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900K totally wireless headphone units were sold in US in 2017; AirPods accounted for 85% of dollar sales in the US — So far, 2017 has been a great year for headphones. Through July, U.S. dollar sales and average prices increased 22 percent, and 18 percent, respectively, over the same period a year ago.
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China bans companies from raising money through ICOs, asks local regulators to inspect 60 major ICO platforms — - Chinese regulators are about to start a campaign related to the country's initial coin offerings (ICO), according to a Caixin report — In a document, authorities …
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Seven months after inauguration, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology still has no members; Trump admin says it'll resume work soon — Months later, there's still no one sitting on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.| Don Clark / New York Times: |
How Nvidia's decade-old bet on GPUs for general-purpose computing is helping the company ride the ongoing AI boom — Nvidia, a maker of graphics processing units, is riding an artificial intelligence boom to put its chips in drones, robots and self-driving cars.| Corinne Reichert / ZDNet: |
Huawei announces Kirin 970 smartphone chipset bound for the upcoming Mate 10, with a dedicated neural processing unit — Huawei's Kirin 970 smartphone chipset features mobile artificial intelligence with a dedicated neural processing unit, an 8-core CPU, and a 12-core GPU, along with 5.5 million transistors.
| Rani Molla / Recode: |
Amazon, Alphabet, Intel, Microsoft, and Apple lead S&P 500 in R&D spending, with Amazon at #1 with $16.1B spent last year — Amazon is No. 1. — Tech companies lead top U.S. companies in R&D spending. — That's notable because spending on research and development is a key indicator … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Tinder hits top grossing app in the App Store on heels of Tinder Gold launch — Tinder has hit number 1 in the App Store's top grossing category for the very first time. — Claiming top spot in the App Store likely has to do with the global launch of Tinder Gold, which lets users …
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sequoia and IDG Capital to invest in Beijing-based Bitmain, the world's largest bitcoin mining organization, which is raising a $50M round — Bitmain is said to raise $50 million for AI expansion — Bitmain produces bitcoin mining machines, runs mining pools
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| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Sources describe how some Instagram employees are selling account verification through intermediaries for thousands of dollars, but process is getting harder — “I mean if Mashable wants to pay for it, I can get you a blue check over night," reads a recent Twitter direct message.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
A real estate agent was flooded with 700 robocalls per day, halting her business for 5 days; at 2.4B robocalls/mo. in US, it's a major problem with no quick fix — Kim France gets a lot of calls—but nothing prepared her for receiving 700 a day. — As a real estate agent …
Tweets: @arstechnica
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Carpooling service Via raises funding round, source says of $250M, led by Daimler, for European expansion; Mercedes Benz investing $50M in a JV with Via — As outsized ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft continue to build out their taxi-style marketplaces largely based around connecting … | Oscar Williams-Grut / Business Insider: |
German insurance tech startup Coya raises $10M seed round led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, plans to launch to the public in 2018 — LONDON - Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel has led a $10 million seed funding round into Berlin-based “InsurTech” startup Coya.| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
SEC: Roku files for up to $100M IPO; Roku had $399M revenue in fiscal 2016, up 25% from 2015 — Streaming device company Roku filed for a public offering on Friday, looking to raise up to $100 million. — Roku has benefited from the explosive popularity of over-the-top TV platforms like Netflix …
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