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Sources: new 5.8" and 6.5" OLED iPhones, due in September, to get speed and camera improvements; 6.1-inch LCD version to have aluminum sides — - Two high-end OLED models focus on speed and camera upgrades — New iPad Pros, Apple Watches with larger screens also coming
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Facebook removes 18 Facebook accounts, one Instagram account, and 52 Facebook Pages, including Burmese military officials, in response to Myanmar violence — The ethnic violence in Myanmar has been truly horrific. Earlier this month, we shared an update on the steps we're taking to prevent …
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| Madhav Chanchani / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to acquire a 3%-4% stake in Paytm's parent company One97 Communications, valuing Paytm at over $10B — Softbank and Alibaba-backed Paytm may get valued at $10 billion after this funding from Berkshire Hathaway
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| Palmer Luckey / The Blog of Palmer Luckey: |
Oculus cofounder reviews Magic Leap: less of a functional developer kit, more of a flashy hype vehicle that almost nobody can actually use in a meaningful way — The title of this review was carefully chosen, not glibly. I want what is best for VR and all other technologies on the Reality-Virtuality Continuum, Magic Leap included.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Didi suspends its Hitch carpooling service in China after a driver allegedly raped and killed a carpooling passenger, the second such incident in 2018 — Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing, the $60 billion-valued company that bought out Uber's China business, has suspended its carpooling service …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Reuters, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, New York Times, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, TechNode, China Money Network, CNET, Gizmodo, BBC, Reuters, Tech in Asia, and Reuters
Tweets: @nytimes, @elizabeth_joh, and @cgtnofficial
| CNN: |
Multiple fatalities reported in a mass shooting during a Madden NFL gaming tournament in Jacksonville, Florida; shooter had won previous Madden NFL tournaments — (CNN)The sheriff's office in Jacksonville, Florida, said there was a mass shooting at a downtown marketplace on Sunday and urged people to stay far away from the area.| Shannon Bond / Financial Times: |
CEO says Uber is planning a shift from cars to electric bikes and scooters for shorter trips as part of its long-term strategy, despite short-term financial hit — Uber is planning a shift in emphasis from cars to electric bicycles and scooters for shorter journeys as part of its long-term strategy …
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Axios, Ars Technica, The Guardian, Business Insider, BBC, PYMNTS.com, Firstpost, Silicon Republic, Fortune, and reddit.com
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| Tim Swanson / Great Wall of Numbers: |
New estimate suggests blockchain networks of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero combined consume about as much electricity as The Netherlands — I recently created a thread that on Twitter regarding the lower-bound estimates for how much electricity the Bitcoin blockchain consumed using publicly available numbers.| Samson Mow / THE LION'S DEN: |
At its core Bitmain is a chip company developing chips optimized for cryptocurrency mining, and it has failed to successfully deploy a next gen chip since 2016 — This is the third time that this article has been published. 2048 Capital is an offshore cryptocurrency investment fund.
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South China Morning Post, CoinDesk, and NewsBTC
Tweets: @excellion, @excellion, and @jeetsidhu_
| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
Q&A with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster on the company's bet on 7nm instead of 10nm as Intel's chips face delays, plans to win market share in the server space, more — AMD CTO Mark Papermaster tells CRN why the company now has a “razor's edge” to compete against Intel and how it plans to win more market share in the server space.
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Source: the Defense Department wants to put a total of $1.7B toward the new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center over the next five years — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In a May memo to President Trump, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis implored him to create a national strategy for artificial intelligence.
Tweets: @benioff and @stevekopack
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
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