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Sources: about 1,000 Google employees have signed a letter demanding more transparency following reports of Google developing a censored search engine for China — Hundreds of Google employees, upset at the company's decision to secretly build a censored version of its search engine for China …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it's ending legacy API support, used by third-party apps like Tweetbot, due to “technical and business constraints” — It's hard to be a fan of Twitter right now. The company is sticking up for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, when nearly all other platforms …
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| Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press: |
Google revises help page that describes how its “Location History” setting works, clarifying that it still tracks location even if the setting is turned off — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has revised a help page that erroneously described how its “Location History” setting works …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q2 revenues of $3.12B, up 40% YoY, vs. $3.1B est., net income of $1.1B, gaming business revenue of $1.81B, and data center revenue of $760M — Nvidia stock fell by 6 percent on Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings and lower-than-expected revenue guidance.| Nikkei: |
Sources: Google is preparing to launch its own smart speaker with a display for the holiday season; 3M units are planned for first batch — Taiwan suppliers told to prepare for hardware blitz to challenge Amazon — TAIPEI — Google is preparing to release a smart speaker equipped …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
DoorDash raises $250M at a $4B valuation, says it met or exceeded most of metrics set during its March Series D and had 250% YoY growth in delivery volume — Food delivery startup DoorDash on Thursday said it has raised $250 million in new venture capital funding at a $4 billion post-money valuation.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel buys deep-learning startup Vertex.AI to join its Movidius unit; Vertex says Intel will continue to develop its PlaidML engine as an open source project — Intel wants to bring more artificial intelligence technology into all aspects of its business, and today it is stepping up its game a little in the area with an acquisition.
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| Erin Pearson / The Age: |
Unnamed Melbourne-based 16-year-old pleads guilty to repeatedly breaching Apple's systems and downloading 90GB of sensitive files — A Melbourne private schoolboy who repeatedly broke into Apple's secure computer systems is facing criminal charges after the technology giant called in the FBI.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it's begun removing content violating its drug policies and has blocked hundreds of search terms and search suggestions associated with drug sales — Facebook's role in the opioid crisis could become another scandal following yesterday's release of harrowing new statistics from the Center for Disease Control.
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| Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg: |
A look at Europe's struggle to build a truly global tech giant and some of the challenges facing its startup ecosystem — This is the best moment in decades for the continent to battle its way back to relevance. Its startups need to act like it. — Jeez, Europe, what more do you need?| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
In Senate hearing, Ajit Pai says he doubted claims FCC's comment system was taken down by an attack, but says IG asked him to keep quiet until the full report — FCC chairman Ajit Pai was on the defense Thursday during a Senate oversight hearing when he was questioned about why he didn't correct …
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| Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
RevJet, which helps marketers test and manage digital advertising, offers ad-serving features like DoubleClick's, raises $21M Series A led by Nautic Partners — RevJet wants to be an operating system for the customer experience, and it's using a $21 million Series A round to get there.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Canalys: 16.8M smart speakers were sold globally in Q2, up 187% YoY from 5.8M in 2017; China sales grew 52% as Alibaba and Xiaomi sold 3M and 2M respectively — Google Home. Amazon's Echo. Apple's HomePod. The market for speakers powered by artificial intelligence (AI) booming, and it's showing no signs of slowing.
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| Jack Ellis / Tech in Asia: |
Vietnamese online marketplace Sendo raises $51M Series B led by SBI Group, with participation from SoftBank and others, and says it has 300K sellers — Major investment players like SoftBank and SBI Group are betting big on Vietnam's burgeoning ecommerce market with their latest investment.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids, an open spec that lets hearing aid makers add direct audio streaming to Android from assistive devices — Today's hearing aids increasingly overlap and share the same functionality as Bluetooth headphones.| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
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