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| Christine Wang / CNBC: |
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died at age 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma — Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen has died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Vulcan Inc. said Monday on behalf of his family. Allen passed away Monday afternoon in Seattle at 65 years old, Vulcan said.
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Photoshop CC for the iPad, which Adobe says is the “real Photoshop” and will be available in 2019 — An exclusive look at the future of Adobe's biggest app — Adobe really wants you to know that the upcoming Photoshop CC for the iPad, which was announced today …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Adobe makes Premiere Rush, its cross-platform video editing app previously in beta, widely available for iOS, Windows, and Mac today, on the Play Store in 2019 — Adobe Premiere Rush (previously Project Rush), as you might recall, is a cross-platform video editing app for smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Facebook weighs a ban on posts linking to hacked material, expands ban on voting-related misinfo; sources: months ago execs weighed banning all political ads — MENLO PARK, Calif. (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) will ban false information about voting requirements and fake reports of violence …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Pixel 3, 3 XL review: the best camera gets a better phone, with far better screen, loud speakers, but notch is “doofy” and the finish is easily scratched — Taking it up a notch — When Google hardware chief Rick Osterloh introduced the Pixel 3 last week, he didn't utter the word “Android” a single time.
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
MIT announces plans to invest $1B toward a new college for AI, so students can develop the tech while studying its implications across disciplines — Every major university is wrestling with how to adapt to the technology wave of artificial intelligence — how to prepare students … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the new Palm, a tiny phone to keep users from using their big phone, exclusive to Verizon for $349.99, available in November — It's tiny, clever, and exclusive to Verizon — There's a new phone with the word “Palm” on it that's tiny, intriguing, and has very little …
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Sources: hundreds of Myanmar military personnel, some trained in Russia, made troll accounts to flood Facebook with incendiary comments and fuel genocide — NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — They posed as fans of pop stars and national heroes as they flooded Facebook with their hatred.
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Twilio announces deal to acquire email marketing platform SendGrid for $2B in stock; Twilio's stock drops 4% after hours while SendGrid's stock jumps 14%+ — Twilio just spent $2 billion to buy SendGrid, a company that helps send mass emails. — Here's part of the company's release:
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Fidelity announces a new company called Fidelity Digital Asset Services that will handle cryptocurrency custody and trade execution for institutional investors — - Fidelity Investments, which administers more than $7.2 trillion in client assets, announced a new and separate company called Fidelity Digital Asset Services Monday.
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Tweets: @hhorsley, @cnbc, and @felixsalmon
| Harold Goldberg / Vulture: |
Inside the making of Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2 from a 2,000 page script, with 300K animations and 500K lines of dialogue with 700 voice actors — You can't simply stroll into the Manhattan offices of Rockstar Games. If you make it past the downstairs lobby and up the elevator, a thick metal door blocks your way.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Robinhood made more than 40 percent of its revenue earlier this year from selling its customers' orders to high-frequency trading firms — Robinhood Markets Inc. has built a reputation on its origins in finance counterculture and a steal-from-the-rich ethos.
Tweets: @joshconstine, @manan, @mdudas, and @chris_ciaccia
| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Jeff Bezos says Amazon will keep working with the Department of Defense, says if big tech companies turn their backs, “this country is going to be in trouble” — “If big tech companies are going to turn their back on US Department of Defense, this country is going to be in trouble … | Y Combinator: |
Of 88 YC female founders surveyed, 19 had inappropriate incidents with investors: 15 experienced sexual coercion or quid-pro-quo, 4 had unwanted sexual contact — Earlier this year we funded Callisto, a non-profit dedicated to building tech to combat sexual assault and harassment.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Disney-backed startup Jaunt says it has laid off a significant portion of its staff and will shutter VR projects to focus on AR and volumetric capture tech — San Mateo, Calif.-based virtual reality startup Jaunt XR is laying off a significant portion of its staff as it shifts its focus …
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
The TSA shares its roadmap to expand use of biometric identification for domestic flights in the coming years, including fingerprinting and facial recognition — The airport security experience is about to see facial recognition technology taking on a bigger role, as TSA today released … | TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: Docker has raised $92M of a targeted $192M funding round — Docker, the company that did more to create today's modern containerized computing environment than any other independent company, has raised $92 million of a targeted $192 million funding round, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Houseparty rolls out Facemail, a way to record and share 15-second video messages within the app, for iOS and Android — It's like voicemail, but for teens — Houseparty, which makes an app for hosting live video chats with your friends and family, is taking a step toward video voicemail.
Tweets: @joshconstine
| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel says it will support 128GB of DDR4 on Core 9th Gen desktop processors; still “validating” the tech, it aims to ship the capability within a few months — One of today's announcements threw up an interesting footnote worthy of further investigation.| Charles Duhigg / New Yorker: |
Profile of former Google and Uber employee Anthony Levandowski on his time at Google with details on Waymo's decision to settle its suit against Uber this year — Silicon Valley was built on job-hopping. But when a leader of Google's self-driving-car unit joined Uber, Google filed suit.| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Intercom launches Answer Bot, an AI chatbot it claims resolved 29% of customer questions without human intervention and improved response time by 44% in testing — In the fall of 2016 - before startups started adding artificial intelligence to every pitch, and before Bitcoin triggered … Sponsor Posts
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