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Broadcom announces it will acquire IT management software company CA Technologies for $18.9B in cash — Broadcom announced on Wednesday it had entered into an agreement to acquire CA Technologies for $18.9 billion. The takeover would mark a strategic win for Broadcom in the months following …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Magic Leap says this summer it will start shipping the Magic Leap One Creator Edition, running on the Nvidia Tegra X2, with AT&T as the sole US wireless vendor — Following four years of development, Magic Leap announced today that it will begin shipping the Magic Leap One Creator Edition this summer …
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Twitter says over the next week it will adjust users' follower counts to no longer include locked accounts, dropping Twitter's combined follower count by ~6% — Twitter will begin removing tens of millions of suspicious accounts from users' followers on Thursday, signaling a major new effort …
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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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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube TV went down during a crucial World Cup match, the second such outage since it went down during an NBA game in May — YouTube TV, Google's internet-delivered subscription TV service, was hit with nationwide outages Wednesday — right in the middle of Fox's broadcast …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
Google enabled “Site Isolation”, which runs a different browser process for each internet domain as a defense against Meltdown and Spectre attacks, in Chrome 67 — Google has secretly enabled a security feature called Site Isolation for 99% of its desktop users on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS.
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Uber lays off ~100 “backup drivers” in its self-driving team, says it needs operators to be better trained, announces 55 openings for “mission specialists” — Uber has laid off about 100 backup drivers from its self-driving unit, mostly in Pittsburgh and some in San Francisco.| 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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| Richard Trenholm / CNET: |
Sirin unveils Finney blockchain-based smartphone with an embedded cold wallet accessible via extra screen and a token conversion service, coming Nov. for $1,000 — The whole point of cryptocurrency is that it's virtual money stored in the ether. But you can still carry bitcoins in your pocket, as long as you have a Sirin Finney.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
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 … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
In iOS 11.4.1, Apple fixed a longstanding bug that caused some region-specific iOS devices to crash when “Taiwan” was typed or Taiwan flag emojis were displayed — Apple fixed the denial-of-service flaw in update released Monday. — The iOS 11.4.1 update Apple released Monday …
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Next week, YouTube will roll out Copyright Match, which scans uploaded videos and notifies original creators with 100K+ subscribers if a video is a copy — YouTube is releasing a tool for creators that checks to see if their videos are being stolen. Now, every time a video is uploaded to YouTube … | 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 …
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| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Commerce Department signs deal with ZTE to lift the US export ban, pending completion of a $400M escrow payment, part of the $1.4B settlement reached last month — (Reuters) - The United States signed an agreement with ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) that paves the way for the Chinese tech company … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
After announcing on Sunday a breach affecting ~21M users, Timehop says it's found more personal info was compromised, including users' gender, dates of birth — That includes users' dates of birth and gender — Timehop is admitting that additional personal information was compromised in a data breach on July 4.
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| Stefanie Fogel / Variety: |
Blizzard Entertainment announces exclusive multi-year agreement for live TV coverage of its professional esports league for Overwatch with ESPN and Disney — The Overwatch League quarterfinals start Wednesday, July 11 at 8 p.m. ET and fans can now watch all of the action on ESPN, Disney … | Levi Sumagaysay / Mercury News: |
Numerous quotes from early Google employees in “Valley of Genius” depict a sexually-charged atmosphere where Sergey Brin was viewed as “the Google playboy” — An oral history of Google, excerpted from “Valley of Genius,” a new book about Silicon Valley … | Adam Fisher / Wired: |
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| James V. Grimaldi / Wall Street Journal: |
Responding to a letter from two senators, Ajit Pai says FCC hopes to rebuild and re-engineer its comment system after millions of fake comments were posted — Chairman Ajit Pai tells two senators he wants to ‘re-engineer’ online commenting system to create ‘safeguards against abusive conduct’
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook ad tools labeled 65,000 Russians as interested in treason, putting them at risk from the repressive state; Facebook removed the category after reports — Firm removes category, which affected 65,000 people, from ad tools, following safety fears — Facebook's advertising tools … Sponsor Posts
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