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The Pixel 2's Visual Core photo processing technology 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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| 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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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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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Grammarly fixes security bug in its Chrome extension, which is used by about 22M people, that allowed any site to obtain access to user accounts — The grammar-correcting browser extension is used by about 22 million users. — Grammarly has fixed a security bug in its Chrome extension …
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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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| 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 … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
New Jersey governor signs executive order requiring ISPs to follow neutrality rules if they sell internet services to state agencies, in effect on July 1 — ISPs can't block or throttle traffic if they sell broadband to state agencies. — New Jersey is enforcing net neutrality … | 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.| Marcus Baram / Fast Company: |
Shervin Pishevar filed for dismissal of his lawsuit against a GOP opposition firm, will keep fighting “smear campaign” he says came with rape allegations — In the latest, stunning chapter of the Shervin Pishevar saga, the tech investor accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women …
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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: @nathanielpopper and @ldrogen
| Wall Street Journal: |
Only one of the top five largest US tech firms, Apple, has announced major changes to its cash allocation strategy as a result of tax reform — Tech firms lobbied for the tax overhaul in part because it promised a one-time discounted rate of up to 15.5% on those holdings
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| 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
| Reuters: |
Qualcomm stock closes at $61.73, down 6.57%, after several analysts suggest Apple will favor Intel modems in upcoming iPhones — (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc's (QCOM.O) shares fell 3 percent on Monday after two brokerages said Apple Inc (AAPL.O) might drop the chipmaker in favor of Intel Corp …
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The Next Web, CNET, and The Verge
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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
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Analytics service Mixpanel was accidentally collecting passwords in some clients' apps from March 2017 to January 2018, was slow to notify clients and public — The passwords of some people using sites monitored by popular analytics provider Mixpanel were mistakenly pulled into its software.
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