governments, filed a dramatic lawsuit against one of its early investors … | 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 … | 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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Telegraph, InvestorPlace, UploadVR, Mashable, BGR, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Tech Times, Silicon Republic, Business Insider, Music Ally, TechSpot, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo and TechCrunch
Tweets: @rrhoover, @tim and @peterrojas
| 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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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi's Android set-top box, Mi Box, to launch as soon as October for less than $100 and will be its first mainstream product on sale in the US — There's much anticipation about Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi's long-awaited entry into the U.S. market. And we don't have long to wait. Kinda.Sponsor Posts
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