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Apple confirms it has acquired Akonia Holographics, a Colorado-based startup that is making lenses for smart glasses — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has acquired a startup focused on making lenses for augmented reality glasses, the company confirmed on Wednesday, a signal Apple has ambitions …
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The Verge, Computerworld, The Register, Telegraph, MIT Technology Review, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, TechRadar.com, Silicon Valley Business …, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune, TechCrunch, BGR, Road to VR, iDownloadBlog.com, Patently Apple, ZDNet, Neowin, Engadget, Inquirer, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, CNET, MacDailyNews, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, 512 Pixels, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Axios, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @reutersbiz
| BuzzFeed News: |
Trump tweets video claiming Google didn't promote his State of the Union address on its homepage; Google says it did, confirmed by screenshot posted on Reddit — “Google promoted president Obama's State of the Union on its homepage. When President Trump took office, Google stopped," a video shared by Trump falsely claimed.
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| Kara Swisher / New York Times: |
Trump's accusations against Google, Facebook, and Twitter about limiting conservatives have no merit because those platforms have always amplified his messages — The idea that Google and Twitter are rigging their platforms against him is patently false. — Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.
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Business Insider, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Recode, The Interface, Forbes, and New York Times. Tweets: @marklittlenews
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google's Titan Security Key set, including a USB key, a Bluetooth key, and various connectors, is now available to all for $50, shipping immediately — Google's Titan Security Key is finally available to anyone who wants one. The two-factor token went live today in the Google store …
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Twitter confirms that it ran a limited test for a feature that recommended accounts to unfollow that users rarely engage with — A well-established feature of Twitter is “Who to Follow.” Drawing on data about what accounts you follow and interact with, Twitter's software automatically recommends …
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9to5Mac, Thurrott.com, Engadget, Mashable, The Verge, Quartz, CNET, Neowin, Social Media Today, BGR India, Gizmodo, Axios, Telegraph, and Firstpost
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Sony announces 6-inch Xperia XZ3, which is like a larger XZ2 with an OLED display, slightly larger battery, and Android Pie, going on sale in October for $900 — Sony has just taken the wraps off of the Xperia XZ3, its latest flagship smartphone at IFA 2018, And while Sony is positioning …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says companies with 50+ employees seeking contracts will need to offer 12+ weeks of paid maternity leave, to be phased in over the next 12 months — Companies that provide temporary workers to the software giant will have to offer 12 weeks paid — Companies that want to staff …
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| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber has begun engineering its own scooter, a project that is being overseen by Jump Bikes, which Uber acquired in April for more than $100M — The company is playing catch-up in a market already flush with billion-dollar startups. — This spring, Uber moved into a cavernous brick building …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Edits made to Mapbox data changed the name of New York City to “Jewtropolis” for 4+ hours, affecting Snap Maps, The Weather Channel, CitiBike, and others — New Yorkers who opened up Snapchat, The Weather Channel, CitiBike or a number of other apps and services this morning found …
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Gizmodo, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed News, Engadget, The Next Web, BBC, New York Magazine, and USA Today
Tweets: @hshaban, @snapchatsupport, @yair_rosenberg, @polotek, @itzhakhacohen, @bafeldman, @miriamelder, and @techcrunch
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
US Court of Appeals upholds lower court ruling that an IP address is not enough evidence to tie copyright infringement to an individual — Tons of copyright lawsuits (and even more copyright trolling shakedowns that never even reach court) are based on one single bit of data: the IP address.
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TechSpot, TorrentFreak, and TechNadu
| William Denniss / Google Cloud Blog: |
Google to hand over operational control of the Kubernetes project to its community and donates $9M in Google Cloud credits to Cloud Native Computing Foundation — Kubernetes, the container orchestrator created and open-sourced here at Google, has experienced incredible development and adoption since it was introduced in 2014.
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9to5Google, Cloud Native Computing …, Neowin, TechCrunch, The Linux Foundation, The Register, SiliconANGLE, and ZDNet. Tweets: @googlecloud
| Heather Murphy / New York Times: |
Profile of Barbara Rae-Venter, a former attorney who helped police uncover the Golden State Killer's identity by sleuthing DNA data from online testing sites — Barbara Rae-Venter's genealogical sleuthing acumen has inspired others to help law enforcement with unsolved cases, as well as an ethics and privacy debate.
Tweets: @nytimes, @grrlscientist, and @michaelroston
| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
DC Universe streaming service will launch on September 15 for $7.99 a month, or $74.99 for 15 months, as the first three months are free — DC Universe's first show Titans will premiere on October 3rd — DC Universe introduced its upcoming video service to viewers in a live stream hosted … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Garmin unveils Vivosmart 4 activity tracker with advanced sleep tracking via a pulse oxygen sensor, available now starting at $129 — Garmin has launched the latest version of Vivosmart, and based on its features, the wearable is meant to be a direct competitor to Fitbit's Charge 3.
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TechCrunch, Android Authority, ZDNet, Ars Technica, and Gizmodo
| David Meyer / ZDNet: |
Telegram publishes a new privacy policy, says it may comply with court orders to disclose IP addresses and phone numbers of terror suspects — Under Telegram's new privacy policy, it could hand over user IP and phone details given the right court order. — On Tuesday, Russian communication …
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Radio Free Europe/Radio …, The Next Web, Firstpost, The Star Online, and Meduza.io. Tweets: @christopherjm
| Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: |
A look at Liker, a social networking site from the founder of Occupy Democrats Facebook page, which is now filled with inaccurate claims about Trump — The founder of Facebook's Occupy Democrats page has launched a new social-media front in the battle against President Trump.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Appeals court upholds FCC's ruling removing price caps on dedicated data lines from ISPs like AT&T and Verizon, gives FCC wide leeway to evaluate competition — The FCC can “choose which evidence to believe,” court says. — An appeals court has upheld a Federal Communications Commission ruling … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Q&A with five experts on whether it is time to regulate facial recognition technology and its usage by police, and what needs to be done to overcome racial bias — Facial recognition is everywhere — airports, police stations, and built into the largest cloud platforms in the world … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
SurveyMonkey discloses more details about its IPO, says it's seeking to raise up to $100M and had $121.2M revenue in first half of 2018 on a $27.18M net loss — SurveyMonkey, a company with software that companies can use to get input from employees, customers and others …
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Fortune, Axios, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, and Fortune
Tweets: @fromedome, @mattrosoff, and @ericjackson
| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
A look at the recent $100M+ acquisitions of direct-to-consumer startups, including MVMT and Native, that raised little to no venture capital — A new breed of entrepreneurs is creating huge consumer brands — like MVMT and Tuft & Needle — without venture capital, and laughing all the way to the bank.
Tweets: @math_rachel, @sub8u, @stephennellis, @marshallk, @delrey, @lorenpadelford, @laurenthomasx3, and @shiraovide
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