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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources reveal sleep tracking features coming to Apple Watch: sleep quality monitoring, option to auto-disable alarms if user wakes up before they sound, more — There's been a lot of speculation about Apple Watch sleep tracking, especially after Apple acquired Beddit …
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| Jake Newby / RADII: |
Viral Chinese deepfake app Zao, which lets users put themselves in pre-selected scenes from popular movies and soap operas, sparks privacy concerns — The launch of deepfake-style face swap app ZAO has seen it leap up the download charts in China, but it's also raising a host of privacy concerns
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Tweets: @allanxia, @mykecole, @tom_bcgh, @esyudkowsky, @halagorani, @fabiochiusi, @rationalmale, @carnage4life, @zakiscorner, @evilsocket, and @rao2z
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms it is considering testing removal of Like counts — Facebook could soon start hiding the Like counter on News Feed posts to protect users' from envy and dissuade them from self-censorship. Instagram is already testing this in 7 countries including Canada and Brazil …
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| Seema Jayachandran / New York Times: |
A study of the fastest-growing startups established from 2007 to 2014 finds middle age is a typical starting point for the founders of successful tech companies — It took an entrepreneur to reimagine the mundane home thermostat as an object of beauty — and then to make a fortune based on that vision.
Tweets: @seema_econ, @seema_econ, @sotarauta, @drjohnbeard, and @johncarreyrou
| Gregory Barber / Wired: |
Profile of Lambda School, an online coding program that is free in exchange for a share of post-graduation income, has 2,700 students, and is growing 10%/month — Early this summer, the tech entrepreneur Austen Allred was on Reddit, as he often is, when he noticed something suspicious.
Tweets: @gregoryjbarber, @austen, and @nathanmart
| Song Jingli Tue / KrASIA: |
Tencent invests $125M in Kuaikan World, which runs a Chinese comics app and an online community for fans of comics; Kuaikan's app has 200M+ users and 40M+ MAUs — Beijing-based Kuaikan World, which runs a comic app and a community for comic fans, announced via its WeChat channel on Tuesday …
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| Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason: |
Sealed memos: FBI agents praised Backpage.com for its cooperation in child trafficking investigations, even as the government pursued its case against the site — Sealed memos fought over in federal court last week show authorities have known for years that claims about Backpage were bogus.
Tweets: @reason
| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
A grand jury indicts eight people for allegedly running two of the largest US illegal streaming sites, Jetflicks and iStreamItAll, that touted 37,000+ paid subs — In a sweeping indictment, the feds came down hard on Jetflicks and iStreamItAll, which allegedly crossed a very important line.| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Inside Amazon's plans to integrate Alexa deep into in-car systems, as it prepares to announce the second version of the Alexa Auto SDK this week — Competing with Apple and Google when you don't have your own smartphone platform is tough. But Amazon has a plan—and lots of patience.Thanks:@technologizer
| Gregor Hohpe / Martin Fowler: |
A closer look at software architecture lock-in, which many developers consider their archenemy, in its many forms like vendor lock-in, product lock-in, and more — A significant share of architectural energy is spent on reducing or avoiding lock-in. That's a rather noble objective …
Tweets: @stevesi, @chupchap, @mjasay, @aloneguid, @mweagle, @krues8dr, and @martinfowler
| Jason Perlow / ZDNet: |
IBM's move to open source key tech in its Power processor could benefit IoT device makers, Apple, and Microsoft, while Intel, Qualcomm, ARM, and AMD could lose — It's a heck of an announcement by Big Blue, and this is a heck of a list. — At the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit in San Diego …
Tweets: @jperlow
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
A profile of Kaszek Ventures, which focuses on Latin America and has raised $600M across two new funds, putting their total capital under management at ~$1B — Kaszek Ventures, the investment firm that has been one of the primary architects of the recent boom in startup financing and growth …
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