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Sources: Apple to debut a pro-focused upgrade to Mac mini and a low-cost laptop like MacBook Air but with smaller bezels and a retina 13" screen later this year — - Retina laptop, pro-focused Mac mini desktop coming this year — Apple reported fewest Mac sales since 2010 during last quarter
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Tweets: @thurrott and @markgurman
| New York Times: |
Microsoft says hackers linked to the Russian military intelligence agency formerly known as the GRU targeted conservative US think tanks that challenge Moscow — BOSTON — The Russian military intelligence unit that sought to influence the 2016 election appears to have a new target …
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Microsoft on the Issues, Associated Press, Axios, BleepingComputer, Reuters, Engadget, CNN, Washington Post, CNET, GeekWire, and Financial Times
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Michael Rothenberg files suit against Silicon Valley Bank, alleges it transferred $4.25M to the wrong account, making it appear he had misappropriated funds — Mike Rothenberg's story has all the elements of a Silicon Valley drama: A wunderkind shakes up the venture capitalist business … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
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U.S. Securities …, CNBC, TechCrunch, Crowdfund Insider, Wall Street Journal, and Axios
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia debuts GeForce RTX 2000 GPU series with RTX 2070, RTX 2080, RTX 2080 Ti, claims up to 6 times more performance than last gen, begins shipping Sept. 20 — $1,199 for Nvidia's fastest GeForce card — Nvidia is unveiling its new GeForce RTX 2000 series of graphics cards at Gamescom in Germany today.
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
A look at how ten of the biggest Democratic donors from Silicon Valley are not only pumping money into the midterms but also rethinking how their money is spent — A cheat sheet to the gusher of cash flooding the system in advance of Election Day. — Tech resistance to U.S. President Donald Trump has reached its zenith.
Tweets: @teddyschleifer, @teddyschleifer, and @teddyschleifer
| Matthew Leising / Bloomberg: |
The Winklevoss' debut Virtual Commodity Association, a self-regulatory working group for crypto assets; members include Gemini, Bitstamp, bitFlyer USA, Bittrex — - The Virtual Commodity Association seeks to stamp out cheating — Members include Gemini, Bitstamp, BitFlyer and Bittrex
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Business Wire, Business Insider, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, U.S. CFTC, Gemini, CoinDesk, The Hill, Bitsonline, ETHNews, CoinDesk, Hacked, and INSIDER. Tweets: @crypto
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Twitch says it will start showing ads to new Twitch Prime members from Sept. 14 and existing members Oct. 15; the $9/month Turbo plan will keep ad-free viewing — Twitch says its $8.99-per-month Turbo subscription will still offer ad-free viewing — Twitch Prime, the streaming video …
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Tweets: @twitchprime, @justinwong, @gamingcareers, and @flipperone2012
| 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 … | Soutik Biswas / BBC: |
To combat fake news on WhatsApp, the South Indian state of Kerala is running 40-minute classes in 150 schools to educate kids in spotting viral hoaxes — Mobs have lynched at least 25 people across India after reading false rumours spread on WhatsApp. Now the authorities in one Indian state …
Tweets: @bbcindia
| Frank Catalano / GeekWire: |
Microsoft will launch Minecraft: Education Edition on the iPad in September, 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, a set of features created …
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Microsoft EDU, Quartz, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, On MSFT, Thurrott.com, and MacRumors. Thanks:@toddbishop
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
JBL's Link Bar, the sound bar announced at Google I/O with built-in Android TV and Google Assistant, costs $399 and is slated for October; pre-orders now open — Android TV was given new life this year courtesy of a renewed focus from Google as well as plenty of new hardware.
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Android Police, The Verge, BetaNews, Android Authority, Engadget, and Android Central
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
IMAX says it has canceled the development of a VR camera it had partnered with Google on; source: Google pulled out late last year as it shifted its focus to AR — Google and Imax won't be building a virtual reality (VR) camera together after all: A joint camera project that the two companies embarked … Sponsor Posts
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