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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
A look at Ultra Wideband-based U1 chip in iPhone 11 models, which is being used for AirDrop and could have many other potential applications like tracking tags — Apple likes talking about the awesome chips it designs for its iPhones, but it hates even hinting at products it hasn't yet announced.
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
SEC filing: Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger has resigned from Apple's board — LOS ANGELES — Robert A. Iger, Disney's chief executive and chairman, has resigned from the board of Apple, whose growing Hollywood operation would have made it harder for him to fully engage as one of its directors.
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| David Coats / VC by the Numbers: |
Analysis: ~51% of capital invested into US VC-funded companies exiting over the last decade lost money, while less than 4% generated a 10x or greater return — In fact, we are highly skewed. — Most of us know intuitively that venture investing is a hits driven business.
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| Jeff Abramowitz / Wired: |
Launched 20 years ago, Wi-Fi nearly lost out to the rival HomeRF standard, which was being promoted by the group of Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft — Opinion: Launched 20 years ago this week, Wi-Fi nearly hit a dead spot. — We all love Wi-Fi, except when we can't connect.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will reportedly launch a 15-inch version of the Surface Laptop 3 during its October 2 event — Surface Book 3 probably won't appear next month — Microsoft is planning to refresh its Surface lineup next month, and there could be a bigger version of the Surface Laptop 3 in the cards.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers: execution errors prevented the Crash Override malware, which took down the Ukrainian power grid for an hour in 2016, from causing lasting damage — A fresh look at the 2016 blackout in Ukraine suggests that the cyberattack behind it was intended to cause far more damage.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
MoviePass says it is shutting down and ending service for all subscribers on Saturday, September 14 — KEY POINTS — The company informed subscribers that it was ending the service because its “efforts to recapitalize MoviePass have not been successful to date.”
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| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
Research: tech start-ups spent $44B on advertising and cloud computing from Facebook, Google, and Amazon in 2018, making up ~10% of the revenue of tech giants — Technology start-ups spent $44bn on advertising and cloud computing from Facebook, Google and Amazon last year …
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| Jason Parham / Wired: |
A profile of Urban Dictionary, which started as a fun way to find meanings for slang but has done little to moderate submissions, letting hate speech flourish — The crowdsourced dictionary once felt like a pioneering tool of the early internet era. Now in its 20th year, it has become something much more inhospitable.
Tweets: @wired, @wired, @wired, and @megreenwell
| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Interview with Björk about her album Vulnicura VR, which is arguably the world's first full “VR pop album”, now available on Windows PC via Steam — On VR's doubters: “It's a boring question. Can there be soul in technology? Yes!" — “I often feel like some sort of …
Tweets: @samred
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US Treasury sanctions three North Korean state-sponsored hacking groups, Lazarus, Bluenoroff, and Andarial; Lazarus was responsible for WannaCry ransomware — US wants to seize financial assets associated with the Lazarus Group, Bluenoroff, and Andarial. — The US Department …
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| Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
After selling AppNexus to AT&T for $1.6B, Brian O'Kelley raises $10M for his new startup, CMDTY, to apply his adtech expertise to supply chain logistics — What does physical commodities trading have in common with programmatic advertising? Quite a lot.
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