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Palantir wins a one year $111M contract to connect US Army's operations systems into a single dashboard; Palantir reportedly took over Project Maven — - Company beats Microsoft, Ernst & Young, Accenture, Deloitte — Peter Thiel-backed company is also working on Project Maven
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Source: Uber is in advanced talks to sell Uber Eats India to local rival Zomato in a deal that values Uber Eats India at ~$400M — Uber is in final stages to close a deal to sell its food delivery platform UberEats' India business to local rival Zomato, as the American ride-hailing giant looks … | Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Q&A with NYT's Taylor Lorenz on how she covers internet culture and how online harassment of women is fueled by closed, moderated spaces like Facebook groups — Taylor Lorenz, who writes about internet culture, explains how she keeps her finger on the pulse.| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Google halts Chrome 79 rollout on Android, which was ~50% complete, after the misconfigured update wipes user data from many apps using Android's native WebView — Chrome 79 started rolling out on desktop and mobile platforms a few days ago. Unfortunately, a bug has cropped up that wipes data … | Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Researchers: deep learning, which led to great advances in AI over the past decade, is nearing its limits and new approaches are needed for further progress — Leaders in artificial intelligence warn that progress is slowing, big challenges remain, and simply throwing more computers at a problem isn't sustainable.
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Keybase CEO says an onslaught of spammers derailed an airdrop of Stellar coins for Keybase users, initially pitched as a ~$120M giveaway — Spammers started showing up on Keybase as soon as Stellar announced a giant airdrop on the encryption app. They went away as soon as word went out that the free money era was over.| New Orleans Times-Picayune: |
New Orleans declares state of emergency after the city was hit by a cyberattack on Friday, says it has not yet found evidence that data was compromised — Collin Arnold, the Director of the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, speaks during the press conference …
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Argo AI CEO says the company plans to charge per mile for using its autonomous tech in commercial vehicles; sources: Ford and VW each own around 40% of Argo AI — PITTSBURGH/DETROIT (Reuters) - Sky's the limit optimism about self-driving cars is giving way to tougher questions … | Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Australian Securities Exchange is working with Digital Asset to convert part of its settlement process to blockchain, invests in the startup's $35M Series C — Digital Asset (DA) has raised $35 million in Series C funding, signaling a comeback for the enterprise blockchain startup a year … | Zen Soo / South China Morning Post: |
Grab says that food and financial services, which have better margins than ride-hailing, now generate more than 50% of its gross merchandise volume — Food and financial services now make up more than 50 per cent of Grab's gross merchandise volume, according to Lim Kell Jay …
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| Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Q&A with Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on the company's new business line, specialized networking chips, which it's now selling to Facebook, AT&T, Microsoft, others — Cisco is best known for selling routers and switches, but now the networking giant is expanding into the highly-competitive business of selling computer chips.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Airbnb rival WhyHotel, which operates temporary hotels out of unrented luxury apartment buildings, raises $20M Series B, bringing total raised to $35M — Airbnb has emerged as the single greatest disruptor of the $500 billion hotel industry over the past decade.
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