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In an update to a previous report, Ming-Chi Kuo now says that all three new iPhones coming in 2020 will support 5G — The three iPhones expected to launch in 2020 will feature support for 5G, according to a new note to investors shared today by Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and obtained by MacRumors.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Tech companies, including Apple and Google, are petitioning the FCC to allow low-power devices for unlicensed use of the 6GHz Wi-Fi band without restrictions — Part of a spectrum battle pitting hardware makers against carriers and utilities — It's rare to see Apple, Google, Microsoft …
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Europol says that free tools provided as part of its three-year-old “No More Ransom” project prevented ransomware gangs from making at least $108M in profits — No More Ransom project is celebrating its three-year birthday today. — On the three-year anniversary of the No More Ransom project …
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| Phil Wahba / Fortune: |
A look at Etsy's turnaround since Josh Silverman became CEO in 2017, largely focused on improving basic parts of the user experience, like search and shipping — When you type the term “bike jersey” into the search field at Etsy.com, most of the results you get are, in fact, bike jerseys.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US cybersecurity company Immunity is selling a working BlueKeep exploit that enables remote code execution over Windows RDP, as part of a pen testing suite — An exploit for a vulnerability that Microsoft feared it may trigger the next WannaCry is now being sold commercially.| Julia Kollewe / The Guardian: |
UK's Just Eat is merging with its Dutch rival Takeaway.com in a £9B deal that will create one of the world's biggest online food delivery companies — British firm joins Dutch rival to form one of the world's biggest online food delivery companies — Just Eat is merging …
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| Yessi Bello Perez / The Next Web: |
Report: Venezuela uses digital wallet app Jetman Pay to convert taxes from one of its airports into Bitcoin and sell it abroad for USD, bypassing US sanctions — Venezuela appears to be leveraging cryptocurrencies as part of a larger effort to bypass US sanctions.
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| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
Following Microsoft's $1B investment in OpenAI, critics worry about whether the latter is the proper vehicle for democratizing the benefits of AI — OpenAI was founded less than four years ago as a valiant stand against the idea that powerful new technology must inevitably be controlled by giant corporations.| Benedict Evans: |
Amazon is increasingly good in helping us buy things we know we want, but it's not clear if it'll ever be good at helping us shop for things we don't know about — I sometimes think that if you could look in the safe behind Jeff Bezos's desk, instead of the sports almanac from Back to the Future …
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| Ronojoy Mazumdar / Bloomberg: |
Three-year-old Reliance Jio becomes the biggest telecom operator in India, as its subscribers grow to 331M in Q2 2019, surpassing Vodafone Idea's 320M subs — - Had overtaken Bharti Airtel in May, Vodafone Idea in June — Companies are preparing for the planned 5G rollout next year
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| Josh Horwitz / Reuters: |
Alibaba's new chip division releases its first core processor IP, says the chip is based on RISC-V and is suitable for edge computing, self-driving applications — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The semiconductor division of Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd released its first core processor IP … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Grab says it will invest $2B in Indonesia over the next five years to help it compete with Gojek using funds it has raised from SoftBank — Grab — the on-demand transportation app worth $14 billion that is the Uber of Southeast Asia — today announced how it would be using some of the $7 billion … Sponsor Posts
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