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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died at age 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma — Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen has died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Vulcan Inc. said Monday on behalf of his family. Allen passed away Monday afternoon in Seattle at 65 years old, Vulcan said.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber could be valued at $120B in an IPO as soon as early 2019, nearly double its valuation two months ago, according to proposals from banks — Eye-popping offering, which could take place early next year, is nearly double the ride-hailing company's valuation in a fundraising round two months ago
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicly discusses censored Chinese search engine for the first time, says internal tests have been very promising — GOOGLE'S INTERNAL TESTS developing a censored search engine in China have been very promising, CEO Sundar Pichai said on stage on Monday as part of the WIRED 25 Summit.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft launches All-Access Pass subscription plan for $299 per month for 30 rides costing up to $15 each, for single-passenger trips and carpooling rides — Netflix, but for rides — Lyft's monthly subscription experiment is going national. The ride-hailing company has been tinkering …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Surface Pro 6 review: still the best 2-in-1 PC with the best tablet keyboard, better screen and battery life, but no major design or performance upgrades — Microsoft's Surface Pro 6 is the ideal hybrid tablet. It's a slate that can run all of the Windows apps you need …
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Apple apologizes for the hacking of some Apple IDs in China in phishing scams, says the victims hadn't enabled two-factor authentication — Apple apologized over the hacking of some Chinese accounts in phishing scams, almost a week after it emerged that stolen Apple IDs had been used to swipe customer funds.
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Users say harassment is rampant on Instagram, and some employees say efforts to stem it are not funded well or prioritized — When Brandon Farbstein first joined Instagram in 2014, he was 14 and optimistic. Farbstein was born with a rare form of dwarfism, and he wanted to use …
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| Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
Amazon unveils waterproof Kindle Paperwhite with higher 300ppi resolution, starting at $129, available for preorder now, shipping November 7 — Sometimes you just want to read a book. Or maybe all the books. That's the promise of the Kindle line. Access to thousands of books …
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Facebook weighs a ban on posts linking to hacked material, expands ban on voting-related misinfo; sources: months ago execs weighed banning all political ads — MENLO PARK, Calif. (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) will ban false information about voting requirements and fake reports of violence …
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| Charles Duhigg / New Yorker: |
Profile of former Google and Uber employee Anthony Levandowski on his time at Google with details on Waymo's decision to settle its suit against Uber this year — Silicon Valley was built on job-hopping. But when a leader of Google's self-driving-car unit joined Uber, Google filed suit.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Huawei unveils Mate 20 Pro with 6.4-inch OLED display, in-display fingerprint sensor, two-way wireless charging, three rear cameras, and 4,200mAh battery — Everything you could want from a phone, and then some — Arriving fashionably late to the 2018 contest for super flagship phones …
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
MIT announces plans to invest $1B toward a new college for AI, so students can develop the tech while studying its implications across disciplines — Every major university is wrestling with how to adapt to the technology wave of artificial intelligence — how to prepare students …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Source: Apple did not acquire music analytics startup Asaii but instead hired its founders to work on Apple Music — On the heels of news of not one but two acquisitions from Apple last week, a report surfaced yesterday that Apple had picked up yet another company, the music analytics startup Asaii …
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Instacart raises $600M at a $7.6B valuation led by hedge fund D1 Capital Partners — The startup has a fresh $600 million in funding to boot. — As Amazon has ramped up its Whole Foods grocery delivery service to 48 cities across the U.S., a common narrative has followed … | Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Twilio announces deal to acquire email marketing platform SendGrid for $2B in stock; Twilio's stock drops 4% after hours while SendGrid's stock jumps 14%+ — Twilio just spent $2 billion to buy SendGrid, a company that helps send mass emails. — Here's part of the company's release:
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Paperspace raises $13M Series A led by Battery Ventures for AI-fueled application development platform — Paperspace wants to help developers build artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with a software/hardware development platform powered by GPus and other powerful chips.
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| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Credit card giants Visa, Mastercard, and Amex, as well as other financial players like Amazon and PayPal flout India's new data localization regulation — MUMBAI, India — When the clock struck midnight in Delhi at the end of Monday, Visa, Mastercard and American Express were suddenly …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A look at how some top utility apps on the App Store are making millions of dollars by using dark patterns, tricking users into signing up for subscriptions — Subscriptions have turned into a booming business for app developers, accounting for $10.6 billion in consumer spend on the App Store in 2017 … | Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Jeff Bezos says Amazon will keep working with the Department of Defense, says if big tech companies turn their backs, “this country is going to be in trouble” — “If big tech companies are going to turn their back on US Department of Defense, this country is going to be in trouble … | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Syncron, which offers a SaaS to help manufacturers move to a service model, raises $67M led by Summit Partners, source says at a $175M post-money valuation — Syncron, a Stockholm-headquartered company that offers a SaaS to help equipment and other product manufacturers move to a service model …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft to roll out speech-to-text dictation for Word and OneNote on the web over next few weeks with PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook online adding it in 2019 — Microsoft first started rolling outs its dictation feature in the Word desktop app earlier this year, and it's now making its way to web versions of Office.
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Photoshop CC for the iPad, which Adobe says is the “real Photoshop” and will be available in 2019 — An exclusive look at the future of Adobe's biggest app — Adobe really wants you to know that the upcoming Photoshop CC for the iPad, which was announced today …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Robinhood made more than 40 percent of its revenue earlier this year from selling its customers' orders to high-frequency trading firms — Robinhood Markets Inc. has built a reputation on its origins in finance counterculture and a steal-from-the-rich ethos.| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
The TSA shares its roadmap to expand use of biometric identification for domestic flights in the coming years, including fingerprinting and facial recognition — The airport security experience is about to see facial recognition technology taking on a bigger role, as TSA today released … Sponsor Posts
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