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Sources: Apple to debut later this year a pro-focused upgrade to Mac mini and a low-cost laptop like MacBook Air but with smaller bezels and a retina 13" screen — - Retina laptop, pro-focused Mac mini desktop coming this year — Apple reported fewest Mac sales since 2010 during last quarter
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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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| 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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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 … | Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
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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| 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 … | Kashmir Hill / Jezebel: |
NYT fully omitted Mary Stone Ross, one of the original three activists behind the ballot measure that led to CA's online privacy law, from its recent deep dive — The New York Times Magazine recently published a lengthy cover story on “The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley …
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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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.| Business Insider: |
Venezuela announces it's devaluing the bolívar by 95% and pegging it to the government's oil-linked cryptocurrency, the petro — Sam Jacobs, Business Insider Australia 9h — Venezuela has announced another series of desperate measures to try to save its economy from collapse.
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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.Sponsor Posts
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