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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
A look at Microsoft's Project Catapult, a multi-year effort to design FPGA chips in-house to power cloud services including Bing, Azure, Office 365, more — It was December 2012, and Doug Burger was standing in front of Steve Ballmer, trying to predict the future.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
As insecure IoT devices make large-scale DDoS attacks more potent, the Internet community should work to adopt standards and tools to prevent these attacks — John Gilmore, an American entrepreneur and civil libertarian, once famously quipped that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
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Thanks:@cauchon| Shoshanna Solomon / The Times of Israel: |
Israel-based equity crowdfunding firm OurCrowd raises $72M Series C for global expansion and additional capital to co-invest in startups that use its platform — The Jerusalem-based equity crowdfunding firm has invested more than $300 million to date, mostly in Israeli start-ups
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| Hollywood Reporter: |
California enacts law, effective Jan. 1, 2017, requiring some entertainment sites with paid subscriptions like IMDb to remove actors' age info upon request — “On behalf of everyone in the industry who has struggled with age discrimination, whose opportunities to showcase their talent may have been blocked …
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Sources: Google planning to launch an ultra-thin convertible laptop, nicknamed Pixel 3 running combined Android-Chrome OS “Andromeda” in Q3 '17 starting at $799 — Two independent and reliable sources have confirmed to us that Google is planning a new Pixel laptop to be released in Q3 2017.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Sex cam site Megacams implements face search using Microsoft facial recognition API to let you “find a live sex doppelganger of someone you know” — Welcome to the future, where you can face search for a live sex webcam performer and be served real-life humans to your telescreen …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Pay-per-mile auto insurance firm Metromile has raised $191.5M in 3 rounds since late 2014, will acquire Mosaic Insurance to start underwriting policies itself — The automotive industry is in flux with the rise of self-driving and electric cars, and the concept of car ownership altogether being thrown into question.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
The potential opportunities and pitfalls of Snap's new Spectacles — Snapchat is the only company cool enough to possibly dismantle the Google Glass stigma. Awkward, useless, and a threat to privacy are how many think of computers you wear on your face. Can Snapchat show off …
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TIME, The Next Web, Silicon Valley Business …, Wall Street Journal, TWICE, SlashGear, the Econsultancy blog, CNET, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, Brian Solis, Recode and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @artypapers. Thanks:@joshconstine
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Adobe partners with Microsoft to use Azure as ‘preferred solution’ for cloud services — ATLANTA, GA. — Technology giants Adobe and Microsoft announced a strategic cloud partnership at Microsoft Ignite on Monday, with each company throwing its weight behind the other in some of the most hotly contested sectors of the industry.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: accounting software maker BlackLine confidentially filed for an IPO that could value the company at over $1B — Accounting software maker BlackLine Inc is preparing for an initial public offering that could value it at more than $1 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Reporter follows all of Facebook's prompts and suggestions for weeks, leading to extreme oversharing, polluted news feeds, and awkward encounters — Facebook is lousy with opportunities for embarrassment. An offhanded political remark that silently — and completely unbeknownst to you … | Patrick Holland / CNET: |
Alcatel Idol 4s review: good build quality, display, camera; programmable Boom Key to launch apps is a nice idea but lacks polish; OnePlus 3 is a better phone — Build and design: The first time anyone picks the Idol 4S up, they have the same reaction, “Oooh! This is nice."
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