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Wikipedia redirects all of its Italian, Spanish, and Polish pages to a statement protesting July 5 EU Parliament initial vote on changes to copyright law — Wikipedia's Italian and Spanish language versions have temporarily shut off access to their respective versions of the free online encyclopedia …
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BBC, Engadget, Personanondata, WikiTribune, The Local, Silicon Republic, The Register, RT, YouTube, DW.COM, Indivigital, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @eu_commission, @senficon, @maxniederhofer, @jimmy_wales, @martinsfp, @martinsfp, @raju, @cameliaboban, and @s8mb
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
German privacy-focused organizations Zwiebelfreunde, a nonprofit that runs Tor relay servers, and Chaos Computer Club say police raided their offices and homes — Two privacy-focused organizations have accused today German police of carrying out raids at their offices and members' private homes …
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torservers.net blog, Chaos Computer Club Updates, and ZDNet
Tweets: @arachnochist, @josephfcox, @chaosupdates, @zackwhittaker, and @ramyraoof
| Matthew Townsend / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon plans to send a physical holiday toy catalog to millions of US households this year as it incorporates traditional retailers' strategies — - Move is part of push to gain market share of defunct toy chain — Printed toy guide to be mailed and handed out at Whole Foods| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Baidu announces it's partnering with Mobileye on its Project Apollo autonomous driving project, which now has over 115 partners — Chinese tech behemoth Baidu is ramping up production of its self-driving car platform. Today at the 2018 Baidu Create developer conference in Beijing …
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| Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: |
Updated California law now requires businesses to set clear auto-renewal terms for digital subscriptions and allow customers to cancel online — A California law that went into effect July 1 is aimed at making it easier for customers to cancel their subscriptions online.
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Nieman Lab and The National Law Review
| Adrian Chen / New Yorker: |
Profile of Paul Denino, an “IRL” streamer who goes by Ice Poseidon and streams most of his life on YouTube, often with serious consequences — When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience.| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Inside DOD's Jyn Erso initiative that is giving technically skilled soldiers an opportunity to build tech for the Army alongside experts from the private sector — NICOLE CAMARILLO WAS touring the Army base at Fort Meade, Maryland in early 2017 when a young captain—I'll call him Matt …
Tweets: @mattcutts, @hitpol, and @caitlin__kelly
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
VW unveils WE vehicle on-demand service, starting with car sharing, then other transport modes like scooters, launching next year in Germany, globally from 2020 — Volkswagen Group is launching a car-sharing service called WE that only uses electric vehicles, following the lead of rivals … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Some AI experts say fully autonomous cars may be further away than expected and that it may be years before self-driving systems can reliably avoid accidents — If you believe the CEOs, a fully autonomous car could be only months away. In 2015, Elon Musk predicted a fully autonomous Tesla by 2018; so did Google.
Tweets: @sambeal, @dsmeu, @benedictevans, and @noahpinion
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Under its new rules, Facebook reveals some details of the political ads about the SCOTUS nomination, but the money behind some groups buying ads remains opaque — Even before President Trump's new Supreme Court nominee is announced, a fight over the choice is raging on social media.
Tweets: @dabeard, @profgalloway, @nytimes, @nytimesbusiness, @kevinroose, and @facebook
| Steve Ranger / ZDNet: |
Interview with Stephen Hunter, who manages the International Space Station's computer resources, on the tech they use, issues they face, AI, and more — Tech support, but in space: A look at the tech which astronauts use on the ISS. — It's orbiting the Earth at 28,000 kilometres an hour … Thanks:@steveranger
| Bloomberg: |
China's large rural population and competition between JD.com and Alibaba are fueling the race to develop large-scale drone delivery systems in the country — The day after Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc.'s mid-year sale, a company drone took off from a playground in the city of Xi'an … Sponsor Posts
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