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Apple Watch customers in China no longer able to sign up for cellular connection service, analysts say likely due to government concerns over tracking users — BEIJING— Apple Inc. AAPL -0.44% has another headache in China: this time with its latest watch.| New York Times: |
Ex-Clinton campaign adviser Marc E. Elias is helping tech companies, including Facebook and Google, to lobby over regulatory scrutiny related to Russian ads — WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain and two Democratic senators will move on Thursday to force Facebook, Google and other internet companies …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Tony Fadell, co-founder and ex-CEO of Nest, launches Future Shape, an investment and advisory firm for startups in agriculture, robotics, transportation, more — The “iPod godfather” has quietly formed an early stage venture capital firm.
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Swedish lock giant Assa Abloy, which owns Yale and other brands, acquires smart lock maker August Home, which had raised around $75M — Oct 19, 2017, 11:26 amOct 19, 2017, 2:08 pm — The smart home market continues to heat up, and the legacy giants do not want to get locked out: quite literally.
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| John Koblin / New York Times: |
Nielsen announces it is providing Netflix viewer data to clients, based on audio recognition in 44K homes in US; Netflix disputes accuracy — In the five years since Netflix started streaming original series like the Emmy-winning “House of Cards” and “Master of None,” the shows …
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| Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed: |
Interviews reveal how Chinese authorities surveil citizens of its Xinjiang region using AI, iris scanning, and more developed by private firms — Far from the booming metropolis of Beijing, China is building a sprawling system that combines dystopian technology and human policing.
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Sonos One review: better sound than Google Home or original Echo, Alexa integration, works with most music services, but setup process is a bit complicated — When Sonos released the Play:5 speaker in late 2015, the Amazon Echo was still an unproven tech curiosity.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
DeepMind's new Go-playing AI wins 90% of time against version of AlphaGo that beat world champ, trained solely by reinforcement learning without human input — The company's latest AlphaGo AI learned superhuman skills by playing itself over and over — Google's AI subsidiary DeepMind …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
MongoDB prices IPO above range at $24, may raise up to $220.8M at a valuation of about $1.2B — MongoDB has finished up what is essentially the final step in going public, pricing its IPO at $24and raising $192 million in the process. — The company will debut on the public markets tomorrow …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils 360 Round, a disc-shaped device with 17 2MP cameras and six microphones that can stream 4K VR at 30 FPS — Samsung already has a virtual reality camera in the form of the Gear 360, but it's not really for pros — it's for everyday users who want to record a 360-degree video on the street.
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Samsungmobilepress.com, The Verge, Tech Times, VentureBeat, and TechSpot
| Tony Romm / Recode: |
White House says Trump will nominate Joe Simons, a longtime antitrust lawyer, as head of FTC; nomination must still be confirmed by Senate — Joe Simons has represented companies like Microsoft, and may be the country's privacy, competition and consumer protection cop.| Leigh Cuen / International Business Times: |
Report: Google, Citi, and Goldman Sachs among blockchain's biggest investors; $390M was invested in blockchain products in 2016, and $327M so far in 2017 — The buzz around blockchain technology is all about its potential to disrupt the status quo. But the truth is Silicon Valley …
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