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Hands-on with a prototype of Intel's smart glasses, dubbed Vaunt, which look like normal eyeglasses and project a display on your retina — Exclusive first look at Vaunt, which uses retinal projection to put a display in your eyeball — The most important parts of Intel's new Vaunt smart glasses are the pieces that were left out.
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Broadcom raises its bid for Qualcomm from $70 to $82 per share or about $121B, 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 and putting …
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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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Apple, Computerworld, TechCrunch, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Axios, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @manan
| 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| 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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Vanity Fair, Politico, Axios, Fortune, Tech Times, Refinery29, Quartz, and commonsensemedia.org
| 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.| 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 … | 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
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Former Intel president Renee James launches Ampere, a new ARM-based server chip company backed by Carlyle Group — Ampere, a new chip company run by former Intel president Renee James, came out of stealth today with a brand-new highly efficient Arm-based server chip targeted at hyperscale data centers.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Apple is looking into reports of iPhone X glitch that causes an up-to-10 second delay before incoming calls show up on display after the phone starts ringing — Some owners of Apple's new iPhone X are finding an unusual bug in their $1,000 piece of kit — answering the phone.
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Inquirer, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, SiliconANGLE, iLounge, Patently Apple, CNBC, iMore, Cult of Mac, Tech Times, O'Grady's PowerPage, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Tom's Guide, Business Insider, Engadget, Mashable, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors
Tweets: @leolaporte, @aaronklein, and @edbott
| Edward Taylor / Reuters: |
BMW takes full ownership of DriveNow, buying Sixt's 50% stake for €209M and paving the way for potential car-sharing and driverless taxi alliance with Daimler — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's BMW has bought out partner Sixt from their joint venture DriveNow, paving the way for a broader car-sharing …
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TechCrunch, BMW BLOG, NASDAQ.com, and Phys.org
| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
A look at Replika and other projects that are developing “emotional” chatbots and AI capable of discerning human feelings — WHEN EUGENIA KUYDA created her chatbot, Replika, she wanted it to stand out among the voice assistants and home robots that had begun to take root in peoples lives.
Tweets: @ekuyda
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