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Salesforce to buy data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal, a big premium to the company's market cap of $10.8B at Friday's trading close — On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says its next high-end Xbox console, codenamed Project Scarlett, is coming Fall 2020 and will support 8K gaming, be 4X as powerful as the Xbox One X — Project Scarlett arrives in fall 2020 — Microsoft is revealing the first details about its next-generation Xbox hardware today.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's xCloud console streaming service to let users stream their Xbox One library, including Xbox Game Pass, to many platforms; preview coming in October — Microsoft has been teasing its project xCloud game streaming service since October, and we're now starting to hear more details on how it will work.
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Google is rolling out Assistant in Waze on Android phones in English in the US — Think about the last time you were stuck in traffic—the minutes you spent staring at a long line of red taillights probably didn't feel productive. The Assistant can already help with navigation in Google Maps …
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| Tushar Mehta / XDA Developers: |
Google seems to be testing a new feature for Maps in India that alerts users every time their taxi or ride goes off route by 500 meters — Getting driving directions from Google Maps is one of its most vital and useful features. To make navigation more effective for the drivers …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Q&A with Stadia chief Phil Harrison on Google's commitment to the service, possibility of subscribing to libraries of individual publishers, free multiplayer — While Google does not have a show floor presence at the gaming conference, Stadia head Phil Harrison did sit down for his “only E3 interview” on Sunday.
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Vectra, which uses AI to analyze network traffic and help companies detect cyberattacks, raises $100M Series E led by TCV, bringing the total raised to $220M+ — Alongside the wave of acquisitions that took place in the past few weeks, the cybersecurity industry has seen a number of startups raise substantial funding rounds.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
UK-based Privitar, which provides data privacy software for large organizations including HSBC and UK's NHS, raises $40M Series B led by Accel — Privitar, a software startup that helps enterprises and other organizations engineer privacy protection into their various data projects …
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| Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
Aurora partners with Fiat Chrysler to develop and deploy self-driving commercial vehicles including Ram trucks and Fiat Professional models — Days after abandoning merger talks with France's Renault, Fiat Chrysler is shifting its focus to a new partnership: teaming up with Silicon Valley tech startup Aurora …
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| Andy Patrizio / Ars Technica: |
A look at EverQuest, the 20-year-old game that served as the model for many other MMORPGs, inspired over a dozen spin-offs, and is still running to this day — A game born in an era of dial-up Internet is still doing well after all this time—how?! — Twenty years ago …
Tweets: @arstechnica
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Election Systems & Software says it “will no longer sell” paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots, amid election security concerns — Voting machine maker ES&S has said it “will no longer sell” paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots in a jurisdiction.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Report sheds light on the various ways hackers make money from stolen medical data, from forging a doctor's identity to selling fake prescriptions and labels — Stolen medical information can sell for up to six times as much as PII, and there are reasons for that.| Christopher Tolve / The Drum: |
Cybersecurity company Cheq estimates ad fraud at $23B in 2019; World Federation of Advertisers estimates 30% of ads are unseen by customers — Global ad fraud is predicted to cost an unprecedented $23bn this year and could reach $30bn including indirect economic and social costs … Sponsor Posts
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