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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with a prototype of Intel's smart glasses, dubbed Vaunt, which look like normal eyeglasses and project a display on the user's retina — Exclusive first look at Vaunt, which uses retinal projection to put a display in your eyeball — The most important parts of Intel's …
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| Patrick Rucker / Reuters: |
Sources: since taking over Equifax probe in Nov, Mick Mulvaney, head of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has not ordered subpoenas or sought exec testimony — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has pulled back from a full-scale probe …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
The Pixel 2's Visual Core photo processing is coming to third party apps, starting with Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat, over the next few days — Visual Core was a strange little surprise from Google when it revealed it back in October. The system company waited three weeks until …
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| Suzanne Barlyn / Reuters: |
Apple and Cisco partner with insurer Allianz and insurance broker Aon to offer discounted cyber insurance to businesses that primarily use their equipment — (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Cisco Systems Inc have teamed up with insurer Allianz SE to offer discounts on cyber insurance to businesses …
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| Reuters: |
Broadcom raises its cash and stock bid to buy Qualcomm from $103B to $121B, or $82 per share, a premium of 24% over Qualcomm's close on Friday — (Reuters) - Chipmaker Broadcom Ltd on Monday raised its offer to buy Qualcomm Inc by 24 percent to more than $121 billion, sweetening the bid …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Wall Street Journal, Silicon Valley Business …, FierceWireless, The Register, MacRumors, Associated Press, ZDNet, and ZDNet. Tweets: @saschasegan
| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Early Facebook, Google staffers, others form Center for Humane Technology, a group planning anti-tech addiction lobbying and ad campaign at 55K public schools — SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Silicon Valley technologists who were early employees at Facebook and Google, alarmed over the ill effects …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Brotopia author Emily Chang about responses to the first published excerpt, why women left programming, female leadership in VCs, and more — Two years ago, Bloomberg TV journalist Emily Chang set out to write a book about gender discrimination in Silicon Valley.
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New York Times, Recode, and Silicon Valley Business …
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| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung heir and Vice Chairman Jay Lee set free after South Korean appeals court suspends his jail term in bribery case, after being detained for almost a year — Sentence was reduced to 2.5 years; gets 4 months probation — Lee was embroiled in national influence-peddline scandal| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: Facebook in talks with media buyers to expand Watch to more individual creators with a revenue split from ads, similar to YouTube — - Facebook has talked to media buyers about expanding Watch to more individual creators and creating an advertising system where everyone would get a split of revenue, similar to YouTube.| Reuters: |
CFTC and SEC chiefs to back more oversight of virtual currencies, including Bitcoin, according to prepared testimony for a congressional hearing on Tuesday — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Digital currencies such as bitcoin demand increased oversight and may require a new federal regulatory framework …
Tweets: @ldrogen
| Chico Harlan / Washington Post: |
Interviews with Kentucky residents on why they invest in cryptocurrencies, looking up to locals who invested early and, in some cases, got into consulting — He had invested in bitcoin almost two years earlier, so now Jacob Melin had a new house, a new truck, a new consulting business …
Tweets: @nickatfp, @dandrezner, @nathanielpopper, @paulkrugman, @laurashin, and @zeynep
| Biz Carson / Forbes: |
Inside Uber's “university”, where Harvard professors are teaching 6,000+ employees leadership and strategy in an attempt to change the company culture — The idea of a corporate university isn't new. Apple's Steve Jobs famously set up Apple University to teach company lore … | MIX / The Next Web: |
Baidu launches a CryptoKitties-like service that allows for adoption and trade of digital puppies, works on a blockchain called Achain, using its ACT currency — Chinese Google rival Baidu is the latest corporation to make its foray into blockchain tech - and its first undertaking …
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Quartz, South China Morning Post, CoinDesk, and Bitcoinist.com
| Katrina Onstad / Toronto Life: |
Profile of Geoffrey Hinton, a neural net pioneer at the University of Toronto, Google, and now the Vector Institute, which aims to stop Toronto's AI brain drain — Geoffrey Hinton spent 30 years hammering away at an idea most other scientists dismissed as nonsense. Then, one day in 2012, he was proven right.
Tweets: @marijamijalko, @lockstockbarrl, and @torontolife
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