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Experts say domestic abusers increasingly use connected home devices like smart locks, security cameras, and lighting to scare or spy on victims — SAN FRANCISCO — The people who called into the help hotlines and domestic violence shelters said they felt as if they were going crazy.
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Sources: Trump admin planning rules to block firms with >25% Chinese ownership from buying firms with “industrially significant” tech, plus new export controls — Treasury is crafting rules that would block firms with at least 25% Chinese ownership from buying companies involved in ‘industrially significant technology’| The Verge: |
As Trump admin prepares for $200B in new tariffs on Chinese goods, small US gadget makers fear that price increases on key parts may put them out of business — Trump's tariffs could spell doom for small hardware startups — As the White House barrels toward $250 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports …
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Sources: Apple to unveil high-end AirPods with noise-cancellation, studio-quality over-ear headphones, and a new HomePod as early as next year — - High-end AirPods and over-ear headphones coming next year — Foxconn to build AirPods; Inventec may lose some HomePod work| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Details of Qualcomm SDM1000, likely Snapdragon 1000, leak showing bigger, 20×15mm sized chip for Windows 10 on ARM PCs to compete with Intel Core Y and U CPUs — Design goes head to head with Intel's Y and U series Core-branded processors. — Details of the SDM1000 … | Benedict Evans: |
Machine learning may become a ubiquitous and fundamental enabling layer, similar to how relational databases impacted society in the eighties — We're now four or five years into the current explosion of machine learning, and pretty much everyone has heard of it.
Tweets: @graph_zahl, @ethanhays, @abhijitbhaduri, @stevenjluck, and @valaafshar
| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
As chain restaurants increasingly deploy tabletop tablets, servers find they have to contend with inaccurate rankings, unfair scores, and inappropriate comments — In data-hungry, tech-happy chain restaurants, customers are rating their servers using tabletop tablets, not realizing those ratings can put jobs at risk.
Tweets: @cavni
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Google says it is adding a file signature to the header of Android app metadata, helping users determine the authenticity of an app not from the Play Store — Google is changing how the Play Store app is verifying the authenticity of Android apps before installation.
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| Darrell M. West / Brookings: |
Survey of 2,021 US adult internet users: 61% are somewhat or very uncomfortable with robots; 52% say robots will perform most human activities within 30 years — Fifty-two percent of adult internet users believe within 30 years, robots will have advanced to the point where they can perform …
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| Julie Creswell / New York Times: |
As Amazon-run private label brands grow to roughly 100 with $25B in expected revenue over the next four years, potential antitrust concerns could arise — It started with a simple battery. — Around 2009, Amazon quietly entered the private label business by offering a handful of items under a new brand called AmazonBasics.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Enterprise sales intelligence startup Tact.ai raises $27M Series C led by Amazon's Alexa Fund, Microsoft's M12, Salesforce Ventures, and Comcast Ventures — Tact.ai, a Redwood City, California-based enterprise intelligence startup, announced today that it closed a $27 million funding round led …
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Microsoft and Ernst & Young announce blockchain-based content rights and royalties management network, first to be deployed for Microsoft's gaming partners — Blockchain might actually prove helpful for a change — In an effort to demonstrate there are actual uses for blockchain technology …
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