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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Gab.com takes its service offline after GoDaddy informed the company they had violated terms of service and had 24 hours to move the domain to another provider — Gab, the controversial social network with a far-right following, has pulled its website offline after domain provider GoDaddy gave it 24 hours to move to another service.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
How Gab, the social network where the Pittsburgh shooting suspect aired his hatred in full, became a platform of choice for neo-Nazis and other extremists — Early Saturday, moments before the police say he barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue and opened fire, Robert D. Bowers's anti-Semitic …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
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| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
IBM has agreed to acquire Red Hat in a deal valued at $34B, a 60%+ premium over Friday's closing price; Red Hat will become part of IBM's Hybrid Cloud division — IBM is acquiring Red Hat, a major distributor of open-source software and technology, in a deal valued around $34 billion, the companies announced on Sunday.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
With its acquisition of Red Hat, IBM refocuses on its core strengths, rather than Watson, an AI push that was always more hype than reality — With its latest $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, IBM may have found something more elementary than “Watson” to save its flagging business.
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| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
South Korea-based NXC, which owns local cryptocurrency exchange Korbit, has acquired Bitstamp, EU's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume — NEW YORK (Reuters) - NXMH, a Belgium-based investment company, has acquired digital currency exchange Bitstamp in an all cash deal …
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| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: |
After Orlando let its pilot with Amazon's facial “Rekognition” tech expire amid public outcry in June, FOIA docs show a new pilot has begun under a mutual NDA — Walking around downtown Orlando, you might not notice the lightbulb-sized camera affixed to one of the traffic signal poles along …
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| Matthew Miller / ZDNet: |
OnePlus 6T announced with in-screen fingerprint scanner, 6.4" display, dual rear cameras, 8GB RAM, and no headphone jack, will be sold through T-Mobile in US — Rumors revealed all the details of the new OnePlus phone and today the OnePlus 6T was officially announced in NYC.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
RED Hydrogen One review: unique design and long-lasting battery, but holographic display is poor and blurry, and it falls far short of other $1,000+ phones — It's obvious this is RED's first phone — RED's debut smartphone is such a mess that it made me question what fundamental parts of a phone we truly need.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google updates Firebase with premium enterprise-grade support, better ML Kit facial recognition, Management API, a Test Lab for iOS, and more — Google today updated Firebase, its service for helping developers build apps for Android, iOS, and the web. Firebase has gained paid enterprise-grade support …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Why Android Nearby, iBeacons, and Eddystone failed to gain traction: low consumer awareness, spammy local notifications, complicated on-site rollouts, more — Apple, Google, and other tech titans once trumpeted beacons — tiny transmitters that interact with smartphones, wearables, and other nearby gadgets — as the future of retail.
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Tweets: @glenvillemorris, @charlesarthur, and @kexino
| Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo: |
DJI launches $2,000 Mavic 2 Enterprise, with accessories for emergency operations like a spotlight, a loudspeaker, and an ultra-light beacon, available today — DJI just announced the rumored (and leaked) Mavic 2 Enterprise. It looks a lot like the consumer-focused Mavic 2 series …
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| Gabrielle Canon / The Guardian: |
Ann Cavoukian, a key privacy expert in joint Toronto and Sidewalk Labs smart city project, has quit, citing opposition over proposed data collection practices — Wired neighborhood planned by Google sister company has raised questions over data protection — When it was announced last year … Sponsor Posts
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