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TechInsights: HomePod costs $216 to build, giving it a 38% margin compared to 66% for Google Home and 56% for Amazon Echo — Smart speaker's $349 price suggests Apple is making 38% margin — HomePod also generates revenue from music subscriptions — Apple Inc.'s HomePod … | Jon Chase / Wirecutter: |
HomePod can leave white rings when left on unprotected wood surfaces; Apple says “the marks can improve over several days” after HomePod is removed — Apple's HomePod is the best-sounding wireless smart speaker available, and you can control it by voice using Apple's virtual assistant, Siri.
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Sources: Peter Thiel has discussed resigning from Facebook's board amid a broader shift away from the tech industry, which he sees as intolerant of conservatism — Billionaire investor frustrated with what he sees as intolerance of conservatism in tech industry; has discussed resigning from Facebook board
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CommonSense Robotics, which develops AI and robotics tech to help online grocery retailers expedite delivery, raises $20M Series A led by Playground Global — CommonSense Robotics, an Israel-based startup developing AI and robotics tech to help online grocery retailers speed up fulfilment and delivery …
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Sources say Google dominated Coalition for Better Ads' research and review process, which helped determine ads that will be blacklisted by Chrome — Critics say the search giant's ad-blocking plan—which will screen out certain types of ads in its Google Chrome browser—is self-serving
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Dockless bike-sharing startup LimeBike adds $70M to its $50M Series B from October; investors include Fifth Wall Ventures, which is backed by real estate titans — LimeBike wants to help find its random scattering of bikes a perhaps better and more useful home.| Larry Hardesty / MIT News: |
MIT researchers have developed a special purpose chip that increases the speed of neural network computations by up to 7x while consuming ~95% less power — New chip reduces neural networks' power consumption by up to 95 percent, making them practical for battery-powered devices. — Press Inquiries
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Coinbase Commerce now lets online merchants worldwide accept payments in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin; launches today with Shopify integration — We're excited to announce Coinbase Commerce, available today for merchants around the world. Merchants everywhere can use Coinbase Commerce …
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Samsung Notebook 9 Pen review: solid performance, capable S Pen, comfortable keyboard, fair price at $1,399+, but limited ports, mediocre battery, drab design — My backpack is a disaster. I've always been sort of a packrat and working at Engadget doesn't help.
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Intel changes bug bounty program from invitation-only to a public program, adds reward of up to $250K for Spectre-like side-channel chip vulnerabilities — Intel is promising up to $250,000 to security researchers who uncover new side-channel vulnerabilities in its processors … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud report: AWS enterprise adoption grew 15% YoY, but its lead shrank as Azure grew 35%, Google grew 26%, and IBM grew 50% — Here's a look at the annual run rates, hybrid cloud strategies and approaches to artificial intelligence and machine learning among the public cloud providers.| Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast: |
Big meme pages are skirting Facebook's spam detection by overlaying static videos with watermark-like white arrows and triangles, and reaching millions of users — Viral meme pages have developed a new trick to reach millions of users and generate big money from publishers and brand pages.| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Analysis finds Facebook has financial ties to 7+ members of its 13-person Messenger Kids advisory board used to shape the product, with limited disclosure — IN DECEMBER, WHEN Facebook launched Messenger Kids, an app for pre-teens and children as young as 6, the company stressed …
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