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Sources: Alibaba has delayed its listing in Hong Kong, which had been slated for late August and aimed to raise $10B-$15B, amid growing political unrest — HONG KONG/NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's biggest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has delayed its up to $15 billion listing … | Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Source: Google is planning an update to the Home Mini, called the Nest Mini, with a similar form factor, wall mount, improved sound, and 3.5mm jack — Google plans to launch a followup to 2017's Google Home Mini with a second-generation ‘Nest Mini,’ a reliable source tells 9to5Google.
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Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, who led a heavily criticized unit focusing on practical AI uses, has been placed on leave for unspecified reasons — - Mustafa Suleyman is head of applied artifical intelligence — He led heavily critized unit focusing on AI and healthcare
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Microsoft contractors say they listened to recordings, including accidentally invoked ones, of Xbox users, many of them children, to improve voice command tech — Multiple contractors working for Microsoft explain how they listened to audio captured by Xbox consoles.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google officially rolls out a redesign for the Play Store, using its Material design language, and creates two distinct destinations for games and apps — After months of waiting and temporary appearances, the Play Store Material Theme redesign is now official on Android.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Big data analytics service Splunk to acquire cloud monitoring company SignalFx for $1.05B — The company announced the deal along with its second quarter financial results, which topped estimates. — Splunk delivered better-than-expected second quarter financial results and announced … | Amrita Khalid / Engadget: |
Google and Mozilla say they will block the root certificate issued by the Kazakhstan government, which could be used to monitor users, in Chrome and Firefox — Google and Mozilla are taking action against the government of Kazakhstan's efforts to launch a surveillance operation against its own citizens.
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Amazon says it is opening an office in Hyderabad, India, which will house over 15,000 employees, making it the company's biggest campus in the world — HYDERABAD (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday launched its biggest campus in the world in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Intel unveils 10th-gen Comet Lake CPUs with up to 6 cores for thin and light laptops, based on its Skylake CPU architecture and 14nm process — Capping off a busy few weeks for processors for Intel, today the company is announcing the second half of their product stack for their low-power 10th generation Core processors.
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| Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo: |
A look at the many failed social networks launched since 2002, including Friendster, Myspace, Bebo, ConnectU, Path, Yik Yak, Orkut, Google+, and Vine — This week, we look at the ways the internet could have been—and could be—different. — Sixteen years ago, the sun set on Web 1.0 …
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| Rose Eveleth / Slate: |
A look at the weird and wacky patents filed by tech companies, some seemingly unrelated to the industry, and the reasons behind filing for them — Companies are constantly patenting strange things they have no intention of developing. Here's why. — Amazon is putting humans in cages to protect them from machines!
Tweets: @stanfordlaw, @roseveleth, @shobitap, @karppi, @blakesobczak, @roseveleth, @offby1, @carolineha_, @roseveleth, and @npseaver
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher who was banned from Valve's HackerOne bug bounty program after submitting a Steam 0-day that Valve downplayed reveals details of another Steam 0-day — Valve gets heavily criticized for mishandling a crucial bug report. — A Russian security researcher has published details about a zero-day in the Steam gaming client.
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Tweets: @originalesushi, @_r_netsec, @hanno, @spencerdailey, and @jgamblin
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Apple is delaying its plans to limit third-party tracking and ads in kids' apps, which it planned to implement in Sept., after some developers raised concerns — Apple plans to change the rules it has for kids apps, raising concerns among some app developers about the way the tech giant wields power unilaterally over its App Store.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook debuts first findings from conservative bias audit led by former GOP senator, says it influenced policy changes like creating a content oversight board — Facebook will release the findings of a roughly year-long conservative bias audit Tuesday, along with changes to its advertising policies …
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
LinkedIn says it blocked or removed 21.6M fake accounts in the first half 2019, of which 19.5M were blocked at the registration stage — LinkedIn blocked or removed 21.6 million fake accounts on its platform from January to June of this year, a sign that the Microsoft-owned social network …
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Official LinkedIn Blog, The Hill, OnMSFT.com, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, Mercury News, and Adweek
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube says it is shutting down its Messages feature for mobile and web, introduced in 2017, to encourage usage of posts, comments, and stories — In August 2017, YouTube introduced a “Messages” feature for its mobile apps and later the web. Two years later, the Google video site announced …
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TechCrunch, Adweek, Android Headlines, Phandroid, XDA Developers, Android Central, Tubefilter, Android Police, Android Authority, and Engadget. Tweets: @martinsfp
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Baidu, IBM, ARM, Intel, Red Hat, and others form the Confidential Computing Consortium to promote better data security practices — A number of big-name tech companies — including Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Red Hat, IBM, and Intel — are joining forces … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google says it has started rolling out AI-powered real-time spelling and grammar check features on Gmail for all G Suite users — Ever been stumped by spelling or sentence syntax while pecking out an email to colleagues? Fortunately for G Suite users, Google will soon introduce improved spelling … | Scott Gilbertson / Wired: |
Raspberry Pi 4 review: still very cheap with an improved processor, true Ethernet, and more RAM; the new Desktop Kit add-on makes the device even more useful — You can buy the latest Raspberry Pi as a kit with a mouse and keyboard if you want, making it more useful than ever.
Tweets: @wired
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Waymo releases a self-driving open data set with 1,000 segments of 20-second footage in a range of driving conditions, free for non-commercial research — Waymo is opening up its significant stores of autonomous driving data with a new ‘Open Data Set’ it's making available for the purposes of research.
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