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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Play Pass unveiled as a $4.99/mo. subscription for access to 350+ unlocked Android apps and games that are free of ads and IAPs; first year to be $2/mo. — No ads, no in-app purchases. $1.99 introductory price — Today, Google is launching a new service called “Google Play Pass …
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Tweets: @backlon, @hallstephenj, @nexusben, @reckless, @manan, @northead, and @journeydan
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Viral selfie app ImageNet Roulette demos biases in AI by surfacing labels applied by anonymous workers to a database of 14M photos, used to train AI for 9 years — ImageNet Roulette, a digital art project and viral selfie app, exposes how biases have crept into the artificial-intelligence technologies changing our lives.
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ImageNet Roulette, Excavating AI, The Guardian, Business Insider, NBC News, The Verge, Frieze, Fear The Wall, Adweek, The Sun, Nerdist, Axios, Wired, VICE, Interesting Engineering, Sky News, VG247, and Inverse
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung says Galaxy Fold will go on sale in the US on September 27 for $1,980 and will be available at AT&T, Best Buy, and Samsung stores — Months after it failed to launch, the Galaxy Fold is finally arriving in the United States later this week. Unfortunately, the Galaxy Fold US launch …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook's competitors are talking to FTC about the company's hardball tactics, some of which Snap compiled in a dossier called Project Voldemort — Antitrust investigation gives competitors chance to air complaints about Facebook's hardball tactics
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Code deployment toolmaker Chef says it will not renew contracts with ICE and CBP, after an ex-employee deleted his open-source code leading to customer downtime — Last week, a former employee deleted open-source code he wrote for a tool called Chef in protest over an ICE contract.
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Chef Blog, GeekWire, Business Insider, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @nathenharvey, @josephfcox, @tqbf, @samphippen, and @shanley
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Cloudflare enables a new “bot fight mode” as a opt-in feature for all accounts, which will frustrate bots via computationally intensive challenges — Cloudflare is ratcheting up its fight against bots with a new “fight mode,” which it says will frustrate and disincentivize bot operators from their malicious activity.
Tweets: @zackwhittaker
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon debuts a feature called Show and Tell, which helps blind and low vision customers with an Echo Show smart display identify common household pantry goods — As part of a continued mission to make its Alexa intelligent assistant more accessible for everyone, Amazon today introduced …
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| Nino Tasca / The Keyword: |
Google says it doesn't retain Assistant audio recordings by default and it is increasing privacy protections for the transcription process used with a small set — Senior Product Manager, Google Assistant — We believe you should be able to easily understand how your data is used and why …
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Tweets: @wagner_digital and @lilyhnewman
| Popular Information: |
Facebook page with 1.1M followers called “I Love America” is one of many Ukrainian-run pages now pushing pro-Trump propaganda and recycling 2016-era IRA memes — This is the online version of the Popular Information newsletter. You can get independent accountability journalism in your inbox every week.
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The Daily Dot. Tweets: @histoftech, @slpng_giants, @juddlegum, @haydenblack, @juddlegum, @juddlegum, @juddlegum, @profcarroll, @juddlegum, and @matthewstoller
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A look at Peloton, which may raise $1.2B in this week's IPO and sells $2.3K iPad-equipped stationary bikes and $40/mo. cycling video subscriptions to 510K+ subs — 13 reasons this bike has a cult — It makes lazy people like me work out. That's the genius of the Peloton bicycle.
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| CNBC: |
Apple says it will assemble the new Mac Pro in Austin, TX, after it received federal product exclusions enabling it to import some parts without paying tariffs — - Apple will manufacture the new version of its Mac Pro desktop computer in Austin, Texas, the company announced on Monday.
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Apple, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Axios, Business Insider, iMore, TechCrunch, The Verge, CNET, Engadget, SlashGear, Neowin, Financial Times, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @rjonesy, @iansherr, @markgurman, and @markgurman
| Reuters: |
Hyundai Motor Group to invest $1.6B in cash and $400M in R&D in a $4B self-driving vehicle joint venture with Dublin-based Aptiv, with both owning 50% stakes — SEOUL (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Group will invest $1.6 billion in a joint venture to develop self-driving vehicle technologies with Aptiv …
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Digital Trends, Engadget, VentureBeat, PR Newswire, TechCrunch, and Reuters. Tweets: @petercbigelow
| Keith Shaw / Robotics Business Review: |
Report: global sales of robots reached 422K units worth $16.5B in 2018; 74% of global robotics installations were in China, Japan, South Korea, US, and Germany — The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) today released its annual World Robotics Report, which showed an annual global sales value of $16.5 billion in 2018.
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Bloomberg, Automation.com, Robotics & Automation News, Xinhua News Agency, and ZDNet
| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange launches long-awaited bitcoin futures as part of its Bakkt venture — Intercontinental Exchange bets consumers, businesses and Wall Street will embrace cryptocurrencies — The owner of the New York Stock Exchange launched its long-delayed market … Sponsor Posts
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Are your technology investments slowing your business down? — As technology spend rises across industries, productivity remains flat. Are your technology investments helping or hurting your productivity? Read the report.
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6 reasons why a route planner is important for optimizing field sales — Even today, industries like pharmaceutical and medical devices still follow the traditional way of making sales, where the sales rep goes out into the field to pitch to prospects.
Intel:
Here's how Intel is powering breakthrough research in astronomy, medicine, AI and beyond — Fastest supercomputer in academia - Frontera, is based on 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Here's how Intel is powering breakthrough research in astronomy, medicine, AI and beyond — Fastest supercomputer in academia - Frontera, is based on 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
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LAIKA, the creative force behind some of the world's finest animated films, choae Mattermost over Slack. — Film and game studios like LAIKA, Wargaming, Bungie keep trade secrets private behind their firewalls.
LAIKA, the creative force behind some of the world's finest animated films, choae Mattermost over Slack. — Film and game studios like LAIKA, Wargaming, Bungie keep trade secrets private behind their firewalls.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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