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Canalys: Baidu crossed Google to capture 17.3% of the global smart speaker market, growing 3700% YoY with 4.5M shipments in Q2 2019; Amazon had 6.6M shipments — The global smart speaker market grew 55.4% in Q2 2019 to reach 26.1 million units. Amazon maintained the worldwide lead …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google and Dell team up to unveil Latitude enterprise-grade Chromebooks, with 8th-gen Intel Core i7 CPUs, available to order from August 27, starting at $699 — The next time you get a laptop from your company's IT department, you might be getting a Chromebook.
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The Verge, ZDNet, Tom's Hardware, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, CNET, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, About Chromebooks, Fortune, TechSpot, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @kevinctofel
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Apple releases iOS 12.4.1 to patch a bug, inadvertently reintroduced in iOS 12.4, which allowed up-to-date iPhones to be jailbroken for the first time in years — The company released a patch to fix a dangerous bug on Monday, a week after hackers had released a jailbreak for fully patched iPhones.
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Apple Support, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Threatpost, Ars Technica, BleepingComputer, Engadget, CyberScoop, iMore, Tom's Guide, and The Mac Observer
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Binance launches a crypto lending business, allowing holders of its BNB token, Ethereum Classic, and Tether to lend their assets and earn interest — The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has ventured into lending space, according to an announcement Monday.| Reuters: |
Macron says France and the US reached a deal that will end the standoff over a French tax on large internet companies that was passed earlier this year — BIARITTZ, France (Reuters) - France and the United States have reached a deal to end a standoff over a French tax on big internet companies …
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CNET, Telegraph, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, Neowin, and Slashdot
| Alison Bevege / Reuters: |
Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events; sites to be censored will be determined on a case-by-case basis — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events …
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Ars Technica, Gizmodo, iTnews, TechSpot, The Next Web, and Engadget
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| Nathaniel Mott / Tom's Hardware: |
GlobalFoundries sues TSMC in the US and Germany, alleges infringement of 16 patents and seeks processor import bans that could affect Nvidia and Apple — GlobalFoundries (GF) today announced that it filed lawsuits against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) …
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES, SiliconANGLE, CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, and PC Gamer. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead. Thanks:@paulyalcorn
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Megvii, a China-based facial recognition focused startup, files for a Hong Kong IPO; Megvii has raised $750M, reportedly at a $4B valuation, earlier this year — KEY POINTS — An attendee uses his smartphone to record a facial-recognition demonstration on himself at the Beijing Megvii Co. booth …
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Abacus, TechCrunch, Reuters, Nikkei Asian Review, Bloomberg, Pandaily, Financial Times, China Money Network, and Tech in Asia
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hackers seen attacking enterprise networks' Webmin servers and VPN services by Pulse Secure and Fortinet, after critical flaws were recently made public — Enterprise networks across the world are at risk after hackers start exploiting three very popular products.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
CRED, a 9-month old Indian startup, raises $120M Series B to help people improve their financial behavior; source: the startup's valuation is now $430M-$450M — Many Silicon Valley companies and fintech startups in India today share a common mission: They all want to bring their financial services to the next billion users.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
FreshToHome, which runs a fish, meat, and vegetable e-commerce platform in three Indian cities, raises $20M Series B, three months after an $11M Series A — FreshToHome, a Bangalore-based e-commerce startup that sells fresh vegetable, fish, chicken and other kinds of meat …
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| Emily Baumgaertner / Los Angeles Times: |
Source: DHS exposed sensitive data from a bioterrorism defense program on an insecure website for over a decade, despite warnings, before being secured in May — The Department of Homeland Security stored sensitive data from the nation's bioterrorism defense program on an insecure website … Sponsor Posts
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