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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple unveils new 16-inch MacBook Pro starting at $2,399 with new processors, better speakers, and a new keyboard, available for pre-order now — Apple has launched a new 16-inch MacBook Pro today, available for pre-order now and in stores later this week.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
16" MacBook Pro first hands-on: while the keyboard's “de-Jony-Ive-ification” is good, we shouldn't be celebrating the return of features we shouldn't have lost — IF YOU TRY SOMETIMES, YOU JUST MIGHT FIND, YOU GET WHAT YOU NEED — Apple today is releasing its much-rumored new 16-inch MacBook Pro.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Phil Schiller says kids with Chromebooks are “not going to succeed” because Apple makes “cutting-edge learning tools” and Chromebooks are only good for testing — Apple's marketing chief shares his thoughts on butterfly vs. scissor keyboards and whether …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: Google is planning to offer checking accounts to users, in partnership with banks and credit unions, starting as early as next year — Google is the latest big tech company to make a move into banking and personal financial services: The company is gearing up to offer checking accounts to consumers …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Disney says Disney+ has seen 10M signups since launching on Tuesday — Disney's new streaming service has already seen 10 million sign-ups since launching Tuesday, the company announced Wednesday. — Disney's stock was up slightly on the news. Netflix shares were down 1%.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mirantis says it has acquired Docker Enterprise, including the business, team, and IP, as Docker raises $35M from Benchmark amid difficulties at the company — Mirantis today announced that it has acquired Docker's Enterprise business and team. Docker Enterprise was very much the heart …
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| Candy Cheng / Bloomberg: |
Source: DoorDash is raising $100M at a ~$13B valuation from T. Rowe Price Group and others — DoorDash Inc.'s $2 billion war chest is getting even bigger. The food delivery startup, backed by the likes of SoftBank Group Corp. and Sequoia Capital, is receiving a new cash infusion of $100 million …
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| Financial Times: |
Popular health websites in UK are sharing sensitive user data with dozens of companies including Google and Facebook along with data-brokers and adtech firms — Some of the UK's most popular health websites are sharing people's sensitive data — including medical symptoms, diagnoses …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub announces improvements to code search and notifications and unveils its first native mobile app, available for iOS and Android, coming soon — At its annual Universe conference today, Microsoft -owned GitHub announced a couple of new products, as well as the general availability …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says Executive VP Harry Shum, who oversaw AI and Research, is leaving in February 2020, with CTO Kevin Scott taking over his responsibilities — Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott is going to be heading up Microsoft's combined AI and Research Group, effective immediately.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says requests from governments for user data in H1 2019 were up 16% over H2 2018 to 128,617, the highest on record, led by 50,741 demands from the US — Facebook's latest transparency report is out. — The social media giant said the number of government demands for user data increased …
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| Aliya Chaudhry / The Verge: |
Privacy-focused open source browser Brave officially launches version 1.0, available on all major platforms — And it has a plan to pay users and publishers for ads — Today marks the official launch of Brave 1.0, a free open-source browser. The beta version has already drawn 8 million monthly users … | Bloomberg: |
Nike will stop selling its sneakers and apparel directly on Amazon, ending a pilot program that began in 2017 — - Move follows naming of ex-EBay CEO as Nike's next chief — Nike Inc. is breaking up with Amazon.com Inc. — The athletic brand will stop selling its sneakers …
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| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
New York-based Hive, which develops a productivity platform for workers, raises $10.6M Series A led by Comcast Ventures — Yesterday, Hive announced a $10.6 million Series A round of capital, led by Comcast Ventures. The new round was larger than all the capital that Hive …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple says the updated Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR will ship in December, but does not provide an exact date — Apple has officially announced that its long-awaited Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR will be available starting in December. — Apple also announced that the new Mac Pro …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Interview with Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert about Spot, Handle, and Atlas, three of the company's robots, as well as AI, viral promotional videos, and more — Before the marketing departments of the world got ahold of “artificial intelligence,” the term used to bring to mind some sort of robot.
Tweets: @epro
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Freshworks, which offers a range of customer support and sales software, raises $150M Series H led by CapitalG, Sequioa Capital, and Accel at a $3.5B valuation — Freshworks, a company that provides customer service software and automation tools for businesses, has confirmed …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla, Intel, Red Hat, and Fastly announce the launch of Bytecode Alliance, which aims to take WebAssembly and other related open standards beyond the browser — Mozilla, Intel, Red Hat and Fast today announced the launch of the Bytecode Alliance, a new open-source group that focuses on …
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Tweets: @wasmweekly, @loige, and @sarbjeetjohal
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
A look at Facebook's past views on China and how they changed as TikTok became popular; sources: Facebook held serious acquisition talks with Musical.ly in 2016 — Three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg considered buying the Chinese company that became the basis of TikTok.
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Business Insider, Adweek, Politico, and The Startup
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Inside the Arctic World Archive, where GitHub will store 200 “platters”, each with 120GB of open source software on them, to prevent loss of the software — The last stop for civilization before the North Pole is Svalbard, an archipelago north of mainland Norway along the 80th parallel.
Tweets: @sophaskins, @silviakillings, @martenmickos, @valleyhack, @valleyhack, and @silviakillings
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
SheerID, an identity management and marketing company that specializes in screening users for certain discounts, raises $64M led by CVC Ventures — SheerID, an identity marketing firm that can verify whether you qualify for a student discount or not, has raised $64 million in funding to fuel its expansion.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Chicago-based ThreeKit raises $20M Series A for its platform that creates 3D product renderings for clients on the fly — Predictably, the vast majority of ecommerce customers prefer to visually preview products before deciding whether to pull the trigger.
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GlobeNewswire News Room and BetaKit
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