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Special counsel Mueller charges 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking DNC, Clinton campaign, others and releasing their emails during 2016 election — Special counsel Robert Mueller has obtained a new indictment charging 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democrats during the 2016 presidential election.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Bitcoin transactions tied to real purchases and email addresses used by Russian spies in Mueller's indictments show the limits of the cryptocurrency's anonymity — The indictment filed today against 12 Russian officials accused of, among other things, hacking the DNC and undermining Hillary … | Scott Thurm / Wired: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for government regulation of facial recognition, says Microsoft's ICE contract did not involve facial recognition — OVER THE PAST year, Silicon Valley has been grappling with the way it handles our data, our elections, and our speech. Now it's got a new concern: our faces.
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Sources: Adobe plans to unveil the full version of Photoshop for iPad at its annual MAX creative conference in October and release it in 2019 — - Users in media, entertainment want to edit work ‘on the fly’ — Long-term effort will spread to other Adobe programs later
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
True Tone feature in 2018 MacBook Pro models extends to LG UltraFine and Apple Thunderbolt Displays, according to Apple support document published today — When using certain external monitors with the new 2018 MacBook Pro models, the built-in True Tone feature that matches the color …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the top-of-the-line 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro: it's fast, keyboard is quieter with similar key travel as the 2017 model, and True Tone works well — It's a MacBook, alright — The new MacBook Pro keyboards are quieter. — We've had a top-of-the-line 15-inch MacBook Pro review unit …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Amazon Web Services is considering selling its own networking switches to business customers, challenging companies like Cisco, Juniper, and Arista — Amazon Web Services already dominates the market for cloud services. Now, it is eyeing a part of the cloud business it doesn't already control …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
PC shipments in Q2 grew 2.7% according to IDC, while Gartner estimates 1.4% increase; both firms agree this quarter's YoY growth was the best since Q1 2012 — Gartner and IDC agree — Shipments of PCs are definitely growing, for the first time in six years.
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| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
US Department of Commerce on Friday officially lifted a ban on US companies selling goods to ZTE — (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday lifted a ban on U.S. companies selling goods to ZTE Corp, allowing China's second-largest telecommunications equipment maker to resume business.| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
Comma.ai demos Openpilot 0.5 software with face-tracking for an advanced driver assist system compatible with most new Toyota and Honda cars, and some from GM — Autonomous vehicle technology is just starting to go mainstream, which means, for the most part, it's still only available …
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| Muyao Shen / CoinDesk: |
Chinese police shut down a gambling platform that had 330K users and $1.5B in transaction volume in various cryptocurrencies over the past eight months — Local police officials in China seized more than $1.5 million worth of cryptocurrencies as part of a crackdown on gambling during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Uber, in partnership with Checkr, will now conduct driver background checks continuously using real-time data from Appriss — As part of a plan to improve safety for its riders, Uber is rolling out ongoing background checks for its drivers, the company tells Axios.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts free version of Microsoft Teams with team storage capped at 10GB, and Microsoft 365 launches live events with facial recognition and more — Microsoft 365 can now host live events, and the new service comes equipped with AI-powered features such as facial recognition … Sponsor Posts
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