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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Intel unveils Core X-series of high-end processors, with up to 18 cores and 36 threads, available “in the coming weeks” for $242 to $2,000 — The new X299 platform replaces X99, and scales both lower and higher. — AMD announced its new high-end desktop (HEDT) platform …
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Essential Home announced as a privacy-focused Amazon Echo competitor, to have a round “auto-display” and be less cloud dependent, reportedly coming late summer — ‘An entirely new type of product’ — Essential Home is the new intelligent assistant with round “auto-display” just announced by Andy Rubin's new venture.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Andy Rubin's Essential debuts phone with 5.71" edge-to-edge display, Snapdragon 835, dual camera, 3,040mAh battery, no 3.5mm jack; preorders open today for $699 — Another stab at making phones modular — The Essential Phone, brought to us by the person who created Android, is finally ready for the spotlight.
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| Kbeneven / Check Point Blog: |
Researchers find 41 Android apps from a single developer with several million downloads that fraudulently click on ads, now removed from Play Store — Check Point researchers discovered another widespread malware campaign on Google Play, Google's official app store.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts the Notebook 9 Pro with 360-degree hinge, 13.3" and 15" versions, embedded S-Pen, USB-C, more; pricing and release date TBD — Samsung is bringing its S Pen technology to the company's notebook line today. At Computex, Samsung is launching its new Notebook 9 Pro.
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| Sharon Silke Carty / Automotive News: |
Sources shed light on how the talks about partnership between Ford and Google on autonomous car technology fell apart under former Ford CEO Mark Fields — At the end of 2015, it looked like Ford's then-CEO Mark Fields was going to score a big win: a partnership with Google to develop autonomous vehicles.
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
ASUS' Tango-powered ZenFone AR, which will also support Daydream, to hit US as soon as end of June; about 50 Tango AR apps currently run stably on the device — We already knew from Google I/O that ASUS' ZenFone AR, the second-ever Tango phone (and the first to also support Daydream) …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
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| Brian Carroll / Independent.ie: |
FOIA documents show how Sheryl Sandberg personally lobbied Irish PM Enda Kenny on two issues of interest to Facebook, taxation and data protection — Facebook chief, Sheryl Sandberg, personally lobbied the Taoiseach at one-to-one meetings and in correspondence, on who would be appointed as Ireland's next Data Protection Commissioner.| Stephen Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Mobile payments in China reached $5.5T last year, over half the nation's GDP and 50x greater than the $112B in US, as the country sees an uptick in QR code use — It's being used to encourage tipping at restaurants, receive cash gifts at weddings...even beggars are using it to collect handouts.| Sayan Chakraborty / Livemint: |
Indian food delivery startup Swiggy raises $80M Series E led by Naspers — Swiggy plans to make significant investments in technology, including automation, data sciences, machine learning and personalisation — Bengaluru: Online food delivery start-up Swiggy (Bundl Technologies Pvt. Ltd) …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
CrowdJustice raises $2M to expand its public interest litigation crowdfunding platform from UK to US, having seen success in supporting cases challenging Brexit — CrowdJustice, a startup that brings crowdfunding to “public interest” litigation, has raised $2 million in seed funding for U.S. expansion.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
NYSE seeks SEC approval to change rules regarding direct listings that will allow unicorns like Spotify to go public without raising money — The New York Stock Exchange is seeking to change its listing standards as it vies for Spotify AB and other hot startups that are considering an unusual tactic called a direct listing.
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| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Giphy, which has raised $150M and has 150M+ users watching 4M+ hours of GIFs every day, weighs various revenue models — Plenty of tech startups dream of building a new consumer brand that's used and recognized by hundreds of millions of people every day. — Few of them get as close as Giphy …
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