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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Intel unveils eleven 10th-gen Ice Lake laptop CPUs, built on its new 10-nm Sunny Cove architecture, claims they run 18% more instructions per clock than before — Intel gave us the broad strokes of its 10th-generation “Ice Lake” notebook CPUs at Computex a few months ago, but now the company is finally ready to give us more details.
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Tweets: @talinns11, @devindra, @rdrv3, and @tomwarren
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| Mix / The Next Web: |
Sensor Tower: YouTube remains world's top-grossing video app, generating $138M in user spending in Q2 2019, up 220% YoY; US users generated ~70% of this revenue — Google must be happy. YouTube is the world's top-grossing app in the photo and video software category for a second quarter in a row.| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
Leaked render of Samsung's 3.5mm to USB-C adapter is a further indication that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 10 will not have a 3.5mm headphone jack — We've seen the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ in all their glory in a slew of leaked renders already, and now, a render showing the 3.5mm …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Bird unveils new electric scooter with 50% more battery life, anti-vandalism sensors, anti-tipping kickstands, and anti-puncture tires — Bird Two also has anti-tipping kickstands and anti-puncture tires — It's been less than three months since Bird unveiled Bird One … | New York Times: |
Cisco to pay $8.6M to settle government claims for selling video surveillance tech with a security flaw, reported in 2008, to government agencies until 2013 — WASHINGTON — Cisco Systems agreed on Wednesday to pay $8.6 million to settle claims that it sold video surveillance technology …
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| Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
Facebook details its first takedown of inauthentic accounts linked to the Saudi government, alongside a separate takedown of accounts linked to UAE and Egypt — Washington (CNN Business)Facebook said Thursday it had found evidence of something cyber security and national security experts …
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
A look at the debate about commercializing open source software, as more companies adopt restrictive licenses for their open source software to generate revenue — As open source software grows more popular, and important, developers face an existential question: How to make money from something you give away for free?
Tweets: @carnage4life, @wired, @_msw_, @degoodmanwilson, @johanvos, and @klintron
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
With an estimated 420K CCTV cameras operating in the city, London has become a test bed for visual surveillance tech, including live facial recognition — On the last day of January, few of the shoppers and office workers who hurried through Romford town centre in east London …
Tweets: @henrymance, @nuffieldfound, @financialtimes, @financialtimes, and @groomb
| Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez / The San Francisco Examiner: |
Lyft has made its 1,000 e-bikes in San Francisco “unavailable to riders” following two reports of bikes catching fire — The flames appear to have originated from the battery — The battery of an electric Lyft bicycle appeared to catch fire Wednesday in the Lower Haight.
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| Bloomberg: |
SEC filings: MacKenzie Bezos is now the second largest Amazon shareholder, holding 19.7M shares, or a ~4% stake worth ~$37B, in the company — MacKenzie Bezos is officially Amazon.com Inc.'s second-largest individual shareholder. — About 19.7 million shares are now registered … | The Guardian: |
Facebook says it was “not our role” to remove fake news during Australian election; it only demotes fake news, removes content that violates community standards — Exclusive: Facebook executive Simon Milner says company ‘only removes content that violates our community standards’| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Google to let G Suite admins select users for the Advanced Protection Program, designed to prevent cyberattacks against high-profile users, in the coming days — You might never need to change your password again if you're part of the G Suite Advanced Protection Program.
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G Suite Updates Blog, Google Cloud Blog, The Next Web, Dark Reading, Google Online Security Blog, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @googlecloud
| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
Analysis: in Q2 2019, global smartphone shipments declined 1% YoY, making it the 7th consecutive quarter of declining shipments; Samsung shipments grew 7.1% YoY — Overall smartphone shipment declined 1% in Q2 2019, making it the seventh consecutive quarter of declining shipments.
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Strategy Analytics …, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, Gizmochina, CNET, KrASIA, and Android Authority
Tweets: @varun_m01, @shobhit07, @neiltwitz, @neiltwitz, and @neiltwitz
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Fitbit beat analyst estimates with Q2 revenue of $314M, up 5% YoY, but lowered Q3 guidance; stock down 18% — KEY POINTS — The Fitbit Ionic has a few apps, with more to come — Shares of Fitbit cratered as much as 21% after hours on Wednesday after the company cut guidance …
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Fitbit, Inc., Android Authority, PYMNTS.com, Android Central, Reuters, Thurrott, and ZDNet
Tweets: @mattrosoff and @henshaw
| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
New York-based Lux Capital raises $500M for its early-stage fund and $550M for its opportunity fund to invest in startups on “the cutting edge of science” — Lux Capital, a New York-based venture capital firm, has raised more than $1 billion across two new funds to back companies on “the cutting edge of science.”| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
UK-based fintech startup Revolut launches commission-free US stock trading service, including the ability to buy fractions of shares — KEY POINTS — Revolut users will be able to buy a fraction of shares in U.S. companies through its trading platform. — British fintech firm Revolut …
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Revolut Blog, TechCrunch, Quartz, Coinspeaker, The Block, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @revolutapp. Thanks:@ryan_browne_
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Recogni raises $25M Series A led by GreatPoint Ventures for its power-efficient integrated module that collects and locally processes data for autonomous cars — RK Anand — along with Ashwini Choudhary, Eye-Fi founder Eugene Feinberg, former Lilium sensor systems engineer Gilles Backhus …
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Forbes, Futurecar.com, BMW BLOG, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, Recogni, and PE Hub Blog
| Ryan Christoffel / MacStories: |
An in-depth look at Apple Maps in iOS 13, the biggest update to the service so far, and how it compares to Google Maps — Apple's path to a home-brewed mapping solution has been long and perilous, but it's almost arrived. — 12 years ago the iPhone launched with Google powering … | Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
After 6 months of fact-checking for Facebook, Full Fact published 96 fact-checks, was paid ~$171k, wants Facebook to share more data with fact-checkers — In December 2016, Facebook enlisted a handful of U.S.-based news organizations (ABC News, Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the AP) …
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Full Fact Blog, MIT Technology Review, Social Media Today, Engadget, Press Gazette, The Guardian, New Scientist, RAPPLER, and Reuters
Tweets: @fullfact, @fullfact, @niemanlab, @niemanlab, @niemanlab, and @risj_oxford
| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
Report: more than 32M patient records were stolen between January and June 2019, more than double the 15M records stolen in all of 2018 — More than 32 million patient records were breached between January and June 2019. That's more than double the 15 million medical records breached in all of 2018 … Sponsor Posts
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