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After multiple user reports of video throttling, Verizon admits it is testing a new video optimization system — Verizon Wireless customers this week noticed that Netflix's speed test tool appears to be capped at 10Mbps, raising fears that the carrier is throttling video streaming on its mobile network.
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| Lara O'Reilly / Wall Street Journal: |
Sizmek to acquire fellow ad tech company Rocket Fuel, whose market valuation peaked at around $2B, for $125M — The deal takes Rocket Fuel private and values the company at $2.60 per share — Sizmek, an advertising technology company owned by private-equity firm Vector Capital … | Haseeb Qureshi / freeCodeCamp: |
Recent $30M+ hack of Parity wallets shows programmers need to rethink the “move fast and break things” mindset when it comes to blockchain and security — Yesterday, a hacker pulled off the second biggest heist in the history of digital currencies.| Costas Paris / Wall Street Journal: |
Norwegian companies plan to deploy an electric autonomous container ship by 2020, with testing starting in 2018 — The Yara Birkeland, slated for launch late in 2018, will make short trips delivering fertilizer — OSLO—Two Norwegian companies are taking the lead in the race to build … | Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
UK government plans to require drones weighing 250g or more be registered; drone owners will need to take a drone safety awareness test — The UK government has announced plans to introduce drone registration and safety awareness courses for owners of the small unmanned aircraft.| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Intel files a public statement with ITC accusing Qualcomm of anticompetitive practices in Qualcomm vs Apple case — Intel says Qualcomm's patent spat with Apple is really about quashing competition from Intel. — Intel has jumped into the fray surrounding the Apple-Qualcomm patent spat …
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Lyft announces it is opening Level 5 Engineering Center in Palo Alto to develop its own “open self-driving system” — Lyft is betting the future of the road centers on sharing autonomous vehicles. It aims to be at the forefront of that technology with a new self-driving division …
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
China unveils official policy to build a domestic AI industry worth ~$150B by 2030, calling for AI companies and R&D to be at US levels of innovation by 2020 — SHANGHAI — If Beijing has its way, the future of artificial intelligence will be made in China.| Katie Benner / New York Times: |
AngelList co-founder Babak Nivi has also left the board; sources describe an incident leading to a contractor and Nivi signing a nondisparagement agreement — Often used at tech companies, nondisparagement agreements are increasingly included in employment contracts and legal settlements.
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
A history of the quest to solve checkers, headlined by a 1994 matchup between a computer program and the best checkers player ever, Marion Tinsley — Marion Tinsley—math professor, minister, and the best checkers player in the world—sat across a game board from a computer, dying.
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| Tova Cohen / Reuters: |
Report: US private equity firm Blackstone Group in advanced talks to buy 40% of Israeli hacking tools maker NSO Group for $400M — TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Blackstone Group (BX.N) is in advanced talks to acquire 40 percent of Israeli cyber firm NSO Group for $400 million, Israel's Calcalist business newspaper reported on Sunday.
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| Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast: |
Microsoft using a trademark suit to seize control of domain names like livemicrosoft.net, to cut off Fancy Bear's malware-controlling servers from their victims — A new offensive by Microsoft has been making inroads against the Russian government hackers behind last year's election meddling …
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