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Samsung launches Bixby Marketplace, where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, called capsules, in the US and South Korea — Samsung has launched its Bixby Marketplace, a dedicated app store where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, similar to Amazon's Alexa skills.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Report: Jony Ive was dispirited by Tim Cook's lack of interest in the product development process and frustrated inside a more operations-focused company — Shortly after Apple's announcement last week that Jony Ive was leaving the company, Bloomberg published a report that suggested …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Many internet outages are caused by problems with the trust-based Border Gateway Protocol, which was conceived in 1989 and remains largely unchanged since 1994 — IN A WEEKS-LONG stretch in 2014, hackers stole thousands of dollars a day in cryptocurrency from owners.
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| Daniel Frankel / Multichannel News: |
Strategy Analytics predicts that Roku will, at 52M devices, have 70% more OTT devices than its next closest competitor, Sony Playstation, by year end — Strategy Analytics predicts there will be 52 million Roku-enabled devices in use by year-end — The Roku OTT ecosystem further extended … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify ends its direct music upload beta program for artists after debuting it last year, saying it would rather focus on features unique to the platform — Spotify is shutting down a program that allowed indie artists to upload their own music to the streaming service, the company announced today.
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Facebook says it will treat 2020 US Census like an election and will have “people, policies and technology in place to protect against census interference” — Civil rights are the foundation of a free and just society — and something we care deeply about as a company.
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| Charlie Fink / Forbes: |
Industrial AR headset maker RealWear raises $80M Series B led by industrial automation company Teradyne, bringing its total raised to over $100M — I'm a former tech executive covering VR, AR and new media for Forbes. — RealWear, Inc., producer of the HMT-1 ruggedized head-mounted …
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| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Walmart China uses VeChainThor blockchain to show customers the path a food product took, from its source to the shelves, with 23 product lines listed now — Walmart China has launched a blockchain-based platform aimed to address food safety concerns in the country.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook-appointed auditors say its policy banning “white nationalism” and “white separatism” is too narrow as it only applies to posts using the specific terms — Company policy prohibits praise or support for specific term ‘white nationalism’| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
How journalists, researchers, and civil rights groups are using big data, which put gerrymandering on steroids, to easily and cheaply track redistricting — THE SUPREME COURT'S conservative justices ruled Thursday that the highest court doesn't have the power to address partisan gerrymandering …
Tweets: @wired, @wired, and @samwangphd
| Tova Cohen / Reuters: |
Israel-Based NeuroBlade raises $23M Series A from Check Point co-founder Marius Nacht, Intel Capital, and others to bring its AI chip to market — TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli startup NeuroBlade said on Wednesday it has completed a $23 million early funding round, led by Marius Nacht …
| Richard Lloyd / IAM: |
Intel puts around 8,500 patents related to the wireless modem business that it is exiting up for auction — In what looks set to become one of the highest profile patent sales in years, Intel has put its IP relating to cellular wireless connectivity on the auction block.
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Silicon Valley Business …, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Authority, MSPoweruser, Tom's Hardware, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @iansherr
| Nicky Woolf / Tortoise Media: |
Profile of 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan, who sold the site in 2015, and says he has soured not just on 8chan, but on the whole idea it represented — How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet — On 27 April, before he burst …
Tweets: @nickywoolf, @ryan_padraic, @xtophercook, @cerithomas01, and @tortoise
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