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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 … | David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
Sources: Russia hacked Republican National Committee's systems too but didn't release data, US intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” — Washington — President Obama has ordered American intelligence agencies to produce a full report on Russian efforts …
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| 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: @sbb, @davechensky, @ella_dickinson, 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.| 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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| Peter Aldhous / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook tightened controls on what collaborating researchers can publish after 2014 emotional contagion study backlash, hampering research on fake news today — Facebook has attracted leading social science researchers with its vast trove of user data. But what they publish is tightly controlled.
Tweets: @buzzfeednews and @adamsinger
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Vesper, which builds always-on, low powered mics, raises $15M Series A led by Accomplice, with Alexa Fund, Hyperplane, Miraenano Tech, and others participating — As digital assistants like Siri and Alexa become more intelligent, there's a growing need for them to always be accessible.
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
US Congress passes bill seeking to ban ticket-scalping bots by making it illegal to circumvent the security measures of ticketing websites — With public attention focused on the scourge of online ticket scalping, Congress has passed a bill outlawing bots, or computer programs that let users scoop …
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| Don Reisinger / Tom's Guide: |
AirDroid updates Android and desktop apps to fix previously reported security flaws, improves encryption method, upgrades all communication channels to HTTPS — The developers behind AirDroid say they've fixed the security flaw in the popular remote PC app that left Android devices vulnerable to hacks.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Discord, a text and voice chat app for gamers with 25M registered users, releases GameBridge SDK to let developers integrate Discord's services into their games — Discord has hit 25 million registered users for its popular voice-communications app for games.
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| Laura Shin / Forbes: |
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 … | Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Google's former car guru Chris Urmson is working on his own self-driving company — The most high-profile autonomous vehicle engineer seems ready to return to the stage. — When Chris Urmson announced he was leaving Google X's self-driving car project, he wrote: “If I can find another project … Sponsor Posts
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