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TSMC says a virus infected its fabrication tools on Friday night and shut down several factories, some of which won't restart at least until Sunday — - Some factories back to normal, rest in another day, TSMC says — Virus that struck Friday night ‘was not caused by hacker’
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Facebook says it is testing its dating product internally; sign-up screenshots show the feature calls for a separate profile as described at F8 in May — Let the poking begin — Two months after announcing the product at its F8 developer conference, Facebook is testing its dating app internally with employees.
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TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, BetaNews, BGR India, Social Media Today, Firstpost, Telegraph, Mashable, Business Insider, Fortune, CNET, and Engadget
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| Adam Fisher / New York Magazine: |
Former employees reflect on the rise and fall of General Magic, which spun out of Apple in 1990 with much of the original Mac team to build a PDA-like device — Chances are that you've never heard of General Magic, but in Silicon Valley the company is the stuff of legend.| Peter Burrows / Fast Company: |
How Doppler Labs, a failed startup that demoed an in-ear computer in 2016, may have influenced development of similar technologies at Amazon, Apple, and Google — In October 2016, an impressive group of tech industry royalty took the time to get a demonstration of a product from a startup called Doppler Labs.
Tweets: @peteerickson and @jwt_worldwide
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Venezuelan officials: drones carrying explosives went off as President Maduro was giving a live televised speech; he's unharmed, but seven soldiers were injured — Venezuelan officials say explosive drones went off as President Nicolás Maduro was giving a live televised speech in Caracas, but he is unharmed.
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| Michael Sainato / The Guardian: |
Investigation finds some Amazon warehouse staff across the US feel mistreated by the company after workplace accidents left them unable to work — Vickie Shannon Allen, 49, started working at Amazon as a counter in a fulfillment warehouse at Haslet, Texas, in May 2017.| Wall Street Journal: |
Like the first wave of VCs, Bessemer and Venrock, the ultrawealthy are again moving into VC and enticing startups with their networks outside of Silicon Valley — Some big names are turning to venture investing as a way to bet on the future, but not necessarily in Silicon Valley| Victoria Law / Wired: |
How Securus' JPay makes millions via monopoly granted by prisons to charge inmates and their family and friends exorbitant per-message fees for email services — For companies like JPay, the business model is simple: Whatever it costs to send a message, prisoners and their families will find a way to pay it.
Tweets: @issielapowsky, @wired, and @fittsofalexis
| Yawen Chen / Reuters: |
A look at DingTalk, Alibaba's chat app for companies, used by over 100M users in 7M companies in China that many say fuels an unhealthy work culture — Their installation in the hallowed flat where Ma got his start in the eastern city of Hangzhou reflects DingTalk's place in the pecking order …
Tweets: @janchip
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By taking six weeks to ban pages very similar to Twitter accounts publicly linked to IRA, Facebook shows it still struggles to deal with bad actors effectively — SAN FRANCISCO — At least three groups that Facebook banned this week for spreading disinformation shared similar names and traits … | Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
Arlo, Netgear's connected home security camera spinoff, closes up 38% on its first day of trading after raising $163M in its IPO at about $1.16B valuation — Morning Report: Another day, another IPO. Today Arlo started its first day of trading over 16 percent.
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Android Police, CNET, MarketWatch, Cheddar, NASDAQ.com, and Silicon Valley Business …
| Li Dongmei / China Money Network: |
JD.com opens a cashier-free retail store in Indonesia called JD.ID X-Mart, it's first Amazon Go-like store outside China — Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com Inc has opened its first cashier-free retail store overseas in Indonesia. The JD.ID X-Mart, newly opened in Jakarta … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney about why the Android version of Fortnite will be available exclusively on fortnite.com, bypassing the Google Play Store — Tim Sweeney is quiet as CEOs go. But the head of Epic Games isn't shy when it comes to expressing his opinions about the state of games …
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Tweets: @staska, @sriramk, @selenalarson, and @fortnitebr
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