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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Sources: Apple acquires music analytics startup Asaii, source says for less than $100M — Apple has acquired Asaii, a startup that built a music analytics engine for music labels and artist managers, sources confirm to Axios. The deal, which appears to be verified by employee LinkedIn profiles …
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The Verge, Engadget, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Fast Company, Music Ally, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, BGR, Cult of Mac, and MAC blog
| Chainalysis: |
Study analyzing 32 biggest bitcoin holders, known as “whales”, suggests they may be stabilizing the market rather than destabilizing it and driving volatility — New data shows that bitcoin's largest holders are a diverse group that may be stabilizing, rather than destabilizing, the market.
Tweets: @philip_gradwell and @sharkcianews
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the new Palm, a tiny phone to keep you from using your big phone, exclusive to Verizon for $349.99, available in November — It's tiny, clever, and exclusive to Verizon — There's a new phone with the word “Palm” on it that's tiny, intriguing, and has very little to do with Palm beyond that word printed on the back.
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CNET, Engadget, TechCrunch, Fast Company, PCMag, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @lisahopeking, @backlon, and @mims
| Megan Molteni / Wired: |
Researchers: 60% of Americans of European descent can be identified via public DNA databases, regardless of whether they've submitted their own DNA data or not — IN 2013, A young computational biologist named Yaniv Erlich shocked the research world by showing it was possible to unmask …
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New York Times. Tweets: @ensembl, @alfonslopeztena, @seldo, @sciencemagazine, @carnage4life, and @latimes
| Wall Street Journal: |
Unicorns in China are growing faster than ever and have surpassed the US, but increased govt scrutiny and retrenchment of startups like Ofo worries some experts — Welcome to the land of ‘unicorns’ and super-cheap meals. The rewards are rich, as are valuations. And the risks are rising.
Tweets: @wsj
| Alex Blumberg / New York Magazine: |
Interview with former Groupon CEO and founder Andrew Mason on how he built and scaled the company, passed on Yahoo and Google acquisition offers, and got fired — Andrew Mason started Groupon ten years ago. He was a graduate student in his mid-20s, making money on the side by building websites.
Tweets: @andrewchen, @johnpletz, @joshuanguyen, @monstro, and @intelligencer
| Harold Goldberg / Vulture: |
Inside the making of Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2 from a 2,000 page script, with 300K animations and 500K lines of dialogue with 700 voice actors — You can't simply stroll into the Manhattan offices of Rockstar Games. If you make it past the downstairs lobby and up the elevator, a thick metal door blocks your way.| Ian Hathaway: |
Since 2015, first VC financings declined 25% to 40% annually for startups operating in sectors exposed to the core activities of Google, Facebook, and Amazon — UPDATE: A quick note of clarity, since many readers are misinterpreting (ie, not fully reading) the analysis done here.
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Tweets: @john_dearie, @drahardja, @rossbaird, @matthewstoller, and @halsinger
| Erica Klarreich / Quanta Magazine: |
Urmila Mahadev, a UC Berkeley grad student, solves the fundamental problem of finding a protocol by which a classical computer can verify a quantum computation — Urmila Mahadev spent eight years in graduate school solving one of the most basic questions in quantum computation …
Tweets: @quantamagazine, @phabcd, @chelskilittle, @lbnlphysics, @quantamagazine, and @indianinterest
| Robert Evans / bellingcat: |
A look at how fascist activists discover their ideology on the internet, with 39 of the 75 individuals studied crediting content they found on YouTube — The vast majority of domestic terror attacks in the U.S. are carried out by white supremacist organizations.
Tweets: @janelytv, @bellingcat, @oneunderscore__, @profcarroll, and @zeynep
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
How criminals accessed TransUnion's TLO mass-monitoring tech via a client's rogue employee to steal identities, and how they were caught using Nest cam footage — n a June day last year, a skinny, dreadlocked 29-year-old rapper known as Tony Da Boss lay in bed in a redbrick apartment …
Tweets: @tedonprivacy, @iblametom, @truthwrite, and @zmre
| Mack DeGeurin / New York Magazine: |
How facial recognition is being used to monitor animals: detecting sickness in salmon, gauging diet of cattle, protecting elephants from poachers, and more — Facial recognition technology has some serious, persistent issues. These were clearly shown earlier this year when Amazon's …
Tweets: @nymag
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