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Chinese state media, which recently criticized Apple for illegal apps in the China App Store, says Apple has removed 25,000 apps — Apple offers more than 1.8 million apps in China — BEIJING—Under fire from Chinese state media, Apple Inc. AAPL 2.00% said it removed illegal gambling apps …
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| Frank Catalano / GeekWire: |
Microsoft will launch Minecraft: Education Edition on the iPad in September; company says the school version now has 35M licensees in 115 countries — Just in time for back-to-school, “Minecraft: Education Edition” is coming to Apple's iPad. And also for the first time …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia debuts GeForce RTX 2000 GPU series with RTX 2070, RTX 2080, RTX 2080 Ti, claiming up to “6 times more performance” than last gen, shipping begins Sept 20 — Nvidia is unveiling its new GeForce RTX 2000 series of graphics cards today at Gamescom in Germany today.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Fitbit unveils $150 Charge 3 Core with a touchscreen, water resistance, expanded notifications, and $170 Special Edition with Fitbit Pay, available from October — Can a fitness tracker survive in a world of smartwatches? — It may feel like all the attention is on full-fledged smartwatches these days … | Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Giphy refreshes its homepage to feature sets of GIFs around different trending topics, curated by an editorial team, called Stories — Giphy, the search engine for GIFs, is rolling out a redesigned homepage today to capitalize on GIFs' reputation for capturing memorable moments from live events.| Matt McFarland / CNNMoney: |
Facebook's AI lab hopes to make MRI exams 10 times faster, partners with NYU's medical school, which is providing an anonymous dataset of 10,000 MRI results — How controversy changed Facebook's mission — Facebook's artificial intelligence lab is working with New York University's medical school … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Farfetch, the UK-based marketplace for high-end fashion and luxury goods, files for IPO on NYSE and says it had ~1M active consumers as of last year — Farfetch, the UK-based marketplace for high-end fashion and other luxury goods, has confirmed its plans to go public.| Pradeep / MSPoweruser: |
Skype launches end-to-end encrypted conversations out of preview, but feature is opt-in and users' private messages don't sync across devices — Back in January, Microsoft announced the preview of end-to-end encrypted Private Conversations on Skype. When you chat with someone using … | Kashmir Hill / Jezebel: |
NYT's recent deep dive on those behind ballot measure that led to CA's online privacy law fully omitted the role of Mary Stone Ross, who didn't support the bill — The New York Times Magazine recently published a lengthy cover story on “The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley …
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| Louis Hyman / New York Times: |
Tech did not create the gig economy, which has been growing since the 1970s; services like Uber and TaskRabbit just took advantage of and intensified the trend — The insecure nature of work is a result of decisions by corporations and policymakers. — Mr. Hyman is an economic historian.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Karma, a food-ordering app for buying and selling surplus food from 1,500+ food outlets in London and Sweden, raises $12M Series A led by Kinnevik — Around one third of the food produced each year — 1.3 billion tons of it — is either lost or wasted, according to data from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
LA-based AuditBoard, a risk and compliance cloud software provider for large businesses, raises $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures — Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, the two founders of AuditBoard, a Los Angeles-based provider of a risk and compliance software service for large businesses, grew up middle school friends in Cerritos, Calif.Sponsor Posts
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