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US Navy to replace touchscreen throttle and helm controls on destroyers with mechanical ones, after finding that touchscreens contributed to a deadly collision — SAN DIEGO - The Navy will begin reverting destroyers back to a physical throttle and traditional helm control system in the next 18 to 24 months … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Teen hacker Bill Demirkapi on finding bugs, that exposed 5M student records across 5,000 schools, in educational software from providers Blackboard and Follett — A FEW SHORT decades ago, the archetypal hacker was a bored teenager breaking into his school's network to change grades, à la Ferris Bueller.
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| Rebecca Keegan / Hollywood Reporter: |
Inside Netflix's government lobbying efforts, which have shifted in recent months to align more with Hollywood studios and less with Silicon Valley — Rather than align itself with the tech giants under increasing Washington pressure, the streamer has joined forces with the studios …
Tweets: @loudmouthjulia, @thrmattbelloni, @thr, and @markbroatch
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In the face of the US ban, Huawei's smartphone sales are surging in China, boosted by rising grassroots patriotism and heavy promotions by the company — SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When 23-year-old Chinese student Aaron Huang started his hunt for an Android replacement for his Apple …
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Telegram releases new features including sending messages without notification sound, a “slow mode” that restricts group members from messaging too often, more — The previous update brought more movement to Telegram - this one brings more peace of mind.| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Cisco to acquire Voicea, the maker of a voice assistant called Eva for business meetings; Voicea had raised $20M from investors including GV and Salesforce — Cisco Systems Inc. today announced that it's bolstering its family of collaboration products with the acquisition of Voicea …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Nike buys Celect, an AI startup focused on predicting what customers want, allowing better inventory management; Celect had raised over $30M from investors — Nike's market cap has swollen past $100 billion, but the shoe company still sees potential to learn more about what customers …
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QR code payments, which require opening an app, are causing holdups for public transit commuters in China, where 100M+ WeChat users regularly pay with QR codes — NFC availability is growing, but 100 million WeChat users are now paying for public transit with QR codes| Lauren Debter / Forbes: |
Profile of WWT, which helps clients including the US federal government procure and install IT equipment; the company reported revenue of $11.2B last year — Jim Kavanaugh climbs into a sleek, black-leather-interior Mercedes bus that whisks him away from his company's new headquarters in St. Louis to a squat, one-story outpost nearby.
Tweets: @forbes and @brentbeshore
| Lynne Marek / Chicago Business: |
The fintech company TastyTrade invests $20M in its new subsidiary Dough, a Robinhood-like no fee stock trading service with a $1 per month subscription — The new Chicago fintech firm, which will be a TastyTrade subsidiary, aims to take on Robinhood in wielding the smartphone to trade stocks.
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Benzinga, FXTimes.com, and Finance Magnates
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Backbone, which provides product lifecycle management SaaS for consumer goods companies, raises $10M Series A extension, closing the round with a total of $18M — Boulder, Colo.-based Backbone, a SaaS company that helps direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands get products to market, has raised $10 million as part of an ongoing Series A round.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Swiss startup DeepCode raises $4M seed to expand its AI-powered system for code reviews that is mostly trained using data from open source GitHub repositories — We're fast approaching a point where every company is effectively a software company, a notion proffered by some of tech's top people such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.Sponsor Posts
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