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Snap launches slimmer Spectacles 2.0 with water resistance and faster pic and video transfer times, available at Spectacles.com for $150, $20 more than before — They're slimmer, they take photos, and you can take them in the pool. But will you? — Snap today released the next generation …
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| Ruhi Sarikaya / Amazon Developer Services: |
Amazon details upcoming Alexa features: discovering skills via natural language, storing/retrieving arbitrary info, follow-up questions without “Alexa” prompt — Friction is any variable that impedes your progress toward a goal, whether it's purchasing a product or navigating traffic to make your 9 a.m. meeting on time.
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Intel hires Jim Keller, Tesla's key chip designer and head of Autopilot, as an SVP to lead silicon engineering — Legendary chip architect Jim Keller has seen an increasingly important role at Tesla since he joined the company in 2015. — He most recently took over the responsibilities … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nintendo reports operating profit of $1.62B, up 505% YoY, on strong Switch sales of 15M units in the year ending March, and names Shuntaro Furukawa as president — Nintendo sold just over 15 million Switch consoles in the last financial year, matching its own raised expectations after a hugely successful launch.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
IBM partners with a jewelry consortium to introduce TrustChain, a blockchain to prove the provenance of jewelry by following the supply chain from mine to store — Every time I talk to someone about the viability of blockchain, I get challenged to show a real project beyond the obvious bitcoin use case.
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| Damian Collins / UK Parliament: |
Disappointed with answers from Facebook's CTO at a parliamentary inquiry, MPs consider using summons power to force Zuckerberg to testify if he enters the UK — Following the questioning of Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's Chief Technology Officer, today at a public session of the Digital …
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EU lawmakers, member states strike preliminary deal to make streaming platforms finance production of local content in proportion to revenues in the country — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU lawmakers and member states on Thursday struck a preliminary deal that will allow countries … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
As the Google-led Chat carrier service shows, encryption is only viable for closed systems, so increased privacy regulations may further entrench walled gardens — It was eight years ago next month that Vic Gundotra, then-VP of Engineering at Google, delivered a blistering attack on Apple for not being open:1| Paula Parisi / Variety: |
US House unanimously passes Music Modernization Act to streamline licensing and ensure royalty protection for pre-1972 performances; bill now goes to Senate — In what is being hailed as a historic day for music creators, theMusic Modernization Act passed the House Wednesday … | Hollywood Reporter: |
MoviePass hasn't offered a $10/mo for 1 movie/day plan to new subscribers since April 13, offering 4 movies/mo and 3 months of iHeartRadio All Access instead — The subscription service famous for supplying a movie ticket per day for just $9.95 a month hasn't been offering that wildly popular package since April 13.| Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times: |
A look at China's “programmer motivators”, attractive women hired at tech firms to chat up, fan, and calm male coders, as well as give massages to ease stress — BEIJING — China's vibrant technology scene is searching for people like Shen Yue.
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Samsung, the exclusive supplier of iPhone X OLED screens, says its Q1 profits for its display business were “affected by slow demand for flexible OLED screens” — IPhone X screenmaker adds to chorus of sales concerns — Samsung is exclusive supplier of OLED screens to Apple
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Qualcomm says it will cap phone price at $400 for IP license fee calculations so vendors don't have to pay more for more expensive phones — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc's earnings call on Wednesday showed just how far the company is willing to go to preserve one of its core business practices …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
London-based payments startup Revolut raises $250M led by DST Global, bringing its valuation to $1.7B, says it has 250K daily active users — - DST Global, a company that was an early investor in Facebook and Spotify, led the funding round, which included other venture capital firms Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital.
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A look at the future of Hulu, which, sources say, is nearing 20M subscribers, up 18% in 4 months aided by Handmaid's Tale and Live TV — As season 2 of the reigning Emmy champ debuts and the streaming service once nicknamed “Clown Co.” now nears 20 million subscribers … Sponsor Posts
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