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TSMC says a virus infected its fabrication tools on Friday night and shut down several factories, some of which won't restart at least until Sunday — - Some factories back to normal, rest in another day, TSMC says — Virus that struck Friday night ‘was not caused by hacker’| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Crunchbase: Boston on track to overtake NYC as the second-largest US funding hub in 2018, with total of $5.2B invested so far, 15% higher than for NYC — Boston has regained its longstanding place as the second-largest U.S. startup funding hub. — After years of trailing New York City …
Tweets: @kylejudah and @brandonreeves08
| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
Argo, a startup that rents cryptocurrency mining capacity to users, raises £25M in its London IPO — While the domestic technology sector has its eyes on Arlo's IPO today, another offering with a similar name is generating excitement in the blockchain sector.| Adam Fisher / New York Magazine: |
Former employees reflect on the rise and fall of General Magic, which spun out of Apple in 1990 with much of the original Mac team to build a PDA-like device — Chances are that you've never heard of General Magic, but in Silicon Valley the company is the stuff of legend.
Tweets: @film_girl, @andrewchen, and @dburkes
| Washington Post: |
Facebook's increased scrutiny of ads targeting ethnic groups is delaying the approval of political ads for Hispanics and Spanish-speaking audiences — Political strategists say recent moves by Facebook to secure its powerful advertising engine are hampering their ability to communicate … | Reuters: |
Sources: UK's GCHQ questioned security of Huawei's equipment in part because it uses US-based Wind River's VxWorks OS, which will stop receiving patches in 2020 — LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] is facing increased scrutiny in Britain because it is using …
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| Peter Burrows / Fast Company: |
How Doppler Labs, a failed startup that demoed an in-ear computer in 2016, may have influenced development of similar technologies at Amazon, Apple, and Google — In October 2016, an impressive group of tech industry royalty took the time to get a demonstration of a product from a startup called Doppler Labs.
Tweets: @dtunkelang, @peteerickson, and @jwt_worldwide
| BBC: |
Venezuelan officials: drones carrying explosives went off as President Maduro was giving a live televised speech; he's unharmed, but seven soldiers were injured — Venezuelan officials say explosive drones went off as President Nicolás Maduro was giving a live televised speech in Caracas, but he is unharmed.
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Reuters, Associated Press, Axios, CBS News, Associated Press, The Guardian, and The Daily Caller
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| Jane Wakefield / BBC: |
Ofcom: in UK, 78% of all adults own a smartphone, which they check on average every 12 minutes during the day; total volume of calls made fell by 1.7% in 2017 — The number of voice calls made on mobile phones in the UK fell for the first time ever in 2017 - despite the fact we seem hooked on our devices.| Michael Sainato / The Guardian: |
Investigation finds some Amazon warehouse staff across the US feel mistreated by the company after workplace accidents left them unable to work — Vickie Shannon Allen, 49, started working at Amazon as a counter in a fulfillment warehouse at Haslet, Texas, in May 2017.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros sue Cox Communications accusing the ISP of profiting from piracy by not disabling accounts of known and persistent infringers — For more than a decade, copyright holders have been sending takedown notices to ISPs to alert them that their subscribers are sharing copyrighted material.
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Complete Music Update, Law360, TechNadu, Digital Music News, and Techdirt. Tweets: @annemariebridy
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook says it is testing its dating product internally; sign-up screenshots show the feature calls for a separate profile as described at F8 in May — Let the poking begin — Two months after announcing the product at its F8 developer conference, Facebook is testing its dating app internally with employees.
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TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, AndroidHeadlines.com, SlashGear, CNET, BetaNews, BGR India, Social Media Today, Firstpost, Telegraph, Business Insider, and Fortune. Tweets: @joshconstine
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