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Sources: Facebook plans to unveil a $200 standalone wireless Oculus VR headset for 2018, which will be more compact than the Rift and lighter than Gear VR — The new device will work without being tethered to phone or PC — Company bets gadget will popularize VR as Apple did smartphone
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Uber and Yandex merge ride-sharing services in Russia in a $3.7B JV, in which Yandex will invest $100M for a 59.3% stake, Uber will invest $225M for 36.6% stake — Yandex to take controlling stake in new combined venture — Deal marks Uber's second major global retreat after China
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Info on millions of Verizon users, including phone numbers, addresses, PINs were left exposed online; Verizon disputes early reports of 14M, says it affected 6M — The personal details of millions of Verizon customers were exposed online due to a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) …
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| Rich Woods / Neowin: |
Amazon updates Fire TVs and Fire Sticks allowing users to control them via Alexa-enabled devices such as Echo or Echo Dot — Amazon is rolling out a software update for its family of Fire TV set-top boxes and sticks, which allows users to control them via an Alexa-enabled device, such as an Echo or Echo Dot.
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| Chris Baraniuk / BBC: |
UK-based luxury phone-maker Vertu to be liquidated after plan to save it failed; 200 will be laid off — A British-based company that made smartphones costing thousands of pounds will be liquidated after a plan to save it failed. — Vertu was known for its high-end, jewel-encrusted handsets …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Early coding school Dev Bootcamp is shutting down, says it couldn't make its business model work; it was acquired by education services company Kaplan in 2014 — Dev Bootcamp, the original “coding bootcamp,” is shutting down, the company announced on Wednesday.| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Source: Apple working on rear-facing 3D laser system for new iPhone that will enable better depth detection for AR apps and improved autofocus — The addition will make future iPhones far better suited to the AR experiences being created by developers using the ARKit development platform.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cisco acquires St Louis-based forensic security cloud service provider Observable Networks, which provides real-time network behavior monitoring — Cisco has made another acquisition in the enterprise security space — underscoring the ongoing market demand for security services amid … | Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
AMD's Ryzen Threadripper CPUs ship in August, with the 12-core, 3.5GHz 1920X costing $799, and the 16-core, 3.4GHz 1950X costing $999; both support 4GHz Turbo — Last night out of the blue, we received an email from AMD, sharing some of the specifications for the forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper CPUs to be announced today.
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Apple debuts HomeKit smart home experiences in retail stores worldwide to show off controlling various product like the Philips Hue light bulb with Home app — Unless you've had a chance to try some Apple HomeKit products in someone's home or apartment, it can be hard to understand how it all works.| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Net neutrality Day of Action organizers estimate at least 10M saw Wednesday's protest, with over 2M submitting comments to the FCC — Organizers say they reached more than 10 million users, but some of the largest tech companies seemed to hold back. — Facebook, Google, Twitter and other companies … | Sean Captain / Fast Company: |
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Google releases Backup and Sync as a single desktop backup app, eliminating need for individual uploader tools for Google Drive and Google Photos — Google has today announced the launch of its new Backup and Sync tool. This is a feature which is now available for both Windows and Mac … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Pet-sitting startup Rover raises $65M round led by Spark Capital for international expansion — Typically in today's technology world, startup founders sit on one side of the room, pitch ideas to investors, and hope to land funding for their company. — But when you're growing as quickly as Rover … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: morale at SoundCloud sinks after layoffs, with those fired wondering why there was no warning; the firm says it's “fully funded into Q4” — A tense scene unfolded yesterday as user-generated, music-streaming service SoundCloud held an all-hands meeting to explain …
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