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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it has begun construction of its $1B Austin, Texas campus, opening in 2022, as Trump is scheduled to tour the nearby Mac Pro production plant — Apple has announced that it has begun construction of its new Austin, Texas, campus, on the day that President Trump is due to tour …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find bugs in Google and Samsung camera apps from before July 2019 that could record video, take pictures, and extract GPS data without permission — A new vulnerability has been found in the Camera apps for millions, if not hundreds of millions, of Android devices that could allow …
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Tweets: @rvawonk, @0xmatt, @arunsub, @scmagazine, and @lukolejnik
| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba has raised ~$11.2B in its Hong Kong share sale, after pricing 500M new shares at HK$176, in one of the largest equity offerings this year — - Company priced 500 million new shares at HK$176 each — Alibaba's share sale is among the world's largest this year
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| Joel Marcey / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook details how it's moving from Nuclide to Visual Studio Code for its internal default development environment and contributing remote development tools — History — Facebook engineers have written millions of lines of code. There is no mandated development environment. Some developers use vim.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches Apple Music for Business, letting businesses play music in retail locations with Apple providing human-curated playlists and recommendations — Apple Music is now partnering with businesses to play music at retail stores. In a partnership with PlayNetwork … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Starburst, which is seeking to modernize data analytics with the open source Presto distributed query engine, raises $22M led by Index Ventures — Starburst, the company that's looking to monetize the open-source Presto distributed query engine, today announced that it has raised … | Brad Templeton / Forbes: |
NTSB finds Uber's safety driver the primary cause of fatal Tempe crash, also blames lack of “safety culture” at Uber; AI not detecting jaywalkers played no role — The National Transportation Safety Board presented its findings today on the fatal crash involving an Uber test robocar and Elaine Herzberg.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches Google Earth tools that let users create and present virtual tours, with attached text, images, and videos, for specific places — It's like a homemade guided tour — Today, Google is adding new tools to Google Earth on the web that let you build your own tour of a place right on top of the Google Earth map.
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Facebook begins rolling out new “brand safety” tools to let advertisers control the content their ads appear around, including white-listing publishers — - Facebook announced a slate of new “brand safety” tools for advertisers Wednesday, a way to let advertisers have more control over the content where their ads appear.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Vayyar, which builds radar-imaging chips, sensors, and software, for auto and IoT applications, raises $109M Series D led by Koch Disruptive Technologies — The future of the connected home, connected car and connected everything will have a lot of imaging technology at the center of it …
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SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, Tech.eu, Reuters, and NoCamels. Tweets: @ingridlunden. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| VICE: |
Anonymous users on Reddit, Patreon, and other websites are making, selling, and getting off to custom 3D likenesses of celebrities and other real people — \u003Cp\u003EYou can buy a belly button online. It can be an innie, outtie, twisted to the left or the right, and placed on a virtual body.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Gravitational raises $25M Series A, led by Kleiner Perkins, to help developers with cloud deployment using Kubernetes — As we move into an increasingly multi-cloud world, there is a portability problem moving applications between clouds. Gravitational wants to fix that, and today it announced a $25 million Series A.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Amazon's Ring says police can request 12 hours of video footage from users near suspected crime scenes, keep the video forever, and share it with anyone — Police officers who download videos captured by homeowners' Ring doorbell cameras can keep them forever and share them with whomever …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Uber says user data requests in 2019 from the US and Canada rose 27% YoY, with 3,825 US requests for 21,913 user accounts; Uber shared data 72% of the time — Uber says the number of legal demands for riders' data made by U.S. and Canadian authorities has risen sharply in the past year.| Pratik Bhakta / The Economic Times: |
Bengaluru-based Perfios, a credit decisioning and analytics company, raises $50M Series B led by Warburg Pincus and Bessemer Venture Partners — Founded by V R Govindarajan and Debashish Chakraborty, Perfios is a credit decisioning and analytics company which works with over 200 banks, non-bank lenders and fintech startups
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Facebook quietly releases Whale, a meme-making iOS app, in Canada — The app was quietly released in Canada last week — Last week, Facebook quietly released a new meme-making app called Whale, The Information reports. The app is currently only available on the Canadian App Store … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Cerebras Systems announces CS-1, an AI compute system powered by the world's largest chip; Argonne National Lab is using the first systems for basic research — Cerebras' world's largest chip takes compute to a whole new level. — Cerebras Systems' announced its new CS-1 system here at Supercomputing 2019.Sponsor Posts
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UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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