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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Interviews with 47 former and current employees about the past three years at Google reveal fear of the far right, activist awakening, weaponized leaks, more — ON A BRIGHT Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employees—horrified, alarmed, and a little giddy …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snap announces Spectacles 3 with an updated design and a second HD camera to create depth perception, going on sale in November for $380 — They're $380 and go on sale in November — Snap today announced Spectacles 3, a redesigned version of its augmented reality sunglasses with a sleek …
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| Ursula Perano / Axios: |
WordPress.com owner Automattic says it will buy Tumblr from Verizon, take on ~200 staffers, and keep the porn ban; source says Automattic paid less than $10M — Verizon is set to sell the social network Tumblr to Automattic Inc, the owner of blog site and publishing tool Wordpress, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify for Podcasters comes out of beta, giving podcasters valuable listener data like age, gender, location, music taste, and episode listening duration — Spotify for Podcasters comes out of beta today — Spotify is going to give podcasters listener data they can't get anywhere else.| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
Researchers remotely install malware on a DSLR camera from Canon using the unauthenticated Picture Transfer Protocol, common in the industry; Canon issues patch — Canon has issued a security advisory and firmware patch for the vulnerability — Ransomware has become a major threat … | Reuters: |
23 job search websites in Europe allege anti-competitive behavior from Google in antitrust complaints to the European Union competition commissioner — BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google's fast-growing tool for searching job listings has been a boon for employers and job boards starving …
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Behind the rise of “twinfluencers” on social media, as content produced by twins continues to explode in popularity on YouTube and Instagram — You're not imagining it: Influencers really are multiplying. — There are the Dolan Twins, a pair of square-jawed 19-year-olds …
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| Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
How Steve Jobs conceived the “bicycle for the mind” metaphor for the personal computer, which largely drove Apple's philosophy for decades — “When we invented the personal computer, we created a new kind of bicycle...a new man-machine partnership...a new generation of entrepreneurs."
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Cray, which is in the process of being bought by HPE, wins contract to make a $600M supercomputer for the US DoE, for 3D simulations, nuclear weapons research — Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray has been tapped to develop a new $600 million system for the U.S. Department of Energy … | Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
A look at Jeff Bezos' radical approach of giving nonprofits millions from his Day One Fund to provide shelter for homeless families without any restrictions — Jeff Bezos is making a name for himself in the world of charity. Nicole Craine/WireImage — Is that good? Is that bad?| Emily Birnbaum / The Hill: |
Pentagon's internal watchdog says it is reviewing the $10B “war cloud” contract, which was set to be awarded to Microsoft or Amazon, over misconduct allegations — The Pentagon's internal watchdog on Tuesday said that it is investigating potential ethics concerns around the $10 billion …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Pavilion Data Systems, a data center storage company, raises $25M Series C led by Taiwania Capital and RPS Ventures — Data center hardware maker Pavilion Data Systems Inc. is gearing up for expansion after closing on a $25 million round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $58 million.
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| Tara Seals / Threatpost: |
Researchers find that in four dating apps, including Grindr, any user's location can be determined using the apps' public APIs, if the username is known — Four popular dating apps that together can claim 10 million users have been found to leak precise locations of their members.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it is opening up the closed beta of Spark AR on Instagram, letting any developer build and share AR filters on the platform — Not one to let Face App and Snapchat steal its spotlight, Facebook announced today that it's opening its closed beta of Spark AR on Instagram … | The Information: |
Sources: Spotify is discussing a plan with Apple to let iPhone users tell Siri to play songs, playlists, albums with voice commands, as anti-trust battle looms — An issue that has long vexed many iPhone users—the inability to play music from Spotify using Siri, Apple's voice assistant—may soon be a thing of the past.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell is leaving Facebook, seven years after launching the first Oculus Rift headset via Kickstarter — Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell is leaving Facebook 7 years after launching the first Oculus Rift headset with a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Blade, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange launching in three weeks, raises $4.3M seed funding from investors including Coinbase and SV Angel — Exchanges like Coinbase have ballooned in size by taking the mechanics of equity markets and fitting them to cryptocurrency markets …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is in late-stage talks to acquire up to 10% of Future Retail, India's No. 2 retailer by turnover, which is seeking $281M for the stake — - Indian supermarket firm seeks 20 billion rupees for shares — U.S. giant gears up for fight with Walmart, Reliance in India
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Chrome 77 and Firefox 70, out in the fall, will move extended validation info, which displays the site owner's name, from the address bar to behind the padlock — Extended Validation certificates for websites pronounced ‘really dead’, after policy change by Google and Mozilla.
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| Reuters: |
Trump delayed tariffs for some products like laptops and cellphones, sending Apple's stock up, but Airpods, Watches, and more were not included in the reprieve — WASHINGTON and SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) AirPods, Apple Watch and HomePod, which have helped the company …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Clumio, a SaaS-style cloud-based backup platform for enterprises, announces it has raised a total of $51M in Series A and B rounds since it was founded in 2017 — Creating backups for massive enterprise deployments may feel like a solved problem, but for the most part, we're still talking about complex hardware and software setups.
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| Ana Wolsztajn / Tech.eu: |
Dostavista, a Russian same-day delivery service operating in 11 countries including Brazil, India, and Mexico, raises $15M Series B led by Vostok New Ventures — Dostavista, a Russian same-day delivery service operating globally, has raised $15 million in a Series B funding round led by Vostok …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Singularity 6, a stealthy gaming startup developing an AI-powered “virtual society”, raises $16.5M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz — When Fortnite reached stratospheric popularity early last year, there were undoubtedly an awful lot of VCs on the sidelines looking enviously … Sponsor Posts
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