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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 …
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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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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Jack Dorsey tries to explain why Twitter ignored rules violations by Infowars for so long, says company waited for others to report violations before acting — Two weeks ago, Apple, Facebook, YouTube and others kicked the harassing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars site off their services.
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| Mehreen Khan / Financial Times: |
Source: EU is drafting regulations to impose fines on social media platforms if they do not remove material flagged as terrorist content within an hour — Brussels plans to force companies including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to identify and delete online terrorist propaganda and extremist violence or face the threat of fines.
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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.
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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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| 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 December 31, 2017 — Farfetch, the UK-based marketplace for high-end fashion and other luxury goods, has confirmed its plans to go public.| 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 … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Department of Housing and Urban Development files a complaint against Facebook, says company's ad targeting tools enabled Fair Housing Act violations — A new complaint filed Friday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) accuses Facebook of helping landlords and home sellers violate the Fair Housing Act.| Lawrence D. Burns / Wall Street Journal: |
How Detroit shunned overtures from Chauffeur, a secret project inside Google that eventually became Waymo, before embracing self-driving cars — America's car industry dismissed the potential of autonomous driving for years as tech companies plunged ahead. Now Detroit is racing to catch up.
Tweets: @wsj
| Li Tao / South China Morning Post: |
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