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Tinder co-founders and eight former and current execs sue parent firm IAC, alleging they are owed billions because the startup's valuation had been depressed  —  Co-founders of Tinder and eight other former and current executives of the popular dating app are suing the service's current owners …
Ryan Smith / AnandTech:
NVIDIA unveils Turing GPU architecture, says it includes AI-based capabilities and real-time ray tracing, and announces Quadro RTX GPUs that will ship Q4 2018  —  Moments ago at NVIDIA's SIGGRAPH 2018 keynote presentation, company CEO Jensen Huang formally unveiled the company's much awaited (and much rumored) Turing GPU architecture.
Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
To fight fraud, banks and retailers use behavioral biometrics to build millions of user profiles by tracking how they type, swipe, tap when using sites and apps  —  When you're browsing a website and the mouse cursor disappears, it might be a computer glitch — or it might be a deliberate test to find out who you are.
Nicholas Thompson / Wired:
Q&A with Oscar CEO Mario Schlosser on how health care data can transform the industry as Alphabet invests $375M in the provider, following Capital G and Verily  —  IN THE LATE 1990s, two graduate students named in Stanford's computer science department set out to organize the world's information.
Kif Leswing / INSIDER:
Sources: Apple invited 30+ app devs to an April 2017 meeting to recommend they move from selling apps at a low upfront cost to a subscription-based SaaS model  —  - But there are concerns that the competitiveness of the marketplace may make it difficult to maintain high-quality utility apps.
Dan Primack / Axios:
Alibaba last week acquired a majority stake in Turkish fashion-focused e-commerce company Trendyol; sources say the deal was for at least $750M  —  Turkey is making news for all the wrong reasons, with the latest being a proposed boycott of U.S. electronic goods like iPhones.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Trump signs defense bill that includes banning the use of some components from Huawei, ZTE, and other Chinese companies by the US government and its contractors  —  Huawei and ZTE technology will largely be banned from use by the US government and government contractors.
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
As it refreshes its brand, a look at the past, present, and future of Evernote, which started in 2002 and has 225M registered users worldwide  —  “Why the hell are we here today?”  —  Chris O'Neill, Evernote's CEO, is addressing an audience made up of the company's employees in a tent pitched …
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Graeme Mcmillan / The Verge:
Comcast's Xfinity X1 partnership with Netflix and Amazon presages a future of streaming bundles, which would be similar to the cable TV subscription model  —  As Xfinity's distribution deals expand, disruptors are taking up the same models as past cable companies
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The NYT added 210,000 digital subscribers in Q1, for 10.5M subscribers in total, up 8% YoY, and ad revenue fell 2.4% YoY to $103.7M; the OpenAI lawsuit cost $1M

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
The New York Times Games rolls out a Wordle archive with 1,000+ past puzzles for “Games” and “All Access” subscribers, and adds its WordleBot to NYT Games app

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Warner Bros. Discovery plans more cost-cutting to hit financial targets for next year, including raising Max prices and the possibility of more layoffs

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