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TSMC says a virus infected its fabrication tools on Friday night and shut down several factories, some of which won't restart at least until Sunday — - Some factories back to normal, rest in another day, TSMC says — Virus that struck Friday night ‘was not caused by hacker’| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Crunchbase: Boston on track to overtake NYC as the second-largest US funding hub in 2018, with total of $5.2B invested so far, 15% higher than for NYC — Boston has regained its longstanding place as the second-largest U.S. startup funding hub. — After years of trailing New York City …
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| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
Argo, a startup that rents cryptocurrency mining capacity to users, raises £25M in its London IPO — While the domestic technology sector has its eyes on Arlo's IPO today, another offering with a similar name is generating excitement in the blockchain sector.| Reuters: |
Sources: UK's GCHQ questioned security of Huawei's equipment in part because it uses US-based Wind River's VxWorks OS, which will stop receiving patches in 2020 — LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] is facing increased scrutiny in Britain because it is using …
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Facebook's increased scrutiny of ads targeting ethnic groups is delaying the approval of political ads for Hispanics and Spanish-speaking audiences — Political strategists say recent moves by Facebook to secure its powerful advertising engine are hampering their ability to communicate … | Adam Fisher / New York Magazine: |
Former employees reflect on the rise and fall of General Magic, which spun out of Apple in 1990 with much of the original Mac team to build a PDA-like device — Chances are that you've never heard of General Magic, but in Silicon Valley the company is the stuff of legend.
Tweets: @film_girl, @andrewchen, and @dburkes
| Peter Burrows / Fast Company: |
How Doppler Labs, a failed startup that demoed an in-ear computer in 2016, may have influenced development of similar technologies at Amazon, Apple, and Google — In October 2016, an impressive group of tech industry royalty took the time to get a demonstration of a product from a startup called Doppler Labs.
Tweets: @dtunkelang, @peteerickson, and @jwt_worldwide
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Venezuelan officials: drones carrying explosives went off as President Maduro was giving a live televised speech; he's unharmed, but seven soldiers were injured — Venezuelan officials say explosive drones went off as President Nicolás Maduro was giving a live televised speech in Caracas, but he is unharmed.
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| Jane Wakefield / BBC: |
Ofcom: in UK, 78% of all adults own a smartphone, which they check on average every 12 minutes during the day; total volume of calls made fell by 1.7% in 2017 — The number of voice calls made on mobile phones in the UK fell for the first time ever in 2017 - despite the fact we seem hooked on our devices.| South China Morning Post: |
Profile of Jane Sun, CEO of Ctrip, a Nasdaq-listed Chinese online travel firm valued at $23B, on gender inequality and fighting internet platforms like Meituan — Ability to attract top talent seen as mission critical for specialist companies like Ctrip, which are facing increasing competition … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros sue Cox Communications accusing the ISP of profiting from piracy by not disabling accounts of known and persistent infringers — For more than a decade, copyright holders have been sending takedown notices to ISPs to alert them that their subscribers are sharing copyrighted material.
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| Michael Sainato / The Guardian: |
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