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Apple says it will appeal EU's $14B tax claim this week, arguing that EU disregarded corporate law and Ireland's tax experts to maximize penalty — Apple (AAPL.O) will launch a legal challenge this week to a record $14 billion EU tax demand, arguing that EU regulators ignored tax experts …
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| Bloomberg: |
Inside the 3-year EU investigation into Apple's tax practices in Ireland, which resulted in a $14B tax bill for Apple — The iPhone came out in 2007. So why was Apple still paying taxes like it was 1990? — by — Gaspard Sebag — , and — “The Maxforce” is the European Union team …
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @g_piechota, and @mims
| Cliff Taylor / The Irish Times: |
Ireland publishes formal objections to EU's order to collect €13B in back taxes from Apple, says EC has exceeded its powers, misunderstood Irish tax law, more — EU Commission expected to give full judgment on €13bn case today — The Government has moved to pre-empt …
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How workers on platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk earn pennies to train AI — Each morning when she wakes up, Kristy Milland powers up her home computer in Toronto, logs into Amazon Mechanical Turk, and waits for her computer to ding. — Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) … | Gideon Lewis-Kraus / New York Times: |
How Google used neural networks and machine learning to transform Translate, an early sign of how AI is poised to reinvent computing itself — How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.
Tweets: @annehelen, @nytimes, and @sspencer_smb
| Ulf Frisk / Security | DMA: |
FileVault 2 flaw present in macOS before version 10.12.2 allowed a $300 Thunderbolt device to steal the password of a locked or sleeping Mac — macOS FileVault2 let attackers with physical access retrieve the password in clear text by plugging in a $300 Thunderbolt device into a locked or sleeping mac.| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
SCOTUS will hear patent case that could limit “venue shopping”, the patent troll practice to file cases in friendly jurisdictions like Eastern District of Texas — In a move that may shake-up U.S. patent law, the Supreme Court this week decided to hear a case about where patent owners …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Techdirt, and IPWatchdog.com
Tweets: @eff, @eff, @stanfordlaw, and @jeffreybwall
| Chris Baraniuk / BBC: |
Florida court says a suspect can be made to reveal his iPhone passcode to investigators — A court in Florida has said a suspected voyeur can be made to reveal his iPhone passcode to investigators. — The defendant was arrested after a woman out shopping saw a man crouch down and aim …
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iPhone Hacks, Courthouse News Service, HotHardware, Naked Security, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, BGR, The Daily Caller, Softpedia News, The Daily Dot, and Engadget
Tweets: @dailydot and @qutlawdean
| Iain Thomson / The Register: |
Galileo, Europe's alternative to GPS, went live last week — More accurate than American system and open to all — After a long and much-delayed 17-year gestation, Europe's answer to America's GPS system has been switched on. — The Galileo network will offer a free service with an accuracy …
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DW.COM, Nature, Yahoo, European Space Agency, France 24, EU Press Room, euronews, Sky News, BBC, VentureBeat, and Digital Trends
| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Scanadu to shut down support for its Scout device per FDA regulation and customers are mad — Medical startup Scanaduinformed customers today it will no longer support its Scout device starting May 15, 2017. — The reason? Though Scanadu has been working with the Food and Drug Administration …
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MedCity News, MassDevice, and Business Insider
| Sidney Fussell / Gizmodo: |
Analysis shows limitations of self-reported diversity data from six major tech companies and how the data conceals some details vital for measuring progress — The tech industry doesn't just have a diversity problem. It has a results problem. Major tech companies pour millions of dollars …
Tweets: @carnage4life
| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed: |
Investigation finds the site responsible for the “Pope endorses Trump” hoax is part of network that created hundreds of hoaxes on celebs moving to various towns — In early July, a website made to look like a real news organization published what would prove to be one of the biggest fake news hits of the US election.
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Fortune. Tweets: @craigsilverman, @borzou, @jeffjohnroberts, and @lisatozzi. See also Mediagazer
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Taiwan's Next Entertainment, developer of the app MeMe that lets people interact with nearby live streamers, raises $25M Series A to expand internationally — Next Entertainment has raised $25 million to take a business that works well in China and moving it to the rest of the world: hyperlocal live broadcasting.
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FinSMEs, GlobeNewswire News Room, TechCrunch, and PE Hub Blog
| Jay Greene / Wall Street Journal: |
Nadella's Microsoft turns itself around, changing its insular culture by acquiring more companies, and incorporating new leaders from those companies — After years of missteps, the software giant is among the few titans of the 1990s to figure out the new world of mobile technology and cloud computingSponsor Posts
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