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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
US government charges Anthony Levandowski, a former star engineer at Google and Uber, with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of Google trade secrets — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Anthony Levandowski, one of Silicon Valley's foremost technologists on self-driving cars, was charged …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Surface event on October 2 in New York City — We might see a new dual-screen Surface — Microsoft is holding a special Surface hardware event in New York City in October. The event, which will be held on October 2nd, could serve as the first unveiling of Microsoft's dual-screen Surface device.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
CBP searched 30,000 devices last year without a warrant, up ~4x from three years prior, and increasingly denies entry to people over content sent by others — Travelers are increasingly being denied entry to the United States as border officials hold them accountable for messages …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Fairphone debuts Fairphone 3, its ethical, repairable smartphone made of responsibly sourced, recyclable materials, available from September 3 for €450 — Featuring a repairable design made of fairly sourced, recyclable materials — Three years after the release of its last handset … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google Maps is rolling out the ability for users to combine different transit modes, like biking, public transit, and ride-sharing, in their directions — Google Maps is going multimodal — Google Maps is going multimodal. The navigation app announced the launch of a new feature today …
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Yelp adds personalized search results based on users' diet, lifestyle, accessibility, and other preferences, to its iOS app — For good or ill, it's common for internet services to track what you do and offer “personalized” suggestions. But Yelp, that stalwart of internet reviews …
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Deep dive into the byzantine tracking and analytics industry around credit card purchases and steps that consumers can take to improve their privacy — In a privacy experiment, we bought one banana with the new Apple Card — and another with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa from Chase.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Privacy fundamentalism, which does not consider the inherent nature of the internet and the unavoidable trade-offs, is a surefire way to get policy wrong — Farhad Manjoo, in the New York Times, ran an experiment on himself: … Here is a shrunk-down version of the graphic that resulted …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Verizon will enable spam call filtering by default on many Android phones, after an FCC vote to let carriers do so; iOS users will need the Call Filter app — Available on select Android handsets at first — Verizon is starting to opt in customers to its call filtering service so they can better identify and block spam calls.
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| Jalopnik: |
Data from 14,756 fares: Uber and Lyft have slashed driver pay in recent years by taking a larger portion of each fare, far more than they publicly report — In July, an Uber driver we'll call Dave—his name has been changed here to protect his identity—picked up a fare in a trendy neighborhood of a major U.S. metropolitan area.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
As Ethereum's network is increasingly used for Tether transactions, the cost of running smart contracts has spiked, and Ether's network utilization has hit ~90% — - Vitalik Buterin expressed concerns over scaling last week — Tether's use of Ethereum has grown as its utilization exploded
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Amazon debuts Eero Secure and Eero Secure+, $3/month and $10/month services for its home Wi-Fi products, to add security with malware warnings, VPN access, more — KEY POINTS — Amazon introduced a new security features for Eero owners, which can be purchased with monthly or annual plans.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
E-commerce startup Enjoy, led by ex-Apple VP of retail operations Ron Johnson, raises $150M Series C to fuel its UK expansion, has now raised $350M to date — Enjoy, the e-commerce startup led by former Apple VP of retail operations, Ron Johnson, has raised an additional $150 million …
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| Bernie Sanders / Columbia Journalism Review: |
Bernie Sanders pledges to protect news orgs from tech monopolies if elected, including stronger antitrust enforcement, taxing targeted ads to fund public media — Walter Cronkite once said that “journalism is what we need to make democracy work.” He was absolutely right …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
In a rare move, Apple debuts iOS 13.1's first beta, well ahead of iOS 13's ship date, improving mouse support and bringing back Automation, a Shortcuts feature — Apple today released a surprise iOS 13.1 beta, which is unprecedented as the company has never before released a point update for an unreleased software update.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils ThinkPad X1 Carbon and X1 Yoga updated with Intel's 10th-gen chips, available in September starting at $1,479 and $1,609 respectively — Along with a bunch of updated ThinkPads — Intel's 10th Gen chips are making their way into the world, and Lenovo has a bunch of new ThinkPads …
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| Shoshana Wodinsky / Adweek: |
Documents show TikTok is beta testing a native audience ad network that lets advertisers target users across third-party apps in addition to TikTok — The program is being beta-tested in East Asia right now — TikTok's viral videos of the #GuacDance and kombucha taste tests might soon be used to target you with ads in other apps.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Tesorio raises $10M Series A, led by Seattle's Madrona Venture Group, to help companies track their cash flow and gauge their financial health using AI — Tesorio, a startup that helps businesses aggregate and analyze their cash flow data, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Source: judge rules Craig Wright must turn over half of his bitcoin holdings and IP from before 2014 to the estate of Dave Kleiman in $10B lawsuit filed in 2018 — Craig Wright must turn over half of his bitcoin holdings and intellectual property to the estate of Dave Kleiman, a judge ruled Monday.
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Tweets: @22centurycrypto, @alistairmilne, and @mrbrendanjay
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Researchers at Alphabet's DeepMind detail OpenSpiel, a collection of AI training tools for video games, now available on Github — Reinforcement learning, the AI training technique that's brought to fruition systems capable of defeating world poker champions and guiding self-driving cars …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Platform9, which offers a SaaS-based, fully managed, hybrid cloud platform raises $25M Series D led by NGP Capital, says its revenue grew 130% in the last year — Platform9, the startup best known for its SaaS-based, fully managed hybrid cloud platform, today announced that it has raised …
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FinSMEs, VentureBeat, ZDNet, and SiliconANGLE
| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
BBC says it will launch a voice assistant called Beeb next year, that will understand British accents and be built into its website and iPlayer app on smart TVs — Corporation recording voices of staff across UK to help Beeb software understand accents — The BBC is preparing to launch …
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