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Donald Trump criticizes social media companies for allegedly “discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices”, says “we won't let that happen” — President Donald Trump on Saturday took to Twitter to allege social media companies are discriminating …
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Arm unveiled its CPU IP roadmap through 2020 for chips that it hopes will successfully compete with Intel Core CPUs in laptops — Today's announcement is an oddball one for Arm as we see the first-ever public forward looking CPU IP roadmap detailing performance and power projections for the next two generations through to 2020.
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A look at Facebook's plans to avert interference in the midterms, including putting people from various teams in a physical war room, a first for a US election — Is it enough? — Two weeks ago, on a hastily scheduled conference call with journalists, Facebook executives announced … | Adam Segal / Foreign Affairs: |
How President Xi Jinping plans to turn China into a “cyber-superpower” that will dominate the web through domestic regulations, innovation, and foreign policy — For almost five decades, the United States has guided the growth of the Internet. From its origins as a small Pentagon program …
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Uber has provided 1B rides in the last four years in Brazil, its second largest market after US, and is profitable there according to the company execs — SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] plans to open a 250 million reais ($64 million) … | Jeremy Gordon / The Outline: |
For well-intentioned discussion, maybe people should move from Twitter to Tumblr, still the world's 52nd-most popular site but with the feel of a ghost town — A reconsideration of the last great blogging platform. — Maybe you're familiar with the many reasons why people hate Twitter.
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Walmart says it has completed its $16B acquisition of Flipkart — Flipkart's existing management team led by CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy will continue to lead the business
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Profile of TripAdvisor, which has become entangled in debates over free speech as it struggles to defend legitimate reviewers against litigious business owners — The world's biggest travel site has turned the industry upside down - but now it is struggling to deal with the same kinds …
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Profile of ConsenSys, a Brooklyn-based blockchain startup incubator launched by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, that analysts estimate spends $100M+ per year — In a converted warehouse in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, dozens of ambitious developers are working to build blockchain applications … | Richard Gao / Android Police: |
Snapchat releases Alpha version of redesigned UI for Android with primary focus on performance, can be enabled on devices with root access — Back in November of last year, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel announced that a new Android app was being built from the ground up.
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| John R. Quain / New York Times: |
Behind the auto industry's quest to replace the aging CAN standard with a new in-vehicle networking standard for transmitting data from autonomous car sensors — Cars need to get faster — not on the road, but on the inside. — Speed has always been part of the mystique of the automotive business.
Tweets: @terri_d, @nytimesbusiness, @nytimestech, @nytimestech, @nytimestech, @nytimestech, and @nytimestech
| Danny Gold / Wired: |
How small startup Hala built Sentry, a social media warning system deployed in Syria using humans and remote sensors to predict when and where bombs may fall — The Bashar al-Assad regime's indiscriminate air strikes have terrorized civilians for years. Now a small band of activist-entrepreneurs …
Tweets: @wired and @thesyriacmpgn
| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Sources: as Google considers return to China, Sundar Pichai talks about potential positive impact, while Sergey Brin, who led 2010 pullout, now sounds neutral — Mozilla, another progressive U.S. internet player, ceded moral high ground to stay in China — Google executives admitted …
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