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Apple buys buddybuild, an app development service with about 40 employees based in Vancouver, and will roll its product into Xcode — Apple continues to ramp up its efforts to court developers by making it easier to create and iterate their apps for its platforms.| Emily Chang / Vanity Fair: |
An excerpt from Emily Chang's upcoming book Brotopia, on Silicon Valley's drug-fueled sex parties attended by powerful investors and well-known entrepreneurs — Some of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley are regulars at exclusive, drug-fueled, sex-laced parties—gatherings they describe …
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify faces another copyright lawsuit, from Wixen Music, which represents many prominent artists; suit suggests up to 21% of Spotify songs are unlicensed — Wixen Music Publishing files a new lawsuit that also covers music from Rage Against the Machine, The Doors, Steely Dan and many others.
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| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Thiel's Founders Fund bought $15-$20M in bitcoin, now worth hundreds of millions, spread across multiple funds, one of which began investing in mid-'17 — Founders Fund, the venture-capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has bought large sums of bitcoin that are now worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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iMac Pro teardown: RAM, dual SSDs, CPU are modular, but GPU is soldered in place and many key components aren't accessible, earning a 3/10 repairability score — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — We dropped $4,999 to get our hands on the hot new space gray Magic Mouse …
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| Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Google moved $19.2B to Bermuda shell company in 2016, up 7% YoY, to save $3.7B+ in taxes; money moved between Irish firms and Dutch firm with no staff — Amount for 2016 was seven percent higher than the year before — Tax shelter saved Google at least $3.7 billion in tax
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says it shipped 5B+ items with Prime in 2017 and that more new members joined Prime worldwide in 2017 than any other year — Amazon still won't officially reveal how many consumers worldwide participate in its Amazon Prime membership program, but it did today offer a few new stats related to that program's adoption and growth.
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| The Register: |
Security issues arising from design flaw in Intel CPUs will need OS fix which will slow down Windows, Linux, macOS machines; Intel to provide more details soon — Other OSes will need an update, performance hits loom — A fundamental design flaw in Intel's processor chips has forced …
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Details emerge on Intel's Indian website about its first “Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics” processor: Core I7-8809G with 3.1 GHz Base, 100W target TDP — To begin the year, Intel's Indian website has published a small number of details regarding Intel's first ‘Intel with Radeon RX Vega Graphics’ processor.| Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg: |
Federal judge in Los Angeles rules for Airbnb in suit brought by Aimco, one of largest landlords in US, which had claimed Airbnb enabled tenants to break leases — Startup ruled not responsible for ‘unlawful’ listings by hosts — Landlord complained of noisy tourists at high-end complexes
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Bipartisan group of six senators introduces the Secure Elections Act, which aims to eliminate paperless voting machines, promote routine election audits in US — The bill reads like a computer security expert's wish list. — A bipartisan group of six senators has introduced legislation …
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| CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon's been in talks with firms, including Clorox and Procter & Gamble, to promote products on Alexa, with ads focusing on sponsorships within skills — - Ads will focus on sponsorship opportunities within skills or use data about a buyer's shopping history to suggest products.
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