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Raspberry 4 launches with faster CPU, GPU, dual 4K monitor support, up to 4GB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11ac, USB 3.0, Bluetooth 5.0, with 1GB model for $35 — We have a surprise for you today: Raspberry Pi 4 is now on sale, starting at $35. This is a comprehensive upgrade, touching almost every element of the platform.| Kim Hart / Axios: |
Senators to debut a bipartisan bill that would require data firms like Google to show the types of data collected, its uses, and its assessed value, quarterly — Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) will introduce legislation on Monday to require Facebook, Google … | Samira Sadeque / The Daily Dot: |
Ravelry, a social networking site for knitting with ~829K MAUs, bans all posts supportive of the Trump administration, which it claims supports white supremacy — Ravelry, the leading social networking website for knitting activities, banned posts that are supportive of President Donald Trump and his administration.| Jon Evans / TechCrunch: |
Libra may become a global mobile reserve currency for individuals, not institutions, enabling them to receive, save, spend, and exchange a global hard currency — There is so much to write about Libra, and so much which has already been written misses the mark, mostly, I think … | Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Stewart Butterfield wanted to return money to investors after his startup Glitch failed, but Accel refused, which led to its 24% stake in Slack at its IPO — Stewart Butterfield wanted to quit and give the money back to investors. They wouldn't let him. — Stewart Butterfield loved the game, but not enough people agreed with him.
Tweets: @lizette_chapman
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
A look at some egregious cases of counterfeit books sold on Amazon; this year Amazon began listing sales of counterfeit goods as a material risk in SEC filings — SPERRYVILLE, Va. — “The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy” is a medical handbook that recommends the right amount …
Tweets: @mobylives, @brianstelter, @bubbaprog, @carmelathetwit, @amazonnews, and @penamerican
| Jasper Jolly / The Guardian: |
Trainline, a European online bus and train ticketing service, closes up 17% on its first day of trading at ~£2B valuation, after raising £110M in its London IPO — Shares rose by as much as 18% after float bucked the recent trend of weak stock market debuts| Rosie Spinks / Skift: |
Major European cities including Paris and Berlin ask the EU to help establish “strong legal obligations” compelling Airbnb to comply with local regulations — Ten European cities have asked the European Union not to grant vacation rental giant Airbnb “carte blanche” in the region.
Tweets: @rafat
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says Flight Simulator, which will be updated after 13 years and available as part of Xbox Game Pass in 2020, will support third-party content — KEY POINTS — Microsoft says it will support third-party content, but some developers weren't told about the update in advance.| Marc Hochstein / CoinDesk: |
Report: QuadrigaCX CEO transferred customers' funds to his personal accounts on other cryptocurrency exchanges, effectively stealing $200M — QuadrigaCX's late founder and CEO used customers' funds to trade for his own account on other cryptocurrency exchanges, the Canadian firm's bankruptcy trustee said.
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The Next Web, The Block, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, NewsBTC, Bloomberg, and CoinGeek
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US Bureau of Labor Statistics: the number of self-reported full-time taxi drivers, including drivers for Uber and Lyft, nearly tripled in the past ten years — Uber and Lyft radically changed the landscape for the taxi industry, and in cities like New York contributed to the collapse … | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Profile of the Open Invention Network, the largest patent non-aggression community in history with 3,000+ licensees, covering Linux and related open-source tech — While some businesses remain entangled in patent wars, the companies which have joined the OIN are freeing Linux from patent fights.Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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IDrive:
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.Featured Podcasts
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