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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Docs show how Google's building its censored search engine for China, codenamed Dragonfly, using subsidiary 265.com to compile a list of sites China's blocking — Google analyzed search terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Magic Leap headset first look: functional and thoughtfully designed, with some advantages over competitors, but not a radical step forward nor a magical advance — When you write about augmented reality headsets, you're supposed to start by describing something impossible …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Magic Leap's One Creator Edition AR headset launches for select users for $2,295+ online; each device must be set up in person via white glove service Enjoy — The Magic Leap One AR headset is out now for $2,295, but not everywhere — Surprise! But there's a good chance you still may not be able to buy it.
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Interview with Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz as its AR headset launches, on the company's over-hyped marketing, developing for the headset, and more — Over the past few years, onetime supporters have grown skeptical of Magic Leap's mythical augmented-reality product.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
New York City Council votes to cap Uber and Lyft, becoming the first US city to do so, imposing a 12-month freeze on new licenses — New York plans to cap ride-hailing services including Uber and Lyft, becoming the first U.S. city to take such a step.
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| Scott Scrivens / Android Police: |
Images and video of alleged Google Pixel 3 XL production unit leak, showing a large notch on the top of the display and USB-C earbuds in the box — We're now just a couple of months out from the reveal of Google's latest Pixel phones, so we expected that leaks and rumors would start to intensify.
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| Sean Wolfe / Business Insider: |
Jack Dorsey defends Twitter on Sean Hannity's radio show for not taking action against Alex Jones, denies Twitter “shadow bans” users based on politics — - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey briefly called in to right-wing commentator Sean Hannity's radio show on Wednesday.
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Infowars is now the number one “trending” app on the Google Play store, but its overall audience is likely reduced by Apple, Facebook, and YouTube's actions — Just days after Google, Facebook and Apple purged videos and podcasts from the right-wing conspiracy site Infowars from their sites … | Justin Lynch / Fifth Domain: |
DHS official says at BlackHat that DHS-funded researchers found major vulnerabilities in phones sold by all four major US carriers, doesn't list manufacturers — Research funded by the Department of Homeland Security has found a “slew” of vulnerabilities in mobile devices offered …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roku brings The Roku Channel, its free ad-supported streaming video offering, to the web and updates navigation on devices to add Featured Free section — Roku's homepage also expanded to include ‘Featured Free’ content — Roku is today bringing its free, streaming entertainment destination … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte and Memberful CEO Drew Strojny on Patreon's acquisition of Memberful, building an SaaS startup, and the history of the companies — Long-time Stratechery members may recall that three years ago — a year into the Daily Update — I ripped …
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Intel says it earned $1B in 2017 from sales of Xeon processors running AI workloads in data centers and provides an update for its data center chip roadmap — Optane DC persistent memory ships to Google, Xeon roadmap, and more revealed — At Intel's Data-Centric Innovation Summit today in Santa Clara …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple says iOS' Health Records, which improves patient data portability, now has 75+ different health institutions on board, up from 12, and uses open standards — Apple's initiative to enable iPhone users to securely access and carry their own medical records has continued to expand …
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EHRIntelligence, MacRumors, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, and MacDailyNews
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches two AR games for Messenger video chat that can be played with up to six people — Facebook is diving deeper into in-house game development with the launch of its own version of Snapchat's multiplayer augmented reality video chat games. Today, Facebook Messenger globally launches …
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The Verge, Facebook, KnowTechie, iMore, Business Insider, Neowin, iPhone Hacks, Gamasutra, Thurrott.com, iDownloadBlog.com, MSPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, and Engadget. Tweets: @gibiz
| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
Comcast Xfinity flaws exposed partial home addresses and Social Security numbers of over 26.5M customers; Comcast has patched the vulnerabilities — Comcast Xfinity inadvertently exposed the partial home addresses and social security numbers of more than 26.5 million customers … | Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Chinese online grocery delivery company Dada-JD Daojia, which is partly owned by JD.com, says it has raised $500M from Walmart and JD.com — - Walmart and JD.com will invest $500 million in Dada-JD Daojia, according to the Chinese online grocery delivery company.
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
UK's FCA announces the Global Financial Innovation Network with 11 other regulators, including from US and HK, to coordinate policies on cryptocurrencies, more — A number of financial regulators from across the globe are forming a new alliance to facilitate the growth of financial technologies …
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| Justina Lee / Bloomberg: |
ICO fundraising accelerated in 2018, but as regulatory scrutiny increases many blockchain projects are shutting out small investors and turning to private sales — - Initial coin offerings have raised a record amount this year — Shift is taking place amid rising scrutiny from regulatorsSponsor Posts
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