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| Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times: |
As residential neighborhoods near highways struggle with the traffic sent by navigation apps like Waze, Leonia, NJ is closing 60 of its streets to outsiders — LEONIA, N.J. — It is bumper to bumper as far as the eye can see, the kind of soul-sucking traffic jam that afflicts highways the way bad food afflicts rest stops.
Tweets: @nytimes, @scholarlykitchn, @ahmetb, and @zackkanter
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
SingularityNET raises $36M in 60 seconds in an ICO to build out its decentralized blockchain-based marketplace for AI algorithms — SingularityNET — an ambitions project to create a decentralized marketplace for AI — has raised a lot of money in its token sale.
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NextBigFuture.com, VentureBeat, Cointelegraph.com News, and Crowdfund Insider
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Tweets: @marshallk, @elie_h, @vijayshekhar, @dangillmor, and @omriceren
| South China Morning Post: |
Baidu is suing its former autonomous driving chief Wang Jing and his startup JingChi for alleged intellectual property theft — China's largest search engine provider suing JingChi, led by former executive Wang Jing, demanding the start-up cease using purportedly stolen technology| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
CNN ends its daily Snapchat news show, The Update, launched just four months ago, saying it couldn't make enough money from advertising — CNN is ending its daily Snapchat news show, “The Update,” launched just four months ago — after concluding, at least for now, that it couldn't make money … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Passport, provider of backend management software for public transport systems, raises $43M Series C from Bain Capital Ventures — Passport, company that's managing much of the technical aspects of how people pay to use public transportation resources in cities like London, Miami and Los Angeles, has just raised $43 million.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
In 2017, YouTube's business grew while its public image suffered after lacking protections against hate speech and disturbing kids' videos — Will YouTube's mounting scandals ever slow the business down? — 2017 was a wild year for YouTube. It continued to extend its dominance … | Leslie Hook / Financial Times: |
Uber's new COO Barney Hartford talks about his plans to make Uber more efficient by reigning-in promotions and discounts, reducing ride drop rates — Uber's newly appointed chief operating officer, Barney Harford, is planning to reduce costs and “bring a dose of financial discipline” …
Tweets: @financialtimes and @lesliehook
| Steven Sinofsky / Learning by Shipping: |
History shows the best time for startups to out-innovate incumbents in tech is when incumbents have achieved extreme product-market-fit and seem unassailable — One of the most interesting challenges in building an enterprise startup is navigating around, through, under, or over the big tech companies.
Tweets: @timbeejones, @rfflores, @stevesi, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @gassee, and @jasonlk
| Telegraph: |
London Metropolitan Police's head of digital forensics says it will use AI to scan for child abuse images on suspects' devices within two or three years — Artificial intelligence will take on the gruelling task of scanning for images of child abuse on suspects' phones and computers …
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Gizmodo, New York Post, Inquirer Technology, Alphr, Engadget, PetaPixel, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @jeffbigham
| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Google unveils proposal for 1M+ square feet of new offices in Sunnyvale, which the company says could accommodate 4,500 employees by 2021 at the earliest — SUNNYVALE — Google on Wednesday unveiled its plans for a striking new development in Sunnyvale's Moffett Park, where thousands …
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CNBC, SiliconBeat, and Silicon Valley Business …
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
An informal band of researchers is working over Christmas to prevent hackers from disrupting online services, following PlayStation and Xbox incidents in 2014 — Merry band of security buffs spend holidays on alert to make sure cyber-Grinches don't spoil the fun
Tweets: @csoandy and @julieiskow
| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Wireless security camera startup Blink says it has been acquired by Amazon and will continue to operate; Blink raised ~$1M in a 2014 crowdfunding campaign — Amazon has acquired Blink, the wireless security camera company that launched back in 2014 and then subsequently closed a million-dollar Kickstarter campaign.
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Android Police, Gizmochina, Ubergizmo, Blink Home Security, Digital Trends, Fortune, CNBC, Phandroid, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, Gizmodo, Quartz, TechCrunch, CNBC, Seeking Alpha, Xconomy, BGR, Business Insider, Seattle Business Journal, and Mashable
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @larryvc, and @modestproposal1
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Bitcoin plunged below $11K for a while, down 40%+ from record high of ~$19.8K at the start of the week, amid a crash in all major cryptocurrencies — - Bitcoin plunges more than 40 percent from its all-time high reached Sunday, according to Coinbase. — Stocks that have soared dramatically …
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Fortune, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, Ars Technica, Bitcoinist.com, Slate, TheStreet, CNET, Lifehacker, NEWSBTC, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, International Business Times, Bloomberg, Bank Innovation, Seeking Alpha, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, and Newser
Tweets: @pt, @artemr, @moskov, @officialmcafee, @charliebilello, @mikeisaac, @novogratz, @film_girl, @buttcoin, @proudmoolie, and @bykevinclark
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