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Colin Kroll, the CEO, co-founder of HQ Trivia and co-founder of Vine, has died at 35; police source says a drug overdose is suspected — Colin Kroll, the CEO and co-founder of HQ Trivia has died of an apparent drug overdose ... TMZ has learned. — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ …
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Robinhood deletes tweets about launching checking and savings accounts, scrubs the page from its website, and now calls the offering a “cash management” program — After a backlash around the marketing of its newest product, Robinhood Financial LLC has rebranded the service … | Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
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Tencent's Blade security team finds SQLite vulnerability that affects thousands of apps, including Google Home and Chromium open-source browser engine — New ‘Magellan’ vulnerability will haunt the app ecosystem for years to come. — A security vulnerability in the massively popular …
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PlanetScale, a database-as-a-service startup based on tech that helped scale YouTube, emerges from stealth, had raised $3M seed from tech luminaries last April — Database legends emerge with a new startup — When the former CTOs of YouTube, Facebook and Dropbox seed fund a database startup … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Latticework, which is working on a consumer focused $550 NAS device called Amber and a cloud backup platform, has raised a $13M seed round — It seems nary a week goes by without a breach that compromises millions of personal files. On Monday, Google revealed that it will shut down its social network … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Synthace, the developer of Antha OS for automating laboratory processes for biological experiments, raises $25.6M Series B led by Horizons Ventures — U.K.-based startup Synthace wants to automate laboratory processes with a programming language designed for biological experiments, and it's getting the financial backing to do it.
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The recklessness of Uber and Tesla in their development of autonomous cars risks alienating a public already wary of self-driving vehicles — Autonomous vehicles were supposed to make driving safer, and they may yet—some of the more optimistic research indicates self-driving cars could save tens …
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
A year after FCC's vote to repeal net neutrality rules, there have been no big changes in how ISPs and mobile carriers provide their services — IT'S BEEN ONE year since the Federal Communications Commission voted to gut its net neutrality rules. The good news is that the internet isn't drastically different than it was before.| Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age: |
Hulu is launching a new private programmatic marketplace for advertisers to buy its on-demand and TV inventory; the marketplace won't replace upfront deals — Hulu is further automating advertising on the streaming platform with a new private programmatic marketplace.| Aisha Hassan / Quartz: |
How MindGeek, a company that dominates online porn with sites like Pornhub Network and Brazzers, uses big data to track what users watch and produce its videos — The biggest and perhaps best source of data about what people like to watch on the internet and what they would pay for doesn't come … | Annie Pei / CNBC: |
Intel extends partnership with esports company ESL in $100M deal to provide tech, including high-powered CPUs and 5G, for esports events worldwide through 2021 — - Intel and esports company ESL have extended a long-standing partnership, signing a three-year, $100 million deal designed …
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How Jolla's Sailfish has survived as an independent mobile OS by targeting government and enterprise sectors in Russia and China which are wary of Google — Alternative mobile operating systems have come and gone over the years, but only Sailfish has survived the iOS and Android duopoly.
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