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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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Android Authority, Digital Trends, Business Insider, CNET, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Windows Central, Gizmodo, BGR, The Tech Report, MSPoweruser, Tom's Guide, Neowin, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Liliputing, and 512 Pixels
Tweets: @tomwarren, @backlon, @stroughtonsmith, and @reckless
| 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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New York Magazine, The Hill, Slate, CNET, Vox, Gizmodo, and CNBC
Tweets: @justinhendrix, @ritholtz, and @senschumer
| 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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| 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, Silicon Valley Business …, FierceWireless, Wall Street Journal, The Register, MacRumors, Associated Press, ZDNet, and ZDNet. Tweets: @saschasegan
| 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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Apple, Computerworld, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, ZDNet, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, CNET, 9to5Mac, Axios, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @manan
| 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 …
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, Business Insider, Marketing Land, CNET, Axios, Vanity Fair, Politico, TechSpot, Tech Times, Quartz, Fortune, Refinery29, and commonsensemedia.org
| 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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Business Insider, Axios, Recode, and Forbes
| 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.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Project Zero's Tavis Ormandy found flaw in Grammarly's Chrome extension, which has a 22M+ install base, that allowed any site to obtain access to user's account — The grammar-correcting browser extension is used by about 22 million users. — Grammarly has fixed a security bug …
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Gizmodo, The Register, Cyberscoop, Hashed Out, and bugs.chromium.org
| 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.
Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine
| 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| 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: @nathanielpopper and @ldrogen
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