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Valley of Genius book excerpt: an oral history of the early days at Google as told by its founders, early employees, advisers, and more — A behind-the-scenes account of the most important company on the Internet, from grad-school all-nighters, space tethers, and Burning Man to the …
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| Adam Fisher / Wired: |
Interviews with Zuckerberg and other employees shed light on Facebook's wild early days from 2004/2005 and the corporate proto-culture that shaped the company — EVERYONE WHO HAS seen The Social Network knows the story of Facebook's founding. It was at Harvard in the spring semester of 2004.| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Twitter says over the next week it will adjust users' follower counts to no longer include accounts that have been locked — Perhaps a healthier Twitter is one with smaller follower counts—even if that comes as a blow to your ego. That's what the company is hoping, anyway.| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Secretive AR startup Magic Leap signs AT&T as sole US wireless vendor and receives undisclosed investment, with AT&T CEO John Donovan gaining observer rights — Magic Leap, the secretive startup responsible for the Magic Leap One augmented reality platform, has selected AT&T …
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Uber's head of human resources Liane Hornsey resigns following probe into how she handled allegations of racial discrimination at the firm — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc's Chief People Officer Liane Hornsey resigned on Tuesday, Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Sonos rolling out AirPlay 2 support for its newest speakers, enabling multi-room audio playback with HomePod, ability to control Apple Music using Siri, more — Great news for Sonos customers: AirPlay 2 has arrived. This makes compatible Sonos speakers the first third-party AirPlay 2 speakers …
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Alphabet says Loon and Wing, X's internet balloon and delivery drone projects, are “graduating” to become full companies under the Alphabet corporate umbrella — The two companies will be part of Alphabet's Other Bets division — Alphabet has announced that Loon and Wing …
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UK watchdog gives Facebook a preliminary fine of about $664,000, the maximum allowed, for letting Cambridge Analytica access data about millions of people — Facebook is staring down its first fine for allowing Cambridge Analytica to improperly access data about millions of people …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple Watches with larger displays, iPad Pros with Face ID and no Home button, a new low-price laptop, and a Mac mini refresh are coming this fall — Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities has published a new research note for investors that includes new details …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
DOJ has quietly settled with 3D printable gun inventor Cody Wilson, who argued that gun blueprints were protected speech, five years after the take down order — Cody Wilson makes digital files that let anyone 3-D print untraceable guns. The government tried to stop him. He sued—and won.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Opera is testing a built-in crypto wallet in its Android browser, with support for Ethereum-based tokens, collectibles, and DApps, available in private beta now — Cryptocurrencies: They're kind of a big deal. Bitcoin, one of the most popular digital currencies on the market …
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The Next Web, Opera Mobile, TechCrunch, Inquirer, CoinSpeaker, KnowTechie, PCMag, Cointelegraph, CryptoGlobe, CoinDesk, and gHacks Technology News. Tweets: @ethereumnetw
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest adds a collaboration feed for its group boards, where users can chat with others and get updates on new group member additions and added pins — Pinterest is trying to further tap its popularity as a place to plan events, this time adding ways for users to collaborate across boards that are baked directly into the app.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook will roll out news shows for Facebook Watch from July 16, with the lineup including shows from CNN, Fox News, Quartz, Bloomberg, Univision, ATTN:, Mic — Facebook will launch a slate of video shows on its video platform, Watch, on July 16. — Why it matters: The tech giant … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Pony.ai, which aims to build a Level 4 autonomous car, raises $102M round from lead investors ClearVue Partners and Eight Roads — Pony.ai is riding the gravy train. Just months after it closed a $112 million funding round with Morningside Venture Capital, Legend Capital, and Sequoia China … Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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