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Sources: Tim Cook, Larry Page, Satya Nadella, Sheryl Sandberg, plus CEOs of Cisco, IBM, Intel, and Oracle to attend Trump's tech summit in NY; Bezos may attend — The gathering will take place Wednesday in New York. — Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg …
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| Kevin J. Delaney / Quartz: |
Bill Gates to lead $1B 20-year duration fund to fight climate change in energy, transport, agriculture, other industries; directors include Ma, Doerr, Khosla — Bill Gates is leading a more than $1 billion fund focused on fighting climate change by investing in clean energy innovation.
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| Tim Moynihan / Wired: |
How and why devices like Echo and Home record your voice, what they do with the data, and how to scrub those recordings — If you got an Amazon Echo or Google Home voice assistant, welcome to a life of luxurious convenience. You'll be asking for the weather, the news …
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Mobile is eating the world, 2016 edition: how ~2.5B smartphones and mobile computing with AI, dominated by “GAFA”, reshape retail, cars, and everything else — As we pass 2.5bn smartphones on earth and head towards 5bn, and mobile moves from creation to deployment, the questions change.| Jessica Contrera / Washington Post: |
Kids are now emulating the child YouTubers they've grown up watching, by posting videos of themselves and performing even when they're not being recorded — always land their bottles perfectly upright. Max Cole has spent hours studying their routine, and now, his own viewers are waiting: Empty half the blue juice.
Tweets: @davechensky, @bostonglobe, @ella_dickinson, @sbb, and @puiwingtam
| Aja Romano / Vox: |
Twitter reinstates and re-verifies white nationalist Richard Spencer's personal account, says his accounts were banned for violating multiple accounts rule — Twitter banned Richard Spencer because he had too many accounts — not because those accounts promoted racism.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Opendoor's business model of buying and flipping homes is risky, but the startup's streamlining of the home-selling process has great disruptive potential — I suppose I appreciate the efficiency with which Techcrunch expressed its skepticism for tech's latest unicorn, Opendoor …
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| Joel Stein / Bloomberg: |
Imzy, founded by two former Reddit employees, launched in October to be a gentler version of Reddit; site has 50K members and $11M in seed funding — Imzy, started by two former Reddit employees, wants to be a kinder, gentler version of the controversial discussion site. — by — Subscribe Reprints| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Jaap Haartsen on how he invented Bluetooth back in 1994, the protocol's future, the state of wireless audio now that Apple killed iPhone's headphone jack, more — Bluetooth has come a long way. It's gone from being a frustrating standard that only businesspeople used for mobile headsets …
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With Pebble acquisition, Fitbit now has a software platform to build a smartwatch; CEO doesn't think any current offering has right feature-set and battery life — All signs point to an upcoming smartwatch from Fitbit — Following Fitbit's acquisition of smartwatch maker Pebble … | Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Google's self-driving car team is hiring executives as it prepares to spin out from Alphabet's X — The company also expects “significant growth in both team size and geographical footprint” as it graduates from Alphabet's moonshot shop. — Google's self-driving project …
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a16z and USV invest $10M in Polychain Capital, a hedge fund started by the first Coinbase employee; the fund invests in Bitcoin, Ether, and other digital assets — Polychain Capital, a new hedge fund investing in bitcoin, ether and other digital assets, has garnered $10 million in investment …
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