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Doug Field, former SVP of engineering at Tesla, returns to Apple, sources say to work in Bob Mansfield's project Titan group — Here's some interesting hiring news I've heard through the little birdie grapevine:1 Doug Field — who left Tesla in May after overseeing Model 3 production …
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| Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney: |
Analysis of Infowars Twitter content shows videos that led to YouTube and other bans were still live, while other tweets showed more Twitter rules violations — Why Facebook,YouTube and Apple are removing InfoWars content — Twitter's vice president for trust and safety, Del Harvey …
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Sources: Tesla's board to meet with advisers to discuss Musk's take-private proposal; source: Musk previously talked with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund — - The Tesla board is taking Elon Musk's offer to take the company private at $420-per-share seriously and may tell Musk to recuse himself …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Macs can be remotely hacked when connecting to Wi-Fi for first time; issue fixed in macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, but machines with older OSes remain vulnerable — APPLE'S SUPPLY CHAIN is one of the most closely monitored and analyzed in the world, both because of the control the company exerts and keen interest from third parties.
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Qualcomm has reached a settlement with Taiwan's antitrust regulators that reverses most of a $773M fine levied last year, forgoing the ~$89M it has already paid — - Regulators agree to cut $773 million fine by roughly 88% — Qualcomm pledges to boost investment and build a Taiwan base
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox reports Q2 revenue of $339.2M, up 27% YoY, vs $331M est., 11.9M paid users, up from 9.9M YoY, announces COO Dennis Woodside is leaving; stock down 8%+ — Back when Dennis Woodside joined Dropbox as its chief operating officer more than four years ago, the company was trying to justify …
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| Gene Munster / Loup Ventures: |
Report: Apple Pay has an estimated 38M active users in the US and 215M globally, which equates to 31% of the active iPhone base compared to 25% a year ago — There's hope for the digital wallet. Despite 5 plus years of announcements from Google, Samsung, PayPal, Venmo, Square, Stripe …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the Galaxy Note9: a solid refinement over the Note8 with a similar design and the same camera as the Galaxy S9+; microSD slot is a nice addition — A refinement of last year's model with incredibly powerful hardware — Samsung is coming off of a disappointing launch for its Galaxy S9 …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Samsung and Spotify partner to build Spotify's services into smartphones, Bixby, and other Samsung devices — Samsung has announced that it's entering a long-term partnership with Spotify, including support for the just-announced Galaxy Home smart speaker.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook shuts down Friend List feeds, which had let users view posts from groups of specific friends, but keeps Friend Lists — Facebook is shutting down Friend List Feeds sometime today, according to a message posted in the Facebook app. The feature allowed users to scroll through …
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| Richard Allan / Facebook: |
VP of policy details Facebook's limits to free speech: physically or financially endangering people, intimidating via hateful words, tricking people for profit — Hard Questions is a series from Facebook that addresses the impact of our products on society.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's AltspaceVR releases tools that lets users create their own shareable spaces using a drag-and-drop interface — AltspaceVR has released tools to let users create their own sharable spaces in virtual reality. — It uses a drag-and-drop interface, allowing you to place objects …
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| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Global unicorn funding on track to surpass record levels set in 2017, over $73B has been invested in first 7 months of 2018, or about 75% of 2017's $98B — Unicorns are not zoo animals. If they were, someone might have put up a “No Feeding” sign. — Instead, investors keep throwing bigger portions at these mythical creatures.| Max Fisher / New York Times: |
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