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About six months after joining, Uber president Jeff Jones quits, says his “beliefs and approach to leadership” were inconsistent with what he saw at Uber — He is leaving after apparently deciding the current controversies are too much to handle
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel launches its first product with 3D XPoint technology: the $1520, 375GB Optane SSD DC P4800X, for data centers — The NVMe DC P4800X marks Intel's 3D XPoint-powered Optane SSD debut—but it's aimed directly at the enterprise market. Optane is Intel's all-encompassing brand name …
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By pricing AirPods at $159 and Watch Series 1 at $269, below similar rival products, Apple is going after the entire wearables market, not just the premium part — As Apple pushes deeper into luxury brand territory, the company is making its products more accessible through lower pricing.| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
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| Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
IBM launches IBM Blockchain service, based on Linux Foundation-backed Hyperledger's Fabric code, and details its two commercial deployments — Tech giant IBM is set to unveil what it's calling the first “commercial application” of Hyperledger's open-source Fabric codebase.
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Apple pledges to build two additional research and development centers in China, spend at least $507M on research institutions in the country — Company intends to spend at least $500 million on such centers — Tim Cook's attending a forum in Beijing over the weekend| Stephen M. Baldwin / Fortune: |
Behind Shopify, which powers ~400K online stores for individuals and brands where more than 100M people shopped in 2016 — From the -unlikely setting of Ottawa, Shopify has -quietly been powering an e-commerce revolution. — Shopify has done a pretty good job hiding itself from the world.
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| Jeremy Kauffman / LBRY News: |
LBRY uses blockchain and p2p data network to host 20K college lectures Berkeley was forced to remove from YouTube to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act — Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000 college lectures from its YouTube channel.
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
How Facebook's language around the fake news issue has evolved, and why it will never say it is a media company or has a responsibility for user-shared content — ark Zuckerberg is displeased. It's been more than four months since election night, but Facebook still finds itself in the hot seat …
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Sources: Facebook's Building 8 experimental consumer hardware group working on at least 4 projects, one involving cameras and AR; group to have a key role at F8 — - A top secret division within Facebook called Building 8 is working on at least four unannounced consumer hardware products.
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Profile of Duan Yongping, co-founder of China's #1 and #3 smartphone makers Oppo and Vivo, who lives in US and has most of his non-China wealth tied up in Apple — Duan Yongping co-founded top Chinese brands Oppo and Vivo — “China's Buffett” still regards Apple as a great investment| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Hackers at Pwn2Own competition exploit combination of bugs in Microsoft Edge, Windows 10, and VMware Workstation to escape virtual machine and compromise host — Hack worked by stitching together three separate exploits. — Contestants at this year's Pwn2Own hacking competition in Vancouver …
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